" psychic " has nowhere to escape in the dark, making people feel depressed. Although this is a Thai movie, it comes from a Korean screenwriter Luo Hongzhen .
Strictly speaking, this is a Korean horror film moved to Thailand for interpretation, and the screenwriter Luo Hongzhen is a representative figure of Korean film noir. The darkness in the movie can be seen in "Spirit Medium".
However, as a screenwriter, he has already converged in "Psychic", but in terms of the degree of excitement, he has to mention the Korean horror film he directed himself, "The Cry" .
Luo Hongzhen said: "Psychic" is actually a prequel to "Cry." This may sound misleading. In fact, in the plot, the two have nothing to do with each other. They are just the core characters, and neither can avoid the mysterious profession: Shaman.
If the core of "Spirit Medium" is the collapse of faith, the beauty of "Cry" is that it completely breaks the boundary between gods and demons. Even if people who are fooled keep their eyes open, It is completely impossible to distinguish the authenticity of good and evil. Because what you see may not be true.
"The Cry" is a film full of strong religious colors.But it is completely different from the traditional concept of evil. The priesthood of God is manipulated in the movie, and the incarnation of justice is only an accomplice of the devil. Faithful doctrine and gospel have become the chief culprit of blind faith.
wet, dirty and dark, it is the keynote of this film. In this small village with continuous rain, foggy mountains, and muddy roads, the landscape scenery under the distant lens can not dispel the gloom and depression brought by such villages. Instead, the mountains have become a cage that the villagers cannot escape.
The actor Zhong Jiu is set as a cowardly and cowardly police father. On the one hand, he runs to detect the bizarre murders that occur in the village, and on the other hand, he runs because of his daughter. Xiaozhen is also surrounded by ghosts, and he does not hesitate to use the power of the police to run wild.
The demon just threw the bait, but the bait was not able to stand the temptation. Bait, the true meaning of the film has already been pointed out at the beginning of the film. Whether it is a red worm on a Japanese fishing hook, or Zhong Jiu's eagerness to save a girl, the invisible and tangible bait are all things that cause people to enter.
"The Cry" is a horror film, but I think it is an excellent suspense film. With Zhong Jiu's eyes, the film takes the audience together, confused between gods and ghosts.
Japanese old man, shaman wizard, white woman, who is the messenger of justice, and who is the evil demon? Zhong Jiu is faced with a difficult choice. Under Zhong Jiu's eyes, we are also subject to the confusion of traditional thinking.
This is the most subtle part of this movie,The director used a variety of techniques to splice us all the way astray, and then slammed out a different truth, instantly slapped the face.
The soul has no bones, and the soul has no flesh. How can a living thing that can be seen and touched in the day be the incarnation of a ghost? This standard for judging ghosts has become the biggest obstacle in recognition technology. The clergy couldn't recognize it, and the mortal villagers with naked eyes were easily deceived.
The murders in the village are actually just plain plots on the plot, and the mysterious identity of the Japanese old man is the key to the case. We know, Zhong Jiu also knows.
In this process of continuous exploration, even when we all saw the strange altar in the house of the old Japanese and the pictures of the victims, we would still suspect that he meant for the villagers. Guard, let the dead rest in peace.
It was not until the woman in white clothes and the shaman Nikko pointed out that the demon identity of this foreign Japanese invader, we began to believe in the evil deeds of this old man.
So, the climax of the ceremonial duel, the shaman’s daylight exorcism and the struggle between the Japanese spells, and were used to intersperse the noisy and tense scenes of . , We all thought this was a battle between righteous gods and demons.
and when blocked by a woman in white,, who vomited a place of filth and ran away in a hurry. Shaman When daylight was blocked by moths and forced to turn back, in the phone call to Zhong Jiu, he pointed out his mistakes as if he had broken his intestines, and said With the ghost identity of the woman in white and the real body of the old Japanese wizard, we were pulled back to our original guess.
narrated like a Rashomon, just like Zhong Jiu, I feel that my IQ is being ruthlessly crushed. But this is not the final answer.
Nim once said in "Spirit Medium" that people in the village call all supernatural things as gods, including ghosts. This concept is more clearly embodied in "The Cry".
represents the righteous god of the Catholic Church and has no effect in the movie. And those fighting creatures that are both gods and ghosts, on the contrary, acted as the protagonist of the story.
This is exactly what the director wants to express. There are no clear boundaries between gods and ghosts. Those who help others are gods, and those who harm others are demons. Good and evil are in one thought, and they are not related to their actual status.
When Zhong Jiu slaughtered a black dog for his daughter, he felt the evil intention of killing the Japanese old man and pushed him down the cliff. At that moment, he also became the incarnation of a demon. Shaman Sunlight even revealed the true meaning of the bait he had bitten.
However,For these confusing and confusing identity truths, the director actually quietly laid the groundwork for the details of the film. For example, the naked monster with only a pair of underwear, the Japanese old man washing under a waterfall, the shot of the shaman's daylight changing his pants casually, and the shameless white cloth called a garb, are unconsciously related.
The old Japanese, the shaman Nikko, and the woman in white also conceal the director’s allegory of the expression of Japanese and Korean national emotions.
Although this is a film that continues to throw religious colors from beginning to end, the director Luo Hongzhen does not promote people’s belief in religion in the film, but weakens it. The role of the Orthodox Church has the meaning of the director's weakening of religion.
The blurred identity of gods and demons is actually preaching the moral and righteousness of persuading people to be good. Ignorance and confusion are not fatal mistakes. What really kills people is the generation of evil thoughts and the implementation of evil karma. The success of the devil's lure is more dependent on the good intentions of the lured person.
The dead are gone, the survivors are born, but surviving does not mean liberation and freedom, but a symbol of endless punishment.
The sound of crying is the homonym of this village called Gucheng, and it is also the cry of survivors who cannot turn their heads back.
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