Plot introduction

Beware of the gaze from Mary Shaw;

She has no children, only dolls;

If you see her, don't scream;

Otherwise, she'll rip your mouth off and rip your tongue off.

Every town has its own ghost story-this kind of folklore with strong local flavor is often circulated among children who spend the night at bonfire parties or other people's homes. The theme of the story generally does not leave "The person who was brutally killed is haunted." When these children grow up, they will share this ghost story with their own children, and in a unique way, they will continue the little secret that belongs only to this town and the potential ghosts behind it. However, in some towns, those horrible legends are not fictional, nor are they used to entertain adults and scare children. Sometimes, they are all true. ...

There is also a legend in the crow market. The center of the story is about Mary Shaw. It is said that the best ventriloquist in the 1940s later went crazy and was accused of kidnapping and murdering a little boy just because the boy accused her of being a liar. Mary Shaw was caught by angry citizens, and his tongue was brutally cut off and then killed. People in the town buried her with her dolls, thinking that she would be quiet forever ... Since then, the crow market has been plagued by mysterious deaths, and those pale dolls disappeared from Mary Shaw's grave, and in the following decades, they always appeared unexpectedly in every corner of the town. As long as there is a doll, someone will be killed, and the victim will have his tongue cut off like Mary Shaw.

In modern times, tired of this cursed town, the newlyweds Jamie and Lisa Ash decided to leave their hometown and start a new life in a new place. However, the life they expected did not come, because Lisa was killed in the apartment. Jamie decided to take his wife's body back to the crow market for burial, and at the same time he had to find out the truth about Lisa's murder.

Back home, Jamie met his father Edward, who had been troubled by illness. His father had just married his stepmother and young bride Ella. He decided to dig up the bloody past of the town and solve the mystery of his wife's death. Meanwhile, Jamie is in trouble. He was followed by a detective and became the biggest suspect in killing his wife. Jamie was surprised to find that there was another truth hidden behind Mary Shaw's story. He wants to find out the story and curse behind the limerick he sang since he was a child, and put an end to all terrorist incidents.

Plot analysis

As for the dead ending, there are generally theatrical endings and hidden endings visible on the Internet.

In short, the drama version ends when Jamie discovers that his stepmother Ella is the murderer possessed by Mary Shaw. She killed Jamie's father, Edward, and made it into a puppet, while the protagonist screamed in horror because he knew the truth and made a taboo not to scream, thus making the curse effective and cutting off his tongue.

The hidden ending is roughly a straightforward explanation, that is, after marrying ashen, ella was rudely treated by jamie's father, Old ashen (jamie's father is a person with a certain tendency to domestic violence, and there is an explanation in the film, that is, when jamie went home to ask his father who was seriously ill-actually killed-because of his wife's bizarre death, he pointed to some oil paintings and told ella on the way downstairs that my biological mother could not stand his father's rude treatment. After they left, they were all erased from the oil painting. Therefore, we can know that ella is often treated with violence after marriage. Once, during pregnancy, she was slapped down the stairs by old sharn, which led to miscarriage and great physical and mental pain. So she thought of revenge, and her revenge psychology was used by Mary Shaw's resentment, which led to this incident. Finally, she killed Jamie, put his body on the bed and took good care of him.

The above is a brief introduction, and the following is a comprehensive analysis. According to the chronological order of events, ventriloquism actor Mary Shaw is a genius, but only in doll making and ventriloquism performance. One of her dreams is to be a perfect doll. Talented people often have some different personalities from ordinary people. For example, they are eccentric, irritable and a little ... abnormal. =! Her design gradually can't only use common materials such as wood paint. She must start thinking about people as dolls and try to be perfect. While she was performing, a little boy (ashen family) questioned her, so she killed him (on the grounds that he offended herself) and tried to make a perfect doll, but she was retaliated by ashen family and killed by cutting her tongue. But as a gifted abnormal dental technician and doll maker, she will not die, but left her resentment and pursuit of "art" in the town and killed her in the name of revenge. Because Mary Shaw is a pervert. =! Anyway, killing these people will capture their voices and enrich their "art" Why not?

