Eight years later, when I watch it again, I am still shocked. What this story leaves us is not only the exciting main storyline of finding the missing son, but also warms the viewer's nerves after the prayer at the end is fulfilled.
Family love is an eternal theme in the thriller theme. It can dilute many horror elements and make the whole achieve a specific balance.
The background tone used in this film is fresh and cool colors, supplemented by a slightly depressing and sharp soundtrack, interlaced with rainy and snowy weather, competing to render a gloomy and gloomy atmosphere.
The clues of the film are a treasure hunt game. If you can find the corresponding "treasure" according to the clues, you will have a wish fulfilled.
The first treasure hunt experience, which Simon and the heroine did together, allowed Simon to confirm the fact that he was adopted. At the same time, he became more trusting in his new friend Thomas, and on the contrary, his attitude towards his adoptive parents Get aggressive.
There is cause and effect. Behind the peace of a mask party, a child wearing a whistle and a tattered mask appeared. This is also a crucial plot of the whole film, which directly echoes the cumulative montage that explains the final story at the end. A contrasting effect, like a steel needle, swiped through the reader's mind, leaving a lingering lingering fear in an unusually vivid way.
If there is no long-term search, how can there be obsessions and madness; if there is no game of life and death, how can the secret mystery of the room be discovered; if there is no clear sky coast, how can there be sorrow and torture. When all searches are quiet, when all sounds are muted, when all midnight dreams return to nothingness, the heroine finally compromises on the edge of despair. As the dusty files were uncovered one by one, in order to find the child, she had to fulfill the wish of the dead soul. Don't be afraid of death, I will accompany you to play this game.
In addition, "The Lonely Castle" creates a thrilling atmosphere, and the details are particularly outstanding. From the sudden closing of the door, to the sound of the trembling walls moving, from the silhouette of a person seen from a distance by the seaside cave, to the sudden collapse of the bed with the warmth behind him, to the shabby puppet found in an accidental car accident, There was a clear and unmistakable fact that there were other people around her.
When she found a pile of bones in a small shed, she used a set of parallel montages for photography. As the camera zoomed in, the music became more rapid, which is also a quite appropriate propaganda method.
True and illusory, mysterious and real, intertwined with the past and reality, the theme of "searching for a child" is like a sharp blade, penetrating through all the sorrows and fogs, directly hitting the most tense point in the souls of thousands of people, and finally let us get At the moment when the mother and son meet again, the revolving camera overlaps with whispering words, but in an instant, everything shatters into an unbearably cold reality.
It turned out that the loud sound of the partition wall was the moment Simon fell down the stairs. It turned out that there was nothing in the thin blanket, and all that was left were the cold corpses that attracted mosquitoes and flies. Is hiss the end of it all? Is this empty building with only the sound of the wind the end of it all?
Obviously not.
When the wind stopped and the trees were quiet, when the heroine slowly opened her eyes, all the brightness replaced the gloom in the field of vision. In another time and space, Simon was resurrected, and her wish came true. She won the game, she won the life, and finally gave us the glimmer of light at the lighthouse.
At this moment, the originally desolate and lonely large room was filled with the laughter and laughter of children, and under the beam of light shot from far away, everything seemed as warm and beautiful as before.
By flicking away the dust of old things, the harvest may not only be the whistle sound left behind in childhood, but also the melody that cannot be known. I am very grateful for such a good work, which not only interprets what a mother’s love is-it is always persistent and firm in a desperate situation, but also cleans the inch of land in our hearts.
Lu Shishi 2018.11.7
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