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Today I'll show you a horror film: "Candyman"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
The movie begins in a small town inhabited by minorities, called Cabrini-Green,
during the year 1977
A young boy nicknamed "Kid" is walking in the town, heading to the laundry shop
The police officers suddenly stop him,
and ask him if he saw the wanted man in the picture, named "Sherman"
He then says he is not familiar with Sherman, and proceeds to go to the laundry shop
Inside, he notices a strange hole in the wall
As he is about to leave, Sherman walks out from the hole with his hook hand, while holding candies
Upon seeing him, Kid screams at the top of his lungs out of fear
The scream catches the attention of the police officers
As they appear to respond to the situation,
the scene suddenly moves towards the present-day Cabrini-Green
After many years, Cabrini-Green's is now fully gentrified
The community tower is torn down, and most of its poor inhabitants are driven away
In exchange, the rich people built newer buildings in the area
A visual artist named "Anthony," with his girlfriend,
an art gallery director nicknamed "Beauty," is one of the newly moved people in the gentrified town
To celebrate their new home, Beauty's brother, called "Brother" for short,
visits them and brings wine
Brother criticizes Beauty for buying a home in the town, believing that the town is haunted
Brother then tells them a creepy urban legend about Helen Lyle,
a white grad student who went mad after coming to Cabrini-Green for research purposes
It was believed that Helen beheaded a rottweiler, and played with its blood
As the police chased her,
she proceeded to escape and killed people along the way, leaving trails of bodies
She then abducted a baby,
and attempted to sacrifice the baby during the annual Cabrini-Green bonfire
But the residents were able to grab the baby from her
After that, she walked right into the fire to burn herself, sacrificing herself instead
The following day, in his work,
the boss tells Anthony that his new painting seems to lack inspiration
The boss then suggests utilizing the history of Anthony's racial community
as an inspiration for his new art
Anthony realizes that
he can take a look at the history of Cabrini-Green's black community for inspiration
He then browses the internet to read articles about the community
After learning about it, he goes to visit the remaining old structures of the former Cabrini-Green
As he takes a picture of the abandoned church,
a bee suddenly stings him creating a mark on his hand
After that, he comes to the old fenced houses, finding most of them completely abandoned;
a concrete sign that the black community are driven away from there
But among the abandoned houses,
there are still few remaining members of the black community that still tries to settle there,
despite the apparent discrimination
One of them is Kid, who is now a grown-up, and owns a laundromat
Anthony fortuitously encounters Kid, who agrees to reveal the mystery behind the story of Helen Lyle
Kid reveals that Helen comes to Cabrini-Green, looking for the urban legend Candyman
In response, Anthony asks Kid about Candyman
For Kid, Candyman is Sherman, who got wanted by the police
It turns out that the police wrongfully accused the hook-handed Sherman because of his race
He was accused of putting razor blades on candies,
which were accidentally eaten by a white girl, leading to her death unfortunately
To avoid the police, Sherman hid behind the walls of the laundromat
Everyone fears Sherman during that time,
so the young, innocent Kid alerted the police upon seeing him
The police then swarmed to unjustly beat Sherman, leading to his gruesome death
And weeks later, everyone realized that Sherman was innocent,
since they found more razor blades in candies, despite his death
Everyone then believed that Sherman's spirit continues to live as Candyman
What's more, it is believed that anyone who speaks "Candyman" five times in the mirror, will summon him;
he will appear in the mirror reflection, to kill whoever said his name
Upon knowing Candyman's story, Anthony finally gains inspiration for his art
He then proceeds to create art, that depicts the violence Sherman suffered from the police officers
After finishing the art, he shows it to Beauty, and shares Candyman's story
Anthony then reveals to her that they can summon Candyman,
by saying his name five times in the mirror
Out of curiosity, Anthony tries it
The frightened Beauty stops him, but he continues
Beauty then playfully beats the shit out of Anthony
Unnoticed, Candyman suddenly appears in the reflection;
but weirdly enough, he does not kill Anthony, who said his name
After some time, Anthony successfully developed an art exhibit inspired by Candyman
Confident in his creation, Anthony presents his art exhibit in an art gallery
The story of Candyman suddenly gets the curiosity of a young student,
and takes a look at his art exhibit
Meanwhile, the art critic takes a look at Anthony's art exhibit, and notices the change in his style
To Anthony's disappointment, the art critic is not impressed,
upon seeing his depiction of the violence in the process of gentrification,
