blockbuster) produced by Lionsgate. Director Drew Goddard was born in 1975 and was little known at the time. After watching this old
Bluray film the day before yesterday, I found it to be a valuable and innovative horror film. The audience can think of it as a
B-grade horror film, because the film inevitably includes flying blood, youthful ketones, and zombie monsters. However, the film goes beyond the conservative meaning of ordinary horror films, and considers the horror and sadness
of everyone being manipulated by social institutions all the time and becoming someone else 's puppet.
Just like the slogan "You think you know the story" in the movie poster, in fact, the
movie tells us, you will never know the whole story, because everything you do may be just
a move on someone else's chessboard, social network A programmed action in the system. The film also explores the possibility of free will in a post-
industrial society. Personal Rating 9/10
A conservative and rebellious horror film
The Cabin in the Woods consists of two narrative lines. Article 1: Five young men and women went to a hut in the woods for vacation accommodation. In the hut
, they found pictures of ancient Aztec blood sacrifices, objects, horror diaries written in Latin, etc., which awakened the sleeping
zombie demon. This group of zombies hunts down young men and women, killing them brutally one by one. Many horror films just stay on this
line (although there are many variants, such as replacing the cottage in the woods with ordinary houses in the suburbs, zombies with demons, young
men and women with children, etc.), such horror films can only be Three or four points, because it follows exactly
the conventions found in genre films. This first narrative line of "The Cabin in the Woods" can be said to be modelly followed, even magnified to highlight convention. Fives
The young men and women include a blond woman with big breasts and no brains, a fit and no-brain sports man, an honest and innocent man, a crazy nerd
otaku, and a kind, brave and innocent woman. Those who are familiar with the conventions of horror films know that it is often the blond woman and the
bodybuilder , and it is often the two who are killed in bed or in the shower, in a tragic state of death. This is often the narrative needs of conservative
horror films in order to conform to mainstream ideology, because lechers should be severely punished, and lewds will not be rewarded.
Next, nerds often don't stay, innocent men often sacrifice for innocent women, and the final girl who is left to single out the boss is
the final girl. This innocent woman has an important characteristic, that is virgin. Judging from this convention
followed , the ascetic spirit of American Protestant ethics is deeply rooted.
Cabin in the Woods amplifies the "conventional" element of the first narrative line for its second narrative line: an underground world beneath the horror
hut , a modern enterprise outfitted with high technology. The purpose is to let the men and women on the ground complete
the plot required by the "conventional", and use their real blood to complete the blood sacrifice ceremony, so as to make a shocking reality show and sell it
. The poor young men and women on the ground don't know it, and they are like puppets at the mercy of the surveillance of the underground enterprises to complete the preset script
. What if there is a deviation? It doesn't matter, the underground has to be corrected by high-tech means. For example, the blonde and the bodybuilder don't want to
have sex, so put in more aphrodisiac smoke, let the zombie attack complete the script, etc. The underground world in the film is indifferent and
cruel . The personnel in various departments don't care about the life and death of young men and women at all
. It can be seen that the film has an ironic and critical attitude towards
the . Due to the setting of this narrative line, the film has stepped out of a conservative form. it questioned a
The existence of hidden, monitoring and violent institutions is all around us, but everyone is unaware of it.
The meaning of the second sacrifice is
even better. The above world finally discovered the conspiracy of the underground world, and the nerd and the innocent woman broke into the underground hand in hand.
The social In order to escape the pursuit of violent underground agencies (police, army)
, the two accidentally released all the demons and monsters imprisoned in the underground world. All the famous characters in Eastern and Western horror films have
gone out, zombies, raptors, vampire bats, skeletons slowly turning around in Psycho, even
the female ghosts in "Midnight" and the little girls in "The Grudge". debut. What a world upside down, blood and flesh flying! As a result,
technicians, violent executives, scientists, businessmen, and CEOs in modern enterprises (states) all died cleanly
. In the end, only nerds and innocent girls escaped into the secret room. They saw the life script they had set, and at this time, a
woman who looked like a ruler came out and began to lead education.
Kill the nerd within a few minutes
can avoid death because she is a virgin. The innocent girl remembered the benefits of being a nerd to her, and while hesitating, a monster sneaked in and hacked to death
the female ruler, and the nerd beat the monster to death. In the end, there were only two people left, and the nerd said with his eyes: Sacrifice me.
The French scholar Girard once said that sacrifice is a necessary form of social stability. Because human nature is violent, suppressing violence with
violence will only produce "mimetic desire", which is endless. For a harmonious society, a
scapegoat to stop the spread of violence. I originally thought that the director would choose to sacrifice the nerd to restore normal social
operation , but the director's rebellion was quite thorough.
Enter, game over, movie over.
After all, sacrifice is just one form of anti-humanity that society demands. In the final ashes, I saw the
director's passion for rebelling against society, the brilliance of human nature, and the extraordinaryness of this film.
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