Wen Ziren, a famous director who has directed the "Latent" and "Conjuring" series of horror films, finally launched a new work "Fatal Induction" in 2021. In "Fatal Induction", Wen Ziren continued his own characteristic shooting methods: crumbling buildings, nostalgic and dying enclosed spaces, "ghost steps" like doves, agile and moving camera language, suddenly rising horror music, ghosts that suddenly ran by... Wen Ziren's grasp of the element of terror is skillful, bold and rhythmic. Just by using a retro, old, narrow, enclosed space, he can assemble the energy of horror stories and create a suffocating sense of oppression.
Fatal Induction tells a particularly violent and bloody story of torture, a story that goes straight to the depths of human nature and reflects on everyone's spiritual life.
Maddie is a weak woman who lives in a dilapidated old house and has to work the night shift even if she is pregnant, in addition to which she has an alcoholic and abusive husband, Derek.
From Maddy's conversation with her husband Derek, it can be inferred that Derek often acts on Maddy. Maddie, who has miscarried repeatedly, says, "If you keep doing this, my child probably won't be saved," infuriating Derek, who grabs Maddy's hair and slammes her head against the wall.
The demon that parasitized Maddy erupted. That night, a mysterious and twisted shadow easily breaks Derek's neck, helping Maddy kill her husband and eradicate her troubles.
At first, everyone thought that Maddy had a schizophrenia to kill people, but in fact, this demon was Maddy's conjoined twin, due to congenital defects, he did not successfully separate from Maddy, and could only parasitize Maddy's back. As Maddie grew older, Gabriel became more and more violent and aggressive. Not only did he eat into Maddy's body and mind, but he also posed a great threat to those around him.
Gabriel is selfish, vengeful, and aggressive, but at the same time, he also contains some real desires and potentials for Maddy.
When Maddy is imprisoned and besieged and bullied by other inmates, Gabriel strikes again, easily breaking the arms of his fellow inmates, stomping on the heads of others, killing more than a dozen inmates and multiple detectives in the prison, bleeding profusely everywhere he went. Gabriel dominates his body in a twisted posture and runs and jumps, looking extremely frightening and frightening. He is Maddy's outburst of aggression in a desperate collapse, her subconscious revenge for her own protection and her environment.
Dark personalities and desires often hide people's truest needs. Anger is about protecting one's boundaries, it is an intuitive response and expression. If you keep suppressing and ignoring it, it will become more and more intense, becoming a demon.
Wen Ziren's horror films, in addition to the horror and suspense in form, more often focus on the subconscious and the depths of human nature: those chaotic and dark egos, lingering nightmares and demons, shadowy loneliness and anxiety, those neglected desires and suppressed desires... All of this is like a whisper in the consciousness, a conversation in the depths of the soul, leaving a profound movie-watching experience, helping everyone to perceive their own situation and examine the cause and effect of their own destiny.
After countless mental nightmares and setbacks, people will gradually become enlightened. Many situations come from self-creation and choice. Cowardly people fuel a more squeezed environment; violent and aggressive people make enemies and opponents. The reason why others bully you is because you are good at bullying. Circumstances arise from the heart, and changes in the mind often bring about changes in the circumstances. The decisive factors that can help you are often up to you.
If you want to get out of the fate of being attacked, you must first give up your illusions about others and become tough and independent. The dark personality may be disgraceful, but it is more powerful and hides the deepest longings and cries of human nature. Understanding ourselves and getting along with ourselves is an important theme that we have to learn and practice throughout our lives (original film review, signed Dang Ah Fei, first headline)