·Ethical theme
The right way for a supernatural movie to do its job well is to do its job well. Profound themes take the second place. Supernatural movies that purely pursue sensory stimulation can also be memorable, but films with connotation but no skills are often not winners. Combining the two will become a classic. For example, Chen Kexin's "Three Watches: Homecoming", which tells a story of love struggling between heaven and man.
The common themes of supernatural movies are the greed or beauty of human nature, revenge, the fall of the world, etc. This is the case from the ghost stories of Liao Zhai. This kind of theme does not require constructive opinions on social issues and human nature analysis like a literary film. It sets the theme mostly to find an opportunity. Only with the theme will there be "qi" that makes the story go on, "Rose" exactly. "Rose" is taken from Korean folk tales, and the opportunity is the eternal contradiction of the family-the stepmother and the child. The story takes place between the sisters and stepmother who came home from the insane asylum. This is a powerful subject. The stepmother, stepdaughter and Mensao's father are enough to make the family never peaceful. In the second half of the film, the killing of the stepmother and sister Xiuwei is the climax of the film. In fact, apart from the ghostly content, the exciting parts of the film are supported by the contradiction between the stepmother and the two sisters. For example, the stepmother locks her sister into the closet. Putting his corpse into a sack and other bridge sections is a way of behavior in bloody ethics films.
The hatred of women is the eternal theme of the supernatural chapter. From "Huo Xiaoyu's Biography" to the Dou Clan of Liao Zhai, men's fortune and women's disadvantaged position are the soil for tragedy, and women's emphasis on feelings and family is more likely to make their temperament Distorted in the cramped and closed space, the stronger the love of women, the more stretched the love of men. In the supernatural movie, the Shizu son and daughter who were accused by the world and full of hatred in "The Ring of Midnight", the jealous female high school student in "The Girl's High School", and the Thai girl who was framed to the death in "Damn 1", all Ghosts are born out of revenge or jealousy. "Rose" allows the "heart ghost" to grow up in an ordinary single-parent family. Everything is directed by the schizophrenic girl Xiuwei. After watching it, people feel the pressure that is difficult to get rid of. In the illusion created by Xiuwei’s personality, the stepmother held up her stone statue and said to her, "I said that one day you will regret... the most painful thing for people is when you want to forget one thing and you can’t forget." When the movie finally returned to the past, sister Xiulian fell victim to Xiuwei’s hatred of her stepmother and her stepmother’s revenge on Xiuwei. The cheerful waltz came to an abrupt end in Xiuwei's far away footsteps. At that moment, she walked in the world, Xiuwei. Lian has fallen into hell. At this time, it is still difficult for me to simply attribute the mistake to one party, the surly and insidious stepmother or the numb father, but with the waltz at the end of the film, I sighed at Xiuwei’s inescapable fate, the film Like a complete circle, she went home with a brisk mood at the beginning, and ended by sitting alone on the small trestle bridge. From leaving the madhouse to going back, it was like a doomed journey. The dusty wounds were forcibly opened and shown to the spectators, cruel. Destiny dances forbearance in a relaxed waltz. The film is more focused on expressing the frustration of the girl, rather than criticizing the stepmother or father or all kinds of family problems. Therefore, it is confined in an ending that kills all hope, and it does not give people a way out.
In addition, this movie slightly involves some obscure meanings. It basically revolves around the heroine Xiuwei. It is the subtle mentality of some girls, such as using Xiuwei to imagine herself as a stepmother lying in her father’s bedroom and staring at the sleeping person. The father expresses the Electra complex, a nightmare in the morning to express the girl’s fear of menstruation, and so on.
·Clever narrative
Sometimes the success of a story is not the story itself, but the way the story is told.
A light car drove back to the old manor in the countryside. The clear and elegant middle-aged man who drove carried two boxes to the servant. He turned around to greet the people in the car and walked in. Later I learned that he was a doctor.
Then two beautiful sisters in floral skirts walked out of the car, Xiuwei, who had been seen in the lunatic asylum before, and her sister Xiulian.
In the ghostly closed old wooden house, it is entirely possible to cause any trouble, so something unexpected happened below: the sisters and stepmother broke up at the first dinner, and the tough sister and stepmother were involved in trivial life. The sisters have found their mother’s relics, and the sisters are delighted to find her mother’s relics. The honest sister was put in the closet by her stepmother because she killed her stepmother’s bird... and several unexpected plots were also confusing, and she turned a blind eye to her step-wife’s abuse of her daughter. The father who asked seemed to be in harmony with his step-wife. After playing with her coquettish in the bedroom, he reluctantly slept in the living room. The wife was nervously talking and laughing about childhood fun at the dinner that invited her younger brother, but the younger brother did not buy it; During this period, there may be a faint guess that the wardrobe in the sister’s room is like a cabinet for storing the dust. When the cruel stepmother shut Xiulian inside, she cried hysterically. Xiuwei also told her father to replace the one in Xiulian’s room. The wardrobe, and my father’s answer was that we said that we would not mention the wardrobe; my father always talked to someone on the other end of the phone about the situation at home. This person was the fourth party besides the sisters, father, and stepmother...Ghost The smell also invaded every corner of the house. In the middle of the night, the female ghost lifted her sister’s quilt. The step-wife’s younger sister-in-law saw the ghost girl under the sink when the sheep had a seizure. There were also female ghosts in Xiuwei’s early morning dreams. They are all reminiscent of the unexplained mother who died at home.
