好看，故事连贯性很好！特别是徐和和徐峥真像兄弟，连说话的声音都有点相似。王三分被老婆不让上床，被用鸡毛扫打，真搞笑，男人没本事的情节，有点接近生活。故事中的快递哥的遭遇，没钱买婚房，甚至用最坏的打算，用买身上的器官，有点推人泪下。还有宋大嘴婚外情，刚好被马小蓉老公王三分现场被捉，都像现实生活中的写照。王三分和徐和为了各自的幸福想尽一切赚钱的办法，最后却真的被碰慈了，最终入了医院。故事最后完美

我建议先弄清楚男主是谁再来拍戏～

整部剧下来，男二欧阳的戏份丝毫不比男主少，甚至前8集他才是男主，而男主纯粹就是一没存在感的路人？是来搞笑的？

不论是剧名，还是海报，还是简介，描述的都是女主和男主之间爱情故事，可实际内容中，女主和男二的故事还真多，他们还有一条单独的感情线，前1/3剧情

文 | 谢谢你们的鱼

全面攻克世界各大评分榜单豆瓣电影8.5分、烂番茄新鲜100%、爆米花指数95%、IMDb8.3分，亚洲各地票房飘红，《天才枪手》能不能成为今年内地院线的第二部《摔跤吧，爸爸》呢？

不知道，但

文 | 谢谢你们的鱼

全面攻克世界各大评分榜单豆瓣电影8.5分、烂番茄新鲜100%、爆米花指数95%、IMDb8.3分，亚洲各地票房飘红，《天才枪手》能不能成为今年内地院线的第二部《摔跤吧，爸爸》呢？

不知道，但它绝对是童叟无欺的全程无尿点，紧张刺激到不适合心脏病患者，妥妥的年度话题之作。

《垫底辣妹》之后，这可能是你在大陆的银幕上可以看到最精彩的青春片了！

观影之前，《天才枪手》在我的理解中就是一部作弊版的《十一罗汉》，以类型片质感包装的青春片，可能会爽，但是不一定会留下太多的思考。

不过观影结束之后，影片讲述内容的丰富程度让我始料未及，不论是剧作逻辑、人物塑造、节奏把握、视听语言还是社会意义都让国内的同类型电影创作者输得心服口服。

上一次接触泰国的青春片还是2015年的那部《电击少女》，虽然没有《天才枪手》这么出色，但是本片依然非常讨人喜欢，二次元动漫风格、奇幻、爱情、喜剧、校园，这些元素被非常厉害地杂糅到了一起，让我第一次深深佩服了泰国创作者的脑洞，同时也显示出了泰国电影人对于跨类型电影的独特创作思路。

同样的，《天才枪手》也是一部类型上非常杂糅的电影，悬疑片的剧作结构、谍战片的桥段设计、青春片的个性洋溢、剧情片的社会议题，犯罪片的步步为营，单拎出任何一个环节都是教科书级别的水平。

说真的，今年在电影院看到手汗直流的电影，除了《极盗车神》、《敦刻尔克》就是这部《天才枪手》了。

而在泰国《天才枪手》正是打败了同期的《敦刻尔克》拿下票房冠军。《天才枪手》的故事并不复杂，讲述的就是一次跨国作弊行动的前因后果，影片以学霸少女琳的视角展现了她成为作弊高手的过程以及每一次因个人成长所做出的选择，而在其中也蕴含着编剧对于泰国教育制度、学生阶层以及成人世界的一些深入思考。

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题材陈旧，内容空洞幼稚，拍摄手法原始，5毛钱的特效，还上升到探索时空奥秘的层面！！我都不知道甄子丹最后明白了什么狗屁秘密，又说只能毁掉金碟又说只有他是时空行者，狗屁不通！！真是不明白投资人是不是突然就发达了的土豪，人傻钱多！我在小米VIP特价的时候充了9毛9，看了这部烂片之后都觉得自己亏了…最后我想问问去电影院看的亲们，你们割凳了吗？？

从一开始大家对于光明县的评价就知道光明县不仅不是一个香饽饽，而且还是一个难题，是各方面面都需要改进的落后的县。梅晓歌从上任之前的挺胸抬头雄赳赳气昂昂的这么一个形象到后面微微驼背的姿态恰好可以从人物的体态方面感受到梅晓歌在担任光明县县长时候的压力和责任有多大。好的演员不用自己去说，只要改变一下人物的体态就可以用肢体语言向观众表达所要表达的，胡歌的梅晓歌就是如此。

三星半★★★☆

不同于上一季三个时空的分庭抗礼，这一季显然是alma的大女主个人秀。个人观感，本季整体上逊于第一季，虽然立意较第一季高，但在执行度上大打折扣，差强人意。黑色幽默犯罪喜剧的剧作时有高光但不够精巧，编剧用尽浑身解数成功塑造出alma这样一个另类“反派”主角，却难以避免对一众配角塑造的虎头蛇尾

