My movie scared the global audience to tears

“Recently, it seems that many netizens are very interested in the theoretical knowledge of horror movies!

But with all due respect, discussing theories doesn’t make much sense, because sometimes, we understand a lot of truths, but still can’t live a good life... Haha! Just kidding!

But the words are rough and the theory is not rough. Theoretical knowledge is only useful to us film practitioners and has no meaning to ordinary viewers, because for you, the only thing you need to care about is whether the movie is good or not.

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I don’t know why there are so many netizens who care about film theory, but since everyone asked, I will simply chat with you.

First of all, I want to make it clear that theory does not mean everything. Otherwise, all good movies should be made by film theory teachers from various film and television schools, and there would be no such thing as professional directors.

And I personally don’t like to apply theories, as that will greatly restrict creative inspiration, which is not a good thing.

Secondly, the so-called cave monster theory is not a universal theory that can summarize all horror stories. There are many reasons why humans have fear, and fear of predators is not the only reason.

There are many reasons that can cause fear in humans, such as the unknown, alienation, deprivation of rights, etc.

I made this short film "Spoon Killer" just to show you a different example.

The Spoon Killer in the short film is not a beast-type villain, and he cannot even cause fatal damage to the male protagonist.

But he is more terrifying than many fierce and powerful villains, because he brings harm to the male protagonist that is more terrifying than direct killing, that is, alienation and deprivation of rights.

The so-called alienation means being different from others, and its fear logic is being rejected by others or society.

Humans are social animals. In the animal world, the benchmark is social animals.

Social animals have collective attributes. Once they are separated from the group or excluded, they will have a great sense of fear.

There are many reasons why a social animal is ostracized by the group, such as infectious diseases, obvious differences in physical signs, mental illness with violent tendencies, etc.

These reasons will cause the collective to suffer great losses, so the collective will reject the target that caused this phenomenon.

Targets who are rejected by the collective will also lose their collective attributes, which will cause great pressure on specific targets and will also cause a strong sense of fear.

For example, once lepers appeared in ancient times, they would be expelled from villages, towns and other settlements and left to fend for themselves.

As for the lepers who were expelled, their collective attributes had disappeared. They were no longer regarded as human beings, but as scourges and other disasters.

For them, after being expelled, they will obviously have unspeakable fear, and that fear will even drive them to understand themselves.

It is a fear greater than the threat of death, and it is the destruction of personality.

Just like in "Resident Evil", people are afraid of zombies. People are not afraid of death. People are afraid that they will not be able to live peacefully after death and become monsters like zombies.

That is also a kind of destruction of personality.

This method of expulsion due to alienation is somewhat similar to deprivation of rights, but deprivation of rights will be more subdivided.

Take "Spoon Killer" as an example. Why can't Brother Spoon kill the male protagonist, but it still makes people feel damaged?

Because he deprived the male protagonist of his rights.

He deprived the male protagonist of his right to eat, his right to sleep, and his right to live a normal life.

Among everyone's feedback in the comment area, the scene that was mentioned most often and frightened everyone the most was the scene where the chainsaw cuts off the lower body. Some netizens said they had phantom pain after seeing it.

Why is this scene the most difficult for everyone to accept?

Because in this scene, the male protagonist’s reproductive rights were deprived.

So, have you noticed anything?

In fact, whether it is alienation, deprivation of rights, or the cave monster theory, their core logic has not changed. It is still the fear of death.

Being expelled from the collective and becoming a savage will make it easier to die than living in the collective. This is the fear of death.

Not being able to eat or sleep can also lead to death. This is still the fear of death.

Reproductive rights are deprived and genes cannot be continued. This is also the fear of death.

It's just that alienation and deprivation of rights are slow deaths, not as direct as the cave monster.

All monsters are direct and deadly.

For example, great white sharks, dinosaurs, and sea monsters are powerful enough that they can kill a person directly, making you instantly feel the fear of death.

But alienation and deprivation of rights will not kill you directly, but will make you lose hope of life bit by bit in despair, and eventually lead to death.

Which way of death is scarier? I think it's the latter.

When hope is shattered again and again, when you are swallowed up by despair little by little, and finally find that death is a kind of relief, that feeling is the greatest fear.

But these are just theories. How to express them specifically depends on how the creator creates them.

"Spoon Killer" can be made into a comedy or a horror film, depending on the director's ideas.

For you, theoretical knowledge is not of much use. As long as the movie is good to watch, isn't that enough?

Let’s talk so much! This video itself is just for entertainment. As long as everyone is happy, I hope everyone can be calm and spend every day happily, that’s all.”

After Song Qi's post was posted, it quickly aroused enthusiastic responses from fans, who commented below.

"It's my Brother Qi after all! All the theories about cave monsters are rubbish! A guy who hides his head and shows his tail still wants to use this method to attack my Brother Qi? He's overestimating his own capabilities!"

"Eh? I didn't realize it until I heard what Brother Qi said. That's right! Don't we ordinary viewers care about whether the movie is good or not? Why are there so many trolls on the Internet who insist on talking about movie theory? They really want to talk about movie theory.

, or do you have ulterior motives?”

"Educated! Alienation and deprivation of rights are summed up so well! When I was suffering from depression, everyone regarded me as a lunatic. It felt really hopeless and I felt like I no longer looked like a human being.

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"Do the trolls understand? Oh, I forgot, you are supposed to be trolls. If you understand, you will pretend not to understand."

There were a flood of messages in the comment area, and the questioning comments still haven't disappeared, but they have become extremely pale and powerless.

In the face of this extremely professional point of view, they had no way to refute it and could only reiterate their previous doubts.

"No matter how nice you say it, it's just strong words. Are you capable of making a movie called "Spoon Killer"? Prove whether your theory is correct, and then give me some advice!"

But this kind of provocative remarks could no longer inflame the emotions of Song Qi's fans, and only ushered in a round of ridicule.

However, Song Qi also responded: "I don't like repeating myself, and needless to say, I am constantly developing new themes and trying new structures and theories.

It just so happens that I am preparing to shoot a new science fiction horror movie, which uses the theory I mentioned. If you are interested, you are welcome to watch it when the time comes."