1 ) 故事“如何讲” > 故事“是什么”
无论是imdb还是这里,只看了预告片就恶意评分的不负责任的人简直到处都是。
病毒式的宣传造势固然有些令人讨厌。而真正看了这部电影就会发现,抛开无聊的故事情节和老套的展开方式不谈,通篇你看到的都只是女主电脑屏幕(除了最后5秒)这种设定,带给观众的惊喜丝毫不逊于人们第一次看到《女巫布莱尔》的心情。
伪纪录片发展至今似乎已处于瓶颈。当观众已经不太容易被一卷“实拍”录像带吓到的时候,《Unfriended》终于打开了一个新思路。看着女主被吓到的时候单开iMessage找男友安慰、听到不懂的Police Code马上去搜索引擎查找答案、遇到无法解释的灵异事件去看相关论坛的讨论…这种实打实的代入感让人始终兴奋异常。这种设定的另一大优势就是,当你只能看到电脑屏幕的画面,你将对主角操纵电脑之外的事情一无所知。电影后段传真信情节巧妙应用了这个特点制造了悬念。
惊悚电影的故事“如何讲”,重要性不应低于故事“是什么”。《活埋》当年的成功就是个很好的例子。毕竟观众花钱看这种电影想要的主要是刺激,故事剧情大家其实不太在乎了,你让我看爽了就值回票价。
《Unfriended》作为电影本身纵然有许多问题,但至少告诉了大家,伪纪录片还是有进步创新的余地。看完电影起身离场时,回头看到其他观众脸上毫无保留的惊喜,这是观众乐意看到更多这种新玩意儿的最好证明。
2 ) Deadly Online on Skype & Facebook on Unfriended,
When a humiliating video of Fresno, California high school student Laura Barns (Heather Sossaman) is uploaded to YouTube, causing her to endure widespread mockery and ridicule, she promptly commits suicide.
A year later, her closest friend, Blaire Lily (Shelley Hennig), views a LiveLeak video of Laura's suicide - where she is seen pointing a gun to her head and shooting herself, despite nearby students begging her to stop. Blaire is then contacted over Skype by her boyfriend Mitch Roussel (Moses Jacob Storm). Both are joined by their classmates Jess Felton (Renee Olstead), Ken Smith (Jacob Wysocki), and Adam Sewell (Will Peltz). During their conversation, however, they notice a random user dubbed "billie227" in their chat, who was not invited in by any of the participants.
After several unsuccessful attempts to get rid of the stranger, the fivesome suspect a sixth classmate–Val Rommel (Courtney Halverson), whom they all despise—is pranking them. Accordingly, they invite Val to their chat. Without warning, Jess's Facebook is updated with photos of Val drinking and smoking at a party. As Val loses her temper, Jess proclaims her innocence while struggling to delete the photos, which suddenly reappear on Adam's account. After repeated threats from Billie, Val calls 911 to report online abuse and then signs off.
The fivesome discover that "billie227" was Laura Barns' Instagram account. Blaire is sent a link that reveals a photo of Laura messaging Val for her to remove the humiliating video and asking for friendship, and Val rejecting her, telling her to kill herself. Multiple Instagram users then slander Val, who is suddenly brought back into the chat, sitting motionless in her bathroom next to an open bottle of bleach. Initially thinking her camera is frozen, they discover that Val is in fact paralysed in some way as her phone is seen vibrating when Blaire attempts to call her. Val then crashes to the floor as the police arrive. At first, the friends believe she just experienced a seizure, but thereafter, based on the codes that the policemen relay to their colleagues, they deduce that Val committed suicide, most likely by being forced to drink the bleach.
Ken finally gets Billie out of their chat using anti-virus software. When Adam tries to call the police, he is warned by a mysterious voice against hanging up. Billie resurfaces with a camera view from across Ken's room. Ken walks over to have a look and freezes in horror. His webcam momentarily disconnects, and then reconnects to show him being thrown about by an unseen force and mangling his hand in a blender, before using the blades to slice his own throat, thus killing himself. Billie then displays the video that caused Laura's eventual suicide; dubbed "Leaky Laura", it shows a drunk Laura face-down on the ground near her house, barely conscious, sprawled in her menstrual blood and excrement.
