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It was hard to wait for "Genetic Doom" director Ali Esther's second feature film work, "A Midsummer Night's Horror".
Few directors can make a horror film so calmly.
Most horror movies are tooth-and-claw, eager to have a surprise attack every few minutes, throwing out a few twisted grimaces, stimulating the audience's eyeballs, and its scariness is actually no different from a "whoosh" hiding in the corner.
But Esther completely abandoned this rudimentary horror film approach, his films hardly engaged in any sudden fright, and most of the shots were slow and calm. Because what he wants to create is a psychological fear that is more complex than pure physiological fear, and if he wants to do this, he cannot rely on stimulating the nerves, but he must be more restrained and more restrained, and the layers are approaching the viewer's deeper anxiety.
The story begins with the protagonist Dani's family encountering an accident: her sister commits suicide by sucking on exhaust gas and killing her parents. At the same time introduced his boyfriend Christian with a group of his friends. And embarked on a journey to Sweden.
The painting at the beginning of the film spoils the entire film
The director actually gave us spoilers at the beginning, just like the picture above, which can be divided into 4 or 5 parts (the tragedy that happened in Dani's family, the boyfriend took Annie on a trip to Sweden, mistakenly entered a cult resort, and the festival was beginning)
Christian comforts the heroine, and Pelle offers courtesy to the heroine
Dani is the heroine of the film, and the film begins by showing her inner vulnerability through her uneasiness, an extremely insecure girl, afraid of unfortunate things happening to her, and the ambivalence of confiding in her boyfriend and fearing abandonment. When the tragedy comes, the powerlessness and wandering, the audience can feel it through the screen, and the heavy snow in the night sets off the atmosphere to the extreme.
Although Dani's mood improved slightly in the company of her boyfriend, the scar in her heart was not good, and she was always on the verge of collapse, but she did not want to be a burden for her boyfriend, and she was forced to calmly face everyone with a smile.
Alone, her relatives have all gone, can be defined as "orphans", when she learned that her boyfriend was invited to travel to her friend's house in Sweden, despite her reluctance, she still smiled and agreed to go with her boyfriend, not knowing that this was a journey with no return
On the way to the resort, the inversion of the camera has an indescribable sense of weirdness and comfort
It's important to note here that in Genetic Doom, it is emphasized that everyone's fate has been arranged in the dark, while A Midsummer Night's Horror guides your destiny and slowly erodes it. So whether it is color or plot, the two are very different in tone.
The Midsummer Night Tour is about to begin
When they first entered the resort, they were completely unaware that the sacrifice was already in preparation, and all they saw was this beautiful scenery and the seductive customs and customs, and they were constantly intoxicated. Imagine how such a fresh and lovely picture could be a horror movie? Watching the girls dressed in white play in front of you like angels, how can you not love such a tourist mecca?
Even if you see a canvas with a strange style, you can use traditional culture to explain tolerance, when you really experience it, can you still say this kind of tolerance?
When the tourism project goes deeper step by step, when you participate in the cliff festival, see the septuagenarian jumping off the cliff to commit suicide, the friends around you are always inexplicably missing, there is pubic hair and menstrual blood in the food you eat, most of the time you will find that things are not right here, this tm is simply a cult group, but at this time it is too late to escape, and the choice left for you is nothing more than obedience and death. What's even more chilling is that the friends who recommended you here are also one of them.
After experiencing everything, the heroine Dani's psychological defense line slowly collapsed, in the face of a demagogic cult organization, her emotions have been exposed to everyone, and the most important thing in this community is unity, they have a special ability is "empathy", when the collective emotions face individual emotions, the reason for devouring is self-evident.
The film has a large number of exposed and bloody shots, so intense that it is physically uncomfortable. For example, Mark who peed on the tree stump was skinned, Josh who stole books was killed by a mallet, Simon who wanted to escape was tortured, and the most classic is the male protagonist's large-scale breeding and sex scene, which is simply unbearable to look at. (There is not much to show here, friends with fetishes can go to watch by themselves)
The male protagonist is always passively received, incompetently becoming a sacrifice, while the female protagonist finds a new self in this group (escaping from the true emotions of the heart) and is completely assimilated by the cult organization.
In the end, everything ended in that sacrifice, praying for the wind and rain of the coming year.
"A Midsummer Night's Horror" is different from the darkness of "Genetic Doom", and the director has quite a bold and innovative idea,
Most of the shots in this film are filled with strong sunlight, which makes the original definition of the horror genre film in the dark tone lose its meaning, so the fresh tone definition is a bit out of place in the horror category, but it can also be seen that the director wants to find a new trick, so that the audience ignores the traditional horror film routine, and instead feels the delicate changes in the emotions of the characters, and will also take you to experience the strange traditional culture of the Swedish "Midsummer Festival". (Bad laugh...) ）
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