Like "Battle Royale", many Japanese movies are not just telling stories, but reflecting social phenomena or original problems. I hope that the movies will arouse everyone's attention and thinking on social issues. "Ghost Call" also has its concerns. One of the concerns is the indifference and estrangement between Japanese family members, which is the most serious problem facing Japanese society today. "Ghost Call" is a story that appeals to the world's warmth and coldness. The ghost in the film is played by the mother and daughter (ghosts). Their long-lasting grievances are all caused by the loss of the world: the daughter's illness needs the care and healing of the relatives, and the mother lacks maternal love to talk. The introduction of the heroine, Yumi, can be said to make up for their regrets. The special life experience of Yumi ran away from her mother's love when she was young, and comforted the lonely heart of the ghost's mother. So when she hugged the ghost mother and burst into tears, she finally escaped the catastrophe. And the "daughter" role she played here also heralded the arrival of the female ghost daughter to "possess", and Yumi, who was "possessed", became a new "surrogate feint disease" patient; the second point of concern It is a socially disadvantaged group suffering from surrogate feint disease. Proxy feint disease is a rare mental disorder in medicine. The patient is usually the mother and the victim is usually the child. Sick mothers will claim that their children are ill or even deliberately get them sick, and then take the children around to seek medical treatment to win the attention and sympathy of others to prove the value of their existence. In Japanese society, men are relatively high in status and they bear heavier family responsibilities, so they have a high degree of attention relative to women, and the number of people suffering from proxy feints is increasing. The director wanted to use this film to bring the usually neglected marginal and disadvantaged groups to us, and arouse the attention of the society to the disadvantaged groups. Although many horror directors now regard this theme as a treasure trove, it was in 2004. Still relatively unpopular.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that the scene of the TV station catching ghosts is quite ironic. Natsumi, who was dying, walked into the broadcasting room under the duplicity of the director's persuasion, and staged a live broadcast of a female ghost's death to the audience absurdly. This not only makes the panic of "Ghost Call" truer, but also satirizes Japanese radio's unscrupulous measures to increase ratings. At such a critical moment, the TV station did not forget to broadcast commercials. The director's cold humor here makes the essence of material society at a glance.
Doubtful discussion:
1. How many ghosts are there? There are two ghosts in the play. The ghost who kills everywhere is Mimiko, and the ghost in the old hospital is Marie Mizunuma. In this film, the mother, Mari Mizunuma, depicts two daughters, Miko and Nanako. At first they thought that the mother had a proxy feint disease, but in fact, it is not the mother who is sick but her daughter Miko Mizunuma who suffers from this disease. People with a disease will mutilate those around them in order to gain sympathy from others, so Mimiko often bullies her sister Nanako. At the same time, Mimiko also suffered from severe asthma, so after bullying her younger sister just after she was seen by her mother, her mother angrily hugged Nanako and left and died of an asthma attack. The mother's fault is the indirect reason for her daughter's transformation into a ghost. The daughter who died of asthma still suffered from "proxy feint disease" in the underworld, and set fire to revenge and burned her mother.
2. Why did the deceased have red maltose in their mouths? Mimiko is mentally ill and can even be said to be psychopathic, so when she is alive, she likes to abuse her younger sister. After the abuse, she will be given a red maltose to coax her (the person killed by Mimiko will have a red in his mouth later). Maltose). After being a ghost, she likes to brutally tear other people's arms, chop other people's bodies into several pieces, and push them comfortably into the fire. This is still to ensure that the other person is not dead and consciousness is still alive. Obviously it is a typical pathological behavior of sadism.
3. Is Mimiko killing someone for revenge? Since Mimiko was not in the background to avenge the world by dying unjustly, Mimiko's killing was entirely attributed to her mental illness during her lifetime. After she died, there was no specific target for revenge. She retaliated against all mankind, so she didn't pick the target casually. It was an individual who had to retaliate.
4. Doesn’t you die if you don’t read text messages? Mimiko wants someone to die in the third watch and will not keep people until the fifth watch. It doesn’t matter if you answer the phone or not, whether your phone is turned off, whether you throw it away, or whether the person who died in front of you has the phone in it. Without your phone number (Yoko does not have Kenichi’s phone number, but you still call Kenichi), if you are the next deceased selected by Mimiko, it will appear in front of you again in various ways, automatically playing For you to listen or watch.
