If you choose the best Chinese horror film after 2000, "Double Pupil" must be a name that cannot be escaped.
Whether it is the various fantasies in the film, the horrific and bizarre death scenes, or the soaring and crossing involving Taoist doctrines, they are different from the usual routines of other ghosts and monsters.
The story begins with a series of murders, but on a hot summer day, there are signs of drowning, and the body is charred around but there is no sign of fire, which attracts the attention of the police for the unconscionable death of the victim.
Huang Huotu, a police officer who has exposed the crimes of his colleagues, and Kevin, a U.S. agent, have become the key figures in this series of murders, and through the investigation, they find themselves facing a mysterious figure who is not an ordinary person at all, but a mysterious person who tries to use sheng xian to get the truth.
The director has been telling the audience in the film that the culprit behind all the cases is Xie Yali, a young girl who brings her own immortal body and uses the illusion to sacrifice the human fish.
In the end, Huang Huotu broke through Xie Yali's hallucinatory control through his love for his wife and daughter, and killed her. Although the ending is obvious, there are still many viewers who feel that the beginning and end of the film are about Tang Abrupt, whether Xie Yali has become an immortal in the end, and whether Huang Huotu has become an immortal with her as Xie Yali said.
As a horror film lover who loves to ask the truth, Fork fork watched "Double Pupil" three times and was surprised to find that the end of the film where Huang Huotu was rescued was just a smoke bomb thrown to the audience by the director.
Huang Huotu did not escape from Xie Yali's illusion at all, the real ending of the film is That Xie Yali ascended to immortality, Huang Huotu is still alive in the fantasy, and the so-called love does not die is just wishful thinking of the audience.
To find out the truth about the whole movie, you must clear up the 5 problems of the movie:
Being killed by the Yellow Fire Earth is exactly what Xie Yali wants, and it is also an important part of her becoming an immortal. Therefore, in the last half hour of the film, huanghuotu has been in the multiple illusions constructed by Xie Yali.
On the surface, it seems that Xie Yali threatened huanghuotu with the daughter of huanghuotu to submit. For Xie Yali, the flesh is irrelevant to her, and the ascension of the immortal is the key, so at the end Xie Yali is really dead, and whether the yellow fire earth is awake, let's continue to look down.
The reason why Huang Huotu was depressed and unmotivated was because he exposed the criminal behavior of his brother-in-law and colleague, and why did the bullet bypass his daughter when the brother-in-law shot Huang Huotu's daughter in a hurry.
Here is the director's foreshadowing left to the audience, in fact, not only this bullet turn, when the yellow fire earth and Xie Yali confronted at the end of the film, the bullet fired by the yellow fire earth at Xie Yali was also deflected, and the two deviations confirmed that Xie Yali cast the spell from it.
In other words, Xie Yali had already begun to meddle in Huang Huotu's life when Huang Huotu exposed the crimes of the bad police; as Xie Yali told Huang Huotu, he had long been controlled and monitored by Xie Yali.
This also means that Xie Yali began to lay out his own ascension plan a long time ago, and as for how early, the fork will explain in detail below.
As the most famous scene in the film, the believers in Shayari build a true immortal temple in the mansion, and the two sides fight in the face of the police who come to investigate, and the scene is extremely bloody.
After sacrificing all the believers, the two leaders were arrested by the police. Subsequently, the police found Xie Yali at the True Immortal Temple.
There is a logical loophole here, if Shaya's ideal is discovered by the police, why sacrifice the lives of many of his followers, and turn himself in directly to the police station. With her strength, she can completely ignore the police.
Therefore, we may as well boldly infer that this battle of the True Immortal Temple is just one of the illusions of the Yellow Fire Earth.
There are indeed precedents in real-life experiments where psychological cues cause death, such as pretending to slash a blindfolded prisoner in the wrist, and then simulating the sound of dripping blood with a tap, and the prisoner really loses too much blood and dies.
This psychological implication of the phenomenon of imminent death also affects the judgment of the police in "Double Pupil". Strange steel balls were found on each of the deceased, and the US police scientifically deduced that the deceased was affected by dopamine and produced different hallucinatory reactions.
However, the fourth celebrity fish voluntarily came to the True Immortal Temple to be tortured, which was far beyond the scope of the illusion's ability to dominate people. Obviously not.
The ghost god is a ghost god, and it is obviously unreasonable to reason about "Double Pupil" from the perspective of ordinary criminal investigation movies, which also provides side evidence for how long the yellow fire earth has been controlled by Xie Yali's fungal illusion.
Xie Yali did not have enough mana to kill everyone, she wanted to complete her purpose of ascending to the immortals, and she had to meet the conditions of killing 5 people and then letting Huang Huotu send her last journey.
Although Xie Yali can make people hallucinate, she is not strong enough to manipulate the mind of the victim at will, and her sister, who was born out of the flesh and became an immortal, plays a key role.
I don't know if you remember the beginning of the film, there was a scene of a pregnant woman giving birth, a baby girl died in childbirth, and the other baby girl was Xie Yali. The dead baby opens its eyes to reveal its pupils, and the film officially begins. Later, the hospital doctor also corroborated the fact that Xie Yali had a dead baby sister.
From Huang Huotu's interview with religious scholars, the audience can learn that the predecessor of the Xie Yali sisters was Wong Tai Sin of the Huang Sect, which is not difficult to understand why Xie Yali, who did not become an immortal, carried out the plan so smoothly.
In summary, fork fork to reveal the truth of "Double Pupil":
Whether it was the crooked bullets, the True Immortal Temple Massacre, or the several human fish killed by Xie Yali's illusion, it was all an illusion produced by the Yellow Fire Earth.
Xie Yali used fungi to influence the yellow fire soil a long time ago, and we look at the whole story through the perspective of the yellow fire earth, in fact, we just walked into the trap set by the director.
Except for the scene at the beginning of the film where the Sisters are born is real, but all the scenes involving the Yellow Fire Earth are hallucinations, and we are all deceived.
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