" Back to the Soul Night " is a comedy film produced by World Film Production Company, directed by Liu Zhenwei, starring Zhou Xingchi , Karen Mok, and Li Jianren.
At the beginning, Liu Zhenwei (hereinafter referred to as "Grape") and Zhou Xingchi (hereinafter referred to as "Xing Ye") had a bad box office, so he felt ashamed of the star, so he took the star and took this again. The film "Returning the Soul Night" turned out to have a good reputation, but the box office was even worse. This film is almost the worst one since the movie star.
The film took less than half a year from writing the script, to project approval, shooting, and release. In the early years, Putao became famous by filming ghost films such as "Menggui Hagguan", "Menggui Academy", and "Menggui Mansion", so this subject is familiar to him. For Xing Ye, in his entire acting career, he has only made two ghost films, one borrowed the shell of a horror film, but it was actually a gag comedy "Senior Brother Hit the Ghost", and the other is this. "Return to the Soul Night". Compared with "Senior Brother Crashing Ghosts", "Return to Soul Night" is actually a complete horror movie. The movie
is based on the death of an old woman Li who fell from a building. It tells the strange events that happened on the night of Huihunye. At the beginning of the movie, the eerie scenes and the rendering of the soundtrack make people feel terrifying. The main plot of
is that in a Hong Kong public housing estate, Mrs. Li, a resident of the village, died. During her first seven nights, Mrs. Li's son and daughter-in-law burned paper for her, begging Mrs. Li not to come to them. Because old lady Li was actually pushed down the stairs by her son and died. Mrs. Li felt uneasy, so she went back to the building for the first seven days and took possession of her grandson, wanting to avenge her son and daughter-in-law.
Fortunately, Leon (played by Stephen Chow) arrived in time and sent away the grieving soul of Mrs. Li, and this scene happened to be seen by A Qun (played by Karen Mok), a girl who had just lost love, so A Qun decided that Leon was not an ordinary person. At this time, after Mr. Li and Mrs. Li found out that Captain Lu, the security captain, had learned the truth about Mrs. Li's death, they decided to kill him. However, Mr. Li unfortunately fell off the building and died while pursuing the killing, so Mrs. Li decided to commit suicide by putting on a red dress, so that during the first seven nights, she could transform into a scarlet ghost to find their revenge.
However, Leon was considered to be a mentally ill patient and was captured by the staff of Chongguang Mental Hospital. Fortunately, A Qun took Leon out of the hospital and rushed back to the estate to clean up the mess.
In order to save their lives, the security team members and A Qun began to learn how to catch ghosts with Leon. On the first seven days of Mrs. Li and Mr. Li, they really came back for revenge. After successfully catching Mrs. Li, several members of the security team also lost their lives. Finally, Leon led Mr. Li into his body, and after restraining Mr. Li with willpower, let A Qun kill himself. The two evil spirits were finally subdued, but A Qun and the others were put into a lunatic asylum as neurotic.
1. Leon, a ghost catcher who talks to Lily,
, the male protagonist Leon, muttered to a bouquet of flowers in the stairwell. This way of talking to oneself is very similar to "Chongqing Forest" 663. At the same time, "Return to Soul Night" also spoofed "This Assassin Isn't Too Cold" , the role played by the star in the movie is called Leon, and the potted flower in "This Assassin Isn't Too Cold" becomes in the movie "Ghost measuring instrument".
When the heroine A Qun went to the Chongguang Mental Hospital to look for Leon for the first time, Leon saw A Qun’s first sentence and asked her "Do you believe there is a flying saucer in this world? There are monsters in Loch Ness". A Qun said: Believe it. Leon said he could communicate. In the movie, Leon often uses dialogue to put forward some of his own opinions. When he was a child, he didn't understand it very well. When he grows up, he sees it again and finds it so reasonable.
1. Imagination is more important than knowledge
What Leon said when he scared A Qun with a real gun: In this world, everything can happen, why? Because you have no imagination! Einstein said that imagination is more important than knowledge.
2. Reversing the concept is the strongest
Leon "You say this because you think you are highly educated, what kind of high society you are in or out of, it is your self-righteous knowledge that thinks shit is boring and filthy, it is the same as your mother or aunt telling you that ghosts are horrible since childhood, even if This shit is not smelly, and you also look down on it. If a ghost comes to bite you, you will also be afraid. If everyone can reverse this concept, then it will be fine."
