I just watched the recent hit dark horse and black "comedy" movie "Ready or Not", and I haven't seen such a cold-hearted love movie for a long time.
The film begins with the story of the beautiful blonde bride Grace who married his handsome husband Alex into the wealthy family. However, the wedding night was told that the new couple who joined the family had a tradition of participating in absurd escape games to ensure the prosperity and continuation of the family. And Alex, who loves Grace, vowed to help her escape the game.
At the beginning, I could not help being moved by the sweet and sincere love between the hero and heroine, and worried about the hero who was covered with flags. It turns out that I guessed the ending, but didn't guess the process.
[A large part of the spoiler is omitted here. If you want to see this spoiler, you can read it at the end of the article. Please note that the following content also contains some spoilers. 】
The first reaction after watching this film was good. The beautiful bride wearing white gauze was so bloody that she had a taste of Quentin's "KILL BILL".
Then I felt sorry for the beautiful love between handsome men and beautiful women, and the story of eachother being fragmented under the persecution of absurd family traditions. I can’t help but think of Ms. Yukana’s early Danmei work "Sleeping Beauty". It tells a religious school to punish a pair of same-sex couples who violate the will of God and let one of them accept a hypnotic game. The results of the game are nothing more than two. If you are in hypnosis If you believe in your "partner", you will be immersed in the dream and never wake up; if you are more suspicious and don't believe in the partner in the dream, then although you can wake up through the game, you will lose your love because you can no longer trust your partner. It can be said that this game is a Russian roulette filled with bullets. No matter which way you choose, there is only one that leads to the hell that will never be restored. It's worthy of being the teacher Mizuki Yukana, who has been tormenting human nature.
Then he came back to his senses, and the chill slowly climbed up along the heel...
Suddenly I thought of the news not long ago. The daughter-in-law was suspected of being unclean by the mother-in-law because of her strong personality (it seems that the family’s money or the house is mainly obtained by the daughter-in-law). , The husband’s family locked up the daughter-in-law in the house and asked someone to beat the "demon", and eventually beat them to death.
Of course, this is just my "unprovoked" or even "excessive" association. There is absolutely no meaning of "the director just wants to map like this".
But when the bloody and violent black humor in the movie is turned into reality, it will inevitably make people chill from the bottom of my heart.
The male protagonist in the film, Alex, knows that there is a family tradition that may cause death, but with a fluke mentality, he insists on concealing Grace and taking her home to continue the tradition. He keeps saying that the concealment is because he really loves Grace and is worried that Grace will hear After the family tradition, he ran away from him... But is such a marriage that must be realized without hesitating to cheat and conceal, really is love for each other? Or is it a whitewashing of selfishness?
All in all, regardless of gender or orientation, being unable to maintain the love and marriage of one's partner in front of the family will only be reduced to a feather in the end.
For me, this film is beautiful with three meanings. Whether it is a cool film for a black comedy, as a tragedy, it is a tragic romance that tears down such beautiful things as eachother’s unswerving love and trust between people, or it involves feminism, marriage and love. From the perspective of the humanities and ethics films that conflict with the family, they are all excellent films.
[============ The following is a summary of the plot of the spoilers, friends who do not want to be spoiled are recommended to bypass ==============]
After the male protagonist Alex vowed to protect the female protagonist Grace, he sneaked into the security room alone and opened the door of the mansion to help Grace escape the danger, but was captured by his family. With the help of Alex's brother Daniel, Grace escaped from the predicament many times. Daniel, who broke the family tradition, died at the gun of his wife, who Mingzhe didn't want to destroy the family tradition. When Alex met Grace again, he happened to witness the scene where Grace killed her mother-in-law, who was Alex's biological mother. I once promised eachother to Grace, and even uttered cruel words to her mother that if she wanted to choose between her mother and Grace, Alex, who would definitely choose Grace, but after finally witnessing the death of his brother and mother, he began to believe in following family traditions and joined the game. Persecute Grace. Just at the very moment, Grace succeeded in delaying time until dawn by her own efforts, and everyone finally discovered that the so-called family tradition turned out to be true. If the newcomer is not killed before dawn, the family members will explode one by one. Alex pleaded ugly for Grace's forgiveness at the end, and finally shattered into pieces with the dawn.
There are several details in the film that are worth pondering:
The lady who was once persecuted by the family and lost her husband, on the contrary, is active in following the family tradition and persecuting new couples. The hero's mother looks amiable, but she is not merciful when she kills.
Daniel has always felt guilty for being an accomplice in the family tradition when he was a child, so he defended Grace everywhere in this game until he died under the gun of his wife.
Daniel's wife seemed to be lucky when she joined the family, and did not draw a card for the escape game. But she seems to have an unbearable past. She once said that she would rather die if she wanted her to go back to her past life, so she didn't hesitate to actively participate in the murder to protect the family and keep her status as a wealthy family.
The children of the previous generation, Daniel and Alex, still have a conscience, but one of the children of the next generation has started the wanton massacre of the innocent Grace with his parents without knowing the specific situation. It can be said that the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked.
In addition, the female protagonist praised her mother-in-law’s cigarette case at the beginning. The mother-in-law thanked the hostess and said that the cigarette case was passed to her by her mother. Everyone said that she liked the hostess very much but had to kill the hostess for the sake of family tradition. At the end, the hostess sat unkempt and smoked her mother-in-law’s cigarette outside the burnt-out mansion. When the police came to ask the hostess what had happened, it was a kind of irony when the hostess spit out a "contradictory between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law".
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