Someone in the comments said that the visual style in the film is Baroque, which is wrong. The architecture, furniture, furnishings, wall paintings, exquisite craftsmanship, slender and soft style in the film all match the feminine witch characteristics. The Baroque style is majestic, solemn, and completely contradictory. It should be the Art Nouveau style, and the Art Deco style deeply influenced by Art Nouveau and the shadow of earlier arts and crafts.
Some legends:
Let me talk about the two obvious element metaphors in the film.
1. The hostess found the door leading to the witch's lair and turned the blue iris.
The name of the iris is taken from the rainbow goddess Iris in Greek mythology. She is a bridge and messenger between the gods and mortals, so the ancient Greeks planted irises in front of the grave of their beloved, in order to pray for the goddess to take them away from the underworld to bliss. Therefore, at the gate of the witch's lair leading to hell, the iris flower appears as a lock in this episode.
2. The heroine kills the leader of the witch with a steel needle shaped like a peacock feather.
Because there are many eyes on the feathers of a peacock, the Egyptians associate it with wisdom and perceptive eyesight. The origin of the peacock in the Roman poet Ovid's "The Metamorphosis": Zeus turned his lover Io into a cow, trying to hide his wife Hera (the goddess of marriage and fertility, with insight into everything). After Hera found out, he snatched the bull and sent Argos the Hundred Eyes to guard it. Zeus instructs Hermes to steal Io back, and Hermes uses music to make Argos sleep and kills him. So, Hera decorated Argos's eyes on the feathers of her love bird and turned into a peacock. Therefore, in this episode, the heroine kills the witch's leader with a steel needle shaped like peacock feathers. Even if the witch is invisible, she can still kill her with an accurate move.
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