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Originally posted by 阿韩 at 2005-7-17 04:19 PM:
真是太棒了，有个叫Kyu Hyun Kim（金奎铉）的韩国影评人对这部电影的评价蛮高的。看来女高怪谈1、2、3、4部中，只有第3部的狐狸楼梯是扯后退的败类。作为一个超级女高怪谈迷，第三部的恶俗曾经让偶一度失 ...
金奎铉在那个网站又发表了一篇新的影评，看来他真的很欣赏《女高4》，反复强调这是部很独特的电影，对导演的编导手法以及制作的各个方面都赞誉有加！
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Young-uhn (Kim Ok-bin) is attacked by a supernatural force while practicing singing in her high school. Next morning, she wakes up from a seeming trance. To her shock, Young-uhn learns that she is dead and cannot leave the school grounds. She succeeds in communicating with her best friend Seon-min (Seo Ji-hye), a school DJ, who can hear her voice. Aided by the school's resident psychic girl Cho-ah (Cha Ye-rin), Seon-min attempts to uncover the mystery behind her friend's death.
The latest installment in the successful "The Girl's High School Horror" (Yeogo gwedam) series is a refreshing departure from the current flock of East Asian horror films. Even though some of the film's plot elements --two close friends whose relationship becomes strained, flirtation with lesbianism and so on --are reminiscent of Memento Mori, generally thought of as the best of the lot, Voice is in fact a unique film that stands on its own.
To explain the film's strengths without spoiling its content is difficult. However, I can state right off the bat that the Big Revelation that dutifully turns up near the ending is not one of them. (I won't bore you with yet another ranting about how Korean horror film's obsession with the Big Revelation is turning into an Achilles heel) The young actresses, while competent and hard-working, are not spectacularly impressive compared to some of the series alumni: the characters they play are also stereotypical, with matching hairstyles (long, flowing hair for the Creepy Psychic Girl, short tomboyish 'do for the Spunky Heroine, etc). The film's pacing is deliberate, with a lot of exposition through dialogue: it could seriously suffer from badly done subtitles. DP Kim Yong-heung and director Choe Ik-hwan (the assistant director for Whispering Corridors) confine the action rigorously to a few sets, going for theatrical, medium-distance shots instead of the expressionist style that currently predominates Korean horror cinema. Lighting and sound design are superbly done, however, working with the muted, toned down palette and showing admirable restraint in illustrating the presence of the supernatural.
What makes Voice interesting is its unusually thoughtful and melancholy approach to death. The film dares to show the isolation and loneliness of the dead. Indeed, the film's terror is mostly visited upon on the dead, when they must face the Ultimate, Unknowable Darkness, the portal leading to which is an ordinary elevator door. Director and screenwriter Choe wisely trims the usual boogaboo scare tactics to the minimum and instead puts a lot of energy into the visual recreation of more abstract ideas, such as le temps du loup as a spiritual realm through which the dead can review meaningful moments in their lives. As the film progresses, it becomes increasingly clear that Voice is working its way toward a tough question perhaps seldom honestly answered in conventional horror films: what do the dead spirits really want when they haunt the living?
The movie's answer to that question has a ring of truth that you won't find in many other horror films. The dead want neither revenge nor truth: they want to live again. Therein lies the true horror as well as the true sadness of the situation. Voice, in its own unassuming way, is an earnest reflection on the terrors and sorrows of the teenagers faced with the overwhelming mystery of Death. I could be wrong, but it looks likely that the fat lady will be long time coming to sing the final aria for the Yeogo gwedam series. (Kyu Hyun Kim) |
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发表于 2005-7-14 18:33
发表于 2005-7-15 00:09
哇塞，Kyu Hyun Kim这番话对偶来说粉有诱惑力哦！！口水直流ing~~
