"Curiosity killed the cat", everyone is curious, but if the curiosity is too much, it will bring disaster.
No. 7 Rating: 7.63
Synopsis
Caroline (Kate Hudson), a nurse, thinks the hospital's treatment of the dead is too "humane", so she quits her job.
She soon finds a job as a private nurse, caring for Ben (John Hurt), an elderly man with a stroke, in an old house .
The house is located in a remote mountainous area in the south, and it takes a long time to drive, but then she can live in the house.
Carolan is contacted by Luke (Peter Sarsgaard) , a real estate attorney , who describes Ben's situation.
He can't walk, can't speak, he can only lie in bed at home, and go out to sunbathe in a wheelchair, while Carolan needs to take care of him and take medicine.
Ben is not a lonely old man. He has a wife named Valerie (Gina Rowlands) who hires Caroline to ease the burden.
After Caroline moved into the house, Valerie gave her a master key .
It is said that it can be used to open all the doors in the house, which is very convenient.
Carolan quickly got used to life here, but what surprised her was that there was no mirror in the house.
Everything was fine until one day, Valerie asked Carolan to go to the attic to get something.
After she went up, she found that there was a darkroom in the attic. There seemed to be movement in the room. Curious, she tried to use the master key, but it didn't open.
So Caroline told Valerie about this, but Valerie said that she had never opened the door since she moved here .
This matter has been unable to get rid of Kaeroland's mind.
One day in the middle of the night, an even stranger thing happened. Carolan found that Ben climbed out of the window in the middle of the night, and left three words on his sheets: "Help me" .
Carolan tucked the sheets back, woke Valerie, and the two carried Ben back to the room.
But the next day, Carolan found that the words on the sheets were missing.
Thinking of the darkroom that couldn't be opened, Kelloan always felt that there was some ulterior motive in this house .
This day, she took the opportunity to come to the attic again, and after checking the door lock of the darkroom, she found that there was a broken half key in the keyhole.
After taking it out, Carolan took his key to open the door and entered the darkroom, and found that there were some ancient books, records and photos inside .
People are always curious. Carolan stole a record and went back, wanting to hear what song it was.
I didn't expect that what was released on the record was not a song, but an ancient spell. After asking my best friend Jill, I learned that this is a kind of witchcraft ...
Video Analysis
The film can be called a masterpiece of "turning corruption into magic" . As a horror film, "Master Key" is a very different existence. You may feel very bored during the viewing process, and there are even some in the film. The plots that appear in bad movies, such as the sudden appearance of a voice, will startle you, but after the truth at the end is decrypted, we will find that almost all details are foreshadowing, and the part that made you bored before is really careful thinking Terrible place.
Bad films will portray some characters in a strange way, such as making the image of a good person terrifying, or decorating the image of a bad person beautifully, and then use contrast to create an atmosphere of suspense and horror, and "Master Key" is different , When Caroline first met Violet, she tried to say hello to her, but Violet didn't say a word, just looked at Carolan with her eyes for a few seconds, after watching the movie, we will find that the plot here is very different Accurate, without any pretentiousness, the director not only planted the seeds of suspicion for us, but also did not make us feel very deliberate, but it makes me horrified when I think about this plot .
Bad movies will use some environments to create a sense of horror, such as the sudden opening (closing) of the door, a "squeak" sound, or an item falling on the ground, a "boom" sound, but we will find in the plot later, These plot settings are meant to simply scare us, and we have no way of tracing why. There is also such a plot in "Master Key". When Carolan went to the attic for the first time, the secret door kept shaking, as if someone was inside. The door does not vibrate out of thin air. This ingenious technique not only stimulated our nerves at the time, but also made us marvel at the depth of the director's foreshadowing, which was a bonus for the movie.
There are always some problems with the motives of characters in bad films. For example, in order to advance the plot, the characters will be arranged to do some unreasonable things, which makes us feel stupid and cannot participate in the play at all. And "Master Key" portrays the protagonist very carefully. She told us early in the morning that the heroine Carolan was brooding about her father's death and her inability to take care of her by her side. Later, she was also extremely disdainful of the cold-blooded practices of the hospital, and resigned decisively. She had a reasonable explanation for her behavior afterwards. Facing the stranger Ben she had never met before, she took the risk to save her. Besides her kindness and bravery , the most important thing was that she wanted to make up for her psychological regret . She thought of her father.
I saw some comments on the Internet saying that this movie is very good, but I don't like it. The reason is that the good people didn't win the final victory, and they are not positive enough. In fact, I think the success of a movie lies in whether it can clearly express what it wants to express. Things are presented , not all movies are about the triumph of good over evil, after all, this is a horror movie, not a superhero movie.
Our heroine is indeed a very good girl, but the reality is very cruel, and it is not absolute that good people have good rewards. I don't think this is a "superstitious" movie. Instead, it promotes science, "believe or not." The film's deep-rooted fear at the end tells us that we must strengthen our faith and not shake it at will. The real ghosts and snakes lie in our hearts, and sometimes when you plant the seed of doubt, it will surely take root.
No matter how determined the will is, people can't resist all temptations. When people's attitude towards a thing changes from firm belief to doubt, the line of defense in their hearts has actually been broken.
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