遗传厄运

这个导演比较不走寻常路，通常这种悬疑性质很大的电影，导演都会回避特别清楚地回答观众疑问，他反而在各种访问、活动一一回答了大部分问题。

以下两个链接说得很清楚了：

//variety.com/2018/film/awards/hereditary-ari-aster-answers-burning-questions-1202841448/

And the fact the family is completely unaware adds to the terror. One way that I pitched the film when I was first taking it out was “it’s a story about a long-lived possession ritual told from the perspective of the sacrificial lamb.” Ultimately we are with the family in their ignorance of what’s really happening. But I also wanted to imbue the film with this sinister, more knowing perspective. Even though we are with the family in their ignorance, the movie itself knows exactly where the story is going. And everything is inevitable. Throughout the film, things are just sort of clicking into place and all those things are driving this family towards one end.

In an early scene, the subject of free will is discussed. Are you saying this family has no free will? Yeah, absolutely. I see the film as being very Greek in that sense. This is absolutely inevitable, the family has absolutely no agency.

There is nothing Annie can do to stop this from happening? No, I don’t think so. That’s where the dollhouses came in. Annie creates these miniature figures and dollhouses and they served as a perfect metaphor for the situation; they’re dolls in a dollhouse being manipulated by outside forces. Any control they try to seize is hopeless.

Is that why she thinks she can stop it by burning the Charlie’s sketchbook – the first time she tries, she catches fire — but the second time, her husband Steve catches fire? Exactly. Even that scene is meant to play as Annie’s big redemptive moment, she’s going to sacrifice herself for her son. It’s a beautiful gesture but part of the cruel logic of the film is it’s an empty gesture. Ultimately, it’s not her choice to make. She thinks there’s a design here and she can end things if she sacrifices herself. But there’s no design and there are no rules. There is a malicious logic at play.

Could it have been prevented if she hadn’t been tricked into casting the spell given to her by Joan? The thing is, that scene is ultimately a red herring, and it’s a piece of misdirection. It plays as a séance scene but really it’s a much darker conjuring and they need Annie to take part in it in order to bring it in the house and in order to further this ritual along. When she invites it in, she escalates things. But it would’ve happened anyway, we’re just seeing how it happened. We’re seeing one of the ways it could play out.

There’s a lot of talk about what a bad mother Annie’s mother was. Did she just have kids for the purpose of this ritual? That’s pretty much what is suggested. If you listen to Annie’s speech at the group therapy, there are a lot of keys in her monologue as to what came before this and how far back this goes.

Early on, Charlie cuts the head off a pigeon and makes a strange figurine out of it. Can you elaborate on that? I don’t want to be too obvious but we find later that Charlie has been building these figurines to populate a diorama she’s been building that serves as a shrine to Paimon. It also functions as a metaphor for what Paimon is doing to this family. If you look at the diorama you’ll see they’re headless figurines bowing to a pigeon-headed creature with a crown on its head, which is not far away from what we’re left with in the last scene of the film.

Annie talks about how her mother got “her hooks” into Charlie at an early age. Are we meant to think Charlie is in on it? Charlie is the first successful host for Paimon. It’s transferred from Charlie to Peter at the end.

Because Paimon wants a male body? Exactly.

Is there ever a Charlie or is she Paimon from the moment she’s born? From the moment she’s born. I mean, there’s a girl that was displaced, but she was displaced from the very beginning.

In an odd way, that makes me feel better. (Laughs) That’s nice. See, it’s a happy ending. But obviously, there’s a boy who’s horribly displaced by the end.

http://www.vulture.com/2018/06/explaining-the-end-of-hereditary.html

Is Paimon a real thing? He is! Well, real in the sense that if you believe in hell and the Devil, Paimon is an actual entity that people do worship. Across various sources, he is designated as “a great King,” “one of the chief demons,” and “one of the most significant Angelick Rulers.” He pledges intense fealty to Lucifer, and is often rendered riding atop a camel (as we see in the movie).

There are conflicting points of view on whether or not Paimon and the demon Azazel are the same. According to the Black Witch Coven, “He is one of the demonic princes overseeing the four cardinal directions, West being his domain,” which is why Joan (Ann Dowd) and her minions “looked to the Northwest” to summon him in the movie. According to the Joy of Satan Ministries, “Paimon gives the power to influence and control others,” and that seems to scan with how he operates in Hereditary. However, the Ministries also describe the hell king as “full of energy. Loud noises and bright lights tend to make him more active. He is very colorful and very friendly.” Maybe the “party naked” side of him just got left on the cutting-room floor, because that guy seems like a downer.

Related Stories

Toni Collette Gets the Worst Inheritance Ever in HereditaryLet’s Talk About the Scene With the Car in Hereditary

What are the “rewards” Annie’s mom wrote to her about in that note? In the Invocations book that Annie pulls out of her mom’s box of things, a photo opposite the image of Paimon shows a person sitting atop a mound of treasure that says “Riches to the conjurer” in a caption beneath. When Joan speaks to Peter/Charlie at the end and crowns him, she asks Paimon to give her and the other followers “knowledge of all secret things, honor, wealth, and good familiars.” She also asks that he bind all men to them, as the worshippers have bound themselves to Paimon.

Those sound like “riches,” and what with a king of hell being resurrected, being recognized as one of his privileged followers will probably be a lot safer than, well, not. In a description of his abilities, Satan Ministries says Paimon “teaches the arts and sciences” in addition to providing “good familiars and gives one position and honor. He can reveal anything about the Earth and one’s mind.” At least some rulers recognize the necessity of science education!

