If a horror movie is good, the audience will react physiologically.
Cough, the shop refers to -
His hands and feet were sweating, his back was cold, and he shivered.
In 16 years, there was a horror movie that won countless word of mouth by playing the card of physiological reaction.
Because its setting is blind to kill monsters, every audience unconsciously covers their mouths when watching the film, and dare not make a sound.
Hold your breath the whole time.
Some media said that it was the best horror film in 20 years.
After 5 years of waiting, its sequel finally came -
"Hold Your Breath 2"
In order to quickly enter the pit for unfamiliar friends, the shop is simply rewinded.
The core concept of "Hold Your Breath" is hearing.
A group of hair thieves, encountering a blind house owner with explosive force, when the drama of closing the door and beating the dog is staged, the sound is the biggest loophole.
The vibration of the mobile phone and the barking of the dog may betray the location of the thief.
"Hold Your Breath" also has the meaning of not talking, not making a sound.
Veterans rely on the sound of their mobile phones to judge the location
The thief in the film holds his breath.
The audience outside the film also held their breath.
If you've ever seen this in a theater, you'll experience the quietest movie-going atmosphere of your life.
Because the tense atmosphere was played to the extreme, this movie defeated commercial blockbusters such as "Suicide Squad" and "Mechanic 2" in the summer vacation file that year, and became a typical example of success with small and broad.
Later, blockbuster horror films such as "A Quiet Place" can see its shadow.
Of course, I haven't seen the first part, and I'm OK.
The second part, a new story.
The protagonist is still the veteran Norman.
The background is still the detroit where the economy is withering and crime is rampant.
At the beginning of the film, a little girl runs in a panic on a wasteland.
The ferocious black dog violently pursued.
Flustered footsteps, rapid breathing.
In one breath, she flipped over an iron net, and the black dog was intercepted.
Then she came to a car and skillfully picked up a gun.
"Great!"
Joyful mood, no seconds.
One turned and a man covered her mouth.
Veteran, here it comes.
The girl said cautiously, "Sorry, Father, I'll be able to do it next time." ”
It turned out that the veteran was training the little girl's escape skills.
But, father?
Soon after the beginning of the film, the audience had to have a little doubt.
The look of a girl in her teens, the look of a veteran in her seventies, is this the setting of father and daughter?
A little reluctant, right?
Mo panicked, and then looked down, the girl's life.
She was a lonely girl, clinging to a veteran in a suburban house who wouldn't let her out into town easily, three months after the last time.
Why veterans don't let girls out, here the movie buries the second question.
The camera turns to the downtown area, where a piece of news is being broadcast.
Local kidnapping cases are on the rise, linked to human organ trafficking organizations.
The police issued a wanted arrest of a doctor with serious suspicions.
The story of the movie has faintly revealed its outline at this time -
It's a crime story.
An old man, a girl, and a gang of human organ-stealing tissues fight.
Like the last time, it begins the story with uninvited guests breaking into veterans' houses.
However, this story of closing the door and beating the dog has a different look and feel from the previous one.
In the first film, the style of the film is very obvious.
The atmosphere was tense and I held my breath.
A sense of horror, called and controlled by the senses.
This time, the director's tactics are more diverse.
One is the concept of countdown
The countdown setting is a routine that many movies will use, and a large number of Hollywood commercial movies such as Inception, Time Planning Bureau, and Mission Impossible have used this technique.
The time cutoff keeps getting closer, natural, and you'll hold your breath.
In the film, the girl hides in the cupboard.
In order to force her out, the villain put water in the cabinet on one side and a section of power wire on the other side.
Once the water and electricity are connected, there is no doubt that they will die.
In order to save their children's lives, veterans must race against the clock.
Another scene.
The villain's mouth and nose were glued to the universal glue, more and more suffocated, less and less alive air.
What to do, the knife can not be found.
In the panic of the countdown, the audience's heart hangs in the air.
After that, the accomplice directly picked up a screwdriver and inserted his face.
My God, this sour.
Speaking of which, I have to say that this film is indeed much bloodier than the previous one.
The bloodiness of the film is also gradually rising.
In the first act, the throat is locked and the face is smashed.
A whole set of actions down, in fact, there are not many frontal shots.
After entering the house, the level of bloodiness is further increased.
Many shots are challenging the audience's tolerance.
In order to resist the villain, the veteran ignites the combustible gas, and the flames instantly ascend to the sky.
A good charcoal burning big living person, almost cumin.
It's a bit scary here, so I won't put a high-definition close-up picture.
