I watched this movie a week before the 2020 Chinese New Year (exclusively on iQIYI). In the first 30 minutes of watching the movie, I thought that if I told the audience to wait patiently in advance, such spoilers would not affect the viewing experience. It is true that some viewers have no patience for the live broadcast of the first 30 minutes and one shot to the end, and do not know what kind of surprises are hidden behind the movie. Anyway, I can see that the director has laid a foreshadowing, and will definitely explain the story behind the scenes. In this way, I naturally have a suspenseful expectation for the back of the film, although the director did not deliberately create suspense.
The narrative of the film is laid out before the filming of "One Cut of the Dead". Before the official start of the one-shot live broadcast, our imaginations could not reach "how this movie was made". The formation of feeling is naturally shielded, as if there is a "veil of ignorance" that naturally separates the viewer from the photographer behind the scenes. Therefore, after 30 minutes, the film opened up all aspects of the behind-the-scenes production layer by layer. Each link is actually beyond the audience's original imagination. At this time, the feeling is formed, and there will be a sudden realization of "the way it is".
There are unexpected events in the last thirty minutes of the film, and it is also because of the unexpected events that made the whole process of "One Cut of the Dead" thrilling. This is also impossible to reveal. It must be that the audience has a sense of immersion in the movie. After empathizing with it and understanding the first 30 minutes, they will feel that the next 30 minutes are particularly exciting. It's the stimulation point that string together the front padding.
A good movie is not afraid of spoilers, so I will briefly analyze the pseudo-zombie movie "One Cut of the Dead": First of all, this is a TV show, and the audience is very limited. Secondly, this TV show expresses the subjective feelings of individuals: encounter a biochemical crisis in an abandoned factory building, and then escape the attack of zombies. As for why there are zombies, I will not answer. The TV show format does not waste time explaining the relevant world order to the audience. The audience becomes the experiencer of the drama through a special one-shot live experience, and the audience's perspective becomes the first person, experiencing the same wave of biochemical crisis as the heroine. At this time, the heroine is the responder to pain in this zombie world, and the audience is the observer of the reaction to the pain. And because the audience is observing the TV screen, it is safe, and will not experience the blood outside the visual effects, and the audience will not guide the heroine's actions.
The live TV show One Cut of the Dead itself elevates the comic to absurd heights. 100,000 times magnified ordinary fear to terrifying levels: screaming, screaming, screaming out of control, beheading, broken arm, blood splashing. Sharply stimulates the human visual senses. The counterpart is a mockery of the wit of the watching audience; the abrupt ending turns the bizarre pursuit into an unjustifiable mystery.
In the behind-the-scenes production plot of "One Cut of the Dead", the inspiration is further revealed. Spontaneity and personal emotion are not the dominant force in the process of shooting and live broadcast, but the director's skills and script play a role. The director and everyone in the crew have rehearsed many times. Even if there is an accident, the director will personally go into battle, and the live broadcast can be completed according to the arrangement of the script. And all the hard work the director did behind the scenes only ensured the smooth shooting of the live broadcast and provided fun to the audience who watched the live broadcast.
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