this film actually has a wonderful rejuvenation, bursting out with new flavors!
As a horror film, the elements it uses are not new,
but they are enough for the audience to get a breather from the old golden triangle of haunted houses, wraiths, and curses, and
more directly convey the image of "hell" through the process of searching down .
This reminds me of Event Horizon (1997, Taiwanese translation of "Tear the Horizon"),
one is in the distant space, the other
is in the catacombs under the city of Paris,
but both are trying to recreate the unknowable and terrifying appearance of hell.
As the opposite of the image of the kingdom of heaven,
hell for human beings, in
addition to reflecting the fear of the unknown after death,
is also a manifestation of human beings’ retribution for the world.
All sinners in the world should be punished in hell accordingly. ,
"As it is above, as it is below,"
Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Taoism, Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism,
almost all use different names, but unexpectedly similar images depict a space full of torture and suffering.
Westerners value "family", and
their horror films also reflect this value,
usually an ordinary family that is constantly harassed by "foreign" undead
because of picking up cursed things and staying in evil places
, the
protagonists face,
is how to eliminate such intrusion, to defend the family and family.
Hostility comes from the outside, and the "family" is like a lone boat in a disaster. Once
these threats are eliminated, the original family happiness can be restored.
For such a value output,
although it is not disgusting to do evil, it is also slightly aesthetically fatigued.
On the other hand, like Event Horizon, or As Above, So Below,
the characters in it come into contact with the embodiment of "hell" through different forms,
but they are not confronted with external ghosts and ghosts, but
more like facing the inner "heart". magic".
This constitutes their uniqueness.
As far as hell is concerned, the protagonists are the intruders, the idiots who
ignore the dangers of unknowable power and do it knowingly.
Interestingly, Event Horizon, As Above, So Below,
the protagonists of the two films all went through a period of "warning" before entering "hell".
Event Horizon is a green shadow belt that leaves a shadow of childhood for all generations.
As Above, So Below is the inscription "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." on the gate of hell, which also shows the
horror and doom of these two pieces
. Just do
it in the dead, and
give it a warning and ask for it, and you can't blame anyone for what happened later.
But it's equally unreasonable
that these strange things that happen in hell are
just reflections of what the protagonist does,
"Karma", a cause and a result, hell does not impose punishment for no reason,
but punishes what people dare not face. , dig deep sins one by one.
The paradox is that no matter how terrifying it is from outside, there is always the possibility of being repelled,
which is why those ghost harassment horror movies always end up being warm and disgusting.
But from the inside, the past mistakes, the people who owe it, and the things we avoided
are all irreversible, and the boat is done.
For the irreversible things, we choose to forget, choose to escape,
close and pretend not to see, but hell does not Evil,
it just asks people to open their eyes again, it
seems simple, but it is extremely cruel.
The female team members of Event Horizon saw their son's vision, the doctor saw the whole tank of blood from his wife's cut wrist, and in
As Above, So Below, they saw the drowning and the burnt that could not be rescued.
After collapse, followed by death,
none of them were able to hunt down through guilt.
"It is unreasonable to re-occupy the things that you have ruthlessly abandoned." It
is written in Dante's Divine Comedy.
The cruelty of these hell movies is that very few characters have completed their self-redemption
.
Compared with the external supernatural beings, people have less courage to face themselves.
They seek their own death and let the judgment come early,
but ironically discover that the torture in hell and the whip are actually their own hands.
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