So is Peter Charlie? Or is Peter Paimon? It’s likely that Charlie never knew she was imbued with the spirit of a king of hell, but as Annie says in her grief-counseling group, her mother got “her hooks” in the young girl from the time she was a baby. (Annie’s mom, Ellen, even insisted on feeding baby Charlie — and one of the miniatures depicts grandma offering the infant her exposed breast — which is probably the most unremarked upon insane thing that happens in Hereditary!) As we learn in the opening eulogy, Annie’s mom had “private rituals” and “private friends,” a lot of which probably revolved around putting Paimon into Charlie.

Clearly, though, the long game was to get Paimon into Peter, since Paimon desires a male host, and Charlie sure didn’t seem like she knew she was a preferred underling of the Morning Star! So Paimon was bound to Charlie, and when that little light flash dissolves into Peter’s limp body after he pitches himself out of the attic window at the end, that’s the spirit entering him. With the transfer complete, Joan seems like she’s ready to let Charlie (in Peter’s body) know about everything that’s been going on, and who she really is.

Remember, too, that Annie’s brother hung himself at the age of 16, leaving a note behind saying that his mother had been trying put people inside of him. Ellen failed to secure her son as a host, and she missed her first shot with Peter since Annie had excommunicated her, so she used Charlie as a temporary vessel until the ritual was able to be completed later on. As Aster told Vulture, “The film is about a long-lived possession ritual that is seen from the perspective of the sacrificial lambs.”

Related Stories

How Scary Is Hereditary, This Year’s Horror Hit at Sundance?Hereditary Director Ari Aster Answers His ‘Upsetting’ Film’s Burning Questions

With that in mind, you can think of the movie’s sinister events as being carried out by an invisible hand, of sorts. That sigil painted above grandma’s headless body in the attic? It’s the actual symbol of Paimon, and it was also carved in the utility pole that tore Charlie’s head off. The leafy bit that Annie brushed off her lip when she was drinking tea at Joan’s apartment? Probably a witches brew of some kind (or another red herring, because by now you’re paranoid!). Peter feeling his throat close up and taking the posture of Charlie’s decapitated body before ramming his head into a desk? His body was being primed for a spiritual takeover. Those scrapbook photos of Ellen wearing a white dress and a veil as she’s being showered with gold coins? That sure looks like a wedding ritual, once you see her framed portrait in the satanic tree house, which has a placard with “Queen Leigh” fixed to the top. Does that mean grandma was spiritually married to her granddaughter and therefore breastfed her husband-grandchild when she was an infant? It seems like it!

Did Annie do any of those weird things — decapitating her dead mom’s body, spying on Peter outside his window — or was it the Paimon cult? Aster told Vulture that, “The audience is supposed to suspect that it might be Annie (Toni Collette), but it is the cult of which Ann Dowd is a very significant part. But you are supposed to feel through the film that there are people on the periphery that are watching this family and are hovering just outside.” Therefore, Annie’s sleepwalking was not resulting in her exhuming bodies and cutting their heads off. It was a red herring! Aster laid a sort of bread crumb trail throughout the whole movie, tipping the audience off that the Grahams were always being watched by associates of Ellen and Joan: the man who smiled at Charlie at Ellen’s funeral, all those “new faces” who mourned her death, the woman waving at Charlie across the street from her school, the person breathing in the dark outside of Peter’s window — all of whom we probably saw naked in the tree house during the finale.

What was with that book setting people on fire? It seems like a safe bet that the book was bound to protect itself. The cult did demonstrate they had a pretty long reach when it came to influencing events, and they even stashed a whole headless body in the Graham’s attic when no one was looking. When Annie tried to destroy the book, it protected itself, but Annie was also essential to completing the possession ritual, so she couldn’t just burst into flames and die. We’ll call that a warning shot by the book.

But Steve (Gabriel Byrne)? He had to get out of the way, and the moment he died, Annie stopped being Annie and started being an agent of Paimon, much like when she channeled Charlie into her own body during the previous seance. When that ring of light flashes over her, that’s Paimon beaming into a new host, as Collette explained to Vulture, “Ari was standing to the side, and he let me watch this person be on fire for a while [laughs] and then he said, ‘Okay. Now, Paimon, the light, is going to enter you.’ We never talked about what that would ever look like or be like. I just did one take and that was it.” And that, ladies and gentlemen, is called acting.

Related Stories

Toni Collette on Hereditary, the Wildest Movie of Her CareerNo Kids Were (Permanently) Hurt While Filming Hereditary

What about Annie’s sleepwalking, then? Go with us on this one. What if the sleepwalking was Annie’s subconscious way of fighting her mother and the ritual? She tried to set Peter and Charlie on fire once before, but snapped out of it, right? And then in the dream we see where she admits she wanted to abort Peter but her mom wouldn’t allow it — and so she tried to force a miscarriage — she screams at him, “I wasn’t trying to kill you! I was trying to protect you!” Somewhere in Annie’s subconscious, she must have known her children were in danger, and just as her brother had to kill himself to escape Ellen’s clutches when he was a teenager, Annie must have known deep down that as long as the kids were alive they were existentially threatened.

As Collette told Vulture, in that moment Annie is surfacing what’s in her subconscious, which “allows the audience to know that this is a kind of murky, not entirely understood, gray area about the safety of her children and the intention behind the creation of them — and how her mother was involved, right? So it’s still not entirely clear, but there is an indication of some concern there.” Annie realizes after it’s too late, though, that she part of that threat, and must die if she wants to protect her kids. But by that point the toothpaste is out of the tube, and it just isn’t going back in.

