Stephen Chow After becoming "Stephen Chow ", he was full of confidence and founded Star Color Film Company, preparing to show his strength.
However, the first ambitious work " The Westward Journey " failed miserably at the box office.
was even rated as one of the top ten bad movies of that year.
directly led to the bankruptcy of Stephen Chow's Star Color Company.
As the director and screenwriter of "A Chinese Odyssey", Liu Zhenwei feels that he is wrong with Stephen Chow's entrusted.
Thinking of helping Stephen Chow recover, Liu Zhenwei returned to his old career and started filming his early familiar ghost movies.
This movie is " Resurrection Night ".
Although the box office of "Returning the Soul" also had 16 million yuan, it ranked last in the box office of Stephen Chow's film works.
At that time, many people thought that this movie was a stain on Stephen Chow's works.
However, as time goes by, the bad movie king of that year, "A Chinese Odyssey", was sent to the altar, and this "Returning to the Soul" has been repeatedly mentioned and interpreted by many movie fans.
score has now risen to 8.1.
Recently I watched the movie again. When I was a child, I thought it was a horror movie. Now I look back and find that it was a rare self-breakthrough for Stephen Chow.
is a successful example of the perfect combination of nonsensical style and horror elements.
Various unintentional details provide broad space for the interpretation of the video. Under
, let us return to the world of "Returning to the Souls" and explore another truth hidden behind the story.
"Returning to the Soul" is about this story:
That night, the moon was dark and the wind was high.
Li and his wife sprinkled banknotes and burned high incense in the corridor.
Because tonight is the old lady's soul-returning night.
The couple prayed sincerely, but they were afraid that the old lady would seek life.
Because the old lady died because of them.
That day, the old lady and Mrs. Li quarreled, and Mr. Li stepped forward and pulled the two away.
accidentally pushed the old lady down and hit the refrigerator.
That's it, the old lady is gone.
Ghosts have heard of it and fewer people have seen it.
But as the saying goes, there are heads and debts, what should come is still coming.
First, the Li couple discovered that their son was missing.
Ask the security captain to help find his son.
The security captain found the child hiding in the kitchen and eating chicken legs. The couple had just breathed a sigh of relief.
However, if one is not careful, the son is gone again.
Mr. Li was responsible for going out to find him, and he asked his wife to wait at home.
The wife looked at her mother-in-law's photo, and the more she looked, the more she became more and more panicked.
Then, the chair was moving for no reason.
It feels like someone is sitting on it.
The next second, the TV suddenly played the picture on the back of his head.
My wife turned around and found that it was a DV placed on the cabinet, which automatically started recording.
She turned off the DV switch and waited for her to look up again, and the picture of the TV turned into her mother-in-law's face.
The wife was so scared that she ran away in panic. She opened the door and found that her son was holding a knife and trying to stab her.
At this moment, a man wearing the same coat as the male lead in ", the killer, ", appeared.
scared the child away.
His name is Leon.
is a patient in Chongguang Mental Hospital.
He claims to be able to exorcise ghosts and can also talk to the plants in his hands.
His appearance attracted the attention of the broken girl A Qun.
She believed that Leon was a master hidden in a mental hospital.
Leon successfully drove away the wronged soul of the old lady attached to the child.
The staff of the mental hospital came to take him away.
Aqun admired him and went to the mental hospital to find him the next day.
Leon told Aqun that the ghost of the last night had not been removed and he wanted to leave the mental hospital with her and go to the building.
As midnight approached, the security captain patrolled the stairs and saw the old lady coming to seek her life.
was so scared that the three souls disappeared.
The old lady told her that she was killed by her son and daughter-in-law.
Just as Mr. Li appeared behind the security captain with a knife.
This situation kills people and silence them.
The security captain and one of the residents were surrounded by Li and taken to the rooftop.
Mr. Li intimidated the two and asked them to jump.
Just as Leon and Aqun arrived in time, Leon took out his pistol and told the Li couple not to move.
Mr. Li was frightened and fell to death, and Mrs. Li didn't want to live anymore.
Before death. She threatened to seek revenge on everyone on the night of the Soul Resurrection.
Leon was talking to her, and the gun in his hand accidentally got fired, and Mrs. Li was shot downstairs.
In order to prevent Mrs. Li from returning to her soul, Leon was determined to save her.
After a shocking operation, it was declared a failure.
Leon had no choice but to settle Mrs. Li himself. After that, he said:
The night of the soul will surely be bloody and storm.
