"Cry" 2016, works by Luo Hongzhen.
After "The Exorcist" in 1973, 90% of exorcism-type movies could not get rid of a single shooting method. Some people in a happy family fell into the devil. , die's die. (Whether it is an adaptation of a real exorcism event or a movie with various special effects, creativity, and perspectives, although there are also new talents born and there are many chats, but today I will focus on "The Cry", otherwise I will have to write a long time.) In short, an exorcism movie like "The Crying", which simmers the international religious fandom and injects the characteristics of Korean people's livelihood, is really rare, so that it can be said to be a new model for teaching the world how to make exorcism movies in minutes.
The Japanese evil ghost in the first picture is something that you must unswervingly know after watching the movie from beginning to end and know that it is the root of all evil in the whole movie, and it is something you cannot doubt. The best thing about the movie "The Crying" is that the fact that the Japanese are evil ghosts is resolutely stated from the beginning to the end of the movie, but it can make people confused and confused again and again. .
There are four major reasons for people's confusion:
First, the Korean wizard who stirs shit. In the end, he is evil, is he going to exorcise ghosts or to help ghosts. Here's a definite answer for you, he's a bad guy. The analysis is as follows: Korea has no state religion. It is said that Buddhism was introduced to South Korea in the fourth century AD. Judging from the big Buddha head equipped by the wizard, it should be a sect formed after the introduction of Buddhism and some local Shamanism or Shamanism in South Korea. Combined with the clear clues obtained in the interview with the director, it can be explained that the Korean wizard prays to communicate with the true god every day, obtains the oracle, and fulfills his wish, such as becoming a god or immortal life. One day, I finally sensed the call of God, thinking that God had entered my body and produced a miracle. In fact, it was the devil who came, and was finally driven by the devil and became the enslavement and accomplice of the devil. So when he came to the village to "exorcise ghosts", he himself came to do things for the ghosts and was a servant of the devil.
The movie also gave many clues to show the connection between the wizard and the old Japanese man, for example: the priest mentioned in the chat that the old Japanese man (ie, the devil) seemed to be a Japanese monk (the monk was fake, but pretended to be a Buddhist magician). The channel is the means used by the old man to control the wizard). Korean wizards and Japanese old men wear the same traditional Japanese crotch pants. The photos collected by the old Japanese man finally appeared in the hands of the wizard. The wizard said to himself that the male protagonist was a fool, finally bit the bait and other clues, all of which showed that there was collusion and conspiracy between the old Japanese man and the Korean wizard. So the wizard came and did everything to make the situation worse.
Second, the male protagonist and the villagers like the male protagonist. Here's a stalk that comes to mind. When "Kung Fu Panda" was released that year, some people complained that in the eyes of foreigners, Chinese people are either pigs, rabbits or ducks, and they look really small. In fact, when it comes to the whole world, ordinary people probably feel like they are insignificant. At least there is a type of people in this world who are lazy, eat and wait to die, barbaric and low IQ, but they are really good people, good people who try their best to do nothing, if they don't encounter sudden bad luck, they should be able to get old and die. The whole performance of the male protagonist is the reason why this film has been compared with "Memories of Murder". "Memories of Murder" describes the incompetence and powerlessness of the rural police in the face of serial murders in the early 1980s. "The time should be in the 1990s, or even closer to now, the police station facilities have been improved, and the police cars are awesome, but the rural police still face the police with an attitude of eating a big pot of rice and getting old. Work, in this situation only pray that there will never be a terrible murder in the village. It's a pity that this time I played more off, and it was the unsolved demon that came directly. But every commoner has no sense of precaution. In other words, it's not a demon, just an ordinary perverted murderer, and they will be confused. Because there are too many omissions and flaws in the common people, just to name a few:
1. After the bizarre murder incident, the people in the whole village did not have the awareness of prevention, they should eat and drink, and all the misfortunes did not happen to them anyway. , Murder cases and strange things are only spread on the trails in the form of rumors. No one knows what to guard against, and no one guards against them at all. They are not afraid of disasters. If they sound good, they are as exuberant as human beings are commendable and worthy of admiration. The vitality of the people, to put it rudely, everyone is waiting to die.
