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As the saying goes, "Red gas is the most nurturing, and capital is hot"
At the end of last year, he was born in 1996 by starring in the phenomenon-level hot drama "The Queen's Chess Game" and became the most popular new generation of Hua Dan, and was in the gold and silver period of his life.
Flowers and moons, every time they appear on the street, they are full of stunning colors, career resources are open, and the commercial masterpieces represented by "Nordics" and "Mad Max: The Outer Legend" that he joined are also on the way to the fan audience.
And friends who are familiar with Anya know that her career started with horror films.
The 2015 forced horror film "The Witch" allowed the film and television industry to discover this powerful rookie with deer-like eyes, and her temperament was rare and outstanding, and she was subsequently regarded as a muse by a number of suspense horror directors, and successively participated in Shyamalan's "Split", Sanchez's "The Secret of The House" and other word-of-mouth masterpieces.
At present, she has starred in a new work in the style of a British geek director with a self-written and self-directed classic zombie comedy "Shaun of the Zombies",
As a two-heroine drama, although Anya's role is relatively small, it is the dominant story, and even the side that is not scattered-
The film tells the story of the heroine who went to London from her hometown to study and pursue her dreams, and the strange remote sensing illusion in the rented apartment survived in a singer (played by Anya) half a century ago, and thus the fate was entangled.
Experience the ecstasy of multiplayer sports from "Sensory Online",
To the point of seeing the inability to stop the fall of the singer who betrayed her body,
Until the reality of myself is also in the crisis of being hunted down and killed by a group of powerful ghosts...
Behind this miraculous mysterious linkage, what is the truth?
What kind of shock is staged before and after the story reversal?
Welcome to this gorgeous, retro, fun masterpiece -
The horror film that can score 7 points on Douban is a masterpiece that is not easy to get
Soho Horror Night
Last Night in Soho
I believe that the urban beauties here all know the title of the film "Soho District" (Chinese transliteration: Soho District) is to represent the most dynamic and gorgeous commercial life circle of an international city, Beijing is expected to beijing Soho, New York Manhattan also has Soho District,
The hometown of the concept of Soho is London in the United Kingdom, which is also the background of the story of this film -
Soho District was originally a suburban hunting ground with noble courtiers, from which taverns, prostitutes / / courtyards and other supporting institutions for the pleasure of the king and the nobles were built around, and by the beginning of the 17th century, a business circle was basically formed, and the popular British drama "Ming Shu" adapted from the "Obscene History Book" "Covent Garden Harry Flower Book" focused on the middle of the 17th century, and the two old bustards led their respective girls to occupy the love and hate of the Competition in the Greek Street of Soho District.
The Famous Sisters recreates the streetscape of London's Soho district in the mid-17th century, and most of these buildings are still preserved today
Thus, the historical composition of Soho District also metaphorically describes the current situation and past fate of the two heroines in the film.
More than 50 years ago, the story line, played by Anya, the singer, dreamed of falling into the fall of selling meat to survive,
More than 50 years later, the same newcomer heroine has a dream of costume design, facing the anxiety of coming from the countryside to a colorful, complex interpersonal relationship, and tempting urban schools.
But perhaps it is affected by the tragedy of personal life and the mother's broken sword (the mother also came to London to chase the design dream when she was young, pregnant with the heroine, the man ran away, gave birth to the heroine after returning to his hometown, and committed suicide after postpartum depression).
Maybe our generation has experienced the baptism of film and television works,
Although it is difficult for her to get rid of the youthful atmosphere, she is also vigilant enough, after hearing the taxi driver's ridicule about the girls' dormitory, vigilantly find an excuse to get off a few streets in advance, beware of being followed, highlighting its design,
Later, she will also be misled by her own small alertness that is in line with her age and experience, and stage a surprising reversal plot.
If you have seen the audience of director Edgar Wright's popular previous work "Extreme Car Thief", you may know that he is a complete music fan, and even ingeniously set the editor-in-chief of the car god man responsible for receiving the retreat in a gang of Humbolt bandits in the film as suffering from hearing impairment, always wearing headphones, and relying on strong beats to find a strange talent who feels driving, and the concept of separation and aggregation of the film's visual effects and sound effects is really eye-catching.
