Not everyone can be Hitchcock

Barbara 2022-03-25 09:01:23

Half Light's marketing plan found two selling points, one "Hitchcock-style thriller" and the other "Demi Moore is a ghost again." After watching the film, you will feel that these two selling points are very unreliable. The latter is not listed for the time being, and the former, not everyone can be Hitchcock.

In a good thriller, the most important thing is the script. It has to be unexpected and worthy of careful scrutiny, otherwise it will either be dull or a bad ending will turn the whole film into a boring conspiracy. Half Light takes all of these two shortcomings, and it can be considered rare.

With the experience of watching Flight Plan last time, I have been mentally prepared for this so-called "three people become tigers" kind of thriller. Half Light is more thorough, not even half a good movie. After reading the beginning, you can see who is not a good person, and after seeing half of it, you can guess the general plot. If I want to get the ending, I will go to watch the performance of the potential criminal, and talk to the heroine with such a sincere expression in a place where no one else is. I just want to shout: I know you are not a good person, don’t pretend to be so tired. . The final ending is bad enough. If that person is a person, why did he change so quickly? If it's a ghost, I don't understand, why some ghosts can be seen and some can't, and also, ghosts can die and die again?

Maybe the director's purpose is to reveal human nature in a more in-depth and delicate way, and to preach that love can eventually overcome betrayal, but the overall feeling is that it is one thing and one that loses another.

The whole film can give the highest score is the music, followed by the Scottish scenery. The rest, lackluster.

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Extended Reading
  • Kayleigh 2022-03-24 09:03:52

    In mainland China, it was released under the pseudonym of "Human Ghost Love 2"... At that time, the promotion of film batches was not very systematic. The film was too bad, I played PSP while watching it, and left without finishing it. Du Feifei is the voice director.

  • Kaleigh 2022-04-23 07:05:34

    3.5 deducted half a point because "for the heroine to live, the dead liar was forced to fall in love with the heroine"

Half Light quotes

  • Rachel Carlson: Why is it everyone paints their boats the exact same color as their houses?

    Angus McCulloch: Well, that's actually a tradition here. The wife needs to be able to look out on the water and know her husband's okay.

    Rachel Carlson: That's very romantic.

    Angus McCulloch: And we also get a tax-break on the paint, which is also very romantic.