Maybe the soul exists, but we don't feel it most of the time. Who knows?
Rating: 7.90丨 Movie Library List: 67
Synopsis
On a small island full of mist, Grace (Nicole Kidman) lives in an old house with her two children.
This was the time of the war, and she had been waiting for her husband as an officer to return from the battlefield.
One day, the servants in the ancient house suddenly left without saying goodbye, which made Grace feel very strange.
She can only hire a new batch to take care of the daily life of the family.
Soon, the housekeeper Bertha took the dumb maid and the old gardener to apply for employment.
Grace told them that her two children had a very strange disease and could not see the sun.
Her request is that everyone must remember to keep doors and windows closed at all times , and curtains cannot be opened.
In this way, the housekeeper and the group stayed, and life began to slowly get on track.
However, Grace discovered a very strange thing .
She remembered that the postman did not come to the door this week, which means that the notice of her recruitment has not been sent out, so why would anyone come to apply for the job?
Bertha explained that the three of them had worked here before, and this time they came back to try their luck.
After hearing this, Grace accepted them, but unexpectedly, strange things began to happen frequently .
At first, Grace heard a child crying , but after she checked her child, no one was crying.
The eldest daughter Ann has always claimed to be a boy named Victor who is crying.
Then in the middle of the night, Grace was awakened by the screams of her youngest son Nicholas.
It turned out that Ann kept saying that the boy named Victor was in the room, frightening Nicholas.
Grace thinks that all this must be Ann's prank , so she punishes Ann for recitation of the text.
But the matter is not over.
The next day, Grace heard intense footsteps on the second floor .
But when she saw that the domestic servants were all outside, who made the sound?
Grace hurried to the second floor, and Ann, who was reading the text at the top of the stairs, told her that someone was in the grocery room.
After arriving in the grocery room, Grace could not find anyone, but she heard a small voice .
After that, someone robbed the door.
Frightened, she hurriedly summoned her domestic helpers. She was going to turn the house upside down and find the uninvited guests lurking in the house ...
Film Analysis
When it comes to "Small Island Cry", many people will compare it with another movie (so that I won't say which movie is spoiler here), but I think the two movies are completely different styles, "Small Island Cry "It does not bring people a lot of touch and warmth, but more of a deep sense of fear. I think the most commendable thing about the film is the creation of a non-mysterious atmosphere and the laying of suspense that makes people constantly want to explore .
People are curious, especially in the process of watching this type of movie, viewers often doubt everything, and how to plant the seeds of doubt is the most important thing in the film’s suspense setting. Ingenious techniques can make the viewing process foggy. After the truth was revealed, they became hooked, and all the seemingly illogical things had been reasonably explained before, and only then can they gain a better reputation.
The film created suspense from the beginning. For example, why did Grace, the heroine played by Nicole Kidman, woke up with pain, and why was the house covered with mist? There are also servants who leave without saying goodbye. There are too many questions that we need to solve. This will also make us want to look down immediately and find the answer.
But this is just an appetizer. Later, we will find that not only the previous questions have not been answered, but more questions are oncoming. Why didn't the housekeeper Betha and the others come here? The strange conversations between Grace's children and the uninvited guests in the house. Strange phenomena follow one after another. What brings us is not a sensory impact, but a doubt in our mind. Maybe everyone will weave one possibility after another in their mind to explain the phenomenon we see, whether it is man-made in the end The layout is still haunted by ghosts, and at this time, we have fully integrated into the plot.
Then it is naturally a scary drama. I don’t know where to hear crying, talking, and footsteps, the sudden sound of piano, and some supernatural phenomena that cannot be explained by science tell us : "Yes, the ghost you want is coming. "But what we still haven't solved at this time is the origin of the ghost, because in most horror movies, the source of the ghost can be truly eliminated.
I believe that at this time, everyone has such a plot structure in their minds. After the previous house owner died, it may be because of grievances or other fetters. In short, the soul has always been in this house, but if the plot develops like this Inevitably fall into the clichés, this is the end, and then the evaluation is more about Nicole Kidman's beauty, rather than the film itself, so in the end, the director put a big move.
The ending of the film is very unexpected if it is not passed through by the drama. At the same time, all the previous unreasonableness are all explained. From the laying of the suspense, to the creation of the horror atmosphere in the middle, to the final reversal, layer by layer, it is wonderful, and the interpretation of ghosts makes me even more creepy. Maybe we really live with them. A world, but most of the time you can’t feel it.
Yin and Yang are separated, but it is only the body, not our heart.
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