In fact, the story is just a little bit of a story. At first, I thought it was too deliberate. I thought that the so-called darkest secret was just the same at the end. But after watching the whole movie and bringing it into life, I found out, he said That's right, the film wraps the shell of a children's film, but in its bones it is a dark fairy tale of the adult world.
Lewis may be the most mature actor I have ever seen at this age. He is not as simple and beautiful as other young actors who play boys. On the contrary, he shows a gloomy temperament and even a bit violent. This may also correspond to the beginning of the movie. Said With a boy, too old to be a boy, too young to be a man. It is this age restriction that makes Conor know the truth that his mother has concealed from him and the hardships of life, but he does not have too much power to bear it, but he is not evading reality, he subconsciously wants to be able to take responsibility. To be able to tell the secrets in my heart and get liberation, the way to liberate is to let him be punished, so the same dialogue appears repeatedly in the film: You won't punish me? (You' re not punishing me? (What could possibly be the point?) Conor's heart is suffering, he wants to be punished, because he thinks he is wrong, dark thoughts, but every respondent gave him With the same answer, he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. This sentence was not wrong, but it did not save him. Instead, it pushed him into the abyss. So he "summoned" Monster. He hoped that Monster could rescue him from the abyss. , So Monster told him three stories. The first story A long time ago, here was a prosperous kingdom with a wise king who made peace for his people, but the peace was bought at a certain price. The king lost his three sons, and a confrontation The giant died, one died against the dragon, and the other died against the army led by the great magician. The queen could not bear the pain of losing her child, and left in despair to leave the king alone and his only remaining heir-his Grandson, this child was raised as a prince, and with his bravery and sincerity, he won the love of the whole country. When he was almost adult, his grandfather married his new wife, but then the king became ill, and rumors began to spread, saying that she was An evil witch who poisoned the king and wanted to seize the throne for herself. A few weeks later, the king died, and the prince was still young and could not become the king. Therefore, according to the law, the queen will reign for one year during which the prince has a sweetheart. She is beautiful and smart. She is the only daughter of a farmer. The whole country thinks that they are a good match. However, the queen enjoys the joy of being a queen. So she wants to marry the prince. The prince doesn’t like this idea. He took the farmer’s daughter to escape on horseback. In the middle of the night, they stopped and rested under the branches of the yew tree. The prince woke up the next morning and found that someone had killed his lover at night. "Queen" he cried, "The queen killed my bride!" The villagers were full of anger and revenge. They rioted, and the queen never appeared again, because Monster took the queen very far away, and people will always find her. In a village by the sea, she started a new life, but It was the prince himself who really killed the prince’s lover, because he knew that her death would trigger a spark that would completely destroy the queen. At the end of the story, he became a beloved king, ruling happily until his death. The story is not like the traditional happy prince and princess Ending, because there will not always be good people, and there will not always be bad people. Many people are somewhere in between. Every story has two sides. The story implies that Conor’s inner secret is not wrong, because there is no absolute difference between good and bad in the world, just like a prince is both a murderer and a beloved king. This is what Monster comforts and guides Conor to tell the secret. level one. The second story 150 years ago, factories grew like weeds, trees were chopped down, the river turned black, the sky was suffocated by soot, but there was still green, and a stubborn man lived on the edge of the city. He refused to change and still followed Old medicine, using herbs, bark, and a mixture of leaves and berries, the villagers called him a medicinal doctor. There is also a young pastor in this village who is very knowledgeable and kind. He only thinks about the parish. He preaches against the old medicine of the medicine doctors. The bad temper and greed of the medicine doctors made those sermons more acceptable, he thought Try to help the community as much as possible, but his business plummeted, which made him aggrieved. The priest’s residence also has a yew tree. The yew tree is the most important healing tree. Its fruit and bark can play, burn, and have throbbing life. It can cure almost all diseases, as long as the medicine doctor mixes That's right. The medicine doctor wanted the yew tree very much, but he had to chop it down to obtain these things, but this was not allowed by the priest. The pastor’s two daughters are the light of his life. He is a caring father who will give everything for them, but one day the two little girls were crushed by a terrible disease, and everything the pastor did did not help. There is no cure in modern medicine, prayer is useless, nothing is useful, there is no choice but to find a medicine doctor. "Will you help my daughters?" the pastor begged, "Will you save two innocent girls?" "Why should I save them?" The medicine doctor said, "Your preaching ruined my career, you Refusing to give me the yew tree is the best source of healing." "Take the yew tree," said the pastor. "I will preach what is good for you. As long as you save my daughter, I will do everything. Willing to do." "Are you willing to give up everything you believe in?" said the medicine doctor, "If that can save them, I am willing to give up everything." "Then I have nothing to help you." the next day The pastor's two daughters were all dead, and the Monster walked around again that night. The pastor's house was torn from the bottom up by it, but why not a medical doctor? Because although he is greedy and rude, he is still a healer, and what is the pastor, a believer without faith. Belief is half a cure. