, although the movie is obscure and the movie cannot be avoided
, the 2006 Hollywood horror movie "Silent Hill" (Silent Hill), invested by Sony Pictures, is very popular in China. The movie based on the classic role-playing game of the same name gained a lot of attention during its early publicity thanks to the game's popularity. However, after the film was released, the response was mediocre. Professional film critics and general audiences generally reported that the film's performance was too obscure; those super fans of the "Silent Hill" game seized some plot points and made great articles, believing that the director's grasp of the three-dimensional world is very good. the error. (They don't think the worlds of different "meta" intersect. When a husband searches for a missing wife in a real-world town, he doesn't smell the perfume of his wife who has entered the world of the table.)
Watching Silent Hill, I Didn't even know a series of games of the same name existed. With almost beautiful pictures, puzzling Chinese subtitles, and half-understood American English, I finished the movie in less than two hours; but it took me almost two nights to think about what the movie was going to show.
Indeed, for many viewers who have not played the game of the same name, understanding the "three-dimensional world" is not easy. But this does not mean that we understand the film as a death sentence. In fact, the intense human redemption and maternal love that runs through the entire play have transcended the relatively obscure plot and entered the hearts of the audience.
From this perspective, it does not seem to matter whether you have played games or not. Games provide the film with inspiration for stage design and a platform for story development; however, the two different artistic expressions must not overlap 100%. The movie "Silent Hill" will not give the audience any task or plot, but it can leave people to think and inspire.
Throughout the whole film, outside of the shocking visual at first, it seems that the plot is not so fascinating, and it is almost illogical, which makes people confused. I simply repeat the word "obscure" mentioned above to express my meaning. . However, it incorporates the director's profound thinking on the whole society: animal desire, selfishness, fear, revenge, and even religious heresies; of course, it also includes the pursuit of good qualities: tolerance and the strong maternal love and family care that runs through the film. .
I think the audience of a movie should care more about what the movie says to us than how much the movie and the game overlap. Just watch the movie "Silent Hill" and you can also be shocked by some kind of soul.
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