I just watched 8mm again, and I feel unpleasant if I don't say it. This is the second time I've seen it, it's been a few years since the last time I've seen it. Although this is a movie from a big Hollywood studio, it naturally has many flaws of being popular. For example, the length of the film is two hours and five minutes (what is the editor doing?), which can only make the shortcomings of this film even more. exposed.
However, I was still impressed. Nicholas Cage is simply too good at acting. Once again I fell into his struggling and sad eyes.
Briefly tell the story.
The whole story begins with a reel of 8mm film. The widow of a deceased MP found an 8mm film in the relics, which is the whole process of a girl being tortured and killed. The widow hired a private detective, Tom Wells, through the lawmaker's lawyer to investigate the truth, to see if this is a low-cost perverted movie or a snuff. From then on, Tom Wells embarked on a road of no return.
What is Snuff? Snuff is a so-called urban legend, everyone has rumored its existence, but no one has actually seen it. Snuff is a documentary film about death. But it's not like the accident or homicide videos we often see in extreme zones. Snuff is also a movie, but the plot is just torture. In other words, the actor is not an actor, he is a victim, killed purely for snuffing.
Does such a film exist? Maybe it's just an urban legend?
$1 million, from the highly respected congressman, through his lawyer, to violent porn directors, lewd pimps, and their actors. The result is: A 15-year-old girl was killed by a man wearing a black mask, which is quite similar to Ling Chi in our Chinese dynasty.
The director was very smart and did not arrange the masked man as the protagonist of 8mm. The main character is Tom Wells. I like Tom Wells, because he is a normal person, even a good person. Because he's an ordinary good guy, he can't attack bad guys. My favorite scene is this:
He tied the bad guy up and pointed the gun to the bad guy's head. The villain provoked him with words, saying: You are a sissy who can't do anything. Say: Are you going to kill me with the gun registered in your name? Says: You're a bastard, you can't fucking kill me. Some kind of kill show me!
He really couldn't let it go. As a normal person, he couldn't do it. So he needs to incite, he needs to enter the role, and he needs to atone for sin. He is a good man, so he needs to wash his hands before killing another life, even if the person he is going to kill dies a hundred times.
He went out. Lighted a cigarette. Call the girl's mother and wake her up in the middle of the night. Tell her that your daughter, who was missing for 6 years, was killed and made into a film.
What? The girl's mother began to cry.
He said, You told me that you loved her - you used to love her. He howled in pain: Give me your permission - I need your permission to punish your daughter's murderer. He wailed: Please, tell me you once loved her! His eyes were a mixture of pain and anger.
So, holding the pistol, he once again walked into the room where the bad guy was bound. When he came out, he was covered in blood. Dirty blood. The butt of his gun was in his hand.
The scripts for 8mm and 'Seven Deadly Sins' were written by the same person. I personally think this movie is better than Se7en because it doesn't play games in circles with the audience. It brings out the most disgusting side of LA, and then puts a person who is ordinary like you and me in it, let him face it, let him adapt, throw him into the water and force him to learn to swim. The protagonists of 8mm and Se7en explore the same fundamental question: why? Why kill? The protagonist of 8mm asked more detailed and direct questions: Why is there pleasure? After watching this snuff, are you hard? Did you shoot? Why should a girl be tortured and killed for no reason?
8mm gave us two answers:
1. Money
2. Entertainment
For pimps and porn directors, money is their driving force. They can arrange for a girl to be tortured and killed for money. Maybe they were excited, but the long-term human sex trafficking has made them lose interest in both sex and violence. They didn't get erections or ejaculate.
What about MPs? He was mostly erect. Spending a lot of money just to peek at things most people in this world won't see. What I want to know is this: When he watched the girl being tortured and killed, was he the abuser or the abused person in his sexual fantasies? Or filming voyeurs?
The situation of the masked man is more complicated. When the waiting moment finally came, when he took off his mask at the end of the film, the climax turned into an anti-climax. Most people will be disappointed. And it is precisely such a sense of loss that makes me linger on the 8mm. I believe this is also the director's intention.
What kind of face do you think the masked man will have? Beard? Wearing 3 nose rings, with tattoos all over the face?
Do you think the masked man was sexually abused by his parents when he was a child, and like most perverted killers, he had an unspeakable childhood?
Masked man's confession: "The things I do - I do them because I like them. Because I want to. "
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There is also this sentence in the film:
"When you dance with the devil for a while, change It's not the devil, it's you.
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Is there really such an ugly and twisted side of human nature? The
most unforgettable thing for me is Tom Wells' desperate eyes, the extreme helplessness. Children's eyes are clear because they have seen so few things. And Our eyes are branded time and time again. In Tom Wells' last words at the end of the script, "save me", we deeply realize that no matter what is beautiful or ugly, once it is reflected Once in the eye it can never be taken out again.
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