The overall style of the movie still follows Luo Hongzhen's usual gloomy and humid "dirty, messy" aesthetics, and the fog in the mountains of Gucheng where the story takes place adds to the solemn suspenseful atmosphere.
The film retains the extreme harshness of Luohong Town, including the irony of social reality, the police's incompetence in homicides, etc., but there are also many religious, superstition, and supernatural elements, and even heavy tastes such as ghosts and zombies appear. In the screen, the director has created multiple reversals, various character relationships, various cross-editing and montages, deliberately creating suspense, and at the same time providing a lot of hints, even to the end, it is unexpected.
South Korean director Luo Hongjin’s "The Wailing" continues the dark and compassionate style of his first two works "The Chaser" and "Yellow Sea". The plot is long and fascinating. The whole process gives people a dark and oppressive feeling. The ending is not as climactic as the two previous works. However, the film still creates a lot of tense moments, the characters are sad and real, and the overall atmosphere is very good.
The film is a mixture of zombies, religion, occultism and other elements, creating a black vortex of extreme tension and no exit for the audience. In the scene of dancing the great god, Hwang Jeong Min is dressed in colorful clothes and coarse cloth, white flags and red flames are fluttering, the sound of drums and his powerful singing and expressions of righteousness and evil are indeed a delicate experience. Unparalleled audiovisual gluttony.
Although the first half of the film almost only used narrative techniques to pave the way for the police officers in the village to be devastated by the strange incident, but in the middle it began to reverse strongly, making people more and more addicted to watch, and the more reluctant to reveal the truth.
