To be honest, after watching this film, I really feel that I have found a treasure. Unexpectedly, it was an anti-routine movie, and after watching the ending, recalling the previous details, it corresponds to the ending of the story, which is the truth of the facts.
What's more commendable is that the director will not over-explain, leaving room for the audience to think about. It will not be like some domestic suspense films. The ending will be a narration, for fear that you dozed off in front of you and skipped the details to make you unable to understand the plot. , So a good movie also needs a good audience to watch it carefully.
Yes, I am that shameless good audience.
There are spoilers below, detour if you haven't seen it.
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First of all, the truth is that the old man is just an ordinary old man, not a perverted killer.
The title Good Neighbors is not about the old man, but the two young people.
why? The following explains the details and truth in the film.
Before the old man’s wife was ill, the old man, like many husbands who had lived together for a long time, ignored his wife’s demands, and might even be prone to domestic violence. In the film, it was learned from the conversations between several young people that the old man had rumors of beating his wife and killing the dog. I believe it was not groundless, at least for a certain reason. This shows that the old man was not a qualified husband at first.
Several details that appeared at the beginning, such as the young man’s prank, the old man did not respond, the police came to check on the old man but his attitude was not good, and the police were not allowed to enter the door. When taking out the trash, he met the dog-walking man with bad words. These details were for the audience at first. Thinking that the old man has a grumpy temper, there might be some sleazy perversion in the house.
But in fact, the old man living alone lost his wife twelve years ago and was lonely for twelve years. It is normal to be a bit eccentric. It is also reasonable to be grumpy. Losing a beloved love will have a great impact and impact on a person, and it will affect the surrounding people. Things don't care too much, so there is no need to explain it.
As for hating dogs, haven't you seen him raising a cat? It is normal to like cats or dislike dogs, and personal preference is normal. As for threatening to kill dogs, it is also a manifestation of grumpy.
When the young man’s "Ghost Open the Door" experiment, the screen door kept flapping, but the old man stood in front of him and meditated. Later, angrily, he picked up the axe and chopped the door, and then took the axe and sat in a daze on the rocking chair late at night.
This can be said to be the most perverted detail of the old man, of course, for the unsuspecting audience and the two young people.
In fact, the memory segment in the film is that the wife asked the old man to help repair the door, but the old man ignored it. When the two bear children "open the door" battle, the old man recalled that it was his wife's request in the past, thinking that it was his wife who came back, and was venting his anger with that door. This is the first level of misunderstanding. The old man was very upset about his disregard for his wife and blamed himself, so he slashed the door with an axe. In the final revelation of the truth, it can be seen that the screen door was repaired by the old man.
Later, in the "Dawn Night Waltz" action, which is to play music on a remote player in the middle of the night, the old man was awakened and walked to the player in the lobby, meditating, but did not respond. For the first time, the old man opened the door of the basement and stayed inside for one night.
This phenomenon seemed to onlookers, it seemed that there was something in the basement, most likely it was a corpse, and then the old man stayed there for one night, suggesting that the old man was probably a "necrophilia" or other abnormality. This also aroused the curiosity of the two young people in the basement.
But the fact is that the old man’s wife once turned on the music in the middle of the night, drank wine and danced in the hall, and then fell into the old man’s arms and wept. It can be inferred that the old man’s wife knew that she was sick and surrounded her head from behind. The headscarf infers that it should be cancer, so he feels uneasy, and the old man also realizes that his wife is about to leave him. As the saying goes, you only know how to cherish when you lose it. The old man began to cherish his wife and be gentle. Hey, I feel sad when I think about it.
And the young man's curious basement contained only the relics of the old man's wife. The old man locked the door of the basement because he didn't want to see things and think about people, and locked up the memories of the past. The music that sounded in the middle of the night, which is the second level of misunderstanding, made the old man think it was the ghost of his wife.
Later, the two young men turned off the heater, and then added some chemicals that were applied to the windows before, which caused the glass to break at low temperatures, and then the old man was awakened from the cold. Later, after the old man tried to reopen the heater and failed, Hearing that the window broke, and falling into contemplation, he sat in the cold room all night.
The unsuspecting audience saw that the young woman and the old man in the memory took off their clothes and said something about your wife coming back soon. We should hurry up. It is easy to misunderstand that the two of them are doing an improper transaction. . Combining the old woman who knocked on the door and the young woman who was suspected to be the wife of the old man, it is also easy for the audience to suspect that there may be a young woman's corpse or a young woman in the basement.
In fact, the young woman is just a nurse. They are just preparing to put his wife in that room. It should be the wife's last days and want to spend it at home. The cold room reminded the old man that it was a very cold day. For the third time, the old man misunderstood that there was indeed his wife in the house.
Finally, one of the young men broke into the basement and found a bell, but accidentally shook it. This awakened the old man. The young man took the bell in a hurry, locked the basement door, and put the bell on the table in the hall. Then he hid himself.
This was the last and the misunderstanding that pushed the old man to death. The old man saw that the door of the basement was locked, but the bell that was inside was outside. He remembered that he said to his wife, "As long as I hear the bell, I will come. No matter what.” The ghost who mistakenly thought it was his wife came and told the old man to go with him, so he raised his pistol and committed suicide.
In the end, the two young bears were sentenced to two years of probation and 500 hours of social service.
Let me add two details. One is that the police once went into the basement to check, but found nothing. This shows that there is really nothing in the basement, but the young people paranoidly think that the police did not find it. This is also the routine of ordinary thrillers. , Who would have thought that this is actually a fact.
The other is that the father of one of the young people was arrested because of domestic violence and the testimony of the old man. It also shows that the old man is also willing to help others because the young man's mother asked him for help.
I have seen many comments saying that the sentences of the two young people were too short, and the smile of the last young man showed that they did not realize their mistakes. In fact, I don't agree with them. Let's talk about the reasons below.
In my opinion, the prison sentence imposed on an offender is not a measure of whether an offender has been punished adequately. In today's society, the media is so developed, this incident, for the two teenagers, the impact can be said to be earth-shaking, and the reasons need not be explained. Moreover, the purpose of the law is not to allow the offender to receive sufficient punishment, but to let the offender know the serious consequences of the crime he has committed and not to commit it again.
From the point of view of the purpose of the whole film, it is anti-routine, which means that the director and screenwriter tell the audience not to think badly, but to think in the direction of humanity. In this tone, why did the youth laugh? That is precisely because he realized what he "really" did, which is to bring long-lost memories to the lonely old man, his wife. For the old man who had been alone for twelve years, his suicide, as another bean friend said, was "death right." Even though, his suicide was based on layers of misunderstandings.
But this is just a brain hole. After thinking about it, he still feels that his smile is because he has become famous, and it has been mentioned many times in the film.
But no matter how you explain the last boy's smile, for the old man, the two young people are his good neighbors. That is the title of this film.
For me, this film is still slightly warm and suspenseful.
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This film reminds me of Remy's "Psychological Sin: Enlightenment Field", which is exactly the impact of psychological experiments on people, which is more bad. And affect the life-long impact of unknowing subjects. It's really scary to think carefully.
Perhaps your, mine, or his life has already been under the control and influence of others, and your own life has also been stipulated, just like "Trumen's World", how terrible it should be.
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