Because the movie says that the more you know, the deeper the curse will be. Then if I want to write a whole article to dismantle this movie, wouldn’t I hit the target? The story of “The Curse” is actually very simple, divided into two lines.

The annual Chinese horror film "The Curse" is finally here!

Uncle Meat felt this way after reading it for the first time.

is trembling.

includes when writing these words.

Because the movie says, the more you know, the deeper the curse will be.

Then I have to write a whole article to dismantle this movie. Isn’t that just hitting the target?

Just die.

No matter what, you have to curse out what you want to curse.

A simple sentence:

This movie is a trap!

The story of "Curse" is actually very simple, divided into two lines.

six years ago and now.

Six years ago in , our heroine Ruo Nan and her two friends A Dong and A Yuan formed a team called "Ghost Breaking Agent Team".

is euphemistically called exploring major scary locations and breaking superstitions, but it is actually intended to gain traffic online.

On this day, they came to the mountain where Uncle Adong was.

participated in a ceremony called "Bye Bye".

But in fact, it is an adventure into a tunnel that is not allowed to enter in legend.

There are many superstitions in Taiwan, and the same applies here.

People in the village believe in "Buddha Mother". The specific performance of

is that uses his hand to make a gesture that is opposite to "Bafangtian".

and recite a mantra called "Fire Buddha Xiuyi, Xinsha Moo".

Don’t repeat it, believe me, I will say

later. Unexpectedly, the three of them were given a slap on the wrist as soon as they arrived.

During the ceremony, an elderly mother-in-law said:

Even if the child in your belly has a name, it must be dedicated to the Mother Buddha.

What does that mean?

Ruonan was already pregnant at this time and named the child "Chen Letong".

From this moment on, Chen Letong no longer exists. He is not allowed to be mentioned again, or even thought about.

Ruonan looked at the red lanterns and red candles placed in the ancestral hall and felt strange.

After much thought, the three decided to leave this place.

But before leaving, he was discovered by a little girl.

The girl asked:

Do you want to go to a fun place?

Originally, they came here to explore the secrets.

Why not do such a good thing?

So everyone readily accepted it.

however.

Just at the entrance of the tunnel, they heard the faint cry of children.

For safety reasons, A Dong and A Yuan decided to go in first while Ruonan waited outside.

Sure enough.

If you don’t seek death, you won’t die. After a while, someone rushed out of the tunnel.

was shocked, and did not look back.

is Ayuan.

Ruo Nan chased A Yuan to the village and saw that the people in the village were covered with strange symbols.

Someone's body is on fire and he is standing still.

If the man called A Yuan, A Yuan would be extremely frightened:

Don’t ask

and then he would fall to his death.

And what about A Dong?

Later we learned that he hit a wall and died.

Ruonan was shocked and drove away in a hurry.

After that, she tried to forget that painful memory, and in order not to harm her unborn daughter, she gave her newborn daughter to Xie Qiming for adoption, and he named the girl Duoduo.

six years later.

Ruonan felt that things had improved, so he found Qiming and regained Duoduo's custody rights.

But things are far from that simple.

Do you still remember the curse six years ago?

The mother-in-law said that Ruonan should dedicate the name of the child in her belly "Chen Letong" to the mother of Buddha.

So, when she learned to write Duoduo's name "Chen Letong" again, one strange thing after another happened.

First, my daughter could see a person named "Weird".

Then grandma suddenly committed suicide by swallowing an iron rod.

In order to find out the cause of the matter, Qiming came to Yunnan to visit a mage who knew runes.

But what Ruonan waited for was not the truth of the matter, but...

Video of Qiming committing suicide.

People around us are dying again

When we are worried about the situation of Ruonan and Duoduo.

didn’t expect that.

The end of "The Curse" gives a huge and terrifying reversal.

sounds like a very ordinary ghost story?

Uncle Rou thought the same thing before seeing the end.

"Curse" has three major labels:

adaptation of real events, folk horror, and mock documentary.

I originally thought that this was all that was scary about "Curse". The prototype of the story of

happened in 2005.

Kaohsiung Medical College A family of 6 members were collectively possessed by evil spirits.

To put it simply, a family of six suddenly began to believe in a certain religion together, and the eldest daughter died in the end.

But the five family members always believed that the eldest daughter was not dead, so they kept the body at home until the mother said that she was "possessed by the ghost of the eldest daughter", and then they knew that someone was killed.

A family suffering from collective mental illness?

That’s what psychiatrists think.

But think about it, what is the chance that a family of six will suffer from collective mental illness?

Director Ke Mengrong adapted such a story. Obviously, what he focused on was not the ethics of the story, let alone the legend of demon possession, but " superstition ".

It’s not just about not eating.

Taiwan is really full of superstitions, big and small.

In an interview, Ke Mengrong recalled his childhood.

When he was a child, he would often hear adults telling him that a relative was writing some weird things and you had better stay away from him.

Having to “stay away” from “weird things” because you believe in them is actually a fear in people’s hearts.

The scariest things are never what can be photographed, but what is thought in the human mind.

What people fear most is always the unknown.

Even more, you will feel more afraid of things that were once familiar but become unknown again.

is like a relative who believes in some weird things.

is like that strange recurring ritual in the movie.

The director said:

"should not be close" can be compared to "poisonous", and "poisonous" will make you "sick", that is, cursed.

so you see.

The family in the news obviously believes in a "religion", but people find it ridiculous and think they are "sick". This constitutes a conflict between modern perspective and traditional culture.

so.

Simply put, what Ke Mengrong wanted to shoot was a story about " having to believe in evil ".

is like the "Ghostbusters" in the movie. They want to get rid of superstitions, but they end up being possessed by evil spirits and there is no cure.

