The director selection is very general, and there are already many underground monster films. It can be seen from the play that the director originally wanted to create two viewpoints for the audience: the viewpoint of insanity and the viewpoint of underground monsters. However, both aspects are not well done, which makes this film unreasonable and even less profound no matter what angle it is viewed from.
1. Defects of the underground monster view
1. It's unreasonable that the local people don't even know about such a big hole in the forest. I'd rather believe that the whole town has been changed. Classmates chorus: When there is a hole in the forest... I thought it was all made by monsters. However, the director didn't mean it at all, maybe the pattern was too big to shoot.
2. The old man next door watched the video of the camera, not only did he not admit it, but he actually fell? It can only be explained by evoking previous years and a momentary insanity, otherwise it would be too unreasonable. Normal people will help her when they see something different, right?
3. How did the mother carry the child to climb out of the hole? The hardest part was jumping straight away. It can only be said that the director's skill is too shallow, so he can't make it, and he forced his way out of the hole. If this hole was so easy to climb out, those monsters would have come out long ago.
4. The living habits of the monsters are completely unexplained. What to eat in the cave? The child fell into it for so many days, but there was no injury at all, which means that the monster does not eat meat, otherwise there is no reason to live.
How did the monster come out? Counting the children of the old lady next door, there were only two of them. The mother can come out with the child in her arms. It makes no sense that the monster can't come out. It can only be understood that the monster can only come out when it transforms into a human shape, so can the mother who has changed from the monster also come out? As a result, I didn't see it until the end of the film. I thought the ending was a monster mother with a real son, so there was depth.
What is the purpose of the monster? It seems that he didn't do anything bad. He watched TV and went to school normally. Only when he was found that he could no longer hide, did he start attacking people. After knocking out my mother, I chose to bury it directly, why not take it to the forest and throw it into the hole so that my companions can come out?
5. Why does my son go to the woods alone without sleeping at night? Do holes have beckoning powers for small children? There is no explanation in the play.
2. Defects of mental disorder view
My mother was injured on the head and she had to take medicine to sleep. The director arranged the background of this character just to imply to the audience that her mother might be mentally ill. And then mislead the audience, interpreting the hole as a mental defect, the character's cognitive confusion or something. However, many details show that the director simply wants to make an underground monster film. The mother's mental state is poor, just to create an atmosphere.
1. The old man dropped the camera, and his mother asked him to say that he was mentally ill, and the child was fine. As a result, the old man said I couldn't. It means that what the mother saw was right.
2. The son can't answer the game he used to like and fights against his mother. The plot progresses too much. When my mother locked her son in the basement, I also looked at the wounds on the face of my mother, which were indeed there, so the mental disorder was beyond explanation. Mental disorder only affects memory and judgment, but not the body. It can’t be said that my mother’s mental disorder has hurt herself.
3. At the end, my mother returned to college and returned to the way she liked, and her spirit was normal, but she left a habit of being suspicious, which has solved the mental problem. This shows that the mother's mental problems are not serious.
The overall review is an underground monster film, but the setting and narration are not good, the rhythm of the first half is dragged, and the second half (especially the son's attack on his mother) The plot changes too suddenly. The monster has no sense of existence, and it is not impressive. Even if the lights in the basement are forced to flash back and forth, there is not much stimulation. Originally wanted to give two stars, but the color tone of the picture is good, and the atmosphere of conflict between mother and son is rendered okay, barely counting three stars, it can be used to pass the time.
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