On the surface, the world we live in is relatively fair, but when you cross from one circle to another, you can clearly feel the solidification and insurmountable class.
For example, in the same office, a few big guys have several suites in the city, and their favorite ridicule is so-and-so, and I am the kind of person who will go to the nine pieces of nine-one boxes of paper, open a certain number of people to sneak, afraid of being seen!
And a certain duoduo is mainly focusing on the lower market, which is the opposite of a certain pin club and a koala mainly focusing on the upper market!
So what is the lower market? What is the upper market? From the concept of consumption, people have been divided into different classes!
Even if we don't want to believe it, the chain of class and contempt has always been there!
And the film I want to share today is related to class!
In 2019, there is a god film in South Korea that is out of the circle, not only receiving a Golden Globe nomination, but also winning the Oscar for best picture, yes, it is "Parasite"!
When the film's director, Bong Joon-ho, won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, he said that he was very grateful to two French directors, one was Henri-Georges Kluzzo and the other was Claude Chabrol!
And the film I want to talk about today is directed by Claude Chabrol, called "Cold Sacrifice"!
The film is old, as early as 1995 has been released, douban score also reached 8.1. but the audience who watched it did not break 10,000, not particularly popular.
Bong Joon-ho thanks Claude because "Cold Sacrifice" can be seen as the mother film of "Parasite", and the theme content and structure of the two films are very similar.
However, with some built-in details, the two films have their own charms.
On the cast, I personally think that the film has a super high value.
For example, the two heroines, Isabelle Hupper and Sandrina Bonaire, were famous for their great beauties when they were young, and both of them had good acting skills, winning Oscars, Golden Globes and other awards or nominations.
There are also two supporting actresses, Virginie Ladoy and Jacqueline Bisseter are also super good looking and acting skills.
Next, talk about the plot, the heroine Sophie is an illiterate girl, when she was unemployed, she just received a position as a maid in a middle-class family, the salary is not bad, and she also eats and covers.
She also behaved well after joining the company, diligent, and the cooking was delicious, and the host family was very satisfied.
In order not to lose her job, Sophie hides her illiteracy at every turn, so she is very cautious and respectful to the host family.
But Sophie's work is not satisfactory, or encountered the need to understand the text problems, such as the hostess will leave a note for her to purchase goods, the host will let her help find documents and so on.
These problems gave Sophie a headache, but she was quite clever to try to solve them, trying not to expose herself to being illiterate.
Perhaps it is a lot of pressure on the class Sophie in the face of the master's family, driven by great self-esteem, to let her regard illiteracy defects as her own very secret personal privacy, if this privacy is exposed, it is her own shame, and her dignity is trampled on the ground.
But the more people are afraid of something, the more they come, and people are often forced to tell more lies in order to round a lie, and it is easier to leak flaws.
For example, because the procurement is quite far from the city, the man hopes that it will be more convenient for her to drive, and even proposes that if she does not have a driver's license, he can pay for her to take the test.
But in order not to expose herself to being illiterate, Sophie lied about her myopia so she couldn't take the test.
The owner also paid her to go to the city to get glasses, and it was in this way that Sophie met Jeanne, a post office clerk girl who hated the rich.
Sophie had few friends, and at Jeanne's invitation, the two gradually became acquainted.
Sometimes Sophie has notes she doesn't understand and asks Jeanne for help.
But it was also provoked by Jeanne, and Sophie also became extremely dissatisfied with the master's family, and even made impolite acts against the master several times.
After learning that Sophie and Jeanne became friends, the man was very repulsive and hoped that Sophie would stay away from Jeanne, after all, Jeanne was a person who opened people's mail without the permission of others.
But Sophie didn't listen to it at all, and instead regarded Jeanne as a friend.
The anxiety of being recognized as illiterate, coupled with Jeanne's provocation, made Sophie's attitude towards the host family worse and worse.
By chance, she overheard that Melinda was unexpectedly pregnant, which was intolerable to the man.
And it just so happens that at this time, Melinda asks Sophie to accompany her to do a magazine quiz game, and Sophie is illiterate, and she threatens to know that Melinda is pregnant.
But Melinda was not afraid, but directly reported Sophie, and the master wanted to fire Sophie.
Faced with the worst ending, Sophie and Jeanne actually went to a dead end.
They shot and killed the Melinda family!
And Sophie, in fact, is also a suspect in arson to kill her father, she has a certain violent factor in her bones, and she will be calm after killing people!
The film devotes a lot of space to the fact that Sophie is afraid of being exposed as illiterate, and she is more afraid of her privacy and her dignity being trampled on than the fear of killing.
For the ending, there are two voices!
One is to feel that the Massacre of the Master's Family by Sophie is a kind of resistance to class, a counterattack of the exploitation of the rich by the poor.
Like the rich in Parasite, the rich appear friendly but are hierarchical in a few details.
In "Parasite", the male protagonist hates the unpleasant smell of the poor, while in "Cold Sacrifice", there is more lack of respect.
For example, the man will talk about Sophie's privacy unscrupulously, judge her at will, occupy her rest time with extra work, and even interfere with her personal life to prevent her from interacting with Jeanne.
Melinda ostensibly defends Sophie, but habitually forcibly helps Sophie as a middle-class benefactor, in fact, command and control.
He showed his usual indifference and selfishness to Jeanne, and after helping Jeanne repair the car, he threw the handkerchief on Jeanne in disgust.
And the hostess, when she brought Sophie, every corner of their house was magnificent, but the room arranged for Sophie was sloping roof, the windows were narrow and dim, and even the television was an old thing that was about to be eliminated.
On the surface, she smiled and asked Sophie if she was satisfied, but Sophie herself knew that she had to be satisfied if she was not satisfied, because there was no choice.
She also made it clear that Sophie's place of activity was the kitchen, so Sophie's daily closing of the door was her own poor class life.
Opening the door and going out is like stepping into a rich area, and the great differences and gaps may also be a major cause of Sophie's psychopathy.
And some people feel that such an extreme behavior of the heroine is simply ungrateful, and it is a mistake to make friends.
Indeed, if the heroine chooses to confess at the beginning, people are not willing to hire or suffer great pressure, but they may be hungry.
If people are willing to hire, the usual work will also take care of her illiteracy as much as possible, which can also reduce a lot of stress.
It's just that the heroine may have too strong self-esteem, so she is reluctant to confess, but the owner of this house is indeed very strong, he knows that After Sophie is illiterate, he is surprised to say that there are still people in this era who are illiterate, and their words are full of ridicule and contempt.
Many upper-class people like to make a mistake, treat everything with what they know, and their circles are highly educated, and they feel that people all over the world have successfully eliminated literacy.
Look at a certain 985 education per capita 185 height of the big guys, in fact, also committed the rich people's habitual limited cognition.
Of course, poor people should not be poor I am reasonable, you should take care of my emotional appearance, timely make up for their own deficiencies, hard work, progress, narrow the gap ~ ~ even if not, then it is good to be relieved!