Are the decapitations part of Paimon-related lore? Not really. Aster added that element himself, and he’s not into explaining why. As he told Vulture, “I think it would be disingenuous for me to give any sort of intellectual answer. I feel like there are a lot of really good reasons and I like all of them, but uttering them kind of robs them of something. But I do like all the things that they might provoke in somebody.” As for Collette, she has formed her own theory about all the rolling heads. “We’re so attached to our bodies, we’re so attached to the brain and the mind. They’re like the control center, and that once you lose that metaphorically, you become nothing, and therefore you are able to give yourself over to this greater force?” Speculate away!

So why did he use Paimon? No special reason, really. Aster said to Vulture that he just didn’t want to deploy Lucifer again, and hey, that’s fair. If you need a more substantial explanation than that — just let it go. Sometimes creepy is enough.

文/牛三牛

如果说2018年的必看片单里只能保留一部恐怖片的话，那么这个位置早早地就被这部片子预定了。

今年1月，影片在以先锋怪异著称的圣丹斯电影节试映以来，就获得了超高的评价和期待。烂番茄100%新鲜度，豆瓣开分9.1，海外媒体更是把它夸破了天：“注定名留青史的恐怖电影。”

对于国内影迷来说，还有一份期待来自影片的发行方——A24公司。这家业界后期之秀近年来发行制作的影片有口皆碑，《房间》、《月光男孩》、《机械姬》、《龙虾》、《女巫》、《皮囊之下》……大有“A24出品，必属精品”的趋势。

迫不及待看完全片，只觉得，窗外暑气逼人，脊背阵阵发凉。默默赞叹一句：讲究！

安妮一家

其实，《遗传厄运》的剧情非常简单。作为典型的美国中产家庭，专业是制作精致微缩模型的女艺术家安妮和贴心的丈夫育有一儿一女。在母亲艾伦夫人过世后，安妮时常感受到母亲挥之不去的存在，与此同时，各种异象接二连三地发生在自己儿女的身上。随着逐渐挖掘出的真相，安妮对家庭身世的认知彻底崩塌，她开始试图带着孩子逃脱家族的险恶宿命。

接下来，让我在尽量不剧透地细数一下，《遗传厄运》的这种讲究劲儿，都用到了什么地方？

首先，卓越的氛围营造，技术上讲究。

与其他恐怖片相似，《遗传厄运》在音效处理上花费了很多心思。声音为何在恐怖片中如此重要？这大概源自人类数万年来的生存本能——漫长黑夜里，窸窸窣窣的声音是你能够发现危险临近的唯一警报。这种你看不见，但能真切感受到的恐惧，诱人而致命。

《遗传厄运》做的更绝，它把非常日常的东西进行恐怖化处理。毕竟，日常一旦反常，惊悚效果翻倍。例如，贯穿影片始终的，女儿弹舌头的声音。这种谁都可以发出来的，非常普通的俏皮舌音，被电影不断强化，强化，最终把女主和观众都逼到了崩溃的边缘。

如果氛围仅止于声音，当然不能称为讲究。正如有人曾经调侃，如果关掉声音看恐怖片，很多片子都成了喜剧。《遗传厄运》不然。

从第一个镜头开始，《遗传厄运》就不断地用影像语言告诉你：这里的一切都是诡异的。这个移动的长镜头，从窗外的树屋开始（可以不剧透地说，影片结尾时又再次以树屋结束，首尾衔接，但生活/生命早已天翻地覆），慢慢摇过安妮的微缩房屋作品，最后推进一间卧室。卧室里，丈夫推门，喊醒了安妮的儿子。仅用一分钟，被监视、被控制的诡异氛围和无力感已经气象全出，令人叫绝。

开场镜头

其实，影片的许多镜头，都是以这样不易察觉的方式，在慢慢逼迫着可怜的主人公。大量的对称构图和框架构图，配合着慢慢向前推的镜头，让观影体验随着时间流逝，越发窒息。

尤其是中间段落一个对称镜头的180度旋转，以魔鬼的视角，全方位地监视着你，也算是提前预言了女主的命运。

魔鬼视角

《遗传厄运》属于铺垫非常缓慢的恐怖片，前一个小时完全没有一惊一乍吓唬人的画面，但诡异的氛围却始终笼罩着你。一个个的镜头铺陈，一个个的伏笔堆积，直到后程，才忽然发力。这时，你会发现，前面你看得越认真，后面你心跳得越猛烈。

本片作为导演阿里·艾斯特的长片处女作，能用这样讲究的镜头语言，配合绝妙的声音设计来讲故事，着实令人佩服。

其二，极度的绝望，剧作上讲究。

如果只是有成熟的影像语言做支撑，那么，《遗传厄运》就还只是停留在及格线上的水准。真正让它脱颖而出的，是本片达到或者一直在靠近恐怖片的极致：绝望。

将绝望主题演绎到极致的恐怖片，如《恐怖游轮》、《迷雾》、《万能钥匙》等等，无不是影史经典。而在今日绝大多数恐怖片中，即使再强大的恶魔也总会有弱点。比如去年大热的恐怖电影《小丑回魂》（It），开了绝佳的头，最终，正能量爆棚的结尾实在是让人泄气。

在本片中，同样引入了一个传说中的强大恶魔，地狱八大神灵之一的派蒙，西方实力最强的魔王。但编剧技高一招，将恶魔与家庭进行绑定锁死。试想一下，当恐惧的起点从原本应该成为精神支撑和避风港湾的“家庭”中诞生，你该如何进退呢？答案是，你无路可逃。

