Some facts are certain:
1. Eli’s gender: Eli was a boy before becoming a vampire. First, it is explained in the novel. Secondly, there is also a little oskar who peeked at Eli changing clothes and found him. After being castrated, Eli said to Oskar over and over again in the film that he is not a girl. So the current identity of eli, more simply, is it a shemale vampire...
2. Oskar will become the next blood collector for two reasons. First, the stick used by oskar to wound Xiaobawang is used by the old man to deal with the corpse. Stick, eli let the old man die, and gave birth to oskar, these all have a strong "handover" ceremony; two, there is a snow in the opening and the end of the film, the similarity is very high, the director always does not want to play scenery Bar? So I think this is a hint of reincarnation.
3. Eli’s feelings for oskar are true. If the conspiracy is true, eli should show off when he meets oskar for the first time, instead of waiting for oskar to say that he smells weird to deal with "body smell" (all day Drinking human blood without washing your face, brushing your teeth and washing your hair, does it taste good?) If the conspiracy is established, he will not repeatedly say that he is not a girl. How can there be such an honest conspirator in the world? However, if someone must say that he has read Sun Tzu's Art of War to advance with retreat, there is nothing to argue about...
4. Eli is kind, at least not killing innocent people. Vampire is a need for survival. When a vampire is hungry, it is very painful. Have you seen that virginia? I would rather let the sun burn to death than to be tortured, so eli harms people for sucking blood, does not mean that he is not kind; and after sucking blood, he wrings the person's neck off, also in order to save this person from becoming a vampire; deal with it in the swimming pool When the big overlord, he did not rush to kill, the little fat sitting on the side and crying, eli did not attack him, it can be seen that for eli, the purpose of dividing the big overlord’s corpse is to protect the little lover, as for the result-- Who makes him strong... And the director always chooses soft and soothing music when he closes up eli. When oskar looks at eli's eyes at the end, this kind of atmosphere can almost eliminate the stumps in the background. Even the director has this attitude, and I can't find a reason to refute it.
5. Like oskar, eli is a bit paranoid, lonely, and weak; eli says "to flee is life, to linger, death" (to flee is life, to linger, death), or "life is to escape Yes, death is for wandering." Damn, you can see the values of a vampire without saying more; what about oskar? Don’t tell him that he is just a little boy who has been bullied. It’s far more than that. When he is alone, he practiced killing imaginary enemies with a knife and cut out a collection of various murder cases in the newspaper. I already have the idea of taking human lives, which is already terrifying. Of course we can’t judge people in accordance with socialist moral standards. Even if you are being bullied, don’t you have the idea of killing them? Even if it's just fleeting? Therefore, the dark elements of these two babies, I don't know if they will slowly fade away in their love for each other, it should be one of the themes to be presented in the next film.
6. Killing and love are not antonyms. Just imagine, if there is only one person in the world that you care about, and other people are only mocking you, then what about killing thousands of people for the sake of one lover? Humanism is meaningless in the world of the lonely. So, this movie, even if it's full of killings, is about love, even if it's a twisted love.
7, the old man really really loves eli, even if he is a pedophile, it is also love! For him, the old man took a bottle of sulphuric acid after he was recognized. He knew that he was about to be his last dinner. Eli said he shouldn't stay here. He said what should you do? (What's more, this is still a more conscious pedophile. When Eli met him, he was about to commit suicide.) I would like to ask, is there any normal pair of lovers who can do the above points? But eli's sympathy for the old man is probably just out of sympathy. It is said that eli rescued the old man when he was so guilty that he wanted to commit suicide, and there was a scene where the old man begged him not to meet oskar. His expression when touching the old man was emotional. , But it's not necessarily love, maybe it's pitiful?
8. Oscar’s dad is not gay, he is just drinking too much. This is what the director said, not everyone’s analysis... But I personally think that the acting is too gay!
What I am still confused about is:
1. There is a very strange scene in the film. When Eli's seven orifices bleed and said "be me a little" to Oskar, for a second, Oskar saw that Eli became very old, what's the explanation?
2. The identity of the old blood collector with eli. The novel says that he is a pedophile who was saved by eli when he committed suicide. However, the film does not clearly indicate that he is more like Eli's former lover.
3. Why does eli live alone? Generally speaking, vampires come in groups of three to five (see various vampire movies for details). Could it be that in the world of vampires, he is also bullied?
4. How high is eli's IQ? How sound is your mind? I once felt that a vampire would stay at the moment of becoming a vampire in terms of physiology (eli's wound was not healed as a testimony), and then the development of the brain would also be stagnant, but can IQ be improved after the brain's development is stagnated? She is very genius in the posture of playing Rubik's Cube, but she is not so smart in her usual performance. In addition, the level of IQ also directly affects the development of the plot, that is, the possibility of a conspiracy theory being established...
As a friend said, the attraction of this movie is that it gives people a possibility, so I will summarize here. My own point of view does not mean that it must be so.
Finally, the director’s position was provided, and the director said, "Eli is not using Oskar completely, they are truly in love."
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