2020 is really a big year for thrillers, just this week, there are three thrillers that have rushed to the popular list and word-of-mouth list of Douban at the same time, namely: "Invisible Man", "Hunger Platform", "Hunting".
The average score is above 7.0, and the performance is quite good.
In the next year, we will also see "A Quiet Place 2", "Chainsaw Horror 9", "Eve of the Civil War" produced by the Team of Escape from Desperate Town, and "Network Mystery Trail" director's new work "Escape"... and other films.
Thriller lovers can be said to have surprises every month.
This article first talks about this - "Hunting"
"Hunting" is also a big deal, the film was originally scheduled to be released in September 2019, but later the content caused dissatisfaction among many elites, and even the special score was personally torn up:
So after all kinds of twists and turns, it was finally released in March 2020.
The film's director is Craig Dhobe, who has co-directed high-scoring series such as "Westworld" and "Watchmen", and has been nominated for the Golden Leopard Award at the Locarno International Film Festival.
The heroine Betty Gilpin was nominated for an Emmy Award for "Beauty Wrestling League".
Audiences who have watched "Hunting" have called it the American version of eating chicken, or the live-action version of CS, a movie version of the hunting game.
At the beginning of the film, 12 strangers wake up in a clearing, not knowing where they are or how they got here.
The first thing 12 people did when they woke up was to unbox the assessment:
This box and crowbar are simply the same game.
Obviously, the boxes were full of guns and weapons, and everyone had one of them, and then they could start hunting.
But it wasn't that they hunted others, it was that they were hunted by others, and the guns in the box were only for the 12 people to defend themselves.
Saying that it is self-defense is actually useless, more like the last bit of mockery left before the dead.
The first advantage of "The Hunt" is that the plot is compact and the reversals are constant.
In the first half hour of the film, it is absolutely impossible to guess who the protagonist is.
Originally thought that it was this blonde beauty whose appearance was justice, after all, she found the key little key:
As a result, the game had just begun, and she was headshot;
Then I thought it was this handsome little brother who was honest, kind, and bold:
As a result, the blonde beauty fell down for a few minutes before he stepped on the mine:
The explosion is neat and crisp, and there is no room for the audience to think.
More and more people died, and three people escaped from the farm and came to the convenience store next to the gas station.
As a result, three young players were overturned by two elderly people who looked harmless:
The two staggered, calmly cleaning up the scene while gently discussing how to deal with the next one.
In the middle, a romantic sunset kiss was staged:
Later, the heroine appeared, but the position of the various characters is still elusive. The tone of the film is set from where the fake gas station appears, and in this game, everyone you meet may be a villain.
Those who hunt you, they will pretend to be passers-by, or victim accomplices, to increase the fun of their game.
This setting makes "Hunting" full of tension, suspense, and horror from the beginning, and it will not be boring no matter how to shoot.
The second advantage of "The Hunt" is that the picture is bloody and bold enough to meet the needs of heavy-tasting audiences.
For example, the lens of inserting a high heel into the human eye and then pulling the thing off the heel of the shoe;
One second the camera is still on the verdant grass, and the next second the picture cuts here:
It's also straightforward enough.
Warm reminder, the next one is more disgusting, but Lao Wang has no ability to release it.
In short, what the human eye looks like, what the headshot moment looks like, what is the body that is half blown away... "Hunting" is presented to the audience one by one.
And the shot is relatively absurd and funny, not too scary, but it gives enough firepower.
The third advantage of "Hunting" is that the human settings are very rough and direct, the adrenaline rushes throughout the whole process, and it is cool enough to popcorn.
In particular, the heroine is the most typical representative, in the words of netizens, the heroine interprets a sentence throughout:
"I'm not targeting anyone, I'm saying all of you here, all of you..."
The first wave of saly on the scene of the heroine, just with a pack of cigarettes to see through the fake appearance of the old couple in the convenience store, and then directly into the cashier, grabbed each other's guns, and headshot the two together.
The heroine is one of the 12 people who are hunted, but unfortunately, she is more bloodthirsty than the hunters.
According to the heroine's own introduction, she had served in Afghanistan and later worked in a car rental company, but the boring environment made her have no chance to vent.
This wave of daring to be kidnapped is also in the arms of the heroine.
The villain woman also did not drag mud and water, seeing that her companions were dead, simply put the heroine into the apartment, and the two had a close hand-to-hand fight:
From upstairs to downstairs, flying past the open flames:
You have to fight until both of them end up together.
In front of these two female terrorists, the men in the film have become little minions that are not worth mentioning.
Why are there two female terrorists? Because there are no good guys in The Hunt.
The word "villain" was used earlier just to make it easier to distinguish, but in fact, when it comes down, everyone in "The Hunt" is not innocent.
The game is organized by a few wealthy people from the elite class, and they do it because they have made a joke about the game before.
This joke was released out of context by netizens, resulting in these rich people being attacked, insulted, and even lost their positions, becoming victims of Internet violence.
So the angry elite simply gave these people a real game of hunting and killing, so that they could grow up.
In the film, the elite also talks about global warming, racial discrimination, refugees, homosexuality, gun control, AIDS many times. ...... and other topics.
While pressing the killing button, they are full of mouths about the country and the world, morality and benevolence. They talk about human rights, but in fact in their minds, the common people do not have human rights.
And those 12 netizens, after leaving the network, they are just ordinary people. They will spit on the Internet and help each other before they die.
"The Hunt" is a typical black humor work, the film does not deliberately create horror and horror, but uses absurd methods to present those brutal things.
The bloody picture gives people great sensory stimulation, and the comedy transition method is full of irony.
As netizens said, the feeling of watching "Hunting" is as if you are watching a contest with endless fun.
"The Hunt" also has many shortcomings, such as class metaphors being too blunt and straightforward.
The portrayal of the elite in the film relies almost exclusively on global warming and racial discrimination... These simple lines to reflect, not deep enough and three-dimensional.
The film wants to take the route of irony, but it does not have a deep enough core to support the expression of its values, and in the end it can only be reduced to an action film.
But conversely, if you just look at it as a battle royale movie, you're still enjoyable.
After all, this kind of heroine setting, which people don't talk much about, there are still many people who like it.
Bluestone Film Editorial Department | Lao Wang
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