Human beings are born with fear-the most comprehensive in the entire network, the reference of novel prototypes, the strongest interpretation of "the grudge"

Ju-on: The Grudge

Rating: 5 Keywords: The Grudge is definitely not the best horror movie, but it is the most terrifying horror movie; ---Why is "The Grudge" so terrifying? ---Summary of the third part of "The Grudge" series of movies: refer to the novel prototype story of "The Grudge", and then through detailed analysis of the structure design of the "The Grudge" series of films, I try to find the sensational history of the "The Grudge" series s reason. Then, using "The Grudge" as the starting point, it explores the film characteristics of horror films as special genres. Remarks: Deciphering terror is like deciphering pornography. In the final analysis, it is interpreting human nature; Note: The grievance-a deep enmity from the deceased, and his curse gathers in the place where he died. People who touch this resentment will be cursed to death, which will cause the next enmity and curse, which will repeat itself. Movie list: "The Grudge 1" movie version, Japan Shimizu Takashi 90 minutes 2002 1, a brief review;

To a certain extent, "The Grudge" defines the horror subject matter within the scope of the movie. The audience can intuitively feel the culmination of "curse" in horror design, but what really matters is the profound philosophy of horror created by "curse" based on a very high insight into human nature. Comparing Thailand, where the creation of terror is equally strong, and China, where the "horror theme" was once hot, we find that Japanese-style terror has the highest degree of respect for "phobia".

The most obvious difference is that Thai-style horror tends to deconstruct the human heart-suspiciousness produces evil spirits, Chinese-style horror focuses on social and people's care-Liao Zhai based on the topic, and Japanese-style horror directly restores the pure horror element at the human level-what humans are afraid of ? Why are you afraid of it? To put it bluntly, the terror in Japanese-style terror is not a tool of any humanity. The expression of terror is out of terror, not politics, religion or culture. It is strange that the pornographic and horror themes with the highest sensory sensitivity are the most humanly authentic Japanese creations.

In the final analysis, the subject of horror only solves one problem. There is no fearless life. What are we afraid of? Is it unknown? Is it death? Is it lonely? There is no doubt that fear is a more complicated human nature than other modalities. Back to this film. Horror Index: The first 1 and the last 4 stars, that's how it splits.

Compared with the video tape version, it clearly feels that the level has dropped sharply. The first half deals with things. In the movie version, Li Jia's performance almost skipped the scene from the beginning, and the climax of the narrative at the beginning seemed too impatient. However, in the second half, since the scene where Gaya coconut climbs the stairs in the far-mountain passage, the plot has become more and more compact, and the horror index has soared. 2. Structure; Prologue: A man is biting his finger covered in blood, he uses the blood from his bitten finger to stick a photo with a face deducted from the photo. The body of a woman remained sitting and was thrown in the corner. It was obvious that she had been cruelly abused before she died. A child was painting, but was surprised by the adult and hid in the closet. A black cat was caught and killed. (Anyone who has watched the videotape version knows that the man is Takao Saeki, and the woman is Kayako—actually Rijia, and the child is Xiaobai.) In the first paragraph, Rijia is a college student who works as a volunteer in the Social Welfare Department. On this day, she was arranged by her unscrupulous boss to take care of an old man-Granny Xingzhi. Unfortunately, Granny Xingzhi lives in the classic haunted house of "The Grudge". After Riga arrived at the haunted house, she saw Granny Xingzhi who had been mumbling to herself. Mother-in-law Xingzhi kept muttering: He Mei just didn't listen to what I said a long time ago. (Waomi is the daughter-in-law of Xingzhi's mother-in-law.) At the same time, she also saw Xiao Bai in the haunted house, but she didn't know that she was in the haunted house. At night, a black shadow with only one pair of eyes took away the life of Granny Xingzhi, and Rijia was also frightened and passed out. (I have to complain about Li Jia’s performance in this segment, which forced me to play. At the same time, the black shadow of the eyes also made me jump into the drama of the star master's "Western Journey". You must know that the latter is a comedy! The flour was