Then many years later, many people were killed. In fact, I think gradually, Mary Shaw also confused revenge with the completion of the American doll. Anyway, these two things should be done together ... At this time, revenge continues to be carried out on Edward and Jamie, and Mary Xiang Xiao kills all the Ashes. At this moment, Ella resented Edward for abortion and was used by Mary, which led Ella to kill Edward and make a doll, dig Billy out and send him to Jamie's house to kill Lisa and the baby in her belly, and finally achieved Jamie.

result analysis

The above is a simple plot analysis, and the following are some details. These are exactly what I want to discuss with the majority of bar friends. I will list them one by one and write down my own views. Welcome to discuss and put forward your own details and personal opinions.

1. About the difference between the two endings, Ella.

I think in the hidden ending of the director's editing, Ella was used to get back at Edward, but she finally had a little consciousness or thought of her own. She just got a part of Mary Shaw's soul, that is, the ability to ventriloquise and manipulate puppets. That is to say, this is a kind of inheritance. She killed Edward as a doll, dug up Billy and killed Lisa, all of which were done by Ella herself. Of course, inspired by Mary Shaw's soul, the relationship between Ella and Mary Shaw is similar to mentoring or martial arts novels. The film explains that Mary Shaw's materialization depends on dolls, so when the final version is hidden, Jamie burns Billy to death. All the dolls made by Mary Shaw (thus excluding Ella's doll Edward) were destroyed. Mary Shaw can be regarded as a part of the soul destroyed by Jamie. But the part of her soul that taught Ella the ability still exists and blends with Ella's own consciousness. At this time, Ella appeared, stunned Jamie and solved the mystery. Finally, Ella put the bodies of Lisa and Edward together and took a family photo with Jamie. At this time, ella is Mary Shaw. She has two characteristics, one is that she can kill when others scream and scratch her tongue, and the other is Ella's resentful maternal love (which was realized on Jamie after killing him). Therefore, Ella became another Mary Shaw, an heir from Mary who had her own memory.

In the common theatrical ending, Ella itself is not used, because she is the perfect doll made in Mary Shaw, that is, Mary Shaw made Ella and asked her to marry into A Xin's house for revenge. Finally, when Jamie burned Belgian, Mary Shaw was not destroyed. She just played a trick, because her favorite doll, Ella, is still there. When Ella appeared, Jamie screamed in horror, and her plan succeeded. In a series of plans, he not only killed the last three generations of the Ashes (children of Edward, Jamie and Lisa), but also had the most perfect doll-Ella. Because the wooden painted dolls (Billy and more than 65,438+000 other dolls) are too simple and rough, the dolls made of corpses (the missing gray boy and Edward) can't last long because of the decomposition of the corpses. Only ella is the perfect one. It is not clear how Ella was tempered in this ending. Anyway, it is against science for Mary Shaw to survive. Anyway, it can be understood as Mary's genius design (there may be a method record in that notebook). There is no difference between Ella killing Jamie and Billy killing Lisa, because they are both dolls. At least two things can be seen. First, Jamie recalls the perfect doll in Mary's notebook, and the note behind it is Ella's head. First, finally, in the closed photo album, there are photos of these new dolls (Jamie, Lisa, policeman, Henry, Adward and Ella). The first four people have cracks in their mouths. adward is better, but her face is pale, while ella is beautiful, with no scars and spirits. This is really the most perfect doll. ...

