In 1964, a black-and-white film, such an old movie, contained a unique "jewel"-like temperament. In the vast ocean of horror films, it was shining and could rank alongside "Mentally Ill" as Martin West in the status of horror movies. Top10 of Coses.
The film "The Innocent", which is changed from Henry James' novel "The Screw is Tightening", is co-produced by the British Aguiris Film Company and the American 20th Century Fox, and the script is adapted by Truman Capote, and the British director Jack Clayton Directed, the film failed at the box office during the British release, but it was well received by the critics, and it became the nominated film in Cannes during the same period.
The film "The Innocent" is a masterpiece in terms of both photography and text creation. Thanks to the novel prototype and the stage adaptation of the film, the script, photography, lighting and lines are all references to the film. But in order to create a more convincing horror temperament, Fox actually condescended to give up the use of the title logo.
The film tells the story of the governess who accepted the invitation of the manor’s uncle to take care of the two children in her manor. She encountered a series of horrible and bizarre incidents in the luxurious mansion. Out of curiosity, she went step by step to find the truth.
This is just a smoke bomb placed in the movie for most of 100 minutes. If you watch this movie because of the horror temperament and frightening part of the whole movie, it seems that it can't even reach the passing line of a horror movie.
But if combined with the distorted and ambiguous characteristics that the movie wants to convey, it opens the hidden core of the treasure box decorated by the devil.
The female teacher Giddens, played by Deborah Cole, is elegant and dignified. She looks harmless and has a soft and sympathetic heart. But this is the protagonist's image, but at the beginning of the movie, she was judged and surrounded by darkness. God knows the approval. Who it is, the law and morality, the devil's injustice, or herself, are all possible. Multiple interpretations set the tone of the movie, and at the same time laid the biggest suspense.
It turns out that the seemingly elegant and rational female teacher is by no means so pure. The film reveals another possibility through a female teacher’s self-report, namely: jealousy, greed, possession: a poor background, a strict belief in the female teacher Swing between secular morality and indulgence and greed. (The last claw is the release of evil in the heart of the female teacher)
The ubiquitous "deep focus photography", the vague and vague dialogue, the superposition of virtual and real dreams, the ubiquitous weird hints, guide the audience to the "spiritual and haunted" all the time, but it was not until the end of the film that I thought about it and found that "on" It’s the director’s responsibility.” The hidden devil in the original movie is “sexual awakening.” This is too clever, much more advanced than the direct description of “ambiguity” and “distortion”. Although there is a kiss between a female teacher and a boy in the film, Giddens's obvious anxiety in the process obviously should have passed the "ambiguity", and the last kiss can also understand the call to the little boy's life. The director's squeeze is just right. Put multiple possibilities in the plot, and "kick the ball to the audience"
And doing so fits or counter-fits a line in the film:
Giddens: After this incident, you will judge me again.
Gross: Only oneself can be judged.
At the end of the film, a pair of withered and ugly hands slowly appeared in the dark. It also created a film narrative style with multiple endings.
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