And the heroine in this film is also a music fan who is used to wearing headphones and immersed in the old songs of golden songs.
"Extreme Car Thief" Apple original wired headphones, advertising implants?
The heroine upgraded the beats headset, apple again to play money? (Beats was acquired by Apple)
Because of this, the heroine who is accustomed to being alone, because she cannot adapt to the mean exclusion of her roommates and the sometimes all-night crazy dormitory group party, then chooses to move away from the campus dormitory, and rents a room in the hands of a landlady nearby.
The landlady is played by "Old Rose" in "Game of Thrones"
In reality, the old drama bone did not wait for the release of this film to die
Remember the landlady's pretense of only wanting to stand in the doorway
It is worth mentioning that compared with Anya, the heroine's actor "post-00s" should not be underestimated, the Jewish girl in "Jojo Rabbit's Whimsical World", the sister in "Growing Old", the wild girl who lives out of her own group with her father in "Leave No Trace", step by step, excellent performance,
And she also continued her reiki acting skills to this film, playing the role as a girl entering the city, witnessing the subtle impact of "tricking /// prostitutes" on the street phone booth,
And in the face of a character who seems to be an old //prostitute// guest (the key role, which will appear later), the complicated mood when he throws a smile at her, self-confidence, disgust, shyness, all of which...
Off-topic: Red telephone booths and red double-decker buses are listed as iconic city props in London, which has cultural significance,
And the starring and screenwriter of "London Life" has ridiculed that in the mobile phone era, the significance of the existence of London telephone booths, I am afraid that it is not used to recruit // prostitutes do not have to worry about calling back and checking records, as well as the street toilets of drunks...
In recent years, lead-yellow horror films with stage-like lighting characteristics in visual effects have a great revival trend, such as Wen Ziren's transformation work "Fatal Induction", which is good at haunted house stories, so that audiences who do not understand the lead-yellow style think that the exaggeration is incredible.
And this film through the female owner's rented room on the opposite floor flashing billboard lights all night, reasonable life tribute to the lead yellow type,
This film
Similarly, to some extent, this film's play can also be described as another form of "Fatal Induction" ("Fatal Induction" is told, the heroine born as a conjoined baby, after doing the adult limb separation surgery, was suddenly uncut completely, still remaining in her own brain of her brother's brain, hijacked consciousness, manipulated the body to kill, and several murders were seen by herself from the perspective of a bystander, staged a brain hole story of "investigating the case to the end and finding that the murderer is myself", which was named after the concept of the story" Fatal Induction")————
The heroine who rents the former house of the singer girl, as long as she sleeps at night, is magically transported to the period society in which the singer was in the past, as long as she sleeps at night, and is magically transmitted to the society of the period in which the singer lived, witnessing the glitz of the past years, which is so charming for her who loves retro and music.
Director Edgar is worthy of being a fan and an Englishman, using the hit section of the "007 Thunderbolt" released in 1965 to explain the chronological information of the crossing
We often use a word called "mirror relationship" when analyzing the relationship between the characters, which seems to be the opposite of the two, but in fact reflects each other, two sides of the same body.
And in the form of this film, it is precisely the use of mirrors as a carrier to frame the two heroines, although it is one-sided -
Only the heroine can be immersed, including the dancer, the characters of the time, can not perceive the presence of the heroine, for example, it is like you enter the movie you are most fascinated by like air, without affecting the progress of any established plot.
Just as the so-called, echoing each other, the appearance of the two heroines is so similar, both love music, are flower season girls, all have dreams to go into the city, the difference is that the singer who is bound to become the top singer, the personality is more extroverted, love to be out of the limelight, in the realization of dreams and mate selection is also more bold and proactive, soon hitched a ride on the perennial nightclub, seemingly very doorway back man, a career love field double harvest trend ...
As a bystander and an experiencer, the heroine is enjoying the lights and greenery and lingering pity!
