Jiang Chengzi
's "The Shadow of the Dream House" tells a story: the writer Will quit his job in the metropolis and returned to the suburbs to live with his wife and daughter, but strange things have been happening all the time. Finally, with the help of others, he suddenly remembered that his wife and children had died... Seeing the introduction to the story, the audience will undoubtedly think that this is a thriller, but in fact he is just a warm movie with the concept of ghosts. However, there are many viewers who still have to match its name and content, but when they found that there is neither a "ghost" thriller nor a supernatural thing, they gave it a pass: "What kind of thriller is this? What a waste of expressions!"
Indeed, compared to other thriller movies, the tone of "The Shadow of the Dream House" is warm, and the "Shadow of the Dream" quickly revealed the mystery, taking off the mystery and horror. However, what makes the audience feel unsatisfactory is that it even reveals the mystery in the middle: what happens around Will is a plot that interweaves reality and fantasy. It also denied the possibility of ghosts existing in the first place. In terms of production and performance, this is a film with a novel story and touching content. It integrates the fantasy that a writer may have into reality, and the scenes that are both dream and fantasy, both true and false, make the audience in a tight rhythm. Feel the comfort that is mysterious but not oppressive. Some people denounce this feeling as "scratching the itch", but the author believes that if the film is regarded as a tragic film that should be warm, but has a tragic love for the lost family, it is a film that brews the feelings full of enthusiasm. , a good film that fully expresses the courage and breadth of the father and husband.
Starring Daniel Craig is the new 007 actor, and his performance should not be underestimated. What's even more gimmicky is that Rachel Weisz, who plays his wife in the play, is also his new wife in reality. The two got married because of the co-production of "Dream House". However, the two brought their loving eye contact into the movie's rival scenes, which is also a beautiful thing that the audience likes to see. Daniel's performance is very layered, from the joy and happiness of returning to a warm family life with his wife and children at the beginning, to the anxiety and tension of searching for "strange shadows", and finally he finds that he is experiencing hallucinations, and reveals the fear of a mentally abnormal person. Eyes, although he had to face the interweaving of reality while experiencing fantasy, he was able to grasp his emotions and attitudes during the time and space transition. One moment a good dad, another a murderer, and then a sane bachelor, Daniel does a pretty good job of putting all the mental states the role demands. Rachel is a famous actress who has won two Oscars for Best Supporting Actress and one British Independent Film Award for Best Actress. She played a tender wife and mother, which is unforgettable.
The sound effects of the movie have to be said to create the atmosphere just right, with moderate tension and moderate relief, which fully reflects the director's relaxed grasp of the plot.
And "The Shadow of the Dream House" still has its obvious shortcomings: to put it in the "thriller" category is to show its own shortcomings, and the result is naturally unsatisfactory. This even became the film's worst failure. In addition, Ward, the murderer that Will had always suspected, was actually himself, so how did Ward become Will? How does he live in illusion and reality? Why can my wife and children who have been deceased for five years still understand what is happening now? All kinds of doubts are summed up by the sentence "A writer should be in a world where fantasy and reality are intertwined in life". The logic here is unreasonable, making the audience feel in the fog.
At the same time, in order to create a basement with a terrifying atmosphere, although it adds a lot of concentration to the suspenseful atmosphere, the main plot is not much related to the important props of the basement. In the end, the truth of "Strange Shadow" is too simple to unravel, and it seems to have the plot of "Desperate Housewives". For a while, I had the illusion of watching American dramas. However, seeing that Daniel made a man's attachment to his wife and children make people cry, it is right to regard "The Shadow of the Dream House" as a family-friendly movie that does not hide its flaws.
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