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On the edge of the forest, there is a community in which all adult women wear red skirts, while underage girls wear blue skirts, and the leader of this community is called Sharp, and the women in red skirts are all her wives and the blue ones are his daughters.
His daughters have an almost obsessive longing for Sharp, eager to have a deeper contact with Sharp. The wives are grateful for Sharp, who provided shelter when they needed help. Sharp, a priest, provides spiritual comfort as well as shelter.
And these women's worship of Sharp is almost crazy, longing for Sharp's grace, and falling into madness after receiving it, while Sharp is indulging in the spiritual state of giving and being longed for fanatical worship.
In the woods, Sharp and Sasha are talking, and Sasha asks Sharp if he remembers the first time he met her mother. Sharp didn't answer directly, just said it was so beautiful, and then rolled up Sasha's messy hair, but when Sharp and Sasha got closer, Sharp stopped and told Sasha that he would ask one of the mothers to help her rebuild. Braid the braid and leave.
Sasha, displeased by the accusation, walked to the edge of the forest and found a bird's body under the stone, which had been covered with white maggots.
The film at this stage shows the hierarchy of the community, and the wives and children's obsession with Sharp takes on a morbid feeling. The geographical environment of the entire community is also isolated from the world. In this closed environment, women's thoughts and emotions are imprisoned on the only man, and these women do not realize that this is the most terrifying The place.
In the depths of the forest, Sasha came to a wooden house. In the cabin she meets two women, one of whom is under house arrest for not being loyal to Sharp. Another woman was fasting because a normal biological response was considered punishment for Eve's sins. The scarred woman laughed at Sasha's childish thinking, and she told Sasha that she just hadn't reached that physiological stage, so Sharp could still be so gentle with her, and when she matured, the result would be completely different.
And when they go to bed at night, the stories the young children listen to at night must also be the stories of Sharp and the flock, otherwise they will get into trouble. Sasha, who couldn't sleep at night, was fascinated by the way Sharp hugged a wife and put his fingers in her mouth and twitched back and forth in front of the window of Sharp's room.
And Sasha was selected by Sharp to change her identity, and the wives who massaged her believed that this was a sacred duty. Although Sasha was still young, if Sharp wanted to, then she had to undertake her due obligations. , and the wives are like ewes waiting for the birth of the lamb.
The story develops here, and slowly begins to show the negative image of Sharp. If the previous plots praised the virtues, then the plots of this period are exposing the sinister side behind the glamorous. At this stage, Sasha still has fantasies and attachments to Sharp.
During the day, Sasha went to herd the sheep and fell asleep in the warm sunshine. When she woke up, she found that a ewe had given birth to a lamb, and when she looked between her legs, menarche was coming. Sasha was terrified. For her, who had no experience at all, this was a symbol of uncleanness in her inherent conception.
Under pressure, Sasha killed the lamb with a knife and lied that the lamb was eaten by a wild dog, for which the wives took Sasha to church, and Sharp forgave her.
This episode shows how terrifying changes can happen to people who are blinded by ignorance. In order to adhere to the misconceptions instilled by Sharp, they put a heavy mental pressure on themselves, and when the pressure is too high and overwhelmed, violence becomes a decompression. only means. Sasha passed on the fact that he could not change to the newborn lamb, which was very cruel.
Sasha saw Sharpe talking to the officer from the window at night, and the officer told Sharp that he had a few days or he would be taken away, but didn't say why. When Sharp turned around, Sasha hid, and Sharp went straight to the door of her room but didn't come in.
Early the next morning, Sharpe told his wives and children that they had to get out of here, and the wives and children who heard the news were lost. After speaking, Sharp fell, and when the wives and children gathered around, he said that they would find a new home, and then the wives and children fell into a carnival again.
As a result, Sharp and the flock embarked on a long journey of migration. At night, after everyone had dinner and went to bed, Sasha suddenly woke up from her sleep, and in the dream, her companions all fell into the water, and Sharp held a A lamb slashed its throat with a knife, and the blood that flowed out reddened Sasha's lower body.
In the plot here, the community has changed, and the fanatical wives and daughters seem to be mindless like obsessed walking dead. And Sasha, as a bystander, deliberately keeps a distance from others because of the self-blame of menarche. At the same time, the sight of the corpse in the water, the corpse of the lamb, the cruel sharp, and the red-stained lower body continued to torture Sasha.
On the way, a group of people found a house, and the house is full of objects left over from modern society. Sasha was drawn to a painting on the wall, but when asked if they could live, Sharp rejected them on the grounds that it was created by broken people.
As a result, the group camped next to the house, while Sasha, who couldn't sleep at night, sat by the bonfire and watched Sharp's tent, who was flirting with one of his wives. After that, Sasha came to the house again and stared at the picture on the wall in a daze. When she turned around, the woman in the Sharp tent appeared behind her, and pushed her hair back to reveal the scratches on her neck. Sasha was caught. Mark shocked.
On the way to shelter from the rain, Sasha sits in a tent with the scarred woman, who informs Sasha that her haircut is a means Sharpe uses to punish her. When talking about Sasha's mother, the woman with the scars told Sasha that her mother died of a postpartum infection, and Sharp's reason for not taking her mother to the hospital in time even packaged this as a test of her faith.
In a car on the road sat a girl who looked exactly like Sasha, and the two girls looked at each other. And when the car was getting farther and farther away, Sasha looked at the direction of the car and shed tears, she knew that she couldn't leave the flock, and she couldn't move forward in the opposite direction of life.
