This type of film will first create an atmosphere, and when you enter the plot, you will often be hooked when you find that "it's the way it is". Through the rapid switching of lenses, there are also several classic long shots that complement the atmosphere.
The clear line of the whole film is that the family starts from the loss of a loved one, and the seemingly successive accidents happen, which eventually lead to the disintegration of the whole family. But the dark line is actually a magic ceremony. Starting from the death of the heroine's mother, Allen, everything is paving the way for the final paimon to come as an entity, and the relationship here is inextricably linked, in fact, everything is man-made. The protagonist's family seems to be housed in a transparent glass room, and everything they encounter is under surveillance, and all their reactions are within the predictable range of those on the outside of the house. Only the people in the room don't know it, live in panic/fear/collapse and incomprehension of each other.
The background music in the opening chapter is high to low, focusing on the picture of the tree house, which is still. It is enough to reflect the important position of this tree house as a carrier in the whole film.
Charlie slept in the cabin. After being woken up by his father, he said in a panic and embarrassment: I'm sorry. After reading a lot of film reviews, the interpretation of Charlie is that she has been posed by Paimon since she was a child. I don't quite agree, because what the actor expresses here is obviously a little girl's reaction when she is criticized for doing something her parents prohibit. As for why you come to sleep in a tree house, there are two explanations: 1. It has been conveyed in many movies in the United States. The tree house is probably a secret paradise created by parents for children. It is a unique space for children. Children like it at night. It is not inexplicable to sneak to sleep; 2. Charlie came to the tree house without her knowledge, that is, under control, because this place belongs to Paimon, and combined with the later plot, her health depends on There was no need to worry about being possessed, because all the ritual needed was Charlie's head.
After the funeral, Annie came home and asked her husband, "Should I be sadder?" When Dad went to the room to say goodnight to his son Peter, he asked "a little sad?" The son did not answer directly. At this point, the family's relationship and character characteristics have almost been explained clearly. The daughter Charlie is allergic to nuts, the son Peter has no feelings for his mother Annie, and the father is the lubricant of the family and is responsible for caring for the entire family members.
Foreshadowing this, I gave a few strange things that seem to be related, but I don't know the logic.
Next, Peter under the camera is no different from an ordinary adolescent rebellious child. But at this time, the content of the teacher's lecture in the classroom was quite meaningful.
The camera turns to Charlie, turns around after cutting the bird's head, and finds a woman beckoning and smiling at her, all under surveillance.
At this point in the film, the atmosphere has been in depression/forbearance/calm, the dark line ceremony is ready, and Paimon appears for the first time.
Charlie's accident, the ritual of summoning Paimon completes the second step.
After Annie went to Jannie's house, she went home and used miniature materials to reproduce Charlie's accident scene. I don't think it's entirely the heroine's dementia, but more of her own relief. The heroine also said that in the later dinner quarrel her true thoughts. Combined with what she said in the mutual aid association, the heroine faintly felt that something was wrong, but she felt that her family might not be able to understand and support her. She wanted to protect her children. She told herself that it was an accident, but she felt that she She also has responsibilities. At the same time, she knows that her son should not be blamed, but her son really failed to protect her sister, and she didn't tell her family immediately after the accident that she needed her son's confession, and that she needed family members to trust and communicate with each other. Annie felt conflicted and painful. Everything is full of powerlessness. Even the strong father was exhausted at this time. But there is no way, the relationship between the family has been explained at the beginning of the film and cannot be changed.
There is a problem here. Annie was seduced by Jannie and recruited Paimon to her home through the magic ceremony. How should I understand it here? The devil has always been there, and it has also appeared on Charlie at home. Can it be understood as a specific spell chanting ceremony that allows Paimon to enter the home through Charlie's picture book and be able to exert power.
This also explains why the heroine burns the drawing book and sets herself on fire. Some film critics tend to be hallucinations caused by the heroine's schizophrenic breakdown. I am more inclined to this fact. The heroine later realized that the book was ominous, and knew that destroying the book would burn herself in flames. She was afraid, so she hoped to save her family by burning it with her husband's hands. The husband threw it into the fire and immediately ignited spontaneously. But at this time, whether she threw it herself or her husband threw it, it was the husband who was hurt in the end, because Paimon had already come, of course, "heretics" must be ruled out, not to mention that the husband is the most rational person in the family, and asked the police to seek external help . The primary target of retaliation.
After the ceremony,
Impressed with this set of shots, a special angle, showing Annie's emotions/passiveness under surveillance all the time.
