As a mature genre film, "Blindfolded Your Eyes" will give the audience all the imagination and unexpectedness of apocalyptic thrillers. For example, there are not enough supplies to grab a supermarket. This is the way everyone will think of doomsday survival. Without this kind of plot, the audience will feel that they are not satisfied enough; and "visual pollution" killing is an unexpected monster. Without this kind of creativity, the movie will again. Not enough to attract the audience. In "Blindfold Your Eyes" is full of these conventional elements and surprises, from which you can see many familiar feelings and interesting ideas. This is the best routine for genre movies.
1. Character analysis and character setting routines
The character setting and lines of this film are excellent. There is no extra line. In a few words, we can think of everyone's rich history and background, and the characters' action logic and personality are very suitable. It's a pity that most of the characters in the film become a kind of functional existence, just creating an unfavorable situation that the protagonist must deal with. The horror section is too deliberate, and the protagonist's aura is too obvious.
1. Hardcore protagonist
First of all, there must be a protagonist with a "survival halo", so that her action of pressing the car will let you breathe out, without worrying about the plot of annihilation. The protagonist is a single mother, Malorie, female, single, engaged in a profession that she likes, assertive and actionable, able to kill bad people alone, and can play guns. This is due to the trend of American movies under the rise of feminism in recent years. She has the characteristics of the rise of women: independent, decisive, strong, upright, persistent, independent, full of responsibility, refusing to be squeamish, daring to challenge, and even a little harsh and paranoid, just like a superwoman. She is the female squad leader in the class, the female leader in the unit, and the female politician on TV. They are not inferior to men in the slightest.
2. Assist boyfriend
Next, in order to reconcile the hard-core heroine, there is a best assist Tom with full strength. He can kill five at a critical moment. He has a strong physique and a soft heart. He is brave, tolerant, warm, affectionate, calm and worthy. Trusting and believing in a bright future is the almost perfect male image under the expectation of women. It’s just that Tom’s combat power in the film is good and sometimes bad. The current force value is based on the development of the plot. For example, when he finds that Gary is wrong and is warned by Douglas, he still fails to show his due vigilance and is easily taken by Gary. Down. In order to get a good reason for assists, the film uses the old trick-love, so he helps the heroine fight monsters, and even sacrifices himself in order to protect her. Tom's death is not only an motivating event for the heroine of the film to take her baby to escape, but also an opportunity to create weakness for the heroine. At the level of the drama, his role makes his sacrifice inevitable.
3. Contrasting weak teammates
In order to set off the heroine, a reverse female character Olympia is needed. She is like all women in the male vision. She is weak, kind, innocent, full of motherhood, dependent on others, and compassionate. Therefore, such a character needs a chubby girl. It seems that humans and animals are harmless, and then they are used because of kindness, causing the escape team to pay a serious price. She seems to be a child in a "large asylum family" who needs someone else to take care of her, and if something goes wrong, she has to rely on her parents to pay for it.
4. Question the wrong role for the audience
Douglas is like the father in the "asylum family", representing a conservative role. He is strong, mean, cautious, assertive, and bad-tempered, but he is not bad in nature and made correct judgments, but he was not accepted because of his self-righteous character. . When there is a mistake in a character in a movie, there needs to be a correct voice to represent the audience to question, otherwise there will be a bad film temperament, and Douglas acts as this voice, he makes the mistakes more real and makes people more sexual.
5. Further explain the role of the rules
Greg is like the mother in the "refuge family", representing a kind role. He is the owner of this house. He is gentle, kind, friendly, friendly, accepting others, willing to give, and can tolerate Douglas. The identity of homosexuality seems to explain his character. People who have been discriminated against are more tolerant of others, and it is people who are sufficiently tolerant that they are willing to let strangers take refuge in their own homes. Greg's death further validated the "spiritual body" rule, any form of viewing is not allowed, and it has strengthened the "unseen" belief in the audience's consciousness.
