What is it.
Let the sunny and cheerful big boy who loves iron.
Suddenly vomiting blood from the mouth.
What is it.
Let the fashionable and beautiful Miss Gold, Gold, Silver.
Crazy jumping gods.
And what.
Let the terrifying Choi Min-sik in "Seeing the Devil".
This time it was his turn to freak himself out.
I really saw the devil.
Welcome to the latest issue of Into Science:
Broken Grave
Pamyo
It was on fire once some time ago.
"ridiculed" fire.
Because Korean netizens imitated the plot in the play and printed Chinese characters on their faces, making Chinese netizens feel embarrassed by capitalization.
But "Broken Tomb" is indeed too popular in South Korea.
Nearly 2 million spectators bought tickets in the first weekend, setting a record for the opening of the year, and South Korea is currently the No. 1 box office of the year.
broke the record of "Seoul Spring" and beat the sci-fi blockbuster "Dune 2".
I thought that when the movie came to China, there would be a lot of controversy.
But Sir feels okay after watching it, the plot of writing on his face makes sense in the movie, and it is not far-fetched.
Not only is it not offensive, but it is even very much in line with our "main theme". (No spoilers for now)
Of course, the most critical ones:
It's been a long time since we've seen such a high-energy horror film.
The old rule, friends who are afraid of please leave quickly.
Next, the ghost is about to start blowing the lights.
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Invisible ghosts
"Approaching Science" on TV.
Once there is an attack or a supernatural situation, the news is always broadcast about black bears hurting people, and whether to deal with it harmlessly is also discussed.
△ Black Bear: Why do you always take the blame on me?
The story of the movie can be summed up as follows:
Scientifically, into the "unscientific".
A modern-day veteran ghostbuster.
The shrine maid Lee Hwa-rim (played by Kim Go-eun) takes her apprentice Bong-gil (played by Lee Ji-hun) to the home of a wealthy Korean-American living in the United States to solve the problem of crying after the birth of the grandchild.
Hua Lin pointed out that it was because the tomb where the ancestors of the family lived was not very comfortable, and it was sending a signal to his descendants.
So, the wizard duo gathered the number one feng shui master Kim Sang-deok (played by Choi Min-sik) and the mortician Ko Rong-geun (played by Yoo Hae-jin) to form a four-person tomb-breaking team.
Go and help the Park family complete this rich task.
But it didn't come to pass, the ancestors of the Park family were buried in a strange nameless cemetery in the deep mountains, and their identities were doubtful.
Also because the funeral home staff were greedy to open the coffin, after the soul of this extremely vicious old man was released, he began to mutilate his family.
finally dissipated the ghost through cremation in the middle section, but found that under the nameless grave, there were more difficult supernatural bosses to fight.
(literally) ghost on ghost, murder on murder.
The protagonist group of the movie is set up with the word "cool".
Ghost hunters, each with their own magical powers, act neatly.
There aren't too many scenes of dragging feet, infighting, and screaming in other horror movies.
A young generation of shrine maiden masters and apprentices.
A silent loyal dog with a cold face and a long straight + full body scriptures.
When the double-A combination appeared on the plane, the Korean wives had already devoured the pair of sister dogs.
Whether it is Hua Lin, he skillfully blows the witch whistle as soon as he appears.
△ The shamanic wizard in "The Cry" has the same display
Or Jin Shangde tasted a mouthful of soil, and he was able to taste the level of feng shui treasure.
are all talking about it, we are professional, and the audience can rest assured.
Even Gao Ronggen, the most oily-looking mortician, can notice that several times "shaking people" are through him.
Years of status in the rivers and lakes, the aspect of connections, can be revealed.
The fashionable value of the team's personality has been raised, and the creation of the "ghost" side should naturally be more intense.
In the first half, the atmosphere of the invisible ghost is created, and the sense of immersion is full.
For example, the reflection of mirrors is used to show ghost invasions.
△ Lady and ancestors in the mirror
Another example, when the president was told by Lao Jin that he was in danger and beware of ghost invasion.
The voice of "Lao Jin" came from outside the door again, saying that it would be too late if the door was not opened.
Who is the real old gold, and who should I listen to?
The bloody heart-digging and terrifying 180° neck bending scenes also make the visual stimulation in place.
