The Unfriend series adds an inevitable form to the pseudo-documentary style.
That is, the computer desktop is used as the background of the lens, and the audience is like a hacker, watching the computer process of the hero and heroine throughout the process.
The audience watched the mouse move around on the screen, the windows kept switching, listening to songs, typing, and watching Moments, both familiar and real.
The movie uses video chat to promote the development of the plot, and the multi-person video just fits the effect of the movie cut shots, covering a wide range and multiple perspectives, while creating a sense of urgency.
There are quite a few pseudo-documentaries that use computer video as a narrative method, such as "The Nest", "The Mousetrap", "Terrorist Window", and this year's hit "On the Internet".
And "Unfriending" has achieved good results with its more unique multi-person video chat narrative method. Not only did it make a sequel, but it also made a special horror movie with a normal movie perspective based on the theme of the first movie.
The first part of "Unfriending" uses "Death is Coming" + "Truth or Dare" as a horror stunt, telling the blindness and stupidity of teenagers about friendship and love.
Friends died one by one in the online video, just because everyone has an unspeakable secret, and finally the truth is revealed, and all the horrors are "supernatural".
Although the horror is enjoyable, there is still a perfunctory suspicion of "irresponsible".
Therefore, the second part uses the hacker organization in the real "dark web" as the initiator of the horror plot, making the story more "real and credible".
When the computer is controlled, the mobile phone is monitored, and the surveillance is peeped, the hackers of the dark web are all-pervasive and mysterious, which is more terrifying than the "spiritual" in the first part.
The second part just borrowed the signboard of "Unfriending" to tell a more exciting story, and the technique was also more clever than the first one, and the storyline had nothing to do with the title of the movie "Unfriending".
The focus of the story has also changed from the original sin game of "don't tell a secret or die" to a team game in which a group of friends join forces to fight against murderous hackers.
The most exciting part of the first is that the heroine is forced to tell the secret of having an affair with a male classmate, which causes everyone to collapse and the story goes to extremes.
The highlight of the second part is that a group of people have to take advantage of the short-term disconnection of the hacker monitoring them for a few minutes to quickly discuss countermeasures. After the network is restored, they have to pretend that nothing happened. Of course, they pretended to be terrible.
As a result, the movie was reversed, and everything turned out to be traps and games.
At the end of this film, like another pseudo-documentary "Sit in the Prison", the theme that it wants to express is: the audience is the ultimate devil!
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