Only when our hearts are filled with light can we be bathed in light. Such light does not necessarily come from the sun, but may be the light from the depths of the soul in the boundless night. If the light in your heart can illuminate even the darkest night in front of you, you can clearly see the road under your feet; but when the light in your heart gradually annihilates and becomes a shadow in the darkness, you will not be able to identify the time of arrival and the way back. .
In a family of middle-class doctors in the United States, during a dinner, only the youngest son, Bob, hunched over to eat, his hair was about to fall into the bowl, and the others were like sculptures. There is only one living young son here, and everyone else is following the established track of society and speaking their lines, without life.
In a medical accident of the father Steven, another protagonist, Martin, the son of the deceased patient, appears. Steven has always felt guilty for causing Martin's father's death due to his alcoholism, and his contact with Martin comes with its own compensatory meaning, and Martin behaves weirdly about it. The contact between the two suggests that there are incestuous tendencies.
Steven brings Martin into his family, and the scenes of life are polite and gloomy. Afterwards, Steven was invited to the house by Martin. Martin's mother's initiative and Martin's support for Steven's proposal to stay with his mother all show Martin's desire for Steven as a "father". Steven refused, Bob suddenly became paralyzed, and all the experts invited were helpless. The sudden advent of the disease and the inexplicability and cure of medicine connect the pain with Steven's previous medical malpractice and Martin's bizarreness, and it culminates in Martin's paranoid dialogue about life for life.
It seems that the conspiracy and the seemingly teenager Martin holds the fate of Steven's family in his hands. Judging from her mother Anna taking the initiative to clean Martin's wounds and kiss her feet, and her daughter Jin's request to elope with Martin but failed to escape from her home, Anna and Kim have been completely conquered and succumbed to by Martin, the so-called man with the power of life and death. at his feet. They are looking for a way out for themselves. The humble status of women in a patriarchal society is evident when Anna kneels to kiss Martin's feet. The limited maternal love, human greed for life, and submission to evil are all embodied in Anna. This atypical mother image is full of human strength and despicableness. Anna began to ask Martin why she and the children should bear Steven's mistakes. After deciding that the ending was irreversible, she quickly accepted the "fact" that Bob would be sacrificed, and advised Steven that they could have another one. child.
Martin, a gloomy, neurotic, paranoid boy, was lifted into the sky by the family, and he eventually sacrificed Bob according to his will. The atmosphere of the whole film is treacherous. Under the invasion of evil or unknown, the despicableness of human nature, and the practice of murdering relatives in exchange for their own lives is like the various masks in daily life. The relative concealment of the family is not due to the weakness of human nature, so there are no disputes, calculations, or even sacrifices like the cult in this film. A certain angle magnifies the true heart of each family character. The question Bob asks his dad when everyone says he's going to be the victim is who your best friend is.
The holy lamb died, and the despicable family continued to live in this world with this holy blood, maybe with guilt or no guilt, their choice was to join the evil, and in the end Steven's numb face may imply that he survived These people are already just walking dead.
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