Science fiction movie"Invisible Man" commentary text commentary
Recently, the biggest scandal in Korea since the beginning of the year occurred
The "Room N" incident is getting worse and worse.
What is "Room N"? It is a crime of exploitation involving 260,000 people.
It is a devil's paradise and a hell for children.
The perpetrators coerced the women into making videos.
Threaten their victims with these videos
The crime of abuse was committed against the victims.
These men also filmed the process
Posted to a chat group with 260,000 members
Room n exists on the micropayment network
The anonymous social software Telegram
This software has invisible technology
Users' personal information is completely invisible
Overseas servers avoid security censorship
All emails sent will be deleted automatically
Room N was born on this software platform two years ago
By sharing these videos with each chat room, the house owner
thus making a huge profit
In the derivative group of n-room
More than 15,000 indecent messages appear every day
If group members don't upload that kind of video or abuse women
would be forced to leave the group and withdraw
To gain access to room n
Then you have to upload the video you took as an admission ticket
So, those members targeted
on children who were relatively easy to control
Most of the victims were children. The youngest of them was 11 years old.
Although we are taught from an early age that "men and women are equal"
but in today's society, male-centeredness
still exists as an invisible subterfuge
and every female victim of male oppression
even more humiliated
The Room N incident is reminiscent of
The world's biggest sci-fi thriller of the year, "The Invisible Man
This film tells a fascinating story while at the same time
It also carries the banner of female awakening
In the wee hours of the morning, in a technological mansion by the sea
Cecilia, who is pretending to sleep, starts her escape plan
Despite having given her boyfriend a Valium, she is still very scared
Her boyfriend is a pioneer in the field of optics
A technological genius, super rich
But he is also an uncompromising control freak
This control is not only physical. It is also mental
The heroine's thoughts and life, every move is monitored and controlled by him
There is no personal freedom at all
After confirming that her boyfriend was asleep, the heroine carefully pointed the camera at the bedroom
This allows her to monitor the bedroom in real time on her phone
Afterwards, she gingerly went to the dressing room
She took out her bag which was hidden in a secret compartment in the dressing room
You can see that she has been preparing for her escape for a long time
Before she came out, she saw in front of her eyes
An unidentified shelf with a sci-fi feel
When she slipped to the door of the room, the dog followed her
The control freak boyfriend even put an electric collar on the gentle dog
The intolerant heroine wanted to set the dog free
Little did she know that it had hit the car and the alarm was blaring so loudly that her boyfriend would surely be woken up
She had to go through the dark forest without a second thought
She had to run all the way through the dark forest
Running to the road, her sister came to pick her up as promised
But she couldn't understand what had happened to her sister
Just as she hesitated. The boyfriend quickly rushed to the car
A punch burst the window glass, the sister hurriedly started the car
Leaving her boyfriend in place, he roared angrily for her to come back
With the car far away, he picked up the Valium left behind by the heroine on the ground
He realized that the heroine had drugged herself
Finally, the heroine got out of the clutches
She stayed at the house of a policeman friend, Old Black
He also has a daughter in middle school
But even though she was living with a cop, she was still in fear every day
She has been tortured by her control freak boyfriend and is going crazy.
She always thought he would find her and take her back
Until two weeks later. The sister arrived unexpectedly
She brought the big news: her boyfriend had killed himself
At first the heroine still couldn't believe it
She thought it was all a conspiracy set up by her boyfriend
So her sister showed her the news report
The heroine who finally chose to let go slowly
She confided in both of them about her victimization
（"He controls my happiness, my anger, my sorrow and my joy.)
（"He controls what I wear and what I eat.)
(And)
（"He controlled me even after I left home)
（"He even controls what I say)
(Finally)
（including what I'm thinking)
（And if)
（"If he doesn't like what he thinks I'm thinking)
（He'll... -what he would do)
（Would he... would he hit you?)
（More than hit me)
（He wants to have children)
（I know if we had a baby, I would)
（"I couldn't leave him anymore, so)
（"I used birth control without him knowing)
（But...)
（But it couldn't go on forever so)
（I'm calling you)
The woman suddenly received a letter from her boyfriend's brother
She received a letter from her boyfriend's brother and his lawyer.
The lawyer said that the brother had left 5 million to the heroine
As long as she is mentally sound and not billion, she can get the inheritance
Free money, put who can not miss
The heroine happily signed and received the money
and used part of it to finance the old black's daughter's college education
to thank them for taking care of themselves during this time
However, it didn't end there. The story was just beginning
The next day, strange things started to happen
The woman left the house for a while while she was cooking breakfast
The fire of the gas stove slowly became bigger by itself
Fortunately, there was no fire.
Late at night, she felt a strange noise in the house.
She shivered and went to the door, and in the cold air
Behind her there was a cloud of exhaled gas
What's worse, she was inexplicably pulled off the blanket in her sleep
One after another, strange things happen to the heroine
It makes her sleep and food uncomfortable
The heroine told her friend about these strange things
But her friend did not believe her at all. They think she is hallucinating.
