The Conjuring 2: A two-hour hymn to heroism

I never thought that ghost films could be so melodious and heroic. When Ed held the cross and walked up the stairs step by step regardless of his near-blindness to save the little girl Janet, what appeared in my mind was the scene of Wang Cheng's "shoot me!" , saying goodbye to his wife across the door, crying and saying, "I promised you, but I have to save her." In addition, he stood tall in the image of his father, playing guitar, singing love songs, repairing water pipes, and repairing washing machines. Director Wen is too familiar with the American image of a good man and a good father, and with his personal heroism in the battle of the devil, Ed has become a rare hero with both IQ and EQ in ghost movies.

The film is more than two hours in total, and about two-thirds of the time is spent with my coat over my face. When watching, I wish I had four hands, two covering my ears and two covering my eyes. Without any tricks, at the very beginning, I used spiritualism to act out the murder case of a household registration book to the audience, which is linked with "The Conjuring 1", and then after about two minutes of British style films, it was followed by music, sound, The horror scenes of images tormenting the audience are not twisted, simple, direct and efficient. I appreciate Wen Dao's oriental subtlety in this film, that is, you don't need to stimulate your senses with blood, human heads, etc., so that the film becomes "Scream" and the like, but uses a more metaphysical way to make you want to stop. . Halfway through the film, the exorcist couple appeared, and the film gradually changed from a horror film to a suspense film, leading the audience to the question of "who is it?" climax. The climax is the personal heroic performance mentioned in the first paragraph. By this time, I have completely covered my head with a coat, and watched the whole film in a terrifying and exciting mind. How can I say this feeling, it is like Wang Cheng is not fighting American devils, but zombies.

Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson are undoubtedly brilliant in the film, playing the heavy side of the exorcist's work. I really liked the scene where Ed tortures Janet, the exorcist is facing the camera in the foreground, the background is a blurred little girl/ghost, the exorcist can't see the back, but the audience can see the exorcist's subtle expression changes , from the perspective of composition and performance can be remarkable. From a personal point of view, Wen Ziren has not yet reached the level of a film master, because in my mind a 100-point horror film is the analysis of the human heart, not the devil or soul in religion. But he is undoubtedly a master of horror films, and he does not win with blood and dead people, which has completely surpassed most of the horror films in North America.

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