"Family Misfortune" is More Appropriate——Feelings from "Hereditary Misfortune"

Felicia 2022-04-20 09:01:33

Original: Jianzhong Tianping

It is said that there is a horror film that will go down in history this year, and both professional filmmakers and audiences will applaud it. The film is "Hereditary Doom".

The film tells the story of an old man from a cult organization who, in order to achieve a certain benefit, pulls all his family members into the organization and then sacrifices for the organization.

The details of the film are in place, and the logic is basically flawless. More importantly, the film is actually different from the previous horror films by using so-called supernatural ghosts and even bloody cruelty to create the atmosphere-perhaps after watching the film, there are not many impressive scenes, but the whole story makes the film more interesting. People have endless aftertastes and can't be calm for a long time.

Whether it is the heroine who is lost in sleepwalking and reality, cults and life, or the heroine husband who has been integrating a family that has been torn apart, or the powerless son who cannot escape the fate of the family from beginning to end, or the short-lived who was bound by the curse at birth Daughter... After all, everyone can't get rid of the "destiny" that the old man in the family has already arranged.

The so-called hereditary bad luck is more from a physiological point of view and is a "natural disaster"; while family bad luck is more from the perspective of blood and clan, and is a "man-made disaster". The film actually shows more "man-made disasters". The contradictions and tensions between people in the family are all "man-made disasters". Especially in the dinner scene in the film, it can be said that the psychological state of everyone in the family after losing their daughter is inspired and displayed, such as sadness, helplessness, disappointment, distrust...

In fact, around our lives, some poor people are actually more or less troubled by family misfortune. When you are born in a criminal family, it is difficult to get rid of bad habits; when you live in a family that believes in pyramid selling cults, you are often forced to be involved in the abyss; when you are surrounded by alcoholism, drug trafficking, smuggling and fighting, you have to arm yourself with violence... …

Although everyone in the film has tried to fight and get rid of the bad luck left to them by the family, they have found it to be in vain. This is the real horror of the film, and it is also worth savoring.

on September 8, 2018

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  • Oceane 2022-01-27 08:06:30

    The director's level is surprisingly superb, and "Doll House" is also very successful as a new horror symbol. Screams, (comparable to the voice of the voice queen Kayako), tongue and...cute wailing one after another, all kinds of everyday sounds are also given a sense of horror, the use of sound elements is quite wonderful, Toni · Colette's hysterical state is even more cripple (with a sense of joy). The family fear of "The Witch" + the religious subversion of "The Exorcist" & "Rosemary's Baby" + the indiscriminate evil of "The Grudge", the role of mother with this family story is even a bit reminiscent of "Masked" Or "Still in the Mirror" (don't care how I think of it)...

  • Randi 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    180821 Rewatch, slightly reduced points. A genre-wrapped classic tragedy that's a bit darker than Jordan Peele's, but both are very effective at squeezing comedy time into a thriller atmosphere (the mother attached to the ceiling at the end and the intense later). headbutt), of course, compared to the stupid jokes about Lynch in "Desperate" (the film itself is ridiculously stupid), looking back at Fredkin and Polanski in this film, I still More willing to believe in the possibility of Ali Esther's future.

Hereditary quotes

  • Charlie: Who's gonna take care of me?

    Annie: Uh, excuse me? You don't think I'm gonna take care of you?

    Charlie: But when you die?

  • Peter: You okay, Mom?

    Annie: What?

    Peter: Is there something on your mind?

    Annie: Is there something on *your* mind?

    Peter: Just seems like there... might be something you... wanna say.

    Steve: Peter.

    Annie: Like what? I mean, why would I wanna say something so I can watch you sneer at me?

    Peter: Sneer at you? I don't ever sneer at you.

    Annie: Oh, sweetie, you don't have to. You get your point across.

    Peter: Okay, so, fine, then say what you wanna say, then.

    Steve: Peter.

    Annie: I don't wanna say anything. I've tried saying...

    Peter: Okay, so try again. Release yourself.

    Annie: Oh, release you, you mean?

    Peter: Yeah, fine, release me, just say it! Just fucking say it!

    Annie: DON'T you swear at me, you little shit! Don't you EVER raise your voice at me! I am your mother! You understand? All I do is worry and slave and defend you, and all I get back is that fucking face on your face! So full of disdain and resentment and always so annoyed! Well, now your sister is dead! And I know you miss her and I know it was an accident and I know you're in pain and I wish could take that away for you. I WISH I could shield you from the knowledge that you did what you did, but you're sister is dead! She's gone forever! And what a waste... if it could've maybe brought us together, or something, if you could've just said "I'm sorry" or faced up to what happened, maybe then we could do something with this, but you can't take responsibility for anything! So, now I can't accept. And I can't forgive. Because... because NOBODY admits anything they've done!