印象极深的一个镜头，坐落在密林中的小家瞬间从白天转换成夜晚，房子周围，全是裸体的人。家庭，已经陷入重重包围。

昼夜瞬间转换，你已无路可逃

这种绝望是逐渐弥漫开来的。

女主在母亲的葬礼上致悼词，发现来宾中绝大多数都不认识。

有人在母亲的唇边做不明的仪式，有人冲着女主的小女儿诡异的笑。

即使你坐在温馨的家中，黑暗中，有无数眼睛在监视你。

当你认为自己已经掌握了规律，找到了恶魔的弱点，其实只能换回引火自焚。恶魔有恶魔的逻辑，不以人的意志为转移。

在这种显而易见的绝望中，导演甚至会采用反恐怖片的套路，危险不再遮遮掩掩，也拒绝用那种镜头一换出现丑陋恶心鬼脸的方式来吓人，干脆把危险的影像摆在主角身后。主角一无所知，你却明白：万劫不复是肯定的了。

危险近在咫尺

正如导演在采访中说的，这部影片讲的，是一场获得长寿能力的仪式，只不过，是从作为祭品的羔羊的角度。

这种无力的绝望带给观众的，是观影结束后更加漫长的心悸和震撼，以及自发地拷问：面对注定失败的绝望结局，你该如何选择？

无法提升的职场、无法摆脱的贫困、无法治愈的疾病……甚至，更绝望的，很多从出生起就注定的东西：你的家庭，你的身体，你的精神。是抗争？还是放弃？

就此，一部影片完成了从单纯的感官刺激，进而到情感上的共情，最终引发对终极问题的探讨。

今天，我们似乎很少会用“讲究”这个词来夸一部恐怖片，除了已经载入影史的《闪灵》《恐怖游轮》等少数杰作。但对于这种把“吓死你”作为奋斗目标的电影类型，也只有用这份讲究，才会让观众在一刷、二刷之后，仍会被吓到。

拍恐怖片难，要拍出这么讲究的恐怖片，更难。

（本文首发于“万达电影生活”微信公众号；谢绝转载；欢迎评论转发）

《遗传厄运》在圣丹斯电影节首映时口碑大爆，外媒对这部恐怖片的评价不吝溢美之词，不少影迷都被吊起了胃口。

漫长的等待之后，终于看到这部影片，虽然没有想象中那么吓人，不过本片依然值得一看。

诅咒之家

和很多恐怖片一样，《遗传厄运》的故事发生在一个中产阶级家庭，偏僻郊区的大房子，也是灵异事件的重灾区。

这间大房子里居住着一家五口：外婆艾伦夫人、丈夫史蒂夫、妻子安妮、儿子彼得、女儿查莉。

在外婆去世后，安妮整理母亲的遗物，发现母亲收藏了不少灵异学书籍，其中一封遗书还表明这个家庭将要迎来厄运。

此后，安妮看到母亲的鬼魂在屋中游荡，女儿查莉惨死于一场车祸，儿子彼得也在学校里出现了自残行为。

家庭变故让安妮倍感压力，于是她选择去互助会中倾诉，原来安妮的家族似乎有某种遗传性精神病，她的父亲、哥哥皆因精神病而死，母亲生前也总是神神叨叨的。

结合这家人的异常行为，可以推测这种疾病也遗传到了安妮和她的孩子身上。其中安妮的工作是制作微缩模型，而她居然把女儿的死亡现场做成模型，令人难以理解。

女儿查莉生前的性格也很怪异，她和安妮一样喜欢手工，还曾残忍剪下一只小鸟的头，作为手工模型的素材。

当然，随着恶魔教徒的出现，我们得知安妮一家的症状并不是单纯的精神病，而是有计划的诅咒。这份诅咒在外婆那一代就已种下，目的是为了复活地狱中的某个恶魔。

在这个诅咒之家中，丈夫史蒂夫后知后觉，儿子和女儿尚需他人的保护，于是妻子安妮就成了影片着墨最多的主角。

作为恐怖片的女主角，演员托妮·科莱特贡献了不俗的演技，几场情绪爆发的戏份张力十足，面部表情也颇有《闪灵》女主角的惊悚感。

营造恐怖

亚洲恐怖片吓人的套路是各种白脸女鬼，欧美恐怖片则偏好用血浆和断肢。

《遗传厄运》属于典型的欧美风格，影片中几乎见不到鬼怪的正面镜头，几个具有冲击力的画面分别是女儿爬满蚂蚁的残躯，丈夫无征兆的被火焰吞噬，以及安妮被附身后如野兽一般的动作。

值得庆幸的是，导演在片中用蚂蚁作为吓人的道具，而不是其他更令人感到不适的昆虫，比起某些东南亚降头类恐怖片，恶心程度已经克制不少。

影片的惊吓场景重点放在了后半段，然而前面的铺陈中同样有一些令人不安的蛛丝马迹，比如偶尔在黑暗中掠过的白影，如果不按暂停键，观众很难在画面中发现这些幽灵。

用PS把画面调亮后，显示出外婆清晰的鬼影

音效也是恐怖片用来吓人的重要道具，不过这里的音效并非水琴等恐怖乐器发出的刺耳声音，而是一种剧情提示的线索。

一些小丑题材的恐怖片中，每当小丑喇叭的声音响起，就意味着危险来临。类似的线索还有铃铛晃动的声音、弹珠落地的声音、木地板吱吱呀呀的声音等等。

在《遗传厄运》中，这样的线索是女儿查莉咂舌头的声音（即舌头与腭接触发声）。

查莉生前有咂舌头的习惯，家人也习惯了她时不时发出这种声音，不过当查莉死后，家中再次出现这种声音，就令人不寒而栗了。

在电影中，镜头是观众的眼镜，《遗传厄运》的镜头同样在强化观众的不安。

无论是影片开头由房屋模型渐变到真实场景的长镜头，还是房屋外景快速的黑夜白天切换，都是在扭曲观众的空间感与时间感，营造一种怪异的效果。

你甚至无法分辨，这些场景究竟是现实世界，还是那些微缩模型。

同样的场景，一秒钟由黑夜切换成白天，仿佛换了个背景板

最坏结局

我始终认为，坏结局才是恐怖片最好的结局。因为恐怖片的目的就是吓人，而不是为了传递love&peace，好在《遗传厄运》的结局就是bad ending。

影片最后，教徒们崇拜的魔王“派蒙”成功降临，画面定格在三角形的树屋里面，与片中反复出现的三角形神秘符号形成关联，同时这个画面也像极了一个微缩模型的房间，与影片开头呼应，强调了故事的寓言性。