The audio-visual atmosphere in the early stage is controlled, and the director focuses on a "stable" and point-to-point.
The light is either the mystery of dusk or the gloom of a cloudy mountainous area.
With the scream of the baby, the helplessness of the male owner of the Park family who rotates the camera, and the scene that transitions to the deep and unknowable tunnel light, is particularly exploratory.
The sound effects are also a combination of movement and static.
At the critical moment, the atmosphere is raised with one or two high-pitched sound effects, and in each paragraph, there are several muffled sounds similar to the opening of the coffin.
The foreshadowing of the plot was also cleverly stuffed into the lens by the director.
Hua Lin came to the Pu family's mansion and found a strange statue behind a superficial Buddha statue.
This kind of "stacked image" alludes to the key "stacked coffins" in the later period.
Solid details and smooth perception are the foundation for the effective dissemination of genre films.
But the creation of the first half ushered in a big turning point in the second half, and it is also the most controversial element of the movie.
Behind the folk customs, the politics of the family and the country.
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Tangible feud
Folk horror can be said to be the magic weapon of East Asian horror films in recent years.
△ "Curse" and "Cry"
"Broken Tomb" uses an American-style story framework of the adventure of the protagonist group, and stuffs a lot of bridges that can evoke folk memories.
Just those treasures of the "ghosts": salt, horse blood, glutinous rice.
In our minds, Hong Kong zombie films will be launched immediately.
In the story, the folk skills of the protagonist Tuan Fang are displayed, and they are all playing the peace of mind card of "our national religion has power".
Whether it's a complete possession ritual of a shrine maiden, or a traditional exorcism ritual of the sister group of Witch Hall, which finally resists the Japanese elves.
It is a triumph of shamanism, which influences the way of thinking of Koreans and is at the heart of the religious "concentric circles".
Other funeral feng shui and the use of the five elements of yin and yang are also closely related to the religious life of citizens.
Including the dream reminder given to Bongji by the monks of Boguksa Temple in the middle section when he was attacked, it is also a hint that the local monks will protect everyone, please rest assured.
Jang Jae-hyun, the director of "Broken Tomb", has a huge interest in folk religious culture in his own right.
His last work, "Suo Po He", which was the box office champion in South Korea in 19, was also such a cult-themed horror film.
In order to talk about the overhead sect in the movie, the director set up the doctrines, scriptures, and organizational structure in detail.
Here, you can see that the director likes to stew the religious culture of different ethnic groups in a mess.
The setting of the Four Heavenly Kings of the cult in the movie was born from Chinese Taoist culture, and the emperor as the main line killed the prophesied baby, which is similar to the Christian legend.
In "Broken Tomb", we naturally also saw some familiar folk mix and match elements.
Coffins are buried vertically.
Lin Zhengying's "Mr. Zombie" appeared in "The ancestors are buried vertically, and the descendants must be prosperous".
And the operation of writing Chinese scriptures on the body pays tribute to Masaki Kobayashi's "Strange Talk".
And through an evil incident, it evokes the unbearable history of the Japanese occupation, which of course reminds people of "The Cry".
The confrontation between family and country politics is buried under the folk fighting method.
In the middle of the movie, it is revealed that the history of the hidden ancestors of the Park family turned out to be so unsightly.
All the previously invisible and eerie atmosphere has turned into a tangible folk culture war and national anger during the Japanese occupation.
And this line of cultural disputes between Japan and South Korea was laid as early as the beginning.
Hwarashi was on the plane, and the flight attendant spoke to him in Japanese, and was finally told that "I am Korean".
And the master of "Qi Shun Ai" who buried the ancestors of the Park family mentioned at the beginning is actually pronounced "fox" in Japanese, that is, the legendary Japanese onmyoji with fox blood.
One of the film's most terrifying scenes is also contributed by the Japanese legend of the Wet Maiden, the "beautiful snake" being cut off to start the second half of the film's curse.
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The samurai elves were sewn into monsters as high as the roof, giving people an extremely eerie visual fright.
And the confrontation of all this was finally revealed because of a metaphor.
"The fox cut off the tiger's waist".
This is a phrase that the ghost said.
What does that mean?
In connection with the previous shamanic ritual, the shaman's mouth chanted "East Nine Thousand Miles, for the White Tiger".
Here the white tiger is the symbol of the country.