2. No matter how the equipment is improved, even if Iron Man sends a pair of Iron Man equipment to the Gucheng police, they will still dig their feet when they should, and only use shovels at critical times. The rural police in the 1990s would grab the murder weapon as soon as they found it, and when they saw such crucial evidence as a photo, they would pinch it if they should. As long as you feel that you should give it a go, you can play with the powerful national laws, find a few brothers, and carry a few hoes to make trouble. A peasant-minded policeman should put on a police uniform and a police badge. , the consciousness is still a primitive peasant, and the martial nation will automatically forget the legal concept when it is full of blood. Technology can't be faster than a fist.
Therefore, the place where "The Cry" can be compared with "Memories of Murder" is precisely the sense of powerlessness of human beings. In every important link, every mediocre and undisciplined good person is missing opportunities. It will be preserved, there is evidence and there is no record at the first time, and there is danger but the situation is not analyzed clearly... More and more neglect of duty, doubts, cowardice and mistakes snowball into a tragedy, try your best but you will lose, or you will lose at the most. on things that cannot be defeated. So tragedy is doomed, the people are insignificant, and incompetence and powerlessness are the reality. Korean movies love to show you the bloody dissection of reality, let's see.
3. A large part of the Korean people believe in Christianity. There are many places in the movie about Christian similes and metaphors, but the wonderful thing is that the priest was the first to leave the scene. At that time, the priest said that you can't believe it if you haven't seen it with your own eyes. You have to believe in science. As for the evil patients, leave it to the doctor. In short, we must be rational. I'm just here to preach. Lord, but about the devil, hehe, don't come to me, I'm not the monster-carrying priest you think.
The director of the film mentioned in the interview: Because it is related to God, I feel that I cannot complete it by myself, so I visited many clergymen and asked them many questions, in order to get as many diversity as possible. I went to Nepal, Japan and many other places, but what I can feel from their answers is that the existing religions are really perfect, although the world is changing every day, but listening to the answers given to me by these clergy I just felt that the world was so perfect, so perfect that I couldn't bear it.
Therefore, the priest who left early in the morning represents those people and groups who beautify religion. It is right for these clergy to only preach and show the truth, goodness and beauty. Religion below does not give the answer. What is the meaning of the glorified religion's existence? Spiritual opium?
In short, the existence and reaction of the male protagonist is the most powerful Korean texture in the whole movie. It is an exorcism movie with a Korean taste of sweet and sour kimchi after stewing various religions, people, and various elements together. Let people see the "Memories of Murder" style exorcism movie again. Kimchi, international.
Therefore, the nickname of this movie can be called "The Exorcism of the Korean Country Police". If it is changed to a modern metropolis, Father Gao Faqiang, a high-IQ criminal policeman, a high-tech armed background or the 2016 version of Constantine, then the taste just said It was also lost and reduced to an ordinary commercial blockbuster.
Third, the Japanese old man. The old Japanese man was truly a devil in what others told and in his own confession. But the good thing is that he still has the ability to confuse you for ten minutes at the end of the movie. The devil we usually know has no flesh, no bones, only a soul, but he has flesh, bones, breathing, can fish, buy vegetables, watch erotic paintings, rape, and cry when he falls in pain. How can he be considered a devil? What the hell. It has had enough time to kill you while you are still struggling with its good and evil. So there is a saying that when human beings think, God laughs, and in fact the devil laughs too. Human instinct and thinking are vulnerable under certain circumstances and will be used. The ways of happiness and goodness are fixed, but the ways of sin and pain vary.
Regarding the true identity of the Japanese old man, the director did not make it clear in the interview that the elements contained in this demon are too complicated from the perspective of the movie, the way and objects in the East that it worships, the two used in worship, one male and one female Japanese. The pictures of the ancients, the black dog and the black sheep, the little girl's painting of the demon queen is similar to the Christian painting when the demon is possessed, and it uses Western-style methods to take pictures and record the dead, etc...
However, whether the old Japanese man is in a Buddhist hell or not No matter what nationality or origin, it is evil itself. If you see this, you still want to ask why the devil is doing so many things? The answer is actually very simple, that is, evil and death itself.