三星半★★★☆

不同于上一季三个时空的分庭抗礼，这一季显然是alma的大女主个人秀。个人观感，本季整体上逊于第一季，虽然立意较第一季高，但在执行度上大打折扣，差强人意。黑色幽默犯罪喜剧的剧作时有高光但不够精巧，编剧用尽浑身解数成功塑造出alma这样一个另类“反派”主角，却难以避免对一众配角塑造的虎头蛇尾。抓大放小倒也无可厚非，但被第一季“宠坏”的观众显然不太买账，豆瓣评分的持续下跌便是佐证。（但个人觉得第一季评分偏高而本季还可以再高点）

总的来讲，alma的角色塑造还是很出彩的，最后一集的两个细节让她完全立了起来，虽不够classic但足够逻辑自洽。首先是她给berti制作最后一件纪念品希望自己扛下更多罪行（当然想要更加“出名”应该也是重要动机之一），说明她虽越往后越杀伐决断毫不留情，但对家人尤其是老公仍是心存感情的；其次是她在最后还强调不仅要clever更要一点ruthless，而她其实一直都是那个犯罪手段拙劣不够聪明的人，只是从一开始的有情愈加变得无情，这才成就了她在死刑宣判四面楚歌时仍可以满面笑容地走进她似梦非梦的杀戮殿堂的荒诞合理性。

不知道编剧想得到怎样的反响，我对这个角色的观感蛮mixed，爱也不行恨也不是。或许我们已经不需要上一季那种爽剧式的professional husband killers，也不需要诸如《绝望主妇》《蛇蝎女佣》中的细水长流，仅仅10集的短剧对于alma这一普通人难以理解的另类“反派”主角的塑造，已经是某种程度上的一次进步。

ps.amla的演员Allison Tolman演技真的非常棒，用完全不同于《冰血暴》的处理方式毫无痕迹地演出了一个女人从恪守本分的家庭主妇到走火入魔的“跳梁小丑”的内外剧变。

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一部必须五星支持的纪录片，无需理解专业术语，也无需看懂那些复杂的数据，仅从出镜的各国各领域顶尖科学家眼中的末日恐惧以及绝望泪水就能明白，地球完蛋了。

严格来说不是地球完蛋了，而是人类的生存环境完蛋了，人类即将接受大自然最严酷的惩罚，已进入地球生物第五次大灭绝，本届人类文明走到头了。

大约还有5～10年，加速赴死，大大提前，根本没有任何力量能够阻止。我早就说了，就眼下的

因为《暗战》，老杜助刘华拿到了从影以来第一个影帝桂冠，刘华那几年跟老杜合作变得多了起来，后来的《大只佬》也还不错，但这部《全职杀手》真的是一言难尽。

刘华又演一次身患绝症的浪子人物，不过这次他想要的是出名，干掉杀手排行榜第一的人物O。O是一个厌倦了杀手生涯想退下来的人，其实又是一个很古龙似的故事。不过拍的很拧巴，我自己觉得。

拍摄绝对是专业团队了，画面和色彩还挺耐看。特效也看得过去，凤凰啥的，是花了钱了。有这样的思想来拍片这挺好的，梦想嘛，就得狠心把挣来的钱都扔进去这样才像样。

编剧水了点。有人说老郭的语言不逗乐，陈旧，嗯，那您还是去听相声吧。这是电影，影像艺术。当然，编剧有问题的，没写出足够的台词和冲突就挺够呛的。

导演不太讲究镜头语言，不紧凑，拖沓的部分太多了。场景转换也单调，缺乏想像

第三季第一集吐槽:

如果说巴里他妈是个至关重要的人 她不死巴里就不会成为闪电侠 那为什么第一季结尾逆闪可以随便的让巴里穿越回去救他妈？而且今天的第一集也解释了 只是记忆消失并没有带来什么不良影响 能力消失一切从头再来 换来了一个美满的家庭和没有第三者插足的女朋友 非要强行让沃利便当为巴里找理由放了逆闪 简直无

第三季第一集吐槽:

如果说巴里他妈是个至关重要的人 她不死巴里就不会成为闪电侠 那为什么第一季结尾逆闪可以随便的让巴里穿越回去救他妈？而且今天的第一集也解释了 只是记忆消失并没有带来什么不良影响 能力消失一切从头再来 换来了一个美满的家庭和没有第三者插足的女朋友 非要强行让沃利便当为巴里找理由放了逆闪 简直无语。

经典好看的动画 闪点 居然在第三季第一集就结束了。

太仓促的东西一定效果不好，会有硬伤与漏洞，我是这样认为的

感觉越编越离奇了，或许编剧们的眼光与智商是想把这剧编一百W季的节奏

所以随便怎么改，最后都是会看当时风向，如观众呼声，演员档期，甚至时代节奏来改的。

但还是感觉这季闪电侠会有败相。

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四剧联动顺序以及观看:

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《超级少女 Supergirl》﹑《闪电侠 The Flash》﹑《绿箭侠 Arrow》与《明日传奇 DC’s Legends of Tomorrow》在本季准备四剧交叉，而他们即将共同面对的敌人确定是外星人统治者一族/Dominators。Dominators是严格执行等级社会的外星帝国，等级由他们额头上的红色圆圈大小决定；毫无感情﹑精于算计的他们，是遗传基因操作的大师，他们在征服其他星球期间寻求能增强他们能力的基因。

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孤岛惊魂第二弹，超无语的，比大幂幂的第一弹还要渣…全片一惊一乍，剧情感觉大杂烩，开局故意把矛头引向男主，刻画成虐杀女友的凶手，接着剧情一转，变成绝命公路的变态杀手，然后大蟒蛇啊，泰式邪术啊之类，最后实在不能填坑了，硬拗成双胞胎的心灵感应，只能得一星??

