Main story: Two young men monitored the life of their neighbor, Arbor, for psychological experiments and selfish desires, and faked signs of ghosts in his house to intimidate him. Later, the experiment was out of control, causing Arbor to commit suicide and the two were sentenced by the court.
1. Highlight 1: The stem is very good.
"The people of the three-dimensional element take watching the life of the two-dimensional person as a pastime, and finally find that they are being counter-surveilled-the two-dimensional person is born with self-consciousness, and has been disguising, trying to understand the truth of his life." In summary, this The central routine of stalks is "reversal of primary and secondary". Film and television works include "Trumen's World", "W Two Worlds", "Zoom" and "Western World"; there are many novels, mostly science fiction, such as a short story in "Abis's Dream". Any work involving this subject can give people a gorgeous sense of blur. This subject matter has not been fully developed yet.
2. Highlight 2: It is a great gimmick to do psychological experiments on unknowing people in real life.
The psychology experiment itself is a gimmick. Being ignorant of the experimenter, this reminds me of "Intimidation Movement", this kind of development can be very fun. In addition, such a subject matter is easy to dig up ideas, and the force can be very high.
3. Disadvantage 1: Insufficient story rhythm.
The whole film is very dramatic, but the middle part of the reversal is not handled properly. ① There is a secret in Arbor’s basement, he may be a murderer. ② The young man wants to break into Arbor’s house and explore the secrets of the basement. ③ The upgraded version of the freezing point experiment. These are all violent climaxes, but they have not been highlighted. The whole film seems very flat in the middle, because the audience has been expecting a reversal, but the director did not satisfy the audience's sense of expectation.
4. Disadvantage 2: Wrong guidance to the audience's emotions.
This is a very serious problem, but the average creator will not make this kind of mistake. On the contrary, those who are particularly talented creators are the easiest to make mistakes (such as the unthinking of "The Great Guardian").
The characters in this movie are divided into two groups: the Arbor group and the young youth group. The audience needs an object to place their emotions. Young people are obviously not suitable objects. They are too bad and they are not high enough. After watching for 20 minutes, the audience should have placed their feelings on the victim, Arbor. He has a bad temper, but he is very tenacious and is a good empathy object. Now that the audience has empathized with him, they will look forward to his counter-kill. But without anti-killing, Arbor has been tortured all the time, and even the young man did not get the retribution he deserved in the end. The audience will be very upset. (The final reversal component is not enough.)
①If you want to use Arbor as the empathy object, refer to "Hold your Breath" and "Magic House". Although it is a routine, Arbor's counter-attack is necessary. Routines have reasons for the existence of routines, because the audience needs their empathy objects to fight back or get revenge. If there is no revenge, it would be "Lake of Eden". Although it is terrifying and depressing, it is horrifying and acceptable.
②If the target of empathy chooses a young man, then both of them will be bad enough. Now this kind of badness is too low-level, closer to boring voyeurism. The description of "bad protagonist" can refer to "Nightcrawler" or "When You Are Sleeping". In fact, these two people could have been better portrayed, "crazy scholars who obliterated their conscience for the sake of psychological experiments". This kind of setting is full of sense. Moreover, the moral contradiction between the two young people can also be described in depth, which will have a good impact.
I feel that this story is in good shape, and it will turn into a shiny script if you change it.
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