This is not a movie review, it contains spoilers and no plot analysis.
are just some thoughts after reading "The Curse".
After watching the video, people around me felt more or less uncomfortable. To use a more popular term, it is "a feeling of being offended."
The word "offensive" is not uncommon in the history of movies. " Movie Watch " magazine once summarized a list of "100 Bad Movies" in 2005. From ideology offensive " Triumph of the Will" ", to various pornographic banned films "Irrevocable", "120 Days of Sodom", "Deep Throat", "The Roman Empire", from the despairing "Oasis", "I Want Revenge", to The crazy and controversial "Natural Born Killers" and "Sin City"...
These movies have more or less offended certain boundaries of moviegoers in terms of subject matter, plot, and visual presentation. , it can be said that the three views are inconsistent, it can also be said that differences do not work together. These conflicts may be the director's original intention, to extend the original "conformist" subject matter a little further, in order to trigger debate or cause deep thought.
Many films have received considerable box office revenue as a result, and many more have become regulars on various lists because of the complexity and depth of their attempts to explain the truth.
"The Pillow Book" also has writing on the body, but the look and feel is completely different
I remember the most recent controversial film, " This Room I Made " screened in Cannes in 2018, because of its focus on serial murderers The detailed description of the crime and the spiritual world made many viewers feel unbearable and left the show early. Indeed, the perverted ideas in the film certainly leave a lot of connotations worth exploring, but for most sane viewers, such a film is by no means pleasing, and may even be disgusting to some extent.
"The Curse" is also an "offensive" movie, but its offensive method is very different. In the form of a pseudo-documentary, the film strives to present a sense of reality and immersion, and allow the heroine and her daughter to interact in front of the camera. Family affection conveys a harmless pretense. But at the end of the entire film, we find that this is all a plot. "The Curse" uses this film as a medium to put a curse on all moviegoers.
From the beginning, the murmured prayers, gestures, and symbols frequently displayed. Under the guidance of the female protagonist’s camera, the audience will think that this is just a blessing, a wish, or even a symbol of amulet. Behavior, the heroine in the movie also interacts with the audience in a realistic way, encouraging everyone to recite these mantras silently with her, memorize the talismans, and make those gestures.
Then, she tells you that you have also become a cursed person. You will share the curse on her daughter and you will be watched by the evil god in this life.
In fact, there are so many horror films, and there are also many afterthoughts that extend beyond the film. The endings of many horror films use some meaningful way to imply that the evil has not been driven away, and even break the fourth wall at the last moment, leaving The audience sees the true face of the evil spirit, allowing the audience to enter into the curse itself.
But these tricks in those movies are at best some kind of movie techniques to scare the audience. The movie still focuses on the story itself. They are not like "The Curse", which uses deception to interact with the audience and let the audience interact with it. Enter the game and spontaneously complete the closed loop of this curse.
Therefore, "The Curse" used this blatant and ground-breaking method to offend the audience's emotions by casting curses, lowering their heads, and casting poison on the audience.
Although the film is based on the plot, it integrates the exorcism of Chinese folk customs, and adds Cthulhu-like unknown, invisible, and inaudible unknown elements to create a unique atmosphere of terror, and the family relationship between the heroine and the heroine saving her daughter. The integration is good, but when the movie starts to peel off the plot and turn into a poisonous jar of curses raining on the audience, the horror built up before falls apart and turns into a kind of malevolence.
Do you still remember the picture in the opening where the so-called "consciousness" affects vision?
Do you still remember the image of the spell with white letters on a black background left on your retina?
I remembered the little curse cards that my classmates sent out as a prank when I was a child. There were a bunch of sweet words in the front and some curses in the back.
Even if we know that these are false, we still feel a little bad and uncomfortable. This movie uses these childish and deceptive techniques to mislead and hunt the audience.
After pouring in emotions, the emotions were played around at will
As an unrelated spectator, he was viciously cursed for no reason
This is probably the reason why many people are disgusted with this movie
I understand that this movie is trying to interact with the audience through this behavior. The two-dimensional medium transcends the film itself to achieve a more terrifying effect. However, when a film chooses such an unconventional approach, it must endure the criticism caused by the audience's disgust.
After reading this, if you still feel sorry for being cursed by the movie "The Curse", as long as you pay attention and like it twice, then all the bad luck brought by this movie will dissipate and you will never go out. You'll get bitten by mosquitoes, your speech won't get shotgun, and all curses will bounce back.
I guarantee in the name of Buddha that the effectiveness of my article in breaking the curse is as effective as the curse of the movie.
