"Master Key" is a thriller movie that makes people feel extremely heartache after watching it, and the thriller is insufficient and the heartache is more than enough. We feel unfair that the good and simple girl suffered such a fate, and we feel that the evil couple was so sinful and escaped punishment. It really answered the sentence: Good people do not live long, and they will be plagued for a thousand years.
Many viewers believe that the tragic experience of the heroine Caroline is caused by her curiosity, a nurse can do her own nursing work, why bother to investigate things that have nothing to do with herself! It is said that a chef does not look at the recipe to see the art of war.
In fact, this movie is a "set-up" and a "game-in" story, one side lays out a pocket array, step by step to guide the other party to go inside; the other side is defenseless, defiant of dissuasion, and looks for death to drill in. He thought he had discovered a terrible secret and done a great good deed, and as a result, he became a "guinea pig" and a "sacrifice" for others.
Let's take a look at the plot first:
The heroine Caroline (hereinafter referred to as Little Card), a nurse at a nursing center in New Orleans, resigned decisively because she was not accustomed to the indifference of the nursing center to the terminally ill, and was later recruited to take care of a stroke elderly man in a private home in the parish of Tereb. She told her girlfriend Jill: "I want to give the patient enough care and attention in my own way to let him leave with dignity."
Why did she do that? At the beginning of the film, it was explained that Xiao Ka's mother died early, her father brought her up with a handful of and a handful of urine, but when she grew up, she did not listen to her father, and she was fooling around with a band with no future, and the relationship between father and daughter was tense. During her wandering around, her father fell ill and died, and she later learned of it with great remorse and remorse. I think the purpose of her doing this is, on the one hand, to be a kind-hearted, affectionate person, and on the other hand, to make up for the regret of not having the opportunity to take care of her dying father (she has always taken a photo of her and his father).
The family she applied for was an elderly couple named Violet (hereinafter referred to as Mrs. Vila), a stroke-paralyzed husband named Ben, and a young man who often came to their house, Luke, a real estate lawyer who took care of the registration of their family's property. From lawyer Luke, Little Card learns that Ben had suffered a stroke in his attic, and Mrs. Vicker tells her that they have never been to the attic since they bought the house.
As soon as Xiao Ka arrived at Mrs. Wei's house, she felt something strange here.
First of all, there is not a mirror in as many as 30 rooms, and Mrs. Wei explains: "Older people no longer need a mirror to see their aging face." ”
Then, when Xiao Ka greets Ben, who is paralyzed by the stroke, Ben suddenly grabs her hand and stares at her with strange eyes.
Once, when Mrs. Kabangwe went upstairs to get the flowers, she heard a noise at the attic door, and she used the master key that Mrs. Vie had given her that could open all the rooms, but she failed to open the door of the attic for half a day. Because she was afraid that Mrs. Wei would be suspicious of too long, she hurried away. (Thinking about this later, it is seriously suspected that Mrs. Wei deliberately let the little card borrow the opportunity to take the flower seeds to discover the strange attic)
On a thunderstorm night, another strange event occurred: Ben, paralyzed by a stroke, miraculously escaped through the window, and later fell to the ground while crawling on the eaves, returning to his original paralyzed state again. When Xiao Ka goes to Ben's room to get a wheelchair, she accidentally finds the words "Save Me" written on the white sheet, and she immediately thinks of the scene where Ben grabbed her hand before. Puzzled, she secretly hid the sheets.
The next day, Xiao Ka showed the hidden sheet to the lawyer Luke, and there was no word on the sheet. Faced with the lawyer's doubts, combined with the strange things encountered in the past few days, Xiao Ka whispered to Luke: "Do you have any feelings, Ben is asking you for help with his eyes and movements." ”
In response to this speculation, and thinking that Ben had suffered a stroke in the attic, Xiao Ka developed a strong interest in the mysterious attic, and a strong sense of mission to explore the truth allowed her to sneak into the attic again. In the dark and gloomy attic, she found strange things such as animal specimens, bottles containing human organs, rag dolls sewn with eyes and mouths, three-headed snake rings, and a bunch of mirrors of different sizes, as well as books and records recording the magic circle, and she took a piece of paper with the words "Supreme Asylum Spell" written on it and a record labeled "Sacrifice".
Here is a detail, that is, when the little card sneaked into the attic to rummage through things, Mrs. Wei just came up to look for her, she immediately hid, and then jumped out of the window to escape, Mrs. Wei did not find out. (Later, it was another trap, and Mrs. Viy should have known that the little card was inside, but pretended not to see.) ）
Mrs. Vichy had actually seen it
Little Card told his girlfriend Jill what he saw at the attic and played the disc. Jill tells her that it could be witchcraft, magic, something psychological, and it won't hurt you if you don't believe it. She also said that her aunt was fascinated by witchcraft and often went to a place called Agil to buy witchcraft things. Both of them found the place, but neither dared to enter it.
