Stephen King's works again. His novels always give you a fright and analyze human nature at the same time. It seems that gypsies are evil, cursing people at will and not letting go of people with stains. In fact, this is just the nature of primitive humans. Family members were killed, but they could not get a fair trial in a legal society. Then they can only simply retaliate against the bad guys and curse them. This is human instinct. The protagonist of the story seems to be somewhat wronged. He accidentally killed the gypsy and walked away easily, but he was cursed and even brought trouble to the judge and the sheriff who helped him. But he is not a good person himself. As a lawyer, he helped the black boss escape. Killing someone doesn't want to take the blame. More evil is yet to come. The cursed faction, I thought his conscience would be eaten by the black boss who did all the bad things. As a result, he chose to retaliate against his derailed wife, and as a result, his innocent daughter was dragged down. Just when he was desperate, San Xiao came to his door and added another victim ... If the revenge of the gypsies is instinct, then the revenge of the protagonist is naked and deliberate murder. However, it is part of the ugly human nature of modern people to think more about their own responsibilities and just want to pass them on to others.
Film review 2: thin to death: full characters, lack of terror
Not all good stories can be adapted into good movies, and the movie Thin Death is a vivid example. As Stephen King's works, the original story is far from quality, but it is difficult to become a classic after being adapted into a movie. The reason is that the film is not scary and mysterious enough.
Generally speaking, the pace of the film is too slow, which even makes people feel that the plot is a bit protracted and lacks the tension brought by the high pace in thrillers. The film seems to tell a thriller story in the style of drama, which inadvertently weakens the thriller of the film. Locally, the director's control of the thriller atmosphere is not good enough. The film can be called a thriller scene, that is, the scene where the protagonist visits the cursed police chief. In the second half of the film, the hero finds the gypsy and is eager to lift the curse. I thought it would be the most wonderful part of the movie, but I didn't expect to use violence against violence in the end, forcing the gypsy old man to lift the curse for himself by violent means. In addition, the mysterious witchcraft description of Gypsies in the film is not enough, and it is explained in a hurry through only a few lines, which makes this "mysterious" curse in the film lose its mysterious value.
Although the director didn't control the whole movie very well and didn't refine all parts of the film, he still made a lot of efforts in shaping the characters and made the image of the protagonist full. At the beginning of the film, he admits that the protagonist is a fat man who is hungry. His hunger for food is just like his hunger for money. For money, he did not hesitate to help gangsters get rid of the lawsuit. In his bloated body is his extremely inflated desire. After killing the daughter of the gypsy old man, he used his contacts and money to help him escape the lawsuit, but he couldn't escape the spell of the gypsy, so he gradually lost weight. This abnormal emaciation made him start to fear, worry and doubt. He gradually distrusts the people around him. He found out that his wife was cheating on him, so he put all the blame on his wife, thinking that her caused him to kill, and his inflated desire gradually narrowed. But it shows a truly evil soul. Only after the curse was lifted did he realize the punishment he really deserved. He took the cursed strawberry pie home and tricked his wife into eating it. Unexpectedly, his daughter also ate a small piece. After learning the truth, he remembered what the gypsy old man had advised him, and his inner despair and regret came to mind. Just when he wanted to commit suicide, the doorbell rang. The man who was having an affair with his wife came to visit, and the evil of human nature swallowed up the regret he had just had. He tricked the man into coming home, and the film ended at this time, leaving an open ending for the audience.
Everyone in the movie has "evil", and the process of the hero's thinning is also the process in which the "evil" in his human nature is gradually revealed. The director focuses on depicting human nature, in fact, in order to make the film more in depth, but he has not found a balanced fulcrum between the horror and depth of the film. After watching the movie, he felt that the movie was more plot, and horror and horror were just a seasoning. However, I still admire the special effects and makeup techniques in the movie, which turned a fat man of 300 Jin into a thin man of 120 Jin. Thin to Death is a good theme in itself. If it can be remake, it is even possible to create a horror classic with the entertainment spirit and technology of Hollywood today.