"Memoirs of Ghost Trick" is not an independent horror movie, but belongs to the first season of the American drama "Master of Horror". Memoirs of Ghost Trick is the last episode. Speaking of Master of Horror, this TV series brings together the best filmmakers in the world. The thirteen directors of horror movies, this number is also very interesting. Thirteen is precisely the number that is most taboo in the Western world. The TV series has a total of thirteen episodes, which shows the good intentions of the producers. The most attractive of the horror masters The place is not that the director has a big name, but that the TV series has gathered the most exquisite ideas of the world's most powerful horror masters to a large extent. Just like the evaluation on Baidu Encyclopedia, the horror master is definitely a feast for horror fans all over the world.
When you see the name Memoirs of a Ghost Trick, the first thing that comes to your mind is the film Memoirs of a Geisha starring Zhang Ziyi. The Chinese names are very similar, and they all come from American producers, but the former is a thriller and the latter is a pure literary plot. The former director is Japanese, and the latter is also directed by an American. Speaking of Takashi Miike, the director of the memoirs of ghost tricks, I believe that "Ghost Calling" shot by Takashi Miike has left a lot of impact on the global audience, especially For audiences in Southeast Asia, in fact, the horror movies directed by Miike Takashi do not completely follow the characteristics of most Japanese horror movies. Compared with creating depressing psychological hints, his way of expressing horror is more intuitive, similar to the way of Western horror movies. However, it retains a certain degree of psychological hints and atypical exposure of the dark side of human nature, creating a deep feeling for the audience that is inexplicable but cannot be repeated repeatedly. The ultimate purpose of horror movies is to bring the audience away. However, some directors use terror as an opportunity to dig out the backside of terror and raise terror into a kind of humanistic art. Takashi Miike is even a horror artist, and we can see from the memoirs of ghost tricks. What the audience really conveys, his good intentions can be said to be a kind of professional ethics, or it can be said to be a kind of eccentric thinking behavior. The real horror actually comes from the dark side of the human heart. There are no ghosts in the world, and ghosts are born from the heart; This is also the end of the ghost trick memoirs, why the reporter killed his beloved woman Xiao Tao, and the ghost prostitute is basically the reason for the illusion. Miike Takashi almost brought the traditional oriental concept of ghosts born from the heart to the extreme, and had to arouse the audience's excitement. Deep thinking, actually I didn't realize this before writing this review. After groping through the way of writing, I suddenly realized that the definition of this movie is not completely simple. To say that it is a horror movie is more like an ethics movie. I am really horrified. Yu Miike's alternative talent.
Memoirs of Ghost Tricks is only an hour long like other episodes in Master of Horror, but he should be the episode with the richest and most emotional content. When it comes to feelings, I want to start with a very vivid word, that is color , he should be regarded as the most vivid and rich episode of horror masters. It is common sense that the tones of horror movies are mainly dark, but ghost prostitutes do the opposite, burying the grotesque elements in the development of his stories. Foreshadowing, I can probably understand the director's intentions, but what I can't accept the most is the color of the prostitutes' hair. There is a funny feeling, I don't know if it is to meet the needs of Western audiences, Miike Takashi in the movie There are a lot of disgusting and bloody episodes, such as Xiao Tao was framed for stealing the ring, and the proprietress tortured her. Because Xiao Tao is beautiful, Mom Sang did not allow women to hurt her face, so the women almost tried their best. Excavating the torture that can torture Xiao Tao without hurting her face, although I dare not watch it a few times and press the black screen to activate the mute, but I still understand that the woman first uses incense to burn Xiao Tao's two underarms, and then The sticks were inserted into Xiao Tao's nails one by one. It is estimated that the viewers who saw this episode had their own nails starting to hurt. Finally, the woman inserted the sticks into Xiao Tao's lips, and Xiao Tao's lips turned outwards. Such a beautiful girl has been artificially tortured beyond recognition. This strong contrast between beauty and ugliness makes people feel extremely uncomfortable. Those who have seen ghost prostitutes are all impressed by the grotesque plot. The most impressive thing is that ghosts The elder with the scalp pierced on the head of the prostitute has a bloody palm with a ferocious face. That palm is actually the sister parasitic on the ghost prostitute. This sister does not simply exist as a prop to intimidate the audience, it has a deep metaphor , In the plot, Xiao Tao did not steal the ring. The ghost prostitute really stole the ring, but the ghost prostitute did it unintentionally. The ghost prostitute told the reporter that she was coerced by her sister. The sister liked the ring, but it was her own act to kill Xiao Tao. The ghost prostitute is supposed to be kind. From the first memory she made up, it can be seen that although she is ugly on the outside, she is kind in the heart. The ghost prostitute and her sister remind me of some social reality. For example, a poor and miserable girl came to the world of flowers, but because she couldn't stop the drunken fans in the world of flowers, she committed sins derived from self-interest. The memoirs of ghost tricks all reveal the source of people's transformation from good to bad. That is selfishness. The little sister parasitizing on the ghost prostitute actually represents the dark side of human nature. The reporter saw the ten-year-old sister who was raped and killed by the ghost prostitute. The appearance of this plot is not abrupt. A person with a dark heart will sensitively capture the object's yin
There is no doubt about the coexistence of good and evil. The play also shows the audience that when good and evil are in harmony, the ghost prostitute and her sister are humming songs on the riverbank, the lake is sparkling, and the ghost prostitute looks unusual when she is a child Cute, and her sister is also hidden in her hair, they are like a person, the reason why a person is controlled by his own evil side may be due to various factors such as his darker than beautiful upbringing environment. Therefore, the film shows two memories of ghost prostitutes. The first one assumes that he lives in a poor but beautiful environment, and the other is his real misfortune. His parents were brothers and sisters, and they were molested by monks in the temple.
I have seen many horror movies, but this one alone made me depressed for a long time, and this one alone brought me so much thinking about human nature.
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