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The literature and art of "La La Land", the decadence of "Trainspotting", this film is very exciting!

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Looking at the film news in the first half of 2018,

Hongyanxiu found that the horror films that everyone once "loved and hated" were very rare in the first half of this year to balance the two points of "film quality" and "word-of-mouth perception".

In March this year, two high-quality American horror films "annihilation" and "A Quiet Place" landed in domestic theaters.

"A Quiet Place" is a "big ambition at a small cost" . With only four leading actors and a creative setting, it firmly captured the audience's perception in just 90 minutes.

Take them into a silent horror apocalyptic world of "be quiet and live".

The other is "annihilation" based on the novel of the same name.

It not only maintains the imaginary sense of the boundless fantasy of literary works, but also shows the unique audio-visual charm of the film.

"annihilation" does not have the old-fashioned doomsday escape, protagonist's halo, and supporting role's death in sci-fi thrillers, but retains the Cthulhu atmosphere that is full of futuristic technology in the original novel, but despairing and suffocating.

Adding a sense of gratitude that was often lacking in science fiction films in the past,

It is thrilling and permeated with a cold beauty, mysterious and unpredictable with a complex core, which makes people hold their breath while watching it, and it makes people think deeply after watching it.

In the first half of this year, South Korea also produced an explosive horror movie "Kunchiyan".

It is still the old-fashioned "Haunted House Adventure" template, the cost is not high, and the actors are all newcomers, but it has been very successful in scaring a large number of audiences.

Among them , the shocking full-face appearance of the "beautiful contact lens monster" and the trembling performance of the hot girl actor who looks like a vase after encountering a ghost are all full of stamina and horror.

In the first half of this year, there was also a "Doom Hereditary" that received wide acclaim from horror fans.

In the second half of the year, there will also be an independent film "Nun" derived from the classic horror element "Nun" in the world of Wen Ziren's Conjuring Soul.

Tall and burly, dressed in dark and gloomy clothes, the evil and ugly nun became the protagonist. She appeared several times in the oil paintings and mirrors in the world of "The Conjuring", which was originally very amazing.

And this time the trailer of "The Nun" has already scared Hong Yanxiu,

The gloomy prison corridor and the eerily tall figure of the nun really make people shudder...

What's your first reaction when you think of horror movies?

Evil undead, bloody pictures, and the sense of despair and depression in claustrophobic dark scenes are still the "uncanny valley effect" of aliens and dolls.

In fact, according to Hongyanxiu, the elements of horror movies are not only "scaring and infiltrating", but also many classic elements.

For example, the constant reversal and brain-burning suspense in "Fatal ID" and "Chainsaw",

"No One Survives" and "The Tragedy on the Nile" are devoted to the serial murder cases of bunk reasoning and closed space.

"Mulholland Drive" and "Terrorist Cruise" have created an atmosphere of indistinguishable truth from falsehood and a combination of virtuality and reality after the externalization of human subconsciousness and the real world are combined.

Whether it is the former horror master Hitchcock, or the eternal nightmare B-class master Catpen, or today's "Conjuring World" "Father of SAW" founder Wen Ziren,

The definition of a "love-hate" horror thriller is often:

"It's been filmed long ago" ,

But in recent years, there are still many horror film directors who can develop innovations in horror films from different aspects and elements.

today,

What Hongyanxiu wants to introduce to you is a psychological thriller movie with excellent creativity, but it is a pity that the director did not show it to the extreme.

"Life and Death"

A psychological thriller beyond imagination.

Henry Lassam, a college student who has always been progressive, suddenly threatened to commit suicide.

Psychiatrist Sam Foster began to treat Henry in order to save him,

Strange things happened. Doctor Sam found that Henry often made some horrific prophecies . Even more disturbing, these prophecies were all fulfilled.

What mysterious power is the manipulator Henry? The line between life and death, can we really stay in the middle? With the support and help of his girlfriend Lila Courpe,

Can Sam find the answer and save everything?

For many horror fans and psychological thriller fans,

"Life and Death" is not a work worth mentioning compared to such classics as "Mulholland Drive", "Terrorist Cruise", "Short Island" and "Shutter Island".

However, Hongyanxiu believes that "Life and Death" is of great significance in the genre of psychological thriller movies.

Because "Life and Death" has made a very important step in the pursuit of "innovation" ,

It even created a whole new genre of psychological thriller,

Whether it is the classic British small-format strong reversal TV series "Secret No. 9", or the best recent horror movie "Ghost Story" recommended by Hongyanxiu a few days ago, the same template is also used.