High-class proms, neon streets, confused... The atmosphere and the characters that indulge in it make one convinced that "Soho is a feast of flow" (to paraphrase a quote from the writer Hemingway describing hip Paris)
Director Edgar said that in order to achieve the spectacle of "two women and one man" in the film, all the scenes involved had to be filmed twice, and the male actors had to rely on muscle memory to reproduce the position
Headlight rearview mirrors, 108 kinds of magic on mirror props, the street scene atmosphere is intoxicating
Therefore, just when the characters and the audience think that the so-called time-space travel is a perfect dream, its coherence day and night, especially after the real three people are linked to make love, the heroine wakes up and finds that she has kiss marks on her neck (again, the heroine cannot intervene in the situation of traveling through time and space, so the kiss marks are a self-contradictory loophole, and there will be reversals later), and self-proof that this is by no means an illusory conjecture.
However, due to the prosperity and beauty of this time and space travel, it did not make the heroine feel afraid, especially she also got additional interest feedback according to what she had seen and heard through, in her own real life, and designed a retro costume design work that made the teacher clap her hands and praise, which made her even more overjoyed that she lamented that this encounter was like a gift from heaven, without thinking and worrying about the cat behind it, and what kind of chain reaction there would be...
She even brought herself into the identity of the singer, picking and dying the same blonde hair as the singer, and the whole person's self-confidence was much more frivolous.
Director Edgar's 108 Transition Techniques
But they soon got the hang of it—
The rhetorical back man quickly revealed the fox tail, not only did not support the singer as the lead singer as promised, but also ate the singer to pull up the pimp, which was the awakening time that belonged to the singer and the heroine!
Such betrayal and framing is extremely terrifying for all women, the female protagonist who has been brought into a certain degree of identity before, and even feels that it is herself who lies in bed with a dead heart, and it is herself who is dragged up by the man behind her back to pick up the guest, and the sense of oppression is too strong, which can be called the most visual expression of the fate empathy between women.
Very scary transitions and identity switches
The heroine sees that the sisters she regards as half an idol have not resisted, and are becoming more and more depraved, she is impatient, helpless, this kind of sadness and anger at its indisputable mentality, with the British type man (the representative work "Hunger Games 2", "Before I Met You") cameo as a film policeman, kindly persuading the singer to flee from here and the scumbag, the singer and woman put on a reaction that does not concern you, the heroine on the spot exploded, trying to smash the mirror of this medium, hating can not really travel through the past to wake up the heroine's ingenious plot, to the fullest portrayal of the portrayal -
The film policeman said heartily: "Look at yourself in the mirror, can you still recognize yourself?" ”
As a result, the obsessive singer continues to choose not to look, and the heroine's futile smashing of the mirror attracts attention.
The heroine wakes up from the journey through, but the singer is still in a nightmare situation
At the same time, the heroine's life also encountered a crisis, and she began to frequently encounter ghost-like prostitutes in the room.
From the perspective of plot foreshadowing and confusing, this horror and strangeness seems to be a hallucination caused by too strong a sense of entry into the singer's situation, or knowing that the room she rented was the nostalgic association after the singer picked up the guest, or even inheriting the physical and mental fragility of her mother who committed suicide...
However, when she timidly guarded the empty room alone, followed her classmate Xiao Hei, who frequently showed affection to her, and went to the dance hall to party, she still saw the ghosts of many prostitutes and chased her to death.
But the coincidence is that this dance hall is the dance hall where the singers lived and sank, just like the taxi driver's sentence when I first came to London, London as an ancient city was rarely demolished, and it was still the same as before.
Finally, the plot follows the heroine to bring her classmate Xiao Hei back to the residence from the dance hall, trying to break the place to usher in a wave of climax -
The confused classmate Xiao Hei, who was also driven away by the heroine's sudden crazy face change and the news of biao's fierce appearance, was frightened to flee on the spot, mixed with a hint of joy in the violent horror atmosphere.
At the same time, before the truth reversal comes, a character portrayal of the deliberately marginalized landlady is also carried out.
