A very unfortunate horror movie.

Derrick 2022-04-22 07:01:05

First put the point of view: a horror film with a high degree of completion, but unfortunately it cannot stand scrutiny.

I myself was suddenly invited by a friend to watch it in the whirlpool of overtime work ppt on Sunday. Looking at the unfinished 50 pages, I decided to go to the appointment without any hesitation. So I only had time to read the movie synopsis, and I always thought that the synopsis of suspense and horror movies are all smoke bombs - but I never expected that this movie is so honest.

In the first half of the film, the neurotic performance of the heroine made me run away several times to see if all this was the heroine's imagination, but the director laid out too obvious foreshadowing and tugged my hair and whispered to me in my ear. :surprise~

To give a few examples, when a little girl invites her best friend to lie down, we can see from the heroine's first point of view that there is a certain distance between the two, and it is necessary to beat an adult woman to the point of being knocked flying, no matter how you say it. Open your arms and fight, but the little girl firmly believes that it is the female lead. Then... I think maybe the heroine really played, but I didn't play in the consciousness (that is, when we saw the first point of view). Secondly, when my sister was killed, no matter the angle of the knife, the way it was suspended, or the speed of wiping the neck, it didn't look like a real person picked it up. , me: Ah this...Is there really no fantasy factor? ? ? It's so imaginary!

However, the heroine didn't have a knife that fell on the ground when she was making breakfast, or the heroine's anger on her head. These are the parts of the third perspective without the participation of the heroine. In addition, the director's identity as the first person in optics has been paving the way. Tell me clearly, ha, it's the invisible man!

Therefore, the conflict between the actress's skills and the language of the camera eliminated the suspense that might have arisen. When I saw the later stage, I completely walked out of the terrifying atmosphere created by the camera at the beginning, and my head was full of "Ah, this is not beauty. Is it a bad script!!! Too standard and spicy!!!”

But I have to say that the heroine's acting skills are very good, and there is still a gradual progression from being sensitive and suspicious at the beginning to gradually regaining herself. In fact, in terms of character creation alone, the heroine's transformation is very big. Although there are opportunities for transformation (one is the chase in the rainy night, the other is the final ceremony), but because of the weak plot, it is not particularly tenable. The acting skills are still stable, so that this big heroine can have a basic degree of completion.

Another point of extra points is just the movement of the mirror. In the early stage, relying on the set camera transition, the seamless transition between the monitor's perspective and the heroine's first perspective is also very smooth, successfully creating a depressing atmosphere.

But other places are too worthy of criticism! The biggest point, the invisibility cloak, I accept it. When watching sci-fi, you should learn to ignore this kind of theme-related points that cannot be avoided logically in the plot. But another point, the character of the male protagonist, there are a lot of omissions. His feelings for the heroine, his love for the heroine is affirmative, and the control due to love is also within the scope of logic. But because of control, the black father and daughter have to be transferred, just to beat the heroine at home? In order to control the heroine, he did not hesitate to kill her sister in the restaurant (it can be seen from the back that the hero is not too worried about the secret leak of the invisibility cloak). Well, it can also be said that he has an anti-social personality, so why keep his hands on the police at the hospital, and deliberately avoid the fatal point? President Ba, your personality is so complicated! ! ! Why did the boss' brother do so much! Is there a femininity! There is absolutely no reason to be put off by the control of the younger brother, you bastard!

The heroine finally kills the hero's role, as the heroine's revenge, the ritual of re-integration of personality, there is no problem in the arrangement. But the male protagonist, a criminal with a high IQ, doesn't know that his invisibility cloak is not there... He can say that he does not know where the female protagonist is hiding, but he shouldn't be unaware that the invisibility cloak is not there and have no defense at all! From the fact that he guarded against the female lead's cliché, he knew that the female lead didn't really want to come back to him! There is no problem with the main female lead, but the logical motives of the male lead should not be so perfunctory!

Well, that's all, I don't want to write anymore, I'm tired.

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Extended Reading
  • Anabel 2022-03-24 09:01:31

    Pseudo-feminist film, because it is caught in the logical dilemma of using violence to control violence, the intention is not to eliminate oppression and inequality, but to advocate the seizure of power and violent revenge. The story can be simply summed up in one sentence: "How to resist an invisible oppression? Then use the same method to fight back." It's really not a smart solution. "Invisibility" is the real source of fear, which has nothing to do with men and women. The high-tech surreal setting actually dispels the accusations of gender oppression; the anti-kill is not the ideal ending, but it has demonized feminists, Feminism describes embarrassing blanks as "women in turn oppressing men".

  • Amber 2021-11-11 08:01:15

    20200227 AMC Burbank 16 IMAX The top-level atmosphere rendering comes from on the one hand the turbulent sound of the midnight raging sea, and on the other hand, the visual presentation that matches the concept of the invisible man: a large number of long-time aerial shots (space for invisible people), The inexplicable rolling (the positional relationship between the invisible person and the heroine) and the multiple combinations of the ghost's point of view moving parallel to the lens (the movement of the invisible person), the director placed a large amount of invisible "outside space" in the visible space "To induce people to imagine the person who is not present. Time and space are stretched and enlarged, and a sense of horror is born from this. The background of the movie is also very meaningful in the North Carolina + technology company. One refers to the modern technology that continuously invades private space, and the other is the dead but not rigid, invisible, and firmly dominates the patriarchy of women. . EM's performance is very good, but it is still a normal play for his role.

The Invisible Man quotes

  • Adrian Griffin: [points gun at guard while invisible] Bang!

    [walks away from guard and shoots him from behind]

  • [last lines]

    James Lanier: Hey, hey. You okay?

    Cecilia Kass: It's okay...

    James Lanier: You okay? What...

    Cecilia Kass: I'm okay. I'm okay. James, look at me. I'm okay. He killed himself. He cut his own throat. There's security camera video of it.

    [James sees Cecilia carrying the invisibility suit in her bag making a soft and rabid clicking sound]

    James Lanier: You never did want to get him to admitting anything on tape, did you?

    Cecilia Kass: Of course I did. I just didn't know he was that unstable.

    [James is staring at Cecilia]

    Cecilia Kass: You heard it, right? James? What'd it sound like to you?

    James Lanier: [hesitating] It sounded a lot like he killed himself.

    [Cecilia and James pat each other as Cecilia walks away and James look on. Cecilia leaves with Zeus and the suit. After walking away, Cecilia stops and closes her eyes, ending the movie]