影片开头由实（现实）入虚（模型），结尾由虚入实

这个结局的构图固然巧妙，然而也给人一种高潮乏力的感觉。

目前的欧美恐怖片，“通灵必惹麻烦，boss必是恶魔”已经成为一种常见的套路，《遗传厄运》并没有什么创新，而且在一个多小时的铺垫后，魔王降临的场景也不惊艳，缺乏大场面的支撑。

相比之下，《致命录像带2》同样有一段魔王降临的故事，其中教徒集体自杀、活死人群魔乱舞、魔王破腹而出的场景，让每一处铺垫都像炸弹一样密集引爆，带来的震撼当然更胜一筹。

因此，我可以说这是一个好的结局，因为它是bad ending，同时这也是一个平淡的结局，因为它没有呈现出更进一步的高潮。

总之，《遗传厄运》是一部惊吓指数适中的文艺型恐怖片，影片的摄影构图、演员表现要比惊悚场面更值得深挖。

尤其对比那些粗制滥造的小成本恐怖片，《遗传厄运》的质感更让人赏心悦目。

本文为《暴走看啥片儿》特约稿件，作者大海里的针。如需授权、转载请联系[email protected]

大家好啊 我是Paimon 初次来到人间，很新奇 由于人生地不熟，我想好歹先找一个人问问情况（为了行走方便顺便占用一下身体） 没想到凭借我地狱魔王的尊贵身份以及了不起的各项能力 竟然收获了一票信徒 看来人类真是非常的单纯和可爱 信徒中首当其冲的就是一位叫做Ellen的女性

很可惜，由于我的设定，我只有在男性的身体里才能达到我恐怖如斯的巅峰实力 幸运的是，当Ellen得知我拥有如此多的能力之后 她与我签订了一份协议 挺长的，就不放出来了啊 总之呢，我给她点好处，她需要提供一副健壮的男性身体 当然中间的过程我并不干涉，听最后跪在我面前的信徒们说，状况还是挺惨烈的 感动到了

当然，入乡随俗，到了人间 据说一个秘密的行动组之间一定要有一个暗号 我思考了许久，觉得用弹舌非常不错——毕竟不引人注目用的人又少，况且不失风雅也不尴尬

有了协议之后 Ellen特别的积极，她本想将她的外孙Peter献祭于我 却因为她的神神叨叨一直被她的女儿Annie干涉，不让她接触到可爱的Peter 你是不是傻啊！我当时很生气地说，不能强抢，你就智取啊，从精神上先击溃对手

终于，机会来了，在Annie又生下了一个女儿Charlie之后，她说先让我躲藏在这幅娇小的女性身体之中伺机而发 我决定给她一个机会，于是我上了Charlie的身 也正在这时Ellen竟然老死了，人类可真是脆弱啊

为了得到Peter的身心（不要误会我不是那个意思），我要先将这个家庭分崩离析 Ellen的去世对这个家庭还是挺有打击的，特别是唤起了Annie内心的感情，这是件好事 如果我雪上加霜，隔不久就把Annie的女儿Charlie也解决了 要知道，处于崩溃边缘的人最好击破了 拿出笔记本好好记记，来自恶魔的战术安排不是每天都有的

于是在一个月黑风高的夜晚，我行动了——并且圆满成功 不仅Annie几近崩溃，连Peter也吓傻了，一箭双雕秒啊

接下来的这一步异常关键 据我了解崩溃的人无法面对家人，无人倾诉 这时候我安排的另外一个信徒琼上场了

我让她告诉了Annie她可以通灵，召唤出已逝之人的灵魂 在让Annie亲眼见证之后，再一并告诉Annie通灵的方法，并且要Annie在通灵的时候拉上全家 Annie一定会忍不住使用这个通灵法 这不，她很听话地还拉上了全家，表面上看起来通灵成功了，实际上这一整家已经通过这个仪式和我又签订了契约

我可真是个小机灵魔啊！！ 而签订时的媒介笔记本，也成为了与他们生死联结的道具

哎弄了半天终于要到关键的地方了 在我们恶魔界，什么信任，不存在的 在这个家变得支离破碎后，自然本就互相排斥的成员之间最后的信任也被我所吞噬 Annie竟然还想企图烧掉笔记本来终结这一切 年轻人你这个想法真危险，有本事你烧啊

烧掉倒好，趁你崩溃的时间先上一下你的身 去把你儿子Peter吓得跳窗

一切水到渠成 不禁放下手中的武器为自己鼓掌

终于，在各位忠实信徒的膜拜之下 我获得了这幅身体 这一路走来真是感慨万千啊 没想到这个厄运会“一惨惨一窝” 最后我想感谢一下各位支持和鼓励我的观众 如果你也有兴趣签点什么的话，可以与我联系 我会以弹舌的方式予以回应。 对了，有好学的小伙伴问 为什么每个人包括那只可怜的鸟都要把他们的头弄掉，是有什么特殊的含义和喜好吗 对啊，我喜欢，怎么着吧

