In the process of watching this movie, I kept thinking of many other movies, as if I was watching a mix of elements of many movies, which was very interesting. At the beginning, the heroine returned to the place where she had left a shadow when she was a child. The state of discomfort and fear is very similar to that in Stephen King's "IT". Several protagonists have to go back to face their childhood after many years. In the middle, their family smashed a bloody road and drove the car in the devastated town, which felt like watching "The Survival Family"; in the end, the heroine and her so-called "shadow" had a big confrontation in the basement At the same time, the two people from the past time and space danced together in a state of common soul. This is too "Small Wind"; and finally this kind of use of identity reversal to create a sense of fear The method, although quadrupled, and brings up a little more questions about self-identity, is still the same as the end of "Master Key"...
Saying so much, I don’t want to prove that this movie is a platter of plagiarism from multiple parties, because these are some things set above, and how can it be called stealing about the scholar? I say this because even those who haven't seen the works I've mentioned can feel the film's problems with its integrity and unity. If there is no consistent focus of expression, it will lead to the fragmentation of the film. .
Another reason for the split of the film is the out-of-control rhythm and the far-fetched design of continuity. As soon as the film came up, the family went on vacation and the status of the heroine was not bad. But since those shadows appeared, the rhythm collapsed, and the fights dragged on for a long time. In order to create a sense of hierarchy, the family was forcibly divided into battlefields, and the resolution of each game was lackluster. I thought it was over after hitting this family, but in the end, I went to hit the neighbor's family, the incident did not progress, and the crisis did not deepen. The final part of solving the incident used the essence of the other two movies to make up, but unfortunately it still seems very sloppy.
The director tried to create a certain continuity. At the beginning, there was a little girl watching the TV show that held hands with the United States, and the red-clothed men in the back all held hands, although the final reversal explained that the shadow of the so-called heroine was the previous one. A real little girl, but after watching this TV when I was a child, should my roommates do this thing? It's a bit interesting to ask who you are and then answer "American".
Although I appreciate that there is no jump scaring, the overall grasp of horror elements still needs to be improved. In the scene where her daughter was fighting her own shadow for the first time, the little girl stopped in the middle of the road, and a red figure of her shadow flashed by in the lower right corner of the camera. This effort to align itself with excellent horror films like "The Bell" and "Hereditary" is a good one, but it's not a pretty one. The premise of using this kind of scheduling to create a sense of fear is that the audience's attention is highly concentrated, the picture elements are sufficiently still and start to search for new information on the screen. The last shot you have here is a little girl running. The camera movement and character movement are very violent. Just after the scene has calmed down, the audience's emotions have not been fully concentrated, and the viewpoint has not been stabilized. At this time, flashing a figure in the past can be said to have no effect. It's better to add a "Boom!" sound effect when she runs over - if the scheduling ability is not enough, you can only jump and scare you, don't you think?
One of the shots of the basement confrontation used a bifocal variator (that's where the name came from). The big face in the foreground and the background can be seen clearly. No, what is it for? Isn't the reason why we use zoom's internal scheduling to create a sense of texture and tension?
The theme is probably something like a conspiracy theory caused by ideology's control of individuals, and it was instantly low, and there was nothing. My daughter also spread the sentence "Do you know that the government put fluorine in our water to control us?" I have to say that this idea is much more efficient than any soul control. Learn from Liam Neeson in Mystery of Shadows!
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