In the hearts of many people and me, Venice is a wonderland and a sacred place. Almost all movies and novels (I've seen it) describe it as a holy land of love. Whether it's meeting, breaking up, or dying there, the city of water will always be the city of water, quietly looking at the ebb and flow of emotions and the impermanence of the world. Except this time.
This time, Venice is a ghost.
Human thinking is narrow and ridiculous. In our ghost stories, only human ghosts are making trouble, and we have never seen the spirits of chickens, ducks, cats and dogs. There are animals, and foxes sometimes appear, but they are not dead fox ghosts, but foxes that live too long. In "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", the protagonist encountered a "ghost grave"-the tomb of the former dynasty (the tomb of the Zhou Dynasty) was demolished by later generations, and the ghost stayed in the burial chamber of the descendants (Ming Dynasty). As a result, the protagonist misunderstood the dynasty and lost his way. There were no zombies, no monsters, but a tomb that didn't want to be dismantled and disappeared. I really opened my eyes.
Why is it that only human beings can die and let their souls stay in the world to wander, and the tombs (buildings) that were originally inanimate can also play "Ghosts Strike the Wall".
I said that Venice in "Mysterious Venice" is a ghost, not because of the mysterious power of its buildings, but the whole city in the late autumn is like an abandoned city that has been left uninhabited for many years. Yes, there are still a lot of pedestrians on the road, and Gangdora is still very busy while cruising, but there is always a lack of anger. Without the bright Mediterranean sun in spring and summer, Venice in late autumn was covered with a layer of lime gray. The old buildings seemed to be collapsing soon. With closed windows, passers-by who talked seemed to be hiding a secret, but at night , It is terribly quiet, only the sound of hurried footsteps reveals the fear of pedestrians.
In fact, there are no ghosts from beginning to end, the assailant is a dwarf in a red raincoat. Somehow, the male protagonist was controlled by fate from the beginning, and finally couldn't get rid of the ending of being killed. From the many supernatural scenes and inexplicable jump clips in the movie, it is obvious that the director wants to convey a feeling of being slowly strangled by a rope and finally suffocating.
This is actually a story about a man who can't get out of his psychological trauma and finally self-destructs.
Men’s bad feelings are exposed, the more old-fashioned, the more so. Dad loves his daughter very much, and her daughter’s death hits her husband far more severely than his wife. He paralyzed himself with his work, fled England and went to Venice, but he still couldn't forget. He never showed it, always comforting each other when his wife missed his daughter, but he was the one who hurt more.
Women are always resilient. His wife gradually walks out of the shadows and enters a new life. When she returns to the UK, she shows that she is ready to face the past. The man is getting deeper and deeper. This also explains why the husband saw the little red raincoat several times but his wife didn’t. He wanted to see his daughter again, so when he finally saw the child in the red raincoat, he tried his best. Going to want to rush to see his daughter for the last time, just like Orpheus can't control his wife at the gate of hell to see if his wife's appearance has changed. He saw a distorted and ugly face on an unreasonable body. This was his nightmare. He finally saw his daughter, but the daughter killed him.
At the end of ordinary ghost movies, the supernatural can explain all unreasonable phenomena and convince the whole story. In this movie, the series of flashbacks before the man's death can't explain the series of strange things that happened from beginning to end, but convey a deep sense of impermanence. It turns out that we can't control our lives. All accidents happen without any reason. We have no way. Invisible power controls everything. This power is not God, not the devil, and nothing. It is in front of it. , Human beings are so small and powerless.
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