(This article was originally written by Hottheater)
When it comes to love born in horror movies, I think the first word many friends use to describe this love is probably the word "deformed".
For example, "Love Pet", which loves to put the goddess in a cage as a pet.
And "Blood Whispers", which fantasizes that the goddess is still alive and constantly chatting with the head.
They are all examples of this kind of deformed love.
Of course, there are also many such horror movies, such as "The Skin of My Habitat", "He Sheds His Skin for Me", "No One Survives", "Don't Let Anyone Enter", "Enchanted", etc. have left the audience with a period of deformed and soul-shaking crazy love. And these movies are usually accompanied by some extreme interpretation of love, such as the extreme, dare to give everything for love.
However, the movie I want to recommend today is a very silent deformed "sadomasochism" -
Released in 2015, the film, like most sadomasochistic horror films, features a psychologically twisted main character. But compared to the above-mentioned films such as "Blood Lonely Words" and "Love Pet", this movie brings more to the audience a loneliness that cannot be described in words. Whether it is accompanied by memories of the rural minor or the seemingly calm daily life, this film portrays the audience with an image of a male protagonist who is tormented in his heart and constantly brings himself into despair.
He was a freak in the eyes of others, withdrawn, and did not like to talk.
But he was like a child, longing for someone in the world to understand him.
Because in his childhood, he was like a bird in a cage
The entire film is 98 minutes long, and in terms of the film itself, "Carrion" is not a qualified horror film. Because there are not many scenes in this movie that can be called horror scenes, and the bloody scenes that make people sick to their stomachs can be said to be almost non-existent, even in the half of the whole film, you may feel that the plot is a little boring.
But it is such a movie that can make people feel the cold death under loneliness.
He can't tell what reality and imagination are!
Looking at the corpse, he was completely immersed in hallucinations
In terms of plot ideas, "Carrion" can be regarded as a character narrative of the male protagonist. Although the title of the movie has some similarity with last year's classic horror film "The Nameless Female Corpse", and a CULT point in the movie also focuses on the portrayal of female corpses, this movie shows the male protagonist's fragmented, dead-like personality step by step through the decay process of female corpses. (Two women broke into Jonathan's house without permission, inspecting everything in the house.) But an accident makes the break-in interesting, a woman dies in her home and Jonathan gains a "new friend"... ）
He moved the female corpse into his bathroom
Jonathan, he is a very withdrawn man, but this "new friend" has given him a taste of what love is.
He doesn't care, he's not a suspect, he's just doing what he wants to do...
- Fix the body so that it can sit in a chair.
He likes the feeling, he likes this woman, he's willing to show his charm in front of this woman.
He had dinner with the woman's corpse, and he felt that he had fallen in love with her
This is the story of a lonely man: a woman dies in his home, he does not panic at all, nor does he report the case like a normal person, but tries to communicate with the woman's body. He longed for this lifeless "new friend" to bring him love, and he fantasized more than once that this woman was not dead, she was still alive!
He even felt the woman watching him in the dark
It's also the story of a psychopath who succumbs to reality: he falls in love with a dead man, but reality tells him that this love should never have happened!
He didn't want to believe it was all true
In terms of movie roles, "Carrion" is somewhat similar to most character documentaries, basically focusing on the male protagonist.
A man with mental illness.
In this film, Jonathan's world can be considered a complex collection. In the first half of the film, that is, the time when the girl just died, his whole body is in a state of excitement. This is not only because he has gained a "goddess" with whom he can have dinner, but also because he feels that he is like a normal person and has found his love. But in the second half of the time, this excitement or emotion took a huge turn with the gradual decay of the girl's body.
Pure love begins to get morbid because he is afraid of losing! But the cruelty of reality still made this love completely end, and he did the last thing he wanted to do, personally dismembering the female corpse.
Apologetically, he dismembered his lover with his own hands
And for the aunt who takes care of him in the movie,
As well as the base friend Who often chats with the male protagonist.
Personally, I feel that these two characters are likely to be just characters fantasized by the male protagonist and do not really exist. But it also depends on how everyone understands this movie.
Finally, wonderful review, those unforgettable moments.
The mother's affair has always been his nightmare!
He kept recalling, constantly experiencing, it was like an unsolvable reincarnation that had been imprisoning his mind.
Is this a dream?
He seemed to feel the woman's breath, she wasn't dead?
It seems to be right next to him!
This should be the last time he will see her!
He didn't regret falling in love with such a corpse, he only regretted that it all went too quickly!
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