对了因为我的名字paimon 还有一层含义：“叮叮当当”的声音 就是最后我接受新身体时候响起的那一阵铃铛声 你以为作法呢？别傻了那是在召唤我的名字 所以如果你听到了叮叮当当 记得要和我打招呼哦 等等，还记得我们之间的暗号吗？

看到很多媒体都在吹捧Hereditary如何神乎其神。虽然本片可能没有达到这个高度，但不妨碍它是近两年我认为最好看的恐怖片，也不妨碍这部处女作在恐怖片历史上留下浓墨重彩的一笔。

这可能是我看过最悲伤的恐怖片。前半段缓慢的铺陈（虽然有些太慢了），讲述这个家庭如何一步步分崩离析。这家人似乎彼此都很疏远，但血缘的亲近仍使他们深爱自己的亲人。尤其是妹妹死后家里悲伤的氛围，实在是太真实太生动了，丧感层层叠加，要不是知道这是恐怖片，我都怀疑导演要拍一部《山中的曼彻斯特》了。片名Hereditary就已经揭示了这个家庭命中注定的悲剧结局。还有什么比这更悲惨的呢？明明什么伤天害理的事都没有做，唯一的错误就只是出生在了这个家庭，所以必须接受这无法逃脱又无能为力的命运，从出生那一刻甚至还未出生的时刻就注定不得善终。

这个主题其实有很多现实意义值得思考。如果明知道结局无法更改，你还会去努力吗？如果明知道孩子出生后很大概率会有缺陷，你还会把它生下来吗？我其实很怕负担这种责任，害怕把这种无法掌控的不幸带给别人，总觉得如果注定那么悲惨还不如没有开始。唉，又是日常恐婚恐育，还是聊聊电影吧。

影片中讲Paimon是八个地狱魔王之一。Paimon必须在男性的身体里才能完全发挥它的能力，为它的信徒带来财富。由于Charlie是个女孩，Paimon需要Peter的身体来纠正这个错误。我后来粗略地浏览了一下维基百科上关于Paimon的介绍，说很多关于Paimon外貌的描述都是一个拥有女性的脸的男人。这和影片中Paimon从女孩的身体出来后进入到男孩体内十分吻合。

这家的祖母Ellen，被称为Queen Leigh，应该是与Paimon缔结了契约，并且算是这个邪教领袖级别的人物。影片开始不久，Annie在Ellen的遗物中找到的纸条早已向我们说明了这场恶魔的交易：“Our sacrifice will pale next to the rewards” (我们的牺牲和能得到的回报比起来什么也不算)。Ellen用自己的血脉为Paimon提供精神的载体，而Paimon回赠她财富。从影片后段祖母的照片来看，的确是拿到了不少金币。

Hereditary一是指传承的血脉，二应该也是指遗传性精神病。这一家人或多或少都有一些精神问题。

Annie在互助会发言的时候，说到自己家人好像都有精神问题。母亲患有分离性身份障碍（Dissociative Identity Disorder, DID），最后又得了严重的老年痴呆。父亲患有抑郁症，活活把自己饿死。哥哥16岁就患有精神分裂（Schizophrenia）。而Annie自己在梦游的时候，似乎也会显示出另一种人格。她的儿子和女儿看起来也是与周围格格不入的怪咖。

Annie对母亲的感觉是复杂的，这一点其实和Peter对Annie的感觉很像。Peter曾亲眼目睹母亲在梦游的时候差点杀死自己，必然是害怕的，但同时他仍然爱着母亲。而Annie对神神叨叨的母亲也是害怕的，母亲的死对她来说，比悲伤更多的可能是一种解脱。所以她在葬礼结束回家后问Steve：“我在葬礼上是不是应该表现得更伤心一些？”但是亲生母亲去世怎么可能不难受，所以她去互助会寻求安慰。只可惜这并非真正的解脱，母亲留下的诅咒依然遗传在这个家庭中。

当知道答案后，再回顾剧情，发现真的有很多伏笔。Charlie说祖母希望她是个男孩就好了。Charlie割下了鸟的头，之后Charlie、Annie、Ellen的尸体都是没有头的。Annie在互助会提到过哥哥说母亲想要把别人放进他的身体。由此也可以看出，Ellen早就开始为Paimon寻找宿主了。从葬礼开始，Paimon的标志就开始有特写。Charlie撞死的杆子上也有Paimon的标志。Annie去Joan家的时候就说门口的垫子和她妈妈做的很像，预示着Joan其实和她妈妈有关。另外，Peter上课时候讨论的故事似乎也预示着这家人的悲剧。有节课在讨论Iphigenia。 Iphigenia被她父亲献祭以确保他的船队可以到达特洛伊。老师问了一个问题，大概是说因为自己犯了巨大的错误而导致不幸，和因为完全无法掌控自己的命运的注定的不幸，哪个更悲剧一些。而他们一家正是这种无法掌控的不幸。

