Heavenly Creatures
Julie and Baoling are two female middle school students, they come from different social classes, Julie's family is relatively rich, her own personality is confident and cheerful, while Baoling's family is poor, relying on taking in overnighters to supplement the family, Baoling's personality is introverted and gloomy, and her thinking is often wild. They met in school, became best friends because they shared a common hobby, and were inseparable every day, writing novels together and living in a romantic fantasy world.
Their feelings are getting better and better, no one can separate them, when Julie is ill, Baoling will incarnate as the male protagonist of the novel they created to write a letter to Julie, bringing Julie great spiritual comfort. Just when the two people are like glue, the parents of both sides feel that the two have homosexual tendencies and intend to forcibly separate them, especially Bao Ling's mother has a tough attitude, and Bao Ling has long been dissatisfied with her mother, so she has formulated a plan to murder her mother. The two men tricked Bao Ling's mother into a path on the mountain, raided and killed Bao Ling's mother with stones in stockings.
Peter Jackson had directed a large number of magical films before the filming of The Lord of the Rings, and in this film based on true events, Peter used a skillful magic technique to create a dream world of two girls.
The choice of two actors is very suitable for the film, which has similarities with the prototype appearance and is quite distinct in character. Kate Winslet stood out from the 175 candidates and made a beautiful debut; Melanie Linsky's always gambling expression is very close to the prototype, and her acting skills have also been praised, although now Melanie's starlight is a bit dim, in addition to playing the beloved Rose in "Two and a Half Good Men", she only guest starred in some other American dramas and movies, compared to Kate's stardom is slightly bumpy, despite this, her superb acting skills are still faintly visible. And not to talk about heroes in terms of achievement, if you talk about acting skills alone, Kate's performance in this film is indeed more superior.
Let's talk about real events. On the afternoon of June 22, 1954, Christ Church, New Zealand. While walking along the trail in the woods, Pauline Rieper and Juliet Hulme raided Her mother with bricks in stockings, hitting her on the head, killing her.
A police officer at the scene said: "The deceased was attacked with the ferocity of animals, which is very rare even in the most brutal murders. "The cause of this horrific mother-killing case is that the parents of both sides are troubled by the intimate relationship between the two girls and try to separate them.
Teenage BaoLing and Julie have a close relationship, but their relationship seems to be more ambiguous than ordinary "girlfriends", and when Julie was isolated for tuberculosis, they exchanged a lot of letters, and they couldn't bear not being able to see each other. In the midst of these two integrated girls is a "fourth world" they fantasize about, sharing and perfecting it with each other, and they are addicted to this relationship and the intimate world they have created.
(On the left is the real Bao Ling, is it an expression of gambling with whom?) On the right is the real Julie, her expression stretched, and at first glance, she looks confident and well-educated. ）
Julie is not close to her parents, they only care about the adult world, often leaving the sick Julie alone; and Baoling's mother is too stressful in life, the education method is simple and direct, and even a little rough, which makes Baoling, who is in a period of rebellion, more and more dissatisfied, and anger accumulates into killing intent.
During this time, Bao Ling wrote a large number of diaries, even including plans to kill her mother. After killing Bao Ling's mother, the two girls were not sentenced because they were both minors, but the law stipulated that they would not be allowed to see each other again in this life, and the day of goodbye was the time of arrest. This ending is somewhat cruel and ironic, Bao Ling's motive for killing her mother is precisely to be with Julie, and as a result, they are thousands of miles apart in their lives and never see each other again.
The film portrays the personalities of the two girls very clearly, meticulously and fully. The film handles the relationship between the two in an ambiguous manner, neither the misunderstood friendship of girlfriends nor the recognized same-sex love. Although to a certain extent, the two show their partial infatuation with each other, but it can be attributed to their addiction to the fantasy world to the point of being unable to extricate themselves.
We can't guess the relationship between two strange girls in that distant country decades ago, nor can we know what happened between them, for this incident, in addition to the cold trial records, only the diary written by Bao Ling is left.
"It's a miracle that two angelic people are so really alive!" This is a sentence in Bao Ling's diary, and it is also the source of the title. After the murder, these two "angelic people" were regarded as the most evil people in the world.
After the release of the film, this dusty old case was instantly carried out of the memory of history, and the journalist rushed to dig up the news of the two girls with a sensitive professional sense of smell.
They found that Julie had become a best-selling british crime fiction writer, namely Anne Perry, a New Zealand writer with millions of readers, who had published Gothic mystery novels such as The Executioner in Helen Park and The Vet's Law. In 1994, British novelist Ann Perry spoke bluntly about events 40 years ago in an interview with Today's program.
It was only in 1997 that she finally found herself, running a school on a farm where children learn equestrianism and renamed Hilary Nathan, still single and a devout Catholic dedicated to helping children with disabilities. One version of Pauline's trail says she was on a farm near Strod in Lankent, England; another says she has been living in New Zealand.
Every adult will have two things, motherhood and youth. BaoLing and Julie are no exception, for them, except for the temporary splendor, the rest of the youth will die with the death of Baoling's mother, accompanied only by a lifetime of deep repentance and nightmares of sin. The rebellion of youth makes everyone pay some price to a greater or lesser extent, we may have resented the control of our parents, once secretly did something we thought was cool, once hurt and hurt... It seems that Yang Lan once said: If parents know what their children have done at the age of 17, they will definitely faint.
People who read my article if there are friends who are still in adolescence, please be kind to your youth, these two words are too beautiful, once lost, you can no longer chase back, at our age, let alone catch the tail of youth, even the tail tip can not be seen, do not leave regrets for yourself, let alone leave regrets for others. Life is very long, so long that you can't remember some of the things you have experienced, so long that you will forget the names of people who were once important to you; life is very short, in the long river of history, it is only a few decades, it is only a hundred years, it is short enough to become an adult without rebellion, and it is not busy enough to be old. So, cherish and treat your youth well.
To our youth.