A terrible human tragedy
Generally speaking, Lao Zhang's habit of writing this kind of film reviews is to recommend or comment on classics, but as for Lake Eden, I just want to say that if you haven't seen it, just listen to me and get to know it slowly. I really don't recommend you to watch it, because it may leave a psychological shadow on you.
This film tells the story of a couple from London, a modern metropolis in the south of England. Jenny, a kindergarten teacher, and Steve, her boyfriend, went to the distant Lake Eden for a holiday. Judging from the systematic setting in the film, this place should be near Yorkshire in the north of England, where there are basically some manual workers. It can be seen from the untidy and dirty work clothes worn by the adults in the town that the cultural quality of the residents here is relatively low, so-called being in a bad place. They were playing by the lake, but they accidentally clashed with a group of bad teenagers, and finally the little man left.
However, when they got up in the morning, they found their tires punctured by those teenagers. Xiong Haizi also yelled at them: How are your tires? When they came to the breakfast shop for dinner, they complained angrily to the salesgirl that these children were harassers and terrorists. They don't want the enthusiastic salesgirl to suddenly turn against each other and say that these children are not hers.
They came to the lake again and continued to enjoy their quiet weekend. When Steve was about to take out his wedding ring, he found that their beach bag was missing. It turned out that these teenagers stole their beach bags, as well as their car keys and mobile phones. While they were complaining, a car suddenly rushed at them. These bold teenagers actually hit them with their cars. Fortunately, they used their quick wits to escape. Because of quarreling with strangers, these boys actually punctured the tires of adults, stole things from adults and hit people with cars!
Things are starting to get terrible.
The car keys were stolen and they had to leave on foot. I don't want to meet these teenagers on the road again. They are beating animals. Jenny told him to leave it alone, but Steve wanted his things back. He said to the boy, you have had enough fun. Tell me where the car is and forget it. But the teenager refused to take his car, although he still wore Steve's brand-name sunglasses. Steve wrestled with the teenagers, and one of them attacked Steve with a knife. In the fight, Steve accidentally killed the vicious dog around the teenager. Steve was surprised when the teenager cried bitterly.
Jenny got the car keys and they got on the bus and rushed to the road. However, these teenagers are out of control. With a lot of people, I rushed over and smashed the headlights. In their panic, the car lost control and Steve was trapped in the car. He told Jenny to run.
After hiding all night, when Jenny came out again, she saw the teenager tied Steve up and her boyfriend was killed.
Steve desperately begged for mercy, but Brett, the leader, wouldn't let him go. He encouraged and threatened other children to stab each other, and let the girl Peggy take a video with her mobile phone. During this period, they found Jenny and began to chase her crazily.
Steve took the opportunity to escape and successfully met Jenny. These children obviously want their lives, and they start to be afraid.
After many twists and turns, the two still did not escape the pursuit of these children. By this time, Steve had died of excessive blood loss. Brett wants to burn two people and destroy their bodies. The other children disagreed, and Brett threatened with the video on his mobile phone. Jenny narrowly escaped and several boys followed her. At this time, Jenny was inspired by hatred and fear and fought back to the death. She killed two children who participated in the Jedi counterattack and drove to a family in town for help. Just when the audience finally felt relieved, the director gave us the most desperate ending. Because Jenny found out that this is the home of Brett, the leader of these demons. Brett lied to his parents that Jenny betrayed her boyfriend and killed two of his friends. In this way, Brett easily fooled his parents, and Jenny was dragged into the bathroom by angry parents, who wanted to lynch Jenny, the murderer of their children.
With Jenny's piercing cry for help and the teenager pressing the delete button of the video that killed Steve, the tragedy of Jenny and his wife being murdered by a group of teenagers disappeared into the world.
