"The Cry" or "Valley City"

Cameron 2022-03-28 09:01:07

When I first met this film, it was always called "The Cry", but after watching it, I found that Douyou explained that it should be called "Gucheng". The top-ranked film reviewer also made special research on this place name: one of the three famous mountains in Korea, the place where Japan killed Korean Christians, there were many sinful spiritual places during the Japanese occupation, and it moved out of various backgrounds such as history, geopolitics, and religious conflicts. And so it is concluded that the whole movie is a religious war in which Shinto slaughtered Christianity. A translated name can cause so many associations. Just like the huge controversy caused by the title of the film, the debate between the two major forces in the film—the female ghost in white and the Japanese and wizards, whether it is good or evil, has also extended to the real world. Everyone is collecting their own evidence, bringing out the director's interview, and zooming in on a certain shot to explain their point of view. It made me think that maybe this is the nature of religion, and it is the fear that the director, who grew up in a Catholic family, shared.
Talk about superstition and religion. First of all, let me talk about a psychological experiment - the famous Skinner box pigeon experiment: in 1936, Skinner in the United States was supposed to train pigeons to collide with enemy bombers, but he accidentally made a new discovery. He slightly modified Pavlov's conditioned reflex, and changed the logical relationship of reward-reward (a pigeon will press the pedal once and a beanie will fall out) into a logical relationship of irregular reward and reward (press One pedal sometimes gives Doudou and sometimes not). As a result, the homing pigeons showed colorful responses. When there was no feedback from pressing the pedals, the homing pigeons would press the pedals like crazy, but still could not get any beans. When the carrier pigeon was wondering, when she lifted her legs, jumped her feet, and flapped her wings, suddenly the beans fell out. The carrier pigeon thought that this method would allow the beans to come out, so she kept doing that for a long, long time. This was later considered to be the source of superstition. Having said so much, in fact, this is my hypnosis for the readers, which adds credibility to the following words I said:
Many Douyou, no matter whether their motives and ideas are correct or not, they have devoted a lot of enthusiasm and workload to writing film reviews, I'm very grateful for their work, because after reading so many of their reviews, I have a complete understanding of the whole movie. We can sort out the two angles of this film:
1. The woman in white is a good person. The woman in white is the patron saint of the village, she protects the villagers from the wild ghosts possessing the Japanese. Reasons: a. The woman in white gave every family a protective array of snapdragons. b. The Japanese finally turned into demons. c. The woman in white desperately wanted to catch Zhong Jiu at the end, hoping that he would wait for Sansheng to croak. She was sad when she failed. d. The wizard and the Japanese are a group. The director said that they will take pictures of dying people and wear the same crotch pants. If they are bad people, the woman in white is a good person. e. The Japanese raped the woman so the woman went mad causing a chain of events.
2. Wizards and Japanese are good people. They are all people who came to the village to destroy the ghost in white, but failed. Reason: a. The woman in white was wearing the clothes of the deceased, and she had Xiuzhen's hairpin at the end. b. She is not human, and the wizard vomits when she sees her. c. When the wizard left, he was attacked wildly by moths. d. The wizard and the Japanese are not fighting but exorcising different objects, and the appearance of the woman in white causes the Japanese to fail to exorcise and cause zombies. e. The Japanese showed stigmata.
All of the above statements are true, but there are also plot rebuttals.
1. If the woman's formation is to protect Zhong Jiu's family, why stop Zhong Jiu from going home. Logically speaking, the sooner Zhong Jiu goes home, the more he can prevent his daughter from killing the whole family. (Someone suggested that if he went home later, at least Zhong Jiu could survive without destroying his family. Zhong Jiu bought a plane ticket and went to Hainan to play around, and he could get the same result.)
2. If the Japanese are demons, why would they show stigmata? Why help the dead in the truck to escape? From the lens itself, he didn't do anything bad. All bad things are the dreams and imaginations of their own and the testimony of others. But that might not be a transcendence, or it might be a "resurrection." Maybe those who fell sick and killed people died early and were resurrected by him. The people he resurrected may be the same as normal people, but they have a time limit. Similar episodes in Hong Kong's "Maoshan Taoist" and South Korea's "Zombie Master" have descriptions, and the "corpse transformation" in Journey to the West also said that "the yin qi is too strong, and the corpse will change" (thinking carefully). The cut out plot says that he was a man during the Japanese occupation period, so he is not a man. The pictures he enshrines are also very old.
3. If the two wizards are not fighting, why does the Japanese feel pain every time the wizard drives a nail into the stake, which is highly consistent. Later, the wizard admitted on the phone that he had made a mistake, and the biggest ghost was the woman in white. Two logically consistent pieces of evidence were dismissed as deliberately misleading the audience.