Director and screenwriter Edgar claimed that this film was influenced by the famous director's early masterpiece psychological horror film "Cold-Blooded Horror" and the classic suspense horror film "Venice Doubt" in film history.
Therefore, this film not only directly follows the same background as "Cold-Blooded Horror", the heroine entered the city of London from her hometown to live alone, but also formally integrated to pay tribute to the horror scene of the heroine being held out by the zombie-like ghost in "Cold-Blooded Horror".
The heroine's foot stepping on the "natural reflection mirror" of the puddle of the rain back street area, including her chasing the singer, who slammed back and hit her unprepared interaction, in terms of aesthetics and camera design are all tributes to "Venice Doubt"
"Venice Doubt" repeatedly uses water surface mirrors to portray the cause of drowning death of the male protagonist's young daughter, causing the male protagonist to track down and misidentify a dwarf as the ghost of his daughter
This film reproduces the mirror reflection and chase scenes
As mentioned in the opening chapter, the heroine with a small alert is susceptible to self-misdirection, and after hearing that the suspected prostitute smiled at her in the red light district with an unclear meaning, and tried to get close to her old man after the reunion, when she was young, she was a guy who wandered in the flowers, and she immediately responded to this person in her brain that this person was the back man who murdered the singer and died!
As a result, not only did he report to the police station the illusory facts he saw through the crossing, but also to make accusations against them (presumably by the police as a fantasy), but also to pestering and cursing when they met each other again, and then killing the other party's car accident and dying...
But the reverse is that the old man is not a man with a back at all, but the policeman who persuaded the singer to be a good person!
With the report of the heroine and the revelation of the real identity of the old man, the plot also ushered in the ultimate reversal -
It turned out that the singer was not stabbed to death that year, but instead desperately killed the man with the back in the fight, and her real identity was the landlady of the heroine.
After the hand blade scumbag, "the white knife goes in and the red knife comes out" it is no longer difficult for her.
As a result, many guests were killed, and she also accumulated a certain wealth, buying the property that led to her humiliation and blackening, and became an anonymous landlord.
In her own words, the girl died a hundred times in the room where you lived, but she is still standing in front of you!
Therefore, because the heroine's report endangered the reopening of the investigation of her crime, she had to falsify the heroine's plan to kill herself by swallowing sleeping pills "in a gentle way".
Witty and fluke is that the heroine rushed back to her room upstairs before being stunned, and locked the door of the house to temporarily resist the invasion of the elderly singer.
And since the singer is still alive, the strange power that makes the heroine see everything through time and space is instantly reversed into a group of prostitutes and ghosts who are led by men with backs, who are killed in this room, and who are also trapped in this room.
There is an old Chinese saying that ghosts are also afraid of evil people, as a slaughterer, the singer still has the ability to suppress this group of undead, and the singer has not entered the room for many years, and the trapped undead soul is not as hurt as she is (explaining the abnormal behavior of the elderly singer who only stands at the door of the room when renting a house for the heroine in the opening chapter, and also explains the kiss mark bug of the heroine, which actually comes from the undead soul who does not change her heart)
Therefore, in the end, the ghost gate that entangled the heroine is in this curve to save the country, so that the heroine as a witness, although they blame themselves for the greater component, although the heroine based on the empathy between women and accidental interludes appear position cognitive bias, but the result of the heroine is after all a mistake, the spearhead of the opposite involves the restart of the singer's murder case, but also for themselves to invite the disaster of killing.
Just as the film police with a bit of a "save the wind and dust" posture failed to wake up the singer to take a self-portrait in the mirror, regain herself, and be sincere, can the heroine who put herself in the shoes of the elderly singer finally touch the mirror image, find innocence, give up killing, and realize self-salvation and redemption of both sides?
The answer is that friends need to watch the movie on their own.
All in all, this is a film with a high degree of design completion in terms of concept and execution, in this era of Social Darwinism supremacy, even the disadvantaged groups, sexual minorities are popular within the "cutting", she interprets the preciousness of the female destiny community with the form of fascinating stories and storytelling, reminding each of us never to lose the ability to empathize!