The film "The Devil" was adapted from Pierre Povallo's novel by the director and screenwriter Henry-Georges Cruz and brought it to the screen.
The opening scene of the film looks like an abstract painting in gray tones. But as the subtitles ended, a truck tire splashed water from the bottom of the screen onto it, and the audience realized that what they were seeing was an overhead shot of a mud puddle. The camera then moves up to shoot rain scenes. From this moment on, the image system of "water" has been continuously and potentially repeated.
1. The film is always rainy and misty.
2. The small water droplets condensed on the window are left on the window sill.
3. They eat fish for dinner.
4. While the character is drinking and drinking tea, Christina is sipping her heart-saving medicine.
5. When the teachers talked about how to spend the summer vacation, they talked about going to the south of France to "play in the water".
Swimming pools, bathtubs, and rainwater make up the wettest film ever.
Outside of the film, water is often used as a positive symbol: sacred, pure, feminine, a primitive state of life itself. But Cruzo subverted these values, let the water bring death, terror and evil magic, and the ticking of the tap was enough to make the audience shudder.
The image system is also a theme strategy designed by the creator for the work. It recurs in the sound and picture in the same subtle way as a potential communication to increase the depth of aesthetic emotions from the beginning to the end. And complexity.
In addition to the simple and universal external image, there is also an internal image that is only established in the film and can give it a new meaning, as seen in "The Devil".
After this, I encountered the internal image of "water", which was only seen in the trilogy of water directed by Cai Mingliang.
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