Sinners who art on earth, behold the masterpiece of horror! I can’t resist to make a philosophical reading of the film, helped on by Foucault. If the most evident level of dread stems from the possession of a sweet young girl by an ancient demon, another less obvious layer is much more significant. The movie starts by showing the child as bright, blooming, active - at most shaken up by her parents' recent divorce. As the doctors get more and more hold of her, kicking off with medication then moving forward with invasive, shocking tests & treatments, she gradually loses her self. As such, it's the cold, instrumental, dehumanizing gaze of the medical institution that is the most terrifying.
A / 如此结局的色彩运用大概稍不留神就会落入扁平表意的圈套但是侯麦却能让这些精确到仿佛由外力直接涂抹的颜色变得如此漫不经心它们完完全全附着于人物及其生活环境从简明的色块渐渐幻化为抽象的能量各式自然与城市空间同样如此一切“周围的事”都参与着这种细微的拼凑、跳跃与涌动当她的目光从斑驳的树林摇向天空中细碎的阳光那难道不是神迹的迸发