This movie is a relatively standard Japanese horror movie. It uses a lot of Found Footage techniques to shoot. The whole movie is even tracing the protagonist's experience before his disappearance. Considering the audience level of the pseudo-documentary at that time, it cannot be said that The film is a bit ahead of its time for Japanese horror films, but there are definitely elements of it that are refreshing. The narrative of the
incident is divided into several branches. At the beginning, it is directly stated that "the writer Xiao Lin disappeared because of this incident, and the rest of his family members died due to a fire at home." Then the video of Xiao Lin's investigation of the incident was narrated. The branch lines and clues of the story are relatively trivial. Generally speaking, the main narrative line has four branches, namely:
1. Ishii Junko's part
2. Superpower girl Kana's part
3. Psychic medium Himitsuo's part
4. Actor Marika Matsumoto's part
It will be helpful to understand the movie once you clarify the branch plots, but I won’t go into details about the plot. The four parts of
are intertwined with each other, and the only connecting point is Xiaolin, the protagonist and witness of the story. Some people may find this confusing when watching this, because the timeline does not follow the traditional linear narrative mode, but is a combination of flashbacks and interludes. But as long as you watch it carefully, you can understand it. I have to say that the editing skills are really good here, and it is trivial. It is really not easy for the clues to appear in the right place for the audience to understand. The reason why
is said to be very story-telling is because during the movie viewing process, the audience needs to combine the various video materials currently given to obtain information to associate with the plots or characters that appeared in the previous movies. In addition, it is a pseudo-record type of movie. So the sense of involvement is stronger. I remember that when I read it for the first time, I was reminded of : Monster Box and . In terms of narrative, both of them use branch lines as the main narrative and finally splice the main body.
