There are two forms of terror, one is sensory terror and the other is psychological terror.
For example, when you hear your wife knock on the door and say that you forgot to bring the key, you go to open the door and see a skeleton-this is called sensory horror. If you open the door and see nothing, then the wife is there. The upstairs asked who was knocking at the door—this is called psychological terror.
There is no doubt that psychological horror is a more advanced form of horror, because it is not intended to scare you, but to create a mysterious and dangerous atmosphere for you.
An excellent horror film is to maximize psychological horror.
"Monster Night Panic" is a very clever horror film directed by David Lynch.
This unique director combines weird, mysterious, gorgeous, anxious, gloomy, and surreal into one, and has established his own style since the first film.
David Lynch’s most acclaimed movie is "Mulholland Road". (I believe everyone has at least heard of it.)
In 2001, "Mulholland Road" turned out to shock the film world. Both hardcore film critics and rookie fans are all eager, but unfortunately there should be nothing that can be understood once. There are countless detailed explanations of film reviews that shed tens of thousands of words, which became an interesting event in the film industry that year.
Why is a puzzling "Mulholland Road" so popular?
Because it is mysterious and solvable.
He faithfully followed the rules of Freud's "Analysis of Dreams" and restored the motives of dreams, the composition of dreams, and the details of dreams into the movie. Although there is still a lot of understanding, almost every one of them can justify themselves. So although it is very compelling, it satisfies all curiosities who want to find out.
In contrast to it is "Monster Night Panic". This movie was shot in 1997, 4 years before Mulholland Road.
The movie contains all the characteristics of David Lynch, but it is not so famous, and people rarely talk about it.
Why?
Because it is mysterious and unsolvable.
Is the movie really unsolvable?
Let’s review the plot first. The movie can basically be divided into three parts:
Fred heard a mysterious voice in the door intercom saying: Dick is dead, but the door is empty. He meets a stranger who looks strange and all-knowing at his wife's friend party. Mysterious videotapes appeared in front of Fred's house one after another, and the last one was of him kneeling beside his wife's body. Fred went to jail and disappeared again.
The character who replaced Fred was named Pete. After he was released from prison, he met his client Eddie’s girlfriend Alice. This Alice and Renee looked almost the same. Their adultery was quickly discovered by Eddie, and Alice asked to have sex with him. Pete eloped, a stranger appeared to warn Pete, Pete and Alice came to the desert cabin.
Pete changed back to Fred, and Alice changed back to Leney. Fred meets a stranger and kills Eddie who has an affair with Leney (not Eddie, but Dick.), then Fred returns to the door of the house and speaks the mysterious sentence he heard at the beginning of the movie. Words: Dick is dead.
Many people tried to open the door of "Monster Night Panic" with the key of "Mulholland Road", but it didn't seem to go smoothly. Look at the most authoritative person-how does the director explain it?
David Lynch said in an interview: "During the writing of "Monster Night", we (the director and another screenwriter) never talked about topics such as meaning. We seem to have a full consensus on the way forward. , So many things are silent. We have also talked about meaning, but it is very dangerous. Once it is too specific, the dream will stop."
For David Lynch, the most attractive part of the movie It is: it is a mystery.
This sentence sounds very discouraging, because everyone doesn't like incomprehensible things, but it's not. The breakthrough lies in the mysterious figure that no one can explain clearly: the terrifying stranger.
This "prophet"
who always comes out to threaten the protagonist when he is in peace, saves his life when he is in danger, and seems to know everything well- who is he! ?
Have you ever dreamed? When you are having a beautiful dream, you can always "conscious" it, but it is not so beautiful, just a dream; when you are having a nightmare, you can always "conscious" So terrible, just wake up, this voice always reminds you in your dreams that this is just a dream.
The appearance of a stranger is also a reminder: this is just a dream. The stranger is the personification of that "awake voice." The stranger runs through from beginning to end, that is to say, the movie is a dream from beginning to end.
When you understand that this movie is a dream, the content outside the dream is not photographed directly. Then you can understand the movie, which is also the most fascinating part of the movie: you can imagine the other parts of the iceberg that you know about being submerged by the sea:
based on my own understanding, myna guesses that real life might be like this: Fred and Leni are a couple, but their relationship is not good. The problem is that Fred can’t satisfy his wife sexually. One day he found out that Leni had an affair with Dick, so he became jealous and took Dick. killed.
People who have done bad things are always afraid of being known, so the nightmare (the movie) begins with fear: someone knows that Dick is dead. After Fred killed Dick, he didn't improve his relationship with Leni, and he still felt distrustful of her. He loves and hates his wife who has betrayed him, wants to kill her, and is full of contradictions, so he dare not start, so he "with the help of" a video tape, indirectly tells himself that his wife has been killed.
He knew in his heart that he was guilty, so he went to jail reasonably. But he wanted to live a new life, to save himself, and to redeem his sins. So in the dream he gave himself another life-Pete younger than him, and gave his wife another life-blond Alice.
Fred wants to do something that can't be done in real life-take his wife back from his lover, so he sets Pete as a handsome, young and super-sexual man. Alice can't stop him, and is willing to give up. Stay and fly with him. The opponent Dick has become a ferocious Eddie-in order to make his revenge forgivable.
But the things that made Fred desperate:
Although Pete satisfies Alice's desire, in the desert, Alice tells the truth-this is also the truth that Fred can't get rid of subconsciously: you will never get me.
So Fred took off Pete's useless skin and killed Dick. The dream and reality overlapped-the redemption that was originally hoped did not happen, but fell into the inevitable tragedy of murder.
Fred really hoped that the story could be repeated again, so he returned home and connected the beginning of the story.
But this time he was followed by the police. After saying "Dick is dead" on the intercom, he drove to escape.
He was once again lost on the Lost highway and had a headache again. He shook his head in despair and screamed hysterically.
He couldn't see his face at all in the movie, but through the screenshots, it can be seen that it is no longer Fred or Pete. He has been completely lost in the dream.
A dream of self-salvation ended in an endless nightmare.
In my opinion, "Monster Night Panic" is David Lynch's most successful work, and "Mulholland Road" is the director's compromise work after frustration-since you all like to interpret, well, I Just make a solvable movie.
Why do I say it was a compromise, because after "Muholland Road", the director made a more incomprehensible film "Continent Empire". This movie does not even have a script, so it is naturally "chaotic".
David Lynch is one of my most admired directors. He uses horrible and mysterious movies to arouse people's curiosity about the unknown.
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