2. The hostess A Qun, a person who unconditionally believes in mental illness may also A Qun, a mentally ill heroine
, just broke up in love, locked herself in the room and danced. The TV shows "Chongqing Forest" by Grape's good friend Wang Jiawei. This should be a tribute to "Chongqing Forest". Although A Qun seems to be crazy all day, the reason why he and Leon are so speculative may be because she was an orphan since she was a child. The sense of loneliness that is not understood by the world made her feel that Leon is an extraordinary person from the beginning. .
When A Qun saw the scene of Leon catching ghosts, she immediately shouted "It's so cool!" After that, Captain Lu arrived, thinking that Leon was behaving strangely, and he didn't look like a normal person. But only A Qun felt that she was a peerless expert living in a mental hospital.
So, A Qun went to the Chongguang Mental Hospital to find Leon. At this time, the mental hospital shown in the footage and lines was different from what we usually think. It seemed that there lived a group of outsiders. When Ah Qun saw Leon here, he was even more convinced that he was an expert, so he stayed with him to catch ghosts. She was the only one among those people who had never doubted Leon from beginning to end, and she believed everything Leon said.
For example, when Leon was training the courage of a security guard, he said that he had magical protection and was invulnerable, so those people stabbed him. But none of those people dared to stab him because they didn't believe Leon. This is because A Qun rushed over and stabbed Leon and said "I believe you". A Qun didn't have any psychological pressure because he absolutely trusted Leon.
So later, on the day of returning to the soul night, when dancing with A Qun, she did not dance with Leon's music at all. Leon said to A Qun, let her cooperate a little bit and follow the beat. But Ah Qun didn't cooperate, didn't beat the music, and said that he had never been and didn't plan to beat Leon in the future. Leon hit A Qun's neck with an ax at this time, because Leon felt that there was no tacit understanding between him and A Qun, and A Qun no longer trusted to listen to him, so he concluded that it was definitely not A Qun. Sure enough, A Qun was upper body by a ghost. Leon relied on the trust between the two of them to judge whether A Qun was upper body.
1. The basis of trust
Leon's first sentence when he saw A Qun was this: Do you believe that there are flying saucers in this world? There are monsters in Loch Ness. A Qun said: Believe it. Leon said he could communicate. Leon, a lunatic in the eyes of a worldly man, and A Qun can reach a consensus on their values, which is also the basis and reason for their mutual trust.
2. Is it love? Yes!
Finally, Leon finally led the ghost behind him. He asked A Qun to cut off his head and said to A Qun, "Who will go to hell if I don't go to hell?" Because he trusted A Qun and knew she would be able to do it. A Qun did as well. In order to save everyone's lives, he killed Leon with his own hands, although it was extremely painful.
In the last scene of the movie, Leon appeared in front of A Qun again with a smile. Lily turned her head to face him. He looked at A Qun and smiled, "Sorry, friends are socializing a lot, so I came back to eat. !"
3. Trusting each other is the first criterion for catching ghosts
A group of people in the security team didn't believe Leon at first, they thought he was sick. Later, although he had some trust in Leon after witnessing the first time he caught a ghost, he was still in a state of unbelief.
Later, when they were chased by ghosts, they were able to fly when they put on a flying machine, because they had a deep trust in the process of hunting ghosts.Eon, they believed what Leon said, so they all flew.
1. Defining fear
We just fear what others want us to fear, instead of perceiving whether this thing is really worth fearing, so we lose the ability to overcome fear.
2. Three magic weapons
In previous Hong Kong films, mahogany swords, charms and black dog blood are magic weapons for catching ghosts. However, in "Returning the Soul Night", the three-piece suit is turned into chocolate, plastic wrap and musical instruments. In addition, it gave a serious scientific basis for argumentation.
When I was a child, I was really scared when I watched "Return to the Soul Night", especially every time there are possessed passages, it is simply scared, but there are many fixed passages in it, which I find too funny, such as when training courage , Relying on "drums to pass bombs."
Although, "Return to the Soul Night" was not good at the box office at the time, and even became the lowest-grossing movie since the movie star. But fortunately, when the DVD of "Return to Soul Night" was released, it was wiped out unexpectedly as soon as it went on the market. Even the original soundtrack of "Return to Soul Night" received a good response.
Maybe, many things are often not understood by the world at the beginning, but after the precipitation of time, good things will not be buried.
Ps: I want Leon to "this (should be) the greatest invention of the last century-flying machine".
but I am afraid that the faith is not enough to fall!
