This film was directed and screened by Robert Eggers. The story of the film took place in New England in the 1630s. William and Katherine lived a devout Christian life with five children in the wilderness. But then their son, who had just been born, suddenly disappeared, and the crops were ruined. The family fell into a vicious cycle of mutual suspicion, trying to find the culprit cursing the whole family. What makes them even more scared is that there is a magical demon in the woods near the home.

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The story of "The Witch" is very simple, but the director has worked hard on the background of the story, the setting of the characters, the details of the scenery, and the style of the narrative. The story of this film is very persuasive. The background of the story is placed on the American continent in the 17th century. This era is still at the end of the medieval witch hunting movement. At that time, thousands of women were persecuted as witches and burned alive. There was a religious conflict between the English Puritan immigrants in the film and the sects of the colonial authorities. A family of seven was forced to leave the colonial village where they lived, and went to the edge of the forest far from the crowd to run the farm. The era of story setting has already come out. In the dark Middle Ages, but among the rural peasants, the remains of medieval religious control still exist, and the religious atmosphere in the family is still extremely strong. Although a family of seven is far from the village, they are still bathed in the zebra of God. And they try to survive on the New World, but Satan came out of their hearts.

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At this part, let’s talk about the role set in this film. The role of the father is the most complicated. He seems to control the family without the patriarchal power, but he is a coward. The role of mother is the main force of prejudice and suspicion. The eldest son just entered adolescence. The desire for sex has just begun to sprout, and began to have a desire for her sister. The eldest daughter is the purest existence in the film, but in the era of patriarchy, she is the most helpless target of religious persecution. It is her original sin to have a girl's graceful body. In this patriarchal era, women are regarded as inferior existences that cannot control their own nature. Women's temptation to men has led to the death of those women, while women's narcissism and capriciousness have made them a natural ally of Satan. The destruction of women by the medieval witch-hunting movement is essentially the evil persecution of patriarchal religion against vulnerable women.

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The film evaluation is good and is considered to be thought-provoking. I also think it is really thought-provoking. The film did not play what the witch did, how to do it, and what kind of spell to use. What the film makes people think is that there are no devils or witches in the world. Everyone is a devil, and everyone will become a witch. Those who are killed by the so-called devils and witches are not necessarily innocent. It is not necessarily innocent to be considered a devil and a witch. The people who are forced to become witches in the film are self-righteous fanatics who push their sins, incompetencies, and faults to others. They are also a kind of devil.

My Score is 7.5/10

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Movie URL: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/310131-the-witch?language=en-US
Critic: AAA
영화: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/310131-the-witch?language=ko-KR
별점: AAA