As a horror film, it is really in place. It continues the usual reserved style of Japanese movies. The lines are few and euphemistic, and the scenes without dialogue contain a very high amount of information, which does not make people feel boring, and whether it is the atmosphere The foreshadowing, plot design, and cutscenes in transitions can give people a sense of psychological pressure, especially the bloody hand at the end that seems to come out through the screen and the sound of Keke in the ear, which makes people hold their breath. Waiting for the green eyes of Gamako that seemed to appear in the darkness.
However, those eyes did not appear after all, and what was swiped down was the list of credits at the end of the credits, as well as the ending credits song that sounded normal and even gentle. The ghosts are scary, the ghosts are pitiful, and the ghosts are hateful. Gaya lingers on that roof, Gaya's resentment lingers throughout Japan, and everyone has to experience the past of her being killed before dying. Like the little girl in the bell, Gaya wants to expand her hatred to the world.
After watching The Grudge and The Midnight Bell, I found that the horror film routine is nothing more than showing the omnipotence and maliciousness of ghosts, which is embodied in the killing of good people, bad people, one person, several people, and human technology. Useless. When I think about it this way, I think ghosts are quite dedicated. In order to make horror films successful, they must first scare people into a nervous breakdown before killing them. However, this is not so much a "ghost" derived from humans, it is better to say that a supernatural spirit has been given the name "ghost", because it is actually difficult for them to arouse human empathy. Both Gaya and Sadako have a tragic life, but when they see the death of the heroine and the phrase "What if I want to?", there should be few people who can continue to sympathize with them. Such sharp and cruel malice is aimed at the entire human community. In the face of such terror, we can see not only fear and collapse, but also the firm and brave hymn of human beings who are weak as fireflies but still exist.
By the way, the characters in horror films sometimes behave too bizarrely. To be interpreted as being brave and in conflict with the behavior of being frightened and forgetting to resist at all, can only be explained as curiosity to push forward the forced arrangement of the plot. Some play.
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