Last night, a few people watched the film together for two and a half hours. At first, I thought it was a criminal investigation movie. Later, it seemed to be a cult movie, and then I felt that it was going to become a zombie movie. Everyone I held my breath, and after reading it, I yelled at what a bird!
But after that, I couldn't let it go, and the whole person was still in the plot.
The plot of the whole film is complicated and confusing, except for the confused male protagonist, everyone's position and motivation are very vague. This is actually the genius of the film. If the clues are clear, the development is clear, and the motives of the characters are clear, even if there is suspense, the viewer will still watch it from a third-party perspective. The vague motives and broken and chaotic clues of the characters in this film will pull the audience deeply into the reasoning, thus placing themselves in the role of the male protagonist, thus mobilizing the audience's own initiative to participate in the plot and fear.
For the detailed analysis of the plot, please refer to Zhihu for detailed analysis. Here are some of my own thoughts:
- The old Japanese man and the young wizard are a group, as mentioned by the director. They do it together, not exorcising ghosts but recruiting ghosts to harm people. They worked together in several previous cases, and there was something like a bird's nest built by a pine branch when the master was doing the work, and then the family went crazy and killed people. However, I don't think old Japanese and young wizards are big bosses. They both serve a more powerful invisible evil spirit and help it find a possessed object. After being possessed, people will eat and drink wildly, abuse, abuse and kill their family members. After the house is ruined, find the next victim.
- The old Japanese man was doing the same when the young mage did it. Later, the old Japanese man almost died. It looked like he was fighting magic, but it was not. The old Japanese man was seriously injured because the young woman appeared near his house, or the young mage was doing a ritual. A problem was met with backlash. The Japanese old man's approach is to cooperate with the mage and let the evil spirit completely control the victim.
- There is also a saying that the young woman is the patron saint. She put the crow in the jar to protect the girl. Later, the mage broke the jar, and the woman got on her body to protect the little girl to prevent her from being possessed by evil spirits. So the mage is actually doing a nameless woman who nailed their affairs. In the end, it was disrupted by the male protagonist, and the unknown woman had high mana and passed the damage to the Japanese. This statement seems more reasonable.
- The Unknown Woman is a powerful man who wants to get rid of them. So when the mage was vomited by a woman who cast a spell and vomited and wanted to run away, he saw the hallucination of moths on the road. I felt that it was the evil spirit behind the service that he was warning him not to run away, and then he went back to finish this thing. And the motives of the young woman are also very vague, and it is difficult to tell whether she is right or wrong. At the end of the film, she was also very confused about the purpose of preventing the male protagonist from going home. If the male protagonist went home, he might be able to prevent the killing from happening, but it is also possible that the male protagonist was also killed together.
Therefore, the real evil boss in this film did not show his face. It is likely to be a demon who has existed in the world for a long time. And the unknown woman is powerful, but she doesn't have the ability to get rid of it, or there are other reasons.
There are still three clues that are not understood:
-- Who is the grandmother that the unknown girl said? It is also mentioned at the end of the film
-- how did Park Chun Bae die in the car? What is the purpose of the Japanese approach to his pictures? Is Park Chun Bae turning into a zombie for the purpose of the Japanese? Why did he anxiously run back to the car to see?
-- A group of male protagonists chased the Japanese on the mountain. The Japanese cried after they fell off the cliff. Why did they cry?
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