She only reassures her that she has to let go in order to move on with her life
After some enlightenment and persuasion from her friend. The heroine also chose to move on
She went to a job interview, and to her surprise, something strange happened again
The work she had packed in advance disappeared and the bag was empty
Immediately afterwards, the heroine suddenly fainted and fell to the ground
After examining her body, the doctor found a high level of Valium in her blood.
There was a high content of Valium
And the bottle of Valium that was left behind during the escape
also inexplicably appeared in the house
The heroine finally realized that her boyfriend might still be alive. She went to her lawyer to confront him
The lawyer falsely reassured her that it was all a hallucination
When she saw the photo of her boyfriend's death, she began to doubt herself.
She goes to call her sister to talk about all this
But she found that her sister's attitude towards her was full of malice
She also said that the heroine had sent her a mocking email in the morning
But the heroine did not send any email at all ah
She has no memory of it all
She went home and checked her computer
However, she unexpectedly found that there was such an email
She had made a lot of snide remarks to her sister
She also began to wonder if she was suffering from schizophrenia
She broke down and cried
Old Black's daughter came into the room to comfort her
But she was knocked to the ground by a punch from across the room
When Old Black arrived in a hurry, there were only the heroine and her daughter in the room
He could only assume that the heroine had done it
The heroine was unable to defend herself, so Black sent his daughter to the hospital
She was left alone in the house
The heroine was now completely isolated
Sister and old black are inexplicably provoked to divide
But she also learned a fact: her boyfriend is not only not dead
but he was in the house, he had the technology of invisibility and framed her
Not being schizophrenic, she starts talking to herself in the air
Suddenly, a great idea came to her and she called her boyfriend's cell phone
The ringtone really rang in the room
So she followed the ringtone and found her boyfriend's cell phone
The phone reads "SURPRISE" and contains a picture of herself sleeping.
The woman was shocked and felt a gust of wind behind her
So she slowly approached the entrance of the attic and gazed at the empty ladder.
And when she picked up a bucket of paint and threw it down
A human figure suddenly appeared in front of her eyes
The heroine followed the traces of paint to the kitchen, but found that the faucet was turned on
The white paint she had just splashed had been washed away
And just as she shuddered, a spaced out domestic violence began
Escaping from the house, the heroine called a car
Decided to return to the previous beach house to see
What kind of technology can make her boyfriend invisible
In fact, the unidentified shelf found when escaping is the key to everything
It turns out that the boyfriend invented the invisibility cloak using optical technology
Wear it and become invisible
This finally has a reasonable explanation for the strange things that happened to the heroine
It was the boyfriend who used this technology
The boyfriend used this technology to sow discord between the heroine and the people around her
In order to force her to return to his side
At that moment, the dog at home suddenly barked, and it seemed that the boyfriend had arrived at the door
She didn't dare to take the invisible clothes away and hid it in the secret compartment of the closet
Luckily, the dog held her boyfriend back and she was able to escape
On the way to escape, the heroine called her sister. She asked her to meet her at the restaurant
It is convenient to explain the whole story to clear up the misunderstanding between them
And seek the sister's help
However, as soon as the heroine opened her mouth, a knife in the air flew up
A knife lock throat killed the sister, in front of the public
Everyone took the heroine as the murderer
And the heroine could only collapse and was taken away by the police
No one believed the heroine anymore, she was sent to a psychiatric center
And the heroine also learned that she was pregnant after the medical examination
At this point, the lawyer came out and told her
Her boyfriend's inheritance will be stopped because she is mentally unstable
Unless she agrees to have the baby and return to her boyfriend
Everything can go back to the way it was before
Obviously, the boyfriend has played a great game, he has already switched the birth control pills
The lawyer brother is willing to do anything for him
Before, he was just acting in front of the heroine
After that, the heroine's intelligence started to come online, she first pretended to be angry
In fact, she secretly hid a pen on her body
When she returned to her room and prepared to pretend to commit suicide, her boyfriend did stop her
The heroine stabbed the invisibility cloak with the pen, and the cloak was no longer stable
Afterwards, the security guards who were alerted came to the scene
But they were all defeated by her boyfriend
The heroine chased him all the way to the parking lot
The invisible man suddenly appeared and grabbed the heroine's neck
and said if you resist me, I won't hurt you
And I will find the people you love and hurt them
Then he threatened to go hurt the old black daughter, so that the heroine will always blame herself
After the boyfriend left, the heroine rushed to find a way to go home, but also informed the old black
However, the invisible man had already arrived home first
But his body is no longer so agile
He was also hit by the little girl's mace spray
At this time, Old Black also came back, but he could not see the invisible man
He could only be beaten passively and was about to be killed
At this point, the heroine rushed over with a fire extinguisher and sprayed
The invisible man was then revealed, the heroine shot him several times
Wait to confirm that the invisible man can not move after
Now carefully go over to remove the mask
However, I did not expect that under the mask is the boyfriend's brother
After the invisible man was caught in the home of the heroine
The police found him in the basement of the beach house
The police found the boyfriend tied up in the basement of the beach house
He looked like he was imprisoned by his own brother
The heroine was convinced that her boyfriend had blamed his brother for everything
But the people around her still don't believe her
The heroine finally realized that her friends can't be trusted
She can only make the first move
After all, her only advantage is her boyfriend's gullibility
She took the initiative to call her boyfriend and said she decided to come back
This control freak boyfriend with a twisted personality
He is indeed madly in love with the heroine in his heart
He welcomes her back with a nice dinner
His words and actions were full of excitement, and his hands were even shaking
The heroine had previously observed a camera pointed at the table
and asked Old Black to meet her outside
She left a little leeway for her boyfriend
If he frankly since everything. She also stops here
She asked her boyfriend to admit all the things he did to her, but he still argued
Then the woman excused herself to go to the bathroom, and her boyfriend sat bored at the dining table
However, he suddenly picked up a knife and cut his own neck
When she came back, she saw the scene in front of her and couldn't help but scream
She dialed the police with fear and trepidation
All this was recorded on the camera as evidence
And after exiting the surveillance range, the heroine changed her face in a second
Panic and panic instantly disappeared
Replaced by the confidence that everything is under control
At that moment, the police officer's friend, Black, came to the scene.