6. The role of acting as a leader of the topic
Charlie represents the cowardly character. The identity of the novelist allows him to explain and deepen the theme. The symbolic meaning of the spiritual body is spoken in his identity. And this amazing secret must seem bizarre and unacceptable. Everyone, including the audience, initially disapproved of this statement. However, as the situation develops, we often think of what Charlie said. On the other hand, Charlie panicked in the face of danger, making the audience full of substitution. His response was also to set off the protagonist's calmness, and Charlie eventually sacrificed to save others.
7. A role that enriches humanity
Lucy and Felix are a pair of lovers, representing selfish roles. They refuse to take the risk to get food, and choose to drive away, completely disregarding the situation of others. The film did not explain their final ending. We can imagine that in such an environment, when they are in trouble, they may not be able to support each other, and the ending is not optimistic.
8. The role of disrupting order
Gray's appearance disturbed the sense of security that the evacuation room had finally established, and all the supporting actors in the room became cannon fodder. He represents a human traitor. As a believer of the spirit body, he will not commit suicide after seeing the spirit body, but will help the spirit body kill people and increase the variety of villain attacks. The existence of exceptions gives the spirit body greater lethality, destroys the trust between people, and makes the character's situation more difficult. A good-looking conflict movie, the danger needs to be upgraded, so the ability of the villain also needs to be upgraded again and again, from suicide, being interfered by a madman, to being deceived by seemingly normal spiritual believers, as the rules of spiritual lethality are revealed again and again , The thrilling atmosphere has been upgraded three times.
9. Key theme, functional character: tester
Olympia’s daughter, Girl, exists to verify Malorie’s moral heights. She is the adopted daughter of Malorie. Her existence is entirely to set a human test for Malorie: if one must die between her biological son and her adopted daughter, how to choose. The ingenious thing about this setting is that if Olympia died to save Malorie, we would think that Malorie should choose Malorie to repay his favor; but in the film Olympia did not die to save Malorie, on the contrary, her mistakes dragged down many people, then Malorie's choice of her own son will be forgiven. After all, human nature is selfish. In the choice, we, like the characters, don't know how to decide. The film lengthened this decision with a few scenes, without giving an answer immediately, intensifying the moral test. Of course, this is also the part that I think the film is not doing well. The heroine can clearly think about it before talking to the two children, instead of repeatedly emphasizing this issue. The answer that came out turned out to be to avoid the decision with the danger that all three people might die, and it was not enough to sublimate the subject.
2. The setting and meaning of the villain’s "spiritual body"
The spirit body is a monster that has never appeared in the movie, and his abilities are all verified from the side. The key to the logic of the film lies in the setting of the spirit body, which needs to be around the needs of the storyline at all times.
(1) The characteristics of the spirit body
There is a saying that the spirit body in "Blindfold Your Eyes" comes from the myth of Cthulhu. The Cthulhu myth is an overhead myth system based on the novel world of American writer Howard Philip Lovecraft . Among them, called " Nyarlathotep God" (Nyarlathotep) like deception, temptations, so that human self-extinction faster to complete the "big cleaning" task. In the novels of Cthulhu mythology, the characters may encounter gods due to deep exploration or through some opportunities. Most of their results are death and madness. The whispers of the ancient gods have been driving you crazy, and it is also a classic section of Cthulhu. In the film, 1h17min through Gray's painting, suggesting the appearance of the spiritual body.
1. Death after viewing. The eyes of the person who sees it will mutate within tens of seconds, and will be deprived of will and commit suicide. This suicidal behavior seems to be incomprehensible. You will die if you see it through other media such as electronic signals (Greg), but the image drawn by people will not affect people. This setting is to make humans blindfolded. The vast majority of human information sources come from vision. Loss of vision can bring a sense of danger to the audience through the audience's imagination. People are always full of fear of the unknown. Just imagining that you can't see it and being in a huge unknown is enough to make people feel scared.
2. People who do not commit suicide after seeing them will become spiritual believers, including both insane lunatics and seemingly normal extremists. In the film, this rule is revealed step by step, and the degree of horror brought to the audience has also increased step by step.
