At the beginning of the film, there are two lines from the Gospel of Luke:
They were alarmed and afraid, thinking that what they saw was a soul. Jesus said, "Why do you look so sad, and why do you have doubts in your hearts?"
You look at my hands and my feet, and you will know that it is really me, touch me and see, there is no soul and no flesh, you see, I have it.
If you look carefully, you start to jump into the "pit of gods" dug by director Luo Hongzhen.
Luo Hongzhen, who has only made three films so far, "Stalker" and "Yellow Sea" are all police/robbery/detection/suspense themes in genre films, and are played by the director. If you think he is good at police and bandit genre films, in fact, he has a heart for literature and art. Police and bandit movies + social public opinion + political topics, genre movies + is his way of making movies. The latest "The Cry" has become a police and bandit type film + religious theme + ghost film.
The small mountain village in "The Crying" is a world where Satan, gods, ghosts, and zombies are mixed together. Wizards, Christian missionaries, exorcists, policemen and villagers have staged a battle between people and ghosts, and a battle between gods and ghosts. The film that took six years to create, in addition to creating a horrible atmosphere, makes people feel sick, and the director has so many brain holes that make people feel sick.
Some people saw "The Seven Deadly Sins" from this film, some people saw "The Exorcist" from this film, some people saw political fables from this film, some people saw philosophical thinking, and some people saw it To a sense of stagnant emptiness.
I am the last one. What Luo Hongzhen conveyed in "The Cry" is the uncontrollable and irredeemable powerlessness of mankind to its tragic fate. If I believe that the director is a strict and rigorous author of his work, he is not doing something amazing for the sake of grandstanding.
According to Luo Hongzhen's own explanation, he created this film because of the people around him. The value of living life can still be explored, but the coming of death is unreasonable. In the face of death, who do you turn to?
The story takes place in South Korea's Namdaemun Valley City, which was once brutally ruled by the Japanese. It is full of grievances, just like the nameless woman in white in the film. She is erratic and unknown, but she claims that she happened in the village. Witnesses to human tragedy. From the fact that she scorned the Japanese as Japanese pirates, and always made it clear that the Japanese were the makers of all supernatural murders, she was the representative of those resentful spirits.
A Japanese outsider came here, and the peaceful little mountain village began to be unstable. At the beginning, the Japanese use a double hook to take a bait, which is quite unusual. With the development of the plot, several seemingly similar human tragedies occurred in the small mountain village. One of the family members had an evil spirit, and then the evil spirit killed other family members. In the end, the evil spirit was either hanged or violent. shoot. The local policeman Zhong Jiu, who was in charge of the case, also appeared in the house of the evil person, Zhong Jiu's daughter. After his condition continued to deteriorate, Zhong Jiu finally agreed to bring in a Korean shamanic wizard who was later proven to be a gang with the Japanese.
As a pre-publicized demon, everyone believes that the Japanese are the initiators of the demonic incident in the mountain village. However,
the resentful woman who occasionally shows up has also been involved in creating all these results. Hate, she even acts as their accomplice. This can explain why she put the dead crow in the sauce jar, why she wears the clothes of the evil ones, because those evil ones are all under her control. This can also explain why she has such a powerful mana, which can make the shaman spit out all the body fluids and blood when they see her, can interfere with the Japanese practice, can mobilize the dead to become zombies, but does not save the little girl.
The most interesting scene in the whole film appears in the two sets of shots at the end of the film, the dialogue between Zhong Jiu and the resentful spirit, and the dialogue between the auxiliary teacher and the Japanese.
The resentful spirit asked Zhong Jiu to wait until the cock crowing before returning, otherwise the whole family would die. Zhong Jiu asked her if she was a human or a ghost, but she avoided answering, only saying that she believed that she could save her daughter. Ask her why? She said it was because Zhong Jiu suspected people and killed them, but the fact was that the only person Zhong Jiu killed was a Japanese (later resurrected). He fell off a cliff because he was chased by Zhong Jiu, but a fatal one The fall was because the rainy night followed the woman, which showed that the scene of killing the Japanese was exactly the woman's arrangement.
Did you see it? Between the resentful spirits and the Japanese, ordinary people just became cannon fodder for their war with each other. The Japanese were projected with the deepest fear and resentment of the people, and the resentful spirits continued to magnify this fear and resentment for the needs of revenge. Tragedy stacks up, in which shamans who aided Zhou's abuse act as accomplices for money, let fear control people, and make people pay the price of money and life for it.
This religious and political allegory is so wonderful that the resurrected Japanese said to Christ's assistant: "You touch me, I have no flesh and no soul, you see I have..." There is a hole, and that is the miracle of Christ's resurrection. Satan too? Saints too? Do you believe in miracles? Do you believe in stigmata? Do you really think that the soul is boneless and fleshless, while the living body has bones and flesh that can be touched? Stupid human beings! Just like the assistant teacher, he shouted to the present Satan, "Lord...", while Zhong Jiu was still thinking when he was dying, he was a policeman and would protect his family...
Because the subject matter is so sensitive, the author The film adopts a very obscure method. Under the cloak of the usual horror films, it is difficult to conceal the depth of the author's independent thinking. This is also what distinguishes Luo Hongzhen from other directors, and plays the genre film into a new realm.
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