Among the many types of horror films, can this kind of films express the grotesque side of real life through exquisite pictures and music, and are often full of socio-political metaphors, can it be called a new wave of horror films? The astonishing "Get Out" before the director was not only recognized by ordinary audiences, but also on the top ten films of the year in the French "Cinebook" that year, which is a real horror film for a horror film. is rare.
"Us" is also a bizarre story. The picture begins with a nostalgic image of a family (husband, wife, daughter) playing at a seaside playground in the 1980s. During this period, the wife went to the toilet, while the husband indulged in a game of whack-a-mole, ignoring the girl who left alone. The girl arrives at a population resembling a haunted house, and after a winding and dark path, comes to a mirror. When the girl turned her head to face the mirror, something strange happened. The self in the mirror did not turn her head immediately, but turned back slowly. Obviously, the girl in the mirror is not herself, but "the other".
At this point, the pictures of the family playground in daily life began to become weird, and with the accompanying supernatural music, the film kicked off. We might first recall that this was perhaps a cinematic metaphor alluding to identity and self-identity. What follows is also a family, except that the little girl has grown up and become a mother of two children, and the experience at the beginning of the movie is a dark spot in the depths of the heroine's heart. The entire conversation during this period is about everyday family trivia, usually warm and humorous, and usually a little friction, like all families. The weird thing starts with a trip to the beach, during which the youngest son suddenly disappears, and the heroine suddenly panics, although the plot shows that it is only a false alarm. But through the picture style and music at that time, the audience can easily realize that the dark spot in the heroine's heart has been activated, and weird things are about to start.
It didn't take long, on the night when their family came back from the beach. In the shadows outside their house suddenly stood four figures, clearly a family judging from their height and stature. That's right, this family is exactly the same as the protagonist's family of four, but they are more like monsters from another world that look like themselves. What followed, of course, was the bloody killing, and the hero's struggle to fight back.
I don't want to talk about the film's social metaphor and its allegorical nature, these are all clichés. As a horror movie fan, the most impressive scene in the film is the eerie temperament shown by the "interaction" between the above world and the underground world. Of course, it is very easy to explain if it is interpreted in simple political metaphors. But my concern is how the psychological impact of this grotesque representation is and does a similar scene have a provenance in a work of art, i.e. some kind of aesthetic tradition? j
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