In the early works directed by Pan Shen Maze and HELL BOY, it seems that this fat man began to sing the proletarian revolution with a supernatural skin as soon as he debuted. Even if it is a ghost film, I don’t forget to criticize feudal superstition. The most brilliant detail is the deformed baby used to soak medicinal liquor. The old military doctor who is not firm in the revolutionary position but still dialects materialistically tells the protagonist to believe in the children. Science should not be dictated by superstition. The deformity does not come from curses, but from war and poverty. The real devil is human greed, ignorance and fear. Ironically, these revolutionary children’s food coupons for three meals and underground party funding came from this bottle of medicinal liquor that fudged the villagers. Finally, the blood-stained old military doctor held a shotgun at the bright sunshine outside the window and waited for the arrival of the "real devil", reflecting on the fact that his revolutionary consciousness was not high at the time, and the whole movie was sublimated.
The scene is more primitive and Spanish than the later Pan Shen Maze. Although the various scary sections in the ghost film are really not new, according to the director's own statement, this should be a fable fairy tale. All kinds of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary characters are created. The three-dimensional is very, if it is not the final explosion, it is really impossible to distinguish the so-called good people from bad people. Each character is more bloody because of its own more or less human weakness. The biggest metaphor is undoubtedly the giant air raid dud, standing low and buzzing from the beginning to the end in the courtyard, watching the various consciousness and destruction of various human beings during the very revolutionary period.
Just like that silly revolutionary poem: some people are dead, he is still alive; some people are alive, he is dead.
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