This is a movie from three years ago, and I also went for the title of the highest-scoring horror movie of that year.
The film tells the simple story of a blind retired old man who lives alone against three thieves, but it has several advantages
First of all, the plot is not procrastination or nonsense. The first few minutes introduce the background of the three thieves through a theft, and then spend another minute introducing their plans and the background of the old man.
Second, the screenwriter treats the audience as a human being. When the two thieves, a man and a woman, were about to escape from the side door of the basement, they kept looking back nervously, afraid of the old man's arrival, and the camera kept showing close-ups of the door frames behind them, but what was the result? The old man was waiting for them at the side door outside. As soon as the door opened, he immediately shot. During the subsequent pursuit, the blind old man also wisely thought of turning off the switch. After all, things like lights are of no use to him, and a completely dark place is more beneficial to him. There is also a detail. In the dark basement, the close-up of the male and female protagonists can clearly see the enlarged pupils, which is a very normal human reaction in dark conditions. But in this shooting environment, there will always be some filmmakers who will secretly light up, but instead destroy the authenticity of the plot.
Furthermore, the behavior of the characters is very real, there is no mysterious operation. When the male No. 1 is desperate, he also knows to use the dead male No. 2 corpse to shield himself from the knife; the female lead wants to get the money at all costs, just to take her sister to escape from where she lives now. Place; The old man is sad to lose his daughter, but as a soldier, he will not become a rapist because of a principled problem, but when he saw that oversized dropper and a jar of frozen sperm later, he felt that his brain hole was in Fart in front of the director is not.
Finally, the plot twists and turns again. The first scene of the whole movie is that the old man drags the heroine to his house. This scene is also natural and will make the audience think that this is the final ending. But in the end, we understood that the old man just wanted to have another child, and he didn't even want to be a rapist because of his own principles, but chose to use frozen sperm. The male protagonist woke up again and beat the old man. When he escaped, the old man escaped and killed the male protagonist. In the end, the female team managed to escape. From the TV, the old man did not expose himself. After all, he also imprisoned a person.
There is no absolute justice in the movie. The second male and female lead are obsessed with the property of the old man. Even if they know in advance that the old man is blind, they do not have the slightest pity and sympathy, which can be said to be very immoral. As for the male protagonist, he was afraid of breaking the law, but in the end he had to resist, and it didn't end well. Although the old man was an Iraqi veteran who fought for the country, his daughter was killed by the crash, and the perpetrator was not sentenced according to law. If you think about it carefully, what he did does not seem so hateful. If it were me, maybe I would be more tortured than this old man. That woman is even more ruthless, but breaking the law is breaking the law, there is no place for sympathy
The most powerful part of the whole movie is that the old man cuts off the heroine's pants, preparing to force her to get pregnant. At that time, I was still thinking, at such an old age, can the elderly still have that function? But what the old man did next successfully made me understand his temperament as a precautionary measure... He prepared a jar of frozen sperm... But then he used an oversized dropper filled with sperm. , and finally squeezed the sperm into his mouth, this scene is more disgusting than plasma
There is also a clue that can not be regarded as running through the whole film, that is, the ladybug. It is related to the abuse the heroine received as a child, and it gives the heroine hope. The heroine also tattooed an unpainted ladybug on her arm. When the heroine was knocked to the ground in the back, he saw a ladybug lying on her arm and spread its wings, which is also the same. The picture gave her the strength to stand up again and continue to resist, but she always stood on the side of moral evil and could not arouse the sympathy of the audience for her.
It's a very simple story. Most of the film is a secret room. On the whole, the plot is very compact and the characters are very real. It is not an exaggeration to say that the whole story is a climax.
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