Rating: 5
Key words: Islamic color terror;
1. Anticlimactic terror;
Let's talk about the film quality first; considering the source of the film, the film quality is worthy of praise, especially the use of color - color is so important for horror themes. Even in our country, many "blockbuster movies" are extremely indifferent in terms of color. It's interesting to say that most movies will have various problems, but as long as they are compared with the problems of domestic movies, their problems will no longer be problems in an instant. This is also a pragmatic viewing experience - as long as it is a foreign language film that has been translated, it is worth watching, and it must be higher than most domestically produced films, otherwise there is no need for translation.
Secondly, the consideration of terror; take a reference - Pen Immortal 1 (Korean version), which is well-known in the market, but it is a typical "horror development", and has no horror literacy at all - this is also a microcosm of Korean horror. The suspense of the book is a must, but when it comes to pornography and horror, they all live in the shadow of Japanese literature. In contrast, the horror thinking of this film is very particular, and it is obvious that the creators are full of thoughts on the horror theme - this is very important, the theme of the horror theme is very heavy, and it tests the power of the story. The actual effect does have an authentic horror meaning, but unfortunately it is limited to the beginning.
Final storytelling; certainly criticizing the open, borderless ending -- even ruining the entire movie for that ending -- is extremely unprofessional in storytelling.
2. What really reflects the development level of a country's film is the performance;
As a small language horror, this film is very deformed in the film composition. In terms of hard technical skills such as tone, art, photography, and scenes, it gives people the feeling of having studied in Hollywood, but in the real soft power of film such as performance and story, it also exposes a relatively obvious lack of production capacity-the performance of actors, The extreme childishness of the story has seriously damaged the quality of the film. Ability to build scenes, but not ability to fill content.
This is also a revelation. The real test of a country's film development level is performance. (This assertion sounds a bit funny, and people can easily think of another assertion: the indicator to test the development level of a country is the quality of the people. I don't have such a mapping, don't be serious, literary criticism is limited to literature and art.)
This principle is easy to understand. In this film, the actors themselves did not enter the plot, so how can the audience enter the play? This is the exact opposite of what Hollywood produces. Among all the nutritional components of Hollywood movies, performance is at the forefront. This advantage has helped many Hollywood movies to become classics in film history. The audience will relatively simply think that the classic is the story. Charisma really shapes a character, and then the character is established, and ultimately gives value to the story - the core of the story is the characters, not the plot.
Therefore, even if the plot of the movie is nothing new, American actors can always pull the audience back to the story through performance. Just like traditional Chinese opera, there are only a few classic stanzas, and it has to be sung by someone to sing it. The same story cannot be sung by someone else. Furthermore, the art of film is an actor-led narrative. Don’t listen to their nonsense. The problem with Chinese films is definitely not the high salary of the actors. Compared with the producers, how much money can the actors earn? No matter how stupid the boss is, he won't let his employees earn more than him.
3. I have to say "Dream of Red Mansions";
In the past, there was a watershed in the creation of stories using text as the medium to construct scenes - "Dream of Red Mansions".
Before the Red Mansions, the Chinese people often took the lead in storytelling, and before the characters were in place, they were already busy building the humanistic realm - Bagu Chicken Soup. "Jiang Ziya", "Han Gaozu", "Zhuge Liang", especially "Historical Records" in the Chinese people's impressions, the characters are always so "half-immortal", no matter how you look at them, they are not ordinary people. ．This is really highly related to the spirit of the times. In the time and space where civilization is weak, the ancients not only deified nature, but also deified people.
Until "Red Mansion" was born. The unreasonable artistic height makes the "character deification" instantly lose its meaning. After the Red Mansions, the story creation is basically centered on the portrayal of characters - don't worry about shaping the soul, first depict the flesh and blood. This is the most powerful creation of the Red Mansion. In fact, the story/drama of the Red Mansion is of a medium level, at least at the bottom of the four famous novels; in terms of the theme, the grasp of the state of the world and the experience of love are not detached. and exceptional. However, its subversive character creation is of a Genesis nature-it doesn't have to be straight-forward and direct, and simply depicting the portraits of the characters can really hold up the spiritual height of the story. Therefore, the greatest inspiration of the humanistic creation of the Red Chamber is the antecedent and decisiveness of the characters portrayed in the story narrative. Don't listen to those Hongxue nonsense, the story of Honglou is not so good, just telling the story, Jin Pingmei is even better.
Put it in the movie, in the story with the image as the medium, the characters are the actors. After all, there is no story without characters.
By the way, the reason why American actors and even Korean actors are very charismatic may be highly related to the country's liberal and democratic political and cultural system. Many American actors have high professionalism, and some of them even meet the standards of artists, but I am rather strange. Many Korean actors are always amazing in their performances, which even Japanese actors can't compare to - Japanese literature and art The manufacturing level is far above that of South Korea. Back to the topic, the real standard to test the level of a country's film production is the actor. No matter how powerful technical things are, they are also peripherals. After all, film expression is the destination of humanities, and it is people-oriented at the artistic level.
