As a small-scale B-level thriller, "Crocodile Storm" delivered an overall satisfactory answer. This type of film is weak in plot polishing and special effects production, but it is often good at constructing bloody and exciting "shock experience", which makes the audience hooked. "Giant Crocodile Storm" kicked off in the spacious and bright swimming pool, and concisely explained the heroine's personal skills - swimming and related childhood experiences. Her father played the role of coach in her training career, and the confrontation with her father also became the background color of the rigid family relationship after the heroine became an adult.
After that, the film’s suspense escalates through a succession of simple imagery — hurricane news on TV, rickety shark car ornaments, heavy rain scouring the windshield, and directions to a crocodile farm. The heroine stopped in front of the police blockade, and an open panoramic shot explained the stormy and dark weather conditions. After that, the heroine broke into the old house in the blockade area to find her father. The film completely turned into a narrow narrative space that lasted for an hour. --basement.
Different from the covert, step-by-step suspense of traditional horror films, the crocodile appeared in the basement in the first 20 minutes of "Crocodile Storm". Huang Chengcheng's eyes and indestructible scales looked very powerful. A thrilling chase started. The heroine narrowly escaped behind the messy water pipes and reunited with her wounded and comatose father. In addition to the direct conflict with the crocodile, the indirect conflict that the water level is gradually rising and the basement is about to be flooded also strongly promotes the narrative rhythm of the film.
The first crocodile kill is dedicated to the three robbers who robbed the convenience store that the heroine saw when she called for help through the basement vent. Under the domination of the mighty crocodiles of the lower world. In the small basement, the flickering and chasing between the heroine and the crocodile is undoubtedly the biggest highlight of the film. The space is small, the light is dim, and the viewing angle is limited. This suspicious and terrifying confrontation shows the director's excellent scene scheduling ability.
The most exciting part is the underwater subjective shot that simulates the crocodile's point of view. The camera quickly shuttles through large pieces of furniture and debris in the yellow flood, chasing the bloody smell of the victim. This kind of murderer's limited knowledge perspective is more effective Let the audience feel the ignorance and vulnerability of the heroine, and create an immersive and pro-creative experience for the viewer. The director who plays horror films must also be a master of psychology. In the monotonous scenes, claustrophobia, deep water fear, and giant fear are in waves, and the sense of tension and suffocation runs through the whole film.
After that, the rhythm of the film slowed down a bit, and the two father and daughter were ready to face life and death calmly. They solved the knot of their parents' divorce and the loss of the game. But compared to the wonderful scene scheduling, this weak and old-fashioned literary drama undoubtedly slowed down the rhythm of the film. The basement was flooded, and the heroine swam to the ground through the scupper where the crocodile hatched and smashed the floor to rescue her father, who was about to die of lack of oxygen. The first task of the film: escape was successfully resolved, but at this time the flood broke through the dam, and the two People were swept away in different rooms of the house, and the camera moved from the dark and narrow basement to the stormy second floor. As the film drew to a close, the second mission: rescue began one after another.
In the desperate moment of the heroine's fight with the crocodile, the director used a stunning parallel montage clip. The sprint on the eve of winning the championship in the swimming competition alternated with the moment of life and death when the crocodile grabbed the crocodile. The bright and clear swimming pool water symbolizes safety. , The turbid and turbulent flood symbolizes danger, and the two pictures with completely different styles keep flashing back. In the end, the heroine in the memory grabbed the arm of the father's coach, and the heroine in reality also grabbed the life-saving lighting stick, making the audience long. Take a breath.
The father and daughter climbed onto the roof and were rescued by a helicopter. The film ended with the female protagonist holding a lighting stick in her right hand and looking back in the wind and rain. As for the finishing work of the flood disaster, the resettlement of the dead (the robber who died of looting, the police who came to rescue the heroine), as well as the family relationship (the father and daughter who were separated due to the divorce of their parents, the elder sister and the woman who died in the flood) The settlement of the police ex-boyfriend) was ended without discussion at all. Therefore, this can not be regarded as an artistically complete film, but it can only be said that it is a full-scale study for the scene scheduling class.
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