In recent years, when we mention our imported films, the first impression must be that of various Hollywood blockbusters. Typical such as Marvel and DC's various superheroes, the sky into the sky on the screen, under the rendering of digital special effects technology, every minute and second stimulation teases our nerves.
These hilarious popcorn blockbusters are indeed enough to be refreshed, but there is also a little aesthetic fatigue.
For example, the "Thor 3" that was just released a few days ago, under the routine of repeated times, there are not many surprises.
Sometimes, on the contrary, some investment is not so heavy, and the card division is not so powerful for small and medium-cost films, positioned in a certain accurate genre, card a few key tones, and play some unique core concepts to the fullest, which can also produce refreshing boutiques.
For example, the small-budget thriller "Shark Beach", which was well received after being released in China in September last year, is one of the typical examples.
Stills from Shark Beach
The core story of Shark Beach couldn't be simpler – how a bare-handed, delicate girl wrestles with a ferocious shark to survive. The biggest actor in the film is only one Blake Lovely.
But it was with the help of Lovely who, after being bitten by a shark, he bandaged himself to stop the bleeding, dodged the shark attack on a reef that was barely enough to stand, and finally fought with the shark in a desperate situation. A simple and straightforward story is told with ups and downs and fascinating. It can be said that it accurately grasps all the essentials and techniques of thrillers, so it can be small and broad.
Today's Amway movie is "Shark Sea".
Poster of Deep Sea Escape
At first glance, "Shark Sea" looks a lot like the twin sister of "Shark Beach" - a precisely positioned genre, short and fast pace.
The same horror theme with sharks as a selling point is also a bikini beauty against sharks. The beauty and shark with the disparity in strength, how the former escapes from the mouth of the latter, is the common conflict and suspense of "Shark Beach" and "Shark Sea".
But in fact, "Shark Sea" and "Shark Beach" have obvious differences in conception and style.
"Shark Beach" is basically a one-man show by Blake Lovely, while in "Shark Sea", there are two beautiful women who fight against the shark.
One of them is the most popular song and shadow amphibian in the United States - Mandy Moore.
Mandy Moore
Mandy Moore debuted as a singer at the age of 14, and his first single set a record of more than 500,000 gold records sold. With a fresh face and a beautiful voice, she has been "electrocuted" on the big screen since 2001, and has starred in romance films such as "Princess Diary" and "Memories of First Love". In 2010, he also voiced the heroine of Disney's hit animation "Trolls", showing his singing voice.
Mandy Moore, "Our Day"
In recent years, Moore's most well-known work is the American drama "Our Day".
This divine drama that has healed countless people has a staggering rating of 9.5 points in the first season on Douban, a higher 9.6 in the second season, and a super high score of 8.8 on IMDB. The whole drama gives people the feeling of juxtaposing laughter and tears, and always inadvertently touching the soft underbelly of the heart. As the main actor, Moore's performance in the play can be described as natural.
Another actress is Australian rising star Claire Holt. The most well-known character before is the vampire ancestor Rebecca in the American drama "The Vampire Diaries". Holt in life is a master swimmer and taekwondo, and he fits perfectly with the characters in "Shark Sea".
The amazing thing about Shark Beach is that the muscular body of Blake Lovely, dressed in a bikini, defeats the shark in a very feminine way.
Moore in "Shark Sea" is unlikely to "fight" with sharks like Lovely, and if you want to win, you have to outwit.
In this regard, "Shark Sea" is also more real and believable than "Shark Beach".
After all, an unarmed girl can't really kill a wild shark with her bare hands like a female warrior, and in that situation, they can only consider escaping.
For most of Shark Sea, sharks are just ghostly, looming from time to time.
We, like the two heroines, couldn't see it, except that it was wandering around the invisible, waiting for a glimmer of blood to draw it in.
Even more desperate than the ferocity of sharks is undoubtedly the lonely situation of being sunken deep into the seabed.
The deep sea or space, which is more frightening, is always a conclusive problem.
At least in "Shark Sea", the two girls who have lost all contact with the outside world feel the despair of being in outer space. They can't fight the sharks at all, they have to wait for rescue.
So in "Shark Sea", the shark is just a terrible symbol, and the real object of their fight is time, oxygen.
So they had to risk being swallowed up by sharks again and again, swimming out of the iron cage, just to rise a few meters, searching for unspiritual radio signals. They could only swim towards the bright place after seeing a flashlight, even if what awaited them was only the corpse after being chewed by the shark.
What is more hopeless than their own thin strength is that they can't even see the slightest possibility of success, and they can only sit and wait for death.
The real uniqueness of "Shark Sea" is here - the real creepy thing in the film is not the bloodthirsty shark that can be seen, but the seabed that is so dark that you can't see your fingers.
To use a perhaps less appropriate analogy.
"Shark Beach" is "Alien" in the same genre space film,
And "Shark Sea" is like "Gravity" in the space movie.
The former plays how to fight with monsters to defeat monsters, while the latter is more pragmatic to survive in an isolated environment.
In "Shark Sea", the visual effect of moore's heroine wandering alone in a dark seabed is like Sandra Bullock facing the vast universe of silence and no one, and the iron cage moore is in is not her space capsule. Not to mention, both protagonists lose their only companions halfway through.
Of course, "Shark Sea" also allows us to directly see how the wounds of the protagonist who were torn by sharks when he fought with sharks were bloody and terrible. The elements that should be in this subdivision type are presented by the director as much as they are.
But the real magic of "Shark Sea" is to let us feel the despair of no matter how much we try.
Among the most visually striking details, "Shark Sea" is not dedicated to the shark's blood basin mouth, but the tooth mark left by the sharp teeth after biting the iron cage, which is a touch of red blood that suddenly emerges in the turquoise waters.
This stark contrast is cleverly used in several places in the film.
Especially in the climactic part, when the heroine finally decided to swim to the surface of the sea desperately, she suddenly realized that she could not see clearly around a group of sharks waiting for prey, as if dancing in the arms of sharks. The first shot is still a dark and calm deep sea, and the next shot is a flock of sharks wrapped in red, and its strong emotional impact is self-evident.
It is the meticulous craftsmanship of these details that allows Shark Sea to succeed in creating an extraordinary claustrophobic horror effect.
It can be said that the whole film is based on such a concept, but it also succeeds in standing out on this one concept alone.
If you're a claustrophobic person, there's probably no film that makes you feel scarier than Shark Sea. The film is set for December 8, see you when the time comes.
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