3. There will be shadows and wind around the body, blowing fallen leaves and branches. This is mainly to visualize the position of the monster, and to emphasize the closeness to the heroine in the chase scene at the last minute, which increases the sense of tension.
4. It can make a bewitching sound, and the tone comes from familiar people around. This setting of externalization can transform the external contradiction between the human and the spiritual body into an internal conflict between the human and the heart. In addition to overcoming the spiritual body, the heroine must also fight against her own emotions. Defeat the monsters and sublime to defeat yourself! This is the core idea of the film, the starting point of an excellent story. Two levels of internal contradictions are used. The first is that the heroine understands the need to overcome her fear from the grief of losing a loved one. The second layer is the mother-daughter relationship. Malorie had been telling her daughter what to do with her cold-blooded orders until her daughter was in danger. The son told her that the daughter was afraid of her. She suddenly understood that her daughter needs love and understanding. His confession and apology call her daughter to return to her side, which relieved the danger. The love between mother and daughter overcomes the harshness of Malorie's character.
5. It is safe indoors, so the monster may be too big to enter the room. The characters need a temporarily safe environment, so that they have the initial confrontation. Then staying indoors becomes the carrier of this demand. The characters seem to have a safe space. The moment the door is closed and the curtains are closed, the audience's nervousness is obtained. Breathing, let the film have a sense of breathing, can the atmosphere fluctuate between danger and safety.
(2) Metaphor
1. The spirit body
In fact, the term “plague” is not appropriate to describe the disasters caused by the spirit body. The symptoms caused by the spirit body are not communicable, but are related to the spread of the spirit body. The spirit body seems to be growing continuously, which is related to human-to-human transmission. The plague is completely different.
What exactly does the spirit body mean? In my opinion, it represents a power that causes the saddest, most feared, and most painful thing in everyone's heart. It is the negative aspect of our desire to live-the desire to die. When we are engulfed by emotions and thoughts of death, we will commit suicide desperately. It is possible that in real life, patients with depression are controlled by such emotions. Each of us has negative emotions and pain in our hearts, but we usually hide them, or it can be said that the desire for life has defeated the desire for death. The spiritual body magnifies the negative emotions of people and makes the infected people lose their lives. Hope.
When a person loses his desire to live, he will commit suicide or go crazy. Although the person after seeing the spirit body is alive, his heart is dead, showing the same characteristics as a dead person: pupils are dilated.
2. "Blindfolded"
Eyes are our intuitive way to see the world. We see happiness and pain. The way to avoid the spirit body is to stop looking at it. This is not an escape, but to give up the simple and direct way of receiving information. We no longer get information by looking. Blindfolded, open the mind. Many things are not what it looks like. The police may also be a traitor and a coward salesperson Charlie may give up his life in order to save his friends. Douglas who is self-righteous really made a correct judgment. Everyone and everything is more than just It's what you see.
Behind "don't see" is "thinking." If we think about the deep meaning of things under the surface, we will no longer easily lose our desire to survive. There is a heart-wrenching scene at 1h48min in the film. Girl disappears by herself, and the spirit body tells her to take off her blindfold with her mother's stern tone. When I went to see, I saw a stern mother; blindfolded, this is a mother who is full of love for her child, even if she is not her own, she is just too nervous to hope that the child can survive, and forget to enjoy the beauty.
3. Story trend and narrative rhythm
As a film to be played on Netelix, he needs a fast and close plot and successive upgrades of suspense, because unlike the audience in the movie theater, the audience in front of the computer will turn off the film at any time once they lose interest in the film. The drama and rhythm of "Your Eyes" completely stand the test at this point.
The structure of the film's play is still the classic three-act structure, the first act is in crisis, the second act confronts, and the third act is reborn. The dual timelines are interspersed and parallel montage narratives, but the situation of the characters is the same. The crisis rises little by little from the second act, and ends in the third act.