Similar to the psychological thriller classic "Mulholland Drive", the setting of "Life and Death" can be said to be illogical most of the time.

Henry's specious mother, his blind and sighted father, multiple repeated scenes, overlapping figures in the background, a child with a balloon in the sky, a little boy who asks his mother "is this person going to die?"

The psychiatrist who opened the door and entered the room repeatedly, the rehearsal of "Hamlet" by Henry's girlfriend, etc., can't be inferred from common sense at all.

There is no reason and no reason for them to happen. Such a plot, coupled with the always erratic and blurred pictures, can easily make the audience retreat.

But if you have the patience to watch the ending, you will understand why the previous unreasonableness is for, and you will understand the purpose of Stay's movie.

Hongyanxiu thinks that "Life and Death" and "Mulholland Drive" are the same messy plot,

But the status of the two films in horror film history is very different, and it all depends on the director's ability to schedule the film.

In "Mulholland Drive", the weird and absurd psychological thriller atmosphere created by David Lynch is very good.

For example, a strange man came to a coffee shop and was looking for something after drinking coffee. It turned out that what he was looking for was a place he often went to in his dreams.

In the process of his search, the bizarre music was matched with the swaying camera, and suddenly a terrifying face appeared in the corner of the wall, and the picture stopped abruptly.

An instant, illogically nightmarish effect is created.

Including when the heroine first came to Hollywood, sitting in the back seat of a taxi, the grandparents' strange smiles that were exaggerated and exaggerated obviously when they wanted to express their satisfaction;

When the heroine is auditioning in Hollywood, a subtle and strong sense of discomfort and psychological suggestion caused by the actor and the plot;

And the injured beauty with black hair and red lips that the heroine found in the bathroom at home...

All of this makes "Mulholland Drive" a strange, indifferent and gloomy atmosphere, a series of plots, a series of unintentional but strange and absurd behaviors and words of actors,

It brings us into a nightmarish atmosphere that is illogical and difficult to escape.

But the atmosphere of "Stay in Life" is slightly inferior.

If "Mulholland Drive" is a series of strange events caused by accidental random occurrences in a dream,

Then "Stay in Life and Death" is a kind of broken despair that is powerless to struggle after knowing the ending of one's own destiny in advance.

It is also a dream-like, subconscious broken plot,

"Mulholland Drive" uses a series of strange plots, the actors' calm but hideous expressions, and the coincidental character encounters to create a nightmarish, strange, and difficult to break free feeling;

And "Life and Death" is obviously a lot more deliberate in the creation of the atmosphere,

For example, the director is afraid that the audience will not be able to get the setting of the plot, so he asks the two protagonists to call the wrong name twice to remind the audience;

Even the obvious anti-logical design that the heroine needs to take psychotropic drugs and the mother appears in the plot despite her death are all to highlight the theme of the movie.

In this way, the hint is slightly stronger and the speciality of the film theme is lost.

Perhaps the suspenseful atmosphere and plot are not very clever, and the whole film lacks the climax that a suspense movie should have, and it is flat;

But "Life and Death" is definitely a very beautiful movie,

Because of the lack of or even illogicality, everyone's viewing experience before the end is confused, but they must be intoxicated, because it exudes the kind of beauty that should be called despair and sadness.

For example, Gossling sticks his whole body on the glass of Ocean Park, looking at the walrus inside the glass, the huge and quiet sea blue shrouds Gossling's face,

Created a unique and inescapable sense of loneliness;

In the heavy rain, Commander High held the blind father's face and touched his eyes with both hands and said;

"I just want to see you again",

That feeling of knowing the ending, unable to break free and having to say goodbye, is hopeless and poignant;

Although the last scene of the movie is not as restrained and energetic as "Ghost Story", when Commander Gao was dying, he apologized helplessly and asked the girl on the road, "Will you marry?" The scene is desperate and beautiful.

A man wants to seize what he holds dear but cannot get back, sometimes he is motivated, sometimes he is gloomy,

No matter what he does, he wants to slip away gradually, like the fine sand between his fingers, like the fairest and most ruthless time, can't come back,

As Commander High said to the psychiatrist:

"You tried to save me, but it was too late."

Although I knew the end for a long time, I still have vague longings and hopes for a miracle to happen, but in the end I can't save it.

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