Foreword:
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1.
Turn the clock back to when Josh was a child, Easley came to Josh's house to help with Josh's problems.
In order to understand what Josh fears in this house, Elis hypnotizes Josh. Out of instinctual fear, Josh didn't relax, so Elis played a game with Josh. If Elis was close to that thing, Josh would say it was hot, and if it was far away, it would be cold. After searching all the rooms in the house, I finally found the thing in the closet in Josh's room.
When Elis wanted to test, he was scratched by the evil spirit. Looking at the scratches on his arm, Elis deduced that the evil spirit was a parasitic spirit. Josh's ability to wander around attracted the parasitic spirit and wanted to occupy his body. .
Due to the powerful power of the parasitic spirit, the only thing Elis can do is to seal Josh's ability to wander. And just when people were discussing the feasibility of this plan, Josh stood up and said behind him: I'll show you. Then he walked to the stairs in the corridor, pointed his finger to a door, and the door opened automatically.
So far, the director has left us with a question: Who is Josh talking to behind him? And what secret was hiding behind the door he pointed to? Take these questions to find answers in subsequent episodes.
Then Riley accepted the police officer's investigation into the cause of Elis's death, and Riley firmly believed that it was not Josh who killed Elis, but the officer did not think so. , he could not escape the blame.
The family returning home from the police station seemed to be back to normal, but the piano that suddenly played automatically and Cali who fell from the cradle to the ground made Riley realize that the parasitic spirit in the house was still haunted. Just because of this deepened the suspicion between Josh and Riley.
In order to investigate Elis's death, her assistants came to Elis's house to find some clues, and in the cubicle of the reading room, the assistants found the videotape of Elis's interview with Josh in 1986, from the videotape The assistants discovered a strange scene.
When Rowling woke up in the early morning, she came to Dalton's bed, while Dalton was still wandering, and told Rowling that someone was standing behind her, and Rowling immediately stood up and opened the room and looking for suspicious things around the house, and in the process of searching, a woman in a white wedding dress appeared.
Both Riley and Rowling, who were in a state of panic, found that Josh, who was too calm in front of them, had become unfamiliar. The next morning, when Dalton recounted the nightmare he had last night, he found Josh talking to someone. In order not to worry Dalton, Relais could only comfort Dalton's father that everything was fine.
And Rowling also told Elis's assistants about her concerns, and the assistants took Rowling to Elis's basement. Several people found from the processed video that Josh turned his head and spoke back. The older Josh, Rowling was shocked when he saw this scene.
The plot develops here as if the previous doubts have been opened. This scene is indeed beyond my expectations. From my understanding of the plot, the parasitic spirit should appear here, not Josh himself who has traveled through time and space. It seems that the answer has been revealed, and it has brought new questions - why is he here? What is his purpose here? And what did Josh mean to him when he was a child?
While Riley was doing laundry at home, he received a call from the police officer who confirmed Josh's innocence, and Riley, who was relieved, was attracted to the reception room by the automatic moving stroller, and saw the man wearing The woman in the white robe, when Relais chased after the study, the woman's singing came from Kelly's monitor, followed by Kelly's cry, and when the panicked Riley rushed to Kelly's room, the room The door was locked, and there was a loud slap in the face after a daring roar came from inside, and then when Riley rushed to open the door, Kelly was no longer in the crib, and came to Riley downstairs to look for Kai everywhere. Rei, and a woman in a white robe suddenly appeared behind her and yelled at Riley: How dare you. Then there was a loud slap in the face that knocked Relais fan to the ground.
Here, the woman in white appeared and used the iconic words: so bold. It has created a strong female character image, and the long-term foreshadowing of the woman in white seems to have nothing to do with the parasitic spirit in black before, but for horror movies, all the characters that appear have their reasons for existence, so watch Seemingly unrelated people, there must be innumerable connections in the follow-up.
In order to find out the truth of Elis's murder, Rowling invited Carl to perform a psychic ritual. Through Carl's sieve, they were hinted that the truth of the matter was hidden in the hospital where Rowling worked before.
So the group came to the hospital where Rowling used to work, and stopped in an ICU ward. In this abandoned ward, Rowling recalled a patient named Parker that Josh had met before. At that time, Josh was in Parker. The hospital bed looked around, and after turning his head, Parker suddenly sat up and grabbed Josh. With the help of the medical staff, Parker quieted down, but a few days later, Rowling saw Parker again in the elevator, and A puzzled Rowling only found out after asking the nurse at the front desk that it was not Parker who was in the elevator, because Parker had committed suicide by jumping off the building the morning before.
When Josh returned home, he found that his teeth began to fall out in the toilet, and the figure that emerged behind him told him that if he didn't kill Riley and the children, his state would become weaker and weaker, and Josh in the mirror had already Fierce face.
Riley, who woke up from a coma, was still helpless in the face of Josh who was as calm as ever, but the piano suddenly began to play the tune that Riley wrote to Josh. Obviously, Josh in front of Riley didn't care about the origin of the tune at all. , and he is more concerned about the "uninvited guests" in this house.
The group of people who found Parker's case in the hospital knew Parker's address and entered his house, and found a child's room on the second floor of the house. The girl with the ponytail sat on the bed with her back to the two people, and the girl told Tucker to leave the house quickly, or she would force her to kill them if she saw them, and the two people who quickly exited the room looked back at the bed When the girl disappeared.
At night, after Dalton fell asleep in bed, he was woken up by the voice in the microphone, which told Dalton to help them, they were all killed by one person, and the other end of the microphone was connected to the closet, Just as the microphone was tightened, a woman-like soul rushed out of the closet and asked Dalton for help. When Dalton turned his head, dozens of ghosts appeared in front of him, and Dalton was wandering again. He hurriedly jumped back to the bed and covered himself with the quilt, escaping the entanglement of the ghosts.
