Recently, a North American sci-fi horror film "No" became famous, raking in 148 million US dollars.
"No" has been well received by many media and film critics. Douban score 7.0, freshness 83% on Rotten Tomatoes, and the site's consensus review reads: "'No' is admirable for its ingenuity and ambition, even if its influence is beyond its control, it has Jordan Peele 's growing arsenal adds to Steven Spielberg-style spectacle."
This is Academy Award winner Jordan Peele following 2017's Get Out , 2019 The latest work after "We". Jordan Peele reinterprets horror movies in a unique way, and the plot screen is full of tension and suffocation, making the audience shudder!
The chimpanzee begins to kill
The story begins with a TV concert recorded in Chicago in 1998, watching the ever-popular hit show "Soundstage" (Soundstage). On
, a domesticated chimpanzee named "Gordy" went mad during the show and suddenly attacked other actors on stage. The chimpanzee regained its bestiality and attacked humans savagely and cruelly, and was watched by a young Asian boy who performed on the same stage.
Not only that, but what surprised the little boy was that the murder scene, a shoe that could not stand up, obviously violated the common sense of physics.
Time goes back to the present.
Outside Los Angeles, in the arid and desolate Santa Clarita Valley of Southern California.
A pair of brother and sister OJ ( Daniel Kaluuya ) and younger sister (Kipama) inherited the family horse farm from their legendary old father Otis Hayward ( Keith David ). Take over as a TV movie horse trainer.
Unfortunately, Dad was hit by something falling from the sky. A metal coin pierced his eyeball. OJ hurriedly drove Dad to the hospital, but unfortunately, it was too late, Dad died so bizarrely.
OJ had to replace his father and drag his horse to the movie set to shoot. The people on the set were very familiar with his father. Hearing that his father was killed by the messy things that fell from the plane, he had no sympathy at all.
This industry is not easy to operate. Although OJ and his sister have considerable technical expertise and marketing skills, they are facing financial crisis and the inherent difficulties of this industry.
The Jupiter Mine adjacent to the Hywar Horse Farm is a family-friendly theme park and cute zoo, rushing for gold in CaliforniaThe theme of hot history and aesthetics, the boss is Ricky Jupiter Parker, nicknamed Xiao Zhu (played by Stephen Yuan), he was a child star when he was a child, and the only survivor who witnessed the chimpanzee slaughtering guest on the show at the opening of the movie is him. A lifetime of escaping the tragic experiences reported in the tabloids.
One night, OJ discovers an unexplained mysterious phenomenon on their sprawling horse farm. The wind blows and a horse escapes. When OJ chased out, he saw a cruel UFO UFO appeared in the sky, rolled up the horse and devoured it.
OJ came back and told his sister that she wanted to become famous and thought that this monster should be filmed so that she could participate in the hottest variety show in the United States.
Then, they found Angel Torres, a 3C appliance clerk, to install a camera in the home.
But what OJ didn't expect was that the clerk had been monitoring the content of the camera from behind. Six months later, the clerk suddenly visited and said that he had discovered a secret.
He called up the video record and played it back again and again. Then tell OJ that a cloud in the sky has been motionless for half a year.
They suspect that there is a UFO hidden behind the cloud.
The story switches to the side of Zoo Zhu.
, unable to relieve himself from the tragic experience for a long time, he started to make money by doing cruel things.
It turned out that Xiao Zhu knew about the existence of aliens for a long time, and the performances he hosted were also the biggest selling point of the theme park, that is, performing UFOs to brutally devour live horses. That's why this place attracts a lot of TV people and photographers.
In this performance, OJ's horse never came out of the cage. High winds, power outages, and UFOs brutally devoured the audience at the scene.
Xiao Zhu also died in the last stare at the UFO.
OJ came to the messy scene, just saw the UFO committing the crime. He rolled and crawled home and called his sister to avoid the UFO attack.
UFO arrived with strong winds, wrapped the house where the two of them were, and sprayed the blood of the zoo audience on the window, which should be a famous scene in the movie. Chilling.
The next day, OJ and his sister decided to go to a photographer to capture the scene. But there is a problem, when the UFO appears, it will make all the electricity disappear. Camera, camcorder are not working.
The photographer has a way, he is going to bring a hand-cranked camera to shoot.
But another question, who is going to lead the UFO out, know that it may have lifeDanger.
Of course, it's up to OJ, he can't shirk.
OJ filled the front door of the house with inflatable dolls.
The photographer sets up the machine.
OJ and UFOs face off against each other. The photographer is always snapping shots. In order to watch the spectacle and take the perfect photo, the cameraman would rather take the initiative to provoke the monster and be eaten by the monster in the end.
In the end, OJ and his sister relayed the confrontation with the UFO, causing the UFO to devour the huge exploding doll, killing the UFO.
At this point in the story, the audience may be asking why the tourists are dead but OJ and his sister are able to escape. Director
explained that the way to protect yourself from alien beings is to avoid eye contact.
in the show that Xiao Zhu participated in that year, why did the chimpanzee not kill Xiao Zhu, but wanted to fist bump with Xiao Zhu to show friendship? Because Xiao Zhu was hiding under the table at the time, the hanging translucent cloth blocked the sight of the chimpanzees.
The director warned the audience not to stare at the UFO, otherwise, he will devour you .
So, what does UFO stand for?
Some people say that it represents the infinite desire of people, some people say it represents evil, and some people say it represents consumerism, the original sin of traffic. The director did indeed bury a lot of memes in the film.
For example, the protagonist's name OJ, it is easy to think of the black American golf star OJ Hipson, he was finally accused of killing his wife.
And the chimpanzee murder at the beginning of the film is also a real event in American history.
For more details, the audience should think for themselves after watching the film. The cast list of
is also very dazzling.
"Get Out" Daniel Kaluuya, "The Dancer Lies Big" Kiki Parma, "Dreamland" Stephen Yuan, Michael Wincott and Brandon Pirea... People look forward to new sparks from this combination. The
production team specially hired Oscar-nominated director of photography Hoyt van Hoytema to shoot, his works include Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk" and "Tian Neng" .
This is the first horror film to be shot with an IMAX camera.
"No! 》 Shot on large-format 65mm film and four IMAX cameras, and usedThe same IMAX camera used to film Everest, including an IMAX camera equipped with a handheld device, has been in space to shoot images of outer space on a space shuttle.
director of photography Hoyt van Hoytema said: "This is an exciting journey, innovative, fun, fearless, constantly pushing the limits, it can be said that it is a work born for the big screen, we The IMAX camera was deployed, the machine was pushed to the extreme, and the picture was insane.” “It feels really different to shoot with an IMAX camera,” said Jordan Peele. The movie shot by the camera is more immersive. You are sitting there, and the picture is so shocking that it fills your line of sight. It feels like you are not watching a movie, but you are really there. This is what I made for this film. The crux of the film: I want the audience to immerse themselves in it, to feel the awe, fear, and surprise that one would have had as a child."
In short, this is a visual blockbuster, and it also implies a lot of expressions from the director. Recommend everyone to see it!
