Chen Guo, a Chinese director who has made vigorous works such as "Return Trilogy" and "Prostitute Trilogy", Chen Guo.
The famous "master of darkness" in the Korean film industry, Park Chan-wook.
The head of Japan's pink violence, Takashi Miike.
These people once made a horror movie together—
"Three More 2"
Three directors, three short stories, each with its own point of view.
Chen Guo's work is "Dumplings".
The star Li Tai (Played by Miriam Yang), who married into the rich, is getting older and older.
In order to save her changed husband, she found the legendary immortal witch Aunt Mei and sought the secret recipe for rejuvenation.
Aunt Mei told her that the so-called secret recipe was to eat dumplings stuffed with placenta.
So, again and again, Mrs. Li came to find her aunt.
Aunt Mei was responsible for doing it, disposing of the fresh baby fetus by hand, wrapping the minced meat with dough, or steaming, boiling, or frying, to make a bowl of dumplings.
Li Tai was in charge of eating, sitting at the dinner table, and in just a few minutes, a bowl of dumplings even had meat and bones in his stomach.
From being difficult to swallow at first, the expression revealed disgust, to the later habit of taking it for granted.
The process of Li Tai's use of dumplings to restore her youth is also the process of her transformation from a human to a demon.
Gradually, Mrs. Lee was no longer satisfied with eating the baby fetus, and she wanted a faster way.
Aunt Mei gave her a trick - to eat the newborn baby.
Therefore, a newborn child, still stained with blood, was used to make dumpling fillings.
I didn't think it would be, but this method really worked wonders.
After Li Tai ate it, he became young and beautiful and won back her husband's heart.
But at the same time, something weird happened.
Strange scars began to appear on her skin, and she was pregnant with a sin seed in her stomach that she didn't know how to come.
At the end of the story, Mrs. Lee lies in the bathtub and pokes herself into the womb, ruining her own child.
It was clear that she had turned into a monster.
The whole story, in terms of plot, is more conventional, but it is better than its visual style.
Green-walled red gauze tents, enchanting and evil houses;
Human flesh dumplings with a tender red in crystal white;
Also, the picture of blood spreading in the water, floating slowly like fog, but without losing its sense of beauty.
From beginning to end, it is full of bright colors and eerie beauty.
Takashi Miike's film is "Box Burial", which intersects dreams with reality, strange and ghostly.
One day, Kyoko meets a man who looks very much like her adoptive father and touches her memory.
As a child, she and her sister were adopted as daughters by the circus leader and performed magic tricks everywhere to make a living.
Both of them worked hard, but the adoptive father always favored his sister and ignored himself.
The adoptive father bought necklaces for his sister, praised her sister... But these things have never had their own share.
As time went on, Kyoko's jealousy grew stronger.
One night, she locked her sister in a box and wanted to replace her for one night.
Unexpectedly, her adoptive father suddenly arrived and found her doing something bad.
In a panic, she accidentally scratched her adoptive father's face and knocked down the gasoline next to her.
Suddenly, the fire was lit and Kyoko ran.
The sister trapped in the box was burned alive, and the adoptive father has disappeared since.
Thinking of this past, Kyoko's heart was full of guilt.
Confused, she returned to the place where she had burned her sister.
Here, the adoptive father, who had disappeared for many years, suddenly appeared, and he forced Kyoko to look at her sister who had been burned beyond recognition in the box, shouting to avenge her sister.
Just then, Kyoko suddenly woke up.
In the next shot, she shares a body with a little girl and appears in front of the window.
So, Kyoko is actually a Siamese? From the beginning of the story to the time the adoptive father buried himself alive, is it a dream?
And this question is also the interesting part of the story.
If the answer is yes, then this is the story of a Siamese nightmare, and the adoptive father is a reflection of her longing for love.
If not, that is, all the previous ones are real, the final conjoined shot is just an unreal image.
Then this story is about the guilt of doing something wrong.
The so-called conjoined body actually symbolizes Kyoko's lingering apology for her sister.
And the wonderful thing is that both explanations make sense.
True or false, who can clearly see which part is a dream and which part is reality.
Isn't that the most interesting thing about Box Burial?
In addition to these two, there is also Park Chan-wook's "Cut Love" in the film, which is also very good.
These three stories are similar in style —
It's all a matter of planting panic, and then erupting at the end, transforming into an elusive and witty image.
But there are different things -
The human heart that surrenders to desire in "Dumplings", the truth and falsehood of "Box Burial", which are elusive, and the blurred demarcation between good and evil in "Cutting Love".
Every story is worth savoring.