百年50部英文燒腦電影賞析:[36]Silent Hill 寂靜嶺

Rose（Radha Mitchell）and her husband, Christopher Da Silva（Sean Bean）, are concerned about their adopted daughter, Sharon（Jodelle Ferland）, who has been sleepwalking while calling the name of a town, “Silent Hill” Desperate for answers, Rose takes Sharon to Silent Hill. As they approach the town, she is pursued by police officer Cybil Bennett（Laurie Holden）. A child appears in the road, causing Rose to swerve and crash the car, knocking herself unconscious. When she awakens, Sharon is missing, while fog and falling ash blanket the town.

Rose wanders the empty streets of Silent Hill looking for her daughter and instead encounters monsters. Rose meets a woman named Dahlia Gillespie（Deborah Kara Unger）who speaks of her own daughter, Alessa, being abused by the townspeople and, upon seeing a photo of Sharon in the locket around Rose's neck, claims that Sharon is Alessa. Rose returns to her car and runs into Cybil, who arrests her. After they discover that the road leading out of town leads to a fracture，they pair up to search the town.
Meanwhile, Christopher also simultaneously scours the town, shown to be abandoned and without mist and falling ash, with the assistance of officer Thomas Gucci（Kim Coates）. Christopher discovers documents revealing that the town was abandoned after a coal seam fire thirty years ago, along with a photograph of Dahlia's daughter, who bears a strong physical resemblance to Sharon. Told to stop investigating under threat of incarceration, he returns home.
Rose and Cybil meet Anna（Tanya Allen）, a woman who leads them to a local church for refuge. As they approach it, Anna is killed by the monster Pyramid Head（Roberto Campanella）. In the church, Rose and Cybil discover a cult, headed by a woman named Christabella（Alice Krige）, Christabella tells Rose about a demon, who knows Sharon's whereabouts. After convincing Christabella to help them locate the demon, Rose and Cybil are taken to a local hospital. There, Christabella also sees the photo of Sharon in Rose's locket and, seeing the likeness between Sharon and Alessa, condemns Rose and Cybil as witches. Cybil allows herself to be captured by the townspeople in order for Rose to escape and descend into the hospital basement. There, Rose encounters a burned Alessa on a bed and a being in the form of a girl who strongly resembles Sharon.
In a flashback, Rose discovers that Silent Hill had a long history of witch burnings, stemming from the cult's beliefs. Thirty years prior to Rose's arrival, Alessa was stigmatized for having been born out of wedlock by an unknown father; her schoolmates bullied her, while the adults made no effort to protect her. Dahlia agreed to Christabella's suggestion that she allow the cult to “restore innocence” in Alessa. When not allowed to follow Alessa into the ritual, Dahlia realized that they intended to kill her daughter and ran to the police. Alessa was ritually burned, but in the midst of the ritual, a fire accidentally burst out.
When Dahlia returned with the police, Alessa was badly burned, but alive. While in the hospital, Alessa's pain and rage caused her “dark” side to manifest in the form of a duplicate of herself, who refers to itself as the darkness inside Alessa. Alessa then pulled the townspeople into a world of “dark” dreams, corrupted by the injuries that were inflicted on her body. Rose learns that Sharon is the manifestation of Alessa's remaining innocence and goodness. After the flashback, Rose is told that she must aid Alessa in her revenge by granting her entry into the church and that Christabella will soon find Sharon and attempt to bum her as well.
Rose enters the church after Cybil has just been immolated by the townspeople, and Sharon is about to suffer a similar fate. She confronts Christabella with her knowledge of the truth, attempting to convince the cult that they are in denial of their own fate. Christabella stabs Rose, causing her blood to drip onto the church floor. The blood serves as a portal, which Alessa rises out and proceeds to kill Christabella and the townspeople, leaving Dahlia, Rose, and Sharon the only survivors.
Rose and Sharon return home; though they are in the same room as Christopher, who has also returned home, they cannot see each other, because Sharon and Rose are dead.
羅絲（拉達·米契爾飾）和她的丈夫克里斯托弗·達·希爾瓦（希恩·賓恩飾）正擔心他們收養(yǎng)的女兒莎倫（祖蒂·弗蘭飾），莎倫夢游時經(jīng)常叫喊一個小鎮(zhèn)的名字——“寂靜嶺”。迫切想要找到源由，羅絲帶著莎倫來到寂靜嶺。當她們接近城鎮(zhèn)時，受到了警官希比爾·班尼特（勞瑞·侯登飾）的追蹤。有一個孩子出現(xiàn)在路上，導致羅絲掉轉(zhuǎn)方向撞車，失去了知覺。當她醒來時，莎倫不見了，濃重的霧靄覆蓋了這座城鎮(zhèn)。

