Most viewers are looking forward to the commercial films of "Small Island Cry" and "Death Paper".
Therefore, such a low score is inevitable.
In two-thirds of the film, when the male protagonist received a mysterious call again, the director gave the message that the caller was a girl. If it was a regular suspense film, this would be a technical error in the play. (This is different from the fact that "Victorius" also gave the truth through flashbacks in the middle, and that case is worth discussing so far.) But as the director of the suspense film leader Amamba, he is unlikely to make such a low-level mistake. The only explanation is that he did not regard this information as the biggest suspense point of the whole film. Instead of letting the audience guess, let me tell you first and let you focus on the topic he wants to discuss:
this The film explores retrospective therapy, a narrow hypnosis, but it points to the general hypnosis of the entire society on people. The film uses the teachings of Satan worship to cut into it.
I personally think that the biggest problem with the film is the plot setting: the son is gay, and so is the father, so the father feels that he is very sinful, so he imagines that he sexually assaulted his daughter and put himself in jail for atonement. This plot is too convoluted to make sense, and it is also the main reason why many viewers feel that the narrative is chaotic.
In addition, the plot line of the hero's mother is not well integrated.
After "Island Cry", Amamba threatened not to make Hitchcock-like movies. In his mind, the early three movies can only prove that he is a good craftsman, and he is going to be a master. , So there is the world-renowned "Deep Sea Eternal Sleep". After winning the Oscar, he raised another 60 million U.S. dollars to produce "City Square", which was the largest investment in Europe at the time. This ambitious film exploring the origins of Western civilization is magnificent and perfect. He was helpless due to religious issues. It was released in North America, and its reputation was also compromised. In the end, perhaps because of cost recovery problems, Amamba had to change course and returned to his old position-the thriller and suspense field continued to play its heat, and only came out with the film 6 years later. But now is not what it used to be. Compared with the layers of "Death Papers", the brains of "Face Changed" and "Small Island Cry" are completely natural. The film of the same big genre can only be regarded as unsatisfactory.
It can be seen that some of the details, scheduling, and mirroring in this film are obviously born out of the director’s personal previous work:
1. At the opening, the "I" in the title subtitle "Regresión" becomes the transition of the cross, the same as "Ágora" ("City The letter "O" in the square ") becomes the sun.
2. Having sex with a girl suddenly becomes an old woman, obviously from the scene between Nicholson and the woman in the bath in The Shining. Amamba once expressed that the inspiration for his "Small Island" is from "The Shining". The story takes place in a large isolated house. In "The Flash", the male protagonist is insane and wants to kill his son. ; In the prehistory of "Little", the heroine has killed a pair of children. It can be seen that Kubrick has a deep influence on it. (Many PS fans feel that "Island Cry" copied or borrowed from "The Sixth Sense of Supernatural", which is an unjust, false and wrong case. Amamba had the idea of "Island Cry" early on, waiting for the big name Nicole Kidman. The production schedule was delayed for two years, and it was born after the "Sixth Sense")
3. The shot schedule of the male protagonist and the girl making love is the same as the sex scene in "Open Your Eyes": the male protagonist and the female have sex, The camera moves to the dark, and then moves, the sex object becomes the second female.
4. The male protagonist saw Satan attacking in his dream and had sex with a girl, which is a subconscious display. This is exactly the same as the treatment of the heroine in the "Death Papers" dreaming of the hero entering the house and making love.
5. Introduce the elements of Satan worship through TV programs. This kind of information display technique was also used in "Open Your Eyes". The male protagonist saw news about human freezing on TV while in prison.
6. My father drew a picture of Satan very much like the picture painted by a witch at the end of "Small Island Cry".
7. The tape that the male lead listens to his father's narration, and the female lead listens to the torture tape in "Death Papers" all use voice to express the troubles of certain information to the main character.
8. The psychiatrist gave the male protagonist pills, and the male protagonist secretly threw them away. There are the same details in "Small Island Cry".
9. Finally, the girl was interviewed on TV, and everyone watched it, the same as "Death Paper".
10. The ending picture, a piece of water, the same as "Deep Sea Sleeping".
PS Amamba composed the first four films by himself. "City Square" involves classical music, and it is understandable that professional composing needs to be involved. However, this film is entirely his subject matter, but he did not write it, which is quite puzzled. .
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