The director of the film is Juan Antonio Bayana, who was born in Barcelona, Spain. I look like a warm uncle, but the director's films have a touch of darkness, such as my favorite TV series "Vulgar Story", which is also very exciting. A movie "The Orphanage" and so on. The starring was Lewis McDougall, a 15-year-old British boy at the time. Due to the adaptation of the novel "Summon of the Devil", coupled with a strong lineup, when it was first released in Spain, it not only won the annual box office champion in Spain, but also won the best film and best film at the 31st Goyada Awards. Director and other 12 nominations.
At the beginning of the film, there is a voiceover "A boy too old to be a kid, too yong too be a man", revealing that this must be a story about growing up. The little protagonist Connor's parents divorced and lived with his mother. Ever since his mother got sick and started chemotherapy, Connor began to have the same nightmare, until one day, the tree demon came into his life and told Connor that he was summoned, And to tell him three stories in exchange for a true story of Connor himself.
The first story Prince and Queen, this is the first encounter between Connor and the Dryad, a story about good and evil, the prince who rioted on the basis of the death of his lover and the queen who wanted to control the country, which is the real good or evil , no one can tell.
The second story is about faith. There is a pharmacist with excellent medical skills in the town who uses his medical skills to obtain money, but the beloved priest rejects this practice very much. He firmly believes that the healer should heal the healer with kindness and encourages the residents not to buy medicine from him. Until one day, the pastor's two daughters fell ill. The pastor found a pharmacist and said that he was willing to give up all his beliefs to save his daughters. daughter died.
The third story The Invisible Man, Connor has been enduring bullying at school. He is unwilling to be an invisible man. He listens to the instigation of the tree demon and rises up to resist. Connor is eager to be noticed by people like a normal person. When the invisible man appears naked in the Under everyone's eyes, they found that they were even more lonely. Maybe Connor and we should all understand that even when all the attention is on ourselves, it's not necessarily the light that shines.
The fourth story is Connor's long-standing nightmare, the hand of his mother who can't hold on to the edge of a cliff, seeing the person he loves slowly fall into the darkness, but he can't do anything about it. When the tree demon forced him to speak his heart, Connor hysterically expressed his true thoughts. He wanted it all to end. Although he loved his mother deeply, but the drug treatment and inner torture one after another made Connor suppressed too much. For a long time, I neither wanted my mother to leave nor wanted everything to end as soon as possible.
After watching this movie for a long time, I couldn't calm down. There are many explanations for the appearance of the Dryad, some say that he is real, some say that it was instilled by Connor's mother subconsciously, and some say that it is the dark side of Connor himself. In my opinion, it doesn't matter how the Dryad appeared, what touched me was a sense of helplessness and loss. When Connor's mother was dying, she said to Connor with tears in her eyes, 'In the future, when you grow up and regret being angry with me today, you must remember that it's okay, regret not talking to me, it's really okay because you want to I know what I'm saying, if you want to destroy something, destroy it, it doesn't matter, I'm always there. 'My pent-up tears finally flowed out of my eyes. Helpless but heartbroken. Everyone is lonely. Sooner or later, the people around you will leave for various reasons and only yourself will be left. How will we face when we are forced to let go of our loved ones one after another like Connor on the edge of a cliff Live by yourself? 'I take a nap by myself, sleep until six or seven o'clock and open my eyes, looking at the hazy black sky, looking at the empty room, there will be a feeling of being abandoned by the whole world, the loneliness is most vividly reflected at that moment', I have a deep understanding of this passage. There will be no real powerful tree demons in life. When I wake up in the dark and find that I am really alone, sometimes life is so helpless. I have heard a saying that we should accept the pain that life gives and stand up again. If we can't accept it and don't want to accept it, what should we do. Hopefully, everyone can be strong enough to make a dryad out of hysterical shouting and tears.
There are too many hypocritical words, which seem to be out of touch with the content of the film at the end, but it is said that there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people.
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