When Stephen King's name is mentioned, I believe many people have begun to light up.
Lao Jin is recognized as a "master of modern horror fiction".
In the hearts of a thousand Stephen King fans, there are a thousand reasons to love him.
Many of his novels have been adapted into classic film and television works.
"The Shawshank Redemption", needless to say, is perennially ranked No.1 on the Douban movie top list.
"Walk with Me", adapted from the novel "Corpse".
And "The Shining", directed by Kubrick. The cooperation between the two has been talked about by fans so far.
But in the past two years, film and television works based on Stephen King's novels have not had a good reputation.
However, although some of them are not highly rated, they are very prominent in the same genre and are worth a look -
Gerald Games
Gerald's Game
This film can be summed up in one sentence, which is a tragedy caused by a couple playing SM and getting rid of it.
Wife Jesse, husband Jerrod. The couple came to a country cottage for the weekend.
In fact, the marriage of the two has long had problems.
This time I came to the suburban villa to "play something fresh" and regain my passion.
On the way, my husband almost hit a stray dog while driving.
This dog will appear later.
As soon as they arrived at the villa, the two decided to hurry up and get down to business.
The wife changed into sexy silk pajamas that she bought especially for this vacation.
Pose and wait for your husband.
The husband appeared topless.
Wait, what's in his hand? yes, handcuffs.
This middle-aged and elderly couple is just going to have some excitement.
Although the heroine was shocked to see the handcuffs, she thought it would be something like velvet or silk.
But in order to please her husband, she reluctantly continued.
Her hands were cuffed to the bedposts on either side.
In fact, the male protagonist is not as old and strong as he seems, and he has taken Viagra beforehand.
Before he got down to business, he felt thirsty.
He placed the glass on the wooden board above the bed.
Husband Jerold began to enter the play.
The heroine calls his name, but he pretends to be a stranger who raped him, not the heroine's husband.
Moreover, he also made his wife cry out for help.
The heroine began to resist.
She wasn't pretending, she really wanted to stop.
But the male protagonist thought that his wife had already entered the play.
Until the heroine couldn't stand it anymore and yelled with a crying voice.
I wanted to play some new tricks, but the two quarreled like this again.
The heroine complained that her husband hadn't touched her for months. No matter what, there was no sexual interest, until the heroine agreed to let him play a few sex games.
As a result, this turned into the realization of the male protagonist's rape fantasy.
Probably it was too exciting and emotional before.
It's not going to be good.,The male protagonist suddenly collapsed because of a heart attack.。
That's right, just fifteen minutes into the opening, the male protagonist hung up.
So, a sad scene began to be staged.
The heroine was alone with her hands handcuffed to the reinforced bedpost, and there was no one in this suburb.
It is not necessary to let the heavens and the earth be unspiritual.
I really can't cry if I want to, and it's useless to struggle.
She tried to wake up the male protagonist. What if it's just a coma?
But the husband never woke up.
At this point, something even more terrifying came.
The dog they had almost hit and killed had slipped into the room.
Wild dogs began to gnaw on her husband's carcass.
This situation can be said to be very terrifying.
The heroine is trapped in place, there is no way to break free from the handcuffs, and there is no one around to call for help, only a vicious dog waiting to eat human flesh.
Although, some fans consider the actual situation and say that this environment is not set up rigorously.
There are many bean friends on Douban who have come up with a way to escape for the heroine, and the instructions have been drawn.
It's also great.
But if you're looking for a very serious escape room movie, you've come to the wrong place.
This film is not intended to tell about the physical escape room, but to use this reason to tell about the escape and redemption of the heroine's soul.
Breaking free from the shackles on your body, there may be a hundred ways to try.
However, breaking free from the spiritual shackles of past life and uncovering those scars is what this film does.
In 2015, when watching the Oscar-winning actress movie "Room", many people also laughed at the film setting.
The heroine was kidnapped and imprisoned, and gave birth to a criminal's child, why didn't she think about it for several years, how to escape?
Are all those escape rooms for nothing? Are all prison break movies for nothing?
There is a combination lock on the door, and it must have been opened long ago if you try a few times a day.
Standing between her and freedom was a combination lock, why she never escaped.
Later, I figured out that it was not that she couldn't escape, but that she had given up on escaping.
She had mentally sentenced herself to life imprisonment.
The physical shackles are easy to open, but the mental shackles are not easy to let go.
In particular, there is a layer of paper shackles.
Friends who have watched the movie "Mei Lanfang" must remember the word "paper shackles". Director Chen Kaige said that he felt that Mei Lanfang's life was a life of being kidnapped.
But who isn't?
Isn't affection, desire, responsibility, everything that surrounds you, everything you live on a paper shackle on you?
The shackles made of paper are torn and broken, but there is no way to break them.
Speaking of this "Jerold Game", the movie sir feels that the intention of the West is still almost meaningless compared to the charm of our East.
The focus of this film is the hallucinations of the heroine trapped in bed.
She fantasizes about two characters, the living male protagonist, and her free-moving, intelligent self.
They each carry part of the thoughts in the heroine's head. It is the embodiment of some of the heroines.
The dialogue between the heroine and them reveals her two nightmares.
One is a memory of being molested and threatened by my father when I was a child. There is also a hypocritical marriage with the male protagonist.
The heroine has always known that her husband is a big bastard.
She once overheard her husband laughing with a friend about women being "the life support system of the vagina."
The husband obviously objectified women, but the heroine obviously heard it but endured it, and did not protest at all.
All the while, she wanted to please her husband.
When she found out that her husband was taking aphrodisiacs, she didn't say what she thought.
Even she once cooperated with her husband's rape fantasies.
Like a faithful wife, she never protests.
But she would only silently think in her heart, who did I marry?
Although this film belongs to the thriller hunt, such a shameful play may not happen in real life.
However, her problems are shared by many women.
Such a faithful wife, who never resists or rebukes, has you and me all around.
She is very weak, and when she has a problem that she can't bear, she chooses to run away.
Her husband and another self in her mind are complaining about her in tricks.
It was precisely because of this desperate situation that the heroine began to reflect and began to resist.
She began to think back to the total solar eclipse that she had never talked about before.
Her own father took advantage of her to watch the total solar eclipse and did something that should not have been done.
And after the incident.
In the bedroom, the heroine's father did something even more terrifying to the heroine who was still a little girl.
He suggested confessing to his mother, but he hinted at the heroine,
Mother won't think it's your fault, even if she thinks it's your fault, it's okay, let's bear it together, although your relationship with your mother has been strained recently, but let's confess it together.
With this threat, the father put a lifetime of shackles on the heroine.
The heroine said to her childhood self,
The father's handcuffs represent silence. The husband's handcuffs represent comfort.
After thinking about this, she was finally free.
If you think of this movie as a psychological movie, it is absolutely passing.
Tell you how to face the pain, break free from the mental shackles, and so on.
Or, as a women's movie, it will also be rewarding.
In addition, there are several bloody scenes in this film, which will cause discomfort, and fans who want to watch this film should be mentally prepared first.
When you've gotten through the trauma and overcome your fears, looking back, you'll be like:
You're so much smaller than I remember.
This is also a favorite line of the movie sir, and it appears twice in the film.
No matter what you've experienced,
I hope you can become stronger.
Then I can look back and say to those demons and monsters, you are much smaller than I remember.