It's not a horror thriller about ghosts and ghosts, it's more like an educational ethics film, with a bit of warmth in the gloom, and blood in the fresh.
The expression of the film is very simple, basically all the things to be expressed are said through the mouth of the characters. A clown that only children can see, the fear that the child usually hides in his heart makes him look like a god of death. After going through twists and turns, the child finally overcomes fear and defeats the clown with the unity of courage. In contrast to the innocence and beauty of children is the distortion and indifference of the adult world. Adults cannot see clowns, nor can they help children trapped in clown traps. To some extent, adults are the accomplices of clowns. Adults, especially parents, are even directly involved. A child's fear itself.
In fact, children are not a blank piece of paper, they also have their own likes and dislikes, but most of the time they are in an unconscious state, and the adults and education children come into contact with will greatly affect the formation and development of their self-awareness. Expression, influence can be good or bad, and the creation of love can also be destroyed by evil. Children imitate adults to adapt to the unknown world and social life. Adults discipline children in their words and deeds. Once the so-called discipline is inherent in children The unbalanced confrontation and conflict will arise from the nature of the coming, and the shattering fear and self-doubt will breed, and the clown who feeds on fear will have an opportunity.
Beverly's fear image is "sex". She fears the control and torture of her perverted father. The increasingly mature female consciousness makes this fear gradually strengthened. Others can express their fears to their trusted friends, but Beverly's fears are not only indescribable, but also incomprehensible to any male friend. Compared with other people, Beverly is an extraordinarily tenacious child who lives in fear. In a repressed family, she was slandered and humiliated at school, but she was still a kind girl with sunshine and enthusiasm.
Eddie's fearful imagery is of a sore homeless, skinny as a bamboo pole, in stark contrast to a fat, bloated mother. For her mother's excessive protection and doting, Eddie should be a love-hate relationship, grateful for her mother's love and eager to get rid of the bondage.
Mike's fearful image is the struggling hand and Henry behind the door. The death of his parents and Henry's bullying brought Mike an unknown fatal danger. He and those lambs who are left to be slaughtered are sympathetic to each other.
Stanley's fearful imagery is of a twisted woman, and according to the film's brief narrative, his fears should be related to the admonitions and religious beliefs of priests and parents.
Bill and Richie's fear wasn't about their parents, their fear was death. Bill blames his own fault for causing his brother's death, Richie fears the clown himself, he fears that he will disappear like the other children killed and become a puppet in a coffin.
The little fat Jeremy is more like a witness, his fear image has no intuitive manifestation, it seems to be a kind of "loneliness".
This is a hymn about children. Children see fear and defeat the clown without the help of adults. Adults turn a blind eye to the dangerous clown. The parents of several children make little or no appearances in the film. Absent in the child's growth.
The film mocks the indifference and numbness of adults, but the numbness of adults is actually more like a kind of self-defense. Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, but they are often ignorant and fearless. and your own limited abilities, and then learn to be an outsider who shuns trouble. Adults are not without fear, they just learned from past experience that disarming and ignoring fear is a safer and less labor-intensive choice. Clowns cannot lure a "walking dead" who has lost resistance and vitality.
The plot of the film is not smooth, the plot of the characters under the multi-line narrative is weightless, the sloppy and long and the undercurrent of terror are not harmonious, on the contrary, it seems redundant and boring. As for the sense of terror, it's like visiting a haunted house without any dangers. All kinds of strange, disgusting and weird props appear clumsily and perform diligently, but they can't arouse the inner waves.
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