After this "Witch" was exposed at the Sundance Film Festival at the beginning of the year, it was awarded too many auras, and the reputation was so good that it was just a Sundance Jury's Best Director Award. For this film, which is still a director’s debut, Give great affirmation that after the 2016 Spring Festival, two heavyweight films: "Deadpool" and "Witch", are both the director's first feature-length films. The director of "Deadpool" once laughed at himself and said that since it was the first time to direct the film, he had no idea what he was doing in the process. He used to be the visual effects director of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" before, and I was drunk with his honest face. However, "Deadpool"'s global box office results are enough to prove everything. The director of "The Witch": Robert Eggers, used to be more involved in the costume and art design of the movie. If the director of "Pacific Rim" last year: Gilmo del Toro's "Scarlet Peak" is a typical Western horror film, with a lot of effort in costumes and props, and let the director go too far to talk about ghosts. Addiction to stories. Then this "Witch" does not lose the reputation of breaking the traditional horror film routines, giving people a refreshing feeling, the minimalist setting of the scene, the cool and uniform tone, also achieved the creepy effect. I don’t know who invented this scary face-covering game. It’s really scary when it’s put in a horror movie! It feels like a face change in the next second. This is how the whole audience is guided by the director. Every time the front is high-energy, they find that it is different from what we imagined. It is really impossible to blink for a second. Didn’t the director know that many girls watch horror movies with their eyes covered? The film relies on the original soundtrack of the sense of ears and guts, the setting of mutual suspicion of family relations, the mysterious black forest and the spells of witches, which makes people immerse themselves in this wilderness, grainless mountain forest during the entire viewing process. In between, a small wooden house trapped a family, a dense forest, scary but dependent on survival, such a contradiction. It's like people are groping forward in a confused future based solely on the desire to survive before their wisdom is developed. Was it scared to death by unknown fear, or was eaten away by inner desire, the film gave us propositions, but did not give us standard answers. Dark and suspenseful background: The dark style of the film comes from many aspects. First, the place where the story took place, in New England in 1630. It means the religious contradictions and differences between the British Puritans and the local colonists who came to the American continent in the early days. In the vast countryside, the villages are still controlled by the church, which means a series of taxation and power. The religious reforms that began in Europe as early as the 16th century caused a series of Protestant Puritans to be dissatisfied with the authority of the Catholic Church and were subjected to various oppression and persecution. This led to some British Puritans riding Mayflowers in 1620. No., fled to the Gulf of Massachusetts in the United States, but still has no franchise from the British king, and its influence in the colony is relatively weak. Until about 1630, John Winthrop and others led more than a thousand immigrants to New England, which opened the prelude to the "Great Migration" of the Puritans. New England in 1630 in the film "The Witch" can also be regarded as the dark period before dawn. Secondly, there is a strong religious meaning, a character dialogue that runs through the whole film in prayer. People are afraid of unknown forces and pray with faithful doctrines. May God bless the atmosphere. The atmosphere was once extremely strange. The small climaxes of the film all came from the family's prayers. And it also implies that the patriarchal family relationship constitutes, the several times in the film the mother's drive to the eldest daughter, the service and respect of the father, all make people have a clear sense of depression. Some scholars also say that Christianity is originally a patriarchal religion, and women have always been given the hat of original sin and regarded as a symbol of evil. Once disasters happen, people begin to suspect that witches are at work. And the source of this is said to be derived from the contradictions between the early church and different colonies, the original witchcraft, divination, and medical executors, the priestess and the patriarch. As an excuse, weed out heretics and eradicated these ancient local beliefs. From the religious struggle on the excuse of eliminating witches, I began to see the sinister heart of the people. And the third dark element of the film is the theme of the witch. At the beginning of the movie, it was implanted for the audience. The youngest child in the family disappeared, and the naked woman like a witch in the forest at night was performing a bloody sacrifice. Such a prelude is both fictitious and real. You can regard it as a real occurrence, or as a fictional imagination. From the beginning, the film provided a hypothetical proposition, and whether you believe it or not, how to derive the plot that will happen later is all up to the audience to decide. You can think of the whole film as a ghost story, or you can understand that it is caused by people doing strange things. The subject of witches is always in the Western world. The director said that he had read four years of historical materials one after another, most of which were diaries and materials recorded by people at that time, and in the film, many character dialogues were quoted from those ancient books and diaries. This makes the film one more, the interlaced sense of reality and illusion. Fictional stories, inner