There is a type of thriller and suspense film that will deliberately reveal the key setting at the end of the film. In the first half of the film, the audience and the protagonist do not know this key setting, so with doubts, the plot that advances step by step affects the heartstrings. The spirit was highly nervous, and when it was about to end, this setting was thrown out. The protagonist and the audience suddenly realized, and the previous questions were also explained. Many dialogues and behaviors were strange before, but after knowing the setting, people sighed that it was so , a major source of charm of this type of film is the endless aftertaste after the end.
This key setting in Kojima's Horror is very good. The heroine (played by Nicole) lives in a big deserted house. The young lady and brother have a strange disease and cannot see the light. The curtains of the house must be drawn tightly. Yan Shishi, my sister will also see other people in her house. The piano will be played by itself when no one is playing. They think the house is haunted, but at the end of the movie, we find out that their family, including the three servants, is the real one. The ghost, and the "ghost" I saw before was the new owner who just moved into the house. The little boy in the house also saw the young lady and brother who were already ghosts. So both the man and the ghost were frightened by each other.
The English name of the movie is the others, which literally translates to other people. It is much more appropriate than the name Kojima Cry. I saw someone translate the others as "invisible guests". If it wasn't used in other dramas, it would be true is so apt.
A house, at the same time, two families, but two realms of yin and yang, and occasionally can detect the existence of each other, both families are frightened by the blurring and crossing of boundaries from time to time. the others.
The film's lighting colors and content work well together. In the indoor part, because the siblings cannot see the light, most of the scenes are lit in dark colors, and the furnishings of the room are submerged in the darkness. Only the characters have a dark yellow light, as if the dangers and ghosts in the dark are ready to attack at any time. Pounced as a helpless character. When the hostess is alone, for example, at the beginning of the movie, the curtains are drawn, but at this time, the color of the movie is extremely cool. Although the light is very strong, it illuminates the room very brightly, but it is very pale and deserted, which stands out. The confusion and fragility of the heroine, as well as the strength of her hard support. In the outdoor scene, including the woods and the surrounding of the house, there is fog. The entire color is blue-gray, which is quite cold, making people feel damp and cold, depressing and lonely, and enhancing the sense of the closed space of the island.
In terms of camera angles, there are some shots that imitate the so-called ghost's perspective. For example, when the hostess heard movement in the utility room upstairs, when she went to check, the camera kept following the hostess, almost directly scolding the hostess. On the back of the head, it was as if the ghost was following the heroine, ready to attack her at any time, so that the audience's heart, like the heroine, was raised in their throats, and they were afraid that they would be strangled by the neck as soon as they turned their heads.
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