"The Curse", known as the last of Asia's four major horror films, officially launched on Netflix on July 8.
The story starts from being foggy at the beginning to the shocking reversal at the end. It seems to be mysterious, but it is very scary if you think about it carefully.
The heroine, who is a mother, uses an almost guiding method to make the audience mistakenly think that the strange talisman totem and the murmur throughout the whole story are just a form of blessing from a certain belief. In fact, the heroine is trying to save her daughter. , and even did not hesitate to take advantage of the audience's "spell" to pass it on.
Everyone who sees the image will be cursed, including you who are watching this video.
The more people bear the power of the spell, the weaker the curse will be. Only through this can the cursed daughter of the heroine in the film be saved. In this way, it connects with the audience. It is full of malice and the subject matter is quite fresh.
Compared with the previous three films, "The Curse" can finally be called a qualified horror film.
The film is based on the unexplained folk history of Taiwan Province and is presented in the form of a pseudo-documentary. The setting of spreading a spell through images and dragging down everyone who sees it is undoubtedly the film's three strongest selling points.
The entire story line has a gloomy atmosphere, and the background music, including art design, and a large number of monologues and self-narrative shots complement each other perfectly.
did not use low-level scare tactics, but instead deepened the psychological fear.
The film is directed by young director Ke Mengrong. The story base of
is adapted from the real incident of Kaohsiung family of six being "possessed by evil spirits". After reading "The Curse" this time, the editor went back to the source and learned the whole story of what happened behind the scenes.
Judging from the subjective guesses given by the creative team.
I think the final open ending of the film is what many people think is the most reasonable explanation for the incident in which a family of six in Kaohsiung was "possessed by evil spirits".
Back in 2005, a piece of news shocked the entire Taiwan Province. Everyone who heard the news joined in the heated discussion. In a three-story building located in Gushan District, Kaohsiung, lived a family of six members surnamed Wu. , they are father and mother, three daughters and one son. The head of the household, the father is a painter in his 50s, the eldest sister of the Wu family runs a lunch business with her boyfriend, and the second daughter works as a nurse in a hospital. No matter how you look at it, this is all very ordinary. an ordinary family.
In February 2005, it was time to worship ancestors in the spring. The second daughter, a nurse, and her colleagues participated in a ceremony held at a temple in , Nanzi District, . After returning, the lives of the family of six changed dramatically. Variety.
The second daughter came home and said that she had become a Qi the day she got home. Qi Qi means a spiritual medium, and can also be understood as a fairy from the Northeast who uses her own body as a medium to open up the path of Yin and Yang and can communicate with "gods and ghosts".
The second daughter started to become nervous, jumping up and down, making a lot of noises, and even knocked over all the memorial tablets of her ancestors, and even several people couldn't hold them down.
If such a thing happened to us, I think most people would choose to seek medical treatment or investigate what happened to the second daughter outside.
But the Wu parents did not do this. Instead, they believed that their second daughter was "possessed".
Due to the complicated local beliefs and restrictive thinking in Taiwan Province, the family decided to go to the temple to worship after discussion. They thought that it would be fine if they gave away the belongings of the second daughter. During this period, the Wu family's parents hurriedly recalled her from other places. The eldest daughter, who is a migrant worker, went to the temple in Nanzi District as a family of six.
The master at the temple learned about the situation of the second daughter of the Wu family and explained: She has touched a taboo and needs to practice meditation to lift the curse for a month.
So the six members of the Wu family went to Wuzhi Mountain in Hsinchu, Kaohsiung to meditate. They returned home in April 2005. Others did not know the content of the meditation. What the outside world knew was that the six members of the Wu family returned home a month later. All crazy.
They all became "gods from all walks of life" in the sky.
In the next few days, the neighbors could hear the fierce noise from the Wu family from morning to night, as well as the sound of various objects being broken. It became more and more intense, and the sounds became more and more hysterical. They were shocked. Heart!
In the end, the neighbors couldn't bear it anymore and called the police. When the police officers came to Wu's house, they were all stunned by the scene in the room. The house seemed to have been ransacked and was in a mess, with black clothes hanging everywhere. The walls were covered with strange talismans, the floor was covered with feces and urine, and the smell was so pungent that I couldn't even open my eyes.
The six members of the Wu family did not react at all when they saw a stranger entering. Their eyes were distracted and they muttered something, like a whisper or a mantra, but they couldn't really hear it clearly.
At this time, the police officers found the eldest sister lying in the corner and dying. The situation was urgent. The eldest sister was sent to the hospital for rescue, and several others were brought back to the police station for interrogation.
During the diagnosis and treatment of my eldest sister, the doctor found that multiple organs in her body were in severe failure, and smelly water kept coming out of her mouth and nose. She had not taken any medicine, but she was extremely energetic.
eventually passed away despite ineffective rescue efforts.
The police did not obtain any valuable information from other family members of the Wu family.
The reason why the Wu family developed like this was that the answer of the Wu family's parents when they were sleepwalking was to exorcise evil spirits. Later, doctors identified that the Wu family members all suffered from mental illness.
For this reason, the Wu family went to the temple to meditate, which became the biggest suspicion of the case. The police also went to the temple to investigate, but the results were not announced to the public, and the case was dropped.
There are generally two opinions on the Wu family case.
The first one is due to the influence of belief and subjective consciousness. The second daughter's hysteria was transmitted to other family members like a germ, leading to delusions and manic moods.
Of course, there also needs to be some kind of medium or magnetic field to achieve the purpose, such as Sadako's video tape, the river where Chu Renmei's body was buried, or the mold in "Two Eyes", or the weirdness in "The Curse" meatworm .
affects human thought through foreign body transmission, which is an incredible thing in itself.
In the film, the heroine once broke into the forbidden area of ​​​​the Chen family and was admitted to a mental hospital after being stimulated.
After recovering, she took her daughter back and strange events happened one after another. Are these all imagined by her?
But the scene of Xie Qiming, who wanted to be a good father, died mysteriously in front of the camera, and was presented to the audience in the form of a self-recorded narrative. This also breaks the assumption that everything is delusional for the heroine Ruonan. Through this narrative perspective, the director
wants to tell the audience that when things go wrong, there must be monsters. Fearlessness does not mean ignorance, and ignorance does not mean the self-justification of so-called professionals.
The second explanation.
People felt that there was something fishy about the temple where their second daughter went to worship. There might be some ulterior secret hidden in the temple, but the police did not reveal it, leaving enough space for the imagination of the followers.
The second daughter accidentally touched a certain taboo, which implicated the whole family in disaster. Folk customs still affect people's life trajectories. Often a thought may change life and destiny, and what awaits you may be the "misfortunes and blessings" "Reliance, life and death are famous", the only thing we can do is to stop your curiosity, not to explore, and stay away as much as possible.
