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Humanity is always scarier than ghosts
Travon 2022-03-24 09:01:44
As someone who loves horror movies, I've always felt that horror movies can teach us more than those so-called "educational" movies. Like Marvel's Deadpool, DC's Constantine as an anti-superhero. A good horror movie is like an anti-educational movie, it doesn't tell you what's good, but completely shreds the surface that is covered by beauty, leaving only a dying line when you are shaking all over. Matches make you feel a touch of warmth. In the film, a profiteer at all costs for profit, a bitch who provokes others to ensure his own survival, a killer who first kills innocent people and then kills his target with the "reputation" of a Kensington sniper, a deserter who runs away after hitting someone while drunk and driving , and even the police who were caught in the midst of punishing the criminals who murdered their wives and daughters. I can't find a real protagonist in this film, everyone is a living story, and everyone can use a film to set them off. But the movie just brings together a group of people like them. Killers, targets, demons, profiteers, bitches, deserters stage a human slapstick in such an elevator. Although the film borrows ghosts and gods, I always think that all ghost and god horror movies use the mouths of ghosts and gods to expose the dark characteristics of human nature. Human nature is much scarier than ghosts and gods. In order to survive, the darkest side of everyone is shown to the world without reservation. The surveillance in the elevator is like the eyes of the audience, witnessing everyone's ugly faces. Even if it is warm, the ugliness that people have shown before is like the cold wind mixed with ice grains in the cold winter. A little warmth can not relieve the cold all over the body, on the contrary, it will make you feel the cold wind more biting. But also like tap water is not good, but compared with the smelly sewage in the toilet, everyone will think it is good to drink. Even a match that is about to go out is a little consolation for yourself in the cold winter.
Extended Reading
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[last lines]
Ramirez: [voiceover] After my mother would finish her story, she would always comfort us. "Don't worry," she'd say. "If the Devil is real, then God must be real, too."
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[first lines]
Ramirez: [voiceover] When I was a child, my mother would tell me a story about how the Devil roams the Earth. Sometimes, she said, he would take human form so he could punish the damned on Earth before claiming their souls. The ones he chose would be gathered together and tortured as he hid amongst them, pretending to be one of them. I always believed my mother was telling me an old wives' tale.