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Kraig 2022-04-21 09:02:01

There are more than ten minutes of foreshadowing in front of the movie. Through the lens of rainforest, sea stalls and surfing, the beauty that the heroine experienced before the movie is highlighted, and the dramatic effect after the plot twist is deepened by the method of wanting to promote and suppress, which makes the audience have A roller coaster experience.
At the same time, in the process of supporting the heroine and the two men, the cheerful music becomes dull when the camera turns below the sea surface, paving the way for the appearance of sharks, reminding people that the danger lies beneath the beautiful surface. In the first act of the movie, the female protagonist got a prompt from her driver and the two men who were surfing together to go back when it was dark. After the two men landed on the beach, the movie climbed up the beach through a sand crab cluster. , the homing of seabirds, etc. to imply the importance of leaving the sea, and the dolphin rushing out of the sea from the heroine to imply that the shark is coming (the action of the shark preying on the seal). To the audience's heart, the audience has been in a semi-tense state, and the psychological protection of the shark's appearance is reduced, so as to ensure that the first time the shark appears, it can bring the audience the expected horror feeling of the movie.
The seagull Steve has been accompanying the injured heroine. As a reflection, its existence is very important. Like the heroine, he was injured and trapped on the reef, and he could not hunt for food. After the high tide, he would become a shark because of the smell of blood. Food, the heroine's attitude towards this little friend from the initial boredom to the later pity for the same disease reflects the change of the heroine's mentality. The heroine has been looking forward to being rescued by others after being trapped on the reef, but she is repeatedly disappointed. She is also tired of driving seagulls. Later, forced by the rising tide, the heroine finally realized that she had to rely on herself to fight for the hope of survival. Before the action, the heroine treated the injured seagull and sent it away with half a surfboard. The reef that is about to be engulfed by the sea, the film sublimates at this time, and the rescue of the seagull also indicates the possibility of the heroine's reincarnation in crisis. Finally, the heroine is pulled to the beach, and Steve the seagull appears in the camera, announcing the heroine's survival. .
Before the two men left, they did not take away the hostess's bag as the hostess feared, which made the behavior of the drunken man not saving the hostess and taking away the mobile phone and money in front of the hostess unexpectedly. Shark mouth was killed because of coveting the heroine's surfboard. The idea of ​​this small branch is: greed, a deadly original sin. In addition, the picture of the drunk man being attacked by a shark was replaced by the facial expression of the heroine, and at the end of the beach, the drunk man's body was cut in half and still crawling away from the ocean with his dying life. The inner shock is even greater.
The pictures of sharks tearing the human body in the film are all replaced by other pictures. The film avoids the direct description here and deepens the fear of the unknown and imagination.
Here are some questions that the audience will have in the film.
One, why does the shark only stare at the heroine, but not leave?
First of all, sharks are attracted by the dead body of the whale. It will not leave until it has eaten the dead body. The dead body of the whale can effectively provide a lot of energy and is a rare food.
Secondly, this great white shark has been attacked by humans (the hook at the corner of the mouth) and has hatred for humans, so it attacks humans, and there is a lot of blood in the sea water here (the blood of the whale and the heroine) will stimulate the shark's ferocity , not to mention that it hates and kills humans more than predation.
Second, why doesn't the heroine eat seagulls?
The heroine will be hungry, so she will try to eat the sand crab, but she vomited, so the raw food that can be met is indeed not something that a child like her who has not eaten for two days can eat. In addition, the seagull is an insinuation of the heroine. The two take care of each other. The script will not allow the heroine to eat the seagull!
Three, the signal gun ignites the sea line of fire.
The shark came from the whale carcass and brought whale oil, and the oil floated on the water so it was set on fire.
Fourth, after the movie starts, the conversation between the heroine and her family seems to have nothing to do with the plot.
Relevant, not a waste game! Through the dialogue between the heroine and her family, we can know that the reason why the heroine came to the beach is that the heroine loves her mother deeply, because the mother's sick heroine chose to study medicine, which lays the foundation for the heroine's autonomy and treatment of seagulls in the later plot. Basically, the heroine's mother died of illness. The heroine thinks that it is useless for her to study medicine, so she comes to this beach where her mother once came to miss her mother and tries to escape from her family. She has conflicts with her family, such as being ashamed. Confessed in front of the driver that the alcoholic girl was her sister.
Fifth, high-speed diving, the heroine is fine, how did you do it?
You can see the bottom of the sea there, indicating that the sea water is not very deep. According to the data disclosed in the previous plot, a reasonable scientific basis can be drawn here. Of course, for the heroine who has not eaten water for two days, is bleeding, injured, frozen and frightened, she is mentally stunned. We can only understand the situation where we can make a sharp turn to kill the shark in a trance, and we can only understand that the potential to fight to the death has been stimulated. After all, the heroine will faint after that.

To tell the truth, such an amazing movie can be made just by changing the scenes of whale corpse, reef, buoy, and beach. I really admire it in my heart. It is no exaggeration to say that this drama He slapped "Jaws" fiercely.

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The Shallows quotes

  • Nancy: [timing the shark's swimming] I've got you.

  • Carlos: [to Nancy about the island] It is Paradise.