is an industrial product with a horror movie perspective. After reading the Cantonese version and the Mandarin version, I always feel that the color palette of the Cantonese version is closer to the aesthetic style of the dark city of Galaxy Image .
However, because of its brightness, it did not return to the tradition of galaxy images in terms of visual effects. I think this is just a commercialization of some concepts and designs from the previous detectives, and then accompanied by a series of shooting scenes. It can be said that It is a well-made commercial cool film, but it is rare to see the creator's ingenuity, sense of design and atmosphere in " Detective ". Speaking of the excellent production, I think to analyze the excellent production of Detective War , it is inseparable from these three angles: : b-level film, cult and body horror. The first is the B-grade film. Although the investment of this film is not small, it is difficult to say that its cost is only the scale of a B-grade film, but Wei Jiahui skillfully used some characteristics of the Hong Kong market to make a B-grade film with inferior plastic texture.
shrouded the horror of old buildings under the dark night, broken ships, old docks, canals and other eerie buildings with traces of time, even Liu Qingyun 's raincoats and bicycles, and even his and Cai Zhuoyan's makeup are all B-level movies. The important characteristic - the fear caused by cheap feeling is followed by cult. I think the cult of this film comes from two aspects, texture and light. The texture first comes from the color grading mentioned above, aside from the Mandarin version, the Cantonese version of the color grading effect is similar to the dark urban style of the Milky Way image, but because of its scheduling and composition, it is still difficult to be different from the Milky Way image. small difference. The dark urban style itself creates fear, fear, and rejection of the environment itself for the audience, and the image is wrapped in a darker color palette. I think the cult of Detective Wars is somewhat similar to last year's Titanium, disgusting with harsh colors that have an effect similar to LEDs.
's dark urban style is disgusted by this effect, which is not only a confirmation of the incomplete return of the traditional style of Galaxy Mapping, but also a place that causes problems with the visual effects of the film, but it actually creates a kind of Galaxy Mapping-style urban cult. Despite the lack of harsh, colliding color light in some scenes, the strong fire-like light on that tone also squeezes the dark wind visually, and there is still a cult-like feel on the character's face. It is a pity that the dark black-gray suppression and this light effect did not merge, but contradicted each other, resulting in a strong sense of abruptness. Of course, these can be put aside. The arrogant performances of Liu Qingyun and , Lin Feng, and , and Cai Zhuoyan's restrained performance, released the cult and made the audience feel the absorption of the cult. signal of. From b-class to cult, they can all be attributed to a higher level, the level of body terror.
Forgive my ignorance, there are only a handful of horror movies watched, but as far as I know, there are three types of horror movies. One is the more popular psychological terror of short-term fright caused by the audio-visual impact, and the other is the Shining-style mental terror that can make people feel uneasy and negative for a long time (here I will talk about why it is mental terror, there are two The first is that the origin of all the characters' horror is the indelible mental trauma, and the second is that the environment in which the film is located is a dream-core environment, such as a corridor such as a strange hall, and the dream core is related to psychoanalysis. , while psychoanalysis itself is an analysis of the mental state, and the dream core attribute in The Shining continues to affect the mental state of the audience, which is a traction in thinking and acts on anxiety and negativity in thinking.
So I don't think The Shining is a psychological horror in the conventional sense, but rather a spiritual horror). The third is the body horror in the Conanberg style. Here I want to talk about the relationship between the detective war and body horror. First of all, I think that the biggest feature of body horror is to make the audience feel physically disgusted, and the cults mentioned in the film (in performance and video) can physically make the audience feel disgusted and disgusted. (still from which disgusting light color effects merge with the image). The effect of
b-grade films also produced body horror. Under the action of B-grade films, the buildings, interior shapes, and large props (such as buses and ships) in the film were attached to human bodies, while the existence of Hong Kong city itself. The sense of unease and terror make buildings, props, these "human bodies""It was damaged and caused discomfort, which made the audience's body feel uncomfortable and disgusting. Regarding B-grade films, there is also the destruction of the body by modeling, and some are the body caused by the character's injury (such as the avenged ex-murderer). It is not caused by the destruction of the character, but also the conflict of the character's own image.
For example, Liu Qingyun's raincoat makes the image of this character have the temperament of a murderer in a rainy night, but in fact it is a righteous detective, and the temperament in this image is serious Devouring and corroding the righteous image in the human image, it will destroy the body and cause discomfort. Moreover, because in a state of madness, it will expand and exaggerate everything, so this sense of discomfort and unease will be strengthened again. Speaking of characters , still can't forget the role of its characters in the generation of cults mentioned above, the sense of cults (the difference between the performance and the role, the difference between the makeup and the performance, and the difference between the character and himself) is exactly the same. It is contrary to the normal human feeling of the audience, so it will also make the body feel uncomfortable. In addition to stimulating the nerves to cause discomfort to the body, body horror should also have the word horror, but for this film, horror is all displayed in I don’t need to say more about the plot and situation, because I don’t think it’s worth analyzing. The horror of the
plot and the infiltrative atmosphere of the situation have the horror effect that the film’s body horror needs. After all, the body of this film There are two sources of horror, the body horror brought by the cult effect in the B-grade film and the body horror of the cult itself. After the body horror, the cult-like dark city style shrouded in this film is common. Strengthening the degree of repression and anxiety about its own plot and situation can also make ordinary audiences horrified all the time.
So even if the technique has been purely commercialized, the control effect of the commercialized technique and the degree of success of the emotion to be created , I think it is indeed a well-made industrial product. But I still think the best aesthetics of the film are related to body horror, which is the essence of this film.
