The novel describes a murderer who is fond of Edgar Allan Poe's novels, and uses his novel plot to launch a contest of wisdom with him. In order to reproduce Edgar Allan Poe's literary style, the director set the film style as a dark "Gothic" style, and the whole film is full of gloomy and depressing atmosphere.
McTeague should be regarded as a director who is good at horror and suspense movies. From the scene scheduling and rhythm control, the director's talent in this area can be seen. However, I don't know if it was because of my love for this great writer, or if I didn't prepare enough when I conceived the plot. "The Crow" has never shown the quality it should have, making the audience feel bored and boring.
The film unfolds the plot through the trajectory of Edgar Allan Poe's down-and-out life and the two parallel clues of the crime, trying to use blood to create horror, darkness to create strangeness, and time to create suspense, and to turn Edgar Allan Poe's deadly lust into love. rather than the anger and disappointment with society at the time. Among them, a large number of death forms designed by Edgar Allan Poe in his works are interspersed, providing him with clues to detect.
While such a plot would be fun, it's also childish, like when pop song cassettes were in vogue in the 90s, when young fans scrambled to make solitaires with the titles of their idol's songs, adding a single phrase in the middle of each title to strengthen the connection logic.
Death is linked in The Raven, and the only added word is the unforgettable life of Edgar Allan Poe. Because of such a series of connections, this film, which has been characterized as suspenseful and thrilling, failed to be rigorous in logic, and failed to be scary in terms of horror. The audience can only see the bewildered and overwhelmed police officers, middle-aged uncles who are being played around in circles, and corpses with no horror but disgusting after one death case after another.
Despite this, the director's enthusiasm for the film can still be vaguely felt by the audience, especially at certain times, the director will express his understanding and sympathy for the idol through the role. It's a pity that the rich emotions were not used in the right place, and "The Crow" failed to climb the seat of a good movie with the support of the great man.
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