It's like watching the end of a movie. You have to give it a five-star rating to attract more people to watch it, and then scold you.

Why?

Okay, we can finally get to the point.

That mantra.

Fire Buddha cultivates one, and his heart is silent.

Do you remember what Uncle Meat reminded you: Don’t repeat it.

Otherwise, you will curse.

Because the director told you in the end, this sentence is not a blessing.

but a curse:

Blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, life and death are famous. (Share the curse)

As long as you recite this sentence, you will be cursed. If you continue to make that gesture, the curse will be deeper. If you are like Uncle Meat, carefully recall the plot, and also If you write this down, it means there is absolutely no hope...

The whole movie is a big trap.

is full of malice!

Okay, calm down, calm down, it’s just a movie.

But it is also for this reason that I understand why the film adopts the style of pseudo-documentary.

Because there is a sense of participation.

is like the picture below. It can be frozen and played back, which can increase the sense of reality.

And this is exactly what the director wants.

He didn’t want you to be frightened in the theater.

Instead, he walked out of the theater and cursed: I was deceived into participating in a cult ceremony.

Then you have to give it to your friends...

But to be honest, the excellence of "Curse" mostly comes from the support of peers.

Horror Movie Okura Hong Kong, there are no horror movies nowadays.

Mainland, it is going back and forth in the strange circle of suspense movies.

is only available in Taiwan, and everything from production to market is maturing.

obviously has the momentum to become a leader in Chinese horror films.

Uncle Meat remembers that Taiwanese horror films showed their uniqueness very early on.

" double pupils " in 2002.

This team’s international production still has a score of 7.7 on Douban (which is already a super high score in the horror film dimension).

It is a mixture of Taoist thoughts, Taiwanese folk culture, criminal reasoning, mass murder and other elements.

However, despite its great reputation, the Taiwanese film market cannot actually support a film of its level of investment and production scale.

So in the past 13 years, Taiwanese ghost movies have still not made any big splash.

It wasn’t until 2015 that was finally released in the true sense.

" little girl in red ". After

was released that year, it was both a critical success and a hit.

was shortlisted for 4 Golden Horse Awards that year and set a record at the box office.

is based on some supernatural video tapes from the 1998 supernatural program "Escape", and is adapted from the urban legend "The Little Girl in Red" that once caused a sensation in Taiwan.

opens the terrifying universe of supernatural legends.

's later sequel " Little Girl in Red 2" also introduced Taiwan's folk belief " Tiger Lord ", a patron saint who guards cities and villages to exorcise evil spirits.

In the same year as "Red Clothes", Taiwan also released Hsieh Ting-han's "Remembering the Corpse", which featured the theme of ghost marriage and added magic and cultural elements such as Taoist priests and raising imps.

In 2018, "Zongxie" once again explored Taiwan's traditional culture and opened up the theme universe of "palace and temple folklore".

The long-standing traditional ritual of sending away evil spirits "Sending Meat Zong" has been spread along the coast of Changhua.

Open the altar, get up, and remove the rope and tree stump used for hanging. Then they beat gongs and drums, spread salt and rice, and set off firecrackers to send the "evil spirit" to the seaside.

The success of these films is like a flame, igniting the long-dormant horror film market in Taiwan.

In 2020, in addition to folk horror, " Female Ghost Bridge ", which adapted a university campus legend, began to detonate the campus horror universe in Taiwan.

Seeing this, it is not difficult to find out that the beauty of desktop horror is the gameplay.

It cleverly revitalizes the horror elements of "collective memory".

Folk beliefs and urban legends.

and accurately grasped the fear of gods in East Asian culture .

cannot falsify with , just in case.

Let’s talk about “The Curse”. The

movie can be said to be the master of Taiwanese horror movies.

On the one hand, it inherits the video pseudo-documentary format of "Blair Witch" and the curse theme of " Midnight Bell ".

But the most fascinating thing about it is that it is rooted in local folk beliefs in Taiwan, and it creates folk wonders in every detail.

For example, the part where the heroine is looking for a man.

The director knows very well that 's limited perspective is what makes it scary.

Because you have no way of predicting what you will face the next time the camera shakes.

Moreover, it aroused the fear deep in the hearts of people of East Asian culture.

The awe of the strange powers of gods and Buddhas.

Elements such as the big black Buddha mother, the blessing scripture "Fire Buddha cultivates one, and the heart is humming" appear repeatedly.

has another reversal of meaning...

takes the "interaction" to a new level, elevating the horror.

For example, break the fourth wall and use psychological experiments for interaction design.

begins with the heroine Ruo Nan talking to the mirror, directly inviting the audience into her world.

This "interaction" reaches its climax in the reversal at the end of the film.

The movie itself also wants to be a "curse", giving the audience and .

It takes advantage of the mentality of people in Taiwan and even in many parts of East Asia to "stay away" from gods and ghosts.

has used interactive forms from the beginning, deliberately forcing the audience to touch the so-called taboos. In the end, the true intention of the heroine who asked for help all the way was revealed, which severely shocked the audience.

So, on this basis, "The Curse" was a complete explosion.

is phenomenal.

It is known as "the scariest movie in Taiwanese film history".

became the first Taiwanese movie in 2022 to have a box office of over 100 million (Taiwan dollars).

It’s a horror movie, but it beats the superhero blockbuster “Batman” at the box office. It’s so incredibly popular.

There is almost no doubt that it will be a milestone in the history of Taiwanese horror films.

With the success of word-of-mouth and box office, the director has planned to launch the "One Word Universe" series with the theme of "Taiwan's horrific and real events in recent years".

In the desperate situation where there are no ghosts in mainland China and Hong Kong horror movies are almost extinct.

is responsible for the frightening baton, and finally someone has come to pick it up.

is just that.

Who can help me beat up the director first?

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