Billie forces Adam, Blaire, Mitch, and Jess to play Never Have I Ever, stating that the loser of the game will die. All four friends are forced to reveal dark secrets which put them at odds with each other: Jess spread rumors that Blaire had an eating disorder, Blaire got drunk and crashed Jess's mother's car, Mitch kissed Laura soon before her death and reported Adam to the police for selling weed, Jess stole $800 from Adam, and Adam offered to trade Jess' life for his own. Soon after it is also revealed that Blaire had sex with Adam behind Mitch's back on two occasions and Adam forced their classmate Ashley Dane to get an abortion after he date raped her using roofies at a party.
Blaire and Adam suddenly receive secret messages from their printers. Worried that they are still lying behind his back, Mitch furiously demands that Blaire reveal her note to him and threatens to leave if she doesn't. Billie assures Blaire that if Mitch leaves, he will die. In a moment of panic and high stress, Blaire shows her message: "If you reveal this note, Adam will die." Adam suddenly kills himself by shooting himself in the face; as he collapses, his camera reveals his note: "If you reveal this note, Blaire will die."
Billie then asks which of the threesome defaced Laura's grave. When Blaire warns Jess against answering said question, Billie turns off all the lights in her house. Jess hides in her bathroom, while Blaire goes on Chatroulette and gets someone to call the police. Suddenly, the video feed disconnects after Jess is seen screaming and being thrown around the room by an unseen entity. Soon after, Blaire receives a Facebook notification from Jess's account. A video of Jess being fatally choked with her own electric hair-straightener appears, and is then uploaded as an Image macro, with the caption being "looks like she finally stfu".
Billie privately messages Blaire on Facebook, finally wanting her to confess who uploaded the Leaky Laura video. Blaire tries to deny any involvement from her and Mitch, but after Billie continues counting down the seconds she has to admit the truth, she confesses that Mitch did it. Without warning, Mitch grabs his own knife and stabs himself in the head, collapsing and disconnecting his video feed, leaving Blaire all alone.
As Blaire breaks down in tears, Billie - finally unveiled as Laura herself - declares her appreciation for Blaire's honesty. A desperate Blaire tries to remind Laura of their friendship when she was alive, but Laura responds by uploading another video of herself on Blaire's account. It is the same Leaky Laura video, only this time the video continues to show that Blaire was the one recording it, laughing at Laura's misfortune and treating it as a prank. With the truth finally revealed, Blaire's account is soon bombarded with hateful comments from those who denounce her for causing Laura's death. Laura tells Blaire that she wishes she could forgive her before signing off.
