The film is a "cannibalistic" movie with a unique female perspective, exploring the body and skin, desire and animal impulses
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"Raw" is a realistic movie. It not only has a profound theme that cannot be matched by ordinary horror films, but also has excellent narrative skills. The film is full of hints and metaphors. At the beginning of the film, the parents took Justin Yustina to report to the university and ate in the restaurant on the way. Justin Yustina accidentally ate the meat mixed in the food. This scene symbolizes that Justin Yustina, who is about to leave her parents to live an independent life, encounters the indecency of the "night" law for the first time, and also hints the plot direction of the entire film. In the middle of the film, Justin Justine developed allergies due to Raw Rabbit's kidney, showing Justin Justine's resistance to the "night" law. Here the director inserted a set of metaphorical shots, a horse running on a treadmill, several ropes pulling the horse from different directions, and a protective belt blocking it to prevent it from running too fast. This shot shows that Justin Justine’s spirit is being pulled by multiple forces at the same time like this horse. And as a horror film, Julia Ducono also handled the horror effect very well. She neither fills the screen with a sea of dead mountains and blood like Yuan Ziren, nor does she shock the audience's eardrums with a loud sound like Wen Ziren. Her horror is the horror that appeals to the sense of touch, especially the scene where Justin Justine gnawed her finger, which was so painful to see that it really embodies what is called skin pain. "Raw" is the best horror movie since 2016, both in terms of film theme and artistic expression. On the surface, Justin Yustina seems to be a lonely case. In fact, she is a collective epitome of teenagers. The director uses her experience to reflect a growth stage that teenagers generally encounter. The stages are shown in an extreme form
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