The security captain shivered when he heard this, thinking of letting Leon train him and his men. On the night of the soul-returning night, he took the ghost down.
In the eyes of normal people, Leon's so-called training is just a serious nonsense.
Except for A Qun, everyone else looks like "I believe you, a big-headed ghost".
Soon it was the day before the first seventh day of the Li couple, and two security guards in the building died.
Leon analysis, everything is an illusion, they are all scared to death.
He also said that as long as the will is firm, ghosts can't do anything to them.
However, ghosts seem to be a little smarter.
Mrs. Li has already possessed A Qun, while Mr. Li has possessed him to the security captain.
Leon discovered it in time and took everyone out of the office.
He and Aqun set up a plan and grabbed Mrs. Li's ghost with plastic wrap.
When everyone was about to remove the security captain from the eight pieces to exorcise ghosts, Leon felt something was wrong. He slowly turned around. Sure enough, Mr. Li's ghost had been transferred to the little security guard.
Next, Mr. Li, like the Texas Chain Saw Madman, took the chainsaw and chased everyone.
The only survivors are Leon, Aqun, Ruhua and Huang Yifei.
Four people fled to the rooftop, with no way ahead, and there were pursuers behind.
should be sure to die now.
Leon had a sudden inspiration and made four flight numbers in newspapers. He said that as long as he put it on, he could fly away and leave the building.
Although everyone does not believe it, it is dead, so I can only take a gamble.
As a result, a miracle happened.
Four people are like bamboo dragonflies on their heads in "Doraemon".
Flying freely in the sky.
On the way, Mr. Li's ghost grabbed Leon's pants and was blown away by Leon's grenade hiding in his pants.
As a result, Mr. Li possessed Leon and four people fell from the air.
Leon picked up the chainsaw and chased three other people.
When the ghost was about to win a great victory, Leon controlled his body with his remaining will and handed the chainsaw to Aqun.
Let Aqun kill himself and end it all.
Although Aqun couldn't bear it, he had no other choice.
In the end, Ruhua, Aqun, and Huang Yifei were regarded as mentally ill.
Although you don’t have to go to jail, you can’t take a step out of the mental hospital.
and Aqun has been waiting for Leon to return to his soul.
Leon did not break his promise. Although he was late, he still came back to see Aqun for the last time.
The story of "Returning to the Soul" ends here.
In fact, the movie did not clearly state its position. Is there any ghost in this world?
Similarly, the movie did not explicitly say that Leon would be psychic.
If you believe there is a ghost, then understand it according to the title and just watch it as a horror movie.
If you don’t believe there are ghosts, then can the story of this movie still make sense?
Let’s talk about the conclusion first, it’s absolutely OK.
and it is even more terrifying than the version with ghosts.
First of all, one thing is certain, Leon is indeed mentally ill.
But the movie didn't tell me why he was mentally ill.
But from two details, he may be a policeman before he became ill.
Let’s watch the scene of the Li couple on the rooftop.
Leon fired two shots, neither of them aimed at the vital points.
And Leon said to the Li couple:
"Don't move."
pointed a gun at another person and told him not to move.
Who would do this?
is either a gangster or a policeman.
But if it is a bandit, the shooting must be based on killing the other party.
and Leon does not.
So, the probability of he being a policeman is very high.
Let us make up for what Leon has experienced before.
Maybe he killed a civilian by mistake while he was a policeman.
This incident became Leon's nightmare.
He thinks they will turn into ghosts and seek his own life.
The more I think about it, the more I become more insane, and gradually I start to have hallucinations.
Leon feels that he can see ghosts.
Let’s go back to the beginning of the film, who proposed the concept of returning to the soul?
is the Li couple.
They were crazy about suggesting that the old lady would come back on the first seventh day.
However, burning paper alone cannot convince others.
So, the two wrote and directed a play.
lied that the child was lost and asked the security captain to help find it.
Next there is a suspicious detail, the child is lost.
The security captain came up and found the child as soon as he entered the kitchen.
A person who is not familiar with their layout can easily find a child.
Did the Li couple really not see it?
obviously isn't.
He just wants to make the security captain convinced that the Resurrection Night is real.
There are really ghosts in this world.
Moreover, there were only two people who saw the child possessed by a ghost:
One is Leon and the other is Aqun.
Why can Aqun be seen? I will talk about it later.
So, the movie is using Leon's perspective to tell us that children are possessed by ghosts.
