Under the Shadow Comments

  • Zane 2022-12-10 04:06:53

    Although it is a mother's perspective, because I never personified toys when I was a child, I couldn't empathize with my daughter, which caused the whole empathy to decline. It can be regarded as an externalization of panic and anxiety, but the horror aspect is not enough. After the Islamic Revolution, the hostess' family still retains the remnants of freedom. I didn't expect that Jian Fangda's gymnastics have been popular in...

  • Concepcion 2022-11-20 19:55:32

    The female figure in the cramped shadow is even frightened by the mirror image of herself wearing a suffocating veil. The wind picked up, and the ominous force invaded with the sound of the wind that was surging all the time. The first half comes from the mental oppression of the current situation and the apartment environment, and the horror after the transition. The fright points are not set much but they are weird enough, and the timing is also good. Not fleeing ghosts, but unwilling to be...

  • Cielo 2022-11-11 20:28:35

    The symbolism is too strong, it is more like a sociopolitical criticism film. Horror films are just borrowed skins, so there is less ambiguous beauty, but in such a society, horror can only be bigger and more...

  • Demetrius 2022-09-28 03:38:00

    Falling off tape, bed sheet double, cellar swamp, old man in the wall, big mouth baby. Air raids outside the window, religious oppression, prohibited video cameras, Tehran city life in the background of the Iran war in the 1980s, excellent...

  • Colleen 2022-09-23 08:06:00

    Metaphors are not blunt, and the director's handling of the plot is very good, but the story is really too simple, and metaphors can't form a...

  • Daphne 2022-09-19 03:47:14

    The theme is first, and under the shadow of the title, it points directly to spiritual oppression. Using horror film genre elements with metaphorical symbols, it wraps clear political demands and expresses the difficulties of modern Iranian women in a high-pressure living environment. In the background of the Iran-Iraq war, the social environment is turbulent, there are ghosts in the heart, and everything you see is ghosts. The cracks and holes in the ceiling are like foreign fears invading the...

  • Jordi 2022-09-10 19:16:30

    It seems to me that it is also a work that concretizes fear (the concretization of fear of war), but in the second half of the journey, it still goes to the traditional thriller routine. Some of the magical realism that only people in turbulent countries are accustomed to are the bright spots, such as the air-raid bomb outside the opening conversation window, which the two are accustomed to or even unaware of....

  • Chelsea 2022-09-09 03:16:08

    Although the scene is small and cramped, the layout is not small. It can be said to be the best horror movie script in the recent past. After the Iran-Iraq War and the Islamic Revolution, the secular women's mental torture performance of the gradual collapse of various situations. It is vivid and scary. Although the number of shock points is small, it is expected. The heroine's insistence on staying at home shows her willpower not to submit to conservatives, but the final result is as sighing...

  • Jovanny 2022-09-08 18:07:48

    I don't really understand how beautiful the heroine...

  • Orpha 2022-09-04 06:52:18

    As a horror film, the techniques and stories are not new, but rather old-fashioned and deliberate. Those friends who are crying and crying are suggested to practice their courage from Wen Ziren's works; from the perspective of political metaphor, the devastation of war It goes without saying that the depiction of the status of women in the Middle East is also involved. Social turmoil brings people shackles and shackles, and displacement is the norm. Although there are some questions, but the...

Extended Reading
  • Margarette 2022-10-12 07:28:36

    War is scarier than ghosts

    "Under the Shadow". It's a bit similar to the "Undead" I've seen before. But the difference is that "Undead" is a pure comedy simile anti-war genre film with black techniques, and the male protagonist is a soldier. And "Under the Shadow" is a way of excavating the fear and even despair brought...

  • Norberto 2022-10-11 18:46:55

    The shadow that cannot be escaped

    The more I think about it, the more I feel that Under the Shadow really has too many metaphors, or is it a simile... At the beginning, the story is set during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, and what cultural revolution did the heroine participate in (I don’t know if it’s a translation issue), I...