Wen Ziren's Soul Conjuring series has a high degree of attention around the world. Among the horror film genres, the horror attributes and real story background of The Conjuring series are the highlights. "The Conjuring 3" still continues this style. Although the horror attribute has declined compared with the previous two films, the addition of the real background story has given the film some expectations.
After watching the entire film, expectations turned into disappointment. First of all, the logical relationship between the characters and the plot made people quickly lose their expectations for the horror scenes of the film. Let's discuss the logical problems between the characters and their corresponding related plots:
1. A child was possessed by an evil spirit and could not attack his father with a knife. He was pressed on the table by the male and female exorcism team and the child's brother, and the priest started the exorcism ceremony. During the process, the possessed child struggled frantically with a painful expression, and his body twisted into a ball. At the critical moment, his brother and the evil spirit reached an agreement to exchange bodies, and the younger brother was out of danger. The logical problem is in the later development. This child can walk normally after such a distorted body movement. Maybe the setting of horror movies is like this! ?
2. The use of the heroine's connection ability is illogical. The first time, the child saw the ritual intermittently during the exorcism process. The second time, he investigated the missing girl with the police. When he was led into the venue of the cult ceremony by the retired priest, he saw the retired priest being killed by evil spirits. The four connections made the film go smoothly, but the sense of strength and weakness of the ability made the logic unreasonable. The first time was to contact the possessed target, but only saw the scene of the ritual fragment. The second time, just being in the context of the event fully understands the event process. The third time, touching the corpse of a girl possessed by evil spirits, seeing the manipulator of the ritual and organizing her to manipulate her "brother" to commit suicide. The fourth time, when I was in the basement, I saw a retired priest upstairs being killed by an evil spirit. There is no connection between the four abilities. If the heroine can understand all the information through the scene from beginning to end, why can't she find the manipulator by contacting the murderous "brother"? Just because you're in jail and can't get in touch? Secondly, when the heroine visited the basement of the retired priest for the first time, she did not perceive the existence of the cult ritual, and only showed that she was reluctant to enter the basement. In the film, it was not explained that the cult venue had a shielding function. Is this arrangement appropriate? I believe that everyone has their own understanding, welcome to discuss.
3. The logic of the storyline. The story is not created out of thin air, but is born out of the material that has existed in history and human experience. From the first glimpse of the first image, the audience begins to investigate your fictional universe. The first two female protagonists of "The Conjuring" need to know the reason and name of the existence of evil spirits, so as to expel them in a targeted manner. The personal choices in the expulsion process make the movie more exciting, but from another point of view, the limitation of this arrangement Sex has bound the audience's expectations for the "Conjuring" series. The love of the hero and heroine in "The Conjuring 3" has become the most powerful weapon to complete the task. Compared with previous European and American horror films, this setting can easily make the audience mistakenly think that they are watching domestic horror films, paving the way. The terrifying atmosphere that lasted for a long time was finally resolved only by activating the most common and special abilities of human beings, which was a little illegal (a feature of the Soul Conjuring series).
If I watched this film as a romance film, maybe I would be moved, but unfortunately, I came to nothing with the mentality of looking for excitement.
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