The real situation may be:
At that time, the child witnessed his parents' evil deeds towards the elderly, and his personality changed drastically. On the night of his soul, he saw that his parents were nervous and frightened, and ran away.
This child has never appeared again.
Why did the security captain see the old lady's ghost?
That's because he has believed in the return of his soul.
Fear made him hallucinate, and in the stairs he was actually talking to himself.
just happened to be heard by Mr. Li, so he had the idea of killing someone to silence him.After witnessing the showdown between Leon and the Li couple on the rooftop, he firmly believed that Leon could be psychic and could teach them how to catch ghosts.
Don’t look at Leon’s tutorial, just like a tiger.
actually has two core methods:
First, overcome psychological fear.
Second, as long as the eyes are covered with cow's tears, you can see ghosts.
However, after everyone painted it, only Aqun saw the ghost.
She was scared by the ghost and ran out of the restaurant, paying attention to what the guy played by Lin Xue said.
He said he took drugs in broad daylight, exactly like his wife.
We all know that taking too much drugs will cause hallucinations. There is another plot after
, confirming the fact that Aqun really has hallucinations.
Leon said on the rooftop that he had magical skills to protect his body and was invulnerable to swords and guns.
Only Aqun really went up and gave him a knife.
The next shot is blood dripping on the ground.
Then Leon fell to the ground and the others surrounded him.
Next second, everyone disappeared.
Only Aqun is left.
And there is obviously no blood on the ground, here is a down shot.
is similar to God's perspective, suggesting to the audience that Aqun is also a mentally ill patient.
She can also see hallucinations.
On the night of the soul-returning night, two security guards received the lunch boxes one after another.
Leon said it was all hallucinations, and the two people were scared to death by themselves.
Next he took out a plate of flowers and asked everyone to stare at them, and emphasized to everyone that what everyone saw next was hallucination.
Leon's move seems to be hypnotizing everyone.
So, the next series of supernatural events were all hallucinations of everyone.
Why are only Leon, Ruhua, Huang Yifei, and Aqun alive in the end.
That's because other people's will is not firm and they are scared to death by their own fear.
Aqun can see hallucinations himself, so he is naturally not afraid.
Huang Yifei had always wanted to commit suicide, commit suicide and be killed by a demon, for him.
does not make any difference.
Ruhua is the only normal person among the four. I will put the reason behind to chat.
Best proves that everything they experienced was hallucinatory, which is the plot of the last four people flying in the sky.
Look at the location where they fell, it happens to be the door of this building. The plot before
clearly saw them flying in the air for a distance. Why does
still fall to your doorstep?
This actually means that the four of them are jumping off the building.
But the difference is that only Leon falls.
A detail, after A Qun, Ruhua and Huang Yifei fell, the three of them were unscathed.
Look at Leon, who appeared with a chainsaw, obviously broke one of his legs.
contacted and later Leon asked Aqun to kill herself. It can be speculated that the person who pushed Leon down might be Aqun who suddenly became ill.
Aqun cannot accept this fact.
So I modified and beautified this memory, and turned it into Leon asking himself to kill the other party.
The purpose is to relieve one's guilt.
The last conversation between Ruhua and Huang Yifei in the mental hospital exposed the fact that Ruhua is a normal person.
The lawyer doubted whether the paper hat could really fly, and Huang Yifei asked Ruhua to "fly one to show him".
Then Ruhua pushed the lawyer down directly. Later, facing Huang Yifei's doubts, Ruhua also argued, "I thought it was you who asked me to do this." The details of
fully demonstrate that Ruhua is pretending to be stupid from beginning to end.
He knew that he would definitely die if he fell down, so he pushed the lawyer down.
The reason why the three of them were not sentenced was because the court ruled that they were mentally ill.
If Ruhua is found to be a normal person, she will definitely be taken to jail.
So he chose to pretend to be crazy, as long as he stays in a mental hospital anyway.
No one would doubt any actions he made.
To some extent, he is the one who won the last one.
The Leon that Aqun saw on the bench was just her hallucination.
Because according to the setting of returning souls, ghosts will only appear at midnight on the first seventh night, and ghosts will not be seen in broad daylight.
So, once you take the "atheistic" perspective to watch this movie.
You will find that what is more terrifying than ghosts is the human heart.
or above is my alternative interpretation of "Returning to the Soul".
If you have watched the movie, do you think that the world in the movie really has ghosts?
