Stephen King, the most famous contemporary "King of Horror Novels". His works always combine "all kinds of deep stories that ridicule human nature" and "horrific and terrifying atmosphere", which makes people look utterly indescribable.
There are countless film and television works adapted from the works of Stephen King in film history. Such as "Shawshank's Redemption", "The Shining", "Recall the Clown", each is a classic.
Recently, another high-scoring film and television work adapted from the works of Stephen King came! The horror subject scored 8.2 high. It is not a superficial horror, but a horror that strikes the soul directly, and is hailed as the top horror drama of the year by the audience. Title: The second season of "Castle Rock".
The protagonist of the story is a woman named Annie. She has a strange expression on the poster, and she is holding an axe. Obviously related to a murder case. At the beginning, it was the scene of Annie and her daughter fleeing together. Because of murder, Annie kept changing her place of residence. In the panic, Annie and her daughter had a car accident and were forced to stay in nearby Castle Rock.
Annie suffers from mental illness and needs medication every day. But the precautions of Castle Rock Hospital were so heavy that Annie could not successfully steal the drugs. After the drug was stopped, she had all kinds of weird hallucinations: sometimes she saw a bloody man lying on the ground, and sometimes she appeared in her mind as blood. Horror picture of people.
In an accident, Annie killed the landlord to protect her daughter. To cover up the crime, Annie buried her body late at night, pretending that nothing had happened. But never expected: The landlord is resurrected! He came back from hell with a gloomy expression and stared at Annie who had killed him. The horror and weird story begins here, and the audience is tingling...
Castle Rock is a small town where all kinds of horrible events have occurred. The living environment here is terrifying, and everyone has hidden secrets. The story that happened here is very interesting. It is a horror drama that makes the hormones on the adrenal glands surge, and it is also a brain-burning drama that makes people rack their brains trying to reason the truth. Every episode has buried many important and small details, gathered together, and finally came a big explosion. In the
drama series, there are various linkages with Stephen King's other classic film and television works. For example, in the first season, the protagonist and the mysterious man mentioned: "Uncle killed his wife and children with an axe." This is the plot in the deadliest horror movie "The Shining" in film history.
, for example, in the second season of the story, "The tunnel at the top of the mountain can bring people back to life" is similar to "Pet Cemetery". These linkages made the fans of horror dramas very excited, and there was a feeling of nostalgia for retrospective classic works. On the other side of
, there are outstanding characters in the drama. In "Castle Rock", the past of each character is profound, which successively reflects real problems such as carnage crime, racial issues, and human nature.
is like the landlord's family where Annie lives. There are four children in this family, of which two are white children and two are adopted black children. The father did not like black children, but in order to prove that he "has compassion" and was qualified to be a local sheriff, he took the black children home.
If it were not for the selfishness of the sheriff, the confrontation between the black child and the white child would not have occurred, and so many weird things would not happen in Castle Rock. Taking skin color equality as the starting point, it extends to the tragedy caused by sinful humanity.
Before temporarily staying at Castle Rock, Annie and her daughter had been on the run. The lens deliberately features a close-up of the mysterious box in Annie's hands, and all the details indicate that the box is a living thing. Why are living creatures locked in boxes? What is the meaning of its existence? Why is Annie always so solemn when she holds it? This is the most important foreshadowing of the drama, and the suspense that the audience expects the most. The editing of
"Castle Rock" is excellent. In addition to the regular parallel editing, there are many quick shots that switch quickly. The rhythm of the shot switching and the rhythm of the soundtrack change perfectly, hitting the audience's heart like a drum, and the more nervous you see it behind.
Because the amount of story information is very large, the screenwriter and director adopt a multi-line narrative method. Each episode has a different theme. First present the characters' life stories in turn, and then use a hidden branch to connect all the stories. When the truth was finally revealed, all the audience's doubts were answered.
eliminates the "hatred" story line between Annie and the landlordIn addition, there are a group of heavy characters in "Castle Rock". That is: the crowd who came to life through the mountain tunnel. Driven by some kind of evil force, they incarnate into murderous demons with the intent to massacre all the residents in Castle Rock... In the story of
, Annie yelled to her daughter: "Don't be assimilated by them." At the same time, the relationship between Annie and her daughter It is not as harmonious as the surface. It hides a great secret. Use all kinds of details to combine the good and evil of human nature and the strange power. Such a wonderful story, are you willing to miss it?
