Yes, the director of the film, John Carpenter, is among the above-mentioned followers of the evil god who have suffered irreversible spiritual pollution. In terms of the title and content, the film is offering burnt offerings to the indescribable priest Lovecraft. Pray that when the ultimate madness comes when the stars are in position and the old dominators return to the world, you will be lucky enough to be the last one as a sacrifice.
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."-As Lowe pointed out in the opening chapter of his famous paper "The Supernatural Terror in Literature", he In almost all of his "Cthulhu Mythology" series of works, he is playing with the concept of "unknown fear" wildly.
What is "the unknown fear"? Imagine that when two ants are crawling on the ground one after the other, the ants in the back perceive the presence of the ants in front through their antennae, and then someone suddenly pinches the ant in front, what will happen? For you, this may be fun, and you may study the poor ant in your hand. But if you are the ant behind, since your sensory world is purely two-dimensional, you only know the front, back, left, and right, and there is no concept of up and down. Obviously you will think that your companion has suddenly disappeared from this world. According to your common sense, nothing will disappear out of thin air-but your companion has disappeared out of thin air! This disappearance does not matter. The edifice of reason, common sense, and experience you have built from birth to the present has all collapsed-the universal gravitation of rules and order suddenly disappears, and the tentacle of obedience to reason touches in the process of exploring the universe. When encountering its irrational nature, all relative knowns have been deconstructed, distorted, subverted and eliminated. Your body and mind are exposed to the absolute unknown, so you, the ant who lost his companion, is in extreme fear. Following in the footsteps of Denver in "Crazy Mountains", Wilcox in "The Call of Cthulhu", and Jack Waters in "The Dark Corner of the Earth", they fell into an unstoppable madness.
And this film is not only the protagonist’s road to crazy destruction, but also the director Carpenter’s journey toward the above paradigm.
In order to investigate the whereabouts of the mysteriously missing horror fiction writer Satkain, the detective male protagonist began to read his novels, and discovered the writer’s hiding place from the clues hidden on the cover-a map that was not marked at all , Hobb's End, an American town that seems to have long been forgotten. So they embarked on a journey of finding with the hostess. At night, when the male protagonist was sleeping soundly, the female protagonist driving on her behalf repeatedly witnessed the dreamlike and illusory strange phenomenon of unknown meaning-a boy riding a bicycle suddenly became an old man with a terrifying face, and a car hit by a car. Unconsciously, the old man rode on the undamaged bicycle with a mocking smile, the weird and unknown blood-red gleam in the front... This made the heroine who is a loyal reader feel a little uneasy, not believing in evil. The male lead continued to sleep soundly. The next morning, the two came to the small town and checked into Mrs. Pickman’s hotel. The hostess pointed out that the hotel and the entire town were exactly the same as the description in Setcairn’s novel, and she became more panicked. . The male protagonist who still doesn’t believe in evil told her, "This is reality! "It was also alleged that the hostess and the publishing company set up an entire scam in order to create momentum for the new book. However, subsequent investigations unanimously showed that the town was not a temporary construction, and the residents of the town were not actors. When he witnessed the town with his own eyes Under the influence of a certain force, the children on the Internet became bloodthirsty and violent, the desperate father shot and committed suicide, the hotel owner Mrs. Pickman turned into an indescribable monster, and even the female host of the same party lost herself and happened. After the terrible mutation, his rational world blew the horn of collapse. Out of a natural reaction, he tried to drive away from this uncommon sense town, but no matter how he opened, he would eventually return to the town where an evil ceremony was held. In the crowd, until his car went out of control and crashed. When he woke up, he found himself in the church where Setkine was hiding, where he finally learned the truth—all the so-called truths in this universe, including men The Lord himself is nothing but a script already written by the writer, and the writer himself, under the hint of a mysterious and unknown existence, writes what should have happened into a novel. The more believers of a novel, the stronger its power. As a result, he returned to the world. Now, the latest novel has been completed. The protagonist is the male lead. All that happened before is the plot of the novel. The male lead is given a task: take the manuscript of the novel out of the town and deliver it for publication. Every time the male protagonist tries to discard or destroy the manuscripts of the novels, they will always be delivered to the door, even if no one knows his residence. He went to the publishing house to report the situation, only to find that the novel was delivered by him for publication six months ago. With 1 billion readers, he will also be made into a movie to expand the spread, and the last straw that overwhelms him is that the female protagonist who walked with him before does not exist at all, he has been alone from beginning to end. After a believer in Setcairn, he was imprisoned in a lunatic asylum and told a psychologist about all this. But he did not seek understanding, or even wanted to go out, because he already knew that the outside world would no longer be safe in the future. When mankind died out in the collective hysteria caused by Setcairn’s novels, he walked out of the empty, blood-stained lunatic asylum and saw movies in the already empty cinema— The movie based on Setkine’s latest novel, the movie called In the Mouth of Madness, the movie he starred in himself.
In the end, when he discovered the most ridiculous joke buried in that movie, in this universe where reality and illusion intersect, he laughed from the bottom of his heart-the sentence he once said confidently and confidently The line:
"This is REALITY!" It
seems that the male protagonist has gone through a process from initial rationality to madness. However, when everyone is crazy, their madness is reason, and your "reason" becomes madness; when the universe has fully proven to you its crazy and illusory original appearance, what you have relied on in the past Isn't the "reason" and the "truth" that he firmly believes in the true madness and illusion?
The sky is impermanent and the sky is inhuman. We live in a cold, ruthless, meaningless, blind and foolish universe. The superficial and ridiculous two-dimensional concepts of "real" and "illusion" are squeezed out of the poor brain circuits of human ants. , How can you get a glimpse of the universe? Even the movie we watched and our ongoing metaphysical discussions are just like Skyworth TV screens in front of this aimless universe, with buzzing noises and sleepy black and white. Staggered flashes.
The universe is a garden of relative truth and absolute illusion. The more we explore, the more we risk getting closer to the truth, and the closer it is to its only end-fear, nothingness, chaos and madness.
Naifu's poem said:
Heaven
does not do the right way , arrogantly acts its virtues, it is not obvious, and the famine is foolish.
The butterfly dreams in the dynasty, and the dusk dwells in Ke.
Chacha Dangyao, Wenwen is not alive.
Wandering into the wilderness, how to be exhausted?
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