The film can be divided into two stages according to the picture, one is in the United States, the dark tone is the main, most of the content is death, betrayal, madness, etc., that is, the first quarter; the second stage is in Sweden, The sunlight in the lens has already spread to the face through the screen. Haga are wearing pure white clothes. Everything looks peaceful, pure and natural, but I don’t know what is hidden in it.
I have to say that after reading it, I may have a different opinion than most people. I agree with the way of life and beliefs of the Harga people, not to say how much I want to integrate into them, but at least I respect them. Although it is a "cult", it is different from a "cult". The peaceful, peaceful and pure nature you see is true in their collective. The most important thing is their reverence for the power of nature.
Harga's understanding of the cycle of human life is very interesting and always feels familiar.
By the age of 72, people are gone, whether natural phenomena or intentional. (high energy in front)
But for this "intentional", it is very sacred in Harga's heart.
This kind of thinking is not without reflection in real life: in a sense, Japan's view of aging is similar, the elderly voluntarily live in nursing homes, or continue to contribute to society (please remind me if I remember wrong); other In film and television works such as "South Park", Stan's grandfather always wants his family to kill him (also an irony); someone around him once said that he would commit suicide when he was forty, because he would rather die than become ugly and old (But this is not at the same level as the idea of the film) and so on.
The "Cliff Festival" is more like a ceremony, thanking the gift of nature, giving back to nature at the end of the life cycle (in fact, there is not much reward, it can only be said that it is the end of accepting gifts), becoming dust and returning to nature. The "ancestral tree" has an extraordinary position in Harga's heart, so this awareness should belong to "faith annihilates humanity".
It is said to be a "evil scripture", and there is also a witch-like ritual of intoxicating the sweetheart: in the picture above, Christian's food and drinks are different from others. There is a leaf on the plate, and the color of the drink is darker than others. This corresponds to the painting in the previous part: The Harga girl has taken a fancy to her sweetheart, and will use her own yīnmáo to make food for him to eat, using her own juice? /menstrual blood? /Blood? Put it in a drink and give it to him, the sweetheart will be bewitched, and then the two will reproduce together.
As for the heroine Dani, it is a tragedy in itself. From the background story to the real-time experience, there is a lingering shadow. That's why she has no resistance to this kind of fusion cult, she might reject it at first, but in the end she has completely become a Harga.
When selecting "Queen of May", Dani was also in it. It is not difficult to guess that she must be the queen in the end through the halo of the heroine. ), so... maybe this queen is also a default...
Everything after that became more and more weird. Under the action of "mushroom water", the body was changing (flowers grew on hands, feet turned into grass), plants were breathing (like the vines in "Terrorist Ruins"), Behaviours are converging (Dani's performance at the dinner table when he realizes his queen status, and the sacrifice afterwards), and it's not until Dani sees Christian and Maja mating in the public eye that he recovers.
Speaking of which, Harga's empathy is very shocking. For example, when Christian and Maja were mating, when Dani saw that scene of grief that he couldn't control himself, and when the last nine sacrifices were burned, Harga's reaction was indeed incomprehensible to ordinary people. Yes, maybe that's what makes their thinking and customs even more incomprehensible: they have such a way of life because they can understand everything.
When everything burns out, Dani also burns himself out with the flames.
【End】
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