DEVIL
subtitles
Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the Devil
walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may
devour.——Peter 5:8
fade in, black screen, we hear:
VO
When I was a child, my mother would tell me a story
about how the Devil roams the Earth. Sometimes,
she said, he would take human form, so he could punish
the damned on Earth before claiming their souls.
The ones he chose would be gathered together and tortured
as he hid amongst them, pretending to be one of them. I
always believed my mother was telling me an old wives' tale.
The first scene of the first
scene of the Brooklyn Bridge
shot from far to near, the blue sky appears, the lens keeps getting closer, and the inverted image is greeted. In the middle, the Brooklyn Bridge, the cloudless sky, is extremely blue. nature.
The picture has been inverted, and you can see all kinds of high-rise buildings from all angles.
In a building in the distance, the chimney was smoking.
In the second scene, the
elevator hoistway
lens quickly penetrated from the exhaust fan under the chimney and reached the machine behind the exhaust fan. At this time, the picture began to return to a normal angle.
Behind the machine, there are countless cables, going all the way down, passing through the small holes of the cables, the camera is shot from above, a long elevator shaft, a narrow four-square space, countless cables, hanging a long iron The box, carrying the unknown person, went up and down straight. Under the hoistway, there is no bottom in the darkness. The camera drops quickly and the elevator is operating normally.
The third scene of the
interior view of the lobby of the building
enters through the contents of the elevator shaft and switches to the lobby of the building.
The camera quickly glided across the floor of the lobby, vaguely able to see the reflection of the opposite building on the smooth floor.
VO
My mother's story would always begin the same way.
With a suicide paving the way for the Devil's arrival.
From top to bottom, a pair of feet and a vacuum cleaner appeared on the screen.
Judging from the green overalls, this is the cleaner in the building. The worker bent down, raised a corner of the vacuum cleaner, reached in and took out a small object.
VO
And it would always end with the deaths of all those trapped.
From top to bottom, the worker stood up straight and put the objects he just pulled out into his pockets. We saw that this was a middle-aged man with dark skin, about forty years old, with a bald head, a gray beard, a brown belt and loose work clothes, and he felt clean and tidy. The worker wears a pair of bright yellow earphones, and cannot hear any external noise.
Seen from behind the workers, there is a large transparent floor-to-ceiling glass, and you can clearly see the scene outside the building. A truck is parked outside the building.
Outdoors, someone fell down quickly upstairs, the roof of a parked truck was crushed, and dust could be seen outside the glass windows.
The worker couldn't hear the sound, lowered his head and fiddled with the vacuum cleaner in front of him.
The truck was forced to move forward slowly a few inches.
Switch to the angle of the ceiling, overhead shots of workers wearing headsets cleaning the floor.
The camera pulls down to get a close-up of the working vacuum cleaner.
V. O
I'm good. I feel good. I feel amazing.
To
No way. Occupational diseases, shooting techniques, etc., this film is first-rate at the beginning. Apart from the beginning, I dare not say that it is useless, but I don't want to watch it anymore. Confined space, trapped beasts, human nature, wary of the world, really, quite nothing new.
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