The score was so low that it surprised me. In fact, considering the two qualifications of "low-cost cult film" and "the original has reached the extreme of comic media", the adaptation is quite good. Jumping inexplicable editing, exaggerated and exaggerated acting skills, nagging scenes, and cartoon characters are all familiar to everyone in cult movies. (The content of the original work itself is fantasy, so the director is quite regular in the narrative. I want to watch the b-level film inexplicably and exaggerated. I will show the way to the ghost house (1997)
In a very impressive scene, Xiuyixiang Tonghui tells that his father is becoming obsessed with the whirlpool. He stands up from the bench, his long face suddenly jerks at the camera, and his chin seems to be poking out of the screen border. Tonghui's small figure is shrunk in the other corner of the frame, still sitting, it's really insulting my eyes to have a car accident-like composition. But in fact, in such a film, "excessiveness" is not a problem, it is a sense of humor, and it is for the audience to interact with the work. The line of that scene of Xiuyi was "My father is over the edge". I laughed back and yelled at the screen, your face is over the edge!
I think that the so-called exaggerated places, such as sudden youth films, suddenly incompetent and furious uncle, but subtly fit the cartoon-like texture of surprises and jumps. The reason why Mr. Ito’s narrative is so effective is precisely because he has a deep understanding of the limitations of comics as a flat paper medium, so he will try his best to overcome difficulties, turn disadvantages into advantages, and make advantages become your uncle. So if you watch this movie, if you translate it into comics too synchronously in your brain, you lose the fun. It’s good for the media to perform their duties!
It can be seen that the director's basic skills are in place, the plot changes smoothly, and the atmosphere and rhythm of some scary sections are also good. The washing machine is a very qualified horror film. The hesitation of walking at night, the surprise of discovering strange phenomena, and the fact that it does not directly show the wonders, and choosing to wait for the scene in Tonge's nightmare shots. Many TV shows, video tapes, camera viewfinders, and archived materials inserted into the film also add interest and connotation to the recording and the media in the recording.
As an audience, I can smile at the many details that the director has laid out in the movie. For example, there is a whirlpool symbol at the door of Tonghui's house early in the morning, such as the animation memory killing and "Let me be your mother" set for the two little no guessing groups. Warriors confession (please ask which girl does not want to fuck her boyfriend). For example, in the laboratory scene where the snail boy first appeared, the Feifa girl had already made a small curl for the hair tail (so cut from the front of the classroom to the back of the camera) When Ling is on the scene, I will bring a shot of a flying girl with her hair.) Finally, Tonge went to find his father, picked up the dusty amulet on the ground, and the belt was also laid out in a whirlpool line. The audience understood that the town had been cursed from the roots, and it was doomed to support ordinary people’s faith and family structure. , The reliance on the news media no longer exists.
Mr. Ito is notoriously not fond of explaining the source of unknown power in the setting, which is why the essence of his work is lovecraftian. Compared with the original movie, cue took a look at the ancient totem worship, but the investigator immediately whirlpool gg! Its implicitly implied setting can actually be regarded as the basis of a horror film involving occultism, and without much explanation, it will avoid falling into conventional wisdom.
Anyway, like most of Mr. Ito’s works, the focus of the story is not to approach science, but how people succumb to the great power of external incomprehension, and all adaptations and changes are useless in the end. People are nothing, this theme has been well captured by the movie!
Reading the short review before, many Tiezi were dissatisfied with the sudden serpentine of the protagonist at the end, and felt that it was too rude. I personally think that the ending "reversal" (haha actually a pun) is too exaggerated, but from the overall logic of the movie, it makes sense. Everyone has nothing but to worship the whirlpool aesthetics blindly. Those who are not believers will either fall into self-destruction like Xiuyi's mother, or like the male protagonist, if they are determined to leave, their legs will be knotted immediately. For example, investigators and reporters team, just because they tried to uncover the truth of it and used logic to deconstruct the mystery of the vortex, they lost everything.
Knotting on the male main leg can also have multiple interpretations. One is obvious. If you want to go, if you don't walk, you will lose the ability to walk immediately, and the person you want to take will be trapped by you instead. A wave of satire. The other is that when I was watching it myself, I was strangely concerned about the scene where Tong Hui and Dad ate honeydew melons. Tonge takes care of her father like a mother, from eating and living to eavesdropping in the room. She was with the show set by her boyfriend/mother and almost never laughed, not to mention the joyous atmosphere of a daytime sitcom like eating honeydew melons. Xiuyi has been persuading Tong-e to leave with him, but Tong-e is scrupulous, and finally agrees, so she gets up and goes to find her father. When she entered the basement, Xiu outside the door folded her knee and began to snake. Such a synchronized time point can be completely interpreted as because Tonge's final choice of partner is not Xiuichi but father, so Xiuyi has become an abandoned person. In my opinion, those victims who lost their lives due to the whirlpool have one thing in common is "being punished for having obsessions in their hearts." Such mysterious power is anti-human.
The awakening of the cochlea when reading the original comics! It is a very frightening point. Although Xiuyi's mother succumbed to his father's power, she has always remained repulsive and highly vigilant against Maelstrom. Such vigilance was intensified after his father's death and became a strict and crazy self-censorship. And Suichi, who cared about her safety, asked Tonge who came to visit him to wear "strange costumes" with him, which in fact vaguely looked like de-gendered work clothes/uniforms. Propaganda posters that destroy physiological knowledge and block the other's self-cognition. The taboo that has been rejected has long been embedded in the body. It is an inseparable part of the self, and it is indeed a reality that is difficult to internalize. Ironically, even though the scrutiny was so detailed, Xiuyi's mother would still be inserted inexplicably, and then she was disturbed by the terror of her father's dead soul and destroyed herself. And you can't tell whether it is the mysterious power or the dad is more terrifying. In the next scene, I will tell you clearly, that father is the sky, the sky is the father, the sky will not be gray, and the father will not be there. Dad cremated you and couldn't escape. The ashes are not ruthless things. They can be turned into spring mud to protect you. The mud can also be made into more crazy sculptures. In the end, even the little clay sculptor went crazy.
When Xiuyi’s father violently stirred miso soup (I don’t remember if there is this point in the original book, this is the turning point when his dad went from passively consuming totems to his own totem creation. It is the same as his dad’s video recording when he entered the drum washing machine, which is very in place) , Xiuyi and his mother both looked at his dad with too contemptuous and puzzled eyes. At that time, I was thinking, to aliens, what is the whirlpool of our human obsession without knowing it?
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The DVD start interface is very cute! It was just a sudden scream at the beginning, I am very not?️
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