In the last scene, it is also the extreme bloody clip -
Cut off hands, plug eyes.
The bloody shots at the beginning of the film are quite restrained, and to the back, the stumps and cross-sections are clearly captured.
Timid viewers are advised not to watch alone.
In recent years, there have been a lot of very good violent films, such as the "Fast Pursuit" series, "Little People", etc., and the style of "Hold Your Breath 2" is also more biased towards this one.
Violence + action.
In this movie, more action scenes have been added.
One-on-one scenes, rewriting reality.
Don't pay attention to the flower style, fists are to the flesh.
One-to-many scenes, pay more attention to the visual atmosphere and detail presentation.
A group of people, carefully moving towards the veterans.
A veteran lying in the water, in a false sleep.
Since he was blind and sideways, how could he perceive the direction of the other party?
The direction in which the water waves arrive.
Three people, forming three waves of water.
Each channel represents its own distance and direction.
Like a bat, the veteran quickly got up.
Three shots shot out, without giving the other party a chance to think.
Three people, fell down in an instant.
Not dead, one more shot.
The design of this scene combines the physiological characteristics of blind veterans, and the whole action scene appears more artistic in the water waves and reflections.
From realistic hand-to-hand combat to artistic shooting.
In fact, the story of this film is more layered in many aspects.
Thematically, it actually addresses a very typical issue in Hollywood—adoptive father, or biological father.
That's right, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy 2 is also on this theme.
At the beginning of the article, the shop throws out a question.
The veteran and the girl didn't look like a father-daughter pair.
In terms of age, the veteran is more like a grandfather.
Halfway through the movie, throwing out an earth-shattering reversal —
This group of people came specifically to find the girl, because she was the daughter of their leader.
Eight years ago, a gang of drug dealers was arrested and sentenced to prison for making methamphetamine, a laboratory explosion, and a young daughter, yin and yang, was adopted by a veteran.
At this time, of course, there are some touching scenes of recognition.
8 years later, see my father again.
8 years later, I saw my mother who was not dead.
A little girl, finally has the feeling of home.
However, the shop also said another question in the previous article.
Cases of human abductions and seizures of human organs in downtown Detroit have recently risen dramatically.
What about this clue and story?
Don't worry, let's look at the girl's mother.
Her cheeks are sunken, she sits in a wheelchair, coughing up blood at every turn, and she looks like a long-term illness.
She is the central figure of the drug gang, only she knows the art of drug making, and the whole team depends on her.
But because of the production of poison, her heart was severely damaged.
Transplant surgery is imperative.
The object is only a blood relative.
The girl listened to the moment and shook her head, it turned out that there was such a big pit behind the confession.
Mom and Dad came to find themselves because they wanted to die.
At this point, the theme shifts to the relationship between the veteran and the girl.
At the beginning of the movie, the relationship between many veterans and girls is laid out.
The veterans were harsh, forcing her to learn escape techniques, preventing her from going to school, teaching herself at home, and restricting her travel.
Girls, for a long time felt very lonely.
She sometimes carries the veteran on her back to her former house.
In the back garden, plant some flowers and plants.
She wanted a normal family. But the family of origin that belonged to her was not the kind she imagined.
It's a cold, selfish, emotionless drug trafficking home.
In the film, the director uses a metaphor.
dog.
Dogs are the most loyal animals in the world.
Veterans have dogs, so when a drug dealer's dog pounces on him, he is reluctant to shoot the dog.
But the drug dealer was ruthless, and he set fire to the veteran's house, along with the trapped dog, and did not care about the creature, just as he did not care about his own daughter.
In a critical moment, the veteran rescued the dog, so the dog's retribution began.
It brought him to the territory of its own masters, the drug lords.
When the veteran is attacked by a drug lord, it even pounces on its former owner.
Since they are all traitors, let them be traitors to the end.
Even dogs can have emotional recognition.
It knows that the pro-master is not distinguished between before and after.
The attitude of the dog actually confirms the attitude of the girl.
Loyalty and perseverance are important qualities of human beings.
However, these qualities are all feedback that requires kindness.
Otherwise, it becomes a kind of pedantic stupidity.
The girl knew that although the veteran's attitude towards himself was indeed a little inhumane, he treated her sincerely and was willing to put her in danger.
This one completes the explosion of the biological parents.
At the heart of Hold Your Breath 2 is a family story.
Compared to the previous one, it is a little less thriller and more tyrannical, but it is also a good R-rated film.
If you are timid, it is recommended to watch it accompanied by an adult!