I can't bear to look straight, why do the characters in the movie drink milk?

When we are watching movies and telling stories, we always pay attention to photography, lighting, scenes and even actors' acting skills. In fact, props and details are also a powerful tool, which can serve your movie plot.

The following short film lists many classic films, and analyzes the important role of milk in shaping characters, plots and even the whole film from the props of milk.

In clockwork orange, Alex drinks milk repeatedly. He drinks a glass of milk mixed with human milk, milk, medicine and other miscellaneous drinks in the milk bar. After drinking, he can't help doing bad things, and then drink another drink after drinking. These punks are dressed in white, dressed as gentlemen, and even carrying a gentleman's cane, doing evil. The creepy eyes are in sharp contrast with the pure white milk in their hands, as if some kind of ritual gathering symbolized the original sin of mankind.

Rebellion without cause is an American film shot by 1955, and it is still a top youth film. In the film, the boy who died playing an exciting game came home in horror. The first thing he did was to open the refrigerator and take out the milk to drink. He first put the bottle on his forehead and then moved it to his cheek. This action is done in one go. The film critic pointed out that "it was the embarrassment and hesitation of a whole generation of American youth who grew up drinking milk at this delicate stage of life between maturity and naivety."

Correspondingly, people who explicitly say that they don't drink milk are often immature and a little cute, accompanied by a funny stubbornness: they are strong.

Black Boy Leon, played by Uncle Renault in Black Boy, is not too cold. He likes to drink milk, iron his shirt and raise green potted plants. This warm man's lifestyle is also in stark contrast to the killer's cold-blooded and cruel career. The warm prop of milk is not the embodiment of the protagonist's evil heart, but a point. He is really not too cold.

No Country for Old Men's psycho killers also like to drink milk. Unlike Renault, he is a cold-blooded monster who uses milk for comparison.

In most cases, it is strange for adults to drink milk, and filmmakers seem to know this very well. So you can easily create a strange atmosphere with milk. In Hitchcock's The Mystery of the Boudoir, the last hero slowly goes upstairs with a glass of poisoned milk, with an elegant gesture, and the elongated shadow is gloomy and clear. Calm in the face of unknown dangers is extremely deadly. Hitchcock's gift is to make things that are used to look strange. On this occasion, if you change to a cup of coffee or a glass of whisky, it seems that the terrorist effect will be weakened.

At the beginning of Quentin's Inglourious Basterds, Colonel Hans, a Nazi officer, drank a glass of milk at Lapid's farm.

Quentin powder has various interpretations of the symbolic meaning of this cup of milk. Bian Xiang Xiao tells you that through the above milk case analysis, we can see that milk is a popular drink for cold killers, and they usually start drinking milk, either trying to kill people or being killed soon. The seemingly innocent milk and the upcoming bloody scene naturally create a dramatic tension with a sense of ritual.

"Crazy Max 4: The Road to Fury" takes milk as an important clue from beginning to end, but the violent stimulation of super vodka runs through. The lawless doomsday world, the social order of the collapse of rites and music, the wilderness where human nature is exhausted, and the immortal old Joe controls all water sources and all liquids: women are treated as human milk juicers, men are drawn blood, and milk is a symbol of strength.

Of course, none of this matters. What's important is that the five wives who gave birth to normal children and provided human milk, and the five wives who followed the man later, robbed by the immortal old Joe, are all hot Victoria's secret supermodels. This is another phenomenon. It seems that milk is accompanied by violence and sex.

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