I don't know what happened to God

The most time-consuming activity in my life is watching movies—usually alone. But I don't mind watching it with others, and generally others don't mind watching it with me -- I'm the kind of person who is very devoted to watching movies~~~, and can almost reach the state of "entering meditation", the normal situation (the so-called "normal" That is, excluding some "masters"), there will be no situation where the plot cannot be understood or the details are negligent, so the companions can rest assured to go to the toilet or take a nap.

The only exception is horror movies - because I'm the kind of person who would laugh at The Bell. It's not intentional. Watching horror movies is a typical example of "frightening yourself". It is considered by psychology to be using "safe and dangerous experiences" to release negative emotions. According to this interpretation, I must have a lot of negative emotions. Need to be released because I like bungee jumping, roller coasters, traveling alone to unfamiliar places and sleeping on the street~~~

But horror movies (frowning), it's not that I don't like watching it, it's just that I'm scared too few times, and In order to scare people, horror films often use very scary music to mess in, or make very disgusting pictures, very cliche and very annoying, and it is funny when they are played more often - so the negative emotions can't be released and they are depressed.

REC is one of the very few horror films that scare me--to say the very few are actually just one movie "The Psycho" and one novel "Morgue Street" (Hannibal series because I'm a fan of the Doctor, and that's even more so) More "suppressed" than "scared", so it doesn't count) - this Spanish film was added last year. Maybe it was because of my mental state at the time that I actually screamed in the movie theater (so I definitely gave it five stars).

It's cool, but there are side effects - just like I had to open the door to shower for a while and just close the window when I entered the room - I struggled for a long time and didn't have the courage to watch the sequel to REC. In the end, I took two deep breaths and went, so I was wrong - I shouldn't have gone, I shouldn't have broken the impression of "scare", not only did I not scare me this time, but even the shadow of the previous work was wiped away .

I don't know why, but whenever there is something supernatural in the elements provided by horror films, I feel relieved all of a sudden, and certainly don't feel any fear. As long as things like "God", "Devil" and "Ghost" appear in a horror movie, it's like a logical loophole in a mystery movie. It will make me "wake up" from the movie immediately. It will not be affected, so you know very well that you are "watching a play", and of course the group of people who are acting seriously is very funny.

And I wasn't the only one laughing - at one point I almost had this dark humorous part of the movie on purpose, because the whole room was laughing. But obviously not... Maybe the French do not have such a serious religious complex, and as a Chinese, I have basically been in a state of non-belief for many years, so - just like I often feel that human beings always think that "ghosts" will harass themselves It's like a very boring self-centered fantasy (seriously, why do ghosts come to harass you, won't people find something more interesting to do?) - in the face of what possession, and like " Crawling around like "The Archmage" (perhaps a tribute to "The Archmage"), all the audiences here probably gave birth to a kind of "If there are devils in this world, I don't have the time to fly this kind of plane. , you are thinking too much."

If you insist on calling it a "virus" like the first one, with only a little bit of mystery (like the Virgin Mary that appeared at the end of the film), the rest is left to the audience to explain, which may come to my nerves. It would be more aggressive. However, this is just a difference in cultural background. The countries that are keen to shoot horror films - Japan, the United States and Thailand - have some religious plots, so the Spaniards may do this in line with the "mainstream" thinking, people with religious beliefs Maybe there are a lot of negative emotions that need to be released by watching the devil go about it? You see, in contrast, France can’t make any decent horror films, and their filmmakers don’t seem to be interested in this subject at all (forget about China, no matter what type of film, now only Chinese filmmakers can make The story is well-organized, clear and logical, and I have no other higher pursuits).

In terms of shooting method, this one continues the idea of ​​the previous one. In fact, the use of DV to shoot horror films is not the first of this film. At the earliest, everyone will recall "Blair the Witch" (saying that film also made me laugh), but DV is the only one. The "sense of presence" and the "professionalism" of the shooting are always unexpected. The most successful idea of ​​REC was in this place - a group of reporters entered the scene to shoot, and successfully solved this problem in one fell swoop. The locked space of "floor" has the dual characteristics of "secret room" and "maze". It is a good place to create a sense of "insecurity"-human beings, whether they have beliefs or not, are naturally afraid of the dark And "unknown", afraid of "isolation" and "being hunted" - so in the dark and secluded corridor, no one knows what is hidden behind every door, and the people in the building can't escape, and they have to. To any outside help, you can only watch your companions turn into beasts attacking you - this is the first place in REC that makes people terrified and scream with their legs tucked in in the cinema.
However, the "picture-in-picture" scenes and parallel story lines used by REC2 were creative, but they ruined the first idea of ​​such a good "professional DV filming", and the police and priests were "powerful" people. The first storyline unfolds with their POV and audience engagement naturally decreases. It's better to start with the second story line - the children's group - first enter, and after the two groups meet, there is no need to reopen the first story line, just continue serially, and the priest's identity is revealed at the end. On - the plot of taking blood samples should be preserved according to the "dualistic" worldview of this film, especially the one that catches fire, but this can also happen with the addition of the children's group. The script can be modified like this, so that The audience has always maintained the same POV as the child group, and kept the mystery of the "unknown horror creature" to the end in the dark, isolated, helpless and frightened, and the degree of fright and viewing may be higher. This should also be the basic composition of a horror film-with the weak as the protagonist, the audience will have a more sense of identity and participation. I don't know why the two directors ignored this this time.

Either one is good or not. It was indeed a little difficult to scare me for two years in a row. There may be a sequel to this film. DV shooting has become the style of this film and it is impossible to give up. How to find the combination of "sense of presence" (that is, the person involved is the photographer) and "professionalism", while the burden is already shaking Under the premise of finishing, let the audience return to the "darkness" and feel uneasy about the "unknown", and it is necessary to scrutinize the concept again. This one mainly fails in the narrative sequence.

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