a review of 圣痕

Mike Arrani
Mike Arrani @prometheanbound
圣痕 - 评论

Ported from a dead account Genuinely one of the most unique movies I've seen. The premise is basically "what if the Gnostics were right?" Which in itself is a horrifying scenario. It avoids your typical good/evil god/devil dichotomy, keeping you wondering what exactly is happening till the end. The horror here is not very scary in its implementation, but is potentially infinitely terrifying in its implications. In other words, it's only as scary as your imagination will allow it to be. And it leaves you with more questions than answers, which only adds to that. It's a movie that attempts to kinda shatter your religious beliefs and then leave you sitting there in the pile of debris. The grimy urban millennial aesthetics are also sick. It's a commercial movie, and visually it's more creative than 90% of the movies released in the last 20 years. Still, I wouldn't say it has any particular scenes that wowed me. The horror aspect gets under your skin, but the actual scenes that try to be scary are not. This movie is more about what's being said than what actually happens. And to get to the main point it takes a long time. It might've actually worked better as a short film.