Title: solitary Fort panic situation (Spain)
Director: • Juan Antonio Ba Yana •
Cast: • Beringer Rueda, Fernando Cayo •
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Suspense
release date: April 16
Comments sentence: orphanage "secret" people not only creepy, but heart is feeling.
European and American thrillers are different from Japanese thrillers. For example, "Scream of Screams" breaks the intestines at every turn, and the blood flows into a river. It pays attention to sensory stimulation, just like fast food, once or twice, but it is inevitable that the time will be long. Nausea; while Japanese thrillers tend to pay more attention to psychological horror. They are "simmering slowly" like soup, "Midnight Bell" and the like, still "cold back" after watching three days.
Known as the first restricted-level thriller to be introduced into China, "Lonely Castle" is contrary to the supremacy of visualism in European and American horror films, and has also taken the line of psychological horror. The opening scene is quiet and beautiful, and a few children are playing. The game of "one, two, three, wooden people" and a peaceful and quiet atmosphere, everyone knows that the calmer there is, the more crisis is hidden behind it. This is also the usual routine of thrillers.
At first glance, the plot is nothing new: Laura and her husband, a former orphan, took their son Simon to rebuild the former orphanage. However, a series of strange events broke the plan of the couple. With the mysterious disappearance of son Simon, they are hidden here. The secret of the lonely castle gradually emerged...
The film seems to always intervene in the film as an outsider, but it makes the audience unconsciously pay attention to Simon's life and death. Finding the missing son is the purpose, the unbelievable weirdness is the clue, and discovering the secret of the orphanage becomes an accident. It can be said that the whole drama is an excellent embodiment of the thriller's characteristics. The more familiar the place, the more secrets that cannot be said. This mysterious and tangled emotion has always been like a shadow. It has been carried forward under the background of sound effects and music, allowing the audience to follow the depth of the plot and follow the layers of the mother Laura to persevere to the end and enjoy the discovery of the truth. The fun, especially the use of the game "find the answer through clues", photos, petals, deciduous teeth, doorknobs...like a string of pearls scattered on the ground, these familiar elements have become the key to revealing the answer to the mystery. Secret.
No one knows what Laura saw. Maybe everything is just her illusion, but this is not important. The important thing is that the stories that happened in the orphanage or are happening around her are very sad, especially The experience of those orphans is moving. Although the ending is still a distorted story, it is not just a sign of sorrow in itself. More pen and ink are paving the way for the warm ending. Although the accident is reasonable, The audience is also willing to deceive themselves and believe that death is no longer an end, but the beginning of happiness.
As the screenwriter of "Pan's Labyrinth", Gilmour still uses a sad tone this time to pay attention to the boundary between reality and illusion. "Lonely Castle" is a further breakthrough to the former and no longer emphasizes the two worlds. The limit of love, but hope to use love to cross it, maternal love is extremely great, because Laura’s unintentional deeds have caused irreparable consequences, this is the most cupful love, and this kind of love will affect the life of mankind. The instinctive barrier with death is destroyed, and ultimately surpasses death and the mundane.
The whole play took too much time to express the pain of Laura’s son after his disappearance. Although the mother’s beloved son was eager and never abandoned, the result was that other characters were obviously missing: the father became a worthwhile person. There are dispensable background characters, and the female agent is just a vase-like decoration, especially the orphanage caretaker who can play more suspenseful effects, and finally became a passerby who just died for the end.
"Lonely Castle" has surprises, but there are not too many breakthroughs. It still tells the story of emotional glory in the language of horror lenses, but compared to the aesthetic fatigue of blood and blood, this movie is a psychological thriller. , Compact, full of suspense, and delicate and gloomy at the same time, it still makes people feel that it is worthwhile to enjoy the fun of "being scared and happy" in the cinema.
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