Have you ever seen a movie like this? It's not a horror movie, but it has a frightening shivering effect. "Death of the Sacred Deer" is such a movie.
Before I introduce the film, I would like to introduce the director of the film, Augs Lance Moss.
Maybe you don't know the person's fame just by listening to the name, but you know it when you mention his work.
In 2009's "Dog Teeth", he used an isolated family as a metaphor for a terrible centralized country, which is chilling.
Later, "Lobster" was even more brain-opening, and single people who did not find a partner within the specified time would become animals and be banished.
This dystopian film, with its novel and extreme worldview setting and eerie style, has gained a vote of iron fans.
It shined at major film festivals and won the Jury Prize in the main competition section of Cannes.
Following the success of "Lobster", he has produced a new work, continuing the extreme story setting and absurd and eerie narrative style.
The Death of the Sacred Deer
The film won Best Screenplay at the 70th Cannes Film Festival. The story also sets sharp contradictions within the family.
Although the main scenes of the film seem to be relatively rich: hospitals, houses, restaurants. But in reality, it's all depressing enclosed spaces.
Steven is a career-winning cardiac surgeon. He had an enviable happy family.
A beautiful wife, a 14-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old son.
The family lives a simple and purely happy life, but things are not so simple.
Steven has a secret that no one knows. Six months ago, he underwent surgery while drinking alcohol, resulting in the unfortunate death of the patient.
In order to make up for the mistakes he had committed, Steven took care of his son Martin in private, and Martin entered his life.
However, martin's behavior began to feel strange. He first seduces Steven's daughter into falling madly in love with him.
He then seduced Steven with his mother and expressed his desire for them to be together.
Then, citing heart disease, he pestered Steven in the hospital, and finally saw how lush Steven's armpit hair was.
Kids, are you too heavy on your taste! For this entanglement, Steven finally decided to alienate Martin.
Steven, who has left Martin, thinks he can finally return to his old life.
Until a paranormal illness breaks the original silence in Steven's son.
His son's legs were suddenly paralyzed, and the results of the hospital examination showed that there was nothing abnormal about his body.
Just when Steven's family was at a loss, Martin showed up and said something strange.
Steven listened, you're sick! Immediately called the security guards to blast this Martin away. But even if he didn't believe it, his son's symptoms were getting closer and closer to Martin's words, and he couldn't eat.
At this time, Steven's daughter and Martin are getting closer. He did not hesitate to get Martin's love by "being honest with each other". Martin also seemed to be full of affection for her.
However, this did not save her, and during an acting class, she was suddenly paralyzed and unable to eat.
All of this seemed to confirm Martin's words, and the next one was his wife.
Utterly enraged, Steven tied up Martin and beat him up and imprisoned him in the basement of his home.
He hoped that Martin would stop this cruel practice, and it was clear that the paralyzed man did not want to let them go.
Martin's fierce bite of Steven, and then biting himself, for tat, is the justice in his mind.
And beating him was useless, because the curse continued. The son cut off his long hair, and he apologized to Steven for his previous disobedience.
Meaning – don't kill me, I'll obey later.
At night, my wife also lay naked in bed and said, "We can have more children."
Meaning – don't kill me, the child can be regenerated, I only have one.
Her daughter also began to blacken, smoking a cigarette, determined to win Martin's favor and sacrifice her brother.
The originally happy and harmonious family fell apart at this moment.
To minimize death, Steven tied three family members to the living room and put on hoods for them.
In order to show fairness, he also stood in the center wearing a hood and shot in a circle.
Just kill one other person and you're safe, but who's going to die? Mu Mu will sell a pass, you go to the movie to find the answer!
I think everyone should be curious, what exactly did Martin use to make the Stevens like this?
But until the end, the director did not explain this strange phenomenon.
In fact, the film is based on ancient Greek mythology.
Iphigenia was the most beloved daughter of Agamemnon, the Commander of the Greek Coalition Army.
One day Agamemnon went out hunting, but accidentally injured the red deer, the pet of the hunting goddess Asteris,
He had to choose between stopping the Trojan War and sacrificing his daughter.
In the end, he made the same decision as the doctor in Death of the Sacred Deer...
At the end of the movie, a family of three appears in the restaurant to order food.
They ordered a copy of the fries, and the director gave them a close-up.
Remember a quote martin said at the beginning of the movie: The favorite should be saved until the end.
And is this telling us that Steven saved what he liked for the end?
The person who died was an insignificant being?
And was that blindfolded shot really fair?