Many people in the previous reviews have mentioned many features of this movie, and this is what makes this movie good. A tribute and satire to the assembly-line horror film, with elements of both horror and anti-horror films.
Horror films and anti-horror films, these are two different ideas, one is to tell the story positively, the other is to imply or satirize something negatively, and whether some specific plots are a horror film-style interpretation or an anti-horror film-style interpretation, would make the interpretation very different.
Two main issues are discussed. First, did the staff get the roles of the protagonists wrong? Second, what exactly is the Great Demon King of the Underground?
If you follow the explanation of horror movies. The first explanation, it can be said that the role is not wrong. It is outrageous for the staff to treat human life as a must. There have been soldiers who temporarily went to work and female staff members who talked to him. They all expressed their dissatisfaction with this phenomenon, but in the end they were more or less complicit. For example, a female staff member complained while making a bet, and while drinking a celebration wine, she said that others were celebrating, and she was just drinking, and the soldiers were also staring at the OOXX session. Therefore, in the face of such a bad human nature, the hero and heroine finally did not choose to sacrifice themselves and let the world be destroyed.
The second interpretation of horror films, it can be said that the staff got the characters wrong. The so-called fool is actually the wisest person, the person who plays the virgin is not really a virgin, the person who plays the athlete is actually a top student and so on. After a series of struggles to survive, the male and female survivors discovered the truth. After various clues, everyone found that the staff arranged the wrong order of sacrifice, so in the end, even shooting the male lead would not allow the sacrifice to be successfully completed. In this way, the male and female survivors are freed from the shackles of morality, and can only face the big devil devouring the world calmly.
Many explanations are mostly the first two. However, in view of the anti-horror idea of this film, the setting of the big devil behind these two explanations is a bit weak, that is to say, the big devil as the biggest villain does not specifically show his own horror attributes. Of course, first of all, I don't introduce why a thing is scary, just say it is scary, and then this method of making people think of it is always regarded as a Cthulhu element by some people. But this fast-food-style Cthulhu explanation is like adding a layer of packaging to food that tastes like it, and telling a moving story that can make some people feel tastier, but it doesn’t. Secondly, this kind of weak setting of the big devil will also make people feel that it is impossible to make up, bad film, incomplete structure and so on.
But if we treat The Devil as an anti-horror element, the movie might make more sense.
First of all, on the question of whether the character is wrong, the anti-horror film-style explanation is that the character is wrong, but because it is acting, the mistake is not important, it is equivalent to not being wrong. The female boss's sentence "We can only make do with the status quo" is the best evidence for this explanation. The staff doesn't care who the actor is originally, nor does the big devil, they only care about the face-to-face presentation and the streamlined horror film processing. This is something that is mentioned everywhere in the film. Why is the death-defying behavior of the protagonists in horror films so stupid? Rather than saying that this is a story full of coincidences or deliberate arrangements, it is better to say that this is a description of the entire horror film industry. One comment mentioned that the so-called virgin depends on fate in the end, which means that the virgin in different films may survive. , but the other characters almost all die in order.
So the staff are horror screenwriters who produce horror movies to feed the big devil to his needs. And what is this big devil? Of course there is only one conclusion: the audience.
If the plot does not follow the routine, the audience will be dissatisfied. Everyone likes to watch some specific routines and specific elements just like the state of the staff when they play the audience. If you don't follow this number, many people think that horror movies are not that taste. The so-called destruction of the world is nothing more than scolding from the audience.
The film never said what the big devil was called from the beginning to the end, the staff only called it "ancient one", which is the old one. Some people think about Cthulhu desperately when they see the old. But the old here is more likely to refer to the old routine, the old program. The best proof is that the monsters mentioned in the film are left by the "old one". If you interpret it in a horror movie style, there is a problem. Why did the old gods leave behind these strange monsters? Combining those monsters from the background of a specific horror film, we can conclude that the old god can only refer to the old horror film industry, especially the horror film audience as an audience.
So why does it end up with a hand and not something else? Because that's your hand. Ha ha.
The old man at the gas station in the film made me wonder, what exactly was he eating? I kept chewing in my mouth, and I could keep spitting out yellow things. . . If it is oranges, apricots, etc., there is no need to chew for so long.
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