In 2018, director David Cronenberg received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 75th Venice Film Festival.
The Canadian-born international director is known for his bizarre and bizarre film styles, which have emerged from his early films, including the 1977 classic horror flick, written and directed by him. Rabies is a good example of that, and of course the infamous 1986 film The Flies.
There is no shortage of remakes and tribute films in the film industry, so in 2019 a film also called "Rabies" was released, and the film was also directed by a Canadian director.
The protagonist of the film is a girl who is not very happy in life and work. Her name is Rose. When she was young, a car accident left her with scars that were often ridiculed by others. The sudden car accident left her completely disfigured.
When Rose woke up from the hospital and found that she had almost lost half of her face, she suddenly fell into despair, until after she received a stem cell treatment operation in a private beauty hospital that was in the promotion trial period, Rose recovered as before and became It was radiant, but Rose was unaware of the strong side effects behind this treatment.
The so-called strong side effect is that Rose became bloodthirsty and became a carrier of rabies virus, which eventually caused the virus to spread more and more widely.
On the whole, this "rabies" is clearly a remake and tribute to the 1977 version of Cronenberg, because in the film Rose is also designed with a masculine blood-thirsty mutant organ protruding from her armpit. For the discussion of this mutant organ, I am very inclined to the point of view that some netizens said about feminism challenging male power.
In order to present a terrifying and thrilling atmosphere, the film also does not hesitate to make many close-ups of injured parts and blood that touch the senses. I believe that some audiences may feel very uncomfortable about this, but this is also a common technique for such films.
Of course, the final boss of the film is not the terrifying rabies virus, but the hidden manipulator, Dr. Bakers. On the surface, Dr. Bakers, who has not appeared in many scenes, appears to be polite, but in fact he is a conspiracy with evil humanity. He used his distorted thoughts to forcibly kidnap others, which is actually the film's impetus for power and evil.
The setting of the film at the end has a lot of meaning that it wants to make a sequel. If this film can really make a sequel, it is an innovation for the 1977 version in a certain level, but for this one , it can only be said that it is a remake and tribute to the previous work. In essence, it is not innovative at all, let alone surpassing, even 42 years later, the film industry has developed too much. 【END】
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