The film is also very rigorous in the plot setting, answering suspense with suspense, and all questions form a closed loop. Beginning with a crowd of people hiding in the house, this villa has become an ideal place of refuge, Noah's Ark in the last days, and the audience naturally has a question: What if there are people who want to come in? The answer is that it may save others, or put it in danger. Olympia and Gray are the two results. Olympia entered the room when everyone was extremely alert. She showed great kindness after entering the room, which also pave the way for the terrible Gray to enter the room. On the one hand, Olympia had enough reasons to open the door, and the pure and kind-hearted she did not think about it. The consent of the whole house, and Gray's entry on the other hand, verified the audience's worry: it is dangerous to put outsiders in the room. After the character replenishes supplies from the supermarket, the positive trend of the story has reached its culmination. The arrival of Gray is the turning point. The story begins to move negatively, and the character will face more and more WeChat situations.
The narrative sequence is carefully arranged. For example, the lunatic on the ship first appeared, revealing the characteristic that lunatics would not commit suicide, which is not in the novel. Before Gary appeared in the novel, the audience had never known the existence of believers. This adaptation allows the lunatic on board to appear first because of the need to create pressure in the supermarket scene, rather than discussing the setting of the spirit body. When the audience learns about the situation outside the door and the character does not know it, the audience will replace it. The character squeezed a sweat and felt the pressure, and Charlie's sacrifice became stronger.
5. Feminist perspective
In the audio-visual design, women become the self in the film, rather than the other under the gaze of the male. The lens brings the audience into the living environment of the heroine. We are experiencing the situation of the heroine, rather than staring at a danger as others. Women in. There are many subjective shots of the heroine in the film, showing that the heroine's inner heart is more than the heroine's body. Women become human beings and have their own existence, breaking the gaze.
In terms of clothing design, decent clothing allows women’s bodies to be displayed in front of the camera from an angle that is not peeped. In many heroine movies, the female body is closely related to sexual charm, and the heroine seems to be just a more powerful sexual object. The characters such as Wonder Woman, Catwoman, and Black Widow wear tights and pose for battle. Sexy pose, the female killer played by Angelina Jolie in "Smiths". The knife is hidden under the short skirt. Every time you take the knife, you have to stretch your hand under the skirt. These images speak for themselves. Metaphor. All the women in the film are dressed appropriately. The heroine Malorie has never fought in clothes with her breasts exposed, nor has her clothes torn apart during the fight. This does not mean that she has no sexual side. When looking for survival supplies, she picked up a lace pajamas and put on it and hugged her husband in bed. Sex became a part of women, and the existence of women was not sexual. Incarnation. In the intimate scene of the film at 1h28min in the jungle house, the camera does not focus on the female body and reaction from the male's perspective, but retains the strong male muscles from the female's perspective.
Usually women in the film are the objects of protection. In this film, women become the role of protecting others. Elder sister Jessica and younger sister support each other, doctor Dr. Lapham is considerate, grandma Cheryl helps two pregnant women give birth, and heroine Malorie helps two children get through the difficulties. In order to strengthen this characteristic, the film gave Malorie the skill to play with guns. As a traditionally masculine element, the gun is associated with female characters. In the film, Douglas questioned that she could not use a gun, she pulled it handsomely and continuously. Load up to prove yourself.
Occupation and identity also embody feminism. Women are engaged in artists, doctors, and police, while men are also engaged in novelists, supermarket cashiers, and soldiers. In terms of career choices, gender boundaries are broken. Of course, the author does not praise women as saints. Most of them are warm and kind, and there are also selfish villains. Men and women have no basis for different occupations and identities. Pregnant women and women with babies are not weak images. In this film, they are also fighters who can fight. The role of mothers has become a reason for women to be strong. In the film, the two mothers both show the side of being a mother.
As a daughter, Girl seems to have inherited the traits of Malorie. She left the ship alone when Malorie was in danger, and did not forget to tie a rope to her body when she left. Although Malorie came back to criticize her, her brave behavior It happens to come from Malorie's character. Compared with Boy's well-behaved, Girl is more active and courageous. Even in the role of children, the director also empowers women.
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