I think that the creation of the mothman in this movie was not very successful. I vaguely remember that on TV, the trailer stated that this was a real incident. It is said that even the US NSA has related files in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. There were hundreds of sightings in the town, and some were even collective sightings. The propaganda methods used by Taiwanese local filmmakers back then were simply amazing and endless. The trailers really sold too much, but in the play, we can only feel the mothman through inexplicable phone calls, dictations from residents, and investigations by the male protagonist. The presence. The mothmen in the play did not actually show up. This has caused many spectators with a curiosity mentality to enter the theater to see what monsters they found in the United States during the Cold War. Feeling disappointed, this is also one of the main factors that the film has received a lot of bad reviews.
According to the old professor in the film, the moth man is more similar to a spiritual body than an entity. This moment deliberately shows hallucinations, similar to the warning lights, traffic lights, and car lights on the road, all like the two red eyes of a mothman. Was it the people's illusion that it became an urban legend that became more and more widespread, or did they witness something unexplainable, so that the news was deliberately covered up for many years. The sound effects of this film bring the dramatic tension to the fullest, with the mothman’s omniscient perception, and its predictions are often connected with death, allowing people to feel the horror and spiritual atmosphere, which is completely different from the traditional Hollywood horror film style. As long as the viewers feel hairy in their hearts, they can not help but feel the feeling of moth people everywhere. This shooting technique is commendable. After many years, my views on many things have changed. I think the real main proposition of this film is that things are impermanent. People's life is often a constantly changing process, and things come suddenly without warning. The main highlight of this film is to make the warning appear, whether the regret can be restored after the warning, and whether there is a soul after death. If we can know the date of the last day of our lives, can we still live as usual after we know it? Is it because we don’t know that we can live without any worries for the time being? Do most people don’t want to know? People have misfortunes and blessings, and the moon is cloudy and sunny. I feel that the main theme of the film basically fits the meaning of this sentence. The horrible image of the moth man is just a showy gimmick in the film, and the impermanence of the world after the prediction is fulfilled is the focus of the film. The dead are gone, the living are like this. Therefore, we can only cherish everything at the moment. What we really fear is the unavoidable parting of life and death in life.
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