My analysis of "Dark Country" (there are comments from others)

Jedidiah 2022-04-20 09:02:38

The monologue at the beginning of the film is basically the inner activity of the hero after the murder. Everything in the film is an illusion, a memory, and an interweaving of reality, which makes it impossible for you to distinguish it. This is what the director wants and leaves room for the audience to imagine.

God you really should know
You don't remember how it started But you
can guess how it will end
She 's the dealer right?
Blackjack?
Or poker?
It doesn't matter
now , does it?
Lying beside her is the most beautiful stunner in her eyes,
wearing a cheap ring on her hand,
and a receipt of 50 yuan was crumpled and lying on the floor.
I don't know how to spell her name, but so
what? You only know that you really love her and want to It's useless to give everything for her.Look
at yourself . If you knew as much then as you do now, would theending have been different? Would you be able to save her? Can yousave yourself?Here are some comments from others, Because the point of view is the same, so copy it directly! First of all, Dick is a murderous serial killer, mentally ill, sometimes sober, sometimes in a trance, as for what someone said about time travel, I really don't agree, I just want to say: Faike. His killing methods are quite similar. He looks for young and beautiful prey in Las Vegas, deceives the girl's favor with a rather gentleman's attitude, gains trust in the name of marriage, and then takes people to the center of the desert in the name of a wedding trip. Killed near the abandoned rest station (for the convenience of committing crimes, they are driving at night, in the name of cooling off).











The heroine Gina was his last victim.
At this time, the police have been eyeing him, and the strange person in the hotel is the detective.
After he committed the crime that night, the police arrived at the scene in time, so he panicked and ran away, flipping over and killing himself during the escape

Dick likes girls with pale blonde hair
He has a special hobby for girls with blond hair and a graceful figure: pay attention to Gina's appearance , and the pictures of the "missing girl" in the Motel hotel, all of this type...
His psychopathic nature was largely related to his inferiority complex: he recounted how he met a girl on a train at the age of 16 ( Pale blond hair...), but he didn't even have the courage to speak up...

Dick's attitude towards the victims
Murder was his perverted need, but he didn't just hate the girls who were killed, in his In the twisted inner world, he himself likes them... That's why in his visions after his death, he will look for Gina everywhere, and scream so strongly (roaring to the police, asking them to help find his wife)... ...and tried to rescue Gina in the back seat of the car...
but that doesn't change the fact that he killed the girls represented by Gina - but why did he kill them?
Judging from the various clues in the film, he killed them probably because he hated their sexual debauchery (this is a man's very contradictory attitude towards women, he likes her debauchery and fears her debauchery)
Gina's masturbation scene in the car On the surface, it is revealing the innocent history of Gina in the past, but in fact it is just creating reasons for Dick to kill (this also shows that the identities of the girls he deceived and killed are generally of the same type)... ...


from the beginning to the title is the reality before the murder, or the reappearance in the protagonist's mind (the male protagonist asks the female protagonist to take one last look at the back). As for the latter is the alternation of memory and imagination. The director wants this effect, so that the audience has room to imagine.

00:50:00 Buried is actually the heroine, not Bloodyface 50 minutes and 36 seconds, after Dick buried Bloodyface in the hallucination, the lights went out, Dick restarted the engine and turned on the lights, and found that he was standing all the time. Gina disappears in front of the car, there is only an empty pit on the ground in front of the car (short-lived reality), and then Gina suddenly appears in the passenger (continues to fall into hallucinations).
It is also a reality that the police enter the scene to the accident. The police carried the female protagonist's body out of the soil. The male protagonist was in the police car. From the male protagonist's point of view, the camera closes up the corpse twice, wearing different clothes. The first time was wearing a pink long-sleeved shirt. That was put on by the heroine at the rest stop. But the second time I looked at the corpse, it was the white suspender skirt that I wore at the beginning. The second time is reality. The two came to the rest station together, and the heroine also changed her clothes. This is just the imagination of the hero. The reality is that the heroine was killed by the hero when she was still wearing a white suspender skirt.
The rest stop is where his ashes are!

Scene evidence:
Two trees at 00:44:51 00:45:00 triangle-shaped mountain
1:13:26 Two trees and triangle-shaped mountain when the police entered the scene.

It is a reality to return to the rest stop after hearing the gunshots by 01:04:56

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Extended Reading

Dark Country quotes

  • Gina: [as they drive on with their bloodied passenger in the back] It's your fault, you know. You're the one who's driving, you should know where we're going.

    Dick: Hey, whoa, somebody messed with the road signs or something.

    Gina: [sarcastic] Right.

    Dick: Something. I'm telling ya, I didn't make a wrong turn.

    Gina: [raising her eyes] Jesus.

    Dick: So what if I did? This guy would be dead if we hadn't come along! Is this how you handle stress? Just go on the attack?

    Gina: We're lost in the desert in the middle of the fucking night. This guy is gonna die if we don't get him help.

    Dick: Thank you for the support.

    [adding disapprovingly:]

    Dick: All the same.

    Gina: "All"? What's that supposed to mean, "all"? Who all?

    [behind her, the bloodied man comes to, and sits upright]

    Gina: Not the first impulse you've made on this little drive? Huh?

    [and then she looks into his bloodied face]

  • Bloodyface: [as the car speeds along] Okay, Dick. I've got a little question for ya. You ready?

    [Dick frowns]

    Bloodyface: You ever been to Cheetahs?

    Dick: Cheetahs? What's that?

    Bloodyface: A little strip club... downtown Vegas.

    [clearly hitting on a nerve with Gina]

    Dick: Can't say that I have.

    Bloodyface: That's too bad, you know. It's a nice place. There are good girls there.

    Gina: [whirling around] Who are you talking about?

    Bloodyface: They're just doing what they have to do to survive. Right?

    Dick: Hey, pal, what are you saying? You trying to freak us out?

    Bloodyface: I'm sorry, man. I didn't mean to upset you. It's just... it's been a little bit of a rough night, you know?

    [silent as he smokes]

    Bloodyface: For all of us.

    Dick: All right, buddy, all right. Hey, you'd better tell us what happened back there, huh?

    Bloodyface: [long silence] Have you ever been murdered before?

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