In the 1970s, Scottish police officer Howie (played by Edward Woodward) received a letter stating that Ron Morrison, a girl on the summer island, a small island on the west coast of Scotland, had been missing for a long time. Ask him for help to solve the case. Howie came to Xia Island to investigate and found that the atmosphere on the island was very strange. The residents first said that they did not know the girl, and then said that the girl was dead. But Howie did not find the girl's body. The whereabouts of the missing girl became increasingly unclear. The truth of the case is getting more and more confusing. Howie was surprised to discover that the residents of the island were a group of The Wicker Man who did not believe in Jesus Christ. Lord Summer Island (Christopher Lee) seems to have great power and prestige. They did not cooperate with Howie's investigation. When Howie was about to leave the island, he discovered the tradition of using living people to worship in the island’s May Festival. He was ready to find out, but he didn’t know that the danger was approaching him.
The Wicker Man movie plot
2021-12-30 17:21
Extended Reading
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Piper 2022-04-23 07:02:05
The ancient version of "A Midsummer Night's Fright" was indeed ahead of its time in the 1970s. The male protagonist is not the first choice, his appearance is old, and he lacks the energy to be reckless and reckless.
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Johnnie 2021-12-30 17:21:10
8/10. The angry accusation from the police detective near the end of the film created a feeling of being captured by the devil, and the power of faith was so strong that it would not arouse the fear of murder among the followers. Here [The Wicker Man] is a romantic horror film. Romanticism breeds in the wild group P of naked crops under the wonderful light and red fruit in the dark. Children are tied with ribbons and trees, animal masks and other rituals. Paradoxical joy is like the collapse of the entire rational world.
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Lord Summerisle: In the last century, the islanders were starving. Like our neighbors today, they were scratching a bare subsistence from sheep and sea. Then in 1868, my grandfather bought this barren island and began to change things. A distinguished Victorian scientist, agronomist, free thinker. How formidably benevolent he seems. Essentially the face of a man incredulous of all human good.
Sergeant Howie: You're very cynical, my Lord.
Lord Summerisle: What attracted my grandfather to the island, apart from the profuse source of wiry labor that it promised, was the unique combination of volcanic soil and the warm gulf stream that surrounded it. You see, his experiments had led him to believe that it was possible to induce here the successful growth of certain new strains of fruit that he had developed. So, with typical mid-Victorian zeal, he set to work. The best way of accomplishing this, so it seemed to him, was to rouse the people from their apathy by giving them back their joyous old gods, and it is as a result of this worship the barren island would burgeon and bring forth fruit in great abundance. What he did, of course, was to develop new cultivars of hardy fruits suited to local conditions. But, of course, to begin with, they worked for him because he fed them and clothed them. But then later, when the trees starting fruiting, it became a very different matter, and the ministers fled the island, never to return. What my grandfather had started out of expediency, my father continued out of... love. He brought me up the same way, to reverence the music and the drama and the rituals of the old gods. To love nature and to fear it. And to rely on it and to appease it where necessary. He brought me up...
Sergeant Howie: He brought you up to be a Pagan!
Lord Summerisle: A heathen, conceivably, but not, I hope, an unenlightened one.
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Sergeant Howie: I'd like to see your index of deaths, please.
Librarian: Do you have authority?
[he shows her his badge]
Librarian: No, I meant from His Lordship.
Sergeant Howie: I don't need it.
Librarian: I'm afraid you have to get permission from Lord Summerisle.
Sergeant Howie: Miss... if you don't cooperate with me here and now, you may well find yourself inside a police cell on the mainland tonight. Have I made myself quite clear? Please.
[with some reluctance, she hands the index over]
Sergeant Howie: Thank you.