In terms of the degree of shock, the film is actually not too scary, but it is very weird. The director used the source of the box and the hidden objects to arouse the audience's curiosity, and then used scary tricks to create a mysterious atmosphere. One or two scaring scenes are fresh, as if the daughter is exploring what is attached to her throat from the mirror, and the scene of a group of moths dancing around, it is creepy. Of course, the persuasive acting skills of the young actors help a lot. From being curious about the box, to being possessed by the evil spirit, to resisting it in her heart, but finally being conquered by the evil spirit, she was able to perform well, and was compared to other actors.
Perhaps the ins and outs of the "Piaoling Box" have not been completely deciphered at all, so the director did not write too much on the background of the "Piaoling Box," and the story behind the evil spirits is not mentioned. Instead, the main line focuses on the protagonist's family issues. In the two or three scenes, it seems that the protagonist has called an expert to find out the scriptures on the box to instruct people not to open the box, and he holds the box and asks the Rabbi for help to complete the secret of building the box. Such a blank space for the "Floating Spirit Box" undoubtedly makes the story fall into the stereotype of the undead looking for the host for no reason and harming others, making the whole not complete, and the part about the box is not thick enough.
The divorced couples adapt to their new lives, and the eldest daughter enters a rebellious period. Only the youngest daughter still has the hope of reunifying her parents. The director is correct to choose such a family story as the main line. After all, such a family structure is not difficult to find in modern people, so that people with similar experiences can easily substitute into the protagonist's family to resonate.
Furthermore, taking "home" as the central idea of the film can correspond to the evil spirits' motives for finding a host. Isn't the "home" of the evil spirit the human body? The "home" of the evil spirit moves from one host to another, unsteady and lonely. In contrast, many people have great families, but they often don't cherish it. In this way, some ethical issues are brought into the horror, so that the audience can get a respite from the tension.
However, it has to be said that the exorcism scene has not been specially designed, it is commonplace, and the exorcism is also easy. It seems that the development of horror movies has been difficult to make a big breakthrough.
Qi Jiashi
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Background information:
from the online auction network ebay The original owner’s "Dibbuk Box" (Dibbuk Box) described
one of the owner’s granddaughters saying that a grandmother born in Poland was sent to a concentration camp during World War II. The whole family died. Only she survived. She met when she fled to Spain. This small wooden box was brought to the United States by her grandmother after the war. She never opened the box, and she often referred to it as "evil spirit demon", and asked her family to bury the wooden box after her death, but it violated the Jewish Orthodox Church. Customs failed to be implemented. Finally, the owner's granddaughter sold the wooden box together with the old household items.
In 2001, the new owner took a fancy to the wooden box at a civilian grocery stall in Portland, Oregon, so he bought it home with some old things such as sewing boxes. The seller urged him not to open the box door. A place that will not be touched. However, weird events followed one after another;-My
mother had a bizarre stroke and desperately told her family in the hospital that she hated the wooden box
-The door of the wooden box could not be closed tightly and opened automatically
-The owner's family had taken care of the wooden box on his behalf, and happened to be the same. The same nightmare
-the owner and his friends have seen black shadows appearing in the house
-the owner does not have a cat, but often smells the stench of cat urine
-the owner brings a wooden box to work, a colleague suddenly becomes insane and fled the company, and finally He even resigned from the
Los Angeles Times reporter Leslie Gornstein in 2004 to expose the incident of eBay customers hitting evil. It is reported that after the man bought the "Piaoling Box", he stumbled on a series of unfortunate events ;
-The whole house emits a strange smell
-A finger was accidentally broken
-Many dead mice were found in the car engine
-Home electronics products one after another every day Broken
-The 20-year-old owner lost his hair and lost half of it in a few days.
He said that everyone who once owned it has the same experience!
The report of the Los Angeles Times attracted the interest of supernatural/spiritual experts from all over the world. The wooden box was immediately bought by Jason Haxton, the curator of the University Museum, and the ancient words on the box and the objects in the box were studied one by one. With the assistance of religious and cultural scholars, the secrets are solved together as follows; place of
origin and production period: unknown
has been used as a wine storage box, containing the following items:
-1925 and 1928 American 1 cent coins each
-tied with rope blonde and brunette in 1 small bunch
- engraved with the Hebrew small piece of stone
- dry rosebud
- a gold cup
- a candle holder
(official press: the film's ending, indirectly points to the reason put it in the box.)
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