monologues of real characters. At that time, people's fear of disasters and unknown confusion showed even more cowardly and helplessness, and they could only use others to vent their anger. From the perspective of social relations, foreign media also pointed out that "The Witch" also tells the future tragedy caused by family repression and the cruelty of farming life. What we witness is not only a personal tragedy, but also a precursor to a large-scale tragedy. The seeds of doubt are planted, and violence and fanaticism will be passed on from generation to generation. There are also studies showing that large-scale witch hunts in the West occurred during the Little Ice Age, which is basically a period when crops were hit by disasters. People faced such natural disasters, unable to withstand such natural disasters, and there was a backlog of grievances. I prayed, and God may not be able to bless such empty words, so I took the opportunity to use some witches as an excuse to eliminate the frustration in everyone’s hearts. It also gave many people an angry outlet, especially when they did not have the right to speak. Female body. This kind of incident, which developed to the Salem Witchcraft Trial in 1691-1692, left a bloody stroke in history. One of the most unimaginable is the exposing and identifying witches, who are basically female. In a patriarchal society, they have no outlets and are jealous. They always feel that they are weak, that kind of ignorant stupidity, like a mad dog. The posture, in "The Witch", the embodiment of the mother role is particularly vivid. She relied on her husband and lost her son. She was weak and almost mad, so she could only rely on torturing her eldest daughter to show her authority and blame her for all the reasons, so she felt like a victim. Same, feel better. The actor in "Game of Thrones" as the queen of the neighboring country is perverted enough. There is such a babbled character here. It is really scary to watch, it is a witch and Qiu Qianchi. The spokesperson scared the baby to death. The generality of small cuts: A family's discussion of a society and human nature. This film uses the early colonial story background, religious beliefs and people's fear of the unknown and witchcraft to create an atmosphere of horror in advance, and then uses a family. , To show the fragility of human nature and discuss the darker possibilities. Many data show that in early New England, separation of church and state did not exist, and personal behavior was strictly restricted. The beginning of the story of "The Witch" is because the father is unwilling to obey the church and sanctions in the village, and he voluntarily took his family to leave the village, bringing a field of countryside to continue his Puritan life. (The following content involves spoilers) And the eldest daughter has planted the seeds of dissatisfaction with her father. And his father's blind decision made his authority as the head of the family shaken overnight. The absurd behavior that he doesn't know how to hunt, pretending to be calm, and making a fool of himself in front of his son all seem to be in great contrast, which is simply an embarrassing contradiction. The only valuable family labor that the father gave in the film was to chop corn and wood. In short, his survival skills were "cutting", and he paid a tragic price for it. The mother’s fragility, ignorance and jealousy all represent women’s weakness and struggle. one side. The eldest son’s desire, precocity and development of sex are all reflected in the prying of his sister, and the struggle and pain in his heart under the shackles of religious beliefs. In the end, he spit out the poisoned apple that he had bitten. It seemed that he was in the mountains and forests, and tasted the forbidden fruit. He was ashamed and blamed for not being able to face himself, so he chose the path of self-destruction. People feel pitiful. In the film, the more interesting setting is the younger twins. Several laughs in this thriller horror film all come from the little twins. First they chased the black goat desperately, and then they were scared to death by their sister because of being too naughty, and then they started acting insanely and stupidly in front of their parents. In addition to being tied to the fence at the beginning, they were also locked up in the sheepfold at the end. The amused audience couldn't help but laugh. It also reflects the director's grip on the atmosphere of the film. Under such a gloomy setting, the relationship between the characters is becoming increasingly anxious, and there are also such cold jokes. The director's control of these little actors has produced unexpected effects. The actors once joked that the filming had always thought it was a family ethics drama, but later discovered it was a horror movie. The director did not use any hideous faces or ghostly figures to scare the audience. From beginning to end, we were all constrained by our own imagination. The beginning and the turn of the film, with the disappearance of the youngest baby in the family, the eldest son lost his way, and later died after chanting prayers, which gave the story of the film a dark magical tone. The mother's aggressiveness pointed to the eldest daughter's survival stance in every sentence. The allegations that sounded illogical but almost crazy were compared to the eldest daughter's inability to defend. And patriarchy swings from side to side under this kind of family relationship, and the family relationship has fallen apart. And the reason for all this, in the final analysis, is that one year of farming, with no harvest, the family faces the dilemma of survival, and the injustice of heaven can only be paid to blame the eldest daughter. And the twins’ slogan is like a three-year-old child in the world to follow suit. It is dumbfounding. The film combines the atmosphere of a horror film, the plot of a suspense