Blaire is left alone once again; during the silence, her bedroom door suddenly creaks open. A pair of hands slams her laptop shut before disappearing into the darkness. Blaire calls out to Laura, and without warning, Laura's vengeful spirit lashes out at Blaire, presumably killing her as the screen cuts to black.
3 ) 美国人对恐怖片的创意似乎是不竭的
美国人的恐怖电影总是能够与时俱进,我以前总以为吓人的招数就那么些了:超自然的神秘现象,神神叨叨的恐怖片反派。变来变去,无非一些细节上的修改和创意。但是,美国电影人的想象力真的是永远能给你惊喜。
本片是自《鬼影实录》开创出所谓的固定镜头监视器式的电影后再次创新出独具风格的“电脑桌面电影”,99.99%的场景没有离开现代人熟悉的电脑屏幕上的内容。所有的信息获得和恐怖气氛营造就是通过视频群聊、网络聊天工具、facebook、电子邮件、Google搜索这些软件内容的组合来达到。以前的灵异类恐怖电影,总是通过一些无法用物理理论解释的超自然现象来吓观众。但本片仅通过电脑软件的正常现象的组合来给人恐怖。几乎没有超自然现象,但是你却能深刻感受到不合常理,惊悚莫名。 比如聊天群里无法踢走的人、视频群聊里卡顿的画面、自己个人主页上莫名上传的照片和视频,社交网站上怎么都无法解除的好友等等。全都是与当下互联网社会息息相关的,全是新鲜的吓人方法。在互联网深入人们生活之前是无法在恐怖片里被展现的。
本片剧情比较简单,谴责了校园集体霸凌。具有一定的社会现实意义。
不过看本片也比较累,尤其是非英语国家的人,因为你不但要听视频聊天里的聊天内容,还得关注电脑各个角落里突然出现的消息、邮件、搜索引擎的搜索内容。(多窗口的操作系统害的)你看字幕得全屏幕的看,不是只盯着底下的语言翻译字幕。
4 ) 1
个人认为很有意思的一部作品。
首先拍摄模式很新颖,模拟一群人视频通话的录屏内容,通过一群人所联系的好友被逼自杀,不得不感叹网络暴力真的可以毁了一个人。就如同那句话“雪崩时没有一片雪花是无辜的”,大家不经意的玩笑也许早已越界,对别人来说是赤裸裸地伤害,当事情发生时,所有人选择回避和撒谎,不愿面对真相,而这个劳拉的鬼魂就给她们上了一课,所有人都是自私的,哪怕女主一开始对男朋友说有多么爱他,在倒计时中从“他什么都没做我保证”到“他什么都没做”再到“他做了”。一切的感情回归到人性的自私点上,所有的秘密昭然若揭,难以接受却又是赤裸裸的事实,一出鬼魂的复仇好戏确实让人眼前一亮。
这部电影的出发点和立意取自于抵抗网络暴力,通过鬼魂的力量将复仇展现出来,让所有害死她的人都正视自己的罪恶,从而让观众对网络暴力有了更深的认识,也许不经意的一句玩笑或者跟风就会给别人带来巨大的影响,所以,少开别人玩笑,拒绝网络暴力。
5 ) Unfriended
Refreshing way to showcase the film. Unfriended is not really a horror film as there aren't scenes that will keep you up at night, but it is a film that tries to mystify and stump you and keeps you guessing. The film understands how young people interact with computers and captures the mood and timing of all these interaction on various platforms perfectly. It is disappointing that while the film offers a series of interesting scenes and plots, it fails to explain any of them. In the end it leaves an unsatisfying taste in the mouth in an otherwise refreshing and interesting film.
6 ) 《取关》看后小槽吐!中等剧透(什么叫中等剧透。。。)
截止到目前,烂番茄(63%,80票),IMDB (6.1/10),也就是及格的水平,为啥我给了个四星呢!哼哼哼哼~ 看完本片后立马钻进对面的放映厅看了个Paul Blart: Mall Cop2 (《百货战警2》)缓解一下气氛,捋一捋吓炸了的毛以及按摩揉捏一下软了的腿。毕竟弱鸡般的我在电影院看过的恐怖电影并不多你造吧,基本能想起来的就是《笔仙》、《京城81号》还一个啥来着忘了。国内的恐怖电影为啥不让你后怕嘞?当然是因为不能有Supernatural是吧是吧。但老美这边可是不会管你这么多的,巴不得借着这些有的没的噱头反映一下这,批判一下那呢是吧。
嗖,跟着我来到影片开始前。哟,坐下的时候还在放预告片!good good good! 结果接下来十分钟我基本都是虚掩着我的眼看完的。全是PG_13啊朋友。(喂音响师你搞错没啊恐怖片的音量不要比速度与激情的声音还大啊喂),各种恐怖片元素:向爸妈求救的小朋友,向警察求救的小朋友,向上帝求救的小朋友,不相信并且说“好好陪着阴森孤寡老人啊乖爸妈两个月后就旅行回来“的智障父母,智障警察,智障邻居,地下室,阁楼,镜子,人偶,超自然现象,突然的”duang“, 大脸的特写,以及各种尖叫,等等等。呼,终于到正片了。R级!!!!!!神马你在逗我!!!!!摔!!!当下就想站起来走人啊谢谢。PG-13的预告都把我吓成这狗样儿了。此时师兄拦住欲拂袖起身的我“师妹莫怕!这R级也只竟比PG-13多些血色罢了。勿要担心~”“师兄,人家要看五十度灰那种R级~”“滚!”
