"A Midsummer Night's Fright"
Personal film watching essay, informal film review
Without reading any film reviews, I would like to share my initial feelings. I watched the director's mixed cut version, which was 170 minutes long. The first hour was very procrastinated and the foreshadowing was too long. , and the last 50 minutes seems to be the climax of the whole play, but the actual filming is terrible, not the plot problem, but the camera performance is too contrived, exaggerated performance, rigid camera language, I can see Goosebumps are all over the place, and the drama is completely out of the way. This excessively exaggerated religious atmosphere does not give people a feeling of madness, but makes people think that these people are quite 2!
Most of the tones of the movie are shot in a very small and fresh manner, especially the scenes are very beautiful, and the characters seem to come out of the painting, but the more beautiful things are, the more naked the director shows the bloody scenes, this kind of visual impact and The sense of contrast makes me feel very perverted, as if in daily life, a very beautiful thing and a very awkward thing, it is quite uncomfortable to force them together! disgusting! In fact, there is no such thing as ghosts in the movie, and the director still has two brushes!
Unconsciously, I have seen many types of horror films. I would like to briefly summarize two styles. One is short-lived, sudden, and brutally scaring people, and the other is to set a terrifying atmosphere and create an unknown Fear, obviously for me I prefer the latter, he goes through a big environment, even a utopian new world, brand new rules, and puts the audience in an extremely oppressive environment, in these two hours, it seems I really went to this place, I was very unfamiliar with everything around me, and every danger and unknown strangeness that appeared made me terrified and uneasy, so this kind of horror movie with a strong sense of substitution is very uncomfortable, but I feel very uncomfortable. interesting!
Although the movie is from 2019, the routine in the movie reminds me of many movies of the same type that I have seen before, such as "Escape from the Dead Town" two years ago, and "The Beach" starring Xiao Lizi, the only difference. Yes, the ending of this movie is even darker, (we really can't learn this, and we can't make it), of course we don't want such an ending in reality, this kind of ending in the movie is actually a bonus, because it can Let the fear perpetuate, and we have seen a lot of this religious group in reality!
What the movie wants to express, more or less his shadow can be found in reality, I think it's ironic, and this is the most terrifying part of the movie, although I don't know if there is a religion in the movie (it's not important), but If some religions in reality (not necessarily all religions) find out their historical events to compare, I think everyone will shudder!
We all think movies are scary, but we didn't expect that reality is actually scarier than movies. What's even scarier is that many people have become onlookers in movies, and the perpetrators are even "elders". I really shudder to think about it, movies are movies after all. To express the plot and meaning clearly in just a few hours, from this perspective, the world we live in may be a horror movie! Very thoughtful!
PS: Although the heroine is not very good, but she looks a bit like Scarlett Johansson, the key is that the voice is also very similar!
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