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits. Your belief is precious... Like the first story, Monster Wanting to tell Conor about the two sides of things is like a pharmacist who has both bad temper and reasonable thinking. There are many things that we can’t do. The only thing we can do is to believe. Monster implies that even if we have faith at the end of the story, it will not be changed. But this story is not about change at all. It’s just about self-salvation, letting Conor learn from Out of the bottomless abyss. So it lets Conor vent and destroy. The purpose is to guide Conor step by step to tell the secret, this is the second layer. The third story is the last story that Monster tells. There was an invisible man who was tired of not being seen. In fact, he was not invisible, but people were used to ignoring him. One day the invisible man could not stand him anymore. Curious if no one sees you, do you really exist, so the invisible man summoned Monster. This story is the shortest, but it comes with a series of more harmful attributes. Through the invisible man, he can be seen but become more and more lonely and reiterate the relativity of things, which exacerbates the contradictions and conflicts. Monster encourages Conor to be brave. The invisible person is Conor. It can be seen from the front that Conor is lonely. He didn't even have a friend at school. There was a overhead shot. Conor stood alone in the surging crowd, like a Lonely island (no one should be an island, fortunately he still has family members, he still has love), but he strongly denies it, which corresponds to his inner contradiction, and does not want to make himself dispensable. People ignore, and don’t want the sympathy and pity of teachers and others for his charity, he would rather "call" When a Monster is with him, some people may say that Monster is not his friend, it is his nightmare. Actually, it is not. Conor has not been afraid of Monster since the beginning, and Monster has only come to save Conor from beginning to end. Conor's three dreams reflected his predicament, but the meaning was not important. After all, it was still an introduction, in order to let Conor truly let go and tell the darkest secret in his heart. It's the so-called fourth story. He knew that his mother was dying. He always knew that, although his mother always told him that he would get better, because that was what he wanted to hear, he chose to believe instead of not disbelief. At that time, he began to think about how much he wanted this Everything is over, so in the dream, he let go of his hand, he let his mother fall, and he couldn't hold it anymore. He didn't want this, but now everything came true, it was all his fault, he just wanted to end the pain, end his own pain; that was his most original wish, that was his original intention, but it was not. Just like the prince is both a murderer and beloved by others, a pharmacist has both bad temper and reasonable ideals, and the invisible man allows himself to be seen but become more lonely. Because human beings are complex animals, they know the truth of pain while believing in comforting lies, and both of them are often necessary and coexistent. The truth is not important, because the truth only exists in his heart, so finally Conor He hugged his mother tightly, said the truthful sentence "I don't want you to go", and finally he was able to let go. There are many metaphors in the film, such as whether it is reasonable to look at the world from the perspective of a teenager, like whether Monster should appear in the real world, the appearance of the grandmother forced Conor to recognize reality, and the bully on campus "You're always off in your own little dream world." It directly points out Conor's "unrealistic", and the appearance of Dad highlights the cruel reality of reality. The conversation between the father and son in the car is really sad: "It's Christmas. , You come to Los Angeles" (And you're going to come to LA for Christmas.) "No, your small house has no space for me" (God no, not in your cramped house where there is no room for me) Dad wanted to help him, but after he had his new family, he was powerless after all. On the contrary, Conor became more isolated and helpless. Everyone is the reason that Conor will "summon" Monster. They not only wanted to pull Conor from the fantasy of self-protection into the cold real world, but also wanted to desperately force him to admit that he was wrong and that they were just afraid of his mother's departure. When watching "King Kong" with his mother, Conor once asked her mother, "Why are they try to kill King Kang?" Mom said, "People don't like what they do not understand." Back to the end of the movie, Conor Looking through his mother’s picture album when he was a child, he discovered that the Monster he had imagined had already been drawn in the picture album when his mother was very young. Therefore, the Monster he had imagined was a story his mother had told him a long time ago. Like him, she only liked to fantasize about "strange and weird" things since she was a child. At that time, she might have been isolated and discriminated against. She knew Conor and knew "People don't like what they do not understand." Uncle Neeson’s voice robbed me of the show, giving me a feeling of boiled water. Although it is not artificial, but it is insensible. Even the newcomer actor, who was once thought to be very unknown, did not perform at the level of her performance, but was a young male protagonist. Surprised me again and again. I went to Baidu specifically. The full name of the male lead is Lewis MacDougall (Lewis McDougall), a young actor born after 00. I feel that I have never seen him before. I saw only two of his movie works. One is "Monster Summon", the other is actually "Pan" released in 2015 (I won't write the Chinese translation, it's too stupid), I racked my brains for a while, and finally remembered that it seemed to be at the beginning of "Pan" Pan played with Levi Miller in the orphanage was a buddy. At the time, he didn't care at all. Hugh Jackman and Levi Miller took the limelight. In the strict sense, Lewis MacDougall is not a very good actor. He is not handsome and cute. , There is not even a strange spirit, anyway, the advantages of the little actor I like are not in him, but it is this kind of difference, this "Monster Summon" appeared, completely subverted my starring of children, It is the understanding of the so-called child star deduction. It turns out that children don’t have to have an IQ not online, and they pretend to be cute all the time. They can also be so melancholy and unique. All in all, the whole film is a big plus point. It was earned by Lewis MacDougall.
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