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Every year there are always In those few movies, the cast is luxurious, the investment is high, the director is also experienced and well-known, and the early publicity satiated everyone's appetite, but after 100 minutes of watching the full feature film, you realize that you have been put again. The poster of this "lady in the water" is amazing enough, showing the heroine in a fairy-like temperament (but after watching the movie, I found out that this is just an illusion), coupled with the mysterious synopsis, I think it should be It is a masterpiece of magic, and with the fame of director Shyamalan in the past (the sixth sense is unbreakable), it is at least a new fairy tale like "The Brothers Grimm". But now I no longer have the habit of buying DVDs, I still DOWN a version of Empire's RMVB to watch.
After watching it for 50 minutes, I started to feel bored of this film. I fell asleep several times. I drank two cups of coffee before I resisted the call of Zhou Gong and his old man. In the last 20 minutes, I almost dragged the progress bar to see if the director was still alive. If there are any tricks that can be used, it can be considered a complete look.
Looking back, the first thing that popped into my mind was the Korean old lady who was always inexplicably hysterical. The development of the film proved that she was a fairy-like character. Once the male protagonist encountered something in the demon world that he did not understand, he would go to her for consultation, the old lady It was an inexplicable performance of "The old lady doesn't talk to Westerners", and then she gave a long speech, telling the male lead some rules that even the female lead (that goblin) didn't understand. So the male protagonist thinks he gets it, as if the old lady is a game guide, guiding the development direction of the whole event.
Let's talk about the male protagonist. In the movie, he is an apartment manager with a miserable past. Why is he miserable? Nothing more than his wife was killed by gangsters when he was not at home, and since then he has become a taciturn man, a kind-hearted man with a little stutter. Not long after he met the heroine, he happened to hear the speech of the Korean old lady, so he was enlightened and realized that the heroine is not alone (it sounds familiar, the emphasis should be placed on "person" when reading) I think if he is born In China, he must be a loyal fan of Master Li, and I may be able to convince him that I am God himself... Anyway, he abandoned the way of thinking of normal people and devoted himself to the affairs of the demon world, but I really don't understand The point is so great why didn't one give our beautiful heroine a lingerie to wear? (Er, a swimsuit is also a good choice if she often needs to get in the water)
The rest is the various tenants living in this apartment, they are composed according to the needs of the banshee (or the needs of the Korean granny) The mighty support group has various strange chicken characters, such as a narcissistic man who insists on exercising only half of his body. He is happy to see his right arm is 3 circles thicker than his left arm; another example is the rebellious old Korean lady Daughter, with incomparable patience in front of her mother and the hero's microphone. In short, in this apartment there are hidden dragons and crouching tigers, and all kinds of perverts will eventually find the usefulness of their perverted qualities.
Finally, it was inevitable to talk about the cost of this film. I really can’t see how much more the 100-minute film would cost than a 2-episode Korean drama. The scene is an apartment building and a swimming pool in the apartment, basically useless stunts. and computer production. (What? You mean that monster? I really don't see any difference between that thing and a dog) But the small production is by no means shoddy, look at the one produced a while ago
PS: Although it is a downright bad film, given Shyamalan's reputation, I am afraid there will still be a The critics deconstructed the film to dig out the "connotation" that the director did not know, and went to BAIDU for a while, and it really happened...
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