How much malice do girls face when they live alone? The collapse of women living alone may be in an instant...
On November 19, 2021, after watching the movie "Door Lock" that focused on the safety of women living alone for the first time, the author immediately thought of a former colleague Xiaodong (pseudonym) similar to the encounter.
When chatting outside of work, she mentioned that once she was home alone on a weekend night, and someone she didn't know knocked on the door and forced the doorknob several times. Xiaodong was very scared at the time, first used the back of a chair to hold the doorknob, and then called the property and the police.
Although the stranger fled before the property and the police arrived, the incident caused a great fright to Xiaodong. Later, she bought many tools such as door blockers and anti-wolf artifacts, and for a while she frequently changed boyfriends, and she would lose her temper for no reason, in order to find a sense of security.
The dangers faced by women living alone are more intimate than sexual harassment or domestic violence, sometimes an invisible feeling of suffocation and a lingering uneasiness.
I believe that among the 40 million women living alone in the country, many of them have encountered Similar experiences from Xiaodong, as well as similar experiences to Fang Hui in the movie "Door Lock".
Fang Hui, played by Bai Baihe, is like the epitome of these 40 million women living alone, trailing black shadows, fingerprints on door locks, wet rolls of paper, door handles that have been forcibly pressed, and pinhole cameras hidden in the air conditioner outlet... All this nightmarish encounter is reflected in the film.
After watching this movie, many female viewers said, "This movie is really scary," felt like there would be a combination lock and a sweeping robot PTSD, and immediately after returning home, they carefully checked the cabinets and door locks at home, especially under the bed.
In the movie, the heroine Fang Hui has a girlfriend Xiao Man, Xiao Man has a more straightforward and brave personality, and has the courage to face and reject some injustices.
And Fang Hui's personality of an older and better person also encourages the malice of all kinds of people around her. Rental agents, unit bosses, community security guards, etc. are all plotting against her.
In addition to the immersive atmosphere of the movie "Door Lock", the biggest attraction focuses on who is the man in black who crawls out from under the bed every night to infringe on Fang Hui.
Who is this mysterious man who crawled out from under the bed?
Why could he bathe and sleep at her house every day without Fang Hui's knowledge, and then quietly leave in the morning?
If every night there is a person secretly lying next to you, and you don't know, is it that your scalp is tingling when you think about it?
In order to play this thrilling story of "sadism" and "abuse", the lineup of the movie "Door Lock" is "wrong".
Bai Baihe appeared in the film almost entirely, showing a bad mental state that had been frightened for a long time. The performance of drinking water at the police station and shaking hands makes people feel empathetic, like those nightmares that always follow them.
The other four main male characters are played by Bai Ke, Fan Chengcheng, Ma Yuke and Liu Wei, and whether an unknown man in black is among these four people needs to be revealed by the audience in person in the cinema.
Among them, Fan Cheng Cheng appeared on the big screen for the first time. As the debut of the movie, played a scarred, mysterious security guard, not only the image subversion, but also some action scenes, is the ultimate boss will be the security guard Xiao Wu.
In addition, the gloomy pet doctor Zheng Fei, the boss Li Zong, who constantly hints at and harasses Fang Hui, and gao Qi, the black intermediary of violent collection, may all be the abusers hidden around Fang Hui.
These men saw Fang Hui working alone in the big city, helpless, and threatened her in an extreme way.
Living alone is their choice, not a reason to hurt them. This is a film that deserves to be watched by women living alone, and it is also a film that can arouse public thought.
I hope that the audience who watched this movie will remember this sentence, women living alone is a huge group, but they have not received the attention they deserve.
After the release of this film, more audiences will see the dangers faced by women living alone through the artistic expression of the film's images.
With the influence of the movie and the creators of a number of stars, let more people pay attention to this group of people and their safety, which is the meaning of the movie "Door Lock".