白色驯鹿 / Valkoinen peura (1952)
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芬兰又名：
白牡鹿,Le renne blanc,The White Reindeer
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剧情简介：
1952芬兰剧情恐怖片《白色驯鹿》由艾瑞克·布隆伯格导演，米丽亚米·库奥斯马宁主演，影片讲述的是：
The Finnish film White Reindeer is marketed in the USA and Britain as a horror movie but thats not precisely accurate This is a stark moody film but not a scary one It purports to be an authentic Lapp folktale about a woman named Pirita who turns into a white reindeer in order to feed upon men
This story has elements of both the vampire and the werewolf legend as well as the succubus Apart from reindeer being native to Lapland I cant imagine why the reindeer was chosen as the species for this folktales version of the shapechanger legend Bats and wolves are predators and therefore scary The reindeer is a domesticated herbivore that serves humans not very spooky is it In one sequence the werereindeer woman sprouts fangs Actual reindeer dont have fangs so why should these be part of her transformation Female reindeer have antlers so why doesnt Pirita sprout antlers
Speaking of superstitions and myths early in this film a black cat scurries across the path of an approaching sledge but the director gives this so little emphasis that it appears to have no significance In Cornwall its considered good luck to have a black cat cross ones path and this same thing is considered bad luck in America Do Lapps have any superstitions concerning black cats
Mirjami Kuosmanen the actress who plays the central role in this film is quite pretty but her performance as a native of northern Lapland is weakened by the fact that she is clearly wearing makeup Due to the low production budget we never actually see Pirita changing into the reindeer but the director cleverly gets round this by having his leading lady lunge towards the camera then cutting to a shot of a reindeer in the same position Still I was hoping we would see a shot of a womans shadow changing shape or a series of human footprints in the snow abruptly becoming hoofmarks
The Lapp landscape in this movie is starkly beautiful and awesome but never frightening The photography is excellent There are two impressive dissolve shots involving flames and a splendid montage sequence I was extremely impressed by a night sequence over a bonfire During the Midnight Sun sequences there are two shots featuring a weird colonnade of white pillars these appear to be artefacts of the Lapp culture but we never learn what they are A sequence in which a carved vertrebra dances magically across a shamans drum has an eerie pagan power that made me think of Nijinskys staging of The Rites of Spring
My one complaint about this film a minor grievance is that we never learn the time period in which the main action occurs These Laplanders possess milled coins a rifle and loomed curtains One sequence takes place at a prayer service that is clearly Christian featuring a minister in geneva bands Are we watching scenes in the twentieth century or some earlier time Ill rate this moody compelling but not frightening film 8 out of 10 Oh my deer
The Finnish film White Reindeer is marketed in the USA and Britain as a horror movie but thats not precisely accurate This is a stark moody film but not a scary one It purports to be an authentic Lapp folktale about a woman named Pirita who turns into a white reindeer in order to feed upon men
This story has elements of both the vampire and the werewolf legend as well as the succubus Apart from reindeer being native to Lapland I cant imagine why the reindeer was chosen as the species for this folktales version of the shapechanger legend Bats and wolves are predators and therefore scary The reindeer is a domesticated herbivore that serves humans not very spooky is it In one sequence the werereindeer woman sprouts fangs Actual reindeer dont have fangs so why should these be part of her transformation Female reindeer have antlers so why doesnt Pirita sprout antlers
Speaking of superstitions and myths early in this film a black cat scurries across the path of an approaching sledge but the director gives this so little emphasis that it appears to have no significance In Cornwall its considered good luck to have a black cat cross ones path and this same thing is considered bad luck in America Do Lapps have any superstitions concerning black cats
Mirjami Kuosmanen the actress who plays the central role in this film is quite pretty but her performance as a native of northern Lapland is weakened by the fact that she is clearly wearing makeup Due to the low production budget we never actually see Pirita changing into the reindeer but the director cleverly gets round this by having his leading lady lunge towards the camera then cutting to a shot of a reindeer in the same position Still I was hoping we would see a shot of a womans shadow changing shape or a series of human footprints in the snow abruptly becoming hoofmarks
The Lapp landscape in this movie is starkly beautiful and awesome but never frightening The photography is excellent There are two impressive dissolve shots involving flames and a splendid montage sequence I was extremely impressed by a night sequence over a bonfire During the Midnight Sun sequences there are two shots featuring a weird colonnade of white pillars these appear to be artefacts of the Lapp culture but we never learn what they are A sequence in which a carved vertrebra dances magically across a shamans drum has an eerie pagan power that made me think of Nijinskys staging of The Rites of Spring
My one complaint about this film a minor grievance is that we never learn the time period in which the main action occurs These Laplanders possess milled coins a rifle and loomed curtains One sequence takes place at a prayer service that is clearly Christian featuring a minister in geneva bands Are we watching scenes in the twentieth century or some earlier time Ill rate this moody compelling but not frightening film 8 out of 10 Oh my deer