After returning to Mrs. Wei's residence, Xiao Ka hung a mirror in the room (why hang a mirror, I guess I saw the ytterbium in the attic and wanted to use the mirror to test Mrs. Wei's reaction), but this completely angered Mrs. Wei, and during the quarrel, Xiao Ka showed off to Mrs. Wei: "I have already been to the attic, you don't tell me the truth, I will leave now." Mrs. Vivian lit a cigarette and told the story of 90 years ago:
90 years ago, there lived a banker couple and one of their children, as well as two servants, Jasper and Cecil, a black couple (who lived in the attic at the time), a well-known two-headed doctor who knew witchcraft. One day the banker held a banquet at his house and found two children missing, and later found two children learning witchcraft with a black couple in the attic. The bankers felt that witchcraft was a bad thing, and they did so to hurt the children, so they hung the two and burned them alive. Soon after, the banker went bankrupt, shot and killed his wife and committed suicide (rumored to be revenge by the black couple), leaving only the brothers and sisters to live here. In 1962, mr. and Mrs. Violet bought the house from their impoverished siblings, and the siblings told them not to use mirrors in all rooms, because the ghosts of the black couple could be seen in the mirrors.
Little Card disagreed with Madame Vicker's superstition about seeing ghosts in the mirror. One day, when she was telling Ben about his wife's superstitious ghost, she found that Ben had been staring at the small round mirror next to her, and the little card slowly opened the mirror to Ben, and Ben looked at the mirror and suddenly panicked, knocked off the mirror at once, and then there was a hysterical convulsion.
Little Card was shocked, and she said to Ben, "Did you really see them in the mirror?" ”
One night, Xiao Ka quietly came to Ben's room and used the bought witchcraft supplies to help Ben dissolve the witchcraft on his body, who knew that halfway through, Ben was able to speak, he said intermittently: "Card... Lorraine, save me, take... I'm leaving here..." Xiao Ka was stunned, it turned out that it was really a psychological effect! She immediately leaned over and said eagerly, "Well, I'll help you, tell you why you left here, what happened in the attic?" Who are you afraid of..." At this moment, the door was pushed open and Madame Vicker broke in.
Through these things, Xiao Ka comes to the conclusion that Ben's stroke should have been caused by Witch Viking's witchcraft, and she wants to take Ben away so that he will no longer be hurt.
She drugged Mrs. Vicker, and as a result, the gate was locked and she could not drive away, so she hid Ben in the firewood room and left by herself in a small boat (there was a pond in front of the door, and there was a lot of water in the pond that night, and there happened to be a small boat).
Little Ka finds Luke, a lawyer, and wants Luke to go back with her to save Ben. However, when Luke goes to another room to answer the phone, Xiao Ka finds a beginner's book on his desk (how a veteran lawyer can read entry-level law books) and a lot of sneaky photos of himself, and even more terrifyingly, a three-headed snake ring and some bone teeth exactly like in the attic in the drawer. At this time, Luke was already standing behind Xiao Ka with a fierce face, and he tied up Xiao Ka and took him back to Mrs. Wei's house. It turned out that he and Mrs. Vicker were in the same group!
Faced with the hopeless situation of fleeing, Xiao Ka hurriedly ran to the attic, using the "Supreme Asylum Spell" paper she stole, and prepared props such as sulfur, lime, hair, and blood as required, hoping to protect herself from harm through this spell. At this time, Mrs. Vicker and Luke arrived, and as the terrible spell record sounded, Mrs. Vickery pushed the mirror that was more than one person tall and rushed to the small card. After a tearing cry and the sound of the lenses breaking, the unconscious little Ka woke up, picked up the cigarette on the ground, and said while smoking: "Thank you, child!" And Mrs. Wei, who was convulsing on the side, kept shouting, "Let me out!" At this point, Lady Wei and Xiao Ka exchanged bodies and souls through witchcraft.
At the end of the story, the truth is revealed. It turned out that Luke and Mrs. Viy were the black couple Jasfi and Cecil, who, through the strongest sorcery, exchanged souls and bodies with one of the banker's children through the strongest sorcery, and got a continuation of life from a pair of children. The banker later burned to death a pair of his children, and the black couple survived through the lives of the children. It wasn't until 1962 that they exchanged the same method for the lives of Ben and Violet, who had come to buy their house. When they are old again, they are looking for new "prey" to continue their lives. A month ago, they found Luke, a young real estate lawyer in the name of real estate needs to be dealt with, and completed the exchange of Ben and Luke's soul and body in the attic, that is, the paralyzed Ben is actually the lawyer Luke, and the lawyer Luke of the little card is actually a black Jasfi. The next step is to find "prey" for Lady Vi, they have hired 5 girls without success, and as a result, the 6th young and beautiful little card has been trapped and becomes the "sacrifice" of the fake Vighur real Cecil.
