How can you miss The Exorcist when watching a horror movie? The film, released in the 1970s, is the granddaddy of Hollywood horror films. It is said that when it was released that year, while the movie was being shown, the theater also needed to be equipped with medical staff to treat the audience who might faint at any time because of the shock of watching the movie. As a result, the film was banned in many places. Although it is not the same, but the horror level can be seen.
Furthermore, according to legend, the film is adapted from real events, adding a bit of mystery and mystery.
To tell the truth, as a staunch atheist, I watched the movie with the curious mind of seeing how others describe ghosts (or how ghosts are presented). After all, no one has ever seen a ghost, and the construction and dressing of ghosts are equivalent to human imagination of aliens. The best imagination and sophistication to create a new species.
What are the ghosts in The Exorcist? Well, not ghosts, they call them "evil spirits" or "devils". Simply put, it's a ghost story. It is not uncommon for ghosts to be on the body. Although there are differences in regions and skin colors between the East and the West, the tricks of ghosts are generally the same. They attach to people and manipulate their bodies.
All ghosts and gods are nothingness, that is, formless. It can be in any form. When evil spirits are attached to people and torture them into a formless human form, such as rotting flesh, self-mutilation, green paste at the mouth, tongue sticking out, harming innocents, etc. Seeing is the devil.
Narratively, the film is not in a hurry to pre-empt the thriller output. Instead, it is laid out casually, and the impatient audience may find it lukewarm and tedious, and the expected shock is long overdue. However, as far as the genre of horror movies is concerned, when "high-energy" is in the future, every next step may become a fright in the next second, but it is like walking in a minefield. , not bursting is also a lucky person and auspiciousness. It's about a kind of pleasure that borders on masochism. Isn't it fun to watch movies?
The film makes people emotional, and the angry part is that the host the evil spirit is looking for is actually such an innocent little girl. Such a cute and well-behaved Regan, whose body was controlled by an evil spirit, turned into a rotting ghost. It was a transformation from an angel to a devil. In a huge contrast, what people experience is the sadness and anger of the beauty being destroyed. And then I can empathize with the star mother's despair and helplessness.
People can't help but ask, why was she the one chosen? In the film, the two priests also discuss during the exorcism ceremony. The answer given by Father Maureen is to the effect that the devil wants us to despair, making us think that we are ugly as beasts and will never be loved by God. It can be seen from this that the more beautiful a person is, the easier it is to be chosen by evil spirits, and the greater the chance of being caught by a ghost. And ugliness is not for nothing.
"The Exorcist" is a classic in the early Hollywood horror films, and it has bold attempts in techniques. For example, the head is rotated 180 degrees, and there is a GIF image widely circulated on the Internet from here. And the only thing that scared me was the scene where I was on all fours upside down and quickly descending the stairs, which made me shudder. In terms of characteristics, the horror scene does not come suddenly. The screen first gives the panic reaction of the person involved, so that the audience can be psychologically prepared, and then the horror scene will jump out, and the degree of horror does not feel detracted. A hardcore horror movie. In short, there are many horror forms that have been imitated by latecomers.
Under the premise of the existence of ghosts and spirits, modern medicine and psychology are naturally helpless to the upper body of evil spirits. The film viciously satirizes modern medicine. The audience can also appreciate how stubborn and narrow-minded people are when they are in front of the unknown, and the clumsy side is magnified at a certain moment.
After stomping on modern medicine, the theme of the film finally falls on religious beliefs. There is only God who can save people. Compared with Taoist practices, the exorcism ceremony is not unremarkable in terms of ostentation. It is nothing more than chanting scriptures and sprinkling holy water. On the line of Father Callas, which was rebuilt from the ground up, Father Callas was not blackened by the evil spirit because of his guilt towards his mother, but only mediocrely shot at the last minute, with obviously insufficient explosiveness. There could have been some ups and downs.
The exorcist has to pay a heavy price. In the prelude, Father Maureen's dead body, which looks like he will fall down at any time, is a foreshadowing. In the final chapter, the two priests inevitably pay the price of their lives for the exorcism. The only consolation is that the power of Jesus Christ is stretched out in the world, and people do not despair.
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