Has everyone watched the "Spirit Medium" that has been very popular recently?
Mysterious religious culture and pseudo-documentary-style shooting methods distinguished "Spirit Media" from ordinary horror films, and scared many viewers (including me [watch]). What I bring to you today is a horror movie "Cry" that is not inferior to "Spirit Medium".
crying 곡성 (2016)
This is a Korean movie released in 2016. The director of this film is Luo Hongzhen , and he is also the producer of "Spirit Medium" . Luo Hongzhen enjoys a high reputation in the short film industry. He has won the Best Short Film Festival Award for "Perfect Red Snapper Cuisine" and the Best Short Film Award of the Big Bell Award for "Hate". His works are eye-catching with novel storylines, and they are highly affirmed by industry insiders for their outstanding visual performance. This can be seen from both "Spirit Medium" and "The Cry" we are going to talk about today. Let's take a look at what kind of story this is.
Guo Dowon as Jeon Jongjiu
In a remote mountain village in South Korea, a sudden murder incident one night broke its long-lasting peace. Zhong Jiu, a local police officer, was ordered to investigate the case.
He preliminarily judged that this was a vicious murder, but the locals guessed that it was caused by the Japanese who did not know when they appeared in the woods by the village. They suspect that can use some kind of witchcraft to curse people to death through evil means. Because the survivors are covered with pustules, they are insane and insane.
After that, several similar vicious cases occurred.
Zhong Jiu encountered a mysterious woman at a crime scene during an investigation. She said that the victim was because the Japanese man died, and she told Zhong Jiu that the Japanese man was a ghost. Zhong Jiu thought she was a witness, so he hurried out to call a colleague, but when he returned, the woman was gone.
A local ginseng picker confessed to Zhong Jiu that the last time he saw the Japanese stripped off his clothes and ate the carcasses of wild animals like wild animals.
What is strange is that after the ginseng picker led Zhong Jiu and others to watch the scene, he was struck by lightning inexplicably and died later.
All this strengthened Zhong Jiu's determination to investigate the Japanese. Zhong Jiu brought his nephew who could speak Japanese and a colleague to the house where the Japanese lived. Seeing that the Japanese were not there, Zhong Jiu went in to check and found a wall full of photos of the victims and a venue that seemed to be some kind of sacrificial ceremony. What made Zhong Jiu even more frightened was that he found a shoe of his daughter.
Zhong Jiu hurried home and asked if his daughter had seen the Japanese. Unexpectedly, her daughter changed her former temperament, and yelled at his father Zhong Jiu as if she had changed.
Zhong Jiu, who realized that something was wrong, went into the house to check his daughter at night, and found that the torn picture book of was painted with devilish things, and his legs had pustules like those in the previous case. . When the daughter woke up, she cursed at Zhong Jiu, even more crazy. After
,The daughter who had changed her temperament also used a knife to kill one of her neighbors. The desperate family can only hire a wizard to exorcise Zhong Jiu's daughter. After seeing his daughter, he broke the sauce jar, and everyone found a crow inside. The wizard told Zhong Jiu that , the Japanese is a very powerful ghost, , and he needs to exorcise his daughter.
In the process of wizard exorcism, the Japanese seem to be performing some kind of ritual. Whenever a wizard puts a nail into a wooden post, the Japanese will suffer severe pain, as if the nail had penetrated his body. At the same time, Zhong Jiu's daughter seemed to be dying. Zhong Jiu was worried about his daughter and forcibly interrupted the wizard's exorcism ceremony.
In order to save his daughter, Zhong Jiu forced the Japanese to jump off the cliff. But the Japanese caught the cliff and didn't die. He also saw the mysterious girl in the woods, the one Zhong Jiu encountered. Seeing from their eyes, they seem to have hatred.
After Zhong Jiu was driving back, the car was hit by a body that had fallen from the mountain. Zhong Jiu got out of the car and saw that it was a Japanese corpse.
Everything seems to have returned to normal, and Zhong Jiu's daughter is not going crazy either. But at this time, the wizard saw the mysterious woman at Zhong Jiu's house, and he began to bleed nonstop. The wizard immediately returned to his home to save himself. After driving back to Zhong Jiu's house, he called and told Zhong Jiu that he was wrong-, the mysterious girl is a ghost, and the Japanese are also wizards, just to catch her.
Zhong Jiu hurried home as soon as he heard the news,As a result, I also ran into a mysterious woman on the road. As a result, she told Zhong Jiu that the wizard and the Japanese were in the same group, and that Zhong Jiu would be killed when he went home now, and asked him to go home after he caught the ghost with three cock cries.
Facing the mystery girl and wizard, Zhong Jiuyi didn't know who to trust for a while. At the same time, Zhong Jiu's nephew passed through a cave, and saw the Japanese who should have died. The nephew asked him what it was. The Japanese asked him
"Ghosts have no souls and no meat, what do you think I am?"
"You are a demon."
, Felt that all this was caused by the mysterious girl, so she didn't listen to her persuasion and ran home.
The mysterious girl yelled "No."
Zhong Jiu, who returned home, found that his family had been killed . It seemed that his daughter did it all.
The Japanese turned into a demon , with red eyes, sharp claws, and black hairy skin. The demon took out a camera and pressed the shutter to take a picture of his nephew.
The wizard who rushed to Zhong Jiu's home, saw Zhong Jiu who was already dead, and took a photo of Zhong Jiu with his camera,
was the same as the previous victim... ..
"When writing a script,The audience's reaction to each scene is divided into percentages. While guessing how the audience will react, rewrite the script to change the proportion of various reactions. I want to add all kinds of suspense to "Cry". If the viewers watch it a second time, I hope they will react differently to the same scene, and they will get different feelings every time they watch it. "—— Interview with Luo Hongzhen
As the director said, this is a movie that pays great attention to the audience's viewing experience. 's gray tone, with the sound of rain, creates a kind of Mysterious and suspenseful atmosphere. The last part of the film uses parallel shooting and cross-editing to make the film climax.
This is also an extremely detail-oriented film, and the ending is hinted in the details of the film. For example, when the wizard changes his pants, the same diapers as the Japanese imply that he and the Japanese are actually in the same group. There are many similar plots.
The understanding of religion in the film, as well as the understanding of ghosts and gods Metaphors can all arouse the audience’s thinking. The director also said that he hopes that the audience will have a different understanding every time they watch it. I believe that the success of "Psychic" is also due to Luo Hongzhen's directing of "The Cry" Experience.
Personally think "The Cry" is a good film that can make people think, it is very worth watching!
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