The director completely ignored the audience's psychological venting needs and gave such a desperate ending. Jenny and Steve died tragically for no reason, but the murderer seems to have escaped the punishment of the law, leaving the audience nowhere to release their anger, so that some people suggested that the director make a sequel, let the pervert killer meet these bad children, and then kill them to fight violence. However, the protagonist of the anti-traditional thriller is the same routine, starting with cruelty and ending with Jedi counterattack. When it is black, it will bring more inner shock to everyone and show more social significance.
Thoughts brought by British Xiong Haizi
The most notorious social problems in Britain in recent years are underage drinking and crime, which is also the focus of this film. In this regard, the director put forward the following views in the film.
The director of this film is obviously a regional black. Jenny and Steve's setting in the film comes from London, a developed city in the south of England, while Lake Eden is obviously located in an economically underdeveloped area similar to Yorkshire, an important industrial town in Britain, and is the residence of manual workers with low academic qualifications. I think this deliberately set comment on Douban that "Britain is divided into north and south" is quite appropriate. The people in the film are all from northern England, Yorkshire, Lancashire and so on. Because these places are rich in heavy industry and dirty places in the hearts of the British, two people with standard cockney accent came to the dirty north and were killed alive. "
Two middle-class people from big cities came to a relatively wild place for vacation, but they paid the price of their lives because of their ignorance of barbaric humanity. I also saw some comments solemnly summarizing Steve's n inappropriate responses to Xiong Haizi's provocation. The central idea is that civilization should choose to yield wisely in the face of barbaric provocation, and can't afford to hide if it can't be provoked? In fact, we saw Steve's reaction was very normal. In the face of a group of young children's unreasonable abuse and harassment of his girlfriend, is it too much to verbally fight back and then scold his mother? But I think the director showed us that in the face of barbarism with no lower limit, sometimes giving in and leaving in time may be the best choice. After all, sometimes it makes sense to break the rules. Although it may offend some people, it is true.
The end of the film is that the parents of these bad children easily believe the child's story and madly murder Jenny who almost escaped from life after thousands of difficulties. In the face of Jenny's desperate defense, they said "they are just children" that we have heard countless times. How ironic. Parents of this quality, do you expect them to educate their children to be benevolent, courteous and courteous in peacetime? In the face of juvenile delinquency, the analysis of the reasons given by the director ends here. Of course, we can't expect a movie to be completely decoded and give a suitable solution. It is not enough to attract the attention of the government and society, and at the same time improve our understanding of the relevant situation, so as to have a certain sense of prevention. After all, some children who grew up in high-intensity learning environment and excellent family conditions are too ignorant of the ugliness of this world.
Young devil
In recent years, the increasingly serious phenomenon of juvenile delinquency in countries around the world has attracted the attention of the world, and the vicious means are eye-catching, and the age is getting younger and younger.
1993 in February in Liverpool, England, a child murder case set a new upper limit of world cognition. Two boys 1 1 Robert Thomson and Jon venables brutally killed two-year-old James Berg. When the body was found, it was dismembered by the train and was injured in many places. 1 1 Robert Thomson and Jon venables were convicted by the British police of kidnapping, torturing and killing Bourg, making them the youngest convicted murderers in modern British history. Even after being discovered, the two eleven or twelve-year-old children did not panic as expected, but were very calm and insisted that they had not committed a crime. Knowing that he couldn't escape, he began to throw pots. Can you imagine that this is an eleven-year-old child?
Of course, not only Britain, but also countries all over the world in recent years. What's wrong with teenagers nowadays?
Driven by curiosity or sense of responsibility, the film and television industry has shot many works reflecting juvenile delinquency, such as the popular film Better Days and the TV series Hidden Corner in recent years, all of which have triggered a movie-watching craze. People can't help but wonder, what makes teenagers so indifferent now, and is it the poison of popular culture full of sex and violence? Lack of family education? Even the current judicial system construction is too light to punish juvenile delinquency? I think everyone will have their own opinions. I won't elaborate on the specific personal opinions, and leave them to my friends to think for themselves. We can only educate children to abide by the law and improve their personal safety awareness, and there is no other way.
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