still can't figure it out

General 2022-04-11 08:01:01

I watched it together in the dormitory, and it was 11 o'clock in the evening.
Roommate A said that "horror movies are the most irrational thing", but the three people who had seen the movie still got together and discussed it until after 12 o'clock. No way, can't figure it out.

There are many things that don't make sense in this film. The key to solving the problem is Kobayashi's sentence "I think Junko Ishii wants to support Kana as a witch". So why did Ishii make offerings to Kana? Of course, in order to let Kanai stop the evil spirits. Where is the evil spirit, what is it? In the last videotape, the crazy medium Mitsuo Hori said: "Isn't it right here!" He was talking about the little boy Ishii Junko was taking. The little boy didn't say a word from beginning to end, he was smashed with blood by Hori Mitsuo but still stood upright. According to Hori Mitsuo's previous performance, it is certain that he is telling the truth. So reliable conclusion 1: Little boys are evil spirits.

Based on 1, I speculate that Junko Ishii made offerings to Kana in order for Kana to subdue the little boy (the evil spirit). But Kanai failed, so she died. The vision that Kobayashi and Hori saw Kana full of little monkeys in front of the shrine on the hillside may be Kana's

reflection... Everyone who passed the neighbors died. First, the mother and daughter, then Shinichi Osawa who later hanged himself (a young man living in a blue house), and possibly even many villagers (Xiao Lin went to the village later and found that the door was closed and the dog was gone. ). Maybe Ishii has moved many times, but as soon as a neighbor tells someone about hearing a baby cry, he's going to die. This can be understood as the evil spirits are hiding their whereabouts or simply unhappy to be discussed.

So, when did Junko Ishii start making offerings to Kana? I think it was before the TV show. Because in the TV show, Kanai had already drawn the face of the little monkey (question 5), and the water she condensed with her mind was identified as river water or lake water, and it was most likely the water of the sunken reservoir in Xialumao Village.

Where did the little boy come from? It should be the baby who was aborted at 22 weeks that Ishii Junko was dealing with. She was possessed by a ghost at first, and then the ghost (the evil spirit) was transferred to the baby... There is no basis for this speculation, but it fits the plot. Because the little boy barely grows. Daze's neighbor said that he was a fifth- or sixth-grade elementary school boy, and the mother who opened the story later said the same. (It is worth noting that Ishii Junko became neighbors with Osawa first, "last summer", and then moved to the vicinity of the mother and daughter's house at the beginning. The film starts in winter. There is about a gap of more than a year.)

The strangest part of the whole film It's actress Mariko. Who was the phantom who appeared behind her was not explained in the end. And she has not been in contact with Junko Ishii/Little Boy. Unless the shrine she went to was the one where Kobayashi and Hori saw Kana's phantom on the hillside later. But who the man's phantom is is still unknown. Her junior sister died, but for no clear reason (just because Mariko asked her if she heard a strange noise? No way). She survived because of that strange ritual. The signs of the evil spirits haunting are the most obvious in her, but the relationship between her and the evil spirits is the least clear... OTZ

looks at the whole film, it seems that whoever dies and who lives is the result of the choice of the evil spirits. It is also very easy to attach to someone. The little boy can control the actions of a powerful psychic like Hori Mitsuo without saying a word, and it seems that Kobayashi survived and tossed for so long as if he was just using his camera to express the anger of the soul. Sure enough, nature can't destroy folklore casually. It must be respected, isn't it... down.

Japanese horror films don't care much about telling the story well, but rather conveying the atmosphere of horror. In this regard, the film is qualified, but in the face of this strange plot, my roommates and I still can't figure it out. If it is said that the evil spirit has such a great ability to control the life and death of people, why not stop the construction of the reservoir like the Lord of the Gods in the Chilling Chilling? Or is it because there are no people with ulterior motives behind this god?

I'm confused, have you figured it out?

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  • Modesto 2022-04-15 09:01:07

    It feels very real and the plot arrangement is also very good, but it is a movie that needs patience to watch.

  • Rogelio 2022-04-12 09:01:11

    It's more like a mystery movie than a horror movie. The scene where a bunch of monkey-like ghosts crawled onto the little girl at the end is terrifying. The whole movie maintains the characteristics of Japanese horror and aftertaste. After watching it, I still don't remember it. .

Noroi quotes

  • Mitsuo Hori: My God! The pigeons!

  • Masafumi Kobayashi: No matter how terrifying, I want the truth.