For fans, perhaps the biggest attraction of "Soho Horror Night" is not the two new popular actresses, Anya Taylor-Joy and Tomasin McKenzie, but the director Edgar Wright.
Because Edgar Wright's previous works, such as "Extreme Car Thief", "Shaun the Zombie", "Hot-Blooded Detective", "Crooked Boy Scott Against the World", etc., are all well-received creative works.
After rejecting Marvel's Ant-Man, he continued to create his favorite story, and this time after different genres such as comedy, science fiction, action, zombies, etc., he was exposed to thriller/horror themes for the first time, but he also did not lose his hand.
Technically, Night of soho is his most successful work. The story spans two time and space, telling the thrilling events encountered by two young girls on the way to pursue their dreams.
Compared to Edgar Wright's previous work, the film has almost no comedic elements and tells a thrilling story in a flat manner.
The two time and space are constantly interspersed, playing with exquisite film language, whether it is photography, editing, lensing, or horror atmosphere is a very high level of demonstration, it is expected to receive multiple nominations at the Oscars.
Edgar Wright is not as light and funny as ever, but is very serious about shooting a thriller theme, from the dream of the dream combined with time and space travel, the side depicts the inner world of the girl's dream journey.
The plot is closely linked, and it is Edgar Wright's most mature work, completely without his usual "playful" image.
Although "Soho District Horror Night" is his most mature work, but because the various categories are too mature, they have lost his whimsical ghost creativity, and the lens and image are too avant-garde, which may make people feel artificial.
In order to achieve unexpected results, the first half of the film is constantly misleading the audience, but the meaning of "misleading" is too obvious, and the script is slightly worse than Edgar Wright's previous works.
Eloise travels to London to pursue her dreams in order to study fashion design, but finds that reality is not as smooth as she imagined, and moves to an old mansion alone.
Eloise is amazed every night at the mansion, returning to the drunken London of the sixties, and she becomes a Sandy who travels to London to pursue her dreams.
Sandy can sing and dance, but she misbelieved others and eventually fell into the dust and lived a lowly life. When Sandy's life was at a low point, she was even caught up in a murder case.
Eloise witnesses everything and begins to find herself unable to distinguish between true and false, and goes on to find a terrible truth...
01. "Soho District Horror Night" fully uses different film languages to show strange stories, and is the most mature work of director Edgar Wright
"Soho Horror Night" is one of the more anticipated movies among many "postponed films", that is, the name of Edgar Wright alone is enough to look forward to.
It's not just that he has a strong sense of rejection of Marvel, but more importantly, he insists on writing and directing every work, but he has never disappointed the audience.
This film is his first challenge to suspense, thriller/horror themes, and the plot is also his most serious and neat one, definitely much more serious than "Extreme Car Thief", and in all aspects of technology, it is also his most mature work.
The film spans two time and space, and involves elements of science fiction and suspense, dream settings in dreams, scenes that are both true and illusory, and various visions of two flowers, successfully combining photography, editing, art, lighting and other categories seamlessly, without any big scenes, you can build a scene of image spectacle.
Whether it is the smooth editing of two time and space two women dancing together, or the evil ghost-ridden picture, the main play is also a real and false chase battle, the sharp visual effects with accurate atmosphere creation, can inherit the signature style of the previous works, showing his most confident scene scheduling.
Edgar Wright's work often put a lot of thought into the selection of songs, and even if the film is not as fun as "Extreme Car Thief", the selected tracks are very suitable for the development of the plot.
Speaking of Edgar Wright's name, it is always felt that he is a creative but not very "serious" and a little funny director, but this film shows the audience that he is already a reborn and elegant director.
02. The plot goes from thriller to horror, coupled with an unexpected ending, which seems very creative
This time Edgar Wright is more serious, and the film does not have any comedic elements, that is, to tell a fantasy and really mysterious suspense.
The two girls of the two time and space are encountering setbacks in the journey of pursuing their dreams, and then adding different degrees of horror, the two girls of time and space influence each other like two flowers, holding each other back, and then leading to a surprising ending.
The layout of the whole movie is not flawless, but it is completely suitable for the development of the plot and the needs of the story, the pace is bright and there is no lack of tension, and it suddenly becomes a horror movie in the back, which is a witness to Edgar Wright's incomparable creativity.
Originally thought that the "unexpected" advertised in advance was nothing more than that, and the ending gave a shocking reversal, combining the helplessness of chasing dreams with the cruelty of reality, and the effect was a little moving.
Technically, the film is definitely Edgar Wright's most mature work, but overall it's hard to look as handy as its predecessors.
The whole movie is very playful, but in order to create a surprising reversal of the ending, it has to constantly mislead the audience, and the "misleading" method is too obvious, so that the audience can easily perceive that this layout method is very low.
The truth of the ending can have an unexpected effect, but it is still difficult as the previous works on the whole.
Although the film is the most mature work of Edgar Wright's technology, the lens images and film language are too avant-garde for every audience to enjoy.
Some viewers even feel that the camera is too pretentious and the image is too sharp, although there is already a warm hint at the beginning of the movie, but the flickering glare may also be uncomfortable.
03. The two heroines, Anya Taylor-Joy and Tomasin Mackenzie, played well, acting like the same person in two time and space
In terms of actors, With the global popularity of "Rear Wing", Anya Taylor-Joy is estimated to have really consolidated her status as a big star after this movie.
Her performance not only maintains the usual unique fairy spirit, every move is full of star charm, in the movie she played a confident but dusty woman, the inner drama also played the level it deserves.
Tomasin MacKenzie, who has a surprise performance in "Jojo's Whimsical World" and "GrowIng Up", is no less effective than Anya Taylor-Joy in the film, playing a woman who is almost psychopathic, from innocence to gradual "blackening" is in line with the needs of the plot.
What is amazing is that she and Anya Taylor-Joy are essentially separated from two time and space, but the performance is still sparkling, playing two characters with the same disease, leading the audience into a world of fantasy and reality.
All in all, "Soho Horror Nights" is a movie worth watching, and if you're a fan of Edgar Wright, you'll love it even more.
The whole film fully presents the infinite creativity of the director, and Edgar Wright's first challenge to the thriller suspense genre also has a very high standard, and a large number of accurate camera scheduling and film language can make the audience watch.
The technical aspect is indeed the most mature one of Edgar Wright's, completely out of his previous "funny" stereotype, coupled with the excellent performances of the two actresses also make the film the icing on the cake.
The only thing that I don't feel satisfied with is that the film constantly "misleads" the audience in order to create an unexpected ending, and these laying methods are too obvious to be a failure.