in Japan in 2002. Has the price increased? Use a black shadow to pretend to be Kayako.) In the second stage, Katsuya Katsuya lives in a haunted house with his wife, Kazumi, and mother, Koie. Hemei has been complaining about Shengye's mother, always messing around at night, making it impossible for her to sleep, but it is actually Xiaobai, the bear child, who is making a ghost. One day, after Shengye went to work, Xiaobai, a bear kid, killed Hemei. After Shengya came back, he was also screwed to death. Seiya’s younger sister, Renmei, said that she would come to her brother’s house for dinner. After she went into the haunted house, she didn’t see her brother and sister-in-law, so she was going to cook for her mother. Later, I suddenly found that Shengya was sitting at the top of the stairs (you know that it’s the Jayako special track, how can you sit around, no wonder you got killed!), Shengya tried his best to persuade Renmei, don’t stay here tonight. Go back quickly. It was said that something happened at home and the sister-in-law had an affair. In the end, Renmei was forced out of the haunted house by her brother. (The action of Sheng also biting my finger made me jump into the drama "The Big Story" again, and at the same time, the plot of Sheng also pushing my sister away is actually not in line with the plot logic, because the grudge does not talk about causality and blood relationship, and kills when it comes. .) The third paragraph of Renmei Ren Mei experienced a series of strange things after that day. First, she encountered a female ghost in the company toilet and asked the security guard to check it. As a result, the security guard was killed by a group of dark shadows. (Another group of dark shadows) Xiaobai accompanied her all the way home, but she didn't find it herself. After returning home, he was beaten to death by Jia Ye in the bed. (This is the first time Xiaobai and her son have worked together to harm people.) (The bed scene is the first time that flour makeup appears in this film, but it is obviously much lighter. It's really nothing to say. It's irritating that the filmmakers are cutting corners! ) The fourth section of the far mountain section is rather chaotic. Yuan Shan was a police officer who had investigated the haunted house case before. After the accident at the Shengya family, the police station called him in to assist in the investigation. They showed him the video of the security guard being killed by the dark shadow. So Yuanshan decided to burn the haunted house. Unexpectedly, the gasoline has been poured, but at this moment I accidentally saw my adult daughter Yimei. He went up the stairs to see what was going on. He ran into the flour ghost and went downstairs in a hurry. Fortunately, he met two policemen who came and managed to escape. The scene of Jia coconut climbing the stairs reproduces the rivers and lakes. At the same time, in this paragraph, Li Jia is killed by Jia Yu. In the fifth paragraph, Yimei talked about Yimei, so I had to mention the videotape version 1. At that time, there was a paragraph called Saori in the sixth paragraph, saying that a few young people went to a haunted house to find excitement. Three of them disappeared later. Yimei was one of these young people, but they did not disappear. After that, Yimei always felt that the three missing persons were peeping at her, and she blocked all the windows with paper. Finally, when she smashed the paper on the window, she saw three other classmates, and at the same time, she was killed by Gaya coconut. Judging from this paragraph, Li Jia has not been killed before. She first touched her hands while taking a bath, and then when she was eating with her friend Mariko, she saw the bear child Xiaobai. When I went to the haunted house to save Mariko, I accidentally saw Saeki Takeo and was killed. The way of death was the same as that of Kayako. The female corpse at the beginning of the movie is also Lijia, not Gaya. In this case, the plot is difficult to understand. I don't know what the meaning of the action of covering my eyes with my fingers is. ) The fourth section of the far mountain section is rather chaotic. Yuan Shan was a police officer who had investigated the haunted house case before. After the accident at the Shengya family, the police station called him in to assist in the investigation. They showed him the video of the security guard being killed by the dark shadow. So Yuanshan decided to burn the haunted house. Unexpectedly, the gasoline has been poured, but at this moment I accidentally saw my adult daughter Yimei. He went up the stairs to see what was going on. He ran into the flour ghost and went downstairs in a hurry. Fortunately, he met two policemen who came and managed to