Just finished watching it, just to sort out a few details in the movie
1. A Russian professor who knows psychics, he said that coughing is to drive away spirits. I guess it should be the three little girls, why? Let's look at Article 2. If the director can hint at this in the movie, the narrative logic will be more rigorous. When he learned about the Javanese spell, he didn't say much. He saw that there were resentful spirits around Maya in the car. , this dialogue is written very generally.
2. Why did my father sew a spell in Maya's thigh? Because the resentment of the three little girls asked Maya to take revenge, and Maya was scared to cry. In order to scare off the resentment of the three little girls, the father sewed a spell on his daughter Maya's body. After the spell, the little girl's grievance never looked for Maya again, but since Maya took the spell away from the toilet, as soon as she walked out of the toilet, Maya ran into three dolls. I also saw the resentment of three little girls. It shows that the resentful spirits of the three little girls have never left Maya, but they did not dare to approach because of the spell before.
3. Maya's father is infertile, so she has not been able to have children for five years. I guess this is not an accident. There must be some credit for the old maid. The old maid actually hated Maya's grandfather, father and their family.
4. The birth of Maya was the son of the servant's old mama and Maya's mother who had an affair, but the servant's old mama cast a spell, causing his son to completely lose his memory after the affair, and Maya was also born with blood and flesh meat balls, no skin. Then it became the curse of the whole village, where for two decades no newborn babies were skinless.
5. The biggest villain behind the scenes is actually the old maid. Her son later murdered the village chief, that is, Maya's father. He directed Maya's father's madness and murder. He took the opportunity to get rid of the village chief's family and became the village's leader The new elder, and all of this is probably the result of the servant's old mama's spell and manipulation, otherwise, her son would not be excited to say before his death that he was fed up with being controlled by her for all these years.
6. The death of the policeman is a bit unfair. He just played a tool man, and his death was a bit redundant, because before he died, according to the plot, the fools understood that this village chief is not ordinary, and the police might be standing there. On the side of the village, this is almost common sense, and it is a bit redundant to let the police die now. The narrative of horror films cannot develop according to the audience's expectations, but must be one step ahead of the audience's expectations.
7. Maya escaped from the village twice and stopped the car twice. The first time there was a little girl's ghost, and the second time it was normal. This is a bit outrageous. If at this time, the driver turned his head and found that the old woman was eating. How scary the baby's head is!
8. The only woman in the village who helped Maya escape. From the beginning to the end, I have been waiting for her to turn black. I always thought that she must not be that simple. Later, I found out that she is that simple. In the end, Maya ran away, she did not run, knelt on the ground and said that her life was like that. If she escaped with Maya, I think it would add a lot of possibilities to the narrative. Suppose, she is the manipulator behind the old mama who surpassed the servant?
9. The patriarchal connotation of this village has become so strong that the pictures of the male masters of the family are posted on the walls of every family. And the old maid is undoubtedly the self-masculine female character.
10. How did Maya's father come up with the idea of overcoming the curse? How did his curse secret technique unfold? If the film does not use flashbacks, but is more refined from the perspective of folklore, the horror effect may be more East Asian, rather than the current horror style, which is neither European nor East Asian. Moreover, it is obvious that there are too many pits in the front, and it will greatly slow down the narrative rhythm of the movie if you have to unbutton them one by one, so you have to quickly use the flashback method to completely reveal the secrets at one time. Although the narrative is complete, it is greatly reduced from the suspense.
In general, this kind of horror film with folklore elements is quite attractive. Folklore is a bonanza, and horror films still have a long way to go.
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