Movies are a space for dreams, because reality is riddled with holes.
To create a bubbly and bright dream is to eat a sweet chocolate. At this time, the pleasure is infinite, and then the feeling is empty. Open the door of desire, and after a short period of anesthesia, there will be more unbearable pain. This is a movie about a beautiful fantasy. The hero successfully saves the beauty in the "last second", the heinous villain is destroyed with the explosion and the nest, the happy ending comes without suspense, just like watching fake news with strong propaganda. nausea.
And in the gothic movie dream, the evil never dies, and the dawn never comes. Like all the beheaded characters in Sleepy Hollow, you thought the innocent boy whose mother was hiding under the floor would be safe, but the headless horseman who had already walked out of the door suddenly changed his mind and turned his pace around. The children have also corrected themselves; you think that there will always be a day when the sun shines in the gloomy black forest, even if it is only a little comfort brought by the change of the weather, but after the darkness before dawn is ushered in a darker day; You think you can breathe a sigh of relief when the truth is revealed. After all, good is rewarded with evil and evil is rewarded. All the murders of the "Headless Horseman" are well-crafted lies by conspirators using legends, but the bad guys really have the power to call out evil. The mysterious power, the "Headless Horseman" who came back from the dead, turned out to be a real thing.
"The Unfortunate Adventures of Ramon Snickerdoodle", "Ghost Mom", and "Pan's Labyrinth" all use children's little goths. Such movies do not give ostriches the sand to escape. The strangeness and irreversible tragic come from the ugliness of the alienated world. Even if children are the protagonists, they will never be soft-hearted. Welcome to the most realistic virtual game. If you miss it, you will not have the chance to press back again. You can't call a timeout even if your opponent knocks your teeth off. You have to accept the unfair law that "hard work is not necessarily rewarded". Because it comes from a deep insight into the cruel reality, and it is the source of strength to bravely face all the ugliness and darkness.
"Gothic" is a German family who destroyed the Italian city-state. They once brought endless fear to the European land, and behind the fear is a fanatical love for life. When paganism, mystical powers, and towering spires are incorporated into the film, the seed of goth blooms with gorgeous dahlias in dark corners.
Aside from the form, the core of gothic movies is the ruthless exposure of the "bad", the bad is so complicated and profound, the fear is pervasive, the complex character and childhood hurt are intertwined, you can't convince the bad guy to "be good", let alone be naive I thought that if I closed my eyes, plugged my ears and prayed that the dream would disappear when I woke up one night. All you have to do is run as hard as you can, fight wits and bravery against the evil force that is claiming your life, and then, with a little dark humor, try to survive in this brutally real game. You only have to stand up and resist, maybe you can win a difficult game after breaking the blood again. Because your opponent is called destiny.
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