Analysis of Thai Horror Film Psychic Plot

"Psychic" tells the story in the form of a pseudo-documentary, starting with an interview show. A documentary film crew is filming a documentary about mediums and witchcraft. ?

The film crew came to a remote village in Ishan, northeastern Thailand, and interviewed Nim, a local psychic. Witchcraft is prevalent in the village where Nim is located. The villagers believe that everything has animism, that people have spirits and things have spirits. Among them, good spirits will protect people, while evil spirits will bring disasters. ?

In the local people’s beliefs, the most important thing is the god named Bayan. The villagers worship the statue of Bayan in the jungle of the valley. They believed that the god Bayan would possess a woman and help the villagers avoid disasters, so a family of psychics was born. ?

Nim, the protagonist in the interview, comes from a local psychic family. Their family will select a woman for generations to be the spiritual medium of Bayan God. However, Nim was not chosen to be a medium since she was a child. She also has an older sister Enoch at home. ?

Originally, the family selected sister Enoch as the next generation of spiritual medium, but sister Enoch was very resistant to this, so she refused to be the heir and converted to Christianity. As the younger sister, Nimu took over as a substitute. She was unwilling at first and even cut her wrists several times to resist. But in the end, he complied with his family's wishes and became a local spiritual medium.

The turning point of the story begins when Nim goes to attend the funeral of his brother-in-law. While driving to her brother-in-law's funeral, Nim was disturbed when she saw the body of a dead black dog on the side of the road. Nim ranks third in the family. In addition to her second sister Enoch, she also has an eldest brother Manny. ?

Sister Yinuo’s family has suffered misfortunes one after another in recent years, and it seems that no man in the family can die a good death. My brother-in-law's family, my grandfather was stoned to death. His father used to run a textile factory, but fell into financial crisis due to poor management. In order to pay off the debt, he actually came up with a way to set fire to defraud the insurance company. As a result, he was caught and finally committed suicide. ?

As for the younger generation, my sister’s eldest son Mike also died unexpectedly in a car accident not long ago. Sister Yinuo runs a dog meat shop and has a daughter, Xiao Min. ?

But at the funeral, Nim discovered that her niece Xiao Min seemed to be in something wrong. The originally gentle and kind-hearted niece suddenly became moody and would suddenly get angry and roar at people. Strangely, when Nim was about to go back to bed that night, he saw his niece under the tent staring ahead.

Xiao Min's figure looked particularly strange in the dim night, and in front of her there was a blind old lady looking at her. Nim tried to call his niece Xiao Min's name, but she had no response until the old man in front of him left. ?

However, the next day, Nim learned the news that the blind old lady had died. Then, Nim accidentally witnessed her niece Xiao Min's strange behavior. She seemed to be talking to something invisible. ?

The strange behavior of niece Xiao Min made Nim suspicious. So she came to her sister Yinuo's house and checked Xiao Min's room. She found a magic weapon used to exorcise ghosts and evil spirits in the closet. ?

This made Nim suspect that his niece Xiao Min might be possessed by evil spirits, so he asked his sister if she had noticed any strange behavior in her daughter Xiao Min recently. However, her sister was very disgusted with Nim's theory of ghosts and gods and asked Nim not to do so. Intervene in matters at home. ?

At this time, when the photographer was reviewing the scenes taken at the funeral, he accidentally photographed Xiao Min's strange behavior. The combination of these strange information made Nim realize the key to the problem - this was probably a sign that God Bayan would choose Xiao Min to become the next generation of spiritual medium in the family. ?

After the film crew learned about this, they also became interested in Xiao Min's family and wanted to film the process of spiritual medium inheritance, so they decided to start filming the daily life of Yi Nuo and her daughter Xiao Min. ?

Xiao Min is a clerk who works at a local employment center. She is influenced by her mother. Although she knows that women must inherit the tradition of psychic mediums from generation to generation, Xiao Min is also very attached to this family mission. resist. Because the process of being possessed by Bayan God is very painful, the locals call it a "divine disease." Only by surviving this pain can one become a psychic. ?

As we followed Xiao Min’s family, the camera captured more and more unusual phenomena happening to Xiao Min. She began to drink heavily and became moody, sometimes irritable and other times acting like a young child. She would unconsciously pick at her gums until her mouth was filled with blood. Then her body began to develop lesions. She always had headaches, body aches, and sometimes even suffered from inexplicable bleeding. ?

The most bizarre thing is that the surveillance camera in Xiao Min’s workplace captured Xiao Min doing some indescribable things with different men in the office. Xiao Min herself began to realize that there was something strange about her body. Her behavior worsened day by day and she became more and more weird. In the end, she even engaged in self-mutilation and wanted to commit suicide by slitting her wrists. Fortunately, he was discovered in time by his mother and sent to the hospital for rescue. ?

The mother believed that her daughter was a sign of being possessed by the god Bayan. Seeing that her daughter was tortured by the divine disease and was covered in bruises, she planned to find a spiritual master to help her perform a "divine descending" ceremony. , trying to drive away the Bayan God attached to Xiao Min. ?

But Nim rushed to the hospital to persuade her sister to give up this idea, because she gradually realized that the person possessing Xiao Min may not be Bayan God. After all, Bayan God is a good god and should not be like this. The medium who harmed himself.

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The object of Nim’s initial suspicion was his nephew Mike, who died in a car accident. After investigation, he discovered that Mike did not die in a car accident, but by suicide. ?

It turns out that he and his sister Xiao Min actually maintained an unethical relationship, but this kind of relationship would definitely not be approved by the family. Therefore, it was inferred that Mike turned into an evil spirit after committing suicide and wanted to take him away. Let’s go Xiao Min. But when Nim came to the tree where Mike hanged himself, he discovered that it was not Mike's undead that was responsible. ?