thinking that the idea is already a cliché
The other artist also mocks Anthony's work by making sarcastic remarks about it;
while the boss and his girlfriend laugh at it
This leads to an exchange of negative words between him and the boss
That night, as the boss and his girlfriend express their disappointment in Anthony's work,
they suddenly get curious about Candyman
They then mockingly say Candyman's name five times in front of the mirror,
which is part of Anthony's art exhibit
Candyman appears in the reflection,
and instantly slits the girlfriend's throat, making her bleed to death
Candyman only appears in the reflection, but he can influence the world outside the mirror
Upon seeing his girlfriend's gruesome death from Candyman's hook-hand,
the boss tries to escape out of the gallery in fear
But he finds the door locked
Candyman then slits his ankle, and grabs him back
In the end, Candyman grabs the helpless boss with his hook, and chokes him to death
The following day, Beauty comes to the art studio,
and finds the dead bodies of the boss and his girlfriend, making her scream in fear
The news about the dead bodies quickly spreads, and the police officers begin their investigation
Later at night, Beauty is having a bad dream of her childhood traumatic experience,
after witnessing her father commit suicide
Candyman also appears in her dream, which instantly wakes her up
She comes to tell Anthony about her bad dream, but he also acts strangely that night
It seems that Anthony is getting more obsessed with the mystery behind Candyman
So the next day, Anthony comes to the university to learn more about Helen,
and her possible encounter with Candyman
As Anthony enters the elevator, it begins to malfunction, and a sharp candy appears out of nowhere
He takes a look at the mirror, and finds his reflection appearing as the bloody Candyman,
scaring the smelly shit out of him
The elevator door suddenly opens, as if nothing happened;
the confused students see him frantically moving inside
After that, Anthony appears to be more inspired,
as he keeps on spontaneously painting different abstract faces on the canvas
He is painting differently, as he seems to paint the faces out of the madness
Also, his hand injury from the bee sting is getting severe
Suddenly, he receives a call from the art critic, inviting him for an interview
It turns out that the art critic gets interested in his work,
after it becomes famous because of the murder of the boss and his girlfriend
To let the art critic engage in his work, he dares her to say Candyman's name on the mirror
She then excuses herself, and goes to the bathroom, presumably saying Candyman's name
Meanwhile, Anthony walks to the hallway, and notices his mirror reflection appears as Candyman
He then keeps moving; and the Candyman reflection follows his exact movement,
confirming that he truly appears as Candyman in his reflection
In fear, he runs out of the apartment, leaving the art critic alone in her apartment
The Candyman then proceeds to murder the art critic for saying his name earlier
Later, Anthony and Beauty come to a dinner meeting with the prominent artists
During the dinner, everyone reads the news about the art critic's name;
and Anthony turns out to be the suspect, as he is the last person to come into her apartment
At this moment, Anthony realizes that Candyman murdered the art critic,
since he dared her to say Candyman's name
He then abruptly leaves the dinner meeting, and heads to Kid to learn more about Candyman
Kid reveals that Candyman is not a single person,
but a whole group of racial violence victims like Sherman
This means that Candyman appears, using the faces of racial violence victims
This implies that Candyman, as an urban legend,
is a representation of generational violence experienced by the community
Apparently, the faces painted by Anthony out of his madness,
are the different faces that appear to be Candyman
Kid then shares to Anthony the origin of Candyman
It turns out that the original Candyman was a prominent painter during the 1890,
who committed the greatest sin of that time, that is, to fall in love with a white woman
Upon finding out about their affair, the white woman's father hired men to punish the painter,
by cutting off his arms and placing a hook in exchange
After that, the hired men put honey on his body, and let the bees sting him
They then burned him in front of a crowd, leading to his painful death
This explains why Candyman appears with a hand-hook, and is always accompanied by bees
After that, Anthony comes home, and finds Beauty taking a look at his paintings,
which depict the different forms of Candyman
So he warns Beauty not to take a look at it
He informs the confused Beauty, that Kid told him he possibly brought Candyman back to reality
To prove to Anthony that Candyman is not real, Beauty attempts to summon him in the mirror
But Anthony angrily smashes every mirror to prevent her
She then gets scared, upon seeing Anthony behave like a mad man;
and she leaves him alone in their apartment
The next day, the student who saw Anthony's art exhibit,
dares her friends to summon Candyman in the restroom mirror
They then say his name in front of the mirror
