Always attracted by the truth

Erika 2022-01-02 08:01:48

Watched this movie on the recommendation of a friend. Because I knew it was adapted from real events, I watched it very carefully. Although the movie itself was shot in accordance with the usual routines of American movies: family conflicts, family relationships, sick children, strange rooms... But I still have to say that it is not bad. Mainly because I am attracted by the truth.
After watching the movie, I was not addicted to it, so I searched for the original documentary of Discovery Channel everywhere on the Internet. After downloading on eMule, there are no subtitles. Barely read the whole story. I personally think that documentaries are more terrifying than movies, because you can see the doubts and reluctant self-deception on the faces of the parties, and there is no arrangement for the director.
The character settings of the movie are exactly the same as those in the documentary. The plots of ghosts are basically the same. But the documentary didn't tell everyone what ghost it was and what he wanted to do. Everyone saw the "people" who were lingering, and finally invited the pastor to exorcise the demon. The boy's illness did improve in the documentary, but he also faced a mental breakdown in the end.
But in the movie, all these narratives are clearly organized, logically coherent, and climaxes are repeated. Especially in the last fire, more than a hundred corpses fell from the cracks in the wall, and I was stunned. The director's arrangement seemed so real.
I have always believed in the existence of mysterious substances in the world, so I am fascinated by this kind of horror movies. Get a kind of release pleasure in the fright.

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  • [reciting a poem]

    Matt Campbell: One bright day in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other. A deaf policeman heard the noise and came and killed those two dead boys.

  • [Matt and Wendy sitting at the table looking at things they found in the floorboards]

    Wendy: [looking at Matt] What?

    Matt Campbell: [looking at a picture of Jonah] Nothing.

    Wendy: Matt, come on, just give me a chance.

    Matt Campbell: [shows her the picture of Jonah] I've seen him.

    Wendy: Shut up.

    Matt Campbell: [puts away the picture of Jonah] Gave you a chance.

    Wendy: I'm sorry, okay? Just go on. Please.

    Matt Campbell: [shows Wendy the picture of Jonah again] I thought that I was hallucinating, but I have seen this kid, almost every day since we've been here. Okay, I wake up in the middle of the night, and it feels like he's been inside me, looking out through my eyes. One bright day in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight, okay, me and him, we're just two dead boys.

    Wendy: Maybe this place is haunted. Either way, I mean, we have to find out who put these things under the floorboards and why.

    Matt Campbell: Yeah, but how?

    Wendy: Okay, don't tell anyone, But there are these buildings all over the country where secret knowledge is kept.

    [Matt stares at Wendy]

    Wendy: Known only as libraries.

    [Both laughing]