"Death Paper" is similar to Cage's "8MM" in plot, but it feels more artistic from the structure to the photography, and the actors' excellent performance makes the film feel mysterious and unpredictable ("8MM" has a tight rhythm, commercialized). As a horror movie, the bloody feeling is not very strong. Its story describes the school classmates looking for a real person to shoot a death video (the process of dismembering a real person), and then a female college student intervenes in the incident to investigate the truth.
The camera is the only clue to the film, and it has appeared many times, both true and false, and false and true. From the initial discovery of anomalies in the contents of the videotape, to the suspicion of the companion (male classmate who is obsessed with metamorphosis), the truth is revealed step by step through the clues given by the camera. I like this movie a lot, although it does seem a little dragged right now.
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