So, when did the heroine start to believe it? Looking back at the whole process, we can find that for the first time, she tried to buy some voodoo daily necessities from the black aunt at the voodoo shop, and used it on the old man who was "stroke", and the result was effective-the old man shouted It's help. Until this time, Xin began to take root in the heroine's heart.
It's very interesting here. As a normal white American, the heroine initially did not believe in the magic of the southern American black man, at least until the successful experiment on the old man with stroke, she was not "believable". Before she tried this, she just had a suspicion mentality. The so-called "believe and doubt", for most people, there are nothing more than two situations: if the experiment fails, then the experimental method is not credible; if it succeeds, then this whole set of logic is valid, and therefore credible to a certain extent of.
Here comes the problem. If strictly in accordance with the logical requirement of "believe, then there is no belief, then nothing", the heroine does not meet the requirement of "belief", she is in an unresolved state, so it is true that she does not believe now. If she doesn't believe it, then the spell cast on the old man shouldn't take effect. If the spell doesn't take effect, she won't let her go from "believe in doubt" to "believe" and finally fall into the quagmire of "convinced".
The clever editor did not avoid this question or be vague. Before performing these spells, the heroine once said to her companion: I don't believe it, I did it for him, because he believed it. This is the fact. Since the old man who suffered a stroke has already been "stroke", it means that he has, at least once, "believed" the entire set of spells, so the spells are effective for him.
The heroine's problem is now obvious-she changed from "I don't believe it, it doesn't work for me. It works for him because he believes." to "It works for him, so I believe it." In this process, her sanity, which is also the sanity that most of us have, played a decisive role.
Reason tells us that what comes next, especially what happens one after another in a very short period of time, has a causal connection. Immediately after reciting the spell, the old man began to speak for help. The heroine's heart was terrified, and her reason told her that the effectiveness of this spell had been verified, and the amulet of "unbelief, nothing" has lost its effectiveness. So in the final "sacrifice" process, even if she broke her throat with "I don't believe", the tragic end cannot be reversed.
What’s more interesting is that most viewers, including me, when they saw that scene, they believed in the curse of voodoo, so until we knew the ending, we would feel that the heroine had everything The actions are all logical-whether she saves the old man, or uses witchcraft to confront the two old immortals, or finally she meticulously completed the preparations for her sacrifice.
So the ending of the whole movie is actually: the witch who casts the spell not only took the life of the heroine, but also the soul of all the audience who watched the movie. Don't deny that you believed in the power of witchcraft before the truth came out. This denial is as pale as the heroine's final "I don't believe".
Therefore, if you want to avoid all of this, you must jump out of this logic. We can believe in Hume's philosophical theory that there is actually no causal connection between things. The relations behind the successive events are all arranged by us with so-called rationality. If the heroine saw her use witchcraft one after another, and witchcraft produced results on the old man, and did not believe that there was a causal connection between them, she would not believe in the role of witchcraft and could prevent black witches from succeeding. Or follow the Blessed One’s teaching to Subhuti in the "Diamond Sutra", "Everything is like a dream bubble, like a dew or electricity, and you should observe it like this." If you look at everything and abandon all the methods, the two black spirits will have no choice. . If the heroine knows everything, instead of shouting "I don't believe", but suddenly fully enlightened, sits on the spot, and enters the state of "no one, I will live the life", then it must be suddenly golden and sweep away everything. Monsters and monsters.
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