另一方面，我总觉得Annie或多或少知道些关于Ellen给Paimon献祭这件事。由于她知道家里的不幸和母亲有关，所以她和母亲的关系不好。她曾经想方设法地在怀Peter的时候流产，但没有成功。而生下Peter之后，她也不愿她母亲和Peter有接触。所以Ellen去世的时候，Peter几乎没什么感觉。但是Charlie和祖母很亲近。我记得Annie有说“我把Charlie给了她”。不知道是因为她觉得女孩子没有问题，还是因为想用一个Charlie去换取全家的安宁。我可能更偏向于后者，因为这正好也是一种牺牲一桩交易，就像母亲和Paimon的交易的延续。Annie在母亲葬礼后就已经开始搜索研究和灵魂相关的信息了。而在互助会上，Annie有说她有时候觉得他们家的不幸应该怪自己，旁边的人问怪她什么，她怔怔说她不知道。再进一步更阴谋论的猜想是Annie潜意识里其实也是一名教徒，她梦游时的另一重人格可能也是帮凶。所以梦游时她才会想烧死自己的孩子。所以最后的仪式上，Annie和母亲一起跪在了王座前。

以上个人的理解和解读，欢迎讨论和指正。这两年恐怖片市场突然井喷，看多了表面被吹爆实则无聊炒冷饭的烂片，总算看到一部逻辑清晰情节细腻的好片了。

恩，还有就是，看完之后有一种想在别人耳边弹舌头的冲动……

刚看完有点不是很清楚一些细节 所以特意谷歌了一下媒体对于这部片的结尾理解：

外婆是邪教的领头人物 崇拜一个地狱恶魔叫Paimon，八大地狱恶魔之王之一。

*恶魔的具体解释请参考链接:

//www.deliriumsrealm.com/paimon/

//www.grimoire.org/demon/paimon/

外婆作为邪教中的领导人物，被授予的任务就是把Paimon的灵魂附在一个男性躯体上使其复活。她最终选择了自己的孙子。

妈妈一直在竭力让自己的家庭远离外婆邪教的影响。她在片中和儿子的一段争吵中提到自己在怀他的时候想尽各种方法使自己流产，目的就是为了保护儿子不被外婆崇拜的邪教所害。虽然最后失败了但她在儿子的成长中一直保持着他和外婆的距离。这也因此促使外婆先选择了孙女作为恶魔附身的容器。

所以孙女在整个电影里应该就已经是Paimon在她的体内而不是她本人。

孙女的死亡多半不是意外，因为电线杆的特写上有邪教恶魔的符号。虽然恶魔可以使用女性躯体，但是毕竟首选是男性。孙女的死直接引导邪教组织的人借机尝试把Paimon从女孩身体转移到孙子的身体。

和妈妈一直聊天的胖女人是邪教中比较重要的人物，奶奶死后，她应该作为一个首要负责人，在同伙的帮助下，将Paimon转移到孙子体内。

最后孙子从屋内跳出直接导致死亡，Paimon进入其身体，成功复活。在树屋里被邪教组织朝拜。

孙子复活后第一个动作就是嘴里发出孙女一直发出的哒哒声，可证明Paimon在很早之前就早已在孙女的体内附身过。

*以上是我从外媒的网站上理解下来的内容，原文链接：http://collider.com/hereditary-ending-explained/#images

导演同时在采访时表达了他制作该片的意图：通过恐怖手法展现出家庭巨大变故给内部成员带来的毁灭性伤害和影响。导演提到自己的家庭曾发生过令他现在无法言喻的大事，这件事或多或少给所有人带来了巨大的心理创伤。他想通过这部片告诉大家，联系着自身的家族矛盾（灾难）才是最无法令人摆脱的恐怖——日以继夜的摧残着人们的身心。

| 遗传心理疾病

（昨晚和男票聊这部片，一直以为他在电影院一副抱头叹气想要离开的样子让他并没有仔细看这部电影，谁知他说的小细节还真多。）

根据外媒对Hereditary这个电影名字的理解可分为 遗传心理疾病 和 外婆的邪教信仰。

Annie reveals that her father suffered from “psychotic depression” and starved himself to death (a horror movie all its own, I’m sure), her brother was a schizophrenic who hanged himself, and her mother had dissociative identity disorder, or DID (once known as multiple personality disorder).

女主在外婆去世之后参加的辅导小组里坦言自己妈妈受到DID的长期困扰。DID全称 Dissociative Identity Disorder 解离性人格障碍（解离症），同时也被叫做 Multiple Personality Disorder 多重人格障碍。如果百度百科解离症的话会看到一下解释：

“解离症包括‘解离性失忆症、解离性迷游症、多重人格异常、及自我感消失症等等’”

可见外婆生前比电影中妈妈疯狂的表现差不到哪里去。

而女主的父亲也就是外公，患有Psychotic Depression 精神病性抑郁症，自己把自己饿死了。女主的兄弟则患有Schizophrenia 精神分裂症，年纪轻轻就上吊自杀了。

从心理学角度上来看，祖母辈的病很有可能遗传给了母亲，因为电影整个都在详细描写女主是如何从还能控制自己（去辅导小组倾诉）到因为女儿的车祸而彻底崩溃（辅导小组也不去了）。

女主的精神异常表现在工作单位给她打电话，两次，从第二次可见女主已经完全和对方失去了工作上的联系。一家三口吃饭，整个人完全就是不在状态，最后还发疯一样的对家人咆哮，无法控制情绪。有时情感上的压抑使她看上去很安静，夜晚却无法入睡。甚至已经不再梦游的她再一次站在儿子的门口（这点很难说到底她是真的梦游还是衍生出了其他人格），等等。其实早在外婆去世后，妈妈在外婆房间看到外婆的这个幻觉就已经证明她的病情开始加重。

很难相信电影里的那对兄妹没有遗传到上一代的心理疾病。这一点在女儿身上尤其得到体现。

然而哥哥的病情加重，首先在于他吸大麻这件事上。吸毒对于精神疾病的伤害是潜移默化却又实实在在的。特别是在妹妹吃了带有坚果的蛋糕后过敏，在就医的途中丧命，全程被哥哥目睹的情况下，是个正常人都会受不了。

