If you are an audience with a sense of justice, you may feel a little bit in your heart when watching this film that deceives the public and finally obliterates integrity, resulting in 19 innocent people being wronged and tortured. You are angry, but you don’t have to be too entangled. In human history, such incidents are not uncommon. Even in the current era of prosperous technology and prosperous culture, there will occasionally be one or two lamentable group ignorance and blind obedience incidents, not to mention the film. The North American colonial period in which the "Witch Chasing Case" occurred in 1692 was mentioned.
In view of the grief and sadness of the historical events described in the film, it seems inappropriate to translate the title "The Crucible" into "The Age of Passion." Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder have previously co-starred in Scorsese's "Age of Innocence" deliberately. From this point of view, the other translation of "Jealous Flames and Ashes" seems more appropriate-the tragedy began with a woman's possessiveness towards a married man. Her use of the topic and pretending to be a fool has bluffed the folks of that era with ulterior motives. People even seized the opportunity to use framing to achieve the purpose of seizing other people’s property. As a result, more and more people were implicated as cannon fodder. Ignorance, ignorance, blind obedience, and even mistakes were turned into tools to be used. Under the circumstances that everyone said, the original intent of The Crucible The "serious test" is placed in front of the upright people...
Through the progressive narrative, as the lies grow bigger and bigger, the framed people are arrested one by one, and the collective fanatical and out of control induced by the fools , The audience saw the dark and ugly aspects of human nature, such as deformed love, extreme jealousy, ugly greed, ignorant mind and unprovoked blind obedience. And this thought-provoking analysis of light and shadow is adapted from the stage play "The Crucible" written by the famous American playwright Arthur Miller in the 1950s. Alluding to the current situation of chasing after the wind and shadows, when the director Nicholas Hitner reproduced the play on the screen, Miller personally deleted the metaphors and allusions in it, and restored it to a pure historical event, with the theme biased towards the extreme personality of Ai Bigel (played by Winona Ryder) has hopeless revenge because of love.
At first, in order to avoid reprimanding the young girls for the night blood curse and dancing in the woods, one of the participants, the priest’s daughter Betty, began to pretend to be sick. At the same time, there was another young girl who pretended to be sick. So, Abigail, the priest’s niece Er began to use the so-called ghost possession to first divert the public's attention, and then achieve the goal of killing the rival of love. In the meantime, several lifelike panic as if seeing the devil appearing stunned the bystanders, and then several scenes in court where the girls fainted, their whole body was cold and even threw into the sea, making the fools believe that the devil had arrived.
When Abigail finally framed John's (played by Daniel Day-Lewis) wife Elizabeth (played by Joan Allen), John, who had been entangled with Abby, understood that the true face of this woman must be exposed to save his wife. It’s just that the people at this time have fallen into lies too deeply, even judges and priests. In the village of Salem, where all the evil is in the house instead of the law, the honest and understanding people can only die... When I
first saw this film, it was Arthur in early 2005. When Miller died, when the media once again talked about his short-lived marriage with Monroe, they would rather choose to watch his previous plays or light and shadow marks. Revisiting it now, still sighing, feeling the ease of being seduced and bewitched by the human heart, and the easy fanatical and paranoid of the spiritual world, such as the villagers who are afraid of not expressing their aversion to the devil, vying to express their support for the girls, no matter what They first saw the excitement of the "devil's spokesperson" being hanged. At the same time, she was admired by the brilliance of humanity of upright people, such as the elderly Ms. Rebecca. She is quite prestigious in the village. However, when framed is rampant, she is also falsely accused by people who hate her children and grandchildren as the devil. Body, the old lady insists on being honest and upright when confession can survive. Her recitation on the gallows is unforgettable. Of course, the most memorable death comes from Daniel Day-Lewis.
The scene signed on the confession is the climax of the whole film. The drama is full of tension. Lewis also took it well and explained clearly and defensibly the inner changes of John, who was then alive. Finally, when John held it with trembling hands. When the confession book said "That's my name! A person has only one name in his life", the grief here cannot be added. For the sake of dignity and for the sons to avoid being ashamed of this forced surname in the future, John After tearing up the confession, he chose to stick to his honesty, and his wife supported his choice with tears in tears.
The innocent Winona Ryder played the vicious and persistent Abigail this time. It can be said that this role is a reliable choice. Based on her appearance, who can believe that such a girl with a pure appearance is lustful and evil in her heart. In order to achieve her goal, she used all means, but this girl was also superb in acting and first-rate tricks, but the seemingly experienced seniors in the Massachusetts legal profession were also taken advantage of by her. How terrible.
Another intriguing character in the film comes from Mr. Haier (played by Rob Campbell). He is not a native of Salem and is an expert in "destroying demons and eliminating demons." At first, he listened to the testimony of the girls and was convinced that the place was affected. The devil attacked. However, in subsequent investigations, he gradually understood that this was a hoax, especially when Rebecca and Elizabeth were also arrested, but at this time the enthusiasm of the masses had merged into a torrent. "Quit it." When John was about to be sentenced, he came again to help John be pardoned, but John finally chose honesty and dignity. People like Haier are not uncommon in reality. Once they make mistakes in judgments on major matters and cause disasters, even if they want to remedy them, it is too late, leaving sorrow in vain.
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