When "The Cry" was released, Hitchcock had peeped at the audience's reaction in the theater. When he went to the bathroom to kill someone, he was accompanied by ups and downs of music. The audience screamed and vented their fears and anxiety. .
Such movies are called thrillers. The movie frightens the audience in many ways. If the audience shouts louder, the little devil in the director's heart will smile happily, and the more Grandpa Mao, Franklin, and Washington will be in the producer's office.
However, as "Monster Company" said, the audience's taste for horror has been cultivated. Gone are the days of putting on sheets and putting on makeup to scare a large group of people to death. The once prosperous Hong Kong zombie movies, Japanese ghost movies and American monster movies have all ushered in a downswing, big or small, and our mainland is full of "horrible movies" because of the "theatrical line can't hell" regulations. (Such as "Girls' Dormitory" which was filmed in my school).
A good carrier has become a secret weapon for enriching the form and content of thrillers: black humor ("Zombie Shaun" in which a group of real people pretend to be zombies on the street),
Narrow the space and the scene (the whole film is on a train in Busan),
Completely shuffle the order (the whole film is filmed backwards in "Shards of Memory"), etc...
The three excellent thrillers released in the past six months, "The Master of Memory" (China), "The Invisible Guest" (Spain) and "Escape from the Deadly Town" (United States) unanimously chose to bring the horror into reality.
"Master of Memory" puts a monster cultivated in a domestic violence environment on the table,
"The Invisible Guest" uses a mysterious secret room murder case to uncover the judicial inaction behind the peaceful Spain.
"Escape from the Deadly Town" used one and a half hours of foreshadowing to construct a world where "a black man is surrounded by a group of friendly but not scary white people".
In the production of the three films, there are big and small highlights. "Master of Memory" continues the exquisite setting, atmosphere and scale of "Master of Hypnosis"; the script of "The Invisible Guest" seamlessly connects the four versions of the story of the male protagonist and the lawyer; Haha laughed and was scared to make up his mind in the explosion room.
Thrillers with realistic elements have always been closer to the people. From the early Frankenstein story, we can clearly see the exposure of human greed under the development of science. At the end of the last century, many Hollywood thrillers featured Germans and Soviets as the main actors behind the scenes. In today's globalization, political correctness has become the mainstream, but thrillers have never lacked realistic ingredients.
Among the three, the topic of "Master of Memory" is closest to the public-presumably there are not a few people who have witnessed parental quarrels and even experienced domestic violence; the woman in Huang Bo's dream is even more disturbing in the extreme and terrifying domestic violence Love and hate. It also makes the fate of Huang Bo and Xu Jinglei even more worrying.
"The Invisible Guest" is the most concealed. The inaction of the government and the judiciary is hidden in a complicated story line. The victim’s revenge is based on the distrust of the collusion between the government and business, and the moment the truth is revealed. Full of the tragic atmosphere of forcing Liangshan.
The angle of "Escape from Death" is the most novel. In Hollywood, where no black actors have been nominated for Oscars and protests against political correctness, there has been such a movie, and there has been such a special trick to lure black guys into the movie. To go to the town where his mind, his body, and his skin were renewed for the whites. This is really a collective mockery and provocation of today's "American Harmony" and "the largest minority" speech.
You can see that watching a movie is like cooking. Good production is like raw materials. Without good raw materials, it is impossible to make pancakes with pizza flavor. However, today, when diners are increasingly picky, good raw materials can no longer meet the needs of diners. Even the steamed buns have matcha-flavored red bean paste buns. Without the core argument of domestic violence, "Master of Memory" is after all just a high-level imitation film with the shadow of "Inception"; without the background of business officials protecting each other, the last ten minutes of the big reversal will lose the way for the sky. Pleasure; As for "Escape from Death", there is no deep contradiction between blacks and whites today, and this film has no chance to come into being. Without a known background, these stories have become castles in the sky, just like ghost films awakening people’s fear of unknown ghosts. These real problems, together with excellent filmmaking, give the audience a frightening experience.
This is also the meaning of the existence of movies: using light and shadow to photograph the past, present and future.
In the middle of the night, I want to eat matcha-flavored buns. Fell asleep.
Whee.
(It’s only now when I finish writing it late at night, the matcha buns are all digested, goo...)
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