The beginning of the story was unremarkable. A mental patient was put in a mental hospital. After the doctor visited, the plot gradually unfolded along with the patient's self-report.
The male protagonist is a private investigator who received an investigation into the disappearance of a well-known horror novelist. This novelist’s novel is said to have a magical power that can affect the mental state of readers. With the novel’s best-selling crime rate, the crime rate is also rising. At this time, the director successfully buried a suspense in the hearts of the audience. What kind of novel has the magical power?
Then the story progressed slowly, and the hero frequently had hallucinations when he saw several novelists' works. But at this time, he was still a rational and normal person, just a little frightened.
When he and the female writer arrived in the supposedly virtual town, everything that happened caused the male protagonist’s san value to gradually drop, stepping on the verge of madness, suicides in the bar and ghosts in the town hitting the wall. The encounters made the male protagonist doubt the boundaries of reality.
Then the male protagonist barely escaped from the town and caught the shuttle bus on the return journey. He was caught in a whirlpool of reality and illusion. At this time, he was unable to distinguish whether the novel is reality, or whether reality is the novel and he is the character in the novel. ? He was put in a mental hospital.
At this time the flashback ended, and the doctor asked him, what about those who don’t read novels? The male protagonist smiled secretly, and there are movies. At the end of the film, the hero walks out of the mental hospital, and the outside world is already in ruins and dilapidated. He wandered into a movie theater, and the movie that was playing turned out to be his experience! At this time, the hero laughed wildly, and the san value was completely zero.
From the beginning of the movie, it has always brought the audience a suspense. What kind of novel can affect people's mental state? If this book exists, I will definitely buy it. As the development of the film made my curiosity more and more high, speculations about this novel also continued to appear in my mind. The unusual sight of the small town in the film also planted the seeds of fear in the audience. Finally, until the end of the movie, when the male lead walked into the theater, he realized that he had finished watching this crazy story! I have to say that the setting at the end is really a touch of magic, and it has successfully reduced my san value. The name of the story is also worth pondering, in the mouth of madness. What the madman said, is it true or his imagination? This movie is a typical post-production, and I don’t feel scared after watching it.
The whole film can be said to have very few bloody ingredients, without the blood plasma and jumpy scare that are usually overwhelming in American horror films, but it is very abnormal, and it can bring a bit of coolness to the audience. I personally feel that the performance of this film is seriously underestimated. Every detail is shaped completely and perfectly. It definitely deserves a higher score than 7.7.
After watching the two Carpenter's works, I have completely fallen into a card-guided fan. The grotesque and the trembling black hole are completely different types of Cthulhu stories, but the directors have perfectly expressed the essence of Cthulhu. Talented.
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