The story takes place in 1945 in Jersey, the only British territory occupied by German troops during World War II.
Everything here is weird.
In the fog, an old man, an old lady, and a dumb girl knocked on the door of a villa.
The hostess (Nicole Kidman) welcomes them through the door.
Because the servants in the villa suddenly disappeared mysteriously a week ago, the hostess wrote an email to post a job advertisement.
The hostess told the three servants some strange rules.
This is a villa without electricity, and the lighting in the house can only rely on oil lamps; all curtains should be drawn during the day; keep quiet and make no noise; when passing through the house, one door must be closed before the next one can be opened. door; no one is allowed to move the piano.
And all this is because the hostess's two children are afraid of light.
The elder sister is naughty and bold, the younger brother is obedient and obedient, and their father goes to the front to fight.
What's weird is that my sister once said in front of the old lady servant that her mother had gone crazy. The hostess said that "children sometimes babble nonsense".
Clearly, there are some issues between mother and daughter.
Soon, the hostess discovered the problem of the three servants.
The postman came to pick up the mail every Wednesday, but the postman didn't come this week, so her job email didn't actually go out.
This also means that the three servants did not come from the job advertisement.
When she questioned, the old lady explained that the three had actually worked in the villa. And this time, I was just passing by and trying my luck to see if people were needed here, because this house has a special meaning to them.
The mistress believed it.
The hostess is strict with the children and helps them with their homework, and she is also a true believer in Jesus.
When telling the story of Jesus' apprentice, the sister said that she could choose to lie and betray her faith, which made the hostess very angry and punished the girl to recite her homework.
Although the hostess may not understand it herself, she completely believes what is in the book; while the daughter will be flexible, and she will believe what she sees.
Soon, something strange happened.
The hostess heard the cry, but when she found her son, she found that he was doing his homework seriously; when she saw her daughter, the daughter said that it was a boy named Victor crying.
She thought her daughter was lying, but suddenly saw a door still open. The hostess thought it was the servant who opened the door and blamed the servant for this, but the servant explained that it was not their doing.
The hostess heard the noise again, but she saw that the servants were all outside the house.
Then in the utility room, she saw the door open eerily again.
The hostess was outraged that during the five years of Nazi occupation she had not let any enemies break into the house, when someone broke in at this time.
She ordered the servants to search the house, but she didn't find any trace. She only saw some photo albums in the utility room. One of them was all pictures of some people lying down with their eyes closed. The old servant explained that it was a photo album. .
The daughter drew a picture that included an old woman, a man, a woman, and a boy Victor. This was someone she had seen in the house, and according to Victor the old lady was a witch.
Late at night, the hostess could only hide in the corner and cry, missing her husband.
Then she heard the sound of the piano, and when she entered the piano room with the gun, she didn't see anyone.
She locked the piano, but when she left, she found that the door kept being pulled open, and she was knocked to the ground by the last closing of the door.
At this time, the door handle was turned, and it was obviously locked.
The hostess hurriedly called the old lady to open the door, but found that the piano was opened.
When the old lady explained to her that the underworld sometimes intersected with the earth, the hostess expressed her complete disbelief.
The hostess ignored the obstacles and decided to go out to find the priest, and asked the old servant to look for a cemetery in the courtyard. Because when she bought a house, she had heard that a family was buried in the garden.
When the hostess left, the old man and the old woman discussed quietly and covered up the tombstone they had already discovered.
Obviously, the old man and the old woman are also hiding a huge secret.
In the mist, the hostess ran into her husband.
When the two came back together, the old servant looked at the male master with a puzzled expression.
And the male host is also very strange, saying that he sometimes bleeds, and he has been lying on the bed after returning home, never eating with everyone.
The hostess dressed her daughter in sacramental clothes, and her daughter danced happily.
Later, when the hostess pushed the door and came in, what she saw was an old woman's face.
For this, she fought a lot, but fortunately, the old lady servant appeared and stopped the hostess.
The daughter told her brother that her mother became as crazy as that day.
The male host kept asking what happened that day. The hostess only said that the servant left, and she didn't know what happened.
The master was in pain, and said that the mistress should ask the children for forgiveness, and he had to leave and return to the battlefield.
The hostess said that the war was over, she did not want the host to leave, and complained bitterly about his disregard for the family.
The male host said that the war was not over, and after spending the night with his wife, he left the next day.
All the curtains in the house were taken off, and the hostess was angry. She thought it was the work of the three servants, so she forced them to leave.
At night, my elder sister and younger brother went out the window to look for their father, but they saw a tombstone in the yard with the names of the three servants.
When the hostess searched the house, she found the portrait photos of three servants in the servant's room. It turned out that they had died as early as 1891.
The three servants came up again and said that they hoped the hostess could accept the new situation and accept that the living and the dead can get along.
Afterwards, the hostess saw a table of five people in the room, one of them was a witch who knew how to channel spirits, that is, the old lady whose upper body daughter was seen by the hostess before.
It turned out that the person sitting at the table was the real person, and the witch also learned the true cause of the story from her daughter through channeling.
During World War II, Jersey was occupied by German troops.
For five years, the hostess lived a hard life with her love for her husband and children and her faith in the Bible.
But after the war, the hostess waited for her husband to receive news that only made her give up.
Finally, the hostess collapsed and lost her psychological support. She went mad and suffocated her two children with a pillow, and then shot herself.
But after she died, she could still see her two children, so she thought that the three were not dead.
The three servants fell ill and died in 1891, and among them the girl collapsed and became mute because she initially did not believe that the dead and the living coexist. In order to avoid the same tragedy, the three servants came back and hoped that the three mistresses could slowly accept this kind of thing.
The male master is not actually dead, he is just seriously injured in the war, and his soul in a coma is looking for a home. When he got home, he found that the children had been killed by the mistress, for which he questioned his wife and said she should ask the children's forgiveness. After that, he should have woken up, and the soul has left the house.
The villa was sold after the death of the hostess, bought by Victor's father and moved in. After that, the abnormal noise, piano sound, and strange door opening were actually the activities of the Victor family. They also found some abnormalities in the room, so they invited the witch to find out.
The Victor family also moved out after learning what had happened.
This "Frightening Island", released in 2001, has a high level of narrative structure, plot logic, and horror effects. The film has been paved from the beginning, many details are hidden in the dialogue, and the superb acting skills of the actors make the film very high.
The film accuses the war's destruction of the family and its opposition to dogmatism. The hostess has always believed in everything in the Bible, but she doesn't know that the truth in life needs to be changed.
Although we live without war today, there are many left-behind women and children.
Migrant workers, seagoing personnel, engineering project personnel, etc., in order to survive and work outside to earn money, they only leave their wives at home with their children.
A family is in a state of incompleteness for a long time, and the pressure on women can be imagined. Life is not easy, and at the same time, it is necessary to educate children to learn and grow. Left-behind women face too many difficulties, and such families are prone to problems.
The rapid development of society brings convenience to people, but it also throws many people off the normal track. No matter how hard they work, they may not be able to get back on the track again.
Please give them more attention and help to avoid some tragedies.
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