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Author: Miss Banana
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For a long time, South Korea has been familiar with making suspense, thriller, and crime films .
Seo Young-hee starred in [Kim Funan's Murder Case], [Chasers], etc., which are all classics in thriller crime films.
Also, a lot of Korean thrillers have an element of revenge mixed in .
For example, Park Chan-wook's revenge trilogy: [I Want My Revenge], [Old Boy], [Kind Gold].
The film that Sister Banana is going to recommend to you today is of the same type.
And the horror and suspense effects are very well created, and Sister Banana just guessed the truth after seeing it at the end.
memory night
night of memories
You see, the poster design of this movie is very interesting.
Two men, half faces each, put together into a twisted face.
The man on the left has sharp eyes and is not easy to offend at first glance; the man on the right smiles evilly, always feeling that there is some conspiracy hidden.
Just looking at this poster, there is a full suspense effect.
It will make people wonder: what is the relationship between these two men? What happened to the story?
In fact, this movie is a typical suspense-solving story, with twists and turns in the plot, and layers of reversal. It is difficult to guess the ending without seeing the end.
At the beginning of the story, Jin Seok, the man played by Kang Ha Neul, is having a terrible dream.
In the dream, someone abused him and threatened to kill him...
He was awakened by a nightmare and woke up to find himself in a speeding car.
There are father, mother and brother in the car, and the family of four is happy.
It turned out that they were driving to their new home.
You see, the first ten minutes of the movie are basically a friendly family drama with filters.
Mom and dad have a harmonious relationship, and brother Yuxi is like a god in Jinxi's eyes.
Graduated from a top prestigious university and never missed the first place during his entire student period.
Not only good academic performance, but also proficient in sports, music and handicraft;
And he's a gentleman with a good sense of humor.
In short, he is such a perfect man who is envied and loved by everyone.
Although his brother was left lame due to a car accident , he is still the "perfect hero" in the hearts of his family .
And there is no one who worships his elder brother more than his younger brother who has repeated his studies twice and suffers from chronic neurasthenia.
In Jin Suk's eyes, his brother is simply the source of his strength, the only pride in his regretful life .
As the story develops here, everyone can see that this family is in perfect harmony.
But for a suspenseful crime film, it is too harmonious and happy, but it seems a bit weird.
It's not that this weirdness doesn't show up at the beginning, it's just overshadowed by superficial happiness.
First of all, when Jin-seok stood in front of his new home for the first time and stared at the whole house, there was always a sense of deja vu .
But in his memory, this was obviously the first time he saw his new home!
If his feelings were right, did he have any connection with this house before?
We don't know.
Secondly, when the moving uncle expressed doubts about the brotherhood of the two brothers, the elder brother stopped Jinseok from talking with the uncle in time.
The older brother seems unwilling to let Jin-seok have any connection with the outside world.
Finally, and most eccentric, Shin-seok is told that there is a small room on the second floor that is off-limits.
Because the previous owner had left some luggage inside, and he had been instructed not to let anyone in.
Even more bizarre is that this small room often makes some strange noises.
For example, when you eat, you suddenly make a dull thumping sound.
But the whole family told Jin-seok that it was just thunder and nothing to make a fuss about.
In the middle of the night, the whole house fell into a dead silence, and Jin-seok could still hear the thumping sound from the small room.
Sometimes the more forbidden it is, the more people want to find out, when Zhenxi can't bear his curiosity and quietly approach the small room;
The older brother suddenly appeared like a ghost.
Once again denied the idea of Shin Seok hearing the strange sound.
But there was clearly a voice, and the whole family said: No voice!
There must be something strange about this small room.
The turning point of things happened that night.
When Jin- seok went downstairs for a walk, he found that his brother had been kidnapped into the car by several people.
Jin-seok desperately chased after the car, memorizing the license plate number firmly.
However, the police were told that the license plate number did not exist.
Don't worry, there are more strange things happening later.
On the 19th day after being kidnapped, my brother came back unscathed.
It's just that what happened in the past 19 days, he has forgotten all about it.
The doctor said, this is my brother had dissociative amnesia, automatically kidnapped painful memories from my mind.
The development of the story here has pushed the suspense to a small climax.
What's wrong with the small room? What happened to the brother during the kidnapping days?
And why did Jin Suk keep having nightmares, in which he was abused by a man and forced him to say something...
These suspense are currently unknown.
