"Why do ghosts kill people?"
"It must be because people have done bad things and been punished."
This is a tone of thought that many viewers have when watching horror movies.
After reading a lot of fantasy stories written by Chinese people, they often use the concept of cause and effect to understand ghosts and ghosts. The traditional concept tells us that things have cause and effect. In ancient legends, no matter how bizarre the story is, the coordinates of the end point of the story must also point to a cause and effect. Then, the supernatural stories are introduced into the social realm of human beings to further realize the social care that the ancient literati writers valued.
As for the online novels that have become popular in recent years, fantasy, supernatural, and horror are also not a small field. From Tinder's drama-style horror novels, to being 404, he came from hell, and then to the horror house of the rookie king in 2018, in general, generally subconsciously or consciously continued to use the perspective of cause and effect. Interpreting the thinking of ghosts, perhaps the hell apartment-style hardcore ghost story weakens some of the dramatic elements of ghosts themselves, but in general, it still defaults to the general application of cause and effect; and with the resurgence of aura, the house of horrors, the author is even more He directly shouted the theme of "ghosts are better than humans". The emotions and obsessions of ghosts are far beyond that of humans, and even the boundaries between humans and ghosts are deliberately blurred, and the two are regarded as equal moral creatures.
This kind of thinking indeed conforms to the inner logic of narrative art, just like the origin of the grudge story, which is tragic and immoral, and then gives birth to ugly fruits and terrifying plots. In terms of viewing experience, this is indeed a favorable way for the audience to accept, even if the plot is not necessarily rigorous, for example, it is difficult for us to say why the ghosts in the grievances are confined to one room, and why the revenge of the ghosts has no direction Sex, but always received a causal feedback emotionally. At this time, the audience suddenly realized that it was such a hatred. I understand, and I can finally watch the movie happily.
But another type of horror story doesn’t pay much attention to the setting of cause and effect, or the cause and effect in this type of stories is not the kind of blood (blood feud) fetters in the minds of the audience, more like a kind of setting for the grotesque And the arranged plot. For example, in the series The God of Death is coming next door, the supernatural arrival is not due to a ghost with hatred, but a god of death who does not have a specific image. The person who kills you is not necessarily your enemy, but may be passers-by, friends, or even yourself.
In death-style horror stories, the pain points that attract the audience are more like brain hole fun and visual stimulation. The 21st century is an extremely safe century. The bloody death to win the audience's preference, from a certain point of view, is more frightening than the causal story. In this way, the causal thinking may also be the audience's attempt to separate the real world from the horror story. Self-protection, Just like we often guess, "This person is a good person?"; "She helped him before her death."; During the experience, the mentality of "things have an end and an end" is between the film and the real world, providing a gap for drowning audiences to escape.
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