As the saying goes, it’s not wrong to catch up with the trend, but it’s hard to catch up. At the time when pseudo-documentary films are popular, filmmakers regard “pseudo-recording” as a means to show the style of the film, and as a life-saving straw to save mediocre stories. There are good ones, such as "The Clover Archives" and "The Ninth District" and the earlier "Blair Witch", which played a false record. At first, the rush was pretty good, but at the end maybe it was because the rush was too self-righteous, and the result was "the cart before the horse". "Death Video 2", there is also a very low-level "Smart Ghost Record" that is not falsely recorded at all.
The "Fourth Type of Contact", which also caught up with the trend of pseudo-recording, is a good representative of the catch, and those who catch up well have technology. Pseudo-recording in this film is no longer the sugar coating of superficial stories and themes. You can't even see that it is a means to highlight the style of the film. Almost like "District Nine", the method of pseudo-recording is perfectly integrated with the story of the film. It is not abrupt or exaggerated. Therefore, pseudo-recording has become an important method that can serve the film’s horror atmosphere and main story well. No longer just stay in form.
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Many films adapted from real events hope to enhance the authenticity of the film story through the hints of the word "real event". The story is a hypocritical adaptation, and a little bit of wishful thinking by the directors of the real event The cognition is mixed in the film story.
The film, which is also adapted from real events, has a refreshing beginning, which permeates the horror atmosphere of the film story in the first ten minutes of the film. The actor who plays the protagonist of a real event stated at the beginning of the film that he is an actor who will play a female psychologist who has experienced a mysterious thriller in the film, and finally threw to the audience the sentence "The story of this film will make you feel scared, but These events are real, believe it or not." This beginning is truly amazing. I want to watch so many horror movies. This is the first time such an actor jumped out and said who he will play at the beginning.
This beginning not only opened up a good horror atmosphere for the film, but also threw a big burden of hanging appetite (the audience will think, the real incident? How terrible is it?), the most important thing is this beginning Cleverly "deceived" the audience into believing the authenticity of the story, effectively using the method of false recording. Terrible events have really happened, and the audience will experience those terrible and mysterious events with the actors who play female psychologists! The best pseudo-documentary is to successfully fool the audience on the basis of half-truths. Believe it or not, you have to believe it!
The film director cleverly prepared some original materials that were indistinguishable from the authenticity and were combined with real materials, such as the video of diagnosing patients taken by a female psychologist who experienced the horrible and mysterious events, and some terrifying strange sounds. And recorded the tapes of the terrible events, and through the main line of the video of the heroine of the real event participating in a talk show with a psychologist, it brought out the complete story. The narration of the real hero and the performance of the actor overlapped in the film. Together, it creates a real horror atmosphere built between reality and reality. Accurate and superb editing technology is an important guarantee for the level of false recording of the film.
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In fact, the format of the film is not new. If you like to watch Discovery channels like Discovery, you will see many programs that tell mysterious events, all in such a way of combining reality and fiction. One is that it can increase the visibility of the program, and the other is that the audience prefers to watch a half-truth and half-false story full of suspense over the interview and academic commentary from beginning to end. The story of the film is also about to be forgotten by us. It is also the theme of "alien and mysterious events" that was played too much by various science fiction films and horror films of the last century. According to the current trend of alien-themed movies, aliens have changed from strong to weak being bullied by humans. This film, which goes against the trend of the times, once again puts aliens in the position of bullying humans. Therefore, the theme elements of the film’s story are very retro, making the audience seem to have gone back to the end of the 1990s, once again fascinated by the plausible atmosphere created by those classic alien-themed movies, and once again indulged in the appearance of the news in the newspapers. Those half-truth pictures of UFOs and aliens.
Therefore, when alien science fiction subjects meet horror movies, the chemical reaction between the two can be imagined. One is the fear that powerful unknown creatures bring to humans, and the other is that the mysticism brought by alien themes will add to the suspense of horror movies. Nowadays, when horror movies are ruled by a large number of inexplicable religious mysticism, ghosts and snakes, as well as inexhaustible blood plasma and zombies that can never hang up, the film naturally stands out with a retro story theme and brings it to the majority of horror movies. Enchanted with a totally different atmosphere of horror, very nostalgic, so very novel and unique.