Detailed plot (The reason why some friends do not understand the film is largely misguided by the translation. There are several obvious errors in the subtitles in the film. Ps: Some plots are also derived by myself. Different opinions are welcome. discuss):
The main line of the story is a group of college students. At the beginning of the story, college student Yumi and a few friends ate in a small restaurant while discussing some horrible incidents. Yoko came late, went to the bathroom with Yumi, and talked to Yumi about diving and drowning alone. At this time (March 16, 2003, 21:44) received a death call, Yoko did not have time to answer, and when he immediately looked back at the message, he found that the caller’s phone number was displayed at 23:04 on April 18, and it was Yoko called herself, and only Yoko's own voice in the message: I hate it, why let it go? Then there was a scream. The phone call was strange, but everyone didn't treat it as the same thing. On the evening of the 18th, Yoko called Rio for Yumi to go shopping. Yoko walked up a flyover while talking. Below the flyover was the upcoming train. The warning sound of the train made Yumi unable to hear the call. Yumi suddenly thought of listening that day. The phone message that arrived seems to be this time today - at 23:04 on the 18th, immediately after Yoko said on the phone: I hate it, why did you let it go? Then there was a scream. Yoko Fei walked down the flyover and was hit to death by a train. Only one arm was still there and pressed the next phone call.
After Yoko’s funeral, the students were discussing that this kind of abnormal death had already spread. The classmates told Yumi that Lena who died at sea (presumably the one who drowned by diving) was also killed. , I called Yoko before he died, and then one of them died by calling another phone through his cell phone.
Yoko died, and the next call she made was for Kenichi, so Kenichi also died (April 21, 15:34), also with a notice. However, the police determined that the two committed suicide, and witnesses at the time proved that they committed suicide. Kenichi died, and the next phone call was for Natsumi (22:39 on April 23). Natsumi felt that she was really dying and was very scared. Yumi took Natsumi to take care of her mobile phone (away from it), and came back and met someone from the TV station who was doing the show. The host casually stuffed a staff member’s mobile phone to Natsumi as her mobile phone for filming, but the mobile phone also rang. The death bell sound. The host wanted to take Xia Mei away. He said that Mr. Heng was very famous and might be able to help her (actually just for the show). Xia Mei wanted to change her destiny and followed.
Yamashita’s sister Suzi died of this death six months ago and called. At that time, the phone said that she would die from the fire three days later (October 17, 2002 16:31). Sure enough, she died like this. Yamashita has been investigating. The death of my sister. So he is very concerned about the deaths of Yoko and Kenichi. Yumi didn't want Natsumi to die like this, and started an investigation with him. It was discovered that Yoko and his sister received a phone message from him again a minute after their death. It was the same number, but no one used it for the time being. They came to the accident emergency center together (why come to this hospital, it is estimated that Suzi and Yoko were both sent here. Suzi also worked in this emergency center before, or the same number displayed on the two mobile phones used to be This number is because Yumi later said: "What is the meaning of this hospital's phone number"), Yoko was sent here but there is no death record.
In the hospital, Yumi saw on TV that everyone was forcing Natsumi to visit. Yumi was very angry and wanted to rush to Natsumi, but she heard the sound of the spray bottle. She also heard the sound when Kenichi died. It turned out that it was a treatment for asthma. The sound of the spray bottle. After discovering this sound, Yumiwa Yamashita went to the hospital (Kagami Hospital, the emergency center should be the emergency center of this hospital) to record the place where the deceased was recorded, and asked about this equipment and the death of such patients. Sign of. A doctor turned up all the records of deaths from this symptom and showed them to them. Looking through the records, the doctor found a case that he hadn't noticed before. It was Mimiko Minuma. The body had no facial features. He was 10 years old and died on September 21, 2002. There was a person named Mizunuma Mari in the doctor's phone. The doctor said it was Mimiko's mother, but no one answered the call. Yumi asked the doctor the address of Mizunuma's house again, and the doctor told him.
In the car back, Yamashita showed Yumi his sister Suzi's notepad when she was a nurse in the emergency center of this hospital. He found that Nanako Minuma was often sent to first aid at the time, and Mimiko had also received first aid for asthma, in July of that year. On the 30th, Nanako fell on the 7th floor during an emergency in the hospital.
The next day, Yamashita and Yumi went to the place where the child's corpse was stored. They wanted to see the corpse in the name of Mimiko's father but were refused. A person with knowledge of the situation said that Mimiko’s mother, Marie, had a proxy feint disease, and would claim that the child was ill or even deliberately get them sick, and then took the child to seek medical treatment to gain the attention and sympathy of others to prove it The value of one's own existence.
In the evening, they called the police to the police and went to the TV station together to see if Natsumi could get redemption, but Natsumi was still dead in full view. The next person who received the call was Yumi, who died on the 24th and 19th. Point 13 points.
