The dark web has broadened the depth of the desktop movie’s horror, and let it go on this road without looking back.
In 1895, the Lumière brothers invented the film.
After more than a hundred years, from silent to sound, from black and white to color, movies have always tried to break the boundaries between reality and light and shadow.
Just like [Blair the Witch] in 1999 .
With the popular shooting tool DV, the lens began to shake, and the ambient sound was not processed. The film became so rough in the back, but it was extremely realistic.
Later, some people called this a pseudo-documentary .
In the second decade of the new century, the Internet was surging, personal computers and smart phones became popular, and people began to live both in reality and the Internet .
Humans spend more and more time on the Internet, virtual reality begins to arrogantly overtake reality, and one step ahead of movies. The Internet blurs reality and illusion.
Therefore, in the past two years, there has been a class of movies that show real life on the Internet.
It's like [Remove Friends 2] in 2018 .
The story is all on the Internet, and the picture is a mirrored computer desktop. Looking around the present, it is not daily life.
Later, someone called this a desktop movie .
Desktop movies, whose name is the definition, refer to movies in which story conflicts and scenes are all concentrated on the Internet and computer desktops .
It was born because of the rapid development of the Internet, and it has a strong era. If it is more than a decade earlier, it will be an ingenious science fiction film.
Its debut is also very online.
In 2009, a treasure hunting website appeared abroad. Someone buried £9,000 in a place in the UK, leaving nine clues on the homepage for gifts to someone who is destined.
One year after the release, a netizen named Adam Butcher claimed to crack the puzzle and get a bonus.
Later, he took the cracking process into a ten-minute short film [Internet Story] , which was posted on the Internet, and the number of hits soared.
Although it was later discovered that the owner of the website was Butcher himself, it was done, and he made a lot of traffic.
And this ten-minute short video is the beginning of everything.
Due to the particularity of desktop movies, it is a test of the screenwriter's architectural ability and the technical support of Internet professionals .
So at the very beginning, it was just a new technique. No one dared to try it all in the feature film, but occasionally made a cameo in a short film or a certain section of the movie.
For example, in the 2012 multi-segment horror film [Fatal Video] , one of the stories started from the video chat between young men and women on Skype.
Finally, in 2013, [the nest] came out .
The whole story takes place under the webcam and on the desktop, which can be regarded as a real desktop movie.
In order to complete the sociology project, the heroine Elizabeth used the web chat software "The den" to get acquainted with netizens from all over the world, but saw the evil in the corners of the world.
With feature films, desktop movies have been singing all the way and the number has increased, and they have gradually evolved from techniques to genre movies.
The technology model has matured, and the desktop movie was officially named in 2015.
Thanks to a Russian director named Timo Beckmanbetov .
When desktop movies first emerged, he was full of enthusiasm, and he had a foreboding that it would change movies in the future, and he was the producer of the first [Unfriend] in 2014.
In addition, he also participated in the production of the well-known desktop movie [Network Lost], and his self-directed [Network Lure Horror] also won an award at the Berlin Film Festival.
As for [Remove Friends 2], there is still his shadow behind the scenes .
In 1954, Hitchcock shot [rear window] .
Most of the shots of the film focus on Jeffery's window, where the audience sees the life of the people on the opposite side, and the desire for voyeurism has never been so satisfying.
To put it bluntly, everyone has a desire for voyeurism.
Watching a movie is actually a peeping. On the screen, the audience sees the lives of others, while the [rear window] magnifies their desires to the extreme.
A few years later, the movie was still a movie, and the rear window became the computer desktop.
In the Internet age, personal Internet terminals have become the last reserved place for private life. Everyone swims naked on them, and the human nature is infinitely magnified.
" If I see your screen, I can see your soul, " Timo Beckmanbetov once said.
Therefore, the desktop movie magnifies the current new round of voyeurism.
It's like [Popup Cry] in 2014 .
The desktop is full of computer cameras, mobile phone lenses, and real-time images under the monitor. Through the male lead computer, the audience can see the life of the kidnapped girl.
In [Network Lost] , it is more advanced.
David's daughter was kidnapped. By opening the social networking site in her daughter's laptop, she not only found clues, but also saw the other side of her daughter hidden in front of her, which narrowed the generation gap.
The same goes for [Remove Friends 2].
Matthias accidentally picked up a stranger's computer, intended for his own use, but was aroused by the hidden files on the hard drive, and finally got a glimpse of the dark secrets of the dark web.
Of course, Matthias must not be able to play with the hackers of "Dark Web Shield".
He spied on the dark web, and the dark web was also spying on him .
Between window switching, social information exchanges, on and off the screen, desktop movies have completed another voyeuristic carnival.
The desktop movie Bacheng is a thriller .
Because it is obviously a small-cost movie, the horror and thriller type can undoubtedly make the return cycle the fastest, and it can also break the dullness of staring at the desktop for a long time.
More importantly, there is also the dark web .
Like desktop movies, it is also a term that has emerged in the past two years. It actually exists in online databases, but it cannot be indexed by ordinary search engines. The amount of data is several orders of magnitude of ordinary Internet.
When browsing the dark web, the IP address is erratic, cannot be tracked, and cannot be monitored.
Therefore, the dark web in reality is the same as [Unfriend 2], belonging to a place outside the law, a paradise for sin.
Last year, Chinese student Zhang Yingying disappeared in the U.S. There has been no news yet. It is rumored that it was done by the dark web.
In addition, the film also mentioned the " Silk Road ", which also exists in the real dark web.
Simply put, this is the dark version of "Taobao" on the dark web. As the largest e-commerce company on the dark web, it basically sells drugs, guns, sex slaves, and human lives .
Fortunately, the founder Ulbricht was sentenced to life last year.
In reality, several sporadic dark web stories are very scary, but the public knows very little inside story, which undoubtedly gives the dark web a layer of urban legendary temperament, which perfectly fits the needs of desktop movies.
Therefore, desktop movies are not only thrillers, but also hidden in the shadow of the dark web at all times.
[Contact friends 2] is clearly stated, and in [The Lair], the spectators spend money to watch the live broadcast of the killings, which is not what the legendary dark web did.
The background of the dark web is self-evident by the kidnapping and killing of Megan's male netizen Josh in [Meghan is missing] in 2011 .
The dark web has broadened the depth of the desktop movie’s horror, and let it go on this road without looking back.
Even though the genre is single and the frame is limited, it does not affect the rise of desktop movies.
Low-cost, fast-paced, and stimulating, it is like a beast, flaring its teeth and claws toward traditional movies.
With the development of technology and audio-visual language, movies are being deconstructed and integrated all the time, changing with each passing day.
And when the audience walked into the movie theater and saw the desktop that they couldn't be bored with, it could be so exciting and exciting.
Fang Zhi, the movie has never been too old for a hundred years .
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Author/Yaoyao Wine
The article was first published on the WeChat public account "Pocier"
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