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Kelsie 2022-03-19 09:01:08

Barely passing. The script combines two story templates, such as "Theorem", intruders and serial homicide films. The hypnotist pretends to be crazy and silly to awaken the heart of happiness and enmity of human individuals, and the detective who pursues the truth is finally solved by lynching. The problem (this kind of paranoia is a magic weapon for him to fight against the pressure brought by his mentally ill wife and maintain a normal life), because these two stories are easy to cancel each other out, so that the script has no standpoint, and there is no sense of substitution. As for Kurosawa Qing This story, inspired by the sarin gas incident of the Aum Shinrikyo sect, also lacks depth. Originally, a person may be a cancer cell in society, but he is also the antibiotic of the earth. This is not surprising, although At first glance it looks a bit anti-social. The audiovisual language is the iconic black and clear breath, the sea is equipped with a suspected industrialized soundtrack, the bloody shots that appear quickly, and the many weird and stable spaces are still the absurd and cold daily life of the post-industrial era in his eyes.
Davon 2022-03-24 09:03:26

The murder case in the film is not the focus. The real culprit and tactics are revealed early, and its role is to draw out those patients: the criminals are sick, the police are sick, the family members are sick, passers-by are sick... In a society where everyone is sick, there is no cure. Know. The potential personality drawn out by hypnosis is the outlet or real feedback of this morbid society. There is no ghost in the whole film, but the human heart is better than the devil. The common way of creating an atmosphere in Japanese thrillers is to use a lot of unhurried daily shots to narrow the distance with the audience, and then suddenly burst out and hurt people seemingly inadvertently. Such emergencies that take place in a believable living environment, even without the need for sound effects and close-ups, can bring a powerful impact to the audience's perception. Bonus points for photography and composition.

hypnotic horror

Elizabeth 2022-03-24 09:03:26

Horror movies are the type that I keep away from. Because I was timid and sensitive since I was a child, I also think that it is not clever to bluff people with audio-visual stimulation, bloody violence, and demons. Of course, I will appreciate the wonderful psychological suspense film. The "X Holy Rule" (Cure, 1997) is in this category. The police detective played by Koji Koji found that the murderers of a series of murders would engrave an "X" on the necks of the victims. They were suspected of being hypnotized and poured out their secret violent desires. The detective finally meets the hypnotist. It is a contest of mind and will, and the ending is even more weird and disturbing... The film appeared a year earlier than Hideo Nakata's "Midnight Bell", and Kurosawa was in the director's tube ten. After the rest of the year, he entered the international film circle. Kurosawa admits to being influenced by David Fincher's The Seven Deadly Sins (1995); the opening bathroom scene also pays homage to Hitchcock's The Psycho (he lists Hitchcock and Yasujiro Ozu as his own most influential director).

Mixed with Western psychology, cults, Eastern mysticism and the evil release of human repression in a deformed society, the film is calm and precise, regardless of rhythm, atmosphere, and performance, it is silent, but the undercurrent is turbulent, and all the weirdness is revealed. The indeterminate state of matter is crucial to both the implementation of hypnosis and the audiovisual effects of the film: cigarette butts on and off, lighter flames, flowing water (and sounds), dryer idling noise... and broken cities, garbage burning Fields, empty mental hospitals, and abandoned cult gathering places all have a strong apocalyptic color. Space fits people's anxiety. The obsessive questioning of the hypnotist "Who are you?" is a question about the fluidity and uncertainty of identity and self-knowledge, and it also makes people realize that the so-called rationality, intelligence and morality of human beings are in fact too fragile. hit.

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