People often say that money can make ghosts grind, it can be seen that the power of money is huge at any time, so for ghosts and gods, for people, most of the time it is impossible to resist the charm of money. What does money bring? Nature is an incomparable material condition, so in the eyes of those who seek the material basis, the light emitted by money can illuminate everything, and other things are naturally unimportant.
Combined with the background of the times, the first time the Chinese people ushered in the wave of money should be in the eighties, at that time, policy changes, the tide of opening up has just taken off, people face the impact of foreign advanced material life, naturally will form a concept of money supremacy, people who have been abstinent in thought for a long time feel the infinite charm of materials for the first time, and under the impact of materials, ideas have become less reliable, so in the eighties, people's thirst for money is more intense than before.
On this basis, the works that reflected the current situation of society at that time could basically grasp this pulse, and the film recommended to you today tells a story about money distorting people's souls.
"Two Midnight" is a horror film with a certain core concept, and although this kind of horror film is very sharp in creating atmosphere and creating conflict, the reason is still the core drive, when you understand the main content of the film, there will naturally be explanations for those terrible scenes, and under the explanation, it will greatly dilute the atmosphere of horror.
The film begins with a bizarre divorce case in which the husband does not agree to the divorce and presents proof that his wife is mentally ill, while the wife advocates divorce on the grounds that the husband is having an affair. The wife's agent was determined to understand what was going on, so she found her wife and her husband and her husband's former first love to find out what was going on. After that, this bizarre case gradually became clear.
It turned out that the husband who had become a door-to-door son-in-law had been living a life of humiliation, and this humiliation burden became more intense after meeting his first love again. At this time, the wife's father returned home, and he brought back a message that was heartening. It turned out that there was a hundred taels of gold buried in this house, and after this news was known to her husband, he began to stir.
First, he pretended to be a ghost to scare his mother-in-law to death, and then he borrowed his identity as a doctor and constantly let his wife take medicine, which then forced her into a neurosis. Finally, under the investigation of the wife's lawyer, the husband's true face was exposed, and he was finally punished by the law.
This is a film with a certain cautionary significance, of course, this type of film was still relatively common at the time, so at the end, there will be a scene like persuasion, just like watching the end of many legal programs now, the emphasis is long and preachy. From today's point of view, such an ending is a bit funny, but this was a general environmental limitation at the time, and the filmmakers at that time did not have as many examples to follow now, so this can be ignored.
Looking at this film again, almost in the aforementioned core runs through the whole scene, and even most of the characters in the film have fixed personalities, when the lawyer appears, she represents justice and conscience, which is not only mentioned at the end of the film, but also from the mouth of the old director in the film, we can also hear similar lines, when re-handling the case, we must talk about evidence, and this paragraph also lays the groundwork for the later decipherment of this complex family contradiction.
The reason why the husband became a mercenary person is naturally that when he was in the countryside, the first love fell after he left him, and the husband at that time and his first love were dependent on each other, but one day he learned that his lover was about to leave, and from then on, the lover found a rich lord, and the two were separated because of this. Since that time, the husband in the film has developed an infinite desire for money, in his view, the lover left because his material foundation is relatively weak, naturally, when he has money, there will be no such thing. Therefore, at that time, the husband has already planted the seeds of sin.
Later, after regaining a marriage, the husband should have lived a down-to-earth life, but the good times were not long, and the former first love once again appeared in his life, which is a temptation for anyone. And the husband, who is desperate for money, naturally has a low ability to resist this temptation, so he will become half-hearted in his marriage. What is even worse is the news brought by his wife's father's return to China, and at this time, the crazy husband will naturally not let go of this large amount of wealth. And so tragedy arose.
In fact, this story seems to be very routine today, and the characters in the film are basically wearing some kind of person's mask, the lawyer is a fair person at first glance, and the wife is bitter and vengeful, and the husband's oily and slippery appearance hides evil intentions. And such a character with a strong mask is basically a common disease of the movie at that time, in addition to this, this film, as a horror film, has a classic scene, and that pair of eyes can definitely leave a psychological shadow on too many people.
In the 1980s, people's impression of money was omnipotent, so there were many people like the husband in the film, but how serious were the consequences of pursuing money through despicable means? This is the heart of the film.
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