The whole film is divided into three structures, and it is these three structures that make me feel a certain sense of tearing and absurdity. The first paragraph of the film tells of Lucy escaping from her cell, entering an orphanage, meeting Anna, and seeing a naked and scarred woman terrorizing and chasing her.
As soon as the camera turns to the second paragraph, this is a family of four. The film takes some time to show the relationship between the family of four, the relationship between the elder sister and the younger brother, and the conflict between the son and the mother, but this introduction is actually useless. Necessary, because soon Lucy broke into the house and quickly got rid of the four people. Afterwards, the monster woman appeared to chase and kill Lucy. At this time, I felt that the monster might really exist, but soon, the camera gave the answer again: the monster was holding Lucy's head and hitting the wall, but in fact Lucy was hitting the wall. . It turns out that she has always lived in the fantasy of being hunted and killed.
At this time, a big bug appeared in the film: the previous camera monster made several big cuts on Lucy, and Lucy's good friend Anna also helped her sew the wound. But the location of the wound is on the upper side, and the camera does not show how the wound Lucy caused by herself. How did Lucy do it herself?
When Lucy committed suicide, I couldn't believe my eyes. The heroine died just like that. I really didn't play cards according to the routine. The second female Anna quickly took the position and found a basement where a woman was locked, naked and scarred. When the two were entangled, the woman was killed by a sudden black man, and the second paragraph ended.
There is not much information revealed from the first paragraph to the second paragraph. You don't know how Lucy and Anna spent so many years, and how they found the murderer. You don't even know how Lucy and Anna are now. To make a living, to have no other friends, as if social relations did not exist. Maybe this is the director's intention. In the second paragraph, Anna once called her mother, and the relationship between the two was not good. This may be the reason why Anna was sent to the orphanage, but the film did not point it out. Anyway, it's like a story in Blizzard Mountain Lodge.
The third story is even more bizarre. It turns out that imprisoning people is a cult trying to find martyrs and understand the world after death. Anna is locked in the basement and begins the endless abuse. She was bound by iron chains every day, and she was fed with liquid food at regular intervals, and Anna was beaten at regular intervals. During this period, Anna didn't say a word, as if she lost the ability to communicate with people, and was tortured like a puppet. She has changed from the Fiona eldest sister of "Shameless" to a cripple who can't see her original face. The film adds some background music at the right time, and everything seems so desperate and sad. In fact, to be honest, these abuses are not too serious. After that, only the peeling rack was shown. When the camera turned, the skin of the whole body had been peeled off (or put on a special mold), which seemed quite fake. I watched it not long ago. There is a peeling scene in "The Unknown Woman". After peeling the skin, I found that the inner layer of the skin was painted with evil patterns, which really surprised me. Then the "minor psychological trauma that the old woman said before makes people see things that don't exist" didn't happen. From this, it seems that Anna is still relatively strong, otherwise, after being skinned, how could she still survive, and the pupils appeared an aperture.
Such a three-stage structure, the first section is like a thriller, the second section is like a murder film, and the third section is like a drama film, makes people have a very wonderful viewing experience. But the film does not tell a complete story, how did the cult arise, what social identity did the old woman have, how did her followers come into being, and how the cult worked, otherwise how could ordinary fathers and mothers be willing or What about having the guts to do things that imprison people and abuse people? Looking back at the second paragraph, if Ana did out of friendship and conscience when Lucy was alive, then after Lucy's death, what reason did Ana have to save a strange monster-like woman and help her get rid of the shackles , help her take a bath, is she a saint? Shouldn't normal people clean up the crime scene and leave quickly? As a normal person, Anna seems to have nothing but kindness and bravery. I don't know anything about her, so it is naturally difficult to sympathize with her, because her performance is indeed a bit facial.
The lack of these plots and the lack of logic make the plot of the film unable to withstand scrutiny, and there is a feeling that the director deliberately did it.
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