Most of the blockbuster films this year are collectively weak. Recently, a small-cost cult film received more than 90% professional praise at the beginning of Rotten Tomatoes. After the film was released, it remained at 87%. Both professional and audience ratings were highly rated. For sure.
Seen the trailer of a small partner, it must, like me, curious set of the film, it is "not ready" .
The trailer begins with a story about the weird family where the heroine married into a wealthy family and started from card games. When the marriage partner wants to join the family, it is not just a wedding as simple as a wedding, but a life-and-death card game to be regarded as a formal daughter-in-law. .
I believe that in the hearts of tens of thousands of people, after the sacred and romantic wedding, it will definitely be connected with happiness and happiness. "Are you ready" just breaks this established imagination, and firstly gave everyone a big surprise in the setting.
This is also reminiscent of the "Quiet Place" and "Blindfolded Your Eyes", which have also been eye-catching in the past two years, and the earlier "Escape from Deadly Town".
In this type of film, after setting an established game rule, the protagonist begins to be forced to protect himself, thus bringing out an exciting and thrilling escape journey.
The two directors of "Are You Ready" previously directed "Devil's Expected Date" with a low score. The story is also a "blood murder" caused by a wedding. It seems that these two directors have a very large shadow of marriage.
Perhaps I have gained a lot of experience from the first collaborative work. The execution of "Are You Ready" has been greatly improved, and it has used absurd methods to round out the loopholes in the motivation of many characters and the logic of the story. Not high-level, but the narrative fluency is one after another, clear and accurate.
Next is the spoiler analysis time. When we analyze how the heroine escaped and ascended to heaven, we will see how many more movies we can unearth the meaning behind.
The beginning of the film was a scary night of a bloody wedding 30 years ago. A son-in-law who was stuck in the door was shot to death by an arrow, opening the secrets of the rich family.
Thirty years later, the hostess Grace married Alex and held a private wedding in the castle mansion. But from the conversation between the family members and Grace, we can feel that everyone is paying attention, even Alex I want to elope with Grace.
Near midnight, Grace, who was kept in the dark, was told that according to the family tradition, she had to participate in a card drawing ceremony and play a game from the cards drawn in order to be a member of the card game giant family.
When Grace drew the "hide and seek" card, everyone's expressions became more solemn.
They played a weird "hide and seek" song, let Grace hide first, and each of them allocated a weapon, from the most primitive axe to a small pistol, the family members are ready to hunt Grace .
Up to now, Grace still thinks this is just a strange family ritual game. Just when she was about to give it up, she was saved by Alex.
At this time, it happened that a nanny was killed by a family member by mistake, and Grace realized that this was not a simple hide-and-seek, but that she had drawn a death card.
Therefore, this superstitious family must find ways to follow the house rules to kill Grace before dawn for sacrifice, but the interesting part of the film is that this family is a rookie in hunting, which produces a lot of black humor. Interesting bridge section.
Moreover, some people in the family did not want this hunt to happen. For example, the fat son-in-law, who used soy sauce during the hunt, hid himself and wanted others to end the death game as soon as possible.
Another example is Alex's mother. She likes Grace very much, but because she is convinced of the family contract ceremony, she has to stand on the opposite side of Grace.
There is also Alex's brother Daniel, who is also Grace's friend, he is also very dilemma in this hunting ceremony.
As the groom's official, Alex chose to stand on Grace's side and secretly helped Grace escape, but the two faced the embattled dilemma and were outnumbered, and Alex was quickly controlled.
After that, Grace continued to die, and when she was hopeful of salvation, she faced death threats several times.
At the end of the film, there is an anti-routine ending, which is a bit surprising.
If you are not afraid of spoilers, you can read on.
It turned out that the card family had a deal with the devil when they made a family. They must give the devil a sacrifice at an appropriate time to ensure that the family can be safe and prosperous. The sacrifice chosen by the devil must be added to the family. Among the members in the selection, this time it happened to be Grace.
So they must take Grace to sacrifice before dawn, otherwise the whole family will die and the house will be burned to ashes in the fire.
This consequence sounds absurd, and even some people in the family are dismissive of such superstitions.
As a result, the end of the film dawned, and everyone was still alive. It seemed that this was just an ironic superstition.
But when the conversation changed, the eldest grandmother's body suddenly exploded, followed by Alex's father and sister. Every family member really fulfilled the terrible devil contract. As long as the bride is not sacrificed, the whole family will die. It's gone.
Originally, I thought that the film was a story about the protagonist we have seen before, and finally awakens and kills. Grace will definitely become a warrior in the future, annihilating this perverted family in one fell swoop.
But the film uses the setting of a real devil to reverse the original family's madness about superstition.
Some people think that the ending of the film is amazing, but some people think that it weakens the power of the heroine.
When I saw the second half, I had been waiting for the heroine's Jedi to fight back, but at the end, what really allowed the heroine to survive was not entirely on my own ability, and I felt somewhat regretful.
However, the ending of this anti-routine is really eye-catching.
It is worth mentioning that there are many details in the film that are well done. For example, Grace filed for a divorce with Alex at the end and removed the ring.
Maybe if Grace doesn’t do this, she will eventually explode with Alex, because Grace is already married to Alex, which also shows that Grace is a member of the rich family. Since the sacrifice fails, the devil will Kill this family, Grace should be one of them.
And when Grace fled to the sheepfold, in fact, at that time, it had been explained that the family believed in a cult and believed in Satan.
Goats are raised in the sheep pen. There is a demon in the West called Bafeng, which is one of the pronouns of Satan. The goat’s head is also like the demon. This cult is marked by a five-pointed star with a goat’s head. It is a Satanist. Branch.
All of them kept these goats for regular sacrifices, so when Grace fell into the basement, apart from a human corpse 30 years ago, there were also many goat corpses.
In addition, "Are you ready" also contains some irony about marriage.
For example, Grace and Alex’s wedding was romantic at first, but in fact it was already in crisis. This implies that most people’s marriages are the same. On the surface, it seems calm and even happy, but their marriage has reached the edge of a cliff.
In the end, Alex grabbed Grace instead of letting her leave. He also satirized that in a crisis marriage, when the two who once fell in love no longer love each other, the person who hurt him the most is actually each other.
In addition to this, the film also has some vague hints on issues such as mystery cults, class metaphors, and feminist consciousness, but it did not dig deep, so "Are you ready" only presents a highly completed cool piece.
Compared with "Escape from Dead End", the political metaphors and racial issues in the film are much more profound.
Finally, I gave "Are you ready" 7.2 points.
If you like a lot of violent plasma and the magical and weird cult setting, "Are you ready" can give you a lot of satisfaction as a cool film, and the film is also entertaining, not too serious Thriller horror movie.
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