"Reaper is Here Again": Die gorgeously or save yourself (Text: Vulcan Ji)
Even if you die. Please let me raise my proud head. No need to panic. My funeral must be gorgeous and graceful. No need to mourn. Because. I just faced this kind of grief a day earlier than some others. Even if you die. Even if you die. Please let me die gorgeously at the foot of the mountain. Those corners of no one. Use the only dignity I had in my lifetime. Bury me. ——Vulcan Ji. Inscription.
This may be the most successful film in this series, at least in my opinion; even in many series of films, this sequel should be considered the best. Very successfully used the first concept of death design that has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the connection in the plot is almost perfect. Regardless of the series of movies, it is rarely possible to do this. Even with the same creative team, the first one gained a reputation, and the second one seemed to be a bit sloppy, and the third one was almost completely desperate; this seems to be the most inertial logical thinking of Hollywood movies, especially the series. . However, this movie surprised me somewhat. The plot setting in this movie is basically a very successful continuation of the first one, because the people who were on the 180th flight escaped from the first one, and their process from alive to death prompted the first The protagonist of the second part has escaped unknowingly, this kind of plot setting is somewhat ridiculous. It's just that the movies in this series become more stingy as you play. From the air crash to the car accident to the third Yunxiao speed car, from the disaster to the playground accident, it is difficult to say whether they will play the house or the accident after playing in the mud in the next one. The damn people did not die, and because theirs did not die, in the end, other damn people were still alive. Where is the ubiquitous authority of the god of death in the first part? As a result, a more magnificent killing began.
The successful connection of the plot has laid a solid foundation for this movie, at least it seems to be integrated and relatively independent with the first one. Such an achievement makes me feel that even this movie has surpassed the first one, because it may be difficult to create a movie, but it may be more to continue the story of a movie and make it into an independent movie. difficult. However, this movie did just that. However, maybe this is the only thing that can be done better. Others are basically just unnecessary repetitions. The plot of changing the soup without changing the medicine, perhaps, this is a bottleneck problem of successful continuation and connection. If you want to shoot new things, maybe you can only put aside the original prototype and shoot some plots that are not perfect in connection. Since the connection is successful, then the plot can only continue with the original plot, which allows This seemingly perfect sequel seems a bit chewy. This may be the reason why such a perfect sequel is rare. Most sequel creators may prefer to abandon the original framework and use a new plot framework, because the audience always likes the new and dislikes the old, and few people keep watching the same story repeatedly being repeated by different people. Interpretation, for creators, is the continuous withering of creative life, and for audiences, visual exhaustion will eventually kill the final market value of these sequels. Maybe this is just a matter of choice. It's very simple, but when I was complaining that the sequels were not linked to the original movie, I didn't seem to have thought about this issue. And only when I recalled it after watching this movie, I suddenly realized that, in fact, repetition like this no longer makes any sense.
The successful connection of the plot of this film may give it a rich background, but from this perspective, it also pushes the film into an exhausting abyss of bottomless perspective. Visually speaking, there is no doubt that the production of this film is a bit more refined than the first one before, but it seems to have no real meaning. More gorgeous. More exquisite. More bloody. More brutal. Perhaps this is the biggest breakthrough of this movie to the first movie. Can it be called violent aesthetics? Even though there is no violence in this movie, when people who die like that die, they are absolutely full of violence.
The first person to die was Burke. Even if that only exists in Caybury's illusion. A big tree trunk that fell from the car traversed his entire police car, and his head was smashed, bloodshot, and even a strong blasting effect. From this moment on, the movie has drifted away in a completely bloody and heavy smell of killing. The next series of car accident close-ups can basically be called the perfect embodiment of the classic Hollywood visual system. Car overturns, explosions, squeezed and deformed bodies, burning living people... etc. The hot and Hollywood-specific lens scheduling, the addition of a large number of close-up descriptions and a large number of perspective lenses make these lenses beautiful and amazing, and the transition of wide-angle lenses is magnificent and gorgeous.
Back to reality. Their deaths also appeared bizarre and unexpected. It's no longer as straightforward and somewhat tortuous as in the first movie. When we always thought they were going to die, they would live safely, and when we thought they were finally safe, they died suddenly. At this point, it seems to be a little bit like the psychological operation in Japanese and Korean horror movies. Horrified because of the abruptness. However, this movie does not seem to be thrilling, or it can be said that it is beautiful because it is abrupt. In my opinion, they all died beautifully and artistically. Died by accident. Or, die by the accident of some mysterious force. The bloody scenes portrayed with the cruelest and coldest lens always shocked me.
People who were rescued because of Caybury’s foresight in the car accident. Die one by one. The first person to die was Aiwen; he died on the emergency escape ladder outside the burning apartment. The ladder that was smashed down went through his head and was fatal on the spot. Then there was Tom; a group of flustered pigeons flew up outside the dentist's office, causing the crane staff to miss and the hard objects smashed from the heights were squashed, and the blood was shot everywhere. After that, Nora; the head was pinched by the elevator door, and then the elevator started, and the body and head were forcibly pulled into two pieces. Kate; was pressed by the car's airbag, and was killed by a sharp object behind her directly through her head. Rory; The car exploded, and the two pieces of wood tied with iron wires driven by the gas were cut into four pieces and died. Eugene and Claire died of a hospital explosion, were burned, and hit by high-pressure air currents. These deaths in this movie all have a taste of accidental death, and the traces of external forces are less than those of the first and third movies. They died, died by accident. Or, die from the doomed death that the funeral director said. The weakening of the traces of external forces makes these deaths seem unexpected and unavoidable. This is where this movie is more successful than the first one. The forms of death are different, and the more exquisite and gorgeous sub-language depicted in the bloodier and crueler lens language makes people fascinated. Died by accident. And this accident is inevitable. We may die at any time. Died by some coincidence or accident.
I like this movie relatively more than the first or third one. The coherent and visually pleasing shots make people addicted, and the unexpected settings are so exquisite that even though they are just continuation and connection, they look even better. Without the flickering black shadows everywhere in the first movie, there are also no obvious traces of external forces in the first movie; although there is no Zonnon Danhua's singing voice that runs through the whole drama in the first movie, it seems a little bit of a flaw. But this movie, to some extent, is a step further than the first movie. As a Hollywood commercial film, this movie is already commendable.
And my favorite is actually those depictions of death in this movie. Too vivid. Too carefree. And the lens is clean and not procrastinating. The plot is compact and concise. Okay, I admit it. In fact, I am still an unholy, abnormal child. forgive me.
The side story set at the end of the movie is an explosion. Damn it, not dead, in the end still can only die. Maybe, when you can't save yourself, you can only die gorgeously. The seemingly complete ending was tinged with sadness. The question of life and death, indeed, is always heavy. Lingering and unable to escape.
2006-11-05; Wuxu month in the Bingxu year.
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