The Horror Aesthetics of The Raven

I suspect that the director himself is a loyal fan of Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Edgar Allan Poe's literary ideas, death aesthetics and horror aesthetics are vividly displayed in this film, but for audiences who are not familiar with his works, I am afraid that the plot is not so Easy to understand. Poe died in Baltimore a week later in 1849, while engaged to his teenage lover, the now widowed Emira Royster Shelton. Based on this historical fact, the movie makes up a terrifying and bizarre story. Before Poe's death, Reynolds, who kept muttering in his mouth, was designed to be a murderer. During that week, no one knew what happened, fans and idols had a fight. A special conversation.
The fiction of the story cannot be said badly, and unfortunately, it is not satisfactory in the "fight of wits" link. The only thing that Poe excels is his familiarity with his own work. Although the general identity of the killer was finally identified through notes and newspaper leaks, Poe was wrong until Reynolds came forward. Probably out of love for Edgar Allan Poe and unwilling to let the murderer go unpunished, the director finally gave Reynolds a bullet through the hands of the detective, ending the mystery.
The style of the film is dark and depressing, and it is not very good-looking. The audience who go to "suspense reasoning" may be greatly disappointed.

As a Poe loyalist, I watched Super Chicken Jelly, which contains some of Poe's most famous stories: The Leaked Heart, A Barrel of White Wine, Ligeia, The Trap and the Pendulum, Murder in the Rue Morgue, The Mask of the Red Death The restoration and tribute fully show that the director and screenwriter have the same admiration and love for Poe as I do, but it may not be so interesting for people who are not his fans, and the storyline is a little rough—— Where did the murderer get such a room with a huge pendulum scythe? It's not something that ordinary people have, is it? How could they set up an agency to create a secret room murder in the mother and daughter's home? Stealing Emily at the masquerade was also very chaotic. How could so many people kidnap a living woman for him so easily? Even if I'm stunned with chloroform, it's too conspicuous to hold it out in front of everyone... Sweat... And it was originally my favorite scene in "The Mask of the Red Death", but I didn't grasp the essence of the original style at all. It can be handled very dramatic and climax. As a result, there is no Red Death in any room, and the person who rushed in on horseback was easily let go. Hey, is that an important witness that the police didn't interrogate well? ! There are also many problems with Emily's candidate. You also said that she was Poe's first love. She was not much younger than Po, who was 40 years old, and she was not the innocent girl in the movie... Anyway, I felt moved when I watched it, but the movie Focusing too much on style, but forgetting the basic story logic, as a "tampered history film" with consistent details, it is far from the "Anonymous" that pays homage to Shakespeare



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