At this stage in the development of the story, Sasha, who is in the "herd", tries to connect with the real world, and she is full of curiosity and imagination about the external world. In order to survive, she can only abandon those fantasies and face the reality, although this reality is too cruel for her. The mother's death began to shake Sasha's loyalty to Sharp, and the desire for the outside world also deepened Sasha's doubts about Sharp.
In front of the bonfire at night, Sasha stared at one of the pregnant wives for a long time, as if he saw his mother, and then when he looked at Sharp, Sharp's eyes were full of hot flames. When everyone was sleeping at night, when Sasha asked the woman with the scar why she didn't go, she said she was scared because she had been here so long that she had forgotten who she was.
The woman who was pregnant on the road suddenly reacted. With everyone's efforts, she gave birth to a baby boy by a stream, but she died of dystocia. At the woman's funeral, the scarred woman complained that it was all because of Sharp, but the wives sang praises of the dead woman, and the scarred woman left the crowd disappointed.
During the day, the woman with scars hugged the newborn boy and said to Sasha: There can only be one ram in this flock, so this boy was abandoned by Sharp, and she wanted to raise him as an adult, she reminded Sasha again to take care of him Be nice to yourself and your sisters. After saying that, he turned and left.
At this point in the story, Sasha witnessed what happened to her mother repeating itself. This time she was completely convinced that Sharp was untrustworthy, and the warning from the woman with scars reminded Sasha that she was this group of ignorant people. The only sober existence in the world, she not only has to protect herself but also wake up others.
The long walk made the group exhausted, but the kind reminder from one of the girls was regarded by Sharp as questioning his authority and attracted fists and feet. After many difficulties and obstacles, the group finally came to the Garden of Eden in Sharp's mouth. And here Sharp did a baptism ceremony for Sasha, but Sasha in the water did not feel calm but panicked and bloody memories emerged.
In the evening, Sharp came to Sarah's tent and asked Sarah to go to his tent. The companion who slept next to Sarah advised Sarah not to go, but Sarah went anyway. In the tent, Sharp asked Sarah to lie down, and Sasha thought she would be treated gently by Sharp. But Sharp put his hand into Sarah's mouth and twitched back and forth, and when Sasha was about to suffocate, Sharp pulled out his finger and let Sasha leave.
At this time, another self appeared in Sarah's mind. She wiped the blood from her lower body on her cheeks and her eyeballs turned black. Sasha, who was lying in the tent, had imagined that the sisters had executed Sharpe, and Sasha finally ended Sharpe's life with a stone.
Sarah then told her sisters the story of the scarred woman in the tent, telling them to find their freedom. And when the story was over, everyone walked out of the tent to find that the wives were gone. When everyone came to the lake, they saw Sharp kneeling by the lake, and a few wives' clothes were scattered around him. He then told his daughters that their mother had completed the final journey and that her daughters would become his wives.
Sharp then calls Sara to come to him and promises to give him grace. But Sasha made it clear that Sharp was not their shepherd, and she didn't need his grace, so Sharp slapped her in the face, and Sasha fired back immediately.
Then the police found the bodies of several wives on the beach, and came to the valley to find Sharp's body hanging between two trees with a ram's horn on his head.
When the humiliation of others is not attached to oneself, the feeling of humiliation inspires great resentment, makes Sasha really put into action to resist, and mobilizes all the forces that can be mobilized. And the originally ignorant group of people also came to their senses after witnessing the departure of their loved ones. Sharp's tragic situation also shows that they do not need hypocritical and cruel people as shepherds of life's path, and there is no "ram" in this group and there is no problem.
Then in front of the waterfall, Sasha brought her sisters, holding a lamb in her hand to welcome the new life.
end。
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The entire film describes a group and two individuals, a group blinded by a morbid infatuation. An individual who recklessly enjoys a morbid obsession and then uses morbid means to control the walking dead, an individual who undergoes a cognitive change from bystander to changemaker and reborn.
Entire groups of people, because their most basic needs for survival are met, have a growing sense of trust in those in power. Although some unreasonable situations will occur, they are not worth mentioning compared to the first-class option of survival. Even in the face of death, they choose to turn a blind eye, so as to retain the hope of survival. Because they know that the longer they stay in this group, the more blurred their self-awareness will be, so that they cannot accurately find their own position in the real world. They are confused, painful and sad.
The perpetrators use religious belief as a means to achieve the purpose of controlling the group, and in order to strengthen the means of control, they achieve this purpose by blocking the connection in the real world, exerting violent pressure, and confusing cognition. After achieving the purpose of control, the group becomes its own appendage, desire and desire. After constantly gaining morbid infatuation, he is gradually losing himself. He is greedy and hateful.
There are also many incentives for dissidents to change. In the film, it is the mother's death and the atrocities. Although they have successfully broken through the shackles of the controller's spirit, they have also experienced slander, discrimination, and insults from the outside world. Although the dissidents in the story succeeded in the end, they also paid the price in blood through violent means. In reality, dissidents may not be so fortunate, and they may even be in danger.
From the appearance of these individuals and groups, it is also revealed how terrifying the control of distorted beliefs over people's will and cognition, and the morbid state of people who have been infiltrated in this atmosphere for a long time is simply breathtaking. It is definitely not as simple as the director's intensified dramatic effect in order to render the script, and the initiators of terrorist attacks in reality are precisely people who have been brainwashed by distorted beliefs.
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So to sum up, this is a movie with a lot of connotation, and it uses a lot of metaphors, so it will feel a little boring in the process of watching.
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