"Bad Breeds"
The Bad Seed
The title of the film is Bad Breed, based on the novel of the same name by American writer William March.
As early as 1956, the story was brought to the big screen and was so successful that it was nominated for the Oscars for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Cinematography.
In 2018, Robert remade the film on his own and hired Hollywood's hottest child star, McKenna Grace, as the lead actor.
The film received three nominations for Best Actress, two Best Supporting Actress and Best Cinematography at the 29th Academy Awards.
The IMDb score is 7.5 and the Douban score is 7.9.
And it was this "Bad Breed" that pioneered the Lolita Killer (Child Killer) genre film.
Later "Orphan Complaint" and "Case No. 39" can see the influence of this film.
Speaking of McKenna Grace, she is definitely the most popular child star in Hollywood at the moment.
She debuted at the age of 7 and starred in "Genius Girl" with the American team Chris Evans at the age of 11 and was well known to the audience. Her superb acting skills and perfect appearance are also highly recognized.
The film "Bad Seed" is about a little girl with an antisocial personality, and the film is based on a novel.
First of all, the name "bad seed" explains the so-called antisocial personality to a certain extent, since the seeds are all bad, then the fruit will not be good. Such a personality may be born with the reincarnation of evil spirits and cannot be indoctrinated.
And such a soul is even more terrifying if it is wrapped in a beautiful skin bag, plus a clever mind. Just like Karasawa Yukiho in "White Night", Mitsuru Shinkai in "Magic Night", and Reiko's piano student in "Norwegian Forest". The so-called high-IQ criminals are really chilling.
The heroine of the "Bad Seed" movie is such a little girl (played by McKenna Grace), she grew up in a single-parent family, fortunately, her father and aunt are very good to her.
A wasp flew from the classroom, all the children panicked, and even the teacher did not have time to react quickly, only Emma calmly caught and released the wasp with a cup, which showed Emma's calmness beyond her peers.
Girls in the same class show off their watches, and Emma is jealous that she pushes down her classmates and steals the watch during outdoor activities, which reflects Emma's extreme selfishness.
At the graduation ceremony, Emma thought she would get the coveted medal, but the teacher awarded the medal to her classmates who were worse than her. Although the winner was Emma's best friend, Emma still had a hard time accepting this fact, and Emma, eager for a medal, pushed her best friend off the cliff without hesitation.
The first time you kill impulsively, and with indifference kill one. Even the best friend didn't need any psychological struggle for Emma, nothing was more important than satisfying her own desires.
The good friend died, and the father wanted to comfort Emma, but found that Emma did not have any sad emotions, but was very happy that Emma's abnormality raised her father's suspicions, but the aunt's few words dispelled her father's doubts and laid the groundwork for later development.
Emma's teacher tells her father unfavorable information, Emma stuffs the honeycomb into the teacher's car, causing the teacher to die in a car accident, and the father finds out that the honeycomb is the one in his family.
His suspicions grew, but his beloved daughter always felt that she should not be the murderer. So she decided to take her daughter to a psychiatrist, but Emma, who was well prepared, fooled the psychiatrist perfectly, and the doctor's result to her father was: "Emma is the most normal child I have ever seen." ”
It must be mentioned here that the psychologist is played by Patty McCormack, the actor of the child morada in the 1956 version of "Bad Seed", and the dialogue between the two is simply a perfect homage to the old version
In the old version of "Bad Breed", Patti McMacoe played the heroine girl Rhoda, only 8 years old, she was civilized, polite, smart and well-behaved, and then pushed her classmates into the lake, pushed the landlord down the stairs, and burned the cleaner at home alive.
The gunshots caught the attention of the neighbors, who saw his father pointing a gun at Emma and also pointed a gun at his father, telling him not to act rashly. The neighbor felt that his father was about to shoot, and he shot first, killing his father Emma screaming and crying, a look of vulnerability, helplessness, and fear.
In fact, this is killing people with a knife.
Indirectly killing her father, Emma finally cleared all suspicions, and her last shred of humanity was finally completely annihilated. The aunt adopted Emma, and Emma held her aunt with an eerie smile.
Emma's ending at the end also makes everyone think about such a question. How much of our "evil" is buried in "youth"?
The director seems to be trying to give a statement - that human evil is only to protect their own instincts