Let’s talk about the movie "In the High Grass" today.
The title of the film is In the Tall Grass (2019), alias Gaocao Meisheng (Taiwan) / Grass Lost Soul.
This is a horror movie produced by Netflix, based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name.
The whole story is the same as the title, the whole story revolves around "grass". After reading the story, you can use "grass" to describe the story.
At the beginning of the story, a pair of brothers and sisters drove a long distance. When they passed a piece of tall grass, they heard a vague little boy's cry for help from the grass, so the brothers and sisters bravely rushed into the tall grass and prepared Rescue the little boy.
Unexpectedly, there is a mysterious force in the tall grass, and people who walk in can no longer get out.
The whole story is as simple as the one mentioned above, and can be summed up in one sentence. However, the author can expand such a simple story into a complete horror story, and bluff everyone at once. This is the skill of storytelling.
"In the High Grass" involves a lot of time loops. People in the past meet people in the future, and people from different periods of time meet in this grass. Everyone is embarrassed, and by the way, the audience is embarrassed.
To understand the ins and outs of the whole story, you can start with the setting of the movie.
The film unabashedly shows the supernatural power hidden in it. People in it will lose their sense of direction and can hear sounds from different time periods; the knotted grass in the grass can untie itself; the grass can guide the people in it to move forward, and everyone will eventually walk in front of the boulder ...
All phenomena show that this is a story based on supernatural forces. The supernatural means that it cannot be explained by a materialist point of view. If you have to use a materialist point of view to explain the power of the gods and ghosts, it would be boring.
There are very few characters in the film, only six people, and the relationship between the six people is simple and clear.
The setting is even simpler, and the main body is a piece of tall grass. Most of the film "In the High Grass" was shot in Canada, and the shooting location was near the bowling alley. The church in the film is a temporary set specially made for the film. The remaining high grass covers the sky and sun, saving time and effort.
The six people in the film belong to two families.
Look at Carl, Becky, and Chavez first.
The elder brother Carl drove his pregnant sister Becky on a long distance to a place willing to accept the baby.
Carl has a love beyond family to Becky. Because of his brother-sister relationship, he can only suppress his love with all-round protection. But his possessiveness and control desire for Becky are also evident at the same time.
Chavez is Becky's ex-boyfriend. He couldn't accept the news that his girlfriend was pregnant. After a few months, I finally figured it out, and started looking back to Becky for reconciliation.
Look at Tobin, Rose, and Natalie again.
Rose is the father, Natalie is the mother, and Tobin is their son. One of their dogs ran into the tall grass, Tobin ran into the grass to chase the dog, and the couple ran into the grass to find a child.
The three of the family were the ones who ran into the tall grass first, and the three Carl were the ones who entered the grass later.
But then the story development did not follow a linear time sequence, but was chaotic in the direction of time.
We don't need to use materialist viewpoints such as time cycle and multidimensional space to explain it at all. This is the mysterious force at work.
The boulder in the grass is said to be located in the most central center in the United States. It contains a mysterious power, at least three powers are shown in the film.
The first is to change the path of the surrounding tall grass and lure the lost person to walk in front of the boulder. This explains that a group of people walking around will eventually come to the boulder.
The second is to confuse people. Anyone who has touched a boulder can grasp the path of the tall grass, and at the same time become a slave to the boulder, attracting more people to the boulder. This explains the purpose of the boulder to lure everyone to come, it wants to infect and produce more slaves. Loyal servants will help Boulder achieve this goal. The boulder is more like a human nature amplifier. The cautious thoughts in ordinary people's hearts will be infinitely amplified, so those who are dissatisfied with life will become more cynical, and those who are full of love for their families will do their best to save others.
The third is to cause time confusion, allowing people of different time periods to meet at the same time, so people in the past will meet people in the future, and people in the future will also meet the corpses of people in the past. This explains the oddities that a group of people encountered in the tall grass.
The little tricks such as shielding cell phone signals will not be mentioned. Under the influence of ghosts and ghosts, fire attacks and mowing should be easily solved by the boulder.
The ability that Boulder does not master is the thing that cannot move death. Whether it is humans or cats or dogs, as long as they die, the tall grass will not move them. The tall grass can only induce living things, and cannot actively force others. This became a small key to breaking the problem.
The horror movies that are haunted by supernatural forces are naturally not compatible with suspense. Therefore, it is reasonable for the film to be labeled as "thriller", "horror" and "mysterious", and it is impossible to beat the "suspense" label.
It was originally a story of strange power and frightening people. The big guys can honestly accept the director's fright.
One idea, a piece of grass, and six actors can interpret a thrilling horror story that goes back and forth. This is the skill of screenwriters, directors and actors.
Stephen King is a master of horror fiction, and there are countless horror movies based on his novels.
As long as you read more of Stephen King's style works and understand the routines of Stephen King's works, you can understand his movies.
Watching his horror movies, audiences want to experience the sense of horror and powerlessness he created through the story described by Stephen King. Rather than insisting on rational thinking to forcibly explain a perceptual story. Going to watch a horror movie with a wrong direction of thinking will naturally not get an ideal viewing experience.
There was a touch of green on the top of his head, and he held a big grass.
This high grassland is really grassy.
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