escape. The scene of Jia coconut climbing the stairs reproduces the rivers and lakes. At the same time, in this paragraph, Li Jia is killed by Jia Yu. In the fifth paragraph, Yimei talked about Yimei, so I had to mention the videotape version 1. At that time, there was a paragraph called Saori in the sixth paragraph, saying that a few young people went to a haunted house to find excitement. Three of them disappeared later. Yimei was one of these young people, but they did not disappear. After that, Yimei always felt that the three missing persons were peeping at her, and she blocked all the windows with paper. Finally, when she smashed the paper on the window, she saw three other classmates, and at the same time, she was killed by Gaya coconut. Judging from this paragraph, Li Jia has not been killed before. She first touched her hands while taking a bath, and then when she was eating with her friend Mariko, she saw the bear child Xiaobai. When I went to the haunted house to save Mariko, I accidentally saw Saeki Takeo and was killed. The way of death was the same as that of Kayako. The female corpse at the beginning of the movie is also Lijia, not Gaya. In this case, the plot is difficult to understand. I don't know what the meaning of the action of covering my eyes with my fingers is. ) The fourth section of the far mountain section is rather chaotic. Yuan Shan was a police officer who had investigated the haunted house case before. After the accident at the Shengya family, the police station called him in to assist in the investigation. They showed him the video of the security guard being killed by the dark shadow. So Yuanshan decided to burn the haunted house. Unexpectedly, the gasoline has been poured, but at this moment I accidentally saw my adult daughter Yimei. He went up the stairs to see what was going on. He ran into the flour ghost and went downstairs in a hurry. Fortunately, he met two policemen who came and managed to escape. The scene of Jia coconut climbing the stairs reproduces the rivers and lakes. At the same time, in this paragraph, Li Jia is killed by Jia Yu. In the fifth paragraph, Yimei talked about Yimei, so I had to mention the videotape version 1. At that time, there was a paragraph called Saori in the sixth paragraph, saying that a few young people went to a haunted house to find excitement. Three of them disappeared later. Yimei was one of these young people, but they did not disappear. After that, Yimei always felt that the three missing persons were peeping at her, and she blocked all the windows with paper. Finally, when she smashed the paper on the window, she saw three other classmates, and at the same time, she was killed by Gaya coconut. Judging from this paragraph, Li Jia has not been killed before. She first touched her hands while taking a bath, and then when she was eating with her friend Mariko, she saw the bear child Xiaobai. When I went to the haunted house to save Mariko, I accidentally saw Saeki Takeo and was killed. The way of death was the same as that of Kayako. The female corpse at the beginning of the movie is also Lijia, not Gaya. In this case, the plot is difficult to understand. I don't know what the meaning of the action of covering my eyes with my fingers is. Judging from this paragraph, Li Jia hadn't been killed before. She first touched her hands while taking a bath, and then when she was eating with her friend Mariko, she saw the bear child Xiaobai. When I went to the haunted house to save Mariko, I accidentally saw Saeki Takeo and was killed. The way of death was the same as that of Kayako. The female corpse at the beginning of the movie is also Lijia, not Gaya. In this case, the plot is difficult to understand. I don't know what the meaning of the action of covering my eyes with my fingers is. Judging from this paragraph, Li Jia hadn't been killed before. She first touched her hands while taking a bath, and then when she was eating with her friend Mariko, she saw the bear child Xiaobai. When I went to the haunted house to save Mariko, I accidentally saw Saeki Takeo and was killed. The way of death was the same as that of Kayako. The female corpse at the beginning of the movie is also Lijia, not Gaya. In this case, the plot is difficult to understand. I don't know what the meaning of the action of covering my eyes with my fingers is. 3. The plot; First of all, it must be emphasized that even if you have understood the two parts of the videotape version, you may not be able to understand it after you watch the film. One is because the time clues of the film are very hidden. It only tells the audience through the radio that Lijia was dead when Yimei was alive, but in the plot, Yimei is dead and Lijia is still alive; second, because the film is