Looking at the latitude and longitude coordinates of this tomb, it is just located at the "waist" of the Korean Peninsula.
"The fox cut off the tiger's waist", it seems to be a feng shui bureau.
The samurai's coffin in the film is an iron nail inserted into the Korean national vein during the Japanese invasion.
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The main theme is a ghost movie
"The Iron Nail in the National Lineage" was originally an urban legend that has been circulating in Korea for a long time.
Legend has it that during the Japanese rule, hundreds of iron nails were driven to cut off the national veins of the Korean Peninsula in the shape of a tiger, damaging the fortunes of the country.
The core of the movie is based on this legend.
Even the blank space between the protagonists in the movie poster is the shape of the Korean Peninsula.
A nod to the Korean independence movement also appears in the film's character names.
The names of the protagonists are all avatars of members of the Korean independence movement.
Include the license plate number of the coffin.
0815 is the Liberation Day in Korea, 0301 refers to the March Day in Korea, and 1945 is the year when the Japanese occupation ended.
And the villain, in the movie, the male owner who was possessed by the ancestor of the "traitor" performed Japanese military etiquette outside the window, and it is said that the direction opposite the hotel is the former Korean Governor's Palace.
The main theme in the movie is intended to have another layer in addition to the cultural rivalry between countries.
It is the recognition and return of young people to traditional culture and the older generation.
The villain is the ancestors' pursuit of the forgetting and hiding of their descendants.
In the protagonist group, in the end, it was the witch grandmother who possessed Hua Lin who was attached to the body of Hua Lin, as well as the older generation of practitioners of traditional Korean culture like Lao Kim.
The young man who was floating in the air when he appeared was finally saved by the old man who took root in this land.
Director Jang Jae-hyun also said in an interview with the Korean film magazine "Cine21":
I would like to conclude with the meaning of the older generation of professionals and young wizards working together to protect the place where future generations will live. Suntech has also been mentioning professional ethics and emphasizing the meaning of land. I want to avoid the element that only flows to patriotism, and I want to activate the element of occupation.
Because the promotional expression in the movie is too obvious, the domestic audience has a kind of fatigue of "taking off their pants to see this".
And the fact that young Koreans are willing to eat such a feast with the main theme is probably related to the director's ingenious stitching of the main theme.
How to make the "patriotic squad" convincing?
Director Jang Jae-hyun said that this is not a simple anti-Japanese drama, and he wants to create a small character of the protagonist group in a more empathetic way.
They also have the shortcomings of ordinary people who are greedy for money, and their sense of justice is gradually being tapped.
From the very beginning, the wisdom of self-preservation.
to the justice of the Park family.
and finally learned the truth that the tomb robbery group is a patriotic volunteer group and became a new patriotic righteous soldier.
The movie does not particularly promote the greatness of this group of little people, and always carries a countermainstream narrative and stands by the side of the public.
It can be regarded as softening those distinct political expressions.
While domestic audiences are not interested in the political expressions in the film, they also feel a "pity".
When Korean horror films can be used as a mainstream genre, they can recruit star lineups and big productions, and step by step they will integrate and update the genres, so that they have moved towards the "Hall of Elegance" of the main theme.
And the folk horror in China has been excluded as a marginal theme because of "feudal superstition".
The presence of domestic horror films in the current cinema films is equivalent to nothing, staying at the level of "shoddy".
After watching "Broken Tomb", everyone repeatedly mentioned many tricks of folk horror online literature in the comment area:
"Descendants of Maoshan", "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", "Notes on Tomb Robbery", "Strange Fairy", ......
The public's enthusiasm for these supernatural themes has not diminished, but there is no further development of them on mainstream screens.
Opposite.
Last year, the latest work of the "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" series, "Return to the Ruins of the South China Sea", was launched with twists and turns.
It is not allowed to have detailed funeral paper boats, deep-sea white coffins, and bloody scenes of killing evil fish with watermelons.
It seems that on the mainstream screen, grayscale motives are not allowed, and a drop of "strange forces and gods" that are not motivated by patriotic feelings cannot be tolerated.
As everyone knows, perhaps, what is terrifying is not only the appearance of ghosts and gods.
It is also a "safe zone" that people demarcate for themselves, isolated, rigid, and unable to grow.
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Editorial Assistant: It's Tu Yile