——The love of young women with aspirations for M. Knight Shamaranci (hereinafter referred to as M) actually stems from "The Village" rather than the "Sixth Sense" that made him famous in Hollywood. It can be said that "The Village" made me fall in love with this director. I personally think that "The Village" is actually the most exciting and outstanding work in director M's career. "Islamic" temperament and Hitchcock-style suspense were perfectly integrated into "The Village", and it was the final ending of "The Village" that made me fall in love with M completely.
Perhaps it is from the mysterious India, M, an Indian, makes each of his films show the unique mysterious temperament from the East. In each of his films, he pays attention to all kinds of supernatural phenomena in the world, whether it is a ghost or a man who will never die or a mysterious alien in a crop circle, or a water monster who suddenly appeared in his backyard swimming pool overnight. etc. The horror movie market in Hollywood has a unique mysticism because of M.
When "Water Demon" suffered both box office and critic failures, M's new work "Death to the Top" became the "important work to restore his career low point" in the words of the media. From the start of filming to the release, the film is like a bride with a red handkerchief to be married. Everyone wants to see what the bride looks like. Therefore, this new work has not yet been released, it has caught the audience's appetite. . Since when did M's mysticism pervade the screen and become a big gimmick.
I don't know, other people look at M's new work with a kind of psychology, at least, I am full of expectations, I look forward to seeing another excellent and typical M-style like "The Village"" horror movie". However, after 91 minutes, I made a decision, I want to see "Banshee", they all said that "Banshee" made M's career decline, so what about "Doomsday"? I can only describe it as horrible and yes, very disappointed. This movie is so full of M-style mysticism that the characters in its story are so thin, and many of the plots in the story are so deliberate, I can't imagine that such a movie would be Taken by M.
It is undeniable that if you are a movie fan, if you like M, then this film is still the most typical M-style "horror movie", full of too much you can see M in his movies customary means. However, this is arguably M's worst movie, a so-called "alternative apocalypse" movie, like a tasteless glass of boiled water, boring and bland.
A couple with a strained relationship in their marriage, after a terrifying ordeal, finally saves two soon-to-be-broken marriages and rediscovers the true love they almost lost. This setting can be found in almost any doomsday movie. In this film, on the one hand, M wants to show his mysterious skills thoroughly, and on the other hand, in order not to make the story empty, he stuffed a couple in, so as to show the reaction of a small group in the face of a catastrophe. However, in this film, M has refrained from paying attention to one and the other, and did not find a good connection point between mysticism and realism, resulting in the film's overall story and character creation. "The Murderer" is very fresh, this new work, which has been placed in too much expectation, may become the most ordinary and dull work in director M's career.
For a director who mainly shoots horror movies, M is eager to find fresh elements to create mystery and horror, but forgets that the foundation of all this should be a good story foundation and a group of full characters. This film is more like an important news. The announcer broadcasts it in professional language, and the couple seems to be a pair of news background characters in this news. In the news, they add a sense of presence to the news, and if it's a movie, the couple is completely symbolic. That is to say, in M's new work, M has intensified his use of the familiar "fascination". Indeed, the story is very fascinating and full of suspense, but when the whole film is over, the audience will probably not be the same. Instead, Fog Shui will have the following reaction: "So that's what it is, why is it so mysterious." The most unacceptable thing is that the scary tricks in this film are really substandard, such as the weird old woman, the more weird dolls on the old woman's bed, for example, those various suicide methods, and those bloody corpses , the cliché and inferiority of these scary tricks should not come from the hands of M at all.
In short, "Death to the Top" is like a product produced from the M-movie production line, but the quality is not as good as it used to be.
Text / Aspiring young women reprinted and noted
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