dealing with Lijia’s role At the time, the clues are very complicated. If you don’t understand the novel, you can’t understand the plot at all through the limited information explained in the movie. The third is the context. The black cat and the covered eyes have special meanings in the Japanese cultural context. This special cultural background also makes it difficult to understand the film. It is said (unverified) that in Japanese culture, black cats are a symbol of evil. If a person sees the eyes of a black cat when he dies, then the soul of the person will never be superborn; at the same time, there is also a legend in Japanese folk that people can learn from I saw the truth between my fingers. This explains why Rijia met the black cat and looked in the mirror through her fingers. After sorting out the time clues, the detailed plot is as follows: Tokunaga and a family of three lived in the haunted house, the male protagonist Tokunaga Katsuya, the female lead Tokunaga Kazumi, and Katsuya's mother Tokunaga Yukie. At the same time, Sheng also has a younger sister, Tokunaga Hitomi, who does not live in a haunted house. The first three paragraphs at the beginning of the film tell the story of the cursed process of Tokunaga's family of four. Compared to the latter half of the information and the sense of horror, the death of Tokunaga's family of four is basically negligible. Yuanshan was a policeman who had investigated the haunted house case. After the accident at the Katsuya family, he was recalled to the police station to assist in the investigation. He watched a video of a security guard being swallowed by a group of dark shadows, and he became more determined that the haunted house was indeed problematic, so he planned to burn the haunted house, and it was over. Unexpectedly, the gasoline was poured, but she accidentally saw her grown-up daughter Yimei, who was also in the haunted house, but Yimei was only in elementary school at the time. Driven by curiosity, Yuanshan went upstairs to see the Flour Guijia Coconut and was cursed. He died soon after returning home. After the accident with the Shengya family, the surviving Shengya's mother-in-law, Xingzhi, got the attention of the Social Welfare Department. On this day, the Welfare Department arranged for college student volunteers to go to the haunted house to take care of Granny Xingzhi. In the haunted house, Li Jia saw the bear kid Xiaobai and a group of black shadow Jia Yu (originally from a flour ghost, I don't know what the director was mad at this time), and was cursed. However, it is strange that Li Jia was not killed. She only occasionally saw Xiaobai the bear child and a lot of black cats, and felt that there was someone who was always by her side, and she could even touch her hand when taking a bath. Later, Rijia’s college classmate Mariko became a teacher. She went to visit her home that day. When Rijia was talking on the phone, she suddenly heard meowing on the phone. Li Jia Moment Understand, the home visit Mariko said is to go to the haunted house. She originally planned to go to the haunted house to rescue her friend, but when she walked through a mirror in the haunted house, she seemed to see a person in the mirror. At that time, she recalled many things. Before their deaths, Xingzhi's mother-in-law and an old man from the Welfare Department tried to see through their fingers through their fingers. She did that in front of the mirror in the haunted house, and she saw a different reason. . Only then did she suddenly realize that she had been cursed a long time ago, and the person who cursed her was Gaya coconut. At the same time, Saeki Takeo, who was already dead, walked to Rika and killed her like he used to treat Kayako. This explains why the corpse that appeared at the beginning of the movie and was thrown beside Saeki Takao was Rijia instead of Kayako. In fact, it could be said that it was Kayako, but she was attached to Rika's body. After Yuanshan died, Yimei grew up. She and her three classmates went to the haunted house on an expedition. The three of them disappeared and Yimei escaped. This is what her father Yuanshan saw in the haunted house. But in the end, she couldn't escape. The three students who disappeared soon found Yimei and killed her. －－－There are many loopholes in the plot of this film. From the beginning, the creator did not try to take the plot seriously, so many loopholes are not necessary to fill in the picture. Plot groove points: a, if the soul of Kay coconut dominates Lijia's body, where is Lijia's soul? b. Before Yimei and his father Yuanshan died, they both used newspapers to seal the windows, and it seemed to be somewhat effective. Yimei tore the newspaper open, and the grievances of her three classmates