They are all reversal films. Shyamalan is not satisfied with simply reversing the story. Instead, he uses the audience's natural expectation of the type of film to achieve his goal. To truly surprise the audience, the atmosphere must be well done. . For example, at the beginning, it shows a village scene, a church, a blind girl, a taciturn protagonist who seems to have an adventure, a madman who seems to be mentally pure, a marriage proposal, a wedding, the audience accepts this without any precautions. Definitely a country monster movie where the male lead overcomes everything and somehow defeats the monster. But the male protagonist was stabbed by a madman. In other movies, the character set by the madman may become the protagonist's helper to a certain extent. No matter how bad it is, he is also a character killed by a monster, but in this one, the madman violated the convention and hurt. The protagonist even dies tragically as a villain at the end, but this is also reasonable at the same time, and seems to follow a certain reality: in the conventions of the film, a simple lunatic is the positive role, but in reality a lunatic can of course do all kinds of things. destructive things. The director achieved the first reversal here. A small detail is that after the two people combined, they first arranged for the heroine and sister to confess, and the result was very smooth. The audience naturally believed that the conversation between the hero and the lunatic would also end smoothly, but no . Since then, the movie has become an adventure film with the heroine as the background. The background is a group of injured old people leaving the evil town, so the audience believes that the next movie will be the heroine's adventure in the evil town. No, it's modern society outside, and then the camera turns to the old people who get together to discuss how to bury the truth, they become villains, the movie becomes a dystopia, and all the young people are sacrificed. The reason why the two reversals are so successful is that there are too many movies of this type before, and the conventions within the movie story have a powerful thrust to make the audience slide down a slippery slope of thinking: if there is a silent brave The male protagonist, how can people not believe that this is an adventure film that belongs to him?
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