Extended Reading
  • Lurline 2022-03-24 09:03:26

    Takabe is the mastermind behind the scenes

    This is just my personal understanding, don't make a mistake.
             It can be seen from Sakuma's death that the senior minister is the mastermind behind the scenes. This can explain why Sakuma still committed suicide while Mamiya was imprisoned, because he touched Takabe's secret, that...

  • Anabel 2022-01-19 08:02:04

    Some views on the "true murderer".

    1. The "True Murder" is the person who appears in the videotape, a genius hypnotist who uses the gestures in the videotape X and a phonograph to give hypnotic hints. The hypnotized person can be called a "messenger" with its own hypnotic attributes.

    2. The young man with amnesia, a male...

  • Angie 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    Use the distorted noise of sound and the dark and alienation of space to show the suppressed hideous side of human nature. The pictures are exquisite to the extreme, and Kurosawa does not tell the story of a serial killer, but seeks the most terrifying origin in the depths of the spirit during the layers of hypnotism. The last scene in the restaurant is calm and restrained. Yakusho Koji has eaten all the food and paid to leave. Everything seems normal, but it makes people shudder.

  • Wilbert 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    Kurosawa Kiyoshi's horror films are always so elusive. They explore the good and evil of human nature in a suspenseful and thrilling framework. Weird forces and chaos have never been his thing. All the fears in the film stem from the distortion and invisibleness of human nature. the subconscious mind. This film is similar to his "The Devil's Loop", with calm and restrained long shots, slow narration and a suspenseful atmosphere throughout, it is difficult to understand the brilliance and depth of the film without seeing the end.

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