The fear after watching it is different from that of the old man. After watching the documentary-style short film, the fear will continue to your real life. After your eyes leave the screen, the world you see is the same as in the film. Without background music, without a stable perspective, the eye would not have a precise composition. You remember the real world like a candid camera.
I feel like one-tenth of this film is a candid shot. Sometimes I fast-forward, and my friends ask me how I finished it so quickly. Maybe that’s the reason. The candid shots fill the screen and become a first-person storytelling character, sometimes moving forward and backward, so that you can understand the properties of the shots. The director also participates in the picture in this way, controlling your eyes.
After watching the whole film, I recall how it felt so depressing and terrifying after watching it. There are some childhood nightmares, there are some fixed shots. I think the candid lens also has a function that allows you to mentally classify all the fixed shots that are far away from the subject as shot by the candid lens. For example, from the perspective of hiding in the warehouse when he was a child, watching Magee being pulled into the car, such as taking a candid camera when George went to Magee's house for the second time to see Magee committing suicide and spouting blood. This makes you feel like there is a person behind hiding the camera, allowing the audience to discover their presence. There will be a third person and a fourth person who will discover this scene, as if the tape will allow more people to see it.
The film talks a lot about trust and doubt.
George and Magee, regarding the person behind the hidden camera, George believed that it was Magee, but he doubted Magee. He didn't believe everything Magee said. Even if Magee died, it seemed that George didn't feel the slightest guilt. In the end, Magee's son confronted George in the bathroom. I was completely on his side. The son just lost his father and just wanted to know his attitude towards killing someone else. And George told him I had no guilt. It seemed that from the beginning, George had formed an impression of Magee that could never be erased. Labeled inferior citizens, race, revenge.
I have felt this feeling. My mentor did the same to me.
This incident also caused a small disturbance at home. George became sensitive, and his wife questioned at the party when she came home. The son will not go home because he sees his mother appearing to be having an affair. Make a person feel that nothing escapes the hidden camera.
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