As they are about to leave, they find the door locked
Candyman then kills the trapped naughty students one after the other
The restroom then gets filled with screams and blood from the students
In the meantime, Anthony comes to the hospital in Cabrini-Green to get checked,
since his bee sting wound started to spread throughout his body
The doctor welcomes him back, saying he was born in that hospital
He is surprised upon hearing it,
since her mother tells him that he was born in a hospital in another town
After realizing that his mother lied to him, he confronts his mother,
asking her why she lied about his birthplace
His mother then reveals that she only lied to protect him from his dark past,
so he would grow up living a normal life
It turns out that he was the baby involved in Helen Lyle's story;
so his mother tells him the truth about the story
Contrary to the urban legend, Helen saved him,
and Candyman is the one who abducted him, and attempted to burn him in the bonfire
Fortunately, Helen came to save him from the fire
But she got burned to death instead of him, after saving him
After that, the community had a pact to never speak Candyman's name again,
so he would never return to the world ever
Unfortunately, someone broke the pact, and brought Candyman back to the world
Candyman then finds Anthony again, after he summoned Candyman in the mirror
Apparently, Candyman did not kill Anthony after saying his name,
because he chose Anthony to be the next Candyman
After learning the truth, he walks out of his mother's house, completely devastated
He then proceeds to wander aimlessly along Cabrini-Green
Meanwhile, the concerned Beauty notices that Anthony is missing
She calls every friend of Anthony; but no one saw him
Suddenly, she remembers Kid, who keeps telling Anthony about Candyman
She then comes to the laundromat to ask Kid about Anthony
But upon arriving there, Kid abducts her, and brings her towards the abandoned church
It turns out that Kid also kept Anthony, who appears to be completely unaware of everything,
because of his deteriorating mental and physical condition
At this moment, it is revealed that during his childhood,
Kid did not only witness the violence inflicted on Sherman,
but he also witnessed how Sherman's vengeful spirit
through Candyman comes back to the world even after his death
Apparently, he saw with his own eyes how Candyman brutally murdered his sister,
after she summoned Candyman in front of the mirror
Kid then does not want the violence he witnessed in his community to be forgotten,
so he plans to continue the Candyman urban legend
To execute his plan, he aims to help Anthony to meet his destiny as the next Candyman
He then calls the police and reports Anthony as the serial killer,
responsible for the deaths caused by Candyman,
knowing that the police will unjustly shoot Anthony to death,
because they think black life doesn't matter
To have a witness for the lawless violence that will take place,
he abducts Beauty to let her see what will happen, and be the storyteller
After calling the police, Kid helps the deteriorating Anthony to finally transform into Candyman
Kid cut Anthony's arms with a saw,
and shoves a hook in exchange, making him finally appear as the Candyman
Fortunately, Beauty escapes, and hides in an abandoned house where Kid chases her
As he enters the house, Beauty instantly stabs him in the eyes, making him fall to the ground
Beauty then repeatedly stabs him to death
Anthony arrives at the scene, and tries to embrace her
But due to his deteriorating condition, he falls to the ground and gets completely paralyzed
In a few moments, the police finally arrive and instantly shoot the helpless Anthony to death,
without asking questions
Beauty then witnessed the lawless violence unraveling in, with her own eyes
The police then bring the handcuffed Beauty outside
The police chief arrives, and puts her in the SUV
The police chief blackmails her into testifying against Anthony:
if she refuses to testify against him, the police will put her in prison
Completely horrified by the lawlessness of the police,
she decides to summon Candyman, hoping he will appear to kill them
She then takes a look at herself in the car mirror, and says Candyman five times
In a few moments, a police officer walks out of the house bleeding
Apparently, Anthony resurrects as Candyman, as they see him walking out of the abandoned house,
to execute the police officer one after the other
After killing every police officer outside, Anthony walks in front of the police chief,
completely surrounded by bees; and he disappears
Upon seeing that Anthony is gone, the police chief attempts to run away from the scene
Beauty follows the police chief, and finds him getting murdered by the original Candyman
After murdering the police chief, the original Candyman instructs her to tell everyone the story
This means that she will tell the story of Anthony, a victim of lawless violence,
who comes back to the world as Candyman to take revenge
Therefore, the Candyman urban legend will be passed on; and in this sense,
the history of lawless violence that their community experienced,
continues to live on together with it
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