1. The Silence of the Lambs
"Silence of the Lambs" tells that Clarice, in order to find the murderous Buffalo Bill, went to the prison to visit the psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal. The story of its killing.
The picture above is the end of the film. Hannibal successfully escaped from the control of the police. After calling Clarice, who was celebrating, he slowly walked into the crowd and disappeared into the crowd. Hambani is an ogre, and the ending of the movie arranges for him to be free. Compared with his superb and bloody escape, it seems to say that in the game between high-IQ criminals and the police representing public power, the former uses his clever tactics Play the police with applause. This departure from the traditional view of good and evil and behavior with rebellious taboos will undoubtedly stimulate the audience's senses and enable us to obtain stronger stimulation.
But undoubtedly, the end of the film is not so simple.
"The Silence of the Lambs" won the Oscar for best picture, best director, best actor and actress, etc., which shows the affirmation of the mainstream value system, so its deep connotation must be in line with the mainstream values. Carefully analyze the ending of the film, it is not about criminals getting out of prison, thus satirizing justice and public power.
The name of the movie is "Silence of the Lambs". Clarice always remembers the screams of the lambs in her childhood. She tried desperately to save the lambs but failed. In her later life, the screams of the slaughtered lambs always appeared in her dreams. middle. Clarice was motherless and fatherless when she was young. When she was saving the lamb, she was actually saving herself in her imagination, and the failure to save became her trauma.
The pursuit of Buffalo Bill is actually Clarice's journey of healing from her own wounds. Hambani acts as a guide in her rescue journey. He uses psychoanalysis to bring Clarice back to the traumatic situation, and then captures Buffalo Bill step by step to complete self-rescue. In part, the film is still about mainstream patriarchal ideology, and Hambani is amnesty in the process of saving Clarice, who is no longer a criminal but a savior.
So at the end of the film, Hambani asks Clarice on the phone: Have those lambs stopped screaming? Then, he merged into the vast sea of people.
2. Fly over the lunatic asylum
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" tells the story of Mike Murphy, who pretended to be mentally ill and was sent to a mental hospital in order to escape the forced labor in prison, and then he took a series of methods in the hospital to get out, and finally failed.
The picture above is the end of the movie. The Chief forcibly left the mental hospital after killing Mike Murphy, and walked into the dark night with Mike Murphy's soul. There are two clues in the movie, the bright line is Mike Murphy's constant attempts and failures, and the dark line is the chief's silent observation and final shot.
The bright line in the movie goes very intensely, with Mike Murphy trying to escape by moving the vanity and smashing open the window, he takes his patients out to sea for fun, and he brings a woman to a mental hospital for fun. However, he was not strong enough to move the washbasin. After returning from the sea, he was punished. After the woman failed to escape, he was forced to undergo a frontal lobectomy operation. He lost many functions, including a large part of his personality, compared with normal people. The only thing in common is that it can still breathe, so it almost becomes a walking dead.
(It is worth emphasizing that the founder of the operation, Moniz, won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1949 for this operation, and this operation is widely used to treat mental patients who do not obey management. After the publication of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" , Europe and the United States launched a series of campaigns against the abuse of electric shock therapy and the abuse of mental patients. The legal provisions restricting the power of mental hospitals were passed, and the living conditions of mental patients were greatly improved.)
The dark line in the film is carried out quietly. However, the chief's presence in the previous plot is very weak, and occasionally a few onlookers' perspectives are skipped, and it does not have much weight. But at the end of the film, after Mike Murphy was subjected to a frontal lobectomy, the chief suddenly exerted force, suffocated him, and moved the washbasin that Mike Murphy could not move, smashed the window to escape Out of the lunatic asylum. At this moment, dark lines and bright lines intertwined, and the latent power suddenly erupted, which was very shocking.
The chief is mentally normal and has the ability to speak, but he voluntarily stayed in the lunatic asylum and remained silent. His father was used to death, he had the ability to escape from the mental hospital but he never took action, and finally woke up after seeing Mike Murphy turned into an idiot, and took his soul to freedom.
The vast night at the end symbolizes the uncertain future, but if you are not free or die, you are not afraid of the storms ahead.
3. Walking in the White Night (Japanese version)
"White Night" tells the story of police officer Sasagaki when investigating the murder case in an abandoned building, and found that the case was full of doubts. Later, he slowly found the truth and found that the murderer turned out to be the son of the deceased.
Whether it is the original or the movie, the ending is the most successful and shocking.
It is written in the original book: When Ryoji Kirihara died, Xue Sui was standing beside him, and his face as white as snow was facing Kirihara. "Who is this person...?" Sasagaki looked into her eyes. Xue Sui's face was expressionless like a doll. She replied, "I don't know."... Sasagaki staggered out of the circle of the police. I saw Xue Sui going up the stairs along the escalator, and her back was like a white shadow. She never looked back.
Some changes have been made in the Japanese version of the movie, but the core part has not changed: her back is like a white shadow, and she never looks back once. The depiction of this detail is very wonderful. Xue Sui has been forced to pick up guests since childhood and was molested by countless men, while Kirihara Ryoji's parents cheated separately, and the two lived equally painful and lonely lives. After Ryoji Kirihara found out that his father molested Xuesui and killed him, the two became spiritually dependent on each other.
In the following ten years, Ryoji Kirihara has been guarding Xue Sui in secret, and it is precisely because of his protection that Xue Sui said: There is no sun in my sky, it is always night, but it is not dark, because there is something to replace up the sun. Not as bright as the sun, but enough for me. With this light, I can treat night as day.
Undoubtedly, at the end of the movie, Ryoji Kirihara's death made the only light in Xue Sui's bleak life also return to silence. Xue Sui's childhood experience has brought a psychological shadow. She is too mature, and she knows how to control her emotions. Sui turned around and left resolutely, and she never looked back, even though behind her were the corpses of men who had depended on each other and loved each other since childhood.
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