4. If a woman is the protector, why would she wear the clothes of the dead, which is highly consistent with the victims. If she is a ghost, why does she have a shadow? Why can no bone and no meat grab the police's hand? If she is a ghost, why did Zhong Jiu and her partner have seen her, she threw stones at them, and at the same time Zhong Jiu asked her partner to go to a dermatologist. If this is a dream, is going to a dermatologist a dream too? It shows that women are not ghosts but real people. If she is human, then why does she speak the old saying "Japanese pirates"? And it was mentioned again and again.
5. The role of the wizard is considered by both sides to be bad guys, and is the role of a small minion who is used by all parties. Either they harmed people with a group of Japanese people, or a mercenary villain angered the white-clothed ghost.
You can see that every instance of each side has some inverse instance against it. And each instance of the opposite is actually given by the other. Basically, the woman in white says that the Japanese are ghosts, and the wizard says that the woman in white is a ghost, and the wizard and the Japanese are a group. In fact, once you determine which person is a human and the other is a ghost, you can find a bunch of reasons as evidence. As the Japanese and the little altar said at the end, if you think I am, it is useless to say anything. Everyone represents a religion. You can find a lot of evidence to believe in his goodness, and at the same time, you can find the opposite and you can also find the same evil. Once you choose to believe in him, you will find that those opposite evidences suddenly disappear.
At this time, if we take a step back, that is, we are separated from our God's perspective, that is, we grasp the perspective of the three-party story, and consider it from the perspective of a single party, in fact, the story will become clear. All of them are not lying. They are all good people. Like witnesses and audiences, they only see what they want to see. They use these to make judgments, but they all turn bad.
Japanese perspective: The Japanese is an ornithologist and university professor. It is unknown whether he was originally a monk or became a monk after being possessed by a ghost. Similarly, whether he was possessed by a ghost because of his own flaws and raped women, or because he was possessed by a ghost. It is not known that the evil spirit was used by the devil to rape women. In short, he was fighting against the ghost possessed by him, and he kept wiping his ass for the ghost possessed by him. The woman he allegedly raped was hanged, but police found he killed the mouth, after which it was only a remedy. He actually doesn't care about the life and death of the people in the village, there is no so-called rescue or harm, he just wants to hide his crimes, whether it is rape as a human or witchcraft as a ghost.
The woman in white: The woman in white is obviously not a ghost from the beginning. It is unknown whether she was originally in the village or came here because of a murder case. The incompetence of the police not even recognized by the people in their own village is indeed a disproportionate derogation. In short, the woman in white appeared because of the Japanese. She was probably a silly girl in the village, the product of a chain reaction of Japanese behavior. I don’t know when she was possessed by ghosts and gods. The power of ghosts and spirits on her is huge, stemming from hatred for the Japanese. Her mission is not to protect the villagers, but to kill Japanese ghosts. She has a natural hatred for Japanese ghosts, and she considers herself a victim. Her method is to lead Zhong Jiu to destroy the physical host of Japanese ghosts and all those who are possessed by ghosts. The annihilation should be caused by her, so She used the head down on Soo-jin, she was for the Japanese ghost, so she didn't think it was hurt. In the end, it didn't count until the Japanese were driven off the cliff and fell to their death. As everyone knows, this move made the demon who really hid behind to show up, because he felt the evil of everyone.
Wizard: Wizard is a derivative of the behavior of the woman in white. His love of money is not original sin but a stereotype. The information he got was that the children in the family were possessed by ghosts. He thought it was a trivial matter, and after the first ritual, he still thought it was a bow. After that, he launched an attack on the initiator, who was a Japanese ghost led by the woman in white. The Japanese was wiping his ass at this time. Whether he wanted to lead the husband of the deceased back to life, confess the crime of killing his wife and the whole family, and then die tragically like Zhang's Shennong, or whether he was afraid of the resurrection of the deceased and escaped it is unknown. This act of killing the Japanese ghost is sabotaged by Jong-kyu. The wizard is just a small person. He didn't know that there was such a complicated situation, so he wanted to escape, but he couldn't. His role is to represent that the whole thing was not done by the Japanese and the women in white, but by the huge evil force behind it, which eventually controlled them all.
So it's about here that "The Cry" becomes "Valley City", this place, this village is an entrance to evil, he gets what he wants, and everyone else is in pursuit of happiness and the desire for tranquility did what he wanted them to do.





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  • Alysha 2022-03-21 09:02:32

    I don't know what a fucking waste of time

  • Annette 2022-03-23 09:02:33

    "The ghost is the soul of the dead" is simply a live version of "Avalon"! People can't tell who is Merlin and Morgana, and who is the hidden devil! "Don't be fooled" Helpless Percyville, please go to victory boldly. In the 2016 Korean cult, there were two scares in the front, and all of them threw themselves into digging the mystery in the back. Just like being confused, they voluntarily became a lamb under the director's camera...

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  • Il-Gwang: Not everything that moves, breathes, and talks is alive.

  • Grandmother: It's started. You better brace yourself.