There was a videotape at 31 degrees north latitude in China before, which was very similar to this film. Also in the form of a pseudo-documentary telling the story of a group of mysterious disappearances. Although the story was evoked by the last paragraph of the video tape at the beginning, the flashback method still had some atmosphere, but nothing was told at the end. Although the open story gave the audience more space to imagine, according to some clues in the film , even if he fully speculates a story, there is nothing new about this story. Looking at the whole film, in addition to creating a mysterious atmosphere, it feels like it doesn't stop there, it's always a bit anticlimactic. I remember watching the film back then, not long after the opening, few people watched it seriously.
In contrast, the first half of this "Dyatlov Incident" is dull, but the second half is fast-paced. Every foreshadowing in the front is set just right, which helps the audience understand the complete story. For example, the tattoo on the back of the female lead's ear at the beginning, the two people who were at the scene of the accident described by the personnel involved in the search and rescue, the radiation on the victims, the cut tongue, etc., as long as the clues are combined, it is easy to infer one. Complete hypothesis: The previous mountaineering team must have encountered the same situation as them. Someone (who was found to have radiation) accidentally discovered the secret military base built by the former Soviet Union for the Philadelphia experiment, and was secretly silenced by the military, The way of killing the mouth should also be the same as what this team encountered, man-made avalanches (explaining why they left the tent with disheveled clothes and injuries to the skull and ribs), and were then cleared by military personnel.
What's really interesting is the story after the heroine and the cameraman enter the base and discover the legacy of the Philadelphia experiment, the existence of two monsters and a wormhole. After witnessing their companions being bitten and eaten by two mutant humanoid monsters, the hostess and the photographer found three rooms in panic in order to avoid these two monsters that seemed to be able to teleport: Tongues were cut off; the next one had a broken cage inside with hanging hooks and bloodstains; the last one had the cause of the whole story — a wormhole. The two protagonists were in a desperate situation and decided to travel through the wormhole. As a result, they traveled back to the time of the Diatrov incident 50 years ago. After dragging it back to the base and hanging it up, the camera gave a close-up of one of the tattoos behind the ears. At this time, we found that the two people had actually mutated after passing through the wormhole, and the two monsters were themselves. And the camera they found when they escaped is the one they have now.
In the second half of the film, the Philadelphia experiment was unexpectedly proposed, which magically connected the unsolved mysteries of the two worlds, and finally rose to the classic theme of science fiction, wormholes, time travel, and infinite loops, turning a thriller into a story. Suspenseful sci-fi film = = Because of the fusion of these various elements, this pseudo-scientific documentary has the potential of a Hollywood blockbuster.
Of course, pseudo-documentaries assume shaky footage, a stubborn, dying protagonist, a deadly cameraman, and illogical behavior (how else would we have gotten the full footage), trying to disguise how nature is actually stiff , and, oh yes, blaming each other in times of distress. But overall, this film is still very watchable, and I like the rich imagination of the director and screenwriter!
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