The film I watched with admiration, and finally returned without disappointment.
I feel that the talent that really reflects the talent is not from the gold, nor from the animation PS in the later stage. It is low-cost, well-liked and popular. It is really convincing-but, the standard seems to be a little higher?
However, "Rose Flowers. Red Lotus" is obviously a good low-cost film, with four main characters, two or three secondary actors (uncle, aunt, and biological mother), and the doctor and nurse are just two passing by. extras. The stepmother is a template-like Korean artificial beauty, and the valuable ones are Lim Soo-kyung and Moon Geun-young. Scenes? The hospital, the night highway, and then the main focus is on the inside and outside of that villa.
In fact, analysis and coding are not my strengths - tired, but because it is so beautiful and I love it so much, I have this persistence.
1. Analysis of Rose's depersonalization
1. The persecutor - the "stepmother" transformed from the "new love" is the
same as Snow White's stepmother. This is a woman who is almost enchanting, tall and exquisite, wearing smooth satin, graceful Plush slippers. Her viciousness is calm, but like a shrew in the market, she uses high decibels to cover up her baseness and shallowness.
This is a key character. After watching it for the second time, plus the opinions of heroes from all walks of life, I can barely make a guess on the truth (such a vicious director):
The truth - in Rose's memory with her father The woman in white who came back together = the woman in the nurse's uniform standing next to her father in the photo = the helper invited by her father when Rose's condition could not be suppressed = the woman who was frightened by the cupboard in the last scene. In other words, the real "third party" only appeared in the second half.
According to common sense, this woman would not have reached the status of a stepmother, because when her father brought her home, the biological mother of Rose Flower Red Lotus was still there (it seems that she was sick or neglected); in addition, I once suspected that this woman was Suspected by the mother and daughter, the mother committed suicide because of jealousy, and the daughter imagined him as a person who combines all evils, but later found that this suspicion was too naive, not a lover, how could he go shopping and go home for dinner so intimately , how can you be so tough on Rose and Red Lotus? Therefore, it is more appropriate to put this "stepmother" prototype in the position of father's "new love". She may have been a colleague of the doctor's father at first, and then may be a family health doctor (see photo). The accident happened. During the period when Rose came home to recuperate (after the tragedy of her mother and sister, she may have suffered from mental illness), this woman did not return to the villa - it was illegal to marry a wife while her wife was still alive, and it was resumed immediately after the family tragedy. It's even more unreasonable~ (still feels awkward)
False - from the hidden knife in honey at the beginning of entering the house, to the madness of being stunned by tears when the real "new love" pushes the door, during this period, all the "stepmothers" "The image is Rose's second personality. The set of pajamas that I had arranged by myself was the beginning, and at the same time, having a period was a development. When it came to the bird whose neck was twisted because it was an "imaginary stepmother's pet", it was the time when the plot was high; Guan Honglian went into the cabinet. In one scene, the father told Qianghua that "Red Lotus is dead". This is a breathing space that the director deliberately set up in the play. In a small pause in the mystery, smart audiences should be able to see the clues for the first time.
The most classic scene of the climax is of course the scene where the sack drags the blood on the floor, the "stepmother" kills the "sister", then drags it to the kitchen and whips it with a club, then kills herself with a plaster statue, and finally in the hands of the crazy "stepmother" Another two white pills were put down by my father - this seems like a heinous murder, right? In fact, what my father saw were dolls bound and whipped by roses in sacks, broken plaster statues and roses fainted on the floor. So, when the camera turned to the real face of the mysterious visitor, "Kata" sounded, and the director pressed the switch between reality and fantasy...
2. Savior - "Rose"
This is of course Rose's first personality, and it is also the closest to her own personality. It is equally brave and stubborn. The difference is that the former is the superego and the latter is the id: the "savior" is always in the "red lotus". "The first time I was bullied, I came here, like a selfless and loving little mother, but in fact (see the memory fragment in the second half), she left the table angrily from Rose at the dining table, then locked herself in the room, and finally She ran out of the house full of anger, and did not think of her sister in the process. At the same time, the "new love" poured her anger on the weak and bully Red Lotus, and then, it was the cupboard tragedy, and the mother took the little sister away with her. .
——Rose is young and vigorous, no one can blame her, but the tragic tragedy has made the contradiction between the id and the superego more acute, resulting in excessive self-blame and self-guilt, which has become the man behind this crazy alien dimension. Turn the clouds over the rain hands.
Speaking of this kind of guilt, I have to mention the personality of the "stepmother". The ghost in the plot is the "stepmother" instead of "Rose", which shows that in the concept of Rose, the "new love" is the executioner who caused the tragedy and should be punished. . So in the end, the "new love" was killed, which truly reflects the deep love of the sister and the concentricity of the mother and daughter~~ This kind of karma is the basic concept of many Asian ghost films, but the little Japan sometimes prefers to involve innocent people and expand the victim group to create momentum ~
PS: Regarding the scene of "new love" not saving her from death, some experts have explained that that scene did not really happen, but that Qianghua felt guilty because she did not hear the voice in her sister's room (the "Red Lotus" After being rescued from the cupboard, I apologized repeatedly), so I imagined that the "new love" went to see it but did not rescue it, made up for his negligence, and added the guilt to the "new love" again. This explanation is a bit far-fetched, and in terms of the integrity of the story (the woman is not that bad person), it is worth agreeing to, but still, ask the director to be safe.