2. Why didn't Henry die before, and then he was suddenly killed?

This cannot be perfectly explained. At present, I probably have an unformed idea, because Henry's father helped Mary (treated her body as a doll) and Henry showed awe during the performance, but Mary was evil. When Henry was a child, he overturned her coffin to frighten him to scream, but he was stopped. Later, he stopped doing it until Henry was old, because it was an accident to turn over the coffin at that time. She wanted to kill Henry on a whim, but it was not a plan. In fact, Henry's father helped. Later, she killed Henry because she added a part to the plan and used Henry's voice to induce Jamie to give up the theater. She needs Henry's voice, another reason may be because she wants to punish Henry, because Henry told Jamie something about the past, and more likely because of Marianne, Henry's wife! I will describe her in the next article.

3. Speculation about Henry's wife Marianne

Marianne is a mysterious character, because only two people have lines in the whole movie, and they are all safe in the end. One is Marianne, and the other is the original police partner-policewoman. Even the priest's speech at Lisa's funeral was omitted as usual. It can only show that although these two people are supporting roles, they are definitely not ordinary. Especially Ma Lin. Policewomen are the content of the next article. Let's start with Marianne. As Henry's wife, I think she has played a certain protective role for Henry. She must know something about Mary. The subtle connection between her and Mary may be seen from the name. Over the years, perhaps because of her existence, Mary didn't kill Henry. However, when Jamie found Mary's back at Lisa's funeral and followed her, Marianne appeared and said a lot. She warned Jamie that no one could survive (in the end, everyone survived except herself). It was because of her warning that Mary was angry and wanted Henry's voice, so she killed Henry to punish Marianne for her talkativeness. Before killing Henry, Mary scolded her by talking to Billy. Marianne said I didn't do anything, but Mary said you didn't. After Henry was killed, weak Marianne gave in to Mary, which is why Jamie burned down the theater. Later, Henry's family searched for Billy, and Marianne lied that Billy was taken away by Jamie's father Edward, who was dead and made into a doll. It's impossible to take Billy. Ella should have taken it away, but Marianne lied to Jamie. Finally, he fell into a trap. It can be said that Henry's death reduced her to mray. But why didn't Mary kill Marianne? Because there is a certain relationship between them, it is impossible to speculate whether they are related by blood. Let's just say that their relationship is unusual. Marianne knows a lot about Mary. Later, because Marianne became crazy, she forgot, but Mary still remembered. So Marianne can only warn Jamie that she can't tell more information, and Mary should have talked to her before she went crazy. If there is death 2, it is estimated that it can solve the mystery before Marianne went crazy.

4. Details about the police

Let's start with the policewoman. The policewoman is a small role. After only a few words, I can only know that she is very capable and knows the policeman very well. So if there is a sequel, the status of policewoman will definitely be greater than this one. Maybe she will investigate her partner's death and go to Riverfair, which is the theme of 2. In the plot of 1, she doesn't have much effect, but she has lines and is positive, you know, except for the mysterious Mari. When there are lines, no one else lives in the end. Therefore, either the heroine of the policewoman will be played by the director, screenwriter, relatives and friends, or she will play an important role in the sequel. Of course, whether Silent 2 will eventually appear depends on whether investors will give money or not, and whether it will be given depends on the box office of 1 and the market reaction (of course, the silent box office is not bad). There are other factors, but at least I think the writer.

Let's talk about the male policeman. His performance in the plot is beyond doubt. At first, the investigation resistance as the leading actor made the audience worry about Jamie's unknown danger before, and then the suspicion and harassment of the ignorant police. In the development of the plot, he became Jamie's assistant without any suspense, which is widely expected. Unfortunately, he died soon after he became an active assistant, with some regret. The only thing that puzzles me is his electric razor. In the play, there are many scenes of male policemen shaving. Finally, when he died, a razor slipped down and opened the shaking scene. I don't know what the director uses it to imply other than simply expressing meaning. I hope someone can analyze the results.

Generally speaking, although silent films are not as good as texas chainsaw massacre and other films, it may be because they are all thrillers, but there is a gap in the types of silent films. But silence is not without its merits. After all, as the work of Saw series talented director James Wan, his style is still reflected in silence.