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Regardless of the theme of alien mysticism, what is needed as a horror film, yes, of course, it is a story that is scary enough to make the audience feel scared. What is the real fear, I think it will probably not be plasma flying around, nor will it be zombie devil jumping all over the screen, nor all kinds of alien soft creatures disgusting to disgust, these are another kind of horror movie fans" Excited" horror film. This film is a kind of film that makes you really feel scared psychologically, so I should thank God that this film does not have a lot of money to do CG, do a few alien creatures of the opposite sex to disgust the audience, and there is no more gods and gods. thing. The big taboo of horror films, in my opinion, is that all kinds of concrete elements of horror are all inexplicably simmered together in a pot of porridge, plus a self-justified or inferior sequel that we can't finish this time. The story, the pot of stew is not terrible, it can only be a tasteless piece of cups.
The real fear comes from the human heart, from the instinctive fear of the unknown and the dark enclosed environment. Still the same sentence, the terrible things that can be heard and felt, but can never be seen, can make people feel scared. The director of this film is well aware of the importance of this principle. In this film, we heard the terrible and strange sound from the tape, and also saw the vagueness of the original video tape material but through the observer’s The screaming sound is enough to make people stand upright, even through the haggard and scrawny heroine in the real talk show, the horror atmosphere spreads naturally, not through the concrete horror image. What comes out comes from the shock of the soul caused by the terrible phenomenon that goes against all our normal cognition of the world and completely violates the common sense of physics and nature in the film story. The film also uses a large number of close-up shots of important props and details to add to the film's suspense and horror atmosphere. An ordinary tape recorder, a warm big bed, the time displayed on the digital watch, nail scratches on the floor, a half-opened door... can all bring a strong sense of fear to the audience.
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As early as the last century, Shamarangi, who has been fascinated by Hollywood horror films for several years, is a master of psychological thriller horror films, and for the first time created a character with a psychological state of "I am not me". This film and his "Crop Circle" are quite similar in themes and horror atmosphere, but personally think that this film has better control of the story's suspense and thriller than "Mai", and the mental state of "I am not me" In this film, it also shows a kind of extreme. After a psychiatrist was killed by her husband and experienced a series of terrifying and mysterious events, she was completely reduced to a lunatic in the eyes of others. No one believes what she said, what she saw and experienced, everything related to aliens kidnapping humans to spaceships for experiments in the middle of the night. Everyone shot and killed people who were missing during this period, people who committed suicide, and somehow. The family's case was treated as a coincidence, and the female psychologist was even blamed for the mental patient's madness and death. Until she also encountered the "fourth type of contact", until her daughter was abducted by aliens and has not been found, until she became the scrawny and haggard woman in the talk show, and most people outside did not believe it. Her remarks. Therefore, we can see that the film director’s position is biased and sympathetic to this female doctor. A large amount of real video data and post-fictional video data have pointed out that there is such a thing as the "fourth type of contact".
Still the same sentence, believe it or not, as a bystander, you can think that there is indeed a "fourth type of contact" in this world that extraterrestrial creatures kidnap humans for experimentation and finally delete that memory, you can also It is the split personality of "I am not me" that female doctors live in a severe spiritual fantasy world from beginning to end. No matter how you determine the story and the heroine of the tragedy, no matter what kind of conjecture it is, it is based on your belief that this story has happened in reality. Maybe you will actually search for the "fourth type of contact" on Baidu. "" related text information and pictures. The reason for this completely different perspective is that the film director has cleverly and effectively mastered the method of pseudo-recording, and is well integrated with the story full of suspense and horror, making all events And the sense of fear is so real, maybe one day something like this will happen to you and me. Therefore, the film has reached a new height of pseudo-documentary horror films, and it is definitely worth watching.
Attempt to popularize:
1. Zero contact: distant sightings
2. The first type of contact: close-range sighting
3. The second type of contact: a certain part of the human body touches something on the UFO; or the traces left by witnessing strikes
4. The third type of contact: direct contact with aliens; see I have cleared UFOs, especially the high-level human-like life forms contained therein.
5. The fourth type of contact: communicating with aliens through telepathy is the
sixth and fifth type of contact that most researchers do not recognize : Humans use friendly messages to connect with alien civilizations
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