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孤岛惊魂第二弹，超无语的，比大幂幂的第一弹还要渣…全片一惊一乍，剧情感觉大杂烩，开局故意把矛头引向男主，刻画成虐杀女友的凶手，接着剧情一转，变成绝命公路的变态杀手，然后大蟒蛇啊，泰式邪术啊之类，最后实在不能填坑了，硬拗成双胞胎的心灵感应，只能得一星??

孤岛惊魂2.Mysterious Island 2.2013.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC.X264.国语中字.mp4

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嗯，看完了，三部我给的都是三星。感觉后面有点抓紧结尾，台词方面有点粗糙。特别是最后柳若冰和宋芸儿谈的时候，柳若冰叫男主哥哥了，我觉得和宋芸儿谈话的时候应该说“你哥”来称呼男主。我看了《唐砖》和这部《纳妾记》，总感觉穿越的没那么“爽”，特别是拍摄方法。既然我们认为古代保守，为什么要加入那些吻戏和床戏，你既不是在妓院也不是在拍三级片，更不是AV，老是加入“现代版的古代激情戏”，或许古代更开放也说

真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的真的很好看

7分，缺点很多但可以看看。有人上来把《第四面墙》和《穆赫兰道》比，这是相当不公平的。《第四面墙》优先考虑了如何用小成本讲清楚一个平行时空故事，而文艺片属性代表了它平缓的基调，编剧尝试加入了悬疑戏份努力让电影更张弛有度，很显然效果不好。影片仅有两个主要角色，故事无非是两人同时遭遇人生重大选择时，不同选择所导致的后果。按我的理解，时间线收束后男主选择了自我牺牲，女主则沿着他们曾经梦想的路线，前往

捉妖记1可谓是创下了票房记录，所以大家都很期待2的上映。但是并不理想，2在豆瓣上只有5.3分，再加上有“有点脑子又有点才华”的唐人街探案2和很燃的红海行动，捉妖记2的口碑就不那么理想了。首先，捉妖记2的主线是寻找胡巴，然后这其中掺杂了两条线，一条是原来的宋天荫和小岚，另一条则是新加的屠四谷。可能导演是想拍出那种场景切换的感觉但是却显得很乱了，没有什么条理。其次，剧情俗套，梗也无聊。先看

写影评之前，我花了一些时间去求证这部剧的性质，豆瓣把它放到了“耽美”的标签里，而舆论也把它放入了“耽改101”大军中，但实际上这部剧并非改编自BL小说，而是基于原创剧本创作而成，同名小说也刚刚上线。

我们戏称2021年是耽改元年，前有优酷打响第一炮，后有腾讯、爱奇艺等平台的虎视眈眈，而这部由芒果tv上线的“非

写影评之前，我花了一些时间去求证这部剧的性质，豆瓣把它放到了“耽美”的标签里，而舆论也把它放入了“耽改101”大军中，但实际上这部剧并非改编自BL小说，而是基于原创剧本创作而成，同名小说也刚刚上线。

我们戏称2021年是耽改元年，前有优酷打响第一炮，后有腾讯、爱奇艺等平台的虎视眈眈，而这部由芒果tv上线的“非耽改”剧，多多少少有些格格不入，前有劲敌，后有猛虎，平平无奇的小制作剧集，突出重围确实颇有难度。

于是抱着“看看也不会少块肉”的心情连追8集，惊喜发现没有自己想象的那么差。

这好像是一部似乎不用那么着急分清“攻”和“受”的剧，两个男主的人设竟然都神奇的介于“可攻可受”之间，但人物并不扁平，甚至很有新意。

医生陈余之，温柔理性，气质干净，你认为他是传统意义上的“腼腆老好人受”，只会一味付出甚至有点傻时，他又有自己腹黑的一面。因为存着小小的报复心理，在帮江月楼治疗枪伤时，明明有麻醉剂，却仗着江月楼看不懂外文，丢下一句“我麻醉剂用完了，你自己忍忍吧”，稳稳地拿着钳子进行手术，即使江月楼惨叫连连，他也不动声色；在帮江月楼查看旧伤，给他披上衣服后，歪头盯着他光裸的前身，嘴角带着一抹揶揄的笑容；在对江月楼进行心理治疗时，观众能感受到陈余之的强大气场，是他在掌控着、引导着江月楼，而江月楼则是依赖他的一方；

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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：

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：

https://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.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.