Horror movies that scare the audience purely with thrilling pictures, horror plots or weird settings can only be said to be terrifying no matter how clever they are. As a good movie, the requirements are even higher. Obviously, this film can be called excellent. The horror atmosphere created by the whole film, various designs of intertwined reality and reality in the plot, plus the final stunning reversal plot setting, and the expression of the anti-war core in the film , which constitutes a rich interpretation of the film.
If an ordinary horror movie is purely for the purpose of scaring the audience with thrilling pictures, horror plots or weird settings, no matter how cleverly it is done, it can only be called a sufficiently scary movie. As a good movie, it requires higher. Obviously, "Cry on the Island" can be called excellent. The horror atmosphere created by the whole film, the various designs of intertwined reality and reality in the plot, plus the amazing reversal plot setting at the end, are in line with the anti-war in the film. The expression of the inner core constitutes the rich interpretation level of this film.
The atmosphere of this film can be said to be unique. In the overall well-made oil painting texture, coupled with the slow and long rhythm, the look and feel is still very good. As a horror film itself, there are not many terrifying scenes, and the handling is very gentle, and the rhythm of the whole story is also very good.
There are also a lot of logical analysis of its horror elements and various plots on the Internet. There are different versions of how to reverse it at the end, how to lay the groundwork before, and the final explanation. Here I will talk about it while explaining my own understanding. expression for its kernel.
The film finally revealed the information that the mother and child are all dead souls, and also told us through the mouth of the new hostess that the hostess used a pillow to suffocate the two children and then committed suicide. So the question is why did the heroine commit suicide? In my opinion, there are three reasons. One is that the heroine is desperate for life when the heroine received the news that the hero died in battle; the other is that the house where the heroine lives was invaded by the Nazis, and the heroine is obsessed with the house. Suicide is unwilling to leave; the third is that the heroine first killed the eldest daughter An by mistake, and then killed the younger son even more desperately.
The story takes place in 1945. When the servants came to apply for the male master, the female master replied that she had gone to the war a year and a half ago. That is, at the end of 1943, the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom decided to open up a second battlefield in Europe, code-named "Overlord Project" to defeat Nazi Germany as soon as possible. The female protagonist explained when she ran away in the fog and met the male protagonist, indicating that the male protagonist died in the war, which is very understandable.
The second is about the Nazi occupation. The small island in the story "Island Cry" is the Channel Islands in Jersey, which became the only part of the Channel Islands in 1940 when the British government chose to give up defense of the Channel Islands during World War II. British territory occupied by German troops. When the hostess searched the whole house, she mentioned that she had been guarding the house for five years after the occupation, otherwise the Nazis would come in, so the time happened to be 1940. On May 9, 1945, Germany officially signed the letter of unconditional surrender, and the island ushered in liberation, so from the perspective of the climate in the film, the time of the story should be around.
Then there is the process of "that day". In fact, this "that day" is repeatedly mentioned in the film. According to clues and personal guesses, we will slowly restore it. First of all, the two children were suffocated to death by the heroine's pillow. The eldest daughter, Ann, was suffocated first, and then the youngest son, Nicholas. According to the two scenes in the film, the child gasped vigorously and then was warned to "stop breathing". Also the daughter is in front. Among them, the daughter was angry because of the dispute with the heroine, and the son was angry because of fear. It can be guessed that on "that day", the daughter Ann had a dispute with the manic heroine, and was killed by the heroine with a pillow and suffocated to death by mistake, and then desperate. The heroine then suffocated her youngest son, who was extremely frightened, and finally committed suicide.
As for the content of the dispute, according to the story of Zust and Basta in the Bible where the heroine and the children learn from the Bible, the heroine, as a devout believer, thinks that she should not betray the Lord in order to save her life temporarily, while her daughter is very realistic. You should lie to save your life. It is speculated that the heroine swears to death when the Nazis come to seize the house, but the daughter is willing to compromise the Nazis in order to save her life, resulting in conflict and tragedy.
