It follows, this film is David Robert Mitchell's second feature film, and it is also an extremely ambitious and dedicated work. As a thriller, if the audience asks for a complicated story frame and plot design, this work is probably going to disappoint most people who hold such expectations. However, the problem is that requiring a thriller to tell a brain-burning disgusting story within 100 minutes. This demand seems to be that there are several Hollywood epic blockbusters that burn hundreds of millions each year to meet the needs of the masses. And if your requirement is only that a thriller can be full of shocking emotions for 100 minutes, this work can bring you into this atmosphere five minutes before the beginning, but the premise Maybe you have the opportunity to watch this movie in the cinema instead of sitting on the sofa at home or lying in front of the computer. Because both of these will greatly discount the Yanyan temperament of this film.
The story is very simple, so simple, maybe Wen Ziren can use his several DVD collections of Chainsaw Horror to smash this movie. Of course, as the director of the most outstanding horror-thriller genre of the first decade of the 21st century, he has the capital to do so. The story is about a 19-year-old American girl, Jay, dating a young man who has just arrived in town. On the first date, the young man’s strange reaction was not taken by Jay. On the second date, Jay tasted the forbidden fruit for the first time, before being kidnapped by this weird young man to an old construction site. The youth talked to her nervously about some weird things, telling Jay that from now on there will be some people coming to you, they will change into various appearances, but you must remember not to let them touch you. In the camera, a naked woman walked towards them step by step, and the young man pushed Jay into the car excitedly and fled the place. He drove her home, put her on the road in front of her house, dropped the words "Never let them touch you", and drove away. The next story is to lean on the old way of the girl’s escape and the old ways of rescue of girls by the best friends and neighboring young men.
And a story whose original script seemed to be a bit unfinished, and even the theme of the two-struck teenager, was actually filmed as "a coquettish daisy" by David Robert Mitchell, which shows the young director's ambition. (The popular horror film that killed teenagers in the 70s and 80s has fallen into the 21st century (obviously the subject matter is badly filmed). It is a metamorphosis of N kinds of ghost film recordings for DVD handheld shooting.)
Hitchcock, an old fat man, as The leader of the horror-thriller genre, in the Butterfly Dream of 1940, the wonderful and precise background music arrangement-each character appears on the stage, there is a corresponding music step, the plot and character emotion expansion also take advantage of this skilled audience The psychological background music is extended and arranged. In the most famous horror of the fat man in the 1960s, although the script itself was criticized by future generations, the famous bathroom murder scene, the precise music in it, really made the audience amazed for decades. Horror and thriller movies are probably the most closely integrated genre with music in the film industry, in addition to music and dance films. Epic and sci-fi films may often encounter the problem of being overwhelmed by the soundtrack, but horror and thriller movies, or any film that is involved in suspense, or in short, is often tightly wrapped in background music. The exquisite "Xiu Dou Tang" is sour and refreshing.
Speaking of the movie soundtrack, It follows that this movie is very full. The tone of the soundtrack is similar to the electronic music of the 80s. There is a kind of subjective sense of "self" pouring down, but the core is a cold tone. In conjunction with the film, most of the shots are "objective perspective." And this kind of experimental approach makes it hard not to think of that coquettish Under the skins last year, which also uses experimental music to interpret a simple science fiction story to a refreshing "cold". The two directors both understand the "energy" behind different music types, and this energy uses the theater's sound equipment and the visual effects of the large screen to kill the notes from the air resonance to the audience's skin and heart and lungs. .
If you insist on a horizontal comparison with the Under the skins of last year, you may just lose in the structure of the story. Just like the evaluation of the movie manual, it bows to "simple" at the end. (Refers to the simplification of the story). In terms of lens design, many scenes of Under the skins last year used documentary shooting techniques to put the "real reaction" into a science fiction film, giving people a sense of illusion and real detachment. This concept itself is already It is the best interpretation of science fiction. It follows, in terms of lens design, it is also very wonderful. The long shots at the beginning, the loop-shaped ferry shots, and the speed of the lens movement can make the mood of the whole movie just touch the brewing point, but it is not too aggressive and does not impose a feeling. And this kind of lens appeared in the movie several times. For example, Jay and Greg went to school to check the information of the boy. They also used such a long lens to explain the environment and the "danger" slowly coming in the distance. There are two main ones. A fragment of the character’s ongoing storyline. In the movie, another set of ferrying from right to left is also very fun, that is, Jay had a car accident and finally decided to have a relationship with Greg in the hospital. With the lens, you can see the various races in the hospital, young age, birth, old age, sickness and death, and finally the hormones of young people, all kinds of metaphors are simply thrown out.
The humanoid monster in the setting of the story keeps walking towards the protagonist. This set distance, that is, the distance between far and near, also cleverly uses part of the lens to defocus, and it is possible to explain some of it afterwards. The danger that comes and the hint of the story. For example, the first date of Jay and Hugh, the close-up is Jay and Hugh in the restaurant, in the distance, the part of the lens is out of focus, a human figure is moving, hinting the story afterwards.
The most interesting part of this movie is not to pass the danger to the next person through sexual intercourse. Of course, this obviously implies AIDS and the choice of sexual promiscuity among teenagers. Rather, the lack of the role of the father in the setting of the story. Why in the story, Jay repeatedly mentioned "Don't tell mom about her. Didn't mention her father?" The last group of friends went to their "First Kiss Holy Land" for the final rescue in a certain swimming pool. Before driving away, Jay saw a naked middle-aged man standing on the roof of his house. The man who walked towards her last to kill her outside the pool, and the scene that swept Jay's house at the end of the movie, the family photo of their family, his father looked like a ghost who wanted to kill her in the pool, the latter was liked Her male girlfriend was killed in the swimming pool. The male girlfriend also succeeded in chasing Jay, and the two had a relationship in a stormy day. The several intertwined relationships between these, if you think about it carefully, are extremely interesting and terrifying.
In short, this movie is a work that will be remembered in the next few years. It may not be said to be a great thriller film, but it deserves to be put on various lists to praise, just because of its intention and rebellion, which is the spirit that this era lacks. The film's director film took an old-fashioned story with different new ideas and creativity, and even opened up a new thriller visual experience to a certain extent.
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