3. The persecuted person - "Red Lotus"
If "stepmother" and "Rose" are constantly switching roles on the rose's body, then "Red Lotus" is more like a supporting actor, existing in the void, A frown, a smile, sadness and warmth are all visible only with "roses". This point of Qianghua can be seen in the patients who are talking and laughing in Anding Hospital.
However, if the "stepmother" is the key to this nihilistic world, then "Red Lotus" is the core. Around her, the two characters in Qianghua's body stage a play of "persecution-rescue".
However, from the details of having menstrual holidays at the same time and shaking hair at the same time, it can also be understood that "Red Lotus" is Rose's third personality - a mother who is defeated without a fight, a sister who is submissive, these weak characters are all in the "new love" If you die when you arrive, will you have a good life in the house where your stepmother is in power? This kind of worry about the miserable life in the future has differentiated into a personality, which is expressed in the image of the abused "Red Lotus" - but if this assumption is true, Qianghua herself is too busy.
4. Reality - Father's
gray hair, stiff facial muscles, and occasional painful convulsions, the father's image seems to be just what the plot needs. Calling for help, handing over white pills on time, these are like small alarm bells hidden in the screen at five steps and one post, reminding the audience not to fall completely into the imaginary world of roses. In fact, watching this movie along the line of sight of my father can safely walk out of this maze carefully created by the director.
When it comes to delivering pills, the first four-person dining table scene is worth recalling. There were only two people in the bloody restaurant. After the "stepmother" said a series of housewife's words, the father wiped his mouth and left. Now, before leaving, put down two small white pills in front of the "stepmother" - Rose does not admit that she is mentally ill, and the sick water will also be poured on the head of the evil "stepmother".
Perhaps for the sake of aesthetics, there are very few depictions of the relationship between the father and the "new love", so that the term "new love" has yet to be scrutinized, but I am so exhausted that I can't think of a better explanation. In addition, gossip, this man who looks like a "gardener" or a "driver" doesn't look like he has the financial resources to own such a pair of beautiful and lovely daughters, such a fairy-like lover, and such a quaint mansion~! !
two. Aesthetic Elements
1 Music
I didn't listen to it deliberately, but I know there are a lot of violins. When sad, it drips on the floor, covering the white cloth curtains, climbing along the flowers on the wallpaper, filling every dark corner with memories like sunset and sunset; when it is sad, it tears through the sky like lightning, like the bottom of the sea. The witch stretched out her long, thin fingernails and clenched your internal organs.
Of course, in the last shot, the main rhythm of the piano gently ending is the icing on the cake.
2 Sets
Beautiful images have always been my go-to factor for movies, so backgrounds are extra important. This old house hidden between the bamboo forest and the pier is so beautiful, just looking at it, you can already hear many small voices whispering the stories here.
The old wooden floor glowing with faint blue light, the pig iron statues, the shadows everywhere, like an empty tomb; the layout of the bedroom is very beautiful, on the first night, the bedding carpet in the "stepmother" room is like the dark after the blood has dried up. Red, "Red Lotus" is turquoise, "Rose" is sky blue, and my father's is a checkered felt like a temporary blanket. There are all kinds of wallpapers covered with exquisite flowers. If it is not for the deliberately created horror atmosphere, it really seems to have strayed into the deserted castle of Princess Rose in the depths of the forest.
3 The dress
is decorated with white cotton and linen, fine lace, ruffles, the neckline is slightly open or tied with a small button, and the knee-length skirt of solid color is decorated with small flowers. When you close your eyes, it seems that there is a soft texture of cotton skirt rubbing against your calf. Seeing this, as a little woman, it's hard not to let the steel banger in her purse move.
4 Twin Flowers
When it comes to Xiao Genying, the heartbroken Xiao Enxi in "Blue Life and Death" is gone. When I was a pure love dancer in 2005, I still feel pity for the tears of the "Panda" brand. As he grew up, Weidou's eyes became more distinct. In this film, Xiaogenying was full of tears, and the rippling waves in the two clear black gems were like the stars and moon shadows in an ancient well. Although it is still a single poor image, it can be placed in the chaotic background of the film, which is rare and clear, and it also feels full.
Lin Xiujing, I don't know her very well, I only know "I'm sorry, I love you", I feel that her face is too childish for the love of life and death. Here she is forever beautiful - in the memory at the end, the old footage seems to be plated with the warm afterglow of the sunset, the roses rush out of the house, and the background is a blurred home, on both sides The reeds swayed lightly in the wind. As if feeling it, Rose slowed down and turned her face. The moment she looked back, the sadness burst into bloom. The strong aroma seemed to break through the screen. Time seems to stop along with the picture; then, at the moment of resolutely moving forward, I hold my breath and disappear with the reed flowers in the breeze of the setting sun. ! !
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