On the cultural background and asceticism behind raw eating

Seamus 2022-01-04 08:02:34

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This high-rated horror film, which is hailed as a lively cannibalism, can be regarded as a very good work in the world of horror films. Today, Mr. Guihua will give you a taste of the hidden things in "Raw Eat"!

This long-awaited high-scoring cannibal movie is actually different from the kind of ogre slaughter you usually think of. It's not the bloody blood in the hearts of plasma film fans. Most of the film is just foreshadowing, the small details of the protagonist in life slowly changing, and there are not many pictures of sisters eating raw meat, killing people, and cannibalism. Compared with the primal impulse and madness of the roommate's sister when eating cannibalism, the panic and pain of seeing her own cannibalism and the fascination of her sister formed a contrast.

The reason why this film got everyone's high scores is actually not because of the bizarre bizarreness of cannibalism by the two sisters. One of the reasons for the high score is that this is an alternative youth growth horror film. The transformation of the younger sister's journey from freshman admission to cannibalism to the restoration of conscience is actually a metaphor for the growth of young boys and girls, but a crazy and extreme version. Because youth is just like in the film: entering school, influenced by boys and girls of the same age around, begin to assimilate, imitate maturity, and attract the opposite sex. After being mad, depraved, and stupid, I suddenly found out what was wrong with me. While regretting, I couldn't stop at the same time. The bottom line was broken by "Youth is going to be crazy" at any time.

The older sister is the first to go to school. On the road to youth, whether it is eating meat or everything on campus, the older sister is already a step faster than the younger sister. But the consequence of early contact is that my sister fell into the cannibal madness earlier. And under the enlightenment of the sister, the ignorant sister at first never used to party, did not adapt to the sister's skirt, dress, and ignorant of boys, and later learned to smoke, wearing her sister's skirt and dancing sexy in front of the mirror to show sex. The budding of, means that my sister has slowly begun to change.

But in this youth film, the younger sister represents another example of depraved adolescent boys and girls reforming from evil, because when the younger sister is crazy, she still keeps the moral guidelines in her heart. Finally, love and sisterhood have changed back to her part. His conscience will not go on like her sister's madness and unrestrainedness. Just like everyone’s youth, they will grow up after being stupid.

The second reason for the high score is the film's refraction of abstinence and rebound. This film is a French film. In terms of cultural background, France, which has always advocated sexual freedom, actually had a period of extreme religious asceticism during the European Middle Ages. Many people voluntarily and firmly joined the ranks of abstinence, but it did not bring about a holy trend as people thought. On the contrary, what followed was the prevalence of extreme indulgence after long-term abstinence. In the film, the younger sister has been restrained by her mother from eating meat since she was a child. She has not received the influence of meat for a long time and is a firm vegetarian. When you have to eat meat, it not only awakens the human biological instinct, but also a rebound from long-term abstinence, that is, not only to eat, but also to eat crazy.

And in addition to breaking this abstinence by tasting meat for the first time, the young sister's awakening of sex soon afterwards also broke the long-term confinement of the girlhood to sex. After tasting these two forbidden fruits for the first time, my sister really couldn't go back. And if you try it once, you will want to try the second. The strong desire impulse from the body for this desire is transformed into an appetite impulse in the film. When the madness of raw meat couldn't satisfy her emptiness, combined with the pursuit of sex, the younger sister shifted her goal to cannibalism, staring at the one she loved and couldn't help but want to eat him. Just like the song of the Divine Comedy "PPAP", the thought in my heart is: I want to eat meat! I miss a man! (So) Well, I want to eat human flesh!

But some people may be wondering, why have to eat raw meat instead of just eating cooked meat to awaken the sister's instinct? Because the younger sister is forced to eat, for a firm vegetarian who is nurtured by a family environment like her younger sister, this means that his principles have been forcibly broken by others, and they are very resistant in their hearts. But when he had to surrender, the string of principles in his heart broke. Often when the principle of some people is broken, they break the jar and get out of control. Just like a criminal who commits a crime for the first time, the second crime is irrelevant and even more rampant. The collapse of this principle + the rebound of abstinence makes the heroine go farther and farther. On the contrary, for my sister, from the boyish dress and behavior of her sister, it can be seen that her sister is more rebellious and love to break the rules, so the sister does not shy away from chewing and killing people, just for food.

Although this good sister is crazy, her sister is not as inhumane as the ogres in other horror films, and even full of contradictions and pain in her heart. From the beginning, my younger sister looked at the boy rolling under her nose, and she was apprehensive, but she just looked at it. Later, it became stronger and stronger. In order to protect the beloved boy from being eaten by his appetite, he had to bite his wrist for all his life and struggle mentally with his appetite. The appetite became more and more uncontrollable. If it weren't for the accidental killing of the last beloved boy, maybe the younger sister will also follow in the footsteps of her sister's crazy path.

At the last moment when Dad opened his clothes, the source of my sister's distress finally had an answer. It turns out that my mother has a habit of cannibalism, biting her father beyond recognition, and one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer. At the same time, it also unravels why her mother strictly prohibits her from eating meat because she knows who she is and doesn't want her daughter to follow in her own footsteps.

Does this routine sound familiar? Yes, this is the portrayal of everyone. We have been forbidden from doing certain things by our parents in the name of "fearing that the future will be bad". But when we grow up, we may find that the reason why our parents are so strict with us is because they have tasted the bitter fruit, so they don't want us to repeat the same mistakes. This is also the main theme of the film: family, youth, growth.

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  • Andre 2022-03-23 09:02:32

    The flesh-and-blood self-awareness of appetite and sexual desire, and the cannibal theme appear with the power of electronic music girls in the youth campus, which are amazing in all aspects. But the overall structure is rather messy, very much like the director first conceived the scene he likes and then considers the connection, which leads to the continuous decrease in strength until the ending with a smile. Eating raw certainly has a simple and powerful impact, but without spiritual motivation, it is just a mechanical action.

  • Lionel 2022-04-24 07:01:16

    At the beginning, this kind of wave + Sodom 120-style environment setting suddenly hits it will be a bit abrupt. No matter how good the color of photography is, it is better for me than "Neon Demon". Although the heroine has quite the shadow of Adjani in "Possessed", she is still just a shadow. The rhythm of individual paragraphs is slightly out of tune. The advantage is to restore life to the image practice of blood-devouring survival, and the survival dimension captures the freedom of the life dimension. It's a fun and swinging way to declare war.

Raw quotes

  • Justine: [to Alexia] You taste like curry.

  • Justine: I wanted a female roommate

    Adrien: You got a fag, same thing to them