And Josh, who was holding a baseball bat, sat beside the piano and said to the air: You don't want to have contact with Relais, you can just be your ghost, and when Josh walked out of the room, another Joe appeared by the piano. Xi is roaring for help. Obviously the real Josh was trapped in a foreign land, and someone else now possessed Josh's body.
The story has developed to this point, and the director has repeatedly depicted the state of Josh whose body has been occupied, and what is the role of such a foreshadowing? Why do you need to make so much foreshadowing? For the audience, only Riley is the one who is kept in the dark, and what is the purpose of the director's design? Is it just to add to the suspense? As the protagonist, Riley has actually been hinted by various strange events countless times, and why she has not given up her fantasy is counterintuitive. So this begs another question: what exactly is Relais insisting on? Maybe it was because Josh died in a foreign land, and her heart couldn't bear the huge blow again, so she chose to deceive herself.
A group of people who were looking for clues in Parker learned through Carl's psychic that it was not Elis who led them here, but Parker's mother. When they opened the secret door, they found the bodies of fifteen people sitting neatly inside. At the same time, in the box by the wall, Tucker found news about the Black Widow, which said that the Black Widow had killed a total of 15 people. It was only after Carl and Parker that he found out that Parker is actually the Black Widow, and he is a transvestite who likes to make up as a woman and wear a black wedding dress to kill women. And Parker was forced to do so by his mother, why Josh was chosen because he wanted to go back to his childhood.
Although the description of the relationship between the woman in white and the black widow is very simple, a reversal is also used here, which is transvestite. When he was wearing heavy makeup and walked towards the victimized woman with a handsaw, although he was in control of the power of life and death, this power was deliberately suppressed by a woman under the dress of a woman, when a person's subconscious gender consciousness was When deliberately suppressed, the gender consciousness of the suppressed person will gradually collapse, and eventually self-mutilation or harm to others will occur.
And just when Riley was about to take Kelly home, Rowling stopped her in time and told her that it wasn't the house that was in trouble, but Josh, because she thought the real Josh was still trapped in a foreign land , Now it is Parker who has Josh's body.
Carl and his assistants, who watched the two leave, added a monitor to Carl in front of the house, and Carl also successfully sneaked into the house and talked with Josh. When Carl found Josh's lost teeth on the ground, he wanted to leave with his teeth but Stopped by Josh. When Carl, who stayed behind, was about to subdue Josh with anesthesia, Josh stood in front of Carl with his hands behind his back. When Carl accurately predicted that Josh was holding a knife behind him, Josh had already rushed towards Carl with the knife. , And the assistants who heard the news were all inferior to Parker and were subdued.
In the foreign land, Carl met Josh, and Josh said that if he didn’t go back, his wife and children would be in danger, and Carl said that if he didn’t find Elis, there was no hope of going back, so the two began to look for Elis. In the foreign land, Josh came to his house through guidance. The scenes Josh saw in front of him seemed to be a bystander, but Riley was not himself. Almost all the weird things that happened in the house were related to Josh.
This section is the most exciting part of the whole film. It not only answers the questions in this film, but also explains all kinds of weird foreshadowings in the previous film. All the weirdness that I think is related to evil spirits is completely abandoned, but a new line is drawn to be related to the plot in this part, which makes the seemingly divided structure of the two films suddenly become closer. Up, I have to admire the director's ability to speak stories is too strong.
Parker used Tucker's cell phone to lure Riley into the room to kill them, but in the end Riley took the child and hid in the basement, temporarily getting rid of Parker's attack.
And Dalton hopes to use his mind wandering ability to bring Josh and Carl back. In the exotic land, Josh and Parker's mother had a fierce battle. When Josh was in danger, Elis appeared in time and killed Parker's mother to free Parker's soul, and Josh also He was able to escape the danger and successfully returned to his family with the help of Dalton.
In the end, with the help of Carl, Josh and Dalton completely released their ability to wander, and the family's life completely returned to normal.
In the follow-up, Tucker and Sderder came to Elson's house, hoping to help the family, but Elise, who came to the house again, found a more terrifying truth, which was buried for the next plot. Foreshadowing.
end。
2.
First of all, let’s start with this film. By sorting out the plot, we can find that there are many reversal and echoing settings, and the plot that echoes before and after goes beyond the mode of inertial thinking. The effect of shocking people, but the subtlety of its conception can only be discovered after careful taste.
Compared with the previous one, this one is more closely related to the plot. The previous one is more like beads scattered on a plate, each of which is bright enough, and through this plate of beads is enough to constitute a complete story, but the connection between each bead is not strong. In the second part, the whole story is like a thread that connects the beads scattered on the plate. And the most commendable point is that the process of concatenation fully considers the logic of the plot, rather than random patchwork, and the arrangement of the sequence is very clever.
In fact, for the second part, it cannot be separated and analyzed. It is more like a whole with the first part. My intuitive feeling is that the first part and the second part are one in the framework of the story. The two were originally closely related in the context of the story, but were planned to be separated in order to highlight the suspense. In view of my understanding, I can draw a conclusion: when conceiving a story structure, in addition to paying attention to every detail, it is best to consider the relationship and impact of this detail on the whole, and how to deal with this relationship and give full play to it The energy of influence will directly affect the quality of the whole story.
3.
Through two films, Wen Ziren shows us the exterior and interior of horror films. The outside can present an adrenaline-rushing visual experience through various methods, but the inside highlights the importance of horror film storytelling in the shredding process. When the outside and the inside can be perfectly combined, the structure of the whole story can become full and complete.
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