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Don't Stop the Camera! "" made a zombie movie very hot

I don't know how many fans, like the author, want to watch zombie movies and are afraid of leaving psychological shadows, so they can only shrink in the corner of the sofa, cover their eyes and squeak and scream with the plot. Now, a movie called "Don't Stop the Camera!" " Japanese movies can completely eradicate your fear of zombie movies.

Don't Stop The Camera! "Can be described as the strongest dark horse in the Japanese film industry in 2018, newcomer directors, ordinary actors, budgets of only 3 million yen (about 180,000 yuan) to shoot ultra-low-budget independent films, hot sales of more than 170 million yen (about 10 million yuan), this boom extended to China, fans gave Douban 8.5 praise.

The first 37 minutes of the film's plot is a laughable, obsessive B-grade "zombie film", which tells the story of a film crew shooting a zombie movie in the ruins of a mountain somewhere, the director is bent on pursuing realistic scenes, and the actors have not met the requirements 42 times in a row. At this moment, the real zombies struck, the film crew gradually turned into zombies, and the director was ecstatic and couldn't stop shooting.

Don't Stop the Camera! "" made a zombie movie very hot

Don't Stop The Camera! stills.

However, just when your eyes are filled with fake blood plasma, thinking that the sparse plot, shoddy pictures, crazy acting, and narcissistic director are the whole of the film, only to find that this is a natural "trap". Unpack this package and you'll see 60 minutes of tidbits and Easter eggs a hundred times more exciting than the "main film", revealing a truth about the movie and life.

There are often tidbits that appear as a promotional gimmick for the film, but this time in "Camera Don't Stop!" The tidbits in "" constitute the special sense of form of this movie. The plot that set up the "play within a play" was not reversed enough, and with the end of the "positive film", the movie pulled the camera back to the real space, and we suddenly realized in front of the screen that this was a "play within a play". Like the nested dreams in Inception, we wake up again and again in the movie, looking back at the last space in each space, and it tastes better with it.

Fans will surely know that this tidbit is not another tidbit - it is still false, it is a drama, and there must be someone outside the camera. So when the real tidbits appear at the end of the film, everyone will smile: the shots that are constantly pulled apart are like the viewpoint transformation of "you are looking at the scenery on the bridge, and the people watching the scenery are looking at you upstairs", and the intertextuality of "positive film" and "tidbits" forms a narrative tension and also brings absurd psychological experience to fans. If you pay attention to the timeline, you will find that the "positive film" and the "tidbits" coincide skillfully at the time point, and the abrupt lines, strange sounds, strange plots, and neurotic directors of the "positive films" can get a full answer to the "tidbits". Laughter gradually emerges in different perspectives to observe "zombie films", deconstructing the production process of traditional genre films.

Don't Stop the Camera! "" made a zombie movie very hot

If the first 37 minutes of deconstructing and defining the zombie film, then the tidbits that follow are deconstructing and reconstructing the core of the story, telling us how this unreliable team completed the one-shot shooting. The director who instigated and lost, the shallow and harsh flow of small students, the vase actress who needed eye drops for crying drama, there were drunks in the team, patients with stomach pain and waist pain, and dating masters who were supreme in love, and finally at the insistence of the director, with the cooperation of everyone's tact, this thrilling improvisational performance was completed.

Everyone is already so nestled in life, it is better to have a carnival in the movie. In the last twenty minutes of the film, from the boring and bland plot to the serial laughter, this natural secret disclosure game is hilarious and poignant. In particular, the funny director always forced into the camera and shouted "the camera can't stop", which produced a distancing effect, and his presence reminded fans that all this was a drama.

The final landing point of the film is undoubtedly bloody and inspirational: the big swing arm is broken, and the last shot of the movie will not be completed, at this time all the actors will come together to create a 5-meter-high "human flesh big rocker arm" with the body of the stacked Luohan. The director's daughter rode on Dad's neck and held the camera above her head to complete the final shot. At this point, "Don't Stop the Camera!" and their "One Cut of The Movie" are at the same core, forming a humorous intertext. I believe that many fans can understand this dedication to the end, performance and completion, behind a bad film that looks exaggerated and vain, it is likely to be full of the ingenuity and efforts of a group of practitioners.

Don't Stop the Camera! "" made a zombie movie very hot

No matter how many zombie movies you've seen before, in "Don't Stop the Camera!" After that, zombie movies are no longer mysterious. Or, in the future, in the face of any terrible zombie, as long as you brain supplement "Camera Don't Stop!" The ghost animal plot in "" does not need to be a bullet screen protector from now on.

□ Guo Qianhua (Film Critic)

Beijing News Editor Wu Longzhen Proofreader Lu Aiying