It's like you ask a terrorist organization: if you want to rule the world, you can rule it. What are you doing by killing so many people?
Nonsense, if you don't kill a certain number of people, how can the world be willing to be ruled by you. Humans are food and sacrifices to demons and wicked people.
Fourth, the female ghost in white. The female ghost in white is the real female ghost of the common people in Korea. She is a good ghost who can't see the old Japanese man doing wrong and decides to help mankind. She collected many victims' items and set up a trap to catch evil ghosts at the door of the victim's house ( The traditional exorcism: snapdragon, the seeds left after the flowers faded look like skulls.), and kept reminding the male protagonist that he should believe that the old Japanese man is a devil. But the problem is that the ghost in white is a ghost herself, so it is not convincing. Coupled with the wizard's provocation and her bad habit of collecting victims' items, people will suspect that she is the real Boss. Her ability is not small, but her eloquence is not good. Her eloquence is about the level of autistic children, and she cannot convince humans at critical times. Humans are the most volatile creatures. Humans have five senses, shape, sound, taste, touch, and touch. These five things are the things that humans believe can best reflect reality. As long as they are seen, heard, touched, and tasted, they will be firm. believed to be true. Not to mention how religion defines these five senses, just say that even a criminal with a high IQ can easily use human beings to blindly believe in their own feelings to create a series of delusions that make people misjudge. So let alone the more powerful demons.
Although the existence of the female ghost in white does not help, the male protagonist's family eventually suffers, and the devil will continue to attack. But the female ghost in white revealed a truth, and it was also a truth expressed by the director in the interview, that is: someone was killed in Iraq later, someone asked "why did he die", and someone gave the answer, " Don't let where you go, don't let the things you do go wrong, and make innocent people become murderers." It's really creepy. I wanted to show this feeling in the movie, so let the white-clothed ghost say similar words.
"Don't let where you go, don't let the things you do go wrong, and let innocent people become murderers." Can you understand this sentence? The definitions, sources, and methods of evil in this world are all described, except for the clergy who only explain and show the good side of religion. In the orthodox religion that already exists in the world, there is actually a description of all the origin of the world, all the pain and evil. Not only religion, but also the laws of human beings, the moral concepts that human beings have established by convention, and these also have descriptions about wrong and right, good and evil. But human beings will continue to make mistakes and crimes, not letting go where they go, or doing what they do. Unwilling to know what is right, unwilling to believe, unwilling to listen, only doing evil or wrong. In the end, the devil succeeded.
So the existence and setting of the female ghost in white are ingenious and crucial.
(I am the fifth point that doesn’t matter if I add one more: Are there any demons in the world. This question is the question in the hearts of all audiences, and this clue was finally completed by the weak and Japanese-speaking assistant who finally watched for a long time. The cross, took a sickle and went to the cave to find the old Japanese man. To say that he wanted to do justice for the sky on a whim, it would be better to say that he selfishly tried to prove the existence of God, and chose to take risks to prove the existence of the devil first, so when he saw The question that the old man in Japan asks repeatedly is: Are you a devil in the end. There are not a few people who follow this style. As long as the devil is established and God is established, then there is no point in believing in vain. But when you stare into the abyss, the abyss also Staring at you. Verifying the end of the devil is not the way to have righteous beliefs, but a dead end. If you are someone who can’t burn relics after death, don’t try it lightly.)
To sum up the four points. This movie has indeed given a bunch of fresh concepts in the genre of exorcism-themed movies. The key is that the new blood injected into the Korean local style is great. Westerners can’t get rid of a big frame when making exorcism films, because the living environment and thinking mode of Westerners are roughly the same. Eastern elements and Eastern religious concepts, as well as the outlook of Korean people’s livelihood, are strongly injected into exorcism films, allowing Westerners People look at it, and the story of the devil can still be told in this way. I believe that in the future, exorcism genre films will be more eastern and western fusion, more international, more diversified, and more fun. This is a great benefit for students who love to watch horror movies.
As for the devil, it's still sitting there casting bait, waiting for the fish to hook, didn't you see it? Koko.
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