The biggest attraction of the Nordic mythology taken in the UK is the natural scenery. A thick fog shrouded in the mountains and forests made the hiking trip extremely lonely. The more sparsely populated, the more you can talk to your heart. The combination of five friends is just to satisfy the foil of the protagonist's incarnation of a hero. The unmatched plot makes the whole story unbalanced, and even the mystery of legends and cults is difficult to save.
When people reach middle age, things are not going well, and it is rare to have a holiday and make an appointment to travel. The five old boys had planned to go hiking together. Unexpectedly, two of them were robbed in the convenience store, one escaped from hiding, and the other was brutally killed. Half a year later, the four people still went to the original route and paid homage to their friends at the top of the mountain. One person injured his knee on the way back. In order to take a shortcut, the four decided to deviate from the hiking route and walked through a forest back to the hotel. A series of strange things happened...
The corpses hanging on the branches, the mysterious symbols, the uninhabited huts, the weird sacrifices, etc., although none of the elements are very new, the victory is that the atmosphere of the film is always gloomy and heavy. The most important thing is that since he is the illegitimate son of Loki in the legend, the god of the forest who has occupied one side for a long time, don't appear in the flesh. The low roar, the suddenly uprooted tent, the disappearing hand, and the huge shadow can all create an irreplaceable sense of mystery. Inflicting damage is like an ordinary monster that has lived for a long time, making people unable to connect with the ancient divine residence anyway.
The Pang brothers filmed "The Injustice of the Forest", trying to combine the mystery of the forest with the excitement of solving the case, but it was a complete failure in the end. The 2010 "Yellow Brick Road" in the United States also focused on forest improvement, but it was also lacklustre. As a semi-enclosed space environment, the forest is definitely the best choice for horror themes. It can be ancient or modern, zombies can be entertained, adventure can be romantic, you can knead and dig. It's a pity that although the film has made a monster of appearance, it is difficult to show off the fear and awe of it. In the end, it is too vain to escape from the sky with the heroic attitude of man conquering the sky.
The believer chosen by the monster in the film is a person who is extremely painful and self-blaming in his heart. Then he uses immortality and freedom from emotions as bait to make the object he chooses to become his own loyal believer. In fact, it is out of the psychology of avoiding real life. Marked by paw prints, the god of the forest chose those who wanted to escape in their hearts. It is not so much that it chooses the believer, it is better to say that the believer has already chosen it in their hearts.
The corpse hung on the tree is a person who lacks this kind of painful emotion in his heart. This kind of person not only can't support the god of the forest, but invades its territory, making its identity as an illegitimate child even more contemptuous. Perhaps this is the source of the killing.
The dead body without a head in the forest hut, and the howling corpses found in the attic by the protagonist are no different, they should be the same kind of people. They gained eternal life, but betrayed the god of the forest, so they were made into corpses by the believers, allowing them to experience the pain of death forever in eternal life.
In the end, the hero’s victory over the ancient god’s mansion, that is, his cowardly memory is actually very disappointing. This story is more suitable for an open ending. For example: the whole story is the hero’s heart demon, because he was timid and kept open. Seeing his friends being killed, he made up the god of the forest. In the process of fighting with him, his friends died tragically, but at least he completed the mission of salvation, defeated the weak self, and waited until he ran out of the forest. At that time, he was in a daze and realized that he had just walked into the forest with his friends...
People who are in pain are left in the forest, and people who are not in pain are killed in the forest. This god is simply a bug.
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