What does the movie Rare People mean?

Rare Director: Takashi Shimizu Takashi Shimizu

Starring: Shinya Tsukamoto Shinya Tsukamoto Zengxiang/Zhongyuan Hehong/Kan Duojun.

Category: horror film

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The title of the rare people's film is the legendary "Visitors from the Spiritual World" from Japan. They will visit the village regularly to bring happiness to the villagers. Therefore, many places in Japan have traditional festivals to welcome "rare people", but if they are not properly greeted, they may also bring harm. "Rare people" exist in the impression of Japanese life.

Amateur photographer Tomoshi Masoka accidentally photographed a man committing suicide in a subway station; Before he died, the man showed a horrible expression that did not belong to human beings. Just as Ceng Gang stared at the screen doubtfully, the man's eyes full of resentment and fear suddenly shot at Ceng Gang, which he had never seen before ... What did the man see?

Ceng Gang decided to take the camera back to the man who committed suicide …

Strange people are regarded as the embodiment of ghosts, referring to people wearing hats and strange clothes.

In the ancient Japanese concept, ghosts are not the same as ghosts, but a kind of monsters. Ghosts and tigers are hunched, with green faces and fangs. Usually, evil spirits have horns on their heads.

According to the Records of Japan (a famous Japanese history book), during the funeral of Emperor Qi Ming (655-66 1) in 6665438 AD, a ghost appeared in Cangshan, wearing a big hat and watching the funeral. People dressed in this way are called "rare people".

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Please note that this movie is not the Japanese ghost movie you imagined, but it is actually more like a movie about interpersonal alienation in Cai Mingliang or Jin Jide (perhaps more like michael haneke? ), coupled with strange and cold-blooded Japanese underground movies, will not scare people. In addition, there is another type of otaku (Japanese subculture) in this movie: gloomy, indifferent and uncomfortable protagonist. Into this work.

I always thought Takashi Shimizu was a clever man. His previous work "Curse Series" adopted split narrative, deliberately disrupting narrative lines. Many people are surprised by this technique, but personally, I always feel that this technique is actually just a variation of many Japanese horror movies and videos (similar to xx tales of mystery, which brings together many small horror stories). Of course, Takashi Shimizu's technology is smarter than horror movies and videos, and he added characters in the second episode of Curse. This time, the film "Rare People" is an alternative attempt, trying to add some stylized topics to the horror film genre.

The story is about a photographer who is addicted to photography. He only sees the world through the viewing window (I think of michael haneke's "Benny's Video"), which degrades his overall perception and turns him into a cold and withdrawn person. In one incident, he began to pursue "seeing fear", but found a girl suspected of being a vampire? This story clearly expresses that human beings are becoming more and more alienated because of the development of science and technology and the changes of the times, and need external stimulation to attract attention. More importantly, they wrote an article about an otaku who is addicted to his own world. The protagonist in the play has little contact with people except work and lives in his own world. This story can be said to be his closed history, but he deliberately filmed vampire F with a mysterious aesthetic feeling. I think it's better than the script And the audience peeped at the whole thing with cameras (there were many shots in the play).

However, movies with this special perspective are a bit messy, because Takashi Shimizu is playing his tricks. He throws out a lot of metaphysical knowledge, such as the theory of burrows, and then plays with the formula of a typical horror film, plus the idea that a hero himself may be crazy, taking the opportunity to criticize the young people now. In the end, reality and fiction intersect, and the protagonist falls into the abyss of self-enclosure. Or is this a complete dream? The author has no intention to explain that the audience is confused by a bunch of information thrown by his cleverness and can only know a little about the author's meaning.

There are only two conjectures about the ending:

1, f is really my strange uncle's daughter. He's made me do this since I was a kid. My strange uncle used to like to take pictures of other people's world, but in the end he was forced to take pictures of such children himself ... I feel that the whole world has changed.

F is going to eat strange uncle, so he is afraid.