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I am very concerned about the terrible image of Ji Hyun.
The strange thing is that when I saw this image for the first time, I laughed and went back and looked at it several times, but now my reaction is to see that face, my heart is frightened!
The scary thing about Ji Hyun is not just to jump out and startle you. It's physical discomfort.
I love horror movies. It's common to get a movie, close the curtains, and watch it alone, day and night. I don't care whether the horror film is "scare", and follow the protagonist to solve the doubts in the ups and downs of the plot, but it is where I am more interested. A few years ago, I had watched all the benchmarks of pseudo-documentary films such as "Graveyard Encounter", "Death Video", and "Blair the Witch". The shooting method of the pseudo-documentary has a strong sense of substitution. This is not the first creation of "Kunchi Rock". Therefore, it cannot be said to be the scary part of "Kunchi Rock". But this movie is quite unforgettable for me. I can't help thinking, where is it terrifying?
Jixian may have triggered the Uncanny Valley effect?
If the director had arranged ghosts of the same image, but only jumped to the camera to scare people, it would definitely not be as impressive as it is now. The long and somewhat boring foreshadowing in the early stage is indispensable. Ji Hyun makes people feel scared. In addition to jumping out of a weird big face and frightening us, there are also some sources of fear that I am very concerned about. I suddenly thought, ah, this fear comes from the famous Uncanny Valley effect!
The original idea of the Uncanny Valley effect is that our response to the realism of humanoid things has a wonderful curve. When the shape of humanoid things is very close to people, people no longer find it interesting, but fear. We will pay special attention to the part that it does not look like a person, such as the face is stiff and the expression looks like a smile. Unlike the human part, it makes us realize that we are not "human" at all, because we rely heavily on human body language and facial expressions. This part becomes weird, causing fear and disgust.
Conversely speaking, we are afraid of things that look like humans and are not humans. They are beyond our foresight. They look like humans, but their behaviors and appearances are not human. We don't know if it is safe.
I think Ji Hyun triggered the Uncanny Valley effect.
Ji Hyun is terrible in this contrast
Before watching this movie, I was fortunate enough to see some pictures of ghost images. I originally thought it was a ghost in the hospital. Unexpectedly, this image was changed from a very normal person in the first five minutes. She was a girl who was so scared that she was still shouting desperately at the limp Charlotte, who was originally our companion.
Zhixian closed her eyes tightly, she looked like she was asleep, and the atmosphere was very peaceful and peaceful.
But then the fear she brought was huge--
The hair that flutters in the wind on the front of the forehead is the finishing touch, and the hair that hangs down gives a feeling of weakness. This is the face that has lost its vitality, conveying the breath of "she is no longer human". Suddenly, this "dead face" opened his eyes. He also opened a pair of non-human eyes, with white reflections in them, as if looking at us in front of the screen. Something is wrong, this is the first contrast brought by the Uncanny Valley.
At the same time, she made a sound.
This ghostly appearance suddenly appeared, caught off guard, but also very funny. At first, I laughed.
Here, the director did not use traditional images to express Ji Hyun's ghostly appearance, such as the long-sounding "It's miserable" in our impression. Instead, the director "takes the risk" used a slightly comical expression to express Ji Hyun's image. Living up to expectations, this image has made a lot of people entertained. They found it funny. I don't think there is any problem at all, because its weirdness makes it interesting.
But shortly afterwards, it miserable for moviegoers like me.
Hearing this weird sound in my ears, whoosh, and then looking at the weird eyeballs and big face, I can't get rid of and stop!
There is a scene in the film. Charlotte was shocked after discovering the strangeness. She exclaimed what's wrong with Ji Hyun, and then her hair stood up. Ji Hyun was still chittering around. Charlotte covered her ears and fled. We could see Ji Hyun swaying behind him from the lens, because it was a distant view, but those two eyes were very conspicuous.
Hearing and visual bombardment, this thing that is not human or ghost in front of me, made me horrified!
Her face and deportment were clearly an inhuman thing, but just now, she was still a normal person in the picture just now! The "Uncanny Valley Effect" made us immediately aware of this, funny, and transformed into fear.
I finally understand the horror of Ji Hyun: It’s not a human, but it doesn’t look like a ghost. Ji Hyun’s dead appearance, neither human nor ghost, may just fit the people in the "Uncanny Valley Effect". The limit of the degree of dislike for this kind of thing. Called Da Huo Ren feels vomiting during the day, and scolds the director tens of thousands of times.
We have witnessed the whole process of Ji Hyun from "human" to "non-human". So far, Ji Hyun, who is full of sensuality and taste, has completed her terrifying ultimate task.
Similar fears of patients holding dolls
In the episode of recalling the history of the hospital, there is a scene of a handsome man lying in bed. Please note that he is holding the doll in his hand. Seeing the group photo again, sitting on the left of the dean, like a mentally retarded man. Holding the same doll. This
It's the same person.
The movie does not address this point directly, just let us discover it for ourselves. This is also unforgettable for me. What happened to this poor man? How could a person who was originally so handsome and handsome became such a look. But he still didn't forget to hold his doll. He is still that person, but not that person anymore. Here again, it is inhumane.
This fear feels very similar, isn't this the same as Jihyun?
Had a little sequelae
Watching the complete film, the meaning is still not exhausted, and the sense of unknown pouring into my heart is as heavy as a lake. We have witnessed the transformation of Ji Hyun, but what the man holding the doll has gone through is nothing but imagination.
Unexpectedly, that night, I couldn't sleep anymore. When I closed my eyes, that big face came to mind. In the dense forest where my brain played back the ghost against the wall, Charlotte stretched out his hand to Ji Hyun. Her hair was scattered in front of her forehead by the wind, she suddenly opened her scary inhuman eyes, and there was an uncomfortable voice in her mouth.
I swear to delete this damn movie when I get up the next day. This feeling of saying nothing and not wanting to see it again feels very similar to dense phobia, dense phobia, I really don’t want to see it from the bottom of my heart, both. Caused physical discomfort. Anyway, within a few days of watching the movie, I didn't want to see the ghost picture, the black background picture, I felt very nervous, I really didn't want to look at her again.
The green face that appeared behind the captain, the twisted naked man photographed by Charlotte with a flashlight, looked more like a ghost in the traditional sense than Ji Hyun's face, but I didn't think it was scary. If the whole story is such a third-rate ghost coming out to scare people, then this movie is indeed mediocre. The director's thinking on how to make Ji Hyun more scary was successful, and it became a nightmare for the whole film to frighten everyone.
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