At the same time, her sister Yinuo refused to listen and secretly found a spiritual master to perform a spiritual ceremony for her daughter. As a result, her daughter Xiao Min suddenly went crazy, knocked down the photographer, and beat her mother until she fainted. Before everyone could react in shock, Xiao Min ran away without a trace. ?

When things get to this point, the psychic Nim still has to take action himself. The first step to solve the problem is to find out the cause of Xiao Min's evil. Nim checked Xiao Min's bedroom again and found a lot of evil and filthy things in every corner of the room. Nim used these evil objects to start his practice, and gradually discovered that the truth behind Xiao Min's disorder was not that simple. ?

But the process of this method is very long, because there are too many evil things, so Nim can only do it one by one to try out the results. At the same time, my sister and the police launched a search for the missing Xiao Min, but there were no clues. ?

Finally, Nim's approach came to fruition, and Xiao Min's grandfather was finally found in the abandoned textile factory where he was burned down. However, at this time, Xiao Min suffered from severe dehydration and malnutrition. , already dying. After being sent to the hospital for treatment, Xiao Min's health temporarily improved, but Nim knew that in order to cure the problem, he must exorcise the evil spirits. ?

So Nim went up the mountain again, intending to pray to the god Bayan to possess him for help. However, he found that the statue on the mountain was destroyed and the head of the statue was cracked, which obviously indicated that this exorcism ceremony would be very troublesome. Big danger. ?

After Xiao Min was discharged from the hospital and returned home, she went crazy again. Nim's method temporarily restrained Xiao Min, and Xiao Min spit out a large pool of black water from her mouth. However, because the evil spirit in Xiao Min's body was extremely powerful, the exorcism ritual failed, and Xiao Min quickly returned to a violent state. ?

Nimu knew that he could not save Xiao Min on his own, so he found a local shaman for help, hoping to work together to exorcise the demon. But the shaman saw that the matter was not simple. He believed that there was more than one evil spirit in Xiao Min's body. The reason why Xiao Min was haunted by evil spirits was probably related to the crimes committed by Xiao Min's father's ancestors. ?

It turns out that Xiao Min’s father’s family massacred many people a hundred years ago. Those undead souls placed a curse on Xiao Min’s father’s family, causing all their men to die early. Min's grandfather, father and brother all died in good health. What's worse is that Xiao Min inherited the family's psychic qualities, so her body is like a container that can absorb evil spirits. ?

Xiao Min’s mother once refused to become a spiritual medium, which led to Xiao Min being originally supposed to be possessed by the god Bayan, but now she is possessed by other evil spirits. ?

The grievances of these resentful spirits gathered together, and actually attracted more evil spirits full of resentment, including some animals, livestock spirits, etc., and finally formed a small evil spirit in Xiao Min's body at any time. A time bomb that will explode. Now, these evil spirits have lost control and are dancing wildly in Xiao Min's body. ?

After discussion, the shaman and Nim agreed to work together to exorcise demons, but each needed to prepare some magical tools and props. During this period, Xiao Min could only be temporarily locked up at home, but because Xiao Min's behavior became increasingly uncontrollable. To monitor her every move, the crew placed a camera in her room. Through this camera, Xiao Min's various strange behaviors after being possessed by evil spirits were recorded. ?

Seeing that Xiao Min is getting more and more difficult to control, her sister Yinuo has no choice but to go to her sister Nim for help. But he found that he could not contact his sister Nim, and when he came to his sister's home, he found that his sister Nim had mysteriously died at home. Doctors were also unable to explain the cause of Nim's death. In local belief, a medium who dies for no apparent reason is called "divine." Now that the psychic Nim is offline, the shaman can only complete the exorcism ritual alone. ?

In order to deal with the army of evil spirits in Xiao Min’s body, the wizard led all his disciples to start a grand exorcism session. They started a ritual in Xiao Min's grandfather's old textile factory, killing cows to offer sacrifices to heaven. According to the plan, the shaman would invite the evil spirits from Xiao Min's body to the disciples outside the factory, and then hide them in the altar one by one and seal them up.

In the evening, the ceremony officially began. The shaman first locked Xiao Min in his room with a spell and asked his disciples to guard him. And he took Xiao Min's mother to the altar of the abandoned textile factory, and began to dance the magic method. Through the method, Yinuo, who was wearing a hood, was made to bleed from the seven orifices, and finally spit out a puddle of black water into the altar, which seemed to The exorcism ritual worked. ?

On the other side, Xiao Min, who was locked in the room, kept begging her aunt outside the door to let her out. The wizard disciple guarding the door did not allow it, and the baby's cry came from the room again, which made Xiao Min's aunt think that her child was also in the room. But in fact, the child was clearly right in front of her, so it could be seen that she had been bewitched by evil spirits.

Things got completely out of control, which directly caused the exorcism ceremony to turn into a bloody massacre...

What deep fear does "Psychic Medium" bring to people?

The most important thing about "Psychic Medium" The exciting part is that after Nim knew the enemy he was going to fight, he found a familiar exorcist as a helper. The two tried to work together to save his niece Min, and Min's state at the same time. Although the preparations for the exorcism ceremony are in full swing with the joint efforts of many people, as the scheduled date approaches, Min's physical and mental condition, words and deeds are revealed in the footage of the cameras installed by the documentary crew at home. It's getting scarier and scarier every day.

Whether it is getting up in the middle of the night and making a mess at home, sneaking around the bed of sleeping family members, or more bizarre and disgusting behaviors, this kind of person no longer resembles a person except for his appearance. , the eyes and actions that make the audience's hair stand on end, make "The Medium" the scariest horror movie this year. There is a reason why theaters in some areas are the first to watch movies with the lights on.