The Chinese horror movie I look forward to the year was scolded on the hot search

The author of this article is the writer@本 永 本

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Just the past weekend, two hard -core movies were discussed by everyone.

One is Wei Jiahui+Liu Qingyun's hot police bandit suspense film "Detective War", and the other is the annual Chinese horror movie "Curse" that many fans look forward to.

"Mantra" is a very lively movie in the play. It is adapted from the real events of the six families in the Kaohsiung family. The trailer was removed from the platform because it was too horrible.

When it was released in Taiwan, some viewers were frightened to escape from the theater. During the same period, the box office pressure on the Hollywood blockbuster "New Batman", ranked first in this year's movie box office list with a score of 170 million Taiwan dollars.

With such a gimmick, the appetite of mainland fans is naturally hanged high, and even known as "the best Chinese horror movie of the year".

However, "Curse" was scolded after the launch.

No elsewhere, just because of "obscure".

Is "Curse" really terrifying, or is it really obscure? Xiao Wan has helped everyone to check the film. The part of the part in front is "high -energy", and the courage is cautious.

"Mantra" stringed a cursed for 6 years with two timelines.

Six years ago, if the male and her boyfriend and friends formed a "broken ghost team" and went to the mysterious village to explore. The entire village is wrapped in a strange and mysterious atmosphere. Everyone greets with strange gestures, and is also worshiped with strange evil gods.

Boyfriend and friends broke into the "absolutely not to enter the tunnel". He died on the spot, and the villagers died of misconduct. With the survival of the man with pregnancy, he left here in a state of spiritual collapse.

Six years later, Ruo Nan, who returned to normal, took back his daughter's right to raise, and the mother and daughter began a new life. But weird things happened one after another, and her daughter had symptoms of evil.

If the man ran around for his daughter, but he had affected more innocent people, and finally decided to return to the source of fear -to find out in the tunnel of the cult.

On the surface, the horror elements of "Curse" are not fresh. It is nothing more than a combination of combination of "forbidden land", "curse entanglement", and "bizarre death", and then put on the tears of tear family affectionate elements of "Mother Save Girl" Essence

But "Mantra" really tells the story of "the great mother loves the girl's heart and return to the ban on the banned place"?

Not necessarily.

There are many contradictory bridges and details in the film. The biggest doubt is: when did men know the secrets behind the evil god? 6 years ago or 6 years later?

We can interpret this film in a way, which may break the existing story about "mother love".

In terms of form, "Curse" also belongs to the popular screen/desktop movies in recent years, and constantly switch on mobile phone screens, computer screens, and monitoring room videos.

Most of the cursing content is explaining to the screen. This first -person narrative is actually mixed with a lot of subjective ingredients.

Through the screen, we saw a novice mother who often "good intentions to do bad things" and unconsciously produced sympathy and compassion.

But what if the man lies? What if we see what she wants to let us see?

What if you are a scam to invite Jun into the till from beginning to end?

"Mantra" has room for interpretation on both sides. Mother/evil mother, saving daughter/sacrifice, breaking the spell/unblocking evil god depends on the understanding of the audience.

As early as the film, the "Mantra" hinted through the direction of the Ferris wheel and the subway, "our ideas quietly shaped the world." What is your idea and what the world is.

The biggest controversy around "Mantra" is: obscure.

Why did the audience feel obscure, and even this topic was on the hot search.

The first is the immersive fear brought by Chinese horror.

In the final analysis, Japanese, South Korea, and European and American horror movies are still separated by a layer. The ghosts that can be hit by the ocean can not induce the sense of vision of domestic audiences. Taiwan horror movies are different. Everyone is the same as rooting. How to look familiar with folk culture.

There are two types of horror elements in "Curse": exotic elements and Chinese elements. The former includes insects, tentacles, dense terrorism, Jump Scare; the latter includes folk customs, feudal superstitions, and Chinese -style decoration.

Although the former is also scary, it is forgotten to see the nausea; what is really penetrating into the bone marrow and triggering the latter.

The murmured spell fire Buddha cultivation is the scripture that can be seen everywhere. The weird cult totem can also find similar things in the mural;

There are common spells and exorcments in the feudal era; there are also ancient consequences in the ancient ancestral temple, shaking and dim red lanterns, and hairy clay sculptures.

I have to sigh, there is a set of Chinese horror movies to hold Chinese horror. Combining the story of folk elements and the evil gods is the trend of recent years, and it is also an opportunity for Taiwan's horror movies to rejuvenate. The previous "Little Girls in Red" series and "Evil Evil" also burst due to similar reasons.

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The second reason for the obscure was that the audience felt that they were offended.

Watching traditional horror movies, we usually stand from the perspective of God and overlook the figures of the characters in the film. Although the people in the film do not know their own situations, we know that there are dead souls in advance, and we also have a little more superiority of the perspective.

"Mantra" uses screen narrative, which is equivalent to the audience standing at the second perspective and equal dialogue with the characters in the film, which is easy to cause immersion.

So when we followed the curse at the end of the film, they later realized that they were deceived and became a part of the cursed. When the audience realized, someone would naturally be annoyed. Its subtext was "the director, you even pulled us in", "the dummy lied to a real person."

This "offense" to the audience is not new, and it has also appeared in other horror movies before.

The most classic is the death video tape of Sadako in "Midnight Bell". Those who watched the video tape would be strangely died in 7 days.

There is also a stolen video tape in "Li Gui will be released". It is said that people who see the death of Fuso (film in the film) will be killed by female ghosts. Of course, the characters in the play are seen, and the audience outside the show also sees it.

"True True Adventure" also has the bridge section of the video website through the release of a video. The protagonist group relies on this method to let more people divide the sanctions of the demon.

"Mantra" should refer to the above -mentioned movies and set up a bridge to offend the audience. From the perspective of communication, this gimmick is quite memorable, which is indeed conducive to the wide spread of films.

The essence of the QQ space is all the rage, "If it is not forwarded to X people in X hours, it will ..." There is no difference between the old stalk, so you don't have to feel obscure or unlucky.

Don't be afraid, there is also a bridge in "Wulin Wai Biography"

Return to the movie itself, "Curse" is a Chinese horror movie worth watching and quality.

The biggest advantages and defects of "Curse" are related to the screen narrative.

On the one hand, it builds a terrorist experience with a strong sense of immersion and interaction with the help of a large and small screen, and all thrilling pictures are in front of them.

On the other hand, in order to pursue the same form of front and rear forms, the film also adds the screen without having to use the screen narrative, which is not as good as the "Ghost Bridge" to a freely half -screen narrative.

"Mantra" has brought a lot of amazing highlights, but there is still a lot of room for improvement. The new generation director Ke Mengrong also has ambitions and plans deeply here.

He filmed a small -cost horror "Ghost Seal" during his student days. The first long film was to kill the thriller "Deadly Party". This is enough to see his interest.

In the past ten years, he has not produced many output and is out of terrorist types. The "Adults 2", "Expressive" and "No Man" in the Mainland can only be regarded as a successful commercial comedy.

Starting from "Curse", Ke Mengrong returned to the old house of horror movies. The box office reputation of "Curse" is a win -win situation, which gives him confidence to promote the follow -up of the same type.

In addition to the "Mantra 2" with Ruo's daughter as the main character, Ke Mengrong also intends to open the "one -word movie universe" that relies on the real events of Taiwan.

Maybe, the next new film, "Pickling", "Sleeping", "Puppet", and "Funeral" of the "One Film Universe" will appear.

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