If you think "Stoker" is about "common sense" then it's got nothing for you - it speaks a different language. Having said that, when I was a child my family's freezer was in the basement - not that should be an argument for or against this film, on any level. Do dreams use common sense?
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Fighting the frizzies, at 11.
Not that it's the case in the film...but where I'm from it's not uncommon for the freezer to be in the basement. In a lot of houses, the garage and laundry room are located there, which is usually where someone would put a chest freezer.
But, other than the creepy factor, I don't see the logic in this particular house either.
He wasn't a man...he was a way of life.
Compare and contrast with the location of Dracula's coffin, where the count spends the daylight hours (in the soil of his homeland). This movie is absolutely packed with these metaphors.
shareIn cinematography and semiotic the basement or the floor below the entrance to keep it like that symbolize the subconscious so when she pushed the lights she was searching on her subconscious mind and on the colder and most hidden part she found that there was a fascination about killing.
shareVery true. Chan-wook Park not only is a student of psychology but also a big fan of fellow director Ki-young Kim whose best known film 'The Housemaid' - also a family drama/psychological thriller - clearly used different floors of a house metaphorically as representing different levels of human psyche.
"Let's went, before we are dancing at the end of a rope, without music."
Exactly; apart from the human psyche, I found it to be an allegory of sorts, depicting a coming-of-age for India.
It's always after I lose things that I realize how very significant the things I've lost are.
And in a dark and cold place where the dead lay, she found something sweet like ice cream. That's really artsy.
shareThat's a great observation, it's where she first discovers murder and that basement did look terrifying. This superb movie is packed with symbolism. Lots of vampire symbolism too, lots of going after necks in the killing scenes, the paleness of the characters, the red wine...Nicole Kidman has always done such an excellent job with subversive roles in unusual, terrific movies.
When you get up in the morning, how do you decide what shade of black to wear? (Shallow Grave)
That's quite common in the U.S. to have that type of chest freezer in the basement, and your standard fridge/freezer combo up in the kitchen. My grandparents always had a chest freezer in their basement as long as I can remember.
Fighting the frizzies, at 11.
"That's quite common in the U.S. to have that type of chest freezer in the basement, and your standard fridge/freezer combo up in the kitchen. My grandparents always had a chest freezer in their basement as long as I can remember."
That's where we kept our tubs of ice cream, minus the dead bodies.
It's still quite common to have toploading freezers like that in the basement or the garage.
You four-eyed psycho.
Indeed, when I was growing up my parents had a chest freezer in the basement. They upgraded to standing freezer(it is still in the basement) and gave me the chest freezer which I have in my garage.
shareI don't think it's why they did it in the film (super obvious subconscious thoughts below the surface more like), but in reality, I think people put large freezers in the basement for things they didn't need that often because there is more space in a basement for things you don't need very often. I imagine older models might have leaked too. Basements and garages sometimes have a drainage hole.
share*shrug* mine is, we have two, the one in the kitchen and then a huge cube affair in the basement I always hear called the "deep freeze" where we put stuff we want to keep longer than a couple weeks.
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"I have often laughed at weaklings
who thought themselves good because
they had no claws."
its normal to have the freezer in the basement. The funny part is how deep in the basement they actually put it but it was needed for that scene and her playing with the lights.
shareYes, indeed. This film had so many of these moments that I had to fight myself to finish it... And for whoever says "it's too weird for you, you don't understand"; no. It was just a bad film. Very stiff and caricatured characters (not to confuse with flat), no element of surprise and genuinely boring script. Sorry.
shareHmm. Maybe movies aren't for you if something so trivial bugs you that much.
Fighting the frizzies, at 11.