Rating: 7
Keywords: the fear element in the western world;
1. Western-style terror;
The West does not have the subject of horror. Their understanding of horror is "magic fantasy". I guess that the horror in Eastern culture, in their view, is more like an anti-Party and anti-society, fundamentally a kind of "anti-humanitarian", especially religious reaction, such as "spelling" and "demonic art" ".
Why do you say that, this film is the answer-Western-style horror is a kind of entertainment. Take this film as an example, the horror image design is both artistic and entertaining, and the horror experience is more like a day trip to a circus or a haunted house.
This film is also easy to think of, such as the joker in the United States, the joker in Japan, the child messenger in Japan, and the slave of Satan in Indonesia-the latter two are all Eastern horrors modified by Western horrors. Oriental audiences can't help asking: What's so scary about clowns?
2. The fear element;
What is the core of the horror story? -Fear element. In layman's terms, what is it that humans are afraid of?
The interesting thing about this is that ideology will not affect human understanding of "love", but it will greatly affect human understanding of "fear"-different geo-cultures will create different forms of terror. To cite some more extreme examples, the Japanese grudges and the midnight bell, the ghosts of hate, and the resurrection of the womb; the ghost stories of the Korean female high school, the pen fairy, the ghosts of love, and the immortality of youth; the art of the devil in Thailand, ghosts , Regarding sin as a ghost, unhappy cause and effect. Of course, there are American horrors, the shining, Silent Hill, baby grievances, mists, soul-calling universe, etc. taking this film as examples. The evil spirits are ghosts, and entertainment is supreme; by the way, Chinese horror that has been behind for decades, Lin Zhengying's Taoism and zombies, as well as Liao Zhai's "injustice as a ghost" until now, are used by the topic.
These are all borrowed from horror stories. Through them, we can see what really makes a nation care about? ——This is the fundamental logic of horror themes. What you are afraid of is what you really care about. After all, all fears are essentially fears of loss.
Of course, there is more important, fear makes people rational, fear is the only evidence of rationality. If it weren't for being afraid, emotions would take care of everything, and human beings would not be rational.
After understanding this, let's look at it again. As a horror film, what is the "lurking" fear element?
3. Fear is a kind of "appreciation of ugliness";
Everyone likes goodness, because goodness is happiness in the end. Why aesthetics, because aesthetics makes people happy-first beauty and then pleasure. However, where there is beauty, there is ugliness, and ugliness, like beauty, is also an absolute in life. However, what do we know about ugliness?
Fear is precisely the root cause of making people unhappy. What is human being afraid of all the time, what is it?
Why don't you ask yourself, what are you afraid of? dark? Lonely? unemployment? disease? Natural disasters and man-made disasters? die? betray? deceive? poverty? Or more like the deep sea? tunnel? volcano? Snake or spider?
Exploring the origin of human fear is what the subject of horror really should do-how to visualize horror as much as possible? Which object can best represent abstract fear?
As for the object, if you can be scared by a horror movie, it proves that you do not have complete abstraction ability. At least there is no concept of "horror". You have to know that horror movies are already the most popular horror imagery.
4. Soul roaming;
If you don't understand a civilization, you will never know what they are really sensitive to.
Fear, on the contrary, is a sensitive subject in the Western world, even more sensitive than eroticism, violence, and politics, because it is related to religion. Regarding the Western world, we can see AVN, we can see the "House of Cards", but we cannot see "fear"-because the fear is God, not the devil-God, not the devil, is truly worth fearing , God is the fear element of the Western world. For what most people believe, it is best not to play at will. Because playing to the devil means a challenge to God-you can consume the devil, don't challenge God.
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