The director’s more whimsical idea lies in transforming the holy city "Jerusalem" into a ghost city. As we all know, Jerusalem is the birthplace of the three major religions, the holy place in the hearts of believers, and it is sacred and inviolable. But dialectically speaking, there will be darkness when there is light. As a holy city full of light, Jerusalem must have an equal amount of darkness, so there is no conflict in this setting. The director dares to make such a setting, or he is a very courageous person, or he is an atheist.
The beginning of the film is a video about a demon that appeared in Jerusalem many years ago, forcing the leaders of the three major religions to jointly exorcise the devil. This video, both in terms of camera and sound, created a good horror atmosphere and left a lot of suspense. As the beginning of a horror movie, it is undoubtedly a success. But the question is, with such a successful beginning, why do you want to make it into a pseudo-documentary? Isn't it good to make it into an ordinary feature film? Pseudo-documentaries are characterized by their slow pace and usually require a long period of preparation. They will only enter the subject in the middle of the film. The same is true for this movie. It took a long time before it got into the main topic, and it wiped out the atmosphere created by such an excellent beginning.
Since the middle of the film has just entered the topic, what I have been doing before is introducing the functions of that pair of smart glasses. To be honest, the plot of the film is not complicated. I think the story can be told in 50 minutes, but the smart glasses dragged the film to 90 minutes alive. In the first 30 minutes of the video, the functions of smart glasses are introduced. Basically, there are smart phones now, this smart glasses are available, smart phones do not have smart glasses. The first 30 minutes of the plot only told the audience two things, one is that the heroine's brother died a year ago, but the glasses can be played in the live version to fight zombies.
But the most powerful aspect of this smart glasses is facial recognition. This is not the same as the face recognition in our daily life. The face recognition of this pair of glasses is simply astonishing. In the second half of the film, the heroine meets her dead brother in an underground mine. At this time, her brother has been resurrected and turned into a demon. At that time, the heroine couldn't recognize her brother, because her brother was already completely different after he became a demon. At this time, the smart glasses automatically performed face recognition and recognized that the demon was her dead brother. When I saw this, I couldn't help thinking that such high-precision glasses can identify who the devil was before his death. If used in the cause of exorcism, it would be a great achievement.
The film also has many loopholes in the plot. The male protagonist, as a religious researcher, is the only person in the film who can interpret the judgment day. It's a pity that he didn't. After seeing the blood stains in the film, he began to fall into contemplation for no reason, and then ran to the hostess without reason, and told the hostess that Judgment Day was coming, and told the hostess to go away. The whole film does not have any analysis or explanation on the Judgment Day, it just came for no reason, and then the heroine and the group began to escape. The only explanation in the whole article about Judgment Day is the lunatic "King David", who is a child in the video at the beginning of the film. But for a lunatic to explain Judgment Day, it must be incomplete, and the audience cannot be expected to understand what a madman said. It feels that many plots of the film have been cut off alive in order to accommodate the glasses. As a result, we saw Jerusalem turned into a ghost city in the film, but we don't know why this happened. We only know the result and the process and reasons.
Finally, I want to say that these smart glasses are really fun. If they do, I will not hesitate to chop my hands. (This article is 5 hairs)
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