在女儿的车祸后几天，儿子由于对妹妹的巨大愧疚，晚上骑车回家站在家门口久久不敢踏进家门。此时的妈妈坐在车里静静的看着他，两人距离很近，却又感觉异常遥远。

后面渐渐地抽口烟就会感到过敏一样的窒息（我理解为这是出于一个哥哥对间接造成自己妹妹死亡所产生的愧疚，因为哥哥本身并没有过敏体质，只是本能模仿妹妹难受的样子自己却不自知），上课看到眼前有车祸当天车里的后视镜，半夜醒来看见妹妹捧着头对着他。这一系列都加重了哥哥的心理疾病。回到影片开头，那个坐在床上弹琴，上课会偷看女生屁股的男生怎么也不像是有病的样子。家庭的变故使他产生幻觉，并且渐渐远离了一切社交活动（朋友）。

（作为一个曾是心理学专业的学生，片中有一幕对我印象非常深刻）

儿子在学校上课，突然抬高右手，右眼球泛红，面部抽搐，接着突然将脸撞到课桌上。

早前上过变态心理学（Abnormal Psychology），是我最爱的课，虽然最后发现自己对其并不专长，但我依然记得老师在课堂上解释过精神病人确实会像电影里拍的那样做出不正常动作，并且长时间保持不动。

They sometimes strike odd (and probably uncomfortable) poses, and then hold those poses for hours.

They may be mute during these episodes, refusing to speak, and/or make odd facial expressions.

They may resist attempts to change their positions.

Whether out of neglect or excitement, patients may end up harming themselves (e.g., through malnutrition, exhaustion, hyperpyrexia, or self-inflicted injury).

这些症状常见于很多精神病，特别是Schizophrenia 精神分裂症。

当我看到那一幕，第一反应就是回忆起老师说的那些话。面部扭曲，姿势怪异特别是单手抬起，一动不动，最后在自残中结束。你可以把电影里的这段理解成被恶魔附身（操控？），也可以把它归为合理的精神疾病人的肢体特征表现。

在儿子鼻子被撞烂回家休息醒来之后，感受到躲在房梁上的，像怪物一样追着他跑的，和不停敲打阁楼的妈妈。因为正常人是无法像蜘蛛侠一样趴在屋子的顶部，无法倒过来粘着阁楼敲打，并且下一秒又出现在阁楼里。我个人理解为这全部是儿子脑中所产生的幻觉。那个时候的儿子已经算是真正的心理上的崩溃。而妈妈早就已经被邪教一众人杀害，早早地悬挂在了阁楼的顶部，等着被儿子发现。

女儿的状态在初期显得更加明显，不善与人交流，不参加任何活动，孤僻又安静。小小年纪就会剪下鸽子的头而毫无恐惧。在开头我提到外媒对于女孩的理解是早已被恶魔附身。所以她的种种表现很难分清到底是她本人所为还是恶魔的行为。如果单从心理学角度上看，女儿也算是早期表现出心理异常的角色了。

引用相关链接：http://screencrush.com/hereditary-explainer-twists-ending/

//www.mentalhelp.net/articles/symptoms-of-schizophrenia-more-info/

| 外婆的邪教信仰

（不是很想多说因为并没有具体去了解）

影片后半段一直有一个特写，关于儿子半夜窗外的暖灯。这个镜头出现了不下3次，其实指的是女儿的树屋里的暖气灯光。如果没记错，妈妈在女儿死后睡不着，曾经跑去树屋里裹着毯子开着两个暖气睡觉。之后就再也没有妈妈在那里睡觉的镜头了（虽然后来她曾和老公说要再去那里睡，但当晚好像并没有去成）。掰着指头数，妈妈在树屋里睡觉的次数都比导演给儿子窗外树屋暖灯亮着的镜头要少。因此推测，妈妈不在树屋的那些天，树屋是一直有别人的。再想一下结尾，估计就是那帮邪教信徒了。

所以这帮人早就打好算盘，在树屋里作最后的准备。

爸爸怎么死的？

一直有这个疑问，因为妈妈把本子丢进火炉自己烧了起来，我理解为她自己因病看见的幻觉。所以当她再一次把本子扔进火炉的时候，除了幻觉，是不可能使爸爸一瞬间燃烧。

而爸爸在燃烧的一瞬间以及后面的几秒之内，一动不动的站在原地任大火烧穿他这一点让人无法理解。作为影片里最正常的一个角色，被大火烧到的立即反应应该就是痛的胡乱挥舞和奔跑寻找水源吧。但他的样子于我来说像是自焚。

镜头移到儿子醒来后下楼发现父亲的尸体，原本应该在距离火炉略远的位置处被烧死的父亲，却突然被移到了火炉边，躺着的尸体上能看见的就是父亲双手向上抬，企图要干什么的样子。

这里想说的一点是，爸爸被烧的时候，儿子一直处于睡觉的状态，所以屋子里可以说是只有妈妈和爸爸。影片呈现出来的很有可能是已经快心理崩溃的妈妈眼中看到的，并不一定真实。而儿子醒来后看到的尸体场景很有可能才是爸爸当初死的真实情况。虽然黑黑的一片，但我个人推测爸爸的死很有可能和邪教信徒有关。因为那个时候邪教信徒已经明目张胆的走到家里去了。他们很有可能将想要报警的爸爸灭口。爸爸胸口的双手很可能被绑住，全身淋了汽油，最后被焚烧。被烧的时候，他曾抬手挣扎过。

*本帖包含的均为个人观点 以及 来自网络的媒体评论。

*心理学内容参考引用连接