The Gospel Movie: The Gospel Film Crossing the Bridge by the Devil
is directed by M. Night Shyamalan, director of <
>. It does not surprise me that it has a Christian message. Stars talk about confidence----just didn't expect that this time, the dolls and intestines were drawn, which changed the myth and fable of the modern background. Horror themes are used to attract audiences, but audiences who have been through battles and want to be scared may want to cut the stool, because the director just uses the intrigue of the trapped room and the routine of "who is the next dead" to embed Come up with a story to express the main message: Only confession and forgiveness can resist the devil's attack.
Five characters are trapped in the elevator, with different genders, races and personalities, just like <>, a metaphor for the common situation that "all human beings" may face. The elevator was stuck between the 20th and 21st floors, and the firefighters could not open it for a while. Security guards and police detectives watched CCTV helplessly, watching innocent staff and characters in the elevator die one by one. Catholic Latino security guards A glimpse of the devil's face flashed by, convinced that it was evil. The development of the plot is that the rational detective gradually believes in the security guard's point of view, and in some cases, he resolves a knot in his heart, that is, five years ago, his wife and children were killed by a drunk driver on the road. Zhang "I'm sorry" note, has been in the heart, so I can't believe that God exists.
The layout of the trapped room is reminiscent of the <> (SAW) series, but the director just goes against the audience. Every time someone dies, the lights in the elevator go out, and then there are some collision sounds, and the lights turn on again. There were casualties. The first or second time may feel suspenseful and tense, and after four or five repetitions, you will really yawn. That is to say, while other horror films have the selling point of prolonging and amplifying the death process of characters, this one is pitch-dark; even if there is a dead person dying outside the elevator, it is a secret account. That is to say, the director does not want the audience to enjoy and watch other people's death at all; the death in the elevator is not as thoughtful as the <> series, the devil does not appear in the form of "fate", but directly like a monster. Violence. The screenwriter just wants to explain the plot of "someone died", which is contrary to the current trend of horror films, and is not afraid of disappointment for the audience.
The plot of the five characters in the trapped room suspecting each other and attacking each other is a better place in the movie, but it is far less than the way <> depicts the characters and creates tension at the same time, and the conflict and cooperation between the characters is further The characters' personalities are described, and the structure is tight; the five characters in <> are all sinners with "shit", but only the police find out, the audience knows, but the people inside the elevator don't know, their conflict is with The secrets in each person's heart are irrelevant, so the plot seems to be loose. This is because their sins are not the point, but the religious explanation given by the Catholic security guard is the main thread - he is also the narrator of the narration, from the beginning he tells the religious story told by his mother, from which he understands the nature of the devil (eg the devil acts when someone commits suicide, harms innocents who are blocking the head, etc.). As for what crimes the characters in the elevator committed before, and how they died, it doesn't matter in the end, it seems like it's just a cutscene, so that the mission will develop until the only survivor faces the devil (actually incarnate as one of the characters), Overcoming his temptation, admitting that he was the one who killed people while driving while drunk, but he was so remorseful that he was willing to accept death, and finally gave the detective a chance to unravel years of stagnation.
There are a lot of rude things in the script. For example, the person who jumped off the building at the beginning left a suicide note that seemed to have some clues, but it was finally settled; the security guard did not immediately call firefighters or engineering personnel to rescue the elevator when he found out that the elevator was malfunctioning. The plot of the detective is also abrupt; before going to work to investigate the case, he had breakfast with a friend, and the friend kept telling him to "put down his resentment", which was very hard; finally he was in the police car to the arrested survivor (the driver who killed his wife and child by mistake) Say: I forgive you. Of course it's a happy ending, but there's not enough room for the detective's psychological changes here. An enemy who has been haunted for many years suddenly appears in front of him, at least for a moment, will the resentment erupt? No, he was just surprised and dazed when he heard the survivors admit their mistakes. Does witnessing the supernatural wonders of the devil do it with your own eyes will naturally give rise to a heart of forgiveness? It seems that the description of psychological changes has been a few steps for a long time, and the ETV-style ending can't wait to run out. In fact, he could have forgiven later -- when the survivor confessed his mistake, he thought it would take the detective to say "I forgive you" to save him, which seems to be a bit of a causal relationship. But theologically, that’s not enough, because the real authority to forgive sins is in God’s hands, not in man’s hands; for man to forgive others, he is freed himself.
Although the Catholic security guard at the end said that if the devil really exists, so does God, to explain why there are still people who survived, which sounds reasonable. With the Christian message that runs through the whole film, Christians may fill in the script full of loopholes and take the right seat, but the general audience will not do that. Some characters died unexpectedly. If all characters are like this, and the sense of crisis in life is aggravated like <>, the audience will feel more real, and may imagine that the devil will appear in the form of "bad luck". However, the focus of <> is supernatural events, and all the evidence will only be unsolved cases, so it can only be viewed as a myth/ghost story; the audience can’t feel the existence of “devils”, so they won’t feel that either. "God exists".
All in all, <> is not too good. As a suspenseful thriller movie, it is not as good as other series; as a drama combining Christian messages and commercial elements, it is not as good as Bruce Almighty, but still better than the Hong Kong-made film. Good Gospel Movies.
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