Annie found that since the soul-calling ceremony, the family that had been repressed had become horrific. She came to Jannie for help. At this time, the camera pulled into the house. Originally, the audience was outside the big glass house (the analogy I made at the beginning) to watch everything that happened inside, but now the camera pulls the audience's perspective higher, as if we know something, but it's not exact. But look closely at the picture, the products on the wood are all handmade by Charlie. The left is the action of kneeling and prostrate, the right is the three heads, the closest is the mouse, followed by the mole head? Rabbit head? , the far right is a bottle with a dove head wearing a crown. Combined with Paimon's image, the male body/riding a camel/with three heads hanging around his waist.
Due to Peter's strong will, Paimon was unable to possess himself.
Immediately afterwards, Jannie chanted a spell to assist across the road from Peter's school, and the soundtrack was also quite exciting. A wave of screenshots came.
I thought that the spell would be related to the ritual words that appeared on the wall, but it seemed different.
Annie finally went to find the truth, and found that Paimon was in the book of Ellen's relics.
Charlie said that Ellen wanted her to be a boy, so does it mean that it is not what other netizens said in the movie reviews that it must be a female head, and a male body can make Paimon possessed? In fact, a complete male can complete Paimon possession? Because Annie didn't let Ellen touch Peter since he was a child, Ellen couldn't make Peter be cultivated into a container from a young age, and Charlie was brought up by Ellen, so Ellen had enough time and opportunity to make Charlie available for them. "Accusing her of putting people inside him" is the content of Annie's brother's suicide note. Ellen once tried to possess her own son, but his brother's willpower was tenacious and was not invaded, and he chose to commit suicide. .
In fact, no extracurricular knowledge is required, and the film itself has already revealed the reason at this time. "When Paimon is successfully aroused, he becomes possessed by one of the most vulnerable hosts. Only when the ritual is completed, Paimon is imprisoned in his chosen host. When fixed on a certain host, a new ritual is required to release Open your body."
"It is recorded that when Paimon is given a female host, Paimon gets very angry and vengeful. For all these reasons, it must be remembered that Paimon is a male and therefore desires a male body." This explains why Granny always wanted Charlie It's a boy; two, Ellen's unintelligible letter to Annie.
Combining the above tips, before the ceremony is completed, whoever is mentally weak and weak in heart will be possessed by whomever, then Peter is on the verge of collapse at this time.
My brother is quite strong.
The climax of the whole movie is coming.
Note that at this time, Annie was frightened by the sight of her husband's spontaneous combustion and completely collapsed. At this time, the aperture appeared for the fourth time in the whole film, and the heroine was completely possessed. The heroine in the next shot is expressionless. It can be seen that the possession at this time is irreversible.
Peter came home horrified to see everything.
Peter was quite strong, and after seeing his father's charred body/a naked man with a weird smile on his face/being chased by his mother/seeing a photo of himself with his eyes gouged out in a formation, he still had a trace of reason and hinted at himself Nothing is true. However, the fatal blow was Annie hanging on the roof and mutilating herself, as well as three naked old men, one of whom was smiling and waving (the same person monitoring Charlie), which finally defeated Peter's last sanity and broke out of the window.
The halo representing Paimon converged on one point and merged into Peter's body. At this point, the ceremony is complete. As the book says "locked into his ordained host".
Some film critics wrote that this was the deer in Peter's driving accident, in order to express that all this was arranged, but the logic was too far-fetched. I zoomed in and took a closer look. The long fluff was obviously their dog. This explains why there is no dog barking when so many people appear in their house; at the same time, it also gives an explanation to the dog who has appeared on the screen. This means the dogs were killed long before they carried the headless body of Allen in.
The end credits give the whole reason for what happened to the family.
The price of all this was founder Ellen Leigh becoming Queen Leigh.
“We have looked to the northwest and called you in. we’ve corrected your first female body , and give you now this healthy male host.
We reject the Trinity and pray devoutly to you, great Paimon. give us your knowledge of all secret things. bring us honor, wealth, and good familiars, bind all men to our will, as we have bound ourselves for now and ever to yours ."
At the end of the whole film, a film review was written into an illustrated film. Pulling the film is indeed time-consuming and prone to headaches, but finding the roots buried by the director is quite meaningful. The first time I watched the film when it was released, I was deeply impressed by several scenes; I watched it for the second time after a year, and I felt that it was worth discovering the details and understanding it carefully; so I pulled it a third time bit by bit, and the process was right Re-understanding after the film's logic reconstruction.
The above is a personal discussion of the film in pure text, and discussions are welcome.
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