came in. Why? Didn't you find that the newspaper window can be used to reject ghosts? The general principle of action of Jia coconut is to go wherever you go. c. What does it mean to replace flour with a ball of shadows in the first half? The only explanation is that the price of flour increased in that year. －－Tucao in the plot is pure entertainment. Kayako, in fact, can also be said to be Kayako, but she is attached to Rijia's body. After Yuanshan died, Yimei grew up. She and her three classmates went to the haunted house on an expedition. The three of them disappeared and Yimei escaped. This is what her father Yuanshan saw in the haunted house. But in the end, she couldn't escape. The three students who disappeared soon found Yimei and killed her. －－－There are many loopholes in the plot of this film. From the beginning, the creator did not try to take the plot seriously, so many loopholes are not necessary to fill in the picture. Plot groove points: a, if the soul of Kay coconut dominates Lijia's body, where is Lijia's soul? b. Before Yimei and his father Yuanshan died, they both used newspapers to seal the windows, and it seemed to be somewhat effective. Yimei tore the newspaper open, and the grievances of her three classmates came in. Why? Didn't you find that the newspaper window can be used to reject ghosts? The general principle of action of Jia coconut is to go wherever you go. c. What does it mean to replace flour with a ball of shadows in the first half? The only explanation is that the price of flour increased in that year. －－Tucao in the plot is pure entertainment. Kayako, in fact, can also be said to be Kayako, but she is attached to Rijia's body. After Yuanshan died, Yimei grew up. She and her three classmates went to the haunted house on an expedition. The three of them disappeared and Yimei escaped. This is what her father Yuanshan saw in the haunted house. But in the end, she couldn't escape. The three students who disappeared soon found Yimei and killed her. －－－There are many loopholes in the plot of this film. From the beginning, the creator did not try to take the plot seriously, so many loopholes are not necessary to fill in the picture. Plot groove points: a, if the soul of Kay coconut dominates Lijia's body, where is Lijia's soul? b. Before Yimei and his father Yuanshan died, they both used newspapers to seal the windows, and it seemed to be somewhat effective. Yimei tore the newspaper open, and the grievances of her three classmates came in. Why? Didn't you find that the newspaper window can be used to reject ghosts? The general principle of action of Jia coconut is to go wherever you go. c. What does it mean to replace flour with a ball of shadows in the first half? The only explanation is that the price of flour increased in that year. －－Tucao in the plot is pure entertainment. 4. Classical horror elements and bridge segments: a, hell after pulling the paper, Yimei opened the newspaper on the window and saw the female ghost outside the window. b. Ghost press. When Li Jia lay on the bed and met Kayako's eyes, she really felt very much. c. Hit the ghost in the mirror, Li Jia looked in the mirror in the haunted house, and the mirror image of the ghost appeared in the mirror. d. The female ghost suddenly opened her eyes. At the end, Li Jia, who was possessed by Kayako, suddenly opened her eyes. 5. Summary of story and narrative: The structure of the film is very similar to the first part of the videotape version, which is obviously imitating; the plot setting is too light and the plot is top-notch. In contrast, the videotape version's plot has been messed up to that point. To a degree, it still looks more organized and clearer than this film. In the creation of a sense of horror, the first half uses a few shadows to deal with things, but the plot in the second half is getting stronger and stronger, and the narrative method in the second half is also more complicated (actually chaotic).

On the whole, except for the horror effect of the second half, which is worthy of recognition, the story is completely incomprehensible. And this ambiguity is not caused by information asymmetry. The bigger reason is that the narrative is unorganized and logically chaotic, and it can even be said that the attitude is not rigorous. On the one hand, the overall plot structure is unbalanced, coupled with the chaotic time and space narrative, making it difficult for the audience to grasp the core of the movie story, and the hidden story clues are becoming less and less obvious; on the other hand, the story itself is not rigorous at all. The seemingly deliberate but obviously random time-space collision plot makes people feel confusing.

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