Like most types of art, horror films are also constantly evolving. Typical horror films use violent bloody violence or extreme horror atmosphere to quickly mobilize the audience through massacres, or various supernatural phenomena. The tense and fearful emotions, and using wave after wave of reinforcement methods, hang the audience high above the peak of terror. However, recent horror films are no longer satisfied with pure sensory stimulation, and have begun to incorporate elements of other types of films. More and more horror films use "horror" as an introduction and structure, but the ultimate destination is to reflect on human nature, The touching of life, or the sadness of emotion, including "Silence of the Lambs", "The Sixth Sense" and "The Labyrinth of the Sheep Man" belong to this category.
"Lost on the Magic Island" is a Spanish work in 2009, and the Chinese translation is also translated as "Iron". The story tells the story of a single mother taking her 5-year-old son to an island for vacation, but her son disappears into thin air on a ferry to the island. After a long ordeal, the mother came to the island to recognize her son's body after being notified by the police. At the moment when the white sheet was lifted, the mother found with tears in her eyes that it was not her son who was lying in the morgue. The police were suspicious of the mother's answer and requested further DNA comparisons. So the mother was forced to stay on the island for three more days. During these three days, the mother found that the residents of the island were behaving suspiciously, and also found that before her, another mother's young son was also missing on the island.
The mother began an independent investigation, followed the line to a deranged German woman and found her son in the trailer where the German woman lived. The mother was injured in the fight with the German woman, but she mustered up the courage to escape with her son with difficulty. The mother did not trust the police, nor did she trust anyone on the island, so she hid her son in every possible way to avoid the police who were chasing after her, and finally boarded the ferry to the outlying islands. The wounded and tired mother fell asleep in the seat with her son until fragments of memory and the pain of the wound woke her. When the mother woke up and found that her son was not in the seat beside her, she immediately jumped up and searched in a panic.
This time, the mother soon found her son, who was talking with his back to herself and the ferry attendant, who was staring at the mother with a strange look. The son finally turned around to look at her, but his appearance and stature changed unexpectedly. It was not his own son, but the son of another mother who had lost her child. The memory began to roll back, and the pictures began to be re-corrected. The son when he boarded the ferry, the son hiding in the back seat of the car, the son in the German woman's trailer, the son he saw at the beach before fainting, every picture was wrong, Not his own son. Until the moment when he returned to the mortuary, yes, the swollen and blackened corpse under the white sheet was his own son...
Tears, crying, and self-isolation are not enough to describe the pain of a mother who has lost her son. The feeling is beyond sadness, beyond heartbreak, a sense of despair and fear that goes straight to the bottom of my heart.
The Lost Island is the first feature-length film by Spanish director Gabe Ibanez. From the perspective of "looking for a child who disappeared out of thin air", "The Lost Island" is reminiscent of "Crisis in the Air" starred by Judy Foster, but in terms of technique and meaning, "The Orphanage" is actually closer. "The Orphanage" is also a horror film produced in Spain. It was released in 2007. It is the highest-grossing film in Spain in the past ten years and has won numerous awards. The production team of "The Orphanage" is strong. The producer is Guillermo del Toro, the director of "The Labyrinth of the Sheep Man", and the production team is similar. "Spiritual Orphanage" tells the story of a mother who grew up in an orphanage. When she returned to the place where she grew up as a child and planned to rebuild the orphanage, Jing unexpectedly lost her son. The little girls who lived together in the orphanage as children appeared in the form of souls and guided the mother to find the truth in the way of "guessing games". The mother finally found out the truth about the deaths of the little girls in the orphanage, and the truth about the disappearance of her son, but the truth was unbearably sad. And the ending is the same as "The Sheep Man's Labyrinth", a heartbroken, dream-like happiness, the most unbearable happiness since "The Little Match Girl".
"The Orphanage" can be regarded as one of the best horror films in history. Compared with it, the storyline of "Lost in the Magic Island" is thin. The film is more than 80 minutes long, which compresses the narrative rhythm of the film. It's amazing. Although the heroine's acting skills are eye-catching, the brewing atmosphere of the film is not enough to set off the actors' acting skills, nor does it fully highlight the contrast between the front and the back of the truth. In addition to the imitation of "Spiritual Orphanage" in the meaning of the story, the shadow of "The Sixth Sense" can also be seen in the narrative technique. As the director Gabe Ibanez's debut film, "The Lost Island" is not bad, but it pales in comparison with "The Orphanage" and "The Sixth Sense". .
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