Hidden 2 Film Review: Maybe that's the case - Plot Analysis of the "Hidden" Series The two best horror films I have seen this year, "The Conjuring" and "Hidden 2" are both from the hands of Chinese-American director Wen Ziren. At the age of 27, he produced the shocking "The Chainsaw", and his subsequent works are mostly small-budget horror films with big surprises. He is indeed a new generation of Hollywood horror film ghosts. Compared with the relatively simple plots of "The Conjuring", the stories of the two "Hidden" films are much more complicated. "Hidden 1" was watched last year, and the horror atmosphere was created well, but the story is relatively simple, and some plots seem to have not been explained clearly. , I thought the last foreshadowing was just a gimmick for the sequel. In short, after watching "Hidden 1", I feel that I still stay in the traditional American horror film, which is mainly based on sensory stimulation. But "Insidious 2" surprised us as soon as it came up, oh... That's what happened. The stories of "Hidden" are arranged as follows in chronological order: The male protagonist Josh often had nightmares when he was a teenager, saying that he could see how he looked when he was sleeping, and ghosts often appeared in the photos. So the male protagonist's mother invited the female psychic medium Elise and the male psychic medium Karl to help exorcism. Elise judged that Josh had a talent for out-of-body souls. When he was "out-of-body", he could see ghosts that ordinary people couldn't see, but he was easily "possessed" by ghosts. Now he has a powerful "parasitic spirit" Want to possess Josh. With nothing to do, Elise decided to seal Josh's ability to "out of the body" so that the "parasitic spirit" could not be possessed, and at the same time deprive Josh of his memory during this time. In a blink of an eye, more than 20 years have passed, and Josh has grown up and has three children and a beautiful wife. Everything seems peaceful. But strange things happened one after another. The eldest son, Dalton, showed similar out-of-body abilities to his father's childhood, and gradually fell into a coma. So Josh's mother re-invited the female psychic Elise to help. Elise judges that Dalton has inherited his father's talent. The reason for the coma is that the soul wanders in the "liguan" and cannot return to the body after going out of the body. Now another "parasitic spirit" thinks of possessing him, and the situation is very dangerous. , there must be a soul to "Liguan" to bring him back. So in desperation, Elise could only lift the seal for Josh and let him go out of his body to find his son. After some twists and turns, Josh defeated the "parasitic spirit" who tried to occupy his son's body and successfully rescued his son. This is the plot of the first part, seeing a happy ending, but the film sold out at the end. The female psychic medium Elise discovered that at some point, a "parasitic spirit" possessed Josh and came to the world and killed herself, ending the first part. After Elise died, the Josh family seemed to return to peace and moved into the house of Josh's mother, the house where Josh grew up. However, strange things still happened, and the wife and mother even saw the ghost in white wafting in the room with their own eyes. To this end, the male protagonist's mother still came to rescue the soldiers - the male spirit medium Carl and the two assistants in front of Elise formed a four-person ghost hunt team to start investigating the case. Following the vine, the four finally found that the "female ghost" possessed by Josh turned out to be a man named Parker. In front of him is a perverted murderer. Before his death, he was treated in the hospital where Josh's mother worked because of self-harm, and he met Josh when he was young by coincidence. It should also be at that time that he decided to possess Josh, and it was unsuccessful because of Elise's intervention and the ability to seal Josh's ability, but the sneak attack succeeded and killed Ellie when Josh was briefly unsealed in the first movie. Silk. That is to say, from the second part, Josh is Parker, and the real Josh wanders in " The Josh family returned to calm. The reason why this horror film is good is that it adds two new themes to the general traditional ghost films: spiritual and psychological elements and time travel. The first big boss, Parker, turned out to be a victim too. The real mastermind behind the scenes was his haunted old lady. The psychological shadow of childhood made him resentful even after his death as an adult. It can be said that the psychological element makes the plot of the whole film thicker, more plausible, and more attractive. Time and space travel is the key that can finally end the plot, and it is also the bridge that builds the turning point of the plot. The combination of "traditional horror, psychological thriller, and sci-fi-like time travel" has made an excellent horror film.
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