It seems that there is a horror story about the ghost in red everywhere:
In Taiwan, it is "The Little Girl in Red";
In the mainland, it is "A Pair of Embroidered Shoes";
In Hong Kong, there are a large number of such as "A Chinese Ghost Story";
In South Korea, it is "The Humanity Teacher";
In Japan, it is "Cracking Ghosts";
... ...
Now, a British film has also been shot in a red ghost with an oriental taste, called "Fabric".
The name "Fabric" is a bit weird, and obviously it hasn't been translated well. The original English name is "In Fabric". Although it means "fabric", people still have an "in" before "fabric". Adding "in" means "inside the fabric". The free translation is "in". Under the clothing", or directly translated as "red skirt" is fine.
Just like "Under the Skin", the literal translation is not so bad. It is easy to know that it is not the skin, but the soul under the skin. "Under the clothing" means "within the clothing", which wraps not only the body, but also the soul/ghost. Lu Xun has a saying: "squeeze out the "little" hidden under the leather robe. His "leather robe" is the "leather robe" he wears. It represents the upper class clothes, and the "little" under the leather robe. It refers to the small pattern of the soul. "Fabric" should best learn from Lu Xun's words and translate it into "under the red skirt", and the charm will be better.
The film "Fabric" is very simple, the protagonist is a "red dress", and humans are all supporting actors. This skirt is a cursed skirt, and whoever wears it will die. Yes, this is a horror movie.
The main part of the film is the second-generation owner of this red dress, a black woman. After she divorced her ex-husband, she grew up alone with her children. I work in a bank as a cashier.
Work is ordinary and life is ordinary. But she is always uncomfortable and wants to hand over a new boyfriend and live a new life. Therefore, she went to buy this red dress. Fortune also changed because of this, and even took the life of the family.
What she didn't know was that the shop selling red dresses was actually a cult organization. They imposed curses on the clothes and models, so that whoever wore this red dress would die. In addition, the red skirt cannot be torn or ripped. Putting it in the washing machine will make you angry, and the washing machine will be taken apart. I want to go to the store to return clothes, but I have no way to return them. Just forcing you to die.
The black woman gave more shots, waiting for her to die. The story quickly moves on to the next chapter and the next, without exception, the new owner of the red dress must die.
In the end, I realized that the red skirt is the real protagonist.
Watching this film is actually because of Gwendolan Christie.
What? Feeling strange?
Then, let's talk about the "beauty" in "Game of Thrones", that is the big tall woman who was fallen in love by the Savage King but was gnawed by James, the jazz Brienne.
Because they like "Quanyou", people who play by Quanyou will always watch more and try to watch them as much as possible. Seeing this movie starring "Beauty", I watched it without hesitation. After all, this is the first film of "Beauty" seen outside of "Quan You".
However, the result was very disappointing. Because "Beauty" has very few scenes, and it's a dispensable role like soy sauce. In the film, "Beauty" plays the black woman's son's girlfriend and is responsible for quarreling with the black woman. There is nothing to show off, and the acting is not embarrassing or embarrassing. I don't know why she took such a film. (As for the female warrior in "Star Wars", she wears a mask all the time, just forget it.)
But in fact, if the film is meaningless, it is not.
First of all, it strongly criticized the fetishism in Western society and the vanity of the supremacy of consumption. There are some flavors of Maupassant's novels, especially the familiar "Necklace". A strong irony taste rushed to the face. The necklace that Mathilde worked for most of his life in the novel turned out to be a fake. This reversal has a strong tragic significance. The tragedy in "Fabric" is even greater. The beautiful red dress that the old woman bought in order to make herself more beautiful has actually become a fetter of life. What she has experienced is more terrifying and more frightening than Mathilde. Horror is more terrible. Therefore, in this film, the criticism of material on desire is more specific and obvious.
The red dress is very beautiful, and anyone who wears it will become coquettish, which is a metaphor for the material spirit. Worship of materiality, worship of vanity, and ultimately will get retribution, which is probably the profound theme of the film.
But no matter how deep the subject is, it doesn't look good on the face, and everything is for nothing. The film is not good-looking, so there is no need to mention the connotation. The achievement of "Fabric" is not high, and that's it. The filming is not very good. There is no external glamour, just talking about the connotation, it is quite boring, after all, it is not a literary film.
The killing method of the "red skirt" is not like the traditional terrorism of the West, but closer to the setting in the field of Eastern terror. Like "The Grudge" and "The Magic Mirror", they all attach hateful resentment to real objects, and then endanger the world.
In the horror stories of the Eastern tradition, the grieving spirits of the dead attach their grievances to concrete objects. "Fabric" was reconstructed, adding elements of the cult, making the red skirt a psychic medium for the cult organization, being cursed by the cult, and becoming the cult's killing tool. The details have been revised, but the framework is still the same.
This kind of setting is full of oriental ghosts and charms, and is a method commonly used by the East. Over the years, some of the settings in the East have gradually been taken away by the West. "Fabric" is obviously born. I want to learn but I haven't learned it all. It adds a cult setting, but it doesn't clearly explain the cult's motives. It seems that everything will be fine as long as it is attributed to the cult. This setting is lazy and somewhat nondescript. .
This is an attempt. The director Peter Strykerland is not unknown. He has directed several films before, basically with the label of horror, and has been nominated for the Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear Award, "Fabric". The film is still a pity.
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