Growing up, we have seen countless ghost story movies on the screen. Among them, there are not only the touching "Ghost Love", but also the sighing "A Chinese Ghost Story", as well as "Midnight Bell" and "Ledding", which are so frightening that people can't sleep. It can be said that with the development of film art to the present, films with the theme of "ghost" have basically formed several major routines, so even the "Conjuring 2", which was a hit last year, does not seem to make much sense.
However, a ghost story movie recently caught my eye, because it took a different path than previous movies with the same theme, not blindly scaring people, not telling love stories in ghostly clothes, but using A philosophical literary style tells us a "ghost story" that cannot be called a story, it is "Ghost Story".
In ordinary movies, there will be male and female protagonists, and the story will revolve around them, but in the movie "Ghost and Ghost", the setting of the male and female protagonists does not seem to be that important. Rooney Mara's heroine is basically offline halfway through the film, while Casey Affleck's male lead dies in a car accident ten minutes into the film. Some people will ask, if the male and female protagonists are no longer there, why are you still watching a ghost?
That's right, this movie is about a ghost, a "ghost" covered in white sheets.
The original title of the film is "A Ghost Story", which is simply translated as "a ghost story", and the content is also a down-to-earth "ghost story". After a simple explanation of more than ten minutes, the ghost appeared. He was the ghost of the male protagonist played by Casey Affleck. He appeared from the morgue covered with a white sheet and returned home silently. Silently guarding the lover whose yin and yang are separated forever, but time will not stop for him. He watched his lover suffer for losing him, watched his lover walk out of the shadows, watched his lover leave, watched a new family move in, time passed, This ghost even forgot the appearance of his lover, just for a little sadness, he continued to stay alone in this small place and let time travel.
It is not so much a movie that "Ghost Rebirth" is a long poem written by light and shadow. The long fixed shots, the scattered plot and the pitiful lines are enough to make the audience who just want to watch the movie to relieve their boredom, but if you can calm down and taste carefully, you can find that this movie is very beautiful, like A poem, like a song, looks at the passage of time and changes in the world.
The protagonist of this movie, "Ghost", has a particularly retro look, without all the fancy and scary dresses, only a white sheet covering the whole body, and two black holes in the eyes, this unimaginative shape makes people feel When I first saw him, I couldn't help laughing, but with the development of the plot, people couldn't laugh anymore. What we saw was an infatuated lonely soul, silently guarding by his lover's side. With the passage of time, the image of the lover has long been blurred. What keeps him alone here is a small note that the lover stuffed in the crack of the door, and even crossed the boundaries of time and space for this. to the past.
It can be said that this "ghost" is the warmest and warmest man in the world's film works this year. His dedication to love and obsession can move a large number of audiences to cry, and at the same time, he has raised the whole film to the height of philosophy. Can time overlap? Can people (ghosts) meet their past self? What makes you insist on a specific person or thing, or a vague image, an obsession in your heart? These are all involved in the film, but it doesn't give the answer, it just shows them and lets the audience think for themselves.
I will only mention a few here, the "ghost" of Casey Affleck and the "ghost" of the neighbor's house he saw by the window. The first time the two met, although the background music was the strange sound of the violin, the picture was a little cute. The two lonely ghosts covered in sheets looked at each other through the window, then raised their hands to greet each other, and even chatted a few words.
"Hello"
"Hello"
"I'm waiting for someone"
"Who?"
"I do not remember"
Afterwards, the ghost on the opposite side lowered his head, looking very discouraged, as if he was sad and remorseful for forgetting who he was waiting for. Then, after some time, when the house in this area was demolished, the two ghosts met again.
"I don't think they're coming back"
After saying this, the ghost on the opposite side collapsed, leaving only a shriveled sheet. I think for this ghost, although he has forgotten who he was waiting for, this house gave him the courage to remain persistent, making him feel that as long as the house is there, the person he was waiting for will come back. Now, those who are waiting may no longer find it here, so the obsession completely collapsed, and the soul was scattered.
This makes me very emotional. In fact, when I think about it, sometimes we are like this ghost in the house. This house can be anything that makes us stick to it. We are stubbornly here for the obsession in our hearts, but However, on the road of perseverance, the original heart is blurred, just like many people initially fought tenaciously for a clear goal, but when the time passed, they suddenly found that the goal they were sticking to and fighting for had long since passed. Not what I thought at first. The demolition of the house is like those bad or lucky turns in life, people suddenly wake up from their obsessions, and then, like the ghost that flew away in an instant, they either go to a new life or go to the end of their lives.
In my personal opinion, this is a god-level funeral film second only to "Manchester by the Sea" in recent years . Friends who want to watch horror movies and want to pass the boring time through movies should not watch it. If you like watching funeral movies Or if you are in a bad mood or can calm down, then I strongly recommend you to watch "Ghosts and Ghosts", you will see what the world looks like in the eyes of ghosts.
In addition, the song " I Get Overwhelmed " in the film is really good to hear!
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