The hottest movie in the film industry in the past two days must be a Korean native. When it was released, it beat the Hollywood hit "Number One Player" for two consecutive weeks and occupied the top box office horror film-"Konchi Rock". When many friends in South Korea went to the cinema to watch, they either failed to reach the end, or gave it the crown of “the most scary horror movie of the year” after watching it.
No, as a "senior" horror movie fan who can watch horror movies without blinking his eyes, he can't wait to put on a pair of plush pajamas (?) on a sunny early summer afternoon as soon as the resources are online. Two coats (??), put on my exquisite headset (later found to be purely redundant, but increased dizziness), sitting at the table, ready to be frightened.
Well, before the official introduction (xia ren), let's get to know the background of the film, that is, the place where the story takes place-Kunchiyan. Konchiam, South Korea, was rated as the top seven forbidden places of terrorism in the world by CNN. It was opened in the 1960s and is a mental hospital. However, 18 years after the opening of the business, a group of patients died suddenly and the dean disappeared. The hospital building was abandoned. You know, the deserted hospital is the best place of horror and legend. But no, in the following decades, many people claimed to have seen ghosts in Kunjiayan, and many people died. So far, it is unknown whether the missing dean was the culprit in killing all the patients as to what happened in Kunchiyan.
The story of the film takes place now. A team of young people who specialize in shooting "Terrorist Location Adventure" videos and do webcasts, after the recent two boys disappeared in Kunchiyan, decided to go deep into Kunchiyan to explore and earn traffic by live webcasting. . The film is one and a half hours in total. The first half an hour is basically a foreshadowing of the horror film routine. Everyone is joking around eating and drinking, looking forward to the day when the adventure begins. After entering Kunchi Rock, the style of painting took a turn for the worse, and strange things happened one after another. After the "Not Afraid of Death" finished the soul-calling ceremony, everything was messed up.
Although the Korean people have always paid great attention to local films, regardless of the type, "Kunjiam" does have a lot of eye-catching features.
First, the shooting format. The biggest highlight of the film is the use of pseudo-documentary filming. The so-called pseudo-documentary is the use of documentary techniques to shoot fictional stories. The more well-known pseudo-documentary films include "Ghost Record" and "Clover's Archives". The outstanding feature is that the audience can directly watch the DVD recorder or camera screen as part of the story. This technique will produce an extraordinary sense of realism and horror. The audience will sometimes be present with the characters, and sometimes occupy a third perspective to observe the characters' movements and emotions. The shooting equipment used in "Kunchi Rock" is Gopro, which often shoots extreme sports. After entering "Kunchi Rock", the characters in the film each wear a Gopro, which can shoot facial expressions and the scene ahead at the same time. When switching to the face, often only the faces of the actors are bright, and the behind is pitch black. At this time, the audience can't help but look at the dark place for fear that something will suddenly come out... and this kind of closeness. The intuitive shooting of distance will cause the effect of a wide-angle lens. Both the characters and the space are deformed to a certain extent, and the hideous expression and the sense of horror of the space are magnified countless times.
At this time I have to mention the performance of the actors. A group of newcomer actors performed super-real acting skills, and without a soundtrack, they just created the deafening feeling of horror music. Every time a crashing expression comes out, everyone will os in their hearts: This is me after being scared to pee!
Another point that can provide a topic is the story segment of the webcast. The characters in the film went deep into Kunchi Rock for live webcast. At the beginning, the captain deliberately designed some haunted bridges to make the girls react more realistically, but when things got out of control, the lustful captain did not stop. , Still let the team members continue to shoot, which eventually led to tragedy. It is the life habit of young people to like to shoot and watch live webcasts. The director combines this special shooting technique in film creation with the current hot spots of young people, which is a very good idea.
But the director inevitably made the traditional mistake of prioritizing the form and shrinking the content. First of all, foreplay can be described as lengthy. After half an hour of playing and fighting and officially entering Kunjia Rock, he was still incomprehensible for half an hour. The scary tricks are nothing more than the old-fashioned "doors closed automatically" (no kidding, basically they have to be closed every time they enter a room), "scarves are flying up inexplicably", "the doll is moved", And "the word has been changed inexplicably". Come on, I have been waiting to be scared!
The director can see that he was careful in the design of the scene. The "abandonment" in the abandoned hospital is in place, but the plot design is not in place. As the turning point of the whole film, the "spiritual ritual" is finished after just a few candles... At the end of the classic creation that should have been created, the fragment of being "hunted and killed" by ghosts (the Hong Kong translation of "Catch the Asylum One by One" is still very appropriate), everyone's The way to die is that way, nothing new. A pair of outstretched hands, a female high school student in the corner (not to move), a ghost in a white robe with her feet off the ground (when did her feet hang in the air), all black eyes...the horror effect is greatly reduced . As a horror movie with real ghosts, I was very dissatisfied that I didn't see ghosts (I thought it was because the staff who played ghosts were not enough).
Even if it is a pure horror film, there must be no lack of suspense plots. The most curious thing in "Kunchi Rock" is what happened in the hospital that year? Regardless of whether the director has real evidence or not, it is also a necessary choice to construct some of his imagination and integrate it into the plot, so that the team can have more connections with the strange events of the past. After watching the movie, I neither had more fear or interest in this place, so I can say that I didn't care at all. The director can't let the audience add any emotion to the story. From this point of view, it is not an exaggeration to give the movie the word failure. A typical good hand is played poorly.
2018.4.30
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