羅絲在寂靜嶺空曠的街道上徘徊尋找她的女兒，卻遇到了怪物。羅絲遇到了一個叫達利亞·吉爾斯皮（黛博拉·卡拉·安格飾）的女人，她說起她自己的女兒阿勒莎被鎮(zhèn)上的市民虐待，在看到羅絲脖子上的項鏈里莎倫的照片后，她聲稱莎倫就是阿勒斯。羅絲回到她的車里，撞見了希比爾，被其逮捕。在他們發(fā)現(xiàn)出城的道路斷裂后，結(jié)伴搜索這個城鎮(zhèn)。

與此同時，在警官湯姆斯·古奇（金姆·可茲飾）的協(xié)助下，克里斯托弗也在急切地搜尋這座城市，沒有霧靄降落的被廢棄的城市。克里斯托弗發(fā)現(xiàn)的文件顯示，三十年前這座城市在煤層火災后已被廢棄，他看到達利亞女兒的照片和莎倫極其相似。在監(jiān)禁的威脅下，他被告知立即停止調(diào)查，返回家里。
羅絲和希比爾遇到了安娜（唐亞·艾倫飾），那個女人領(lǐng)著她們到當?shù)亟烫帽茈y。當她們靠近教堂時，安娜被怪物金字塔頭領(lǐng)（羅伯特·凱姆帕尼拉飾）給殺了。在教堂里，羅絲和希比爾發(fā)現(xiàn)了一個邪教組織，為首的是一個叫克里斯塔貝拉（愛麗絲·克里奇飾）的女人?？死锼顾惱嬖V羅絲有一個惡魔，知道莎倫的下落。在說服克里斯塔貝拉幫助他們找到那個惡魔之后，羅絲和希比爾被送到了當?shù)蒯t(yī)院。在那里，克里斯塔貝拉也看到了在羅絲的項鏈里的莎倫照片，看到莎倫和阿勒斯是如此的相像，譴責羅絲和希比爾是女巫。為了能讓羅絲逃跑，希比爾任由鎮(zhèn)上的人們抓住了她，羅絲潛入了醫(yī)院的地下室。在那里，羅絲遇見了躺在床上的被燒傷的阿勒斯，一個樣貌酷似莎倫的女孩。
在一個閃回中，羅絲發(fā)現(xiàn)寂靜嶺有著悠久的女巫橫行的歷史，這源于邪教的理念。在羅絲到來的30年之前，阿勒斯被誣蔑為不知道父親是誰的私生女，她的同學欺負她，而大人們沒有作出任何努力來保護她。達利亞同意了克里斯塔貝拉的建議，她讓邪教組織為阿勒斯“恢復清白”。當達利亞未被允許參加阿勒斯的儀式時，達利亞意識到他們打算殺了她的女兒，于是跑向警察局。阿勒斯在儀式中被燒傷了，在儀式過程中，一場大火意外地燒了起來。
當達利亞和警察一塊返回來時，阿勒斯已被嚴重燒傷了，但還活著。在醫(yī)院里，阿勒斯的痛苦和憤怒使她的黑暗面開始顯現(xiàn)，她復制了另一個自己，把她當作阿勒斯內(nèi)在的邪惡部分。之后阿勒斯飽受身體上的傷痛侵擾，把鎮(zhèn)上的人們拉進了“黑暗”之夢。羅絲了解到，莎倫就是阿勒斯留下來的天真和善良的顯現(xiàn)。閃回之后，羅絲被告知她必須幫助阿勒斯復仇，讓她進入教堂，而克里斯塔貝拉很快就會發(fā)現(xiàn)莎倫，并企圖也燒死她。
就在希比爾剛剛被鎮(zhèn)上的人們殺死獻祭后，羅絲進了教堂，莎倫就要遭受同樣的命運。她用自己對真理的認識面對克里斯塔貝拉，試圖說服邪教，他們是在否定自己的命運?？死锼顾惱滔蛄_絲，她的血滴在了教堂的地板上。血液變成了人口，阿勒斯現(xiàn)身，殺死了克里斯塔貝拉和市民，只剩下達利亞、羅絲和莎倫，她們成了僅有的幸存者。
羅絲和莎倫返回家園；雖然她們和也已回家的克里斯托弗同在一個屋檐下，但他們卻無法看到對方，因為莎倫和羅絲已然死去。