Among them, the story begins to mention that the servants disappeared collectively a week ago. The more common explanation is that the heroine died and could not see the servants, so it was considered to be missing. It is difficult to explain why the heroine can feel the Victor family and not feel it. to the servants. A more reasonable explanation is that when the servants knew that the Nazis were coming, they persuaded the heroine to leave, but the heroine stubbornly stayed (the hero and heroine mentioned in the dialogue in the room, and the heroine said "they knew I would not leave"), The servants had no choice but to flee collectively in the middle of the night, or they fled after the heroine committed suicide.
After the tragedy, the heroine continued to live in the house for more than a week. The three ghost servants came to apply for the application. Almost at the same time, the Victor family also lived in. As for the Victor family, they may have bought the building after the Nazi surrender. An ownerless house moved in. Among them, the ghost servant knew all about the whole incident and wanted to help the hostess' family adapt to the life of a ghost, but the Victor family began to notice the difference. Among them, the first contact with the Victor family was the eldest daughter Ann. As mentioned earlier, it is very realistic and can compromise pagans and Nazis, so the new Victor family is also the first to compromise. And whether the Victor family here is a Nazi or a house bought from the Nazis, it symbolizes that they are also invaders. The word Victor comes from Latin, which means "Victor" ,conqueror".
Then everything happened in the film, and there is also a dark line that is the mother-daughter emotional line between the daughter Ann and the heroine. Compared with the young son Nicholas, who is doted on by the heroine, well-behaved and sensible, the eldest daughter lives under the love and pressure of the heroine, plus she has considerable independent thinking ability and rebellious character (reading by herself to refute the heroine's border prison) ), and its feelings for mothers are more complex. In addition, he was killed in the process of his mother's argument, and then he was beaten by his mother as a demon. His emotions were broken to the extreme. After all the curtains were pulled, the heroine hugged the little son and wanted to hug the daughter, but was ruthlessly rejected. . Finally, a reconciliation was reached after experiencing all the changes, which also exists as a family line in this film.
The trio of ghost servants in the film died in 1891. Obviously, the three of them also have obsessions with this house, out of love for the heroine's family to help the heroine recognize the truth. One of the very interesting episodes is that when the babysitter first came, the babysitter was disgusted by the unpalatable bread, and the babysitter didn't say anything. After the film, after the daughter was reprimanded for breathing, the babysitter flashed over to comfort him. In the shot of , he was studying breakfast bread, and it was dinner time and the hostess' family had already eaten.
The other is the question about whether the male protagonist is a human or a ghost. When I first saw the movie, I always thought that the ghost was actually a ghost, whether it was his words or deeds or the director's intention, it seemed to imply his identity as a ghost. Later, in retrospect, I gradually tended to the setting that it was a human being. After its return, there was almost no hard evidence to prove the identity of its ghost, and it was just the time when the Nazis surrendered. It is normal to return as a soldier, and it is also normal to leave at the end. He learned the truth that his family had died and could not stay. After all, he was very warm towards the children when he came back. Of course, if it is a human, it doesn't make sense that he didn't encounter the Victor family when he returned home, so it is very confusing.
There are also many details in this film that are well grasped. The various smoke bombs released enrich the audience's conjecture, such as the pills the nanny gave to the heroine and the photos and oil paintings in the storage room, all of which have a very guiding effect.
Also, the rich details in the film are also very interesting. For example, the bench on which the ghost servant trio sat in the posthumous photo has appeared many times in the film, including the posthumous photo of the previous generation, and the heroine in the back also sat by herself. Going up is very effective for enhancing the perception of terror.
This film obviously hides an anti-war theme under the cloak of horror and horror. After all, there are no villains or villains in the ghosts or the good people. Only war is the culprit of all these tragedies. Although the storyline in the film is simple, it contains very rich content, and the portrayal of each character is also very full, which is indeed rare in horror movies.
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