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In the United States in the early 1990s, the once booming "horror movie boom" ushered in a low ebb. When critics at the time were scrambling to read "obituaries" for horror movies, horror movies never really "give up" "Resistance", such as this film directed by John Carpenter, the film has aroused many thoughts (this is the continuation of Carpenter’s usual style), and some people even call it "Carpenter". Punter’s best horror movie”, it’s no wonder that his old man will declare his “Apocalyptic Trilogy” (referring to [Freak Shape], [Terrorist Back to Soul] and [Thorary Black Hole]) after this film is released. . Horror novels trigger the end. Like all horror stories that try to capture people's hearts, at the beginning of the movie, Carpenter could not help but follow the routine of "a weird place, a weird atmosphere, and a weird character". In a mental hospital that seems to be able to give birth to a "Frankenstein", the hero is escorted to come. Only through the memory of this person, we slowly clarify the ins and outs of the story. Not long ago, the insurance claims investigator named John was ordered to find a missing horror novel writer, and the latest work of Setter Kane, who is "more red than Stephen King", caused some panic—— Many people have fallen into an unspeakable madness after reading his novels. Those readers who are affected by the novel will become confused, amnesia, delusional and even attack each other, just like listening to "Black Sunday". Horror novels have become a terrible "infectious disease" like SARS, and book fans seem to be enchanted. With the deepening of the investigation, John experienced the "power" of the novel firsthand, and then fell into a situation where it is difficult to distinguish between false and true, and finally turned into madness. The horror novel master Stephen King’s story once involved this kind of blurring themes of reality and reality. The protagonist in King’s story was either trapped in a mire of fantasy, or confined in a prison of fear, and John in [Thorary Black Hole] also belonged to this. one type. Carpenter, who worked with Stephen King in [Christine Charm] (1983), is naturally handy when dealing with such stories. At the beginning, John was a rational insurance investigator with strong logical reasoning ability. He believed that everything that happened in the world could be reasonably explained. Anything that was temporarily unreasonable must be someone else’s scam or magic. He was a typical atheism. By. So when he fell into deep suspicion, even after witnessing the failure of reason, he would inevitably have a mental breakdown. What follows is the complete fall of the body and mind, which is directly manifested by picking up an axe and slashing towards the same book fan. When there is a riot in real life to buy tickets for a football game, and to rush to witness entertainment stars When incidents such as riots happen frequently, we have to believe that the distance between the scenes in horror movies and reality is by no means an insurmountable gap, just like the horror novels that triggered the riots in [Thorary Black Hole], people line up to buy. From this point of view, it is not landslides, tsunami or influenza viruses that are more likely to trigger the doomsday crisis, but the irresistible extreme fanaticism. Novels, music and even movies have the potential to create fanaticism. In the film, the city after the riots is in a mess, and that scene is reflected in the opening scenes of films such as [I am a legend] and [Scary Change 28 Days]-the protagonist wanders alone in the chaotic streets, facing the sudden changes. Overwhelmed and at a loss for things that are completely unknown. There are endless reappearances of the "Doomsday Judgment" mentioned in the "Bible" in literature and movies, but it is only a horror novel that triggers all this in [Thorary Black Hole]. Mike de Luca, the screenwriter of the unclear world film, has loved collecting animation since he was a child. He is an out-and-out otaku. He is not only a big fan of the "Star Trek" series, but also a fan of horror novels. This is probably okay. Explain so many passages in the film that pay tribute to the famous horror novelist Howard Philip Lovecraft. Strange paintings, the names of novels written by authors, mysterious towns full of turmoil, and the terrible hotel proprietress (Mrs. Pickman) and the mysterious basement, etc., are derived from or directly copied the settings and characters in Lovecraft's works, and the producer has therefore bought the copyrights of many Lovecraft's works. And to say that Lovecraft’s most precious “legacy” is the “Cthulhu Mythos”. "The Myth of Cthulhu" is an overhead mythology system based on Lovecraft's novels, compiled and re-created by others. As long as it is based on its cosmological outlook, any posterity creator can freely fill this "world". "History. As we all know, there are always monster images in Carpenter's movies that challenge the limits of human endurance. In [Thorary Black Hole], Carpenter is even more playful-zombies with rotten faces, girls with big mouths, and various cults based on ancient creatures in "Cthulhu Mythology" as prototypes. Monster. In "The Myth of Cthulhu," all people who try to explore the roots of these demons' powers cannot escape the fate of death. In the face of these unknown forces, human beings are no different from tiny dust, and this sense of powerlessness in [trembling black hole] is as thorough as it is. All resistance that John makes is like challenging the God who created him and writing to himself. Fighting against his fate, and this is obviously in vain. If we regard "Hobb's End Journey" as the demarcation point between fantasy and reality, it seems to be more helpful for us to examine this slightly complicated story, but in fact it is not, because before and after this journey, it is not just John’s worldview that has changed. , And the past that has already happened. Assuming Hobb's End is a product of fantasy, so it is obviously impossible to explain the evaporation of Linda in the second dialogue between John and the publisher, and reading Kane's novel was after Linda appeared. Therefore, it may be more appropriate to regard everything that happens in the entire movie as the plot in a novel by writer Kane. In this way, [Thorary Black Hole] is no longer a horrible story about the collapse of the protagonist’s beliefs, but more like a philosophical proposition similar to the "Sophie's World" that explores the nature of human beings. This involves how we understand the world. If we are just a character in the writer's pen just like John, then all our actions are the embodiment of the writer's intention. Interestingly, there is a similar trick in "Sophie's World". When John in [Shadow Black Hole] believes that he is the character written by the writer, he also tried to escape from the writer. In the end, he found that everything was in vain. The writer can plunge him into a dream at any time; he can change the color to blue at will; he can delete the original role forever. But having said that, if the interpretation of this story is limited to one, it would be too narrow, just like philosophers throughout the ages have made vastly different generalizations of the same world, and no one dares to say that they have fully understood the world. . The anti-corrosion example of horror films may not even be thought of by Carpenter himself. One of his horror films is often mentioned many years later because of the disgusting creatures in it. Even in the second half of the story, we are no longer horrified. Troubled (Many people even laughed in the face of Linda whose mind was rotated 180 degrees and crawled), and then fell into thinking about the world and existence. In this sense, [trembling black hole] can even be considered at the moment It is an "anti-terrorist" horror film, which weakens the most important frightening element of horror films and raises the story to the main body. Of course, this has nothing to do with the monsters in the film that were "horrible at the time, but now very rough". Visual fear is indeed difficult to transcend the boundaries of the times, but thought can. Although technology and ideas are constantly being updated, the gap between the two is like a tortoise and Bolt race. More than 20 years have passed, the big reason why [Thorary Black Hole] still retains its charm is the excellent script and the outdated viewpoints. There are many topics mentioned in the film that can be developed, such as the only profitable publisher. , For the sake of the new book’s big sales, he changed his methods to hype the author of the new book, the ridicule of the blind worship, the ridicule of the Hollywood routine, but they all belong to the end, just as Roger Albert thought: "Although [trembling Black hole] puts forward many interesting ideas, but they are all cleverly And laughed wildly with satisfaction. Published in the May 2014 issue of "Watching Movies Midnight Show" And laughed wildly with satisfaction. Published in the May 2014 issue of "Watching Movies Midnight Show"
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