Let the bomb speak

Justyn 2022-01-24 17:48:28

"Horror Live" is a commercial movie. Many people have a prejudice against commercial movies, either a bucket of popcorn or something smashed into the faces of the audience. However, if it is believed that commercial films are not highly nutritious and not worth mentioning based on this, such a judgment is also wrong. For a long time, Chinese audiences have fallen into the misunderstanding of watching movies. Those who watch art movies think that they are more advanced than commercial movies, and those who watch commercial movies think that watching art movies is a pretense. In fact, a movie can only be good and bad, and there is no need to distinguish between business and art. It does not matter whether it is mainstream or independent. Just watch movies and learn to "watch movies artistically" is the most important thing. There is so much talk about it, of course it is related to "Horror Live". This movie not only has topics and phenomena, but also the creator's artistic pursuit. Except for a short departure shortly after the opening and some large panoramic views of the city, this film almost completely compresses and confines the space scene to the studio, which is extremely rare. Even with the shocking explosion at the end, the protagonist never left the room, but with a calm smile. Most commercial movies are afraid to play in this way. Firstly, the audience is easily visually tired, and secondly, the requirements for the drama and the actors are very high. As a result, "Horror Live" did it, using live TV camera switching to complete the connection, using close-ups and sound to create tension and contradiction, and in a limited time, the greatest dramatic energy broke out. "Horror Live" has turned daily life into a blank, and there are no curious and frightened street spectators. From the beginning of the radio program, it was in an extremely compact and hectic drama state. For the anchor Yin Yinghua, this is equivalent to blocking all of his past, and he never left the camera in the end. He is no longer a normal person in a simple sense. He is a mediator who needs to talk to terrorists, and personal affairs will be broadcast live, even if it is only part of a conspiracy theory. But in other words, only in front of the camera, a media talent is real, vivid and alive. The film also tells the audience that the media and media people are nothing more than fictitious images fabricated by post-processing. It is often not a person, but a filtered collective opinion reflection, a label and a symbol. On the surface, the media has enough space for discourse and freedom to criticize and expose, but facing the state apparatus, it is ultimately too weak to be manipulated. Many Korean movies have revealed old past events and unsettled cases without a head, in order to smash the government, criticize its arbitrary dictatorship, and rush into life. Scolding the government and being disappointed with the bureaucracy are indeed not new, but it is really rare to have cramps and hatred like "Terror Live". When it reaches the point of a terrorist attack, in fact, the weaker party has already released Abandon the possibility of dialogue. "Horror Live" has been waiting for a symbolic presidential apology, which reminds people of the Hong Zhongqiu case on the streets of Taipei, or else the sarcasm and mockery of politicians in the British drama "Black Mirror". The film is not blindly anti-system, nor is it a conflict riot that pursues anarchism from the very beginning. For a long time, Yin Yinghua has been trying hard--even if this kind of effort is hypocritical, with the natural sense of smell and utilitarianism of the media, he still hopes to save the innocent people on the bridge (with his ex-wife in it). He has also spoken bitterly about improving the law and changing the system, but he has no choice but to do nothing. Successive frustrations and the performance of terrorist attacks and bloody scenes caused him to fall into a psychological breakdown, which disintegrated his inherent personality at the beginning and returned to his normal human nature. Compassion, fear, tact, anxiety, and mixed flavors, in the end, only Speak for yourself. He even apologized on behalf of the president, but these did not prevent him from becoming a terrorist. Just as Yang Dechang said in "Terrorists" in 1986, no matter how normal a social person is, no matter how harmful his appearance is, he may become a terrorist. Because you really don't know when disaster and bad luck will hit you. The difference is that Yang Dechang is disappointed with the middle class and life in Taipei, while "Horror Live" is aimed at the entire society without specific references. When the high-rise buildings press on the South Korean National Assembly like dominoes, the people in it may not be able to get out of the relationship. This is also a tragedy that is often staged in the surrounding reality. Everyone is sitting on a fast-moving train, placed in a powder keg, and at the same time facing a tall building that is about to collapse. Perhaps as Jia Zhangke said, this is destined. Are you convicted? 【Mangazine|Famous brand】Offered an apology, but none of this prevented him from becoming a terrorist. Just as Yang Dechang said in "Terrorists" in 1986, no matter how normal a social person is, no matter how harmful his appearance is, he may become a terrorist. Because you really don't know when disaster and bad luck will hit you. The difference is that Yang Dechang is disappointed with the middle class and life in Taipei, while "Horror Live" is aimed at the entire society without specific references. When the high-rise buildings press on the South Korean National Assembly like dominoes, the people in it may not be able to get out of the relationship. This is also a tragedy that is often staged in the surrounding reality. Everyone is sitting on a fast-moving train, placed in a powder keg, and at the same time facing a tall building that is about to collapse. Perhaps as Jia Zhangke said, this is destined. Are you convicted? 【Mangazine|Famous brand】Offered an apology, but none of this prevented him from becoming a terrorist. Just as Yang Dechang said in "Terrorists" in 1986, no matter how normal a social person is, no matter how harmful his appearance is, he may become a terrorist. Because you really don't know when disaster and bad luck will hit you. The difference is that Yang Dechang is disappointed with the middle class and life in Taipei, while "Horror Live" is aimed at the entire society without specific references. When the high-rise buildings press on the South Korean National Assembly like dominoes, the people in it may not be able to get out of the relationship. This is also a tragedy that is often staged in the surrounding reality. Everyone is sitting on a fast-moving train, placed in a powder keg, and at the same time facing a tall building that is about to collapse. Perhaps as Jia Zhangke said, this is destined. Are you convicted? 【Mangazine|Famous brand】

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  • Suzanne 2022-01-24 17:48:29

    There has always been a thing in Korean movies, called "hot blood" when appropriate, and "dog blood" if it is overdone. But I have never seen what it is like when it is insufficient.

  • Billie 2022-01-24 17:48:28

    Cool, a plot that is impossible in China

The Terror Live quotes

  • Park Shin-Woo: I'm sorry.

    Yeong-hwa Yoon: You were going to kill them anyway! Son of a... You're sorry? How can you say that?

    Park Shin-Woo: I started this just to hear those two words. I said to come quick because it'll collapse. I agreed to the rescue! But where is he? It's out of my hands now.

  • Yeong-hwa Yoon: Why me?

    Park Shin-Woo: Still, I thought you would be different. You're all the same. That's why you're dying. Then, I'll stand there and end things myself.

    Yeong-hwa Yoon: Please, Mr. Park... Please, please don't kill me. Please, sir! Please! I beg you! Please! Let me live! Let me out, please.

    Park Shin-Woo: Keep being like that. Groveling under damn bastards. Live like that, then die.