Usually, when I see "horror" in the label of a movie, I will hide away, but the night of death has no scaring scenes except that the puppet is a little scary valley. Students who are afraid of watching horror movies like me can eat it with confidence. .
In this 1945 film, there are many stalks that later classic thriller movies or ghost stories like to use, such as being stuck in a loop for a day, encountering a strange person, and everyone else said that this person died long ago , death prophecy incident, antique supernatural incident, split personality, etc., so although it is a very old movie, the plot is relatively old-fashioned, and it is still worth watching for archaeology.
Among these stories, my favorite is the ventriloquist's story, which is a bit scary, but can also be explained by modern medicine and psychology. Due to the ventriloquist's lack of confidence in his talent, he fantasizes that his partner, the doll, will leave him and find another job, and then split into a doll personality. The doll's personality is not under his control. From the audience's point of view, he is not performing, but there are really two people talking. He was hostile to another ventriloquist, Qi (he felt sorry for him), always felt that Qi was seducing his partner, and finally shot and injured Qi. He was also put in jail, but claimed that the doll was manipulating him to commit crimes, and soon he became depressed and chaotic. To this end, the psychiatrist invited Qi who was shot and wounded by him (again distressed, and he had to face the psychological shadow when he was injured), thinking that Qi should be able to awaken the ventriloquist's will. Seeing Qi, the ventriloquist seemed to wake up, and his expression changed to the appearance of a puppet (here I want to blow this actor). There is a saying that multiple personalities in a person with split personality will "fight", or out of self-protection, let the more "stronger" and more existentially rational personality dominate. I think the original personality of the ventriloquist here can't stand the strong self-doubt, so in the end, the doll personality survived.
The film is the structure of the snake gnawing its own tail, and finally the protagonist wakes up in a series of chaos and finds it all just a nightmare. His wife came to comfort him and let him go to a friend's manor to relax, he drove there, and the story went back to the beginning. If I were to answer the question of "tell an infinite loop" on Zhihu, maybe this movie would be a good answer.
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