Beware of this one today.
There is a master who, after reading his works, can be either heavy sleep or mild schizophrenia.
Taking a deep breath, he, is back:
whirlpool
Uzumaki
The poster alone is not very good.
Douban opened with a score of 8.5.
From your "Futako Sensei", Junji Ito.
If Shimizu Chong monopolizes the name of Japan's ghost film master, and Yusuke Kishi is a scary person in the novel industry, then Futako Sensei's status in the horror manga circle is undoubtedly the top 1 in popularity.
This adaptation of "Vortex" is not only one of his four novels, but also he personally participated in the dubbing (the specific character has not yet been disclosed).
IMDb went straight to 8.4, and Rotten Tomatoes maintained 100% freshness and 96% good results.
It is no exaggeration to say that Junji Ito's most successful film and television work in history was born.
Fans collectively excited:
How to adapt the familiar bridge? How to restore the brushstrokes of the great gods? What's new in the narrative?
Today is a carnival for horror movie lovers.
Let's get into Halloween early.
P.S. If you are a timid friend, please like it and evacuate quickly, and the nightmare will not catch up with you.
01
The shadow of a moving childhood
In 1999, "Vortex" was born, and the story takes place in the "Black Vortex Town" shrouded in a strange atmosphere.
Here, the sky, rivers, weeds, trees, and even the wind blowing are in the shape of a whirlpool.
The heroine Kiri-e hears a strange thing from her boyfriend Shuichi.
His father has recently been madly obsessed with the whirlpool.
Staring at damp snails in a gloomy alley, he began to collect various collectibles with swirls, and even his work was deserted.
And that's not all.
When he eats, he has to stir the soup into a whirlpool before drinking, and when he bathes, he has to stir the water into a whirlpool before washing.
The more outsiders don't understand.
The more Shuichi's father became obsessed.
I firmly believe that there is a wonderful power in every spiral!
Well, now the mosquito coils don't have to worry about being unsalable.
If it's just quirks, that's fine.
But someday.
When Kirie came to visit the family, she saw a scene that made her scalp tingle:
The boyfriend's father is so sick that he began to "create a whirlpool" with his body.
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The saliva is drawn, the tip of the tongue is rolling, and the eyeballs are moving at high speed, this is the "highlight moment" of the original work.
However, compared to the manga in black and white, the ingenuity of the animation lies in the vivid portrayal of the human facial structure by Junji Ito, who has a dental background, and the excellent effect of gore horror presented under the delicate brushstrokes.
As the first person to be alienated in Black Vortex Town, Shuichi's father, you must have guessed his fate.
From obsessing with whirlpools, creating whirlpools, to finally becoming whirlpools.
With the death of Shuichi's father, strange things happen in Black Vortex Town one after another.
His remains were cremated, and the smoke stained the sky in a spiral.
A swirl grows on the forehead of Kiri-e's female classmate, so big that it even swallows the eyeballs.
The back of the bullied boy is covered with scars, like the shell of a snail.
After the death of the husband, the wife falls to the other extreme:
Vortex phobia.
She was scared enough to avoid anything with a spiral.
In the end, he even cut off his own hair bun with a knife, and cut off his fingerprints and cochlea......
The whirlpool is like an invisible plague, sweeping every inch of Black Vortex into the abyss of the unknown.
Everyone in the town fell into mass hysteria, and only the only sober ones remained, Shuichi and Kiri-e.
But here's the thing.
Will they, who are also cursed, be able to escape from here?
02
Numerous heresies and a disorder
Most of the horror effects written by Mr. Erzi have no scientific laws to speak of.
What he is good at is combining curiosity hunting techniques with real life, breeding grotesques on the most simple imagery, so as to create another dimension of spiritual world and show treacherous character facets.
The most famous Tomie.
She proliferates herself by being killed, men want to get her, women want to be her.
Even if humanity is put to death, it still releases its unending desires on her.
"Puppet Family".
The family, who was too lazy to move on their own, made themselves puppets and handed over control to the servants.
In the end, he wanted to regain control of his body, but he had to become a slave of the silk thread.
"Long Dreams".
A man who can live in a dream for a long time or even a thousand years has only a few hours in reality.
His ending is to be drained by the dream, realize the reversal of yin and yang, and stay in the eternal dream.
In the eyes of Mr. Erzi, the terrifying picture is always the carrier of emotions and philosophical thoughts.
Those characters are dense, distorted, torn.
It not only props up the corner of the dome of Japanese horror, but also proves the biological nature of human beings who cannot be castrated.
Lovecraft, the creator of "Cthulhu Literature", once said: Fear is the most primitive emotion.
This instinct, which can neither learn nor quit, is hidden in every inadvertent crevice of life, as if it will jump out at any time, and scare your spirit.
In "Vortex", there is not even a specific ghost or ghost from head to toe.
But that fear is so deep in everyone's life, that it is too everyday and even more powerless to resist.
Vortex, a geometric figure native to nature.
The DNA model learned in class, the ball head on the back of a woman's head, the small worms curled up, the water stains of the rain, and the turning lights in the hair salon......
The school and home that everyone is familiar with, and it will become scary if you don't know when it starts.
The residents of Black Vortex Town are gradually becoming numb because the people around them may be alienated at any time.
We watched the fire from the other side, watching everything become slaves to the whirlpool, but we couldn't do anything.
So here's the question:
Whirlpool.
What kind of existence is it?
Unlike the original comics, which are divided into several subsections, by telling the single-line stories of the characters, they are spliced into a complete "Black Vortex Town Strange Tale".
The animation team adopts a multi-line interspersed narrative method, and tries to integrate the narrative of a feature-length comic into each episode of 20 minutes of instant noodles.
