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Today I recommend a new summer vacation horror film, Ghost of War.
This is the return of box office star Eric Bress to directing after a long absence of 16 years.
Speaking of Eric Blaise
He is a master director of supernatural stories.
Everyone must have seen the classic sci-fi thriller movie "Butterfly Effect" directed by him.
Image from The Butterfly Effect
His first film was the independent comedy Blunt, which he wrote.
The film was recognized at film festivals in New York and New Orleans.
After creating a great comedy script, he switched tracks to horror sci-fi routes.
He wrote "Breaking Bad 2" and "Breaking Bad 4", and the popularity of "Breaking Bad 2" also provided him with the opportunity to write and direct the science fiction classic "Butterfly Effect".
After "The Butterfly Effect", he almost did not release a new director's work.
This time back, what he wants to present to everyone is the double enjoyment of war films + horror films.
The film depicts five American soldiers on a mission to a French estate occupied by senior Nazi commanders during the darkest days of World War II.
When they entered the manor, they began to experience a series of inexplicable supernatural phenomena that made their world crazy. This nightmare, which is difficult to escape, seems to be more terrifying than what the war witnessed...
The movie is a spooky horror film.
It is still one of the few who uses the brother of the soldier in the war as the protagonist of the horror film, and at the same time joins Nazi Germany in World War II.
It has the flavor of "ghost stories in the military".
The self-description at the beginning of the film is both aesthetic and literary, with the beauty of war literature.
Tell a teenager under the age of 20, going to the battlefield, for the future, his heart seems to be overwhelmed, and do not know when to lose his life.
Playing Branton Siweiz, the son of Will, in "Ghost in the Shell: Dead And Dies", this time as an American soldier who leads a team to a French manor.
Because the film is set in the World War II period.
The crew was specially selected to shoot in Bulgaria, just to recreate the most realistic World War II French manor house and the use of authentic weapons, military vehicles and costumes!
There are so many war movies that set the story in World War II.
But I think "Ghost Story in War" is probably the most thrilling one,
On the surface, it seems to be a work of war literature
However, the narrative can use supernatural forces to metaphorically describe human fear of war, even with a little science fiction color.
And there's also a sense of borrowing a corpse to return a soul — even if the world hasn't had a Third World War.
Imaginary three-world war scenario
But in other words, there are not many wars that are taking place in the world today....
And every war, why not be a butterfly effect again and again, creating the appearance of people and things in every corner of the contemporary world?
Here is the concept of the Butterfly effect: it refers to a chaotic phenomenon in a dynamic system, a small change in initial conditions, which will lead to a long-term and huge chain reaction that affects the entire system. (From Wikipedia)
During the garrison, the squad encountered a dangerous Nazi army attack, and the scene of the brutal and exciting offensive and defensive war was inevitable.
The flesh and blood blurred scenes such as the flesh and blood of the grenade, the bombing of the car and the headshot are bloody enough,
However, if the topic of "soldiers are afraid of ghosts" and "cruel war" are put together, the degree of horror is another grade.
These American soldiers, who have encountered various winds and waves in the war, and who are well armed with ammunition and weapons, cannot resist the supernatural forces that fear penetrates into the heart.
Several members of the team never mentioned the process of discussing how to escape from the haunted house together, but let the ghost tightly entangled, and later even if they left the haunted house, they still kept hitting the wall and whirling around in the same place.
At first, the brothers speculated that this had nothing to do with the Nazis.
But slowly...
One of the soldiers learned through a German diary that the family of the "haunted house" had been tortured to death by the Nazis.
Burned, flooded, hanged, many forms of death, each unbearable to see.
In addition, there are some inexplicable supernatural phenomena in this house.
Make them suspect that they are being cursed by evil spirits.
As time passes slowly,
They felt more and more strange, and they were afraid that they would not be able to escape this cursed manor.
So he decided to fight the evil spirits to the end, choosing between salvation and life.
Are supernatural phenomena supernatural forces that science cannot explain?
Interestingly, anyone who has seen The Butterfly Effect knows.
Director Eric Blaise is known for his ability to manipulate stories that "don't explain the supernatural, but still convince the audience", and no one else has the ability to create suspenseful plots.
He later went to shoot "Breaking Bad 4", and the fate of implementing everything quickly did not need to be reasonable.
Relatively speaking, "Ghost Story in War" is still a time when everything is explained more clearly in the ending.
Different from the general thriller ghost films, "Ghost Story in War" not only has a thrilling thriller scene, but also focuses on plot arrangement.
Director Eric Blaise revealed the original intention of the creation:
"Too many ghost movies tell haunted stories of innocent families, and I want to subvert these boring things." And the long-term trauma of the war affects the mental condition of soldiers under high pressure, and I want to try to bring some inexplicable feelings to the audience, and through the form of horror movies, slowly fall into that feeling of fear and powerlessness."
It feels like there is a finger @ "Summoning Spirits"
The film differs from other simple ghost films in that it combines the "law of quantum immortality".
That is, to let the so-called ghosts and ghosts have a reasonable explanation.
The line that appears most often in the film is "This is not true!" (That's not real!) This also tells the director's view of the so-called supernatural phenomenon, believing that the irrationality of what is seen is in fact out of the illusion of the mind, jumping out of the framework of seeing and giving scientific dialectical meaning.
Interestingly,
In the movie, the power of black magic is turned on.
The majesty is almost invincible, and the curse and resentment come from the ghost's rebirth and attempt to be good but betrayed. (As mentioned earlier, the family was humiliated by the Nazis.)
Ghost films in recent years have infinitely outlined the abilities of ghosts.
The inability of the ghost to forgive any atrocities and unfair treatment suffered before death also reflects people's infinite fear of ghosts.
"Ghost Story in War" cleverly tightens this human level, and the film even further uses the horror metaphor of trauma syndrome to actually make wars all over the world the same, so that the whole film jumps out of the world war pattern, and the humanistic care is full of files.
Post-traumatic stress disorder syndrome, also known as post-traumatic stress syndrome, past experiences that may cause these symptoms may include: physical or psychological sexual abuse as a child; Experienced rape, war, violent attacks, serious car accidents, witnessing the sudden death of a loved one, natural disasters such as earthquakes or tsunamis, etc.
The study pointed out that in the process of recalling the stories of friendship and common revolutionary feelings of their compatriots in the past, world war soldiers helped to heal the trauma of war, which is one of the ways for veterans to be redeemed.
Seeing the final, the film unfolds the truth,
Let me want to quote the famous line from the movie Walking with God 2: The Final Judgment: "There are no bad people in the world, only very bad situations." When you complain, feel angry, and can't understand, think about everything backwards, and everything will be answered.
I have to say,
As can be seen from the movie "Ghost Story in War",
The long-lost director and screenwriter Eric Blaise is ambitious, and for the horror atmosphere created by the horror ghost film, there are basically almost no scary means, such as: ghost shadows, Jump scare (sudden fright), ghosts hitting the wall, strange sounds... And so on, and even added black magic and Morse code, which can be said to be all the tricks.
Since "The Butterfly Effect" is regarded as the "god work" of the early 21st century, it is believed that "Ghost Story in War" is naturally a "ghost work"
Ending small Easter egg ~~~
Good lines in the movie "Ghost Story in War"
1, life is like this, brother.
2) Welcome to this world of hypocrisy.
3, their ghosts do not disperse, because death is not blind, so they will wander the world.
4) Martians think that the karmic obstacles of this life will follow you to the next life.
5. It is good to talk about it once a day, just like the Abstinence Mutual Aid Society.
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