The question in the title of this Spanish horror made by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador (his second and final feature, who was relegated to the TV department thenceforth), is not so much “who can” as “who dare to” kill a child? Opening with harrowing reportage of children’s mortality during modern warfares, in hindsight, this tale of manic, homicidal children is dished up as a cynical retribution, for those numberless young lives gone too soon solely due to adult’s crimes and utter inanity (even Fellini courts sideswipe as a Fascist). From this perspective, it might sugar the pill of the film’s perversity.
Tom and Evelyn (Fiander and Ransome), an English couple comes to a small Spanish coastal island for vacation, where Tom has been several years ago. They are more than happy to escape from the jollification and ruckus in the mainland tourist town (fireworks, parades and piñatas), as Evelyn is pregnant with their third child. Upon arrival, weirdly, they find the village is practically deserted, no adults in sight, only kids, sprawled randomly over the place, some boisterous, some coy, but uniformly stiffing their gestures of communication.
What follows is the unthinkable violence exacted upon any adults who are still breathing, at the hands of the villages’ children. Without divulging any explication of the children’s abrupt, unnatural cruelty, the film dutifully if unremarkably grinds out threadbare set pieces counter to common sense (for instance, Tom, albeit witnessing horror in first hand, under the pretext of her gravid state, uncharacteristically keeps a lid on the 411 from Evelyn, who cannot understand a word of Spanish, so that they just stay put in lieu of scarpering on the spot), both also dreams up a sort of telepathic contagion that is chilling enough to jolt any woman who has a bun in the oven out of her philoprogenitive inclination. Ransome gives an excellence impression in the standard terrified mode, whereas Fiander’s Tom has to become a child murderer to ward off elements of children menacingly inching en masse.
Admittedly, the timing of WHO CAN KILL… also entices viewers to speculate its political connotation. released after Francisco Franco’s death in 1975, and with a new generation literally and indiscriminatingly slaughtering any member of the old one, spreading from their insular original to the continent, Serrador is smart enough to capture the zeitgeist and rouse the younger generation to feel a sense of justification and empowerment in themselves. No long a lamb of sacrifice, behave well, grown-ups, it only takes one night to transmute innocence into apathy with a sinister intent.
referential entries: James Watkins’ EDEN LAKE (2008, 7.5/10); Sam Peckinpah’s STRAY DOGS (1971, 7,6/10); Robin Hardy’s THE WICKER MAN (1973, 7.4/10).
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超赞!在白天创造出来的恐惧,值得学习啊……有点纪录片的味道~
这才是真正的恐怖片
勉强两分。开场挺屌,用了二战韩战越战的影像资料,说战争戕害孩子,正片里提到《甜蜜的生活》杀死孩子以避免他们承受这个操蛋世界,电视里上演乱世的新闻,岛上的三个成人也表示不忍心杀死孩子。开头这段的意思可能是对孩子们突然开始杀人的行为做解释:即成人世界的疯狂侵蚀了孩子。这跟港片里把孩子当做人类恶之原罪的视角不一样。剧情一泡污,男主完全是个弱智,上岛以后发现四处空无一人,渐渐发现孩子们在杀大人以后,还多次抛下怀孕妻子到处乱晃(这演员跑步的姿势很畸形),也不跟妻子说真相,片长就耗费在他没头苍蝇一样的走动里了。女演员满脸斑且头骨奇怪,长相令人恶心。导演手法粗糙油腻,用了太多空旷环境的场景渲染危机边缘的气氛,但全片又没什么血腥镜头,反复吊人胃口但又没真章,令人失望,孩子们的面部特写透出一股成本低廉的无奈感
不是有一个思路就能支撑一部电影啊,编剧和导演的水平次到连国内的二三流都不如,看得我心急如焚啊,思路1星,结局1星。
推荐 很好的恐怖片 现实中受虐的孩子转而成为残暴施虐者 纯真的笑脸歌声笑声让人不寒而栗 1小时52分下来止不住的想骂男女主角 所有恐怖皆来源于导演设定了两个在我看来无比傻逼的主角 无比傻逼 当然 大人的傻逼也烘托出影片的不可思议之处 who can kill a child?
谁能快点杀死俩无聊的游客?
傻巴拉及
谁能杀死孩子,其含义是如何?开始的展示大屠杀的意义在于,揭示杀死孩子的不人道与残忍,而孩子们恶魔的一面又如何?正是因为孩子们不该被杀,他们也就不能滥用此种权力,去要求自己不应有的东西,至于孩子去掉童真杀死大人,更是想都不该想的错事:这在小岛上成真了,孩子不再是孩子,因而便可杀。隐藏在持枪的小萌正太身后的,是哲学上关于“是或不是”的概念性思辨。
谁能杀死披着无辜和天真的皮的邪恶的孩子。电影 编剧不错,但是导演毁了一切。过程相当之无聊
实在受不了这2个傻比了,死的好
天涯看图215 孩子...
这片子让我想起了一个经典的游戏,叫做“狂扁小朋友”。。
真让我胆寒
我想了好几个结局,觉得最把自己吓到的就是他们生下来的小婴儿把他们杀了.......不过最后这个讽刺性结局也挺好的。孩子杀他们和《甜蜜的生活》中父亲杀死孩子一样的荒诞,一样的有理。国人看了这部电影会更有感触,文革时期的红卫兵恐怕比这些孩子更残暴。这真是一部把弑父恐惧放到最大的惊悚片
7.6;凶手犯下的罪孽报应却要无辜者去怜悯
本片最恐怖的就是开篇的真实影像,但在你期待正片会有多深刻精彩的时候他给你来个十分粗制滥造的剧本……其实大概念真的很不错!但剧本实在太不用心!男女主行为都太令人无语,互相觉得对方大题小做的不信任…典型的劣质恐怖片人设,看完不置可否,甚至和村子里的成人一样陷入道德困境
导演脑子进水了。。。
《伊甸湖》明显抄袭这片子的...
这都不是恐怖片主角人设了 这就是智障人设