All of the above are fragments like shredded cotton. The director patiently broke the truth one by one at the last moment. The latter part is very exciting, but we need to use the previous part as an opportunity. Finally, we turned three turns. First, the stepmother who murdered the second daughter sat down on the sofa and found the same second stepmother coming in from the door. The camera moves around two people in two circles. The stepmother on the sofa becomes sister Xiuwei, accompanied by the distorted violin, and the truth unfolds in front of us: it turns out that Xiulian and stepmother appeared before are all illusions caused by Xiuwei’s split personality. From the beginning to the end, the audience saw only Xiuwei's self-talking. The stepmother was not at home. According to her father's account, her sister Xiulian was already dead. There were only two people in the family, Xiuwei and her father. All mysteries have been solved. The three men came to the confinement with Xiuwei alone. The one who killed the stepmother Queer was Xiuwei. It was Xiuwei who was in his father’s bedroom in the middle of the night and was invited to dinner with his stepmother, brother, and his wife. Xiuwei also talked about childhood anecdotes. The violent family dispute between stepmother and sisters was just a symptom of Xiuwei's schizophrenia in his father's eyes. Therefore, he turned a deaf ear to Xiuwei's bullying of sisters, and he turned a deaf ear to the dinner where Xiuwei was inviting his wife and brother. The chat and laughter and the coquettish emotion in the bedroom were embarrassing, and they called the stepwife from the field to tell Xiuwei's condition. The stepmother who just appeared was not as fierce as Xiuwei showed, but showed the posture of an innocent person. Second, Xiuwei was sent back to the lunatic asylum, but she stubbornly held her stepmother’s hand while she was leaving. The stepmother returned home as if she could not bear it. At this time, the first episode of the past was inserted. When the stepmother moved into the house, the sisters Xiulian’s haggard birth mother is still alive. At this time, the new and old live under the same roof. Xiuwei is walking away from the dining table. The cowardly Xiulian becomes the stepmother’s punching bag. She returns to the second floor room and hides in her mother’s arms and cries. The situation is very strange. The mother and daughter live on the second floor, and the father and the new stepmother live together on the first floor. After the interruption, I returned to reality. On the night when her father and stepmother sent Xiuwei into the lunatic asylum, the house was really haunted, and the long-haired ghost crawled out of Xiulian’s wardrobe...The ending of the story, the scene gradually Away from this house full of resentment, the stepmother screamed in the dark for a long time. At the third turn, the narrative returns to the morning in the first paragraph. Xiulian cried and fell asleep in her mother's arms. When she woke up, she found her mother hanged herself in the closet. Xiulian knocked down the closet while pulling her mother's body, and she was buckled upside down in it. Only the stepmother witnessed all this. She was ridiculed by Xiuwei just before calling for help, so she concealed the secret, causing Xiulian to suffocate to death.
The story divides the past and the reality into two time and space, and the flashback technique exchanges the two. The function of the flashback is to shake out the two burdens. One is to reveal that the living Xiulian in reality has already died, and the other is to explain the stepmother and The secret between Xiuwei (that is, the stepmother transfers the culprit who killed Xiulian to Xiuwei). One of the main burdens in the narration of reality is that the narrative perspective chooses the mentally ill Xiuwei, and the incomplete perspective thrown to the audience is wrong, so we were deceived. This kind of strategy has been used as early as in "Small Island". The difference is that the perspective of "Small Island" is under the control of the heroine from beginning to end. The film shows the "underworld" she sees. "Rose" inserts Xiuwei's split perspective and the sober perspective of her father, uncle and aunt, and in Xiuwei's split spirit, she sees the world as her stepmother, Xiuwei and Xiulian respectively. The story combines all of this, the truth and the illusion, obviously, and it is more complicated than "Small Island", and it also requires a more detailed narrative.
The tempo of the film is relatively slow, and the story is told very patiently. The truth is like a long lens moving slowly in a dark corridor, and the audience can see its origin with a little bit.
·
If the form compares various narrative arts to a piece of fresh milk cake, the cake dough is the most important, and the cream lace cannot be ignored.
"Rose Flower" is beautiful, including the narrative mentioned above, it is a technique used to beautify the form. The color of this film is like floral wallpaper, room furnishings, girl’s floral clothes and pure white pajamas, dead mother’s embroidered shoes, glass flower hairpins, flower carpets, this kind of broken flowers laid on the ancient dark red and green. , Nostalgic and feminine, it guides the spectators to think about the ballads of childhood grandmothers and various weird and bizarre legends, which fit the feminine and weird themes of the film very well.
The "Rose" drama can let the human body experience the rhythm of a waltz, perhaps because its original soundtrack is very contagious, and it is easy for people to incorporate its narrative into the rhythm of the music. The main instruments used in the music are piano and guitar. There are two rhythms, fast and slow. The faster is relaxed and beautiful, showing the girl's innocent and beautiful nature and the whirlwind past, while the slow is like a moving moon in the dark clouds, mysterious and weird.
View more about A Tale of Two Sisters reviews