He found the heroine calmly walking out of the room, with the invisibility cloak in her bag
It turns out that this is an elaborate maze
The heroine finally broke through and completed a successful anti-kill
This is the end of the film, in fact, who is the invisible man
The film has already had enough hints before
The boyfriend is a very controlling person
The brother is also under his control
Surprise, which appears several times in the film
The Surprise that appears several times in the film also coincides with her boyfriend's Surprise at the end of the dinner
This is the boyfriend's usual catchphrase
In addition, the brother who wants to kill the girl
He is not as skilled and intelligent as the invisible man who appeared earlier
All this shows that the boyfriend is the real invisible man
There are several versions of the Invisible Man in the history of cinema
It was originally inspired by the science fiction novelist
H.G. Wells' novel of the same name
As early as 1933, it was brought to the big screen
Every era has its own version of "The Invisible Man".
Before this year's new version was made
The most famous version is undoubtedly the one directed by Paul van Hoven in 2000
Explaining the evil of human nature from the perspective of the invisible man
And this year's "Invisible Man
This year's "Invisible Man" comes from the hand of contemporary horror film master Wen Ziren's good friend, Revonar
He used to write scripts for Wendy's horror films.
He has also developed series such as "Saw" and "Insidious".
In recent years, he started directing
The last movie "Upgrade" was the breakout sci-fi thriller of the year
In order to make a very different innovation from the old version of the film
The first time to adopt the perspective of the victim
And the cloak of invisibility in the film
In most of the film is equivalent to deprive the victim of part of the vision
We follow the heroine and see the "nothingness" in the air
We can't help but be frightened with her and even wonder
Is she really schizophrenic? This kind of design from the audio-visual aspect
In the film many times played a strong effect
Every empty place is full of danger
Another area where innovation is needed is the core concept
The previous versions of "Invisible Man" have stretched the sci-fi genre to a high proportion
The protagonist is a scientist, embodying the otherwise peaceful person
The technology has backfired on them
This idea was valid decades ago
But when viewed through the eyes of 2020, it seems old-fashioned
The new version of "Invisible Man" is a radical shift in concept and intent
Its underpinning is feminism
It is a call for gender equality in a new era.
The director visited many women's protection organizations in the preparation stage of the film
Studied their stories of domestic abuse by their husbands
Revised the script together with the female lead
Make the script not only interlocking and reversing one after another
but also reveal women's thoughts in key places
The film starts with the escape from the control freak PUA boyfriend
followed by his male gaze and deep voyeurism
After that, he even "name-drops" the victim's slave heroine. She is accused of
The whole society's attitude towards the victim
saying that they don't trust the heroine at all
The only one who can save herself is herself.
You can see that the theme of the film is changing with the development of the plot
Generally speaking, if a horror movie can tell a concept well, it can stand up
The Invisible Man" throws up a series of topics.
It eventually moves from "female oppression" and "victim stigmatization."
The way of the victim is the way of the victim, forming a closed-loop chain
The reason for the mistress' repeated injuries
Not only from the arrogance and paranoia of the invisible man boyfriend
It also has the "accomplice" of technology and the contempt of the whole society
The logic behind the Room N incident is the same
The perpetrators are invisible through technological means
The victim is stigmatized and further victimized
Every aspect of the film accurately captures the female victim
Treated with terror
Finally, I have to commend the actress
Elisabeth Moss' amazing performance.
Every micro-expression is extremely well controlled
Numbness, sadness, panic and despair
and the undercurrents of heart in the final counter-kill
The character's state of mind is captured by her, and she is very sensitive
She makes the audience feel completely involved and empathetic
It's worth noting that for most of the film
She is performing "no physical performance" in the air
This requires a strong inner conviction and imagination on the part of the actor
No doubt about it.
The new version of "Invisible Man" is so wonderful
Most of the credit goes to her performance
That's the end of the story for today.
See you next time
Leave a comment