This is a movie worth watching over and over again. The story of the movie itself is not difficult to understand, the heroine Caroline is a nurse, looking for a temporary job, going to an old villa to take care of a stroked old man Ben, his wife is called Mrs. De, found a lot of strange things, and then Mrs. De explained that Ben may have suffered a stroke because of the evil spirits left behind by the two wizarding black servants of the former homeowner. Caroline discovers that there is a real possibility that it is, and then discovers that Madame De has a problem. So I went to the lawyer Luke to help, but I didn't expect that Luke was still with Mrs. De. He drew a shelter spell to protect himself, and it turned out that it was actually a trap designed by Lady De and Luke for Caroline, and finally the black wizard soul hidden in Lady De's body successfully occupied Caroline's body.
But many people are creepy about this ending and do not understand why the director let evil win the final victory. That can only be said to have not seen the director's good intentions. All victories themselves are not good or evil, the focus is on this method of victory, which is the title of the movie, which is the master key. In the movie, In order to make Caroline believe in wizards and implement wizards herself, Mrs. De and Luke first let her discover the problems herself, and find the so-called truth through witchcraft, using facts to convince her of the role and power of witchcraft, step by step design makes Caroline fall into a trap and cannot extricate herself, even if she finally knows the truth, she cannot change the fate of being harvested. That's what this movie is trying to tell us.
There is a sentence in the Chinese Tao Te Ching that is very consistent with the main theme of this film, if you want to take it, you must give it first. If you want to seize it, you must give it temporarily. Almost all advanced plunder is this routine. As far as we know it, the Ponzi scheme is a good example. This deception was "invented" by a speculative businessman named Charles Pontz. In 1919 he began a conspiracy in which the crooks invested in a de facto fictitious business, promising investors a 40% return on profits within three months, and then the cunning Ponzi paid the new investor's money as a quick profit to the person who originally invested, in order to trick more people. With generous returns from those who invested upfront, Ponzi managed to attract thirty thousand investors in seven months. The conspiracy lasted for a year before people who were overwhelmed by profits woke up and later called it a "Ponzi scheme."
Some people will say that not everyone will be caught in the trap, and the first four caregivers in the movie will not be recruited? Indeed it is. However, for the black couple who set up the bureau, this is the master key. Because there will always be people walking in, without this Caroline, there will always be the next person who will walk into the trap, and as long as there is one person in the trap, they are a complete victory. For many one-time transactions, being able to complete it once is a complete success story.
Some people may say that this is a movie, and that Caroline can't tell the difference between these witchcraft, but if anyone around can understand this witchcraft, it won't be. However, what we have to think deeply is, is it necessarily these superficial tricks that set up the situation? Is there a game that almost everyone agrees with but is harvested without knowing it? Just like in the movie, the circle drawn in situ seems to be a spell to protect oneself, but it is actually a trap that restricts movement. In fact, there are too many such things. Sometimes I don't need to be persuaded by others, and I will drill into it myself. To put it simply, for example, the stability that many of us pursue seems to be a short-term guarantee of the existing comfortable and uneventful life, but it sacrifices your opportunity to go out and know new things, smoothing out the spirit and edges, which is equivalent to standing still and drawing a prison. And once a certain time has passed, when the social changes make your existing job unable to survive, this time suddenly find that you can't adapt to the world outside the circle, and the decline of your physical strength and the decline of age make your learning ability unable to keep up, then you will understand that the original stable idea of the identification of relatives and friends around is a naked social cognition trap. Exchanging youth for stability is like the exchange for aging and death in the movie.
There was once an article that went viral all over the Internet, and when the times abandoned you, you didn't even say hello. When a 36-year-old sister was canceling the toll booth, she said to the leader, my youth has been handed over to the toll station, I will not do anything now, no one likes us, and I can't learn anything. The most terrible harvest is the harvest of cognition. It can harvest the youth of a generation or even several generations. The predation of young nurses by wizards in the movie is a deeper vigilance against all kinds of unknowing abandonment and harvesting that occur in the times, and many of our unquestionable beliefs in life are actually shackles that are difficult to find on our bodies. Here are not all examples, I believe many people have a deep understanding.
The practical significance of this film is far greater than the suspense of the film itself. Let us deeply explore ourselves, to find out whether we are deeply involved in the cognitive traps of not knowing it, and whether there are conceptual shackles that seem to protect ourselves but actually bind ourselves. Some people will still question that even if such a reason is told, there is no need for such an evil ending. However, such an ending is more reasonable, more sobering than the general protagonist's aura to false justice to defeat evil. Consummation makes people happy, and the pain is more thought-provoking.
Finally, there's the core of the film's expression: The thing folks don't understand about sacrifice, sometimes it's more of a trade. The translation is: people don't understand what sacrifice (sacrifice) is, and sometimes it is embodied in exchange. The death gaze of the black wizard at the end is welcome to be interpreted and shared.
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