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Sarah 2022-03-16 09:01:04

[I wrote a film review for the first time, I guess it would be incoherent...but no one would have read such an old movie...]

It was during safeway on sale (yes! Safeway!) and saw that the price was cheap. I looked at the content and bought it according to my taste.
When I returned home, my mother scolded me like a waste of money + psychological pressure. The result was forced into the cold palace for a month. After returning home from my mother, I watched it alone in the bedroom.

After reading it again, I couldn't help but read it again.
The whole story is very smooth, really. (I don't want spoilers, and it's still an old movie) And everyone's appearance and acting skills are natural. In addition, the atmosphere is well grasped.
The moth-man’s repression is not the same death fear as an undercover attack, and there is no death trap like the SAW. The theme of the Mothman is about an old man who has lost his lover (Kiel is really handsome (¯﹃¯)) facing the choice between reality (life) and illusion (lover). When he lost his love and felt vague about the meaning of life, he found himself trapped in the small town of Point Pleasant. There he came into contact with a series of weird events that were subtle and connected to him and his lover. In the end, the shady was to force him to make another choice in disguise.
The whole article is about making choices, and of course there are no people who unfortunately have no chance to choose. In the play, the farm uncle Gordon chose knowledge and directly faced his own ending. Leek chose to give up and turned a deaf ear to what happened.
Maybe everyone feels that the topic afterwards is going to be bad, and I won't go into it anymore. But when faced with choices, many times there is no answer at all. Maybe I hope no one can make a better choice than what I have made now?

Sorry for the topic.

I have to admit that the plot tension is really not big enough, and it's a little flat. Because the depression in the Mothman is psychological, potentially, and unlike most suspense films, the entire plot actually takes place in broad daylight on the street. Many viewers see it here! right! Will not get used to it. Because from the beginning to the end, no one thought that there would be any horror and murderous things.
But on the other hand, this kind of subject matter can only become more ridiculous if it can be made into those terrorist killing intent. The horror inside is all things that may happen in life, when you receive a call from someone who knows exactly what you are doing; no matter how you drive, you will return to a place; even if you open the phone and throw it aside, you can continue to ring ( Okay, this kind of subject matter is gone, but don’t forget, there is no resentful spirits here...). Always raise the depressed atmosphere to another level.

After reading the original (roughly), I think it's really good to be able to change it like this (remember that Indrid Cold's source is the original novel), and it's as close to the original history as possible. For example, the whole Mothman incident did happen in the place in the movie. At the same time, the bridge did break when the mothman appeared (1966/11/15-1967/12/15). There were many sightings of the mothman immediately after the break (but I remember that the bridge was broken because of other Except for the plane crash, almost all the bridge sections also occurred at that time.

Another excerpt from the classic lines:
John Klein: I think we can assume that these entities are more advanced than us. Why don't they just come right out and tell us what's on their minds? [Well, we can assume that these entities are indeed It's much better than us. So why would they refuse to come out and tell us what they are thinking? 】

Alexander Leek: You're more advanced than a cockroach, have you ever tried explaining yourself to one of them? 】One

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Alexander Leek: If there was a car crash ten blocks away, that window washer up there could probably see it. Now, that doesn't mean he's God, or even smarter than we are. But from where he's sitting, he can see a little further down the road. [If someone is washing the car outside ten streets. The person who was washing the windows in the tall building should be able to see it. Well, this does not mean that he is God, or smarter than us. But from where he sits, he can see farther than us. 】


Tan Shou, don’t you need to say anything?

By the way, ED is great.

Overall comment: 4 points for overall impression. The overall plot +1, the bridge is slightly flat -1, the acting is natural +1

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The Mothman Prophecies quotes

  • Alexander Leek: I knew a building was going to blow up, and I tried to prevent it. But no one listened.

    John Klein: What happened?

    Alexander Leek: People died.

  • [John is on the phone with Indrid Cold, with the blinds shut and the lights off - he hides his watch]

    John Klein: Where's my watch?

    Indrid Cold: In your shoe. Under the bed.