Douban score 8.3 points
The story takes place in a village in Canada at the beginning of the twentieth century, Aurore, a girl with a happy family, after her mother Marianne was terminally ill with tuberculosis, saw her father not only did not care for her mother, but instead hooked up with his cousin, and finally her mother died in pain and anger, leaving three poor children, and later her father married his cousin, thus beginning Aurore's tragic life.
The father's love in the film is thin and hypocritical, and the father knows in his heart that his two children are victimized by his stepmother, but he still brutalizes Aurore with his own hands under the seduction of his stepmother.
In contrast, religious belief seems so pale and powerless that perhaps when the little girl blew out the candle at Mass, she predicted the fact that faith could not save herself. The priest is just a man with his own lusts, he is not God, as the phrase "Do you know why I hate you?" That's when you think you really represent God."
The father has a certain position in the village, the villagers who know the truth do not dare to speak, and all kinds of damn silence bring the audience the most direct sense of powerlessness. For those who have had childhood shadows, watching this movie is an angry sadness that unravels the scars.
When she was a child, Aurore was really cute little Lolita, naturally sensitive, just a little elf. The whole family was happy and happy, and everyone's face was full of smiles.
Later, the Aurore family visited Daddy's cousin, the snake-like woman, who was jealous of the happy life that Aurore's mother had. A woman's intuition was always so correct, and what a woman who had locked her child in a barn was broken by Auror's mother.
Later, the unfortunate thing finally came, which was the beginning of the tragedy of the whole family, and the plot took a sharp turn.
Aurore's mother was suffering from pneumonia and her body was weakening day by day. At this time, the cousin took the opportunity to seduce the cousin, had a relationship with the cousin, and lived in the cousin's house from then on, and Aurore's tragic fate began.
Aurore's mother was clearly aware of the danger, and there was nothing she could do about it. Gradually, I became ill and unconscious.
The four Aurore sisters spent a few happy years at their grandparents' house, and then were forced by the pressure of the priest to say goodbye to their grandparents and live with their father. The irresponsible husband and father married his cousin on the day of his wife's death.
After the stepmother entered the door, two children died in the family. One child ate beans and died, and the other child lay in his bed and died inexplicably. The villagers in the town began to talk about it, and they all seemed to know the truth of the matter, but none of them dared to stand up. Aurore, who is sensitive by nature and witnesses the truth, rises up to resist, but it is endless torture.
When she slept, her stepmother would drop candle oil on her, abuse her for no reason, scream in a hoarse voice, her sister's ears that were tightly blindfolded because she did not want to hear, the tears that could not be stopped for a long night, and she wanted to follow her mother's footsteps to heaven, and after being brought home, it was a violent beating.
It is rare that this girl who still has a little bird in her heart can still show such a sweet smile. However, it makes people cry bitterly. But that sweet smile had begun to fade.
As soon as I heard the door open, I couldn't stop being terrified, because I knew that the next second would be a violent beating. The scissors that the stepmother picked up late at night projected a cold shadow on the wall, the flowing hair was gone, and her eyes gradually lost their light. The stepmother kept scalding Aurore's delicate skin with red-hot pliers. Aurore had passed out, and the woman's iron carbon had not stopped until the son on the side said in a crying voice, "Mom, enough, it smells so bad."
Finally, the little girl could no longer grin at us, and she went to her mother. Maybe that's her relief! At least in heaven, she would no longer be afraid.
In the end, the two demons who were in cahoots were duly punished, and the saddest thing about them was that they were dying without realizing the mistakes they had committed. The people of the town came forward too late, and they were afraid.
Maybe such a tragedy is too far away from us, the heart can't help but be painful, such a real film presented in front of us, we can't choose to avoid, but should go to contemplation, who is wrong?
May every child in the world be treated with tenderness.