And Thai kung fu movies are the other extreme. Just as Muay Thai is evaluated in the world, it is simple and rude, and Thailand's black boxing market is world-famous.
As for horror movies in Thailand, why are they called treasures? Because Thailand's national religion (national treasure) is Buddhism. Buddhism pays attention to the cycle of cause and effect, and the world is always black and white, one yin and one yang. If there are Buddhas, there must be ghosts. What's more, the fusion of local witchcraft such as head descending makes this country full of mystery.
Then we see that the horror films in Thailand are not like Japan's "revenge" as the focus of horror films, which simply stimulates the horror of people with the senses. The integration of religion makes its horror films more realistic, which is in line with its geographical and cultural influence. The causal cycle of Thai horror films is also in line with the religious meaning of Thailand's state religion.
Personally, I think that the short stories of horror films are better than long stories. First of all, for this kind of story, you need to understand the plot on the one hand, and watch out for sudden horror factors on the other hand. Watching a full-length horror film must be more tired than exciting. (It is unbearable for ordinary people to be nervous all the time.)
Secondly, for horror movies, excessively long stories will lose their thrilling and suspenseful flavor. For audiences who pursue sensory stimulation, most of the choice of horror movies is the pursuit of adrenal glands. The secretion of vegetarian food is not the reasoning and careful taste of the film. Therefore, the processing of short stories will be more enjoyable.
On this point alone, Japan's "Wonderful Story of the World" has done a good job. Each of the short and concise stories has a different idea, and it will not fall into fatigue. It is also a good after-dinner for curious friends.
As the originator of short horror stories, the series has influenced films in many countries, such as South Korea's "Horror Story", the domestically produced "Zhang Zhen Storytelling", and this Thailand-produced "Death Crossroads" (Ghost 4 abuse). This movie is similar to "The Wonderful Story of the World". The four short stories have different ideas and are incoherent with each other, and together they form a collection.
The first story is "loneliness", and the metaphor of karma is already obvious. A little girl with a broken leg and a loneliness faced the chatter of a strange man, from the beginning of the love and ignorance to the deeper and deeper because of boredom. Many people can resonate in this MSN and cell phone chat process. Let’s not mention about pao for a while. I go to the toilet with my mobile phone for fear of missing a WeChat message. I stare at the mobile phone all day and expect a second reply from the opposite sex. Men and women who don’t know first think of taking pictures of each other and exchanging them.
Many people say that the story is uninteresting, but if you look at the details carefully, you will see some causal factors. We noticed that the heroine found that the momentum was not right, and the other side of the phone was very strange and immediately rejected the other party's further news that she had a boyfriend, so we thought, why did you ignore your boyfriend when you started flirting? The performance of the rippling spring heart is completely like a couple who just fell in love in the chat with strangers.
Let’s not forget how the male ghost died. The male ghost was abandoned by his girlfriend and couldn’t think of suicide and died. This can also explain why the male ghost finds the female protagonist, because the female protagonist is suspected of being unfaithful to her boyfriend. The coincidence that the car accident happened to be the female protagonist, including the male ghost staring at each other, was just a gimmick played by the director.
Don't talk to strangers casually, especially if you have a boyfriend or girlfriend, because you will definitely hurt your other half. This is the first story. The last thing we noticed is that there is no dialogue in this story, and it is completely based on text messages, but with the actors' expressions, physical movements and the rendering of the environment, it still makes people feel chills down their spines.
The second story, "Doomsday", is about revenge, and karma is more prominent. We mentioned before that Thailand's head-turning technique is world-famous. As a representative work of Thai movies, it is unreasonable to have no head-turning. School violence is the first factor in this movie. Once upon a time, with the highly developed social information, social negative factors subtly affect the school. School violence is becoming more and more prominent and showing a trend of age reduction.
Smoking, drug use, fighting, and even developing into abuse. It has caused one tragedy after another, so we see that in this story, weak teenagers are seriously injured by other bad youths, some people take the initiative to participate in the violence, and some people stand by. It's just that no one noticed that the teenager has been learning to drop his head to protect himself, and disaster is imminent.
As an outstanding representative of Thai teachings, the head-dropping technique is the supreme truth that those who harm others will not have a good death. Therefore, even if the young man seeks revenge in self-defense, he will eventually be killed by the devil's law for harming others. The firefighters were burned by the fire, and the perpetrators were caught in a calamity. Even the people who did not intervene were digging their own eyes just because they saw death.
The third story, "The Man in the Middle," is more lighthearted and quite different from the depressive nature of the first two. The hilarity of comedy runs through the story. At first glance, the subject matter is old-fashioned, but the Thais have also changed it. The first half of the story is similar to the story of the fierce bells in the snow-capped mountains in "Wonderful Story of the World". The snow-capped mountains are replaced by forests, and night and desolation are necessary settings, so there is no change.
"I'm going to tell you a ghost story... Once a man came here to camp and saw a woman sitting next to him on a dark and windy night for a month." "Is it pretty?" The story went off . I thought the story would end in a slapstick joke. Crowmouth must compare himself to the Titanic, but it turned out that a companion drowned and disappeared.
Then the question arises. The companion who thought he drowned appeared at night and declared that he was not dead. Would you choose to believe it? Speaking of this, God reminded me of a ghost story I read a long time ago. A couple husband died and the wife was rescued by the villagers. One night, the husband suddenly came back and said that he had been imprisoned by the villagers for so many days. In fact, the villagers are the undead. Are you? Choose to trust the husband or choose to trust the villagers? (Ghost stories with this theme are often used badly. Maybe the director has the final say on who dies and who doesn't.)
Thailand's alternative is that he didn't choose "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" or "Snow Mountain Fierce Spirit", who died and who didn't The debate and reversal of death, in fact, the setting that they are all dead will catch people off guard. The fact that ghosts do not harm people makes this story less scary, but the noble friendship of being friends after death makes people feel a touch of warmth.
In fact, the ending of this movie is not abrupt. The director has hinted it many times. For example, in the story at the beginning, someone asked why the ghosts are all women, and they all have shawls and long hair, and then this movie is really not a female ghost. Some people ask if you would be afraid even if one of us dies first, some people are afraid that he will die first, and the ending knows, oh, it turns out that they died together, etc. The hinting factors are obvious.
This story is actually my favorite because no matter what the director suggests, you just can't guess the ending.
The fourth story "Flight 224" tells the story of the mistress and the original wife. We see the news every day and know how intense the literary and martial fights between the original spouse and the mistresses are. Then imagine you as the prince's mistress. , Would it be a little scary to be recruited by the prince's former partner to serve her alone on the plane?
However, our little three didn't feel any guilt, and instead had the courage to fight against the power, so the original prawn allergy died, and the little three seemed to have the upper hand.
But as everyone knows, this is the beginning of revenge. It is her service to transport the living person, or her service to transport the corpse. It is not so much a coincidence, but a conspiracy of the original partner. The ending coincides with the prediction of the original partner's mistress. Adultery is stoning in Arabia, so never try to be a mistress, the price is too high.
If you are a loyal horror movie lover, you should not miss this movie, and the third story also spoiled a lot of classic horror movie masterpieces. While seeking sensory stimulation, think about other horror movies. Happy but not?
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