Everyone hides under a disguise, hypnotizes, exposes the true self to reality, and this is the Master of Hypnosis. Director Chen Zhengdao, starring Xu Zheng and Karen Mok, joined forces to present us with a suspenseful, rhythmical and tightly controlled genre commercial film.
The film uses a lot of psychological knowledge, hypnosis techniques and theories, suspense and horror, reality and dreams hovering, mystery and wandering throughout the film, an ordinary normal beginning, but with the most shocking twist ending, who is the real patient of this hypnosis?
First, the extremely creative character setting is a novel and shocking story.
The entire background color of the film tends to be black and gray, which greatly renders a horror and horror atmosphere, and sets a depressing general tone. Xu Ruining is a well-known psychotherapist who is good at hypnotherapy and is highly praised in the industry.
On this day, the teacher introduced him to a strange female patient, Ren Xiaoyan, a girl who claimed to be able to see ghosts. What kind of secret is hidden behind the horrific and terrifying events?
Glass marbles and midnight buses, two horror events presented, make the suspense and horror of the whole movie reach a peak.
The preconceived concept allows the audience to determine the perspective on Ren Xiaoyan's body, thinking that the girl's body has a full of secrets, but there is no reasonable answer, followed by the second hypnosis, the appearance of the fiancé, Ren Xiaoyan's repeated touching of the ring finger, all deepen the subjective impression of the audience. But all this is only a façade, and the truth is hidden behind it.
In order to get a reasonable connection for the subsequent plot, and in order to maximize the effect of the reversal, the film actually puts efforts into many small clues.
The circular corridor that has been repeated many times, the introduction to lucid hypnosis at the beginning of the chapter, Xu Ruining's own fear of driving, and the dialing clock, all of which are made to reverse the natural, not blunt, delicate and layered.
Second, the only person who can redeem himself is himself.
This hypnotic story of reversal, character reversal, originates from the tragedy of a car accident. In life, people often face things that need to carry their own guilt, and this pressure is forever separated in the depths of the heart, unable to break free, and unable to break free.
In the car accident in which his lover and best friend died, Xu Ruining was saddled with great sins, but he could not find a suitable reason to forgive himself. Not being able to be forgiven is like a curse that allows Xu Ruining to constantly gain spiritual comfort through self-harm.
This hypnotic journey made Xu Ruining face up to his life. When the soul is tormented, the only person who can forgive yourself is yourself. For the deceased, leaving is an eternity, and for those who remain, it will be a long grief. What the truth is, forgiveness or non-forgiveness, is not the most important thing in a way.
Having made a heinous mistake, it is the duty of others not to forgive, but if it is not intentional, the space left in one's heart will be the beginning of redemption and the hope of survival. If you give up on yourself, you will eventually fall into the abyss of despair.
The opportunities given to everyone in the world are equal, and the word forgiveness is sometimes too heavy, but even if he is a sinner, he should be given the choice to survive.
Whether it is from the transformation of the plot, the performance of the actors, the scheduling of the shots, the change of lighting, the collocation of tones, this film is first-class.
The character lens selects the near and far scenes for switching, and the long-range scene shows the complexity of the environment to the fullest, rendering a cold and eerie atmosphere. The close-up scenes convey the trepidation, uneasiness, and change of mood of the characters to the audience.
The rhythm of the whole movie is in a state of unhurried and just right, and the narrow space adds a sense of coercion, true and false, virtual and real, interpreting a superb movie.