I came back to make up for it after seeing the promotional video of unfriended2.
As a low-cost pseudo-documentary horror film, I think this film can be rated at least 7.5. The biggest advantage of Unfriended should be the strong sense of substitution, especially when you watch the movie on the computer, the familiar window interface seems to be the audience browsing the web, and when video chatting, it can be as if you are with other people in the movie. people on video.
At the beginning of the film, "I" was browsing a web video, and "I" clicked on a suicide video of a person named Laura Barnes. Please note that this Laura will become "our" nightmare.
It can be seen from the fragmented web page information at the beginning of the film that although Laura's death was suicide, it was not so simple, but probably involved cyber violence - another topic that has received much attention in the past few years. , Keyboard warriors should take a good look at this film.
Then, a video chat of a couple appeared on the screen (is the scale of couple chats so big?!) It can be seen from the chat interface that "I" is the girl in the couple. After a meal of flirting, the couple's online chat suddenly turned into a group chat (omg), which is obviously a small group. Then we will find something wrong: how can couple chat receive group chat invitations?
However, after a while of embarrassment, the big-hearted young man... chatted? ! It took them a long time to realize that their group chat group ran into a person they didn't know... and then in the process of constantly kicking people - leaving the group - entering the group, they gradually discovered something was wrong: This person follows them all the time like a ghost, and he can't get rid of them.
Who is this person? Is it a prank by someone in the group? Or were they hacked? But when the man uttered the name "Laura Barnes," the nightmare began, climaxing.
They guessed at each other from the beginning who was using Laura's story to make a prank - until the heroine found out that she couldn't report Laura's account problems, and couldn't get Laura off - the first deduction of "unfriended" - a Fear surged in his mind. At this point, I still think a hacker is quietly spying on them in the dark.
When the mysterious man reappears, they are asked to play a game together - the death version of Truth or Dare begins, and the dark side of human nature is revealed layer by layer:
Some people are smiling on the surface, but they are mmp in their hearts, and they have called their good friends countless times to Bitch; some people do bad things, but let their good friends hit the tank, and they almost get beaten to death by their father; some people green their own Boyfriend, some people green their good friends...
When replying to the mysterious person, the heroine has a small detail:
At first, she tried to justify that it wasn't them who ranted about Laura on the Internet; but after a moment of hesitation, she deleted the typed words, admitting that they did it, but they "just wanted to make a joke. ".
Everyone hurt Laura, they spoke ill of her behind her back, videotaped her embarrassment and posted it online, and maliciously slandered her on a trumpet: why don't you die.
And then Laura really died.
But when faced with questioning, they wanted to use a "joking" to cover up their mistakes. Everyone thinks that what they have done is not a big "bad thing", they all feel that although they "made a mistake", they are still "good people".
However, when faced with choices again and again, "good people" also revealed their selfish dark side:
Exchange one person for several lives, which one do you choose? The beloved boyfriend and the friend who has applauded (pa), which one do you choose? Beloved boyfriend and self, which one do you choose?
Perhaps at some point, there is a malice in people's hearts that wants to gushed out. This kind of malice makes people unable to help secretly rejoice when others are unfortunate, and even don't mind sneaking a foot in the chaos. Falling into trouble, I thought: So many people have scolded me, right?
Laura is actually brave, she has a response, she has a face: Look carefully at the number of comments on the video, and the tens of thousands of retweets and comments on a certain Weibo, the online violence Laura faces is not an order of magnitude at all. of. In addition to the malice from the Internet, the straw that overwhelms Laura may also be her desperation for humanity and friendship. We can piece together Laura's story from the fragments of words of this group of people:
She has an unfortunate family, perhaps because of this reason, her character is difficult to get along with others; she has a very good friend (the heroine), but the two are drifting apart; she wants to delete that shameful video, But people say "Why don't you die"...
In fact, the title of "unfriended" is a pun: it means that the heroine and they have taken down Laura's social account, and it also means that when these people make fun of Laura and hurt Laura, they have already No longer Laura's friend. But Laura is dead; I think the failure at the end of the film is that we find that "Laura" can only take revenge in the form of a "ghost"; and for someone who has already lost the reverence of ghosts and gods, this ending is not so good It's not shocking enough, but it seems to have a sense of powerlessness.
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