The opening is the climax
In the chaotic black forest of the misty morning star, there is a strange and dark atmosphere, the carriage, the long stretch of the path, and the pumpkin head scarecrow with a dagger are all shrouded in a layer of foggy eerie, the headless knight wielding a sharp axe drives the horse of the death row through the eerie and gloomy night, a sharp blade cut off the coachman's head in an instant, when the carriage crashed, the moment the survivors in the carriage jumped off the carriage in a panic, it means that he will not escape the fate of the severed head, the sword slides over, and the head is different, A pool of blood squirted out on the face of the pumpkin head, and the man lost his life but could not do anything about it. It's just the beginning, and when it's going to end, no one knows.
It was a small town in the valley that was always covered with blood and dust, and it was the noise of the killing that made everyone in the town feel suffocated, and in the face of this mysterious headless horseman who was always haunted in the chilling night, armed with a sharp axe, and cut off people's heads, how could we stop this massacre from continuing? There is nothing anyone can do!
And when the blood of the sky once again obscured the afterglow of the sunset, the Black Forest will begin to reverberate with the sound of galloping horses' hooves, getting closer and closer to the town, followed by a heart-pounding wail, tearing apart the dead valley, startling thousands of frightened night birds, and staining the bright moon with blood. Only fear, only fear, when will the endless dying struggle end...
"It was in the bloody years of war, when the defeated knights fell into the valley, but the people of the valley exterminated him and put him in a different place, and now the headless knights who could not go to hell began to claim their lives, and the cursed blood-stained axe in their hands needed revenge, killed all the people in the valley, and retrieved their heads, and went to hell together..."
The elders of the town tell such a rumor, but the young detective from New York is not convinced of this unscientific rumor, he is convinced that there must be an unknown conspiracy behind this ghostly bloody case, and all he has to do is to find out the truth.
Johnny Depp plays detective
Johnny Depp investigates the scene
Johnny Depp Scientific Scouting
So the detective broke into the black forest that mourned every night, the cold wind at midnight, the scorched wet fog was blood-colored, and when in this vast smoke, he began to lose his way, but unexpectedly under a tree of death that had been destroyed by the bloody dance of the sand and blood for thousands of years, he found a grave full of human heads, which was the tomb of the headless horseman, and the tree of death next to it, this strangely shaped tree that stood in the depths of the dark forest called the gateway to the two worlds, was terrifying. Under the uneasiness of the inner struggle, the detective made a decision to dig up the grave and see what kind of vicious bones were under the grave, so he found a simple shovel, and he began to dig the grave, and he dug and dug until the sunset ended, when the tree of death began to drop a drop of blood, fell on the soil of the grave, and suddenly seeped into it, unconsciously, the cold night wind began to blow, and the darkness of the breath of death began to drift...
Just as the shovel in the detective's hand slipped in fear, he fell to the ground in a hurry, and it was the headless knight riding the death row horse who jumped out of the grave in front of him, and with the fluttering axe, he churned across the tree of death, and the horse's hooves roared, and once again ran to the town in the valley and began a new round of death. The courageous detectives chased after the headless horseman running ahead, trying to stop the impending killing, but to no avail. When the detective was seriously injured on the ground, and the headless knight, carrying the bloody head, jumped on the death row's horse, and whipped away, he could only close his eyes in fear and pass out.
The dark and terrifying back, the dark cloak, the blood-rusted axe, and the sad and cold scream. This all made the awakened detective begin to sink and chill! However, in this seemingly unscientific massacre, the only thing that puzzled the detective was why the Headless Horseman did not cut off his head as he did to the others, and finally a copy of the town's will caught the detective's attention, so he began to continue his unfinished search for the truth.
Darkness, despair, absurdity, death, and perhaps there are many unknown events in this world that cannot be grasped by themselves, not only can rely on their own rational thinking and scientific arguments to uproot the key to the problem, sometimes you need to rely on the ability to understand and observe given to you by emotional intelligence, otherwise many opportunities will slip away from you silently, when you want to seize it, time will tell you that it is too late.
Johnny Depp solves the mystery
At the end of the film, all the conspiracies are solved: the Headless Horseman is just a manipulated killing tool, and the real horror is the person who manipulates it, greedy and vengeful, and she uses the Headless Horseman's head to guide it to kill all those who may compete with her for property or hinder her, including her husband and her siblings.
A supernatural world that subverts the real world, the crisscrossing of scientific truth and strange fantasy, and the family feud behind the ancient story, everything makes us marvel.
At the end of the film, the dark picture is gone, the dark and lonely atmosphere is no longer there, the colors become bright and peaceful, and the poetic meaning has been inadvertently revealed.