In the first part of the movie, the two girls finally arrived at one of the long-haired girl’s farms in the evening after a long drive. As it was late at night, after seeing the long-haired girl’s family in a hurry, everyone went to sleep, and the short-haired heroine also lay down. Started masturbating on the bed in the guest room. So far, the movie has spent a full 20 minutes, of which more than 10 minutes are describing the farm and villa, which is used to prepare for the next slaughter scene. For a 90-minute movie, if the entire story takes place on this farm, this 10 minutes is definitely not too much. However, the scene of the farm only occupies more than 30 minutes of the whole movie. It can be seen that the next slaughter scene has Quite ample emotional pavement atmosphere creation and suspense setting.
Sure enough, in the next 25 minutes, the director stretched his hand out of the screen and then strangled the audience’s throat, leaving the audience in a thrill of emotional tension and suffocation. This slaughter and the short-haired heroine The cat-and-mouse game may seem old-fashioned but it will always work. Later, the heroine was accidentally locked in the car of the butcher, and was driven away by the butcher with her good friend, and the second part ended again. If the second part has the 10-minute preparation of the first part, then when the second part is over, we can find that the massacre scene in the second part is actually another level of preparation, like a ladder, the first part paves the second part , And the second part is to pave the way for the constant climax afterwards.
After finishing the second part of the thrilling festival, the third part of the movie takes place at a highway service station. This part continued the cat-and-mouse game of the butcher and the heroine. At the beginning, a gas station attendant joined in. Unfortunately, this good guy was quickly beaten. A very interesting scene is that the heroine hides in the cubicle of the men’s bathroom, watching the slaughter pee and leave, sneaking out quietly, her expression is finally relieved, but at the same time she dare not take the panic. Checking compartment by compartment in case the butcher has not left yet, the more relaxed the expression on the face after every check. When she finally checked all the compartments, Chang Shu let out a smile on her face. According to common horror movie conventions, this is the best time for the bad guys to suddenly appear. However, the bad guys have not appeared in this scene for a long time. The heroine is not afraid, but the audience waited until the car started and dared to breathe. The director very cleverly played with the audience's "just in case" psychology of watching the movie more cautiously than the protagonist, creating a rather good sense of horror.
In the fourth part of the movie, the heroine was "free" at the beginning. She had been trapped in the house or car or in the men's bathroom before, but at this time she escaped the shadow of the slaughter and took more initiative. This part happened in the woods on the side of the road. Because the heroine failed to call the police, she drove to follow the slaughter to the depths of the dense forest in order to save her friend. There is a scene where the heroine is found and lost, but the old and dirty tin car driven by the butcher suddenly appears in the rear mirror. This scene is very much like an American road horror movie, the protagonist's car is chased by a huge and mysterious car. Later, after the car overturned, the heroine hid in an agricultural greenhouse built by a plastic shed, and the butcher also followed with a flashlight. This scene is also very interesting. The heroine made a self-made "mae" and took the initiative to walk towards the torch light of the butcher. However, when she approached, she discovered that the torch had always been hung in a place, the butcher. In fact, hiding in the dark and waiting for you, I have to say that it is a very clever plot setting. Later, when the heroine smashed the butcher's face with a mace, I finally felt the hearty venting pleasure in "There are Eyes in the Mountain" again.
The ending part of the film is the biggest turning point in the whole film, and it is also the part that caused great controversy in the film. The director prepared an ending that surprised everyone and was able to marvel at it, but gave up trying to justify the ending and make it convinced by the audience. In fact, after reading it for the first time, I also suspected that the director gave up the logic of the story in order to break through and gimmick, but after careful thinking, it was not that the director gave up the explanation, but that the ending does not need to be explained at all. The director is like expounding an experimental conceptual idea. As long as the idea can be understood by the audience, logic is no longer important. So what is this idea? 【【Notice! Spoiler start: In fact, it is not just the schizophrenia of the heroine, but the confrontation between good and evil in a person's heart. The director presents this confrontation process to us through images, and tries to make us believe that good and evil exist independently. However, the ending reveals to us that human nature can never be divided by good and evil. They often exist together, but sometimes, "Evil" unfortunately prevailed and even slaughtered "good". This method of expression is not the first creation of the director. The famous "Mentally Ill" also shows a person's schizophrenia through two distinct characters of good and evil. The difference is that in "Thriller", good and evil are confronted with the audience from beginning to end. This is like "Fatal ID", but it is not as complicated as the latter. Spoiler end]]
It seems that Alexandre Aja is keen to create this kind of desperate and depressive killing and then venting violence. This is probably why Hollywood will ask him to remake the same mode of "Beyond the Mountain". Except for the final 10 minutes, the whole 80 minutes of "Thriller" can be regarded as a pretty good killing thriller. Although the image setting of the old-fashioned image of a slaughterer, although the bloody scene is a little exaggerated, the thrill of watching the movie that is so tight and almost suffocating is absolutely thrilling. Although it can also be felt in similar works, there is no " "Thriller" came to the extreme. It is a pity that the overly gimmick ending dragged down the movie. Whether it was my kind interpretation or the superfluous interpretation that most viewers thought was superfluous, there were no logic and loopholes. If the bad reviews overwhelm the controversy in the end, "Thriller" would lose. .
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