(This article was originally produced by Sir Films: dushetv)
Today, Halloween, Sir also came to create a momentum for the festive atmosphere.
It's scary.
Sir knows that whenever this happens, a large number of poisonous rice will make the following moves:
Click on the article→ quickly close the network→ back to the article to ensure that the GIF cannot be loaded→ shrink in the bed and shiver and read the text again.
Hahaha, it's you.
Scared and want to see.
Good news: you don't have to shut down this time!
The timid can be seen with confidence; the bold, even more seriously.
In variety shows, in recent years, there is a popular category called "slow variety shows".
And today Sir wants Amway, called "Slow Terror"——
Ghost Invasion
<h1 class="ql-align-center">The Haunting of Hill House</h1>
The poster is unremarkable, the ancient house and the child, the horror theme is common configuration.
At the beginning of the story, it is not amazing.
Twenty years ago, a family of seven moved into an old mansion called Hill Hills.
Late one night, her mother died mysteriously, becoming a "ghost".
The father fled with five children.
Since then, the villa has been abandoned.
Twenty years later, the youngest of five children, the younger sister, was found to have committed suicide in the cottage.
This family was once again pulled back to that dark memory.
That's right, it's a haunted house-themed American drama again.
The theme is not new, the story is not exciting, and the key is that there are two big slots -
1, slow;
The pace is very, very slow... 3 episodes of content give you 10 episodes
The plot progress is too slow, and the horror film is really not suitable for ten episodes
2. Scattered;
Two timelines, twenty years ago, twenty years later, were twisted by the narrative...
The audience who is a little more anxious will can't help but want to scold people: what a ghost, can't understand!
Sir can only agree with half of them.
Slow is not wrong.
But slow is not the same as dragging.
That's right.
But scattering is for a better "gathering".
But any horror suspense drama, in order to catch people, will attract the audience as much as possible in the first two episodes.
Some directors set up suspense reversals, and some directors spill blood plasma to frighten them.
In short, it is to make the audience can't stop!
But the director who made "Ghost Blindfold", Mike Flanagan, did not do this.
In Sir's view, there are two kinds of human fears.
One is the physiological fright caused by the sudden stimulation of nerves, which comes quickly and goes faster;
One is the psychological repression of being unconsciously pulled into the abyss and being powerless to resist, slowly accumulating, and once it breaks out, there is no end.
The fear brought about by "Ghost Invasion" undoubtedly belongs to the latter.
And this kind of accumulation in the early stage must come from slow work and fine work.
Below the surface of scattering and slowness, there is a huge amount of information inside.
The forms of scatter are actually strung together by powerful logic.
In terms of editing, the director is accumulating baggage at a glance.
Sir picked two paragraphs at random:
In the office of the eldest daughter, Shelly, her husband is ready to hang pictures on the wall.
The sound of hammer hammering the wall, jumping straight to twenty years ago:
Father and worker were hammering the fireplace of the old house.
Three shots are cut here.
Nail nails → a close-up view of Shery→ twenty years ago, pushing the camera forward and seeing her father and workers knocking on things.
Why is it so jumpy?
First, the director uses the same sound effects to connect two similar movements.
Second, between the two movements, a close-up of Shelly is inserted.
This is not idle writing, but important tips -
Next, there is a picture of her memories.
So the next shot is advanced from the perspective of the childhood Shelley.
And why did Shelly think of this scene?
Because before, she had just heard her sister leave a message on her phone.
And that scene twenty years ago is the memory of what she and her sister experienced together.
So, the real logic of this paragraph is:
Her sister's messages, and the sound of nails, reminded Herie of her childhood playing with her sister.
Looking at it this way, is it still messy?
It's a textbook-level editing demonstration —
What is storytelling with pictures, that is.
But that's just a trick.
And above the technique, there is the framework.
If you've seen Game of Thrones, you know one word — POV (Point of View).
Translated, it is called the viewpoint character writing method.
From the perspective of different people, take the audience slowly into the whole story.
And the director seems to be following the POV's instruction manual, turning the story on the two timelines over and over again.
One is what happened to the mountain house twenty years ago—the death of the mother.
One is what happened to the current villa - the death of the little sister (Nair).
Use the deaths of these two women to string together the love-hate love and hatred of the family.
The passage sir just mentioned is a narrative centered on the perspective of his sister Shelly.
The next second, it switched to the eldest son, Steven.
Also through clipping.
This time the clue, from the voice, was replaced by a line:
Shelly's recollection ends with a line from her sister:
Dad, we need other keys
[This is] an emergency
In the next shot, Shelly calls Steven, and the word is also mentioned in the conversation:
But for Nair
Everything is "urgent"
The content of this episode is that the little sister Nair is missing, and the whole family enters the "emergency".
At the same time, the two talked and shifted the perspective to Steven.
The camera wanders around several characters like a ghost, and the baggage is lifted little by little.
The final moment of focus.
The audience is also like being controlled by a ghost, and the ghost makes the god shout out "sleeping grooves".
The climax is coming——
Sir watched the ratings rise.
Douban rose to 8.6 8.0.
IMDb soared to 9.1.
Now we know:
All "chaos" is actually subject to a rigorous framework.
And all the "slowness" is actually a deeper questioning in addition to brewing terror.
Where does man's fear come from?
The original "Evil House" of "Ghost Invasion" was praised by horror master Stephen King:
"One of the best horror novels of the second half of the 20th century."
Because it's largely an extension of Stephen King's idea of terror.
In Stephen King's The Return of the Joker, the Joker will become the thing you are most afraid of to scare you.
It is saying: What you fear is what you are running away from.
"Ghost Invasion" goes a step further —
What you are afraid of is what you are running away from, and what you are pursuing in a frenzy.
This is not a haunted drama of an old house, but a process of family collapse.
Looking back at the "unremarkable" poster, there is actually a hidden mystery.
The lower part is the mother's half face.
The old mansion, and the glowing windows, were her brain.
This implies that the mother is deeply in love with her family.
A "neat and tidy" home is what she is crazy about pursuing.
But also because of love, she put her family at risk.
She believes:
The ephemeral real world is painful, and the world of the dead after death is happy.
After her death, she still hopes to bring her children back to the mountain house to reunite with them for eternity.
That's why, the director has to show the perspective of each family member in every detail.
The mother's self-righteous "love" leaves different degrees of shadows on each child.
The addiction of the younger son Luca, the numbness of the eldest son Stephen, the fragility of the younger daughter Nair, the cleanliness of the second daughter Theo, the stubbornness of the eldest daughter Shelly...
All, there are traces to follow.
Like those two seemingly contradictory lines in the play:
Fear is a logical concession
Voluntary concessions of the rational model
Love is a logical concession
Similarly, Eason Chan also sang:
"Love is jealousy, love is doubt, love is an almost fanciful truth."
Ghost Invasion uses a slow approach, eventually implanting a chronic fear:
We always use "love" as an excuse.
To disguise our being possessed by ghosts.
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