In 2021, a horror movie from Taiwan Province was released , "Crying Sorrows".
Originally, this was only a small-cost cult plasma film, but with word of mouth, it has gradually become a masterpiece that many fans of heavy-taste movies in the mainland are generally looking forward to.
And the news about the film is getting more and more outrageous.
After the word-of-mouth of various marketing numbers has been fermented again, what was rejected by the Golden Horse Awards because of the scale was too large, and it was rejected by Netflix because it was too violent.
A "Crying Sorrow", a "Spell"
Although many people have not seen the film yet, it seems to have become a hit on the best list of horror films of the year.
As a restricted film, we all know that it will definitely not have the opportunity to hit the big screen in the mainland, but we all know that everyone can always see the true face of the whole film, just wait.
The film has indeed begun to be seen in some parts of the country recently, so there has been a wave of discussion on the Internet about "Crying Sorrows" again.
Unsurprisingly, after watching the movie, the evaluation of many fans began to fall off a cliff.
The so-called higher the expectation, the greater the disappointment. This phrase is indeed most appropriate to describe some films with excessive fermentation of word-of-mouth.
I usually watch movies that are really heavy on taste, and I have some expectations for this film, so I also watched the movie at the first time.
How to say it after watching it, it is really not so brilliant, even if it is placed in the cult movie series, it is not ranked.
However, the director's novelty is there, and it can be regarded as a new trick for zombie movies.
The film tells the story of a zombie virus spreading wildly on the island.
On a calm and comfortable morning, the male protagonist got up and sent the female protagonist to work.
In this process, the director began to lay the foreshadowing of the precursor to the outbreak of the virus, including the news on tv introducing the virus, the male and female protagonists riding bicycles to see the police dealing with violence on the side of the road, and so on.
Similar treatment methods actually appear in many zombie movies, basically interspersed with some signs of catastrophe in the protagonist's daily life.
To be honest, I was still very nervous when I watched this paragraph.
Because the director has been trying to tell us in the language of the lens that something will happen in a moment, but the male and female protagonists who are the parties do not know.
This kind of information asymmetry inside and outside the screen will bring a slight sense of suffocation to the audience, and the atmosphere is very good.
Unfortunately, the whole film then fell directly into the cliché.
After the male protagonist sent the female protagonist to the subway, go home and buy an early kung fu, the zombie virus broke out. At this time, the frightened male protagonist could not contact the female protagonist, so he began to ride a motorcycle while getting rid of the zombie pursuit and went to find each other.
The heroine met a perverted uncle in the subway.
Just when she tried to refuse the sexual harassment of her uncle, the zombie virus also broke out in the subway, a car of people quickly died, and the heroine also began to escape.
In the next hour or so of the plot, it is basically all kinds of blood plasma, almost the feeling that ketchup does not want money, and the story has nothing new.
The only thing that differs from traditional zombie movies is the depiction of infected people.
After Korean movies added brutality and growth buff to zombies, the director of Taiwan Province added another intellectual buff to them this time.
Strictly speaking, these infected people are not actually unconscious zombies.
According to the doctor at the end of the film, the infected people themselves are autonomous, but their bodies are driven by the virus, so that they have made various acts to release their inner desires, including violence, massacres, sexual needs, and so on.
This is also what causes them to cry, and it is also the origin of the title of the film. They know they're doing the wrong thing, but they watch it all happen and can't control their bodies, so they shed tears.
From this setting, the director seems to want to talk about human nature and desire.
But his performance method is somewhat naïve, not at all out of the routine of ordinary zombie movies, the rhythm of the whole film is basically in that kind of calm narrative, a blood plasma repetition routine, sometimes people look a little impatient.
Finally, the cause of the virus outbreak is explained by a large monologue of a virus expert, which is really not a clever technique.
In particular, the expert's acting skills are not very good, and it feels very amateurish when telling the cause of the incident, and I can clearly feel that he is trying to make various exaggerated expressions, as if trying to tell the audience: You see, I am trying to perform.
Since I'm talking about acting, I have to mention it.
In the whole movie, the only one who can pass the acting skills is the perverted uncle, and the others, from the dragon set zombie to the male and female protagonists, what are they acting with!
Look at the South Korea next door, the zombie play is called a real, how to see how scary.
Some time ago there were news reports, X bean media was ended by the domestic police, the comment area is all exaggerated and good, the biggest problem mentioned by many people is that the acting skills are really crotch, can't stand it.
It has to be said that the fault line of talents in the show business circle in the province has become an important factor that seriously affects the development of cultural products from top to bottom.
One of the big drawbacks of poor acting skills is that it is easy for people to play, and once they are played, they can't watch it.
Despite all the problems, on the whole, "Crying Sorrow" is also a very good attempt.
The main creators are really disgusting in the conception of some plots, such as what the perverted uncle did to the fat sister, although some of the Japanese cartoons next door are not spared, but the effect presented by the real person is indeed more impactful.
Many viewers' low evaluation of this film is actually more due to excessive expectations. Many marketing trumpets boast of being too violent, too large, etc., really nothing for people who are used to watching cult movies.
Many of the violence and inappropriate scenes in this film were skipped by the director in the form of switching shots at key moments.
Regarding the issue of the Refusal of the Golden Horse Award due to the scale, the director also came forward to clarify it later, in fact, he did not understand the Chinese and misunderstood the notice of the failure of the Golden Horse Award.
After all, as a low-cost plasma film, plus the actor's acting skills are not outstanding, is it not normal to lose the primary election of the Golden Horse Award?
And Netflix refused to accept it because this film does not match Netflix's production style, people even have the scale of "Devil Man Cry Baby", how can they care about "Cry sad"?