At the beginning, it was said that this is a typical movie that sets suspense and then reveals the mystery, then it should be the time to reveal the answer.
However, when the film gradually revealed the tail of the truth, it fell into a deeper fog.
The older brother was originally lame on his left foot, but Jin Suk once discovered that his lameness had turned into a right foot.
Moreover, when Zhenxi woke up in the middle of the night, he clearly found that his brother's bed was empty;
The next morning I asked my brother if he went out in the middle of the night, but my brother refused to admit it.
In order to verify his guess, Zhenxi deliberately pretended to sleep at night, and after his brother went out, he followed.
It doesn't matter, just startled.
After my brother went out, not only was he not lame, but he walked like a fly.
What made Zhenxi even more terrified was that he found that his usually gentle and elegant "brother" was different at this time.
Fierce, neat, and full of swear words, he looks like a "underworld boss".
Moreover, the group of younger brothers who bowed their heads beside the "brother" are the "policemen" who came to the house to handle the disappearance case before .
Jin-seok has a premonition that he has fallen into a trap that "brother" has already laid out.
He was terrified.
Paradoxically, when I woke up the next day, everything was business as usual.
Jin-seok was still lying on the desk where he slept last night.
"Brother" also woke up like nothing had happened.
This time, Jin Seok was no longer calm, he couldn't believe the "brother" in front of him.
During the quarrel and fight, the elder brother told him unequivocally: what he saw was not reality.
He had such a nightmare because he didn't take his medicine yesterday (Jin-seok suffers from chronic neurasthenia).
And Jin-seok realizes that this is not a dream at all.
Because he didn't tell "Brother" at all that he took the taxi last night, but "Brother" missed out.
This shows that everything that happened last night was real.
This man is not his brother at all!
If this man is not his brother, who is he?
At this time, according to the routine of suspense films, the audience may have imagined N possibilities.
Maybe the real brother was killed, and someone pretended to be a brother to deceive Jin Seok;
Maybe Jin Seok has a split personality and fantasizes about everything;
Some people may still think, is there something wrong with my brother himself, and he has been pretending?
……
It makes sense, even Jin-seok thinks that his brother had died during the time he disappeared.
Because he once dreamed that he walked into the small room and saw his brother hanged, but this was actually his mental image.
So, what the hell is this "brother" doing, anyway, Sister Banana didn't guess...
And the story behind it has been led by the screenwriter's nose, and it was not until the first ten minutes of the film that all the answers were guessed.
(minor spoilers)
The first half has been reversed enough, but the plot has progressed here, and it is actually far from over.
Jin-seok tells her mom everything she's seen, including "Brother"'s weirdness.
However, he overheard his mother reporting everything he said to his "brother", and his mother was still secretly monitoring him.
After being discovered by Jinxi, "Mom" changed from the kindness of the past to a hideous face.
Overnight, "Father", "Mom" and "Brother" all revealed their true colors.
The facts are in front of you.
The family that used to be harmonious and friendly was all fake.
"Father", "Mom", "Brother" are all strangers guarding him.
They trapped Zhenxi in this strange house, and used a small room that made strange noises from time to time;
Led Jin-seok in, trying to get him to remember some important information.
This ties into the nightmare that Jin-seok has been having all this time.
In the dream, someone kept asking him, "Don't you remember? Don't you remember?"
So, what do they want from Jin-seok's mouth by trapping Jin-seok here and pretending to be his family?
And why did Jinxi treat them as family before?
This is all revealed in the second half of the film.
The first half is suspenseful enough, and the second half is constantly reversing.
But Sister Banana doesn't want to cover up its flaws.
Personally, I think the biggest flaw in this movie is that the subsequent revealing process is not particularly well rounded, and there are some logical bugs.
But the flaws do not hide the flaws, and the whole movie is easy to create in terms of atmosphere and narrative rhythm.
In that weird house, there are a few scary bridges from time to time.
For example, Zhenxi woke up from a nightmare, just when the audience was most relaxed;
Suddenly, a "female ghost" appeared, which can really scare people into weak legs.
Also, the script of this movie is wonderful, the plot is tense and exciting, and the story is worth remembering.
When you watch the whole movie and think back to the previous plot, you will really be moved by Jin Seok's feelings for his brother.
The timely insertion of the song Li Wenshi [Old Love] also brought a little warmth to this somewhat icy film.
All in all, as a suspense thriller genre, this movie is still worth watching.
Text/Sister Banana
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