An 8.0-point magic stick

Demarco 2022-04-20 09:01:43

After reading it, I took a sigh of relief and felt uncomfortable. All the movie reviews on the first page did not let this feeling dissipate. I don't think I can't accept a surreal movie, or a movie with a tragic ending when the villain wins, but I'm very angry after watching this.

It wasn't until I read "Old Monkey"'s film review " A Clumsy Prank " that I suddenly became enlightened. Yes, it was the feeling that the author described.

Excerpts are as follows:

"A lot of people commented that the endings were all kinds of awesome, but I think they were just like me, just startled by a writer who was hysterically trying to write a great book.

In fact, this movie is a clumsy prank. It's not that it's clumsy because it's not thrilling or suspenseful, it's just because from the beginning to the end, the audience thought that the film didn't involve ghosts and gods, and they believed that it was at most a psychological suspense drama about how psychological cues distort the old farmers in the southern United States, and until the end For a few minutes the film itself reinforces this inference through plot and dialogue. I didn't expect the results to come out, this witchcraft is really fucking effective! Then you are surprised, but the reason for your surprise is not because of how awesome the plot reversal is, but because you suddenly realize that this is not a fucking suspense movie, it turns out to be a magic movie!

It's like a popular GIF prank on the Internet, you stare at the screen for a long time thinking you are watching a beautiful woman taking a bath, and suddenly a ghost pops up! Of course you are all shocked, all kinds of heartbeat. But if you knew you were going to make a grimace, would you still have such a big reaction? "

With a rating of 8.0, looking at it with great expectations, before the end, I thought it would be reversed like a confinement island, which made me exclaim the director NB! The result is this? There is indeed a feeling of being played.

It is much lower than the expectation of 8.0, so subjective emotions tell me that I should give one or two points to prevent others from being deceived.

PS I feel that what I have written has not cited as much content, and the quality of this film review does not have much nutrition. But if someone sees it and loses one deceived person, or makes someone who has already been deceived gain empathy, it can be a little contribution.

Of course, there is a higher probability that no one cares, just as a record of my mood at the moment, that is not bad.

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Extended Reading
  • Talia 2022-03-28 09:01:03

    The suspenseful and terrifying atmosphere created by the foreshadowing step by step is actually not bad, but the ending part is not very powerful. Although it is unexpected, it is unreasonable. After a long period of suspense, it was a bit disappointing that everything was finally attributed to the witchcraft superstition of Xin Zeling and ghost substitutes. 3 and a half stars.

  • Carmine 2022-04-24 07:01:07

    Qi Cheng's procrastination is tasteless, and he can't make up for it with the wonderful enlightenment of Zhuanhe. "Transformation" only sticks to the main line, and it shakes off so clearly. It's just that there's nothing new after Martin's Pear-Shaped Man.

The Skeleton Key quotes

  • Caroline Ellis: It's like, hypnotism, right? Suggestion? And when this stuff works, its because someone believes it works?... And if you thought, you know, that magic made you sick... you might believe in a magic cure?

    Mama Cynthia: Somebody been workin' roots on you!

    Caroline Ellis: Say I knew someone who thought that they'd been...

    Mama Cynthia: Crossed?

    Caroline Ellis: Crossed. Would they believe that they could be... uncrossed?

  • Caroline Ellis: Do you know a record called the Conjure of Sacrifice?... Because I have it if you do.

    Creole Mother: If you had that, you wouldn't say so.