Ming, the main character who gets possessed. Mantip, Noi's somewhat simpleminded brother that tries to be the peace between the 2 sisters. Her extremely manipulative sister Noi.i will explain further below Ok, so the preface on the characters in this movie, we have Nim the medium who is the shaman of Ba Yan,
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YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED AND ALSO I AM NEW TO REDDIT AND DO NOT KNOW HOW TO ENABLE THE "SPOILER"S TAB TO HIDE THE SPOILERS.Also please note, i havent completely figured out the movie but im just piecing together and would love to have help on this. MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD SO PLEASE DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED THE MOVIE YET. Watched this twice as Na Hong Jin's movies usually require a 2nd or 3rd look to fully grasp what's really going on as was the case in his masterpiece.
There definitely were moments where the stupidity of characters felt convenient to move the story forward but overall I loved the character development, cinematography and the way they brewed fear in the audience.
I don't know if anyone else feel this way too? YO, I'm all for method acting but you don't fk with that. The man dog army didn't scare me as much as when Noi stuck the joss stick upside down. Sacrilegious? Which really drove up the fear factor for me. Now, I'm don't know enough about Thai rituals but it felt inherently. The zombie possession didn't freak me out as much as when I saw the crew acting out the rituals. I think maybe this is also something the west might not fully understand. Explaining too much might feel like hand holding and it personally would have taken me out of it.Īnother point perhaps need more background is that respect for the ritual, idols of deities and ornaments is so sacred in the east. I get that it feels like lazy writing but I'm thinking it's written from the POV of the culture and for an audience who grew up in it. Like in the early scenes where a dude drank from a moonshine he made with cemetery cobra? The whys aren't as important as what it takes to get rid of it. The dead affects the fortune of the living and if you disrespect the dead, its open season for them to get you back. I think its hard for someone who didn't grow up around Asian belief to grasp that supernatural occurance just happens. Your grandmother cursed a bitch with a dead baby spirit? She opened the portal for black magic to enter the fam for generations. If you pissed on the wrong tree without "asking for permission"? Congratulations, you got an angry spirit haunting you. Thing is, in Asia, its a totally accepted reasoning. Its interesting to read some comments here needing more explanations as to why the spirits were so vindictive and "bad karma" of your ancestors isn't a good enough reason to accept a spirit going out of their way to radically fk up someone's life. Growing up Asian and around Asian culture, I felt the film did a great job playing with the fear of the various superstitions deeply rooted in the culture.
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