"Stepfather" (1987 and last year's remake) presents a horrific nightmare for viewers - when there is a strong desire for the perfection of the family, and when this desire gradually turns into a paranoia, and then a desire for everything There are many dissatisfaction with the details of life, and when it reaches a certain critical point, it is touched, and in the end, it may be to kill to vent the inner dissatisfaction.
The stepfather in the movie has been involved in family life more than once. He will observe and feel whether these "family" members meet the ideal in his heart. After a certain period of time, he is always dissatisfied and feels unbearable, and every time he ends up killing all other "family" members.
Or, the movie is a bit extreme, and there are not so many perverted elders in reality. However, the movie gives the audience a space for reflection: when the conflict between family members is purely due to temporary paranoia, and then someone uses force to cause an irreversible family tragedy, in fact, at the moment of impulsive action, just calm down , there will be no regrets.
In reality, I have never heard of someone killing one family after another because of the pursuit of a perfect family life, but family tragedies caused by momentary paranoia have occurred from time to time: recently, because of her daughter's schooling problems, she almost killed her daughter by mistake and killed herself. The mother who committed suicide, the "armed fights" between father and son appear from time to time, the Tianshui Wai Lun Chang massacre a few days ago, the family tragedy of Chen Jiankang... The violent party should calm down before the "action", and It won't be "published" after that.
If there is a problem with the family, people can blame the society and the government, but don't take it out on the family, it won't help solve the problem.
Speaking of the movie itself, the director of last year's remake was Nelson McCormick, who had previously filmed the new version of "Prom Night", "Feasting and Killing Eve". It was more detail-oriented than the original, but overall it was inferior to the latter. The family of the original work consists of only the "father", mother and daughter. Although the main characters are few, they are more ideal in terms of drama. The new work has many new plots, but many of them are superfluous. The comparison between the pros and cons of the two mainly lies in the way the "stepfather" gets along with the child. The suspicion between the father and the daughter in the original work is the most dramatic drama, but the new work dilutes this highlight because of too many characters.
There are three episodes of the old movie, but the remake is not so good at the box office in the United States, so it shouldn't be continued. However, in fact, this film is better than the director's "Lantern" film, at least in the horror film scene is better than before, and the melee at the end also has a certain degree of explosive power.
Communication with family is the most important. If you feel that the "stepfather" of this film is perverted after watching it, then please think about how you treat your family members on weekdays, because people will always hurt others unconsciously, especially the closest ones.
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