There is a horror movie that Xiaoying has been looking forward to for a long time.
Those who understand it, bluntly say that the excitement is to death, and they give it five stars.
Those who didn't understand, with a confused look, were all served by the stars.
There were even people who didn't even give one star, but gave a series of question marks vividly.
Oh! This damn polarization.
As a horror movie lover, I'm really curious.
No, as soon as it came out of cooked meat, Xiaoying couldn't wait to recommend it to everyone——
"The Bottom of the Silver Lake"
Director David Robert Mitchell .
I think everyone should be more familiar with his other work, "It's Behind" .
This absurd thriller has a very unethical setting--
After the girl had sex with her boyfriend, she was unfortunately infected with a strange curse.
She can only be healed by having a relationship with another person as soon as possible and passing it on.
It seems that this director seems to like to do things with young people.
Today's film is no exception.
Not only is it mixed with a lot of pornography and bloody scenes.
In terms of setting, plot, soundtrack, and elements, it is more fun than "It's Behind".
The protagonist of the film, Sam, is a diaosi otaku.
No money, no car, no house, and no serious job.
Sam enjoys voyeurism, and the room is full of Playboy adult magazines.
The daily routine is to hide on the balcony of the rental house and peep at the beautiful woman (or aunt) opposite.
Recently, a beautiful woman came in across the street.
A blond, blue-eyed, smiling, like a beauty out of a Hitchcock movie.
This beautiful neighbor named Sarah loves dogs and often walks her dog by the pool in a bikini.
And Sam, like a voyeur, watched her every move.
Finally, Sam approached the goddess through the dog.
The two were lying in bed chatting, drinking, and the atmosphere was ambiguous.
When they wanted to do something and took a step closer, three men and women dressed strangely appeared outside the room.
They are Sarah's friends.
The beautiful and ambiguous atmosphere came to an abrupt end, and the absent-minded Sarah drove Sam away.
In just a few minutes, the audience can feel the difference between Sarah's world and Sam's.
Sarah is a beauty with an empty soul, and there is a languidness about her that doesn't care about everything.
On the TV in the room, there was Marilyn Monroe's TV series "Wish to Marry a Golden Turtle-in-law", which also implied Sarah's yearning for money and fame.
And Sam is a lonely and mourning otaku.
Facing economic pressure, he can only find meaning between popular lyrics, treasure hunt decoding games, and adult magazines.
Is Sarah a fantasy from Sam?
do not know.
Anyway, when Sam went to find Sarah the next day, he found that the building was already empty.
In the whole house, only one photo and a mysterious symbol with unknown meaning were left.
Sam ran to ask the property why Sarah moved overnight.
The answer I got was, maybe people just don't want to see you poor diaosi at all.
In any case, the goddess who was about to get her hands suddenly disappeared, and Sam was extremely lost.
He took the only photo left by the goddess and started looking for her all over the city.
It's actually quite romantic to go back and forth to find the missing girl next door.
But in the process, Sam seems to be drawn into a mysterious and dark maelstrom.
And the center of the whirlpool is a news report——
The Los Angeles billionaire has mysteriously disappeared and was found burned to death in his car days later.
And there is a very strange detail.
Insiders found a hat from the scene, identical to the one on Sarah's head.
Is this all just a coincidence? Or was Sarah in the car at the time?
Her disappearance, like a thread, led Sam to search for more codes and clues.
In Sam's city roaming, he encountered all kinds of bizarre people and things.
For example, the appalling dog killer;
Arrogant and devilish composer;
Dark shadows keep appearing on the way home;
The perversion of eating human flesh;
The suicide of a manga fanatic, and the creepy owl kiss.
Owl Kiss, naked and wearing an owl mask, dedicated to killing people for fun.
The girls at the party screamed at Sam.
In the end, the shouting turned eerily into the barking of dogs.
Strange people and things, lively and intoxicated party revelry, mysterious secret codes that keep appearing.
The director expresses a morbidly distorted real society by adding horror elements with a strong personal style.
The bottom of the silver lake is a metaphor for "the abyss of money" .
Contemporaries have been living in a gigantic conspiracy, fooled to death by entertainment, and indulged in an ethereal electronic world.
Beautiful and sexy Sarah, her lifelong dream is to marry a rich man.
And the real rich are delusional to build their own kingdom of heaven on earth.
All this happened in Los Angeles.
Here, it is a world like a cemetery, and it is a dark version of an adult fairy tale.
Sexy and beautiful model, taking off her clothes and crying alone after returning home;
In order to survive, movie actors blatantly wait for advertisements to engage in the flesh business.
A billionaire goes missing while his daughter is having fun at a party.
Los Angeles is a place where it is easy to devour those young, restless bodies and souls who are eager to become famous.
Each of them is a puppet of materialistic desires.
With a bright, indifferent mask on the outside.
In fact, in private, like the smell of skunk coming from the nostrils, it exudes a stench.
The chaotic Los Angeles movie scene is in stark contrast to the clear Silver Lake Reservoir.
The whole story unfolds through the third perspective of Sam.
Weird people and things have a sense of absurdity, like a gorgeous psychedelic, the ultimate fantasy that escapes into nothingness.
Visually, the director combined retro and technology.
He makes the film always wrapped in the mysterious thriller under the style of Hitchcock, David Lynch and other suspense masters.
In particular, the transition between dreams and nighttime scenes makes people constantly hallucinate in reality, and the boundaries between reality and reality are blurred.
It is simply an explosive audio-visual feast.
In addition, there are a lot of movie fans in the film.
At the beginning of the film, Sam peeps at the beautiful neighbor's plot, which is a tribute to Hitchcock's film "Rear Window".
The walls of Sam's room are covered with posters of classic movie works.
Hitchcock's "Psycho", "Rear Window", as well as the horror movies "Two Silly Wars Dr. Incarnate", "Black Lake Monster Pool" and so on.
Sam's hands stick to the cartoons that he despises to the point of not being able to, and they also have their origins.
This comic is the "The Amazing Spider-Man" played by Andrew Garfield .
The scene of the beauty crawling out of the pool mimics the classic action of Marilyn Monroe in "Breakdown".
Overall, "The Bottom of the Silver Lake" is a very complete movie.
The moviegoing atmosphere and soundtrack are extremely retro, and the eroticism is not lost, always immersing people in a mysterious atmosphere.
The story begins with the disappearance of the female neighbor, and points step by step to the core of the true satire and criticism of the film——
Fear of a decadent life and a restless state of mind.
At the end of the story, is there an ending?
not at all.
The city's dark secrets may never be the answer, lying quietly at the bottom of Silver Lake.
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