Last year, I watched "Far Cry" starring Yang Mi. This horror film set a legend in the domestic film market in 2011 for small productions in exchange for high box office. I feel quite puzzled Yes, such a low-level film can also get a high box office, either because China lacks such terrifying genre films, or everyone is going for the newly popular Yang Mi.
The reason why it is said to be low-level is because I just watched "Terror Cruise", one of the top ten horror films in the world. In contrast, "Far Cry" is purely to stimulate the audience in terms of perception. The actors are shocked and pale in the film, but the audience may be sneering: the bridge is incoherent, the thinking is not careful, and it can't stand it. Deliberation, naive reasoning, just to be frightened, but not frightened.
Today I'm at home and I have nothing to do, and I watched a Spanish thriller "The Castle", which is also one of the top ten horror films in the world. After reading it, I feel that it is relatively flimsy, and its logical reasoning, shocking, and topical are not as good as "Terror Cruise", but it is much better than "Far Cry". There are similarities between them, for example, they are all horror films, they all use ghosts and ghosts, they are all isolated (or remote) by the sea (middle), and they all feature women as the protagonists, and so on. However, "Citadel Horror" and "Terrorist Cruise" show the love of mother and son, the love of despair and the deep affection of reluctance in a terrifying atmosphere, while "Far Cry" is about treasure hunting and love and hatred. It's a horror chase, and it feels like an entertainment movie.
It is said that it took ten years to write the script of "The Story of the Castle", and it took ten years to sharpen a sword. A good script is the soul of a movie. If you want to tell a story, you have to tell it well. But recently, domestic movies often focus on sound and light special effects or grand and beautiful scenery. Although they are big productions, they are ultimately pale and soulless. A pack of embroidered pillows Zhan, maybe, this is also to cater to the market, the connotation is not enough to supplement the special effects, how can a masterpiece be produced that caters to, of course, they all have a common name, called commercial films, since it is a commercial film, naturally it can not be too demanding, Just sell it. For example, Zhang Yimou's "The Twelve Hairpins of Jinling" did not win any Golden Globe Awards and Oscars, but it won a "Best Sound Editing Award" in the United States on February 22, 2012.
This is actually a simple story. Laura grew up in an orphanage (that is, an ancient castle by the sea) since she was a child. On the day she was adopted at the age of seven, she was playing the game of "One, Two, Three, Wooden Man" with her friends. Thirty years later, married Laura brought her husband and son Simon to the abandoned castle again. She wanted to reopen the orphanage and adopt orphans with disabilities. However, since he came to the castle, Simon has become a little weird and unreasonable. First, he said some inexplicable words, and then inexplicably knew his adopted identity and doubted his mother's love for her. Finally disappeared mysteriously. In order to find Simon, Laura and her husband never gave up any kind of clues, including psychic mediums. Looking back, Laura remembered that she may have accidentally hit the tool against the door a few months ago, causing Simon to die in the basement. Heartbroken, Laura hugged her son tightly, swallowed the sleeping pills, and forever. accompany.
This film is not superior in terms of technology and special effects, but it is very good in terms of camera shooting. The heroine Belen Ruida did not exaggerately express fear, but used forbearance and strength to overcome fear, showing a mother's broad love for her son, just as the heroine said in the film: Simon made her strong. The performances of the other actors are quite normal.
A tender and hopeless mother's love story, put on a horror coat, becomes a horror movie. Some essential elements of a horror film, such as dark tones, unretouched pale faces and wrinkles on the actors' faces, puppets, masks, ghosts, psychics, various sounds, nightmares, bones, etc. Wait. However, under the cloak of horror, I saw the tenderness between mother and son. Perhaps, this is the most moving element.
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