What else can you do in the last days of life? Yamashita persuaded Yumi not to give up and continue to investigate. He saw that Yumi had been holding the scars from the previous injuries, so he asked her what happened at the time? By dad? Yumi said she was (abused) by her mother. The eldest brother asked her if she didn't ask her father for help? Yumi said that because he was rarely at home, grandma said that she would always protect her. As a result, Yumi had just returned home from school at that time and was stopped by her mother. Mom asked her to call grandma over, Yumi walked in and called her grandma, but she didn't hear the answer, so she looked through the doorway of her grandma's room. As a result, she backed away frightened and ran into her mother who came by. She burned Yumi's arm with a cigarette, pulled her hair, banged her head against the door, and forced her to look at the grandma inside. Through the paper hole, Yumi saw that grandma was hanging on the hanging beam. Yumi also has painful memories. (It seems that Japan not only has male BT but also female BT)
Yamashita and Yumi went to Mimiko's house and found a DV in the cabinet that could not find a video tape. Yamashita went to the kindergarten and found Nanako again. She wanted to inquire about her mother. Nanako could not speak. It is said that it was caused by seeing the corpse. She hadn't contacted her mother for 8 years. (How is it possible? It should be about 8 months. That's right, from Mimiko's death at the end of September 2002 to April 2003 when the incident occurred). Yumi went to the emergency center again and asked about the whereabouts of Mimiko’s mother, but the nurse inside said that the new nurses didn’t know much about the situation, but the old emergency center had not been demolished. Yumi called and told the old Yamashita emergency center. Ask him to check it out. When I came to the old site, I found that the door was locked. Then I turned around and found that the door was open. I thought it was the foot of the mountain, so I went in. Here, Yumi was chased by ghosts. Later, the mountain came to help Yumi escape. The phone rang, and the phone also displayed: 56 seconds of your life left, the countdown begins. Yamashita disassembled the phone in time, and Yumi’s time had passed, and Yamashita comforted Yumei and it was all right. The eldest brother looked at the side where the phone was ringing, then walked over and opened the wooden board, and found that inside was a scorched corpse, rotten and smelly, and the clothes were still in good condition. Yamashita called Yumi to come and take a look. As a result, the corpse suddenly rose up, and the foot of the mountain was shocked and flew outside and couldn't get in. Yumi was the only one who shrank in the corner. The corpse of Marie approached step by step, and Yumi was shocked. At the foot of the mountain outside, I was anxious about how to save Yumi. At this time, there was a voice calling from behind: Brother. Yamashita looked back and found that it was his younger sister who said, "Brother, please help me here" and then disappeared.
Yumi thought of her own life experience, thought of her mother, and hallucinated, she couldn't help but said: "I know my mother, I can't escape, I am a good boy, I will always be by your side, I will listen to you obediently If you don’t, I’m a good boy.” Yumi took Marie away from her neck, hugged her, and cried. Maybe Marie was also moved by these words, and she cried, and gave up killing Yumi. (Only later will I know that Marie was originally not an evil spirit, she was burned to death by Mimiko's revenge after being a ghost).
The police came and found that the cell phone in the hands of the body had a record of sending messages to zero. They believed that this was related to the previous case, so they asked Yamashita and Yumi to go to the police station to assist in the investigation. Yumi finished the transcript and went back. Yamashita still stayed at the police station. Yamashita handed the tape to the police. He found that the tape recorded what happened at Mimiko’s house. It turned out that it was not Marie but Mimiko who abused Nanako. The person with proxy feint disease is Mimiko. Mimiko had an asthma attack. Her mother ignored her illness and hugged Nanako and left. Mimiko died because of it. Yumi came home to take a bath. After washing, she heard the voice from the foot of the mountain: Yumi, are you okay? Yumi wanted to open the door, but when she looked back, she found that the time of the clock was going backwards. Yumi walked to the door and found that it was still repeating outside the door: Yumi is okay (as recorded by a tape recorder, repeating this sentence repeatedly, the sound sounds very mechanically stiff), Yumi feels something wrong, and slowly looks into the cat’s eyes , Found a Mimiko standing outside. Yumi stepped back in fear. At this time, he stabbed a sharp knife from the cat’s eye (luckily Yumi escaped). When he returned to the room, he found that Mimiko was already sitting on the sofa and eating her. Of maltose. Yumi asked why, but Mimiko didn't answer. Slowly walked towards Yumi, Yumi yelled: Ah! ! ~~~
I heard Yumi’s cry when I rushed downstairs to the mountain, and immediately caught up. I saw Yumi sitting there casually. Nothing seemed to have happened. Yamashita asked Yumi, is it okay. I wanted to tell her. One victim was Marie. But seeing her okay, he hugged Yumi and said it was great. Yumei stabbed him with a knife. In the mirror, Yamashita found that it was Mimiko who was on Yumi's body (that is, Yumi was dead, Miko's upper body). The
last scene was in the hospital. Yumi who was caught by Mimiko's body was of course also suffering from agency feints, so he was saved. Yamashita, but killed him in the end...
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