film, and the display of social microcosms and family ethics. Such a huge and complex ambition is handled by the director in a simple way. The film is basically in the village except for the village at the beginning. It was shot in the two scenes of the forest and the cabin, and the characters are two adults and five children. The story is also very simple. It happened between the suspicions and conflicts between this family. Everyone has their own secrets and selfishness. In this way, in addition to the fear of unknown forces from the forest and the outside world, the story also comes from the crazy actions and evil hearts of the family. The interaction of internal and external forces lies in the human heart. The eldest daughter was eventually forced to follow the black goat, the representative of Satan, into the unknown forest due to the collapse of the family's internal forces, and accepted the fear of death with nothing, as if she was in a crazy fall. Only then did I get real freedom, and I felt ascended to the sky, which highlighted the tragic effect of the film. Whether there are witches in the forest, or those women who are also persecuted, souls seeking freedom, there is no single standard answer. The more intriguing movie is the English name "The VVitch". The W composed of double Vs is not a complete word of witch at all in its meaning, but a combination of characters that we see with our eyes, and then through the association in our minds. , Resulting in the illusion. And the director has been playing the hidden hand that guides our thinking, just like the slogan on the film poster: "Evil takes many forms.", leading to those who blindly enter the deep forest to hunt and have no awe of nature. They will inevitably be repelled by the resistance of animals and their direct eyes. Among them, black goats, rabbits, crows, and witches are all the same, and they are the embodiment of people's fear. This film is so good to see that every factor is worth pondering, whether it’s religious historical background, witches’ mysterious events, family relationships, representatives and metaphors of all levels of society and human nature, and the openness of the plot. Setting and finishing. This "Witch" is a typical story that will not be forgotten for a long time after reading it, and it will become more terrifying after careful consideration. And this is the director: Robert Eggers’s debut, it’s also a scary guy, I think his eyes are very similar to animals. The eldest daughter was eventually forced to follow the black goat, the representative of Satan, into the unknown forest due to the collapse of the family’s internal forces. The freedom of the movie, and thus the feeling of floating and ascending to the sky, highlights the tragic effect of the film. Whether there are witches in the forest, or those women who are also persecuted, souls seeking freedom, there is no single standard answer. The more intriguing film is the English name "The VVitch". The W composed of double Vs is not a complete word of witch at all in its meaning, but a combination of characters that we see with our eyes, and then through the association in our minds , Resulting in the illusion. And the director has been playing the hidden hand that guides our thinking, just like the slogan on the movie poster: "Evil takes many forms.", leading to those who blindly enter the deep forest to hunt and have no fear of nature. They will inevitably be repelled by the resistance of animals and their direct eyes. Among them, black goats, rabbits, crows, and witches are all the same, and they are the embodiment of people's fear. This film is so good to see that every factor is worth pondering, whether it’s religious historical background, witches’ mysterious events, family relationships, representatives and metaphors of all levels of society and human nature, and the openness of the plot. Setting and finishing. This "Witch" is a typical story that will not be forgotten for a long time after reading it, and it will become more terrifying after careful consideration. And this is the director: Robert Eggers’s debut, it’s also a scary guy, I think his eyes are very similar to animals. The eldest daughter was eventually forced to follow the black goat, the representative of Satan, into the unknown forest due to the collapse of the family’s internal forces. The freedom of the movie, and thus the feeling of floating to the sky, highlights the tragic effect of the film. Whether there are witches in the forest, or those women who are also persecuted, souls seeking freedom, there is no single standard answer. The more intriguing movie is the English name "The VVitch". The W composed of double Vs is not a complete word of witch at all in its meaning, but a combination of characters that we see with our eyes, and then through the association in our minds. , Resulting in the illusion. And the director has been playing the hidden hand that guides our thinking, just like the slogan on the movie poster: "Evil takes many forms.", leading to those who blindly enter the deep forest to hunt and have no fear of nature. They will inevitably be repelled by the resistance of animals and their direct eyes. Among them, black goats, rabbits, crows, and witches are all the same, and they are the embodiment of people's fear. This film is so good to see that every factor is worth pondering, whether it’s religious historical background, witches’ mysterious events, family relationships, representatives and metaphors of all levels of society and human nature, and the openness of the plot. Setting and finishing. This "Witch" is a typical story that will not be forgotten for a long time after reading it, and it will become more terrifying after careful consideration. And this is the director: Robert Eggers’s debut, it’s also a scary guy, I think his eyes are very similar to animals.
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