"In the end, I still won"...

Alfonso 2022-10-21 20:56:41

"Don't believe what you report, and don't report what you believe"—this deafening summary appears at the beginning and end, more dazzling than the vampire peek at the end of the film. It can be said that this "Evil Night Flying Devil" was a wanton ridicule of Stephen King to the American news media industry at that time.

I remember that after I learned about this work some time ago, I have been frantically looking for the source of the film, but to no avail, and my enthusiasm was finally extinguished. When I look back and watch it today, I can't help but find that this film has really lived up to my expectations - the film has a good rhythm, the picture is bright and not frivolous, and the soundtrack: makeup, atmosphere rendering and scene design are all eye-catching. The irony of the subject is also more intense and penetrating than in Kim's previous works. So this "Evil Night Flying Demon" immediately made me distinguish it from Jin Ye's (relatively) mediocre works in the 1980s and 1990s.

Since the appearance of the characters from the beginning, I have understood that this is not a pure blood horror movie. At the end, the heroine witnesses the death of the protagonist and the real murderer escapes. Every hint, foreshadowing and foreshadowing in the film are echoed. With the tragic music, the heroine murmured the opening sentence, and the transformation and reincarnation of one's identity came to a glorious end, which made people intoxicated while trembling.

"In the end, I still won." - The heroine sneered mercilessly at the corpse of the male protagonist, but who knew that the corpse had repeated those words several times before...

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The Night Flier quotes

  • Richard Dees: Never believe what you publish, and never publish what you believe

  • Ezra Hannon: What paper you say you're from?

    Richard Dees: Inside View, you know it?

    Ezra Hannon: Oh yeah. My wife Martha reads your paper. After she's done with it, I use it to line our kitty's toilet box. Soaks that cat piss real good.