4. The color horror of Java;
The film is very authentic in terms of horror expression, reflecting the original creator's thematic thinking about "horror". This is very important. The reason why I named "Pen Xian" at the beginning is that the creator of "Pen Xian" actually didn't think about "horror" at all - looking for a bunch of graphic models to act in ghost movies, and always making ghosts and gods appear during the day, These are taboos for horror themes. Contrast the most typical professional-level horror-curse, decisively cut off the free will of the ghosts in the original work, block any attempts by male ghosts, and at the same time, all the horror scenes are arranged to absolutely guarantee the dependence of life, these profound horror thoughts, the audience may not necessarily It can be taken care of emotionally, but these things can create "curse".
Back to the horror material application of this film.
a, photos; -- represents memory and history; horror films cannot be without old photos, because of the time attribute of photos, every horror film has a dark history, and many times a photo is a story.
b, the mirror; -- represents the reaction and refraction, and the unknown behind; it has spatial confusion. The use of mirrors stems from our fear of what is behind us, because the back is a blind spot for vision. Speaking of car rearview mirrors, it is really a good thing.
c, the radio; -- represents the sound, the sound is the most profound horror element.
d, deep well; -- represents the source of life of the yin; water is the source of life, and the water in the ground belongs to the yin.
e, hair and combing hair; -- representing feelings or hatred; it can only be a woman's hair, combing her hair for a woman, to resolve feelings, women's hair is the patent of "Midnight Bell".
f, black nails; -- means of signifying darkness;
In fact, none of these horror materials are original to the film. But the good thing about this film is that these elements are arranged under a highly unified base color--create a realm of color horror. Color is the unified image of all things, we use color to distinguish everything. As far as movies are concerned, the arrangement of light and shade in color and the conflict of light and shadow are the keynote of the story; while for horror stories, the color planning of darker than light and the arrangement of dim lights and shadows are, in a certain sense, a standard.
The excavation of horror materials, the creation of Japan and Thailand has reached its peak, the effect of this film is far less than the former, but in terms of creativity in color, this film is more in line with the "original horror impression" of the Chinese people. Hollywood's use of horror colors, I personally always feel that it is still too bright, lacking a little "yin and hidden" look and feel. Although the bright colors are cooler and the yellow is warmer, the horror theme seems to be cooler, but it may be the preconceived idea of "Liao Zhai" - the scholar under the candle or the moon shadow, will meet Nie Xiaoqian. Therefore, the impression of the "horror scene" of the Chinese people is warmer. The dim-yellow tone created in this film, although it uses lantern shadows, is actually an imitation of candles, which is more in line with the horror history of the East.
5. Unseasonable broken flowers;
Generally speaking, horror movies become more terrifying the more they live, such as the TV of the bell at midnight, and the grudge wardrobe. But what's interesting is that the film was played because it understood this too well.
Florals are everywhere - wallpaper, carpets, bed surrounds, curtains, pillowcases, tablecloths, chair cushions, and even lampshades are all flowers, and mirrors are also shaped like flowers (there are many flowers in Southeast Asia); at the same time, there are art photos everywhere, bed The head, the living room, the corridor; there are lamps, hanging lamps, wall lamps, table lamps, chandeliers everywhere; plus wooden furniture, the whole house is made of wood, and the house is made of wood.
Wooden villas, solid wood furniture, and floral fabrics, with grass in front and trees behind, this is not a horror movie, this is an ideal home improvement. To tell the truth, give me such a house, and I will live in a haunted house. This is a relatively obvious material error in this film. In the world of paradise, there are no ghosts and gods. Instead, there are ghosts and gods in the pile of living people.
6. Incomplete terror;
The horror layout of this film has no stamina. It started with a horror film, turned into a drama film in the middle, and even got a zombie film in the end. Can't help but think of "Ghost Shadow", the latter's story is not as good as this film, but the horror is even, telling the story and scaring the audience, not falling behind. The situation of the film is high and low, plummeting.
The characterization is the same. Character shaping, which is reflected in horror themes, is the shape shaping, which is very important to horror films. At the beginning of this film, the image of the old lady was very good, and the originality was very high. Later, . . . Overall, the opening is excellent, the horror setting is very heavy, and then it's all broken flowers.
7. Room = body;
Someone's room, like someone's body, houses the person's spirit. ——“Taking the house as one’s body” is a common narrative technique for horror themes.
8. The terror of Islam;
This film is a rare horror film with Islamic religion as its cultural background, which is also my biggest expectation for this film. It's a pity that I finally got an ideal home commercial film, and there is no Islamic play.
9. Discord is the evil spirit of a family;
Taking the family as a unit, unity is God, and division is a ghost;
Taking the house as a unit, the house that prays is God, and the house that does not pray is a ghost;
10. Does religion shape ghosts or ghosts shape religion?
(Supplementary to the remarks about the blockbuster movies in mainland China - mountains and rivers have realm, but there is no market. Under the condition of being tired of living and clothing, art must give way to the market. Religious beliefs are young, and the economic situation is struggling, literature and art can only obey service entertainment. This is not A person's problem, but a social process.)
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