Artificial doom-and on the national character of terror

Dave 2022-04-23 07:01:40

About a year ago, when I was disgusted by Wang Luffi, the pirate of Zhihu, I wanted to see if the original foreign source of Zhihu was also of this virtue. In quora, I turned to a topic with the highest approval rate: your most terrifying experience.

When I saw the picture of the god of death holding the scepter high, I burst into laughter.

This kind of non-native ghost is not a ghost, nor is it scary.

Just as foreigners can't understand painted skins and yakshas, ​​it's hard for me to feel that death and idiots are terrible. After all, in my childhood education, you didn't even make cameo appearances. Who are you?

The ignorant are fearless, don't know you, naturally don't know how powerful you are, and don't need to care about you too much.

Inherited bad luck, if it only depends on allergies, or the sleepwalking gene passed on from generation to generation, when life hits you hard, it happens to jump out and make a medicine to induce bad luck into a vicious circle or amplify it, and directly use fate I think it is more in line with the original intention of terror, after all, this is the fate that each of us cannot escape.

But the screenwriter or director finally points to cults or unnatural forces, which is laziness or speculation. The last horror may be very effective for Westerners, especially Americans, but it is worthless to Easterners, who do not understand, have no cultural background, and naturally cannot scare them.

The real horror is the variation of psychology and the absence of cognition.

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Extended Reading
  • Baylee 2022-03-18 09:01:04

    1. There is no dramatic plot, but a pompous layout that slowly pushes the horror atmosphere to the highest point; 2. The wife is hysterical and begging, and the husband is obsessed with watching the scene. This scene will never be forgotten; 3. The guillotine scenes are more shocking every time.

  • Kristy 2022-01-27 08:06:30

    ? ? ? Where are the good-looking points, the foreboding is dull and long, the climax is uninteresting, and the plot is not terrifying at all. So many praises really make people wonder if we are watching the same movie.

Hereditary quotes

  • Annie: I just need you to go and see upstairs. Please, Steve. And then... there's more.

    Steve: You mean, more than your mother's headless body? Of course there is.

  • Annie: My name is Annie. My mom died a week ago. So I'm just here for... trying it. I have a lot of resistance to things like this, but I came to these a couple of years ago. Well, I was forced to come and I guess it, um... I guess it helped. So, um... My mom was old, and she wasn't all together there at the end. And we were pretty much estranged before that, so it really wasn't a huge blow. But I did... love her. And she didn't have an easy life. She had DID which became extreme at the end. And dementia. And my father died when I was a baby from starvation, um... because he had psychotic depression and he starved himself, which I'm sure was just as pleasant as it sounds. And then there's my brother. My older brother had schizophrenia, and when he was 16, he hanged himself in my mother's bedroom and of course his suicide note blamed her, accusing her of putting people inside him. So... that was my mom's life... .And then she lived in our house at the end, before hospice. We weren't even talking before that. I mean, we were, and then we weren't. And then we were. She's completely manipulative. Until my husband finally enforced a no-contact rule. Which lasted until I got pregnant with my daughter. I didn't let her anywhere near me when I had my first, my son, which is why I gave her my daughter, who she immediately stabbed her hooks into. And I just... I felt guilty again. I felt guilty again. When she got sick, not that she was really even my mom at the end, and not that she would ever feel guilty about anything. And I just don't want to put any more stress on my family. I'm not even really sure if they could... could give me that support. And I just... I just feel like... I just sometimes feel like it's all ruined. And then I realize that I am to blame. Or not that I'm to blame, but I am blamed!..."