It is best to watch British movies or TV dramas on a gloomy winter day or a sunny afternoon in summer, which is about to usher in the longest sunset. If you slept the longest afternoon, when you wake up, you are already old and different.
The movie "The Little Stranger" is like that dream, in which there is a Victorian manor that seems to be coming home and its curling smoke, and friendship and love that cannot be distinguished from reality or imagination, but , like many other dreams, at the end of the dream, there is a monster.
Based on the suspense novel of the same name by Sarah Waters (a living contemporary writer), the film is set in the most glorious and dreary Victorian era that the British can never get around on the theatre stage, when the heroic British Soldiers planted the Royal Union Jack on every continent, from the conquerors of the remote African savannah, to the explorers of the tropical rainforest in India, to the inventors in the countless red-brick façade factories. A poor Englishman who is willing to fight can be anyone.
It's just that the tragic war that no one expected to break out, which was called The Great War by the British gentlemen, and its sudden end that no one thought of, is like a closed door closing the beautiful British idyllic dream. It was smashed into pieces, leaving only a mess everywhere.
A smart and extraordinary doctor since childhood, he became a famous doctor through hard work. He returned to his hometown, and he became the man of Hundreds Manor, which he haunted and could only see from a distance because he was a poor child when he was a child. guest.
What is a dream? Or how should we distinguish between dreams and reality? It should be said that in a dream or in a parallel world, everything develops linearly, all people and things move forward along a fixed track, and you can even jump forward a big step and go back to a certain moment in the past. , all the people and things are waiting for you in the same place, you can be whoever you want, and then return to the dance floor full of familiar people with a new attitude.
For Dr. Faraday, since the sunny celebration day of childhood, the beautiful Hundreds Manor, which carried all the Victorian era, was like a dream that could never be woken up. The tea party of gentlemen and celebrities, a girl who has secret feelings of his own, and everything he dreams of, it is precisely all this that seems so out of reach for me, who is only the son of a manor servant.
Audiences in the UK seem to be particularly fascinated by handsome, intelligent, and stern villains, such as the household name Voldemort. Different from the fast-paced American dramas that tend to focus on the climax of the plot, British dramas are better at paving the way for long-term plot progress, and the growth of faint characters and the fermentation of all causes and effects in these long years, as if any crime has its own uniqueness. The reason is that any flower of evil blooms with a pure heart at the beginning.
Dr. Faraday, who was born in a poor family but succeeded in struggle, was like all the British in that era. When he was ready to be well-dressed, he opened the door and found that the world is no longer the familiar Victorian era, but replaced by an everything It's all fast-changing and confusing.
At this time when Hundreds Manor was at its worst, Dr. Faraday became the personal doctor and friend of the Ayres noble family by coincidence. He had been mistaken for the discomfort of serving the master when he accompanied the Ayres family to dinner with other squires. It was embarrassing when the Ayres family couldn't even pay for the diagnosis and treatment.
Whether out of sympathy or empathy, Dr. Faraday's sense of responsibility for the Ayres family gradually changed from being a simple help at the beginning to becoming more and more stubborn, as if he had become an insider, until the Hundreds Manor began to appear strange and thrilling one after another. event.
Although the film exaggerates the existence of the eldest daughter Suki, the eldest daughter of the Ayres family who passed away prematurely, as if to imply that the source of the supernatural events in the Hundreds Manor is all because of her, but this is only a blind eye; Unfulfilled wishes and evil spirits are not justified. In fact, the plot is very clear, but the first-person perspective of the whole play is a selective lack of key plots. From the beginning to the end, the initiator of the supernatural incident is Dr. Faraday, whether it is Dr. Faraday's subconscious personality under the unconsciousness is portrayed in Mrs. Ayres's room Suki's handwritten graffiti, and at the end of the play pushing Miss Ayres down the corridor and falling to her death, or Dr. Faraday's tricks to occupy the magpie's nest in a sober state, the plot does not explain. In other words, this is not important. What is important is that the author threw a question to the audience: Can the Ayres family, who was unable to save the situation and sold their property in a hurry, can still be called the owner of the manor, or whether they have passed After so many years, it seems that he has never left the Hundreds manor in the afternoon when he was a child at the most glorious moment. Dr. Faraday is more worthy of owning this manor.
Human life is like a short-lived dream. We can never see the truth clearly because the years we can live as human beings are not long enough. Or when Colonel Ayres dies in the purgatory of the trenches and craters of World War I, and Suki, who is beautiful and intelligent, dies early, so does the real Hundreds manor. And all the rest is just a dream.
"The Little Stranger" is a classic British film masterpiece. It is recommended to read the original English book on Kindle. Friends who are interested in reading are welcome to leave a message and contact the public account to obtain the download link in e-book format.
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