today chat about Norway / Sweden / Denmark / UK / France / Finland film "The Innocent".
is titled De uskyldige / The Innocents (2021).
The film focuses on a group of kids living in a suburban apartment, four strangers who meet and become friends.
It didn't take long for them to discover that they had magical abilities.
The children are the absolute protagonists of this film, and their parents are in an ambiguous state, and the overall appearance time is not much, and most of the time is reserved for the children to perform.
The protagonist of the film is a child, but it does not mean that this is a children's drama, but it is full of darkness and anxiety.
Nine-year-old Ida moved to a new community with her mother and sister Anna, who was autistic. When they were playing in the community, they met the little boys Ben and Aisha respectively.
originally claimed to have the ability to take objects from the air and control the human body. Aisha, a vitiligo patient, said she could share thoughts with Anna. In this way, the four children continue to discover their superpowers in play.
avant-garde, tense, horror should be the labels of this movie.
The film opens with an atmosphere of uncertainty and unease, which it manages to maintain until the end of the film.
"The Innocent" appears to be calm as a whole, but there is unease beneath this calm.
"Human nature is inherently good" or "Human nature is inherently evil" is a topic that has been debated by philosophers for a long time, and views on innate and nurtured influences are constantly evolving.
This film cleverly uses a creepy story to answer.
Compared to American films that emphasize political correctness and conservativeness, such lively discussions can only be seen in European independent films.
Although the supernatural power is terrifying, it can't reach people's hearts. Among them, children who show harmless images of humans and animals are the most.
This film does not tell the audience where the horror is in advance, and the audience cannot guess the horror in advance. The overall story development has been in a constantly refreshing horror atmosphere.
The film combines close-up close-ups to the face with the wide, bright wide-angle , creating a feeling of disorientation.
This makes for a very interesting viewing experience, you know this is a horror movie, but you can clearly see that this is not the kind of simple and crude blood plasma horror movie, you don't know when the horror moment will come, but again Knowing it must be a little scary place. Everyone will be in a contradictory state of mind that they are afraid that he will not come, and that they are afraid that he will mess up.
This film successfully created two worlds of mud forest and reinforced concrete. The director portrays the two environments neutrally. The absence of parents is not a good thing, but it is not a bad thing either.
Children are full of freedom and happiness in the world of mud and forest, but they become a little timid in the city of reinforced concrete, forming a natural opposition with two different worlds.
Kids have to give up something to be happy, and they have to give up something to be safe.
A child is like a blank piece of paper, and what kind of person grows depends on guidance. Children with strong learning ability are like rice paper , which is more absorbent. As long as a little color is dyed, it can be quickly soaked.
is an excellent example. He himself lacks reverence for life, let alone respect for life, and there are some problems with his original family. He lacks correct education and guidance, and it is easy to go astray. He found that hurting others or other lives can bring him pleasure, and it can also make up for the spiritual shortcomings of his original family, so he got out of control. When he gradually mastered his superpowers, the situation became even more terrifying.
This is like giving a monkey the ability to litter the atomic bomb , it lacks understanding and awe of powerful abilities, and can only be used to satisfy low-level refreshment.
Compared with this book, Ada also has a tendency to develop evil.
She is jealous that her sister is getting more care from others because of her autism, so she tries to make fun of Anna. Ada also has no concept of good and evil, and she has no seriousness in her actions. She would kill bugs and bully Anna who couldn't speak. If Ben doesn't appear, then Ada is likely to never return on the way to evil.
has a more bottomless book, and Ada, who has a little conscience, realizes that she has done too many pranks, which is a very bad thing, so she wants to correct her mistakes.
The film ends with a scene where silence beats sound.
Children use their power to make choices when their lives are at stake. The final scene uses excellent sound effects to express a silent battle, the soft and sparse music makes the story tense, and the occasional ping-pong-pong sound makes the violence even more terrifying.
This simple and not simple way of handling makes the film attractive. The director tells everyone that the horror in the sun is like this.
The film insists on showing the true character of the actors, with the role of the little heroine Ida. Rakel Lenora Fløttum and Ellen Dorrit Peterson as Ida's mother Petersen) is in reality a mother and daughter.
Mina Yasmin Bremseth Asheim, who plays Elsa, also suffers from vitiligo in real life.
Terror in the sun,
Who is really innocent?
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