Grace, whose name is the same as the name of the old murderer in Neil Johnson's movie "Keep Silence", makes people have endless reverie. The meaning of Grace in English is: compassion, grace or charm. The heroine in this film is also like the unity of these three. What will she bring to the dog village after she comes after the gunshots of the night?
Look at the names of the children in the Dog Village. Achilles (another translation of Achilles), Olympia, Athena, Pandora... is a collection of heroes and gods. Even the dog's name is Moses.
If it’s a misunderstanding, please forgive me for watching Chinese subtitles, because I didn’t see English subtitles. I think Lars Vontel obviously did it intentionally. It may be ridiculous to link the "Bible" and "Greek Mythology" together, but why should we set a barrier for this great director? The name of the Bacchus priestess is clearly mentioned in the film.
Imagine the dancing Dionysus, the indulgence in Greek mythology and the forbearance of original sin in the Bible. What kind of strange tension is the entanglement of the two?
Of course, the place where everything happened is Dog Village, a village isolated from the rest of the world amidst lofty mountains. It is also a space placed outside of surrealism, or a “testing ground”.
Grace's fate began to change after the National Day on July 4. As the police posted a notice for the second time, the risk of taking her in was getting higher and higher, so the dog village also asked her to pay higher costs. She began to get busier and busier. She was raped by Chuck who grew the orchard and was cheated by children... Later, her dream of running away was shattered, and the truck driver cheated her out of her money and raped her. She was taken back to the dog village, chained, and used as a tool for men in the village. Except Tom, all men have owned Grace.
Tom, the most common name in America. As the joke said, the American soldiers on the battlefield hide in the trenches. The Iraqi soldiers suddenly came up with an idea and shouted "Tom". A dozen people stretched out their heads and asked who called me? So he was sniped.
Tom here is actually a symbol of morality in American civilian society. He believes that his moral standards are much higher than those of others, he has the urge to be a leader, and has even expressed his help to Grace many times.
This also made Grace say "You always save me". However, Tom's rescue seemed to be nothing. When he wanted to possess Grace's body and was rejected, he turned to anger and returned to the crowd, stunned. It was him who found out the phone number of the person who first chased Grace and opened her destiny.
Grace finally said: "Tom, don't disappear!" In fact, this was the last thing she hoped for the humanity in the dog village was shattered.
What surprised the villagers of Gou Village was that Grace was the daughter of the underworld boss. I guessed this plot before, because with a trace of luck, I really worried that she would be tortured to death.
In fact, when Grace engaged in the final ideological struggle, it was no longer aimed at the people in the village of the dog, but became a religious issue. She wanted to forgive, but in the end she decided to redeem her by destruction. It's like God's flood of water destroying the world, but this time there is no Noah's Ark.
The last dog barking indicated that this was not a complete destruction or redemption, because the dog named Moses ran away. Grace felt guilty about it, because she had passed through a fleshy bone when she was extremely hungry. Looking at the whole film, this is Grace's only guilt. This is compassion, the weakness of humans or gods, and the source of indestructible evil.
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