In this arrangement, each character who is differentiated by the vortex forms a point-to-point echo.
For example, girls who rely on whirlpools to attract men, because they enjoy the feeling of being heartthrobs too much, end up being swallowed by their own whirlpools.
And another girl who grew swirling hair because of jealousy of Kiri-e.,Thus exhausting her physical energy and dying.。
For them, the whirlpool alludes to the irony of jealousy and vanity.
and was obsessed with the whirlpool but couldn't, and finally lost himself and was willing to become the father of Xiuyi in the whirlpool;
Or in the manga (the anime has not yet been mentioned), Kiri-e's father, who is complacent because he accidentally burned a whirlpool out of corpse soil.,Keep digging up the grave of the dead.。
The whirlpool is the source of their creation, but it has also become synonymous with greed.
-You just said that you used another kind of clay, but what kind of clay is it?
- It can't be said, it's a secret.
You may be able to understand this.
The whirlpool represents a kind of self-drowning.
Once this inner vortex is externalized, it becomes an absurd and terrifying reality.
Sir remembered a detail in the film:
Because of the increasing number of dead people in Black Vortex Town, many graves were built on the side of the road.
So why not choose cremation?
The reason is that since Shuichi's father, as long as the people of Black Vortex Town are cremated, the smoke will form a whirlpool.
What does it mean?
This vortex is constantly amplified and spreading.
Namely.
When human nature is put into the group, it may be further alienated, showing a power that it does not have in the first place.
Black Vortex Town, does it really refer to a virtual town?
03
The horror that can't be drawn is the real horror
The finale of the story, of course, Sir will not reveal.
Although this is a story that was born 25 years ago.
But I believe that for those who have read the original book and still want to see the style of animation, or who have just entered the pit and have not yet had time to watch the master's work:
The drama "Vortex" is still worth an unforgettable night.
As a well-known horror artist, Junji Ito's works are mainly based on the style of crazy san, but if you feel his works firsthand, you will find something magical.
That is, horror is only a façade.
For example, Black Vortex Town.
The school here is full of school bullying, and the family of origin has a derelict father;
Women take pride in exuding charm and play with feelings, while men fail to courtship and voluntarily get hit and die;
People hate each other because of poverty, and the whole town is filled with chaos and chaos.
But really?
Throughout "Uzumaki" (including the original book), you will find that Junji Ito's landing point is never just a depiction of strange phenomena.
He will always leave the most important brushstrokes to love, like the sunshine through the cracks of the abyss.
Before Black Vortex Town went to self-destruction, there was such a touching scene.
Teenage boys and girls who love each other are forced to separate because their parents do not agree.
But what about in the end?
When everyone was accelerating their alienation, they had witnessed the mating of two snakes.
Shuangshuang's "mutation" has become a seemingly weird, but actually romantic form.
Snobbish adults can't understand the true feelings of immaturity, just like this vibrant town.
Similarly.
When Kiri-e and Shuichi discover that their parents' home and school are no longer a place to live.
Once full of anticipation for the future, in the end, it was just a slow half-beat despair.
In the comics, the people close to them turn into monsters one by one.
In the case of extreme scarcity of materials, the inhabitants derive more insatiable desires.
The superior roasts the meat of the inferior and eats it, eating away at its own kind like a whirlpool.
But what about Kiri-e and Shuichi?
They never gave up on each other, even in the most dangerous and disgusting situations.
If you type "whether the work is the externalization of the creator's mind" into a search engine.
The results are varied, but the answers are very novel.
Take Hayao Miyazaki, who we are most familiar with, as an example:
Although full of childlike painting style, he called his dream a "cursed dream", and the core of many of his works is also considered a tragedy by many people.
"Castle in the Sky", which was eventually abandoned, "Spirited Away", which said goodbye to the white dragon and the faceless man, or Kiki, who can no longer talk to the black cat in "The Witch Home Delivery Service".
The protagonists have to be very brave to face the cruelty of the world, even at the cost of growing up.
But what about Junji Ito?
His works are more about conveying an attitude of "the world is bad, but the little people still have each other".
Even if the end of the world comes, the most important values are still love and faith.
The girlfriend in "Fish" becomes a monster covered in gas, and her boyfriend never leaves.
"Double One", which plays tricks on others, uses spiders to scare my sister, but in fact, I am also afraid of spiders.
Even if the prank is out of control, there is still a family that tolerates him.
"Unswerving Love", in order not to hurt the boy Ryusuke who he likes, Xiaolu is willing to cut himself off.
This is Junji Ito.
Always use the most ruthless style of painting to engage in the purest love.
Even "The Vortex" that is heading for destruction.
But I believe that when the whole story is seen to the end, in the face of the destruction of Black Vortex Town, many people's first reaction is not pity, but that they feel that they have finally been liberated.
Because when an environment has become stressful and even numb.
Only a strong cataclysm can remind everyone to perceive the existence of the "present" at a certain moment.
In Sir's opinion.
The more popular the horror derivative, the less it proves that people's emotions are outlet.
For example, Halloween, when the streets of Shanghai suddenly went "crazy" last year, or Junji Ito, who became more and more popular as it became more terrifying.
There was a period of spiritual barrenness that could only be healed a little by a mass collective fanaticism.
The most terrifying thing about the so-called ghost stories is never the ghosts.
It's chilling.
It will always be those who seem normal, but in fact they have long been deformed.
"Vortex" is good, and so is Junji Ito.
The fortunate thing about these works is that no matter how far they collapse, truth, goodness and beauty will always be the same ending.
But what about other horror stories.
Where is the one who woke up from the nightmare, the light of the abyss that belongs to people?
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