Why didn't the first 5 girls succeed, but the small card successfully won the lottery? Was it really her curiosity that killed her?
Looking back at the film now, I think that this black couple is simply bullying honest people, playing the kind and simple little card as a monkey. It's a pity that our cute little card is blind to so many "loopholes" and is bent on solving mysteries and saving others.
Perhaps it is the authorities who are fans, the next to the qing, there are many scenes, fragments, and dialogues in the film that reveal the conspiracy, and Xiao Ka does not care. In fact, we didn't pay attention to it when we watched it for the first time.
1. Little Ka takes Lukla into the room and tells him that ben is sending a distress message when Mrs. Vicker opens the door and finds them sitting on the bed.
Mrs. Vicker was visibly unhappy and said to Luke, "Start cultivating feelings now?" ”
Luke stepped forward and put his hand on Mrs. Vicker's shoulder: "You are the only woman in my life."
Mrs. Vicker threw off Luke's hand and said, "Take your stinky hand away!" ”
From this dialogue, it is clear that Mrs. Vicker and Luke have a very intimate and ambiguous relationship, either husband and wife or lover relationship. And Xiao Ka did not find the problem in the words, perhaps not hearing their conversation.
2, Xiao Ka was using witchcraft to dissolve Ben, and was found by Mrs. Wei who broke in, although some props had been put into the bag, Xiao Ka still had a large bowl in his hand, his expression was obviously wrong, and he answered very reluctantly in the face of questions. However, Mrs. Wei did not seem to bother to investigate, and let Xiao Ka easily walk away. This is actually Mrs. Wei deliberately pretending to be deaf and dumb, as a senior witch, how can she not see it! Her purpose in doing so is to make Xiao Ka believe in witchcraft and walk into their "bureau" step by step.
3, Xiao Ka told Luke about the witchcraft solution, Luke did not think so, Xiao Ka took Luke to the place where she had refueled to learn about the situation of witchcraft to the old man, the old man was shocked to hear that she had a "sacrificial" turntable, saying that it was a very evil kind of witchcraft, sacrificed to someone, can take away the rest of that person's life. Xiao Ka's first thought after hearing this was that Mrs. Wei might take away the rest of Ben's life, so she had to find a way to save Ben out, not recognizing Mrs. Wei's success. Oh, what a kind man!
4. Before Mrs. Wei was stunned by the small card medication, she took out the "Supreme Asylum Spell" paper that was taken away by the small card and stolen by her, and when she drew the formation on the ground, the small card snatched it from her hand. In fact, this is also what Mrs. Wei did for Xiao Ka to see, just to make Xiao Ka believe that this "Supreme Asylum Spell" is to protect herself. In fact, this formation is the most evil formation that takes the remaining life of a person.
Why did the small card get caught? I think it's not because of curiosity, but mainly because of kindness: a kind person will not be defensive, always think that the people around her will be as kind as she is, and will consider the safety of others when encountering anything. For example, worry about Ben's safety; simple: simple people are often preconceived and judge people by appearance, she thinks that the lawyer with good looks must be a good person, blindly believes in him, goes to him whenever he encounters a problem, and tells him without reservation; more importantly, she injects the work of taking care of Ben into her feelings and love for her father. When her girlfriend Jill learns that Little Card is going to use witchcraft to help Ben, she disapproves.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="68" > she said: "Your task is to guard peace, and he is not your father, why do you want to help him do these things?" ”</h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="66" > Xiaoka said: "If I want to ignore him, I am abandoning him, I have to help him." ”</h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="67" > Gill said, "You are a nurse, but you have to go to the witch doctor to ask for medicine..."</h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="69" > at this time, Xiaoka said a meaningful sentence: "Not for me..."</h1>
So, why didn't the first 5 girls take the bait, because they didn't have feelings for Ben like Little Card to Ben, and they didn't want to get themselves into trouble. And why Xiao Ka did it so stubbornly, there is a deep love for her father, only this kind of love will make her go to the soup without hesitation.
However, in the face of such a film that reverses traditional values, the audience is very reluctant to accept it, and the couple must be punished. It is said that someone also wrote the script of "Master Key 2" to meet the psychological comfort of the audience.