In the face of the recent "LOFT" and "Retribution", we cannot blame the amazing height of "CURE" or "PULSE", but in what direction Kurosawa Kiyoshi can choose to break through. The girl in red in "Scream" can already spread terror with a simple voice, which is different from the verbal hypnosis in "CURE" or the loneliness of "PULSE". The film that just loses the philosophical concept and psychoanalysis aura does not seem to be that successful.
But groping always has its meaning. In the near future, Kurosawa Kiyoshi may still be able to dedicate more representative and genre works. Just as "CURE" had been brewing for several years before, "PULSE" also had a foreshadowing that was difficult to interpret. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who is studying sociology, always uses a less optimistic methodology to analyze the modern society after the alienation and constant differentiation.
The charm of the story of "CURE" in 1997 lies in the misty, uncovered layers, full of many chapters for analysis. From "Blue Beard" at the beginning of the movie, to Franz Mesmer in the middle, and finally the blurred picture of the face. The film establishes a complete correspondence between the hypnotist and the hypnotized, the inducer and the inducer, rather than a simple role transformation. Its theme is that everyone will become fearless under the superbly successful inducement. murderer.
Everyone has the suggestibility (hypnotizability) as in "CURE", but the degree of suggestibility varies from person to person. Generally speaking, people's degree of suggestibility is relatively stable. However, it is said that the degree of suggestibility is also affected by age. It is generally believed that the suggestibility of people is higher in childhood. It can reach the highest in adolescence, and then gradually decline with age (from Wiki). Mesmer's theories and viewpoints are a good way to analyze the film.
In "CURE", because of the clear purpose of taking care of his wife, Gao Fu plays an equally important dual role. The mentally disturbed wife makes Gao Fu have a strong backing that can resist Mamiya's hypnosis and resist Mamiya's words of "who am I?" Implied, but as the investigation deepened, he was inevitably affected by Mamiya, especially after he investigated Mamiya's residence, facing the monkey corpse and the sea of books, he could not stop feeling disillusioned. The camera began to hallucinate here, and exposed Mamiya's heart. But what followed was that the line of defense continued to disintegrate, and he was fully aware that he could also have this ability. That may be the result of long-term psychological analysis, or it may be Mamiya's suggestion that drove it to play its role.
As seen in the second half of "CURE", it is not a mere image, and "Who am I" is not a question that can be skipped carelessly. In the film, Mamiya is named an inducer full of terrible hypnotic ability. He has no memory and can't remember the content of the first few sentences. He will only habitually hypnotize others and complete the murder. Mamiya will always live in the present. Most of his methods are to completely relax the hypnotized person (on the one hand, his non-attack and harmless possibility), and then use suggestive methods to hypnotize the hypnotized person, including verbal cues , Environmental hints, etc. During this process, he was very relaxed. The verbal suggestion conveys some information content that induces suggestion to different hypnotized persons, such as the phrase "Who am I" that is too simple to be simpler, repeated over and over again. Then it uses environmental cues to make the hypnotized person enter a hypnotic state, such as the light of the indoor light, the lighting of a cigarette butt when smoking, the light of a lighter or even the form of water droplets.
Mamiya did not participate in serial killings, but directly lured the hypnotized second personality or hidden personality out of the hole to complete a terrifying outbreak. In the same way, because of not actively participating, in "CURE", there are very few scenes of terrorist attacks, just as there are still two unsentimental falls from heights, which are just showing the facts, not using them. To render horrifying scenes. With the help of the audience's imagination, "CURE" has constructed a weird modern space. All the horrors suddenly become stronger at the end. The appearance of the ruins of the deserted house signifies that the story will have infinite possibilities.
The ruins of the deserted house are uninhabited, and the senior friend and him came to the scene twice before and after. At the same time, they are indistinguishable from the true and the false. They may exist in hallucinations, or they may have happened in reality. The scene has dilapidated glass, an old room, and an old photo on the wall. It was this person who spread Mesmer's theoretical research to Japan that year. In connection with that old image, it seems that there is really a devil instructing people. Unleash their hidden personalities, and complete an outbreak that is uninhibited and difficult to restrain.
After the friend died, it was a reminder that he was more ill. The contest between the higher part and Mamiya ushered in the climax of a decisive battle, and in the end the latter died contentedly. At this time, as a missionary role change, it has been successfully taken over by the high department. At the end, he successfully induced hospital nurses and restaurant attendants to complete their personality release. X is a symbol of ritual, that is, letting the deceased die cruelly like a religious trial, which is both a punishment and a ritual. Putting this point back into the story of "CURE" again, it is definitely not inferior to the story of echoing wife and "Blue Beard".
http://www.mtime.com/my/moviel/blog/538922/ (with "Blue Beard")
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