故事大概讲的是一帮人:Blair(女主),密迟(女主男友),亚当(男主基友),Jess (女主闺蜜),肯(胖子,貌似是那种电脑小达人),Val (自成一派)被去世一周年的Laura报复的故事。这帮人参与了对Laura酒后不雅视频的拍摄与上传,还在上传后进行了侮辱性的攻击,结果可怜的Laura不堪舆论压力自尽了。我为什么觉得这个电影吊,它直接把女主Blair的电脑屏幕挪到电影幕布上,而且(看上去)从头到尾没有间断过。至少我的视线会习惯性的跟着鼠标,就像我自己在操作那台电脑一样。呼,幸好我的Dock在下边,yeah。
总结总结我的一些小小的乱七八糟的感触蛤朋友们,预备开始:
1, 有关网络上的负面跟风。40%定律不知道大家听说过没有”某一个虚构事件,当你在没有接触任何证据的情况下,在网络上只要看到四成的评论是带有攻击性的、侮辱性的,你便会倾向于相信这个事件的存在,并急切地给出一个负面的评价。“
好吧朋友们我承认这个40%定律是我刚编的。哎哟!谁扔的鸡蛋!你想想,好好的虚拟社交网络,突然跑出来一堆人骂你,而且这堆人还不认识你,你说说你冤不冤!详情请见中国众多明星微博。
2,生活不能太放肆淫乱。你看看,当女主因为Val和胖子的死被吓得怕怕的说”俺是好人,放俺条生路“时,我深深地感受到laura同学是个惊悚电影控。因为,她居然说”呵呵,I want to play a game.“ 这句话hin眼熟吧孩子们。游戏呢是叫什么never ever的死亡游戏,规则是:
命题为”我从来没做过XX“, 这样玩家中做过XX的就记一次。举例:
命题为”我从来没想上过头条“,这样某峰同学就被记一次。
命题有如下, Blair从未跟男友的好友亚当滚过床单,Jess从未偷过亚当(还是密迟)的钱,Jess从未撞过Blair妈妈的车啊(这个好怪是不是我听错了),密迟从未告发过亚当进局子啊,从没有人想替Jess死啊等等。哇,眼瞅着大家一个个失去理智,惨惨惨。你说说你们,肯定是Due不够多,Project不够累,Exam不够难,不然哪有让你们逍遥的功夫。还是好好学习,多种树!!有些朋友挥拳说了我就是要淫乱,我就是要精彩的人生,拒绝平淡,拒绝乏味!”喂喂LAU姐么?有的人不服想找你谈谈人生~“
3, 平时要多多积德。善哉善哉!临近片尾时,我还一度以为Laura当年和Blair是真爱:Facebook的公共主页全是她俩的照片,Laura当年发的一些照片只有Blair点赞。。我还脑洞大开以为是个温馨结局,在死亡倒数三十秒时如果Blair把Laura加回好友也许Laura就安息了。谁承想Blair才是最坏的小婊砸,Laura酒后视频就是B婊拍的。哎。可怜啊,生前所谓的闺蜜啊竟然出卖了自己。对于Laura来讲,就是杀在B身,痛在自己的心上啊。
列为看客们,你敢拍拍胸脯保证自己没说过基友、闺蜜、红颜、蓝颜、前男友、前女友、前妻、前夫、没追上的男女神、看不上的男女屌丝、上司、同事、下属、老师、同学、看门儿大爷、广场舞大妈的坏话么?这个世界并不完美,但我们是不是应该以更积极的心态来面对呢,真善美哟!当你想说一句不中听的话或做一件不那么河蟹的事情的时候,能不能深呼吸,放下怨念,多想想对方的好,然后去种一棵树呢。不仅减少了悲剧的发生,还顺便美化了环境一举两得啊朋友们。
写在最后:
有的朋友问了为什么写作风格这么不认真严肃(其实根本没人问)。我才不会承认我是因为晚上吓得睡不着觉才写这篇吐槽的哞。希望被吓到的朋友们看到我这篇一本正经的胡说八道后可以心情不那么沉重吼。电影是好看的,不然我也不会花这么久写你说是呗~
这玻璃心的鬼真怨念,好可怕啊好可怕。
虽然蠢到爆除了女主没一个角色智商在正常频道好几个桥段蠢到观众集体笑场,但是看完后走出电影院还是有一些思考,一边拍着胸脯说“怕什么我又没做过亏心事”,一边就心虚了,想到自己高中的时候也发生过类似的事好在人没死…人还是要多做好事行善积德,不要故意伤害别人徒一时爽快= =
全片最creep:Val自杀前视频卡顿的画面里,人是卡住的可是桌上的手机却在震…动……细思极恐
觉得很好看啊 美国人笑点好低
原来真是鬼啊…
常见的美国高中生为鸡毛蒜皮破事撕逼,都是作业太少闲的。不过这个表现形式挺新鲜。
水至清则无鱼,人至察则无徒。
我就是想问问,中间女主忽然跳出来的在线交友的弹窗是怎么回事。。。第三个播过去的就是她吧?我本来以为是女鬼在羞辱她,但是女主点叉的时候毫无吃惊之色,可见她本来就有账号,于是也很快想起用这个方法去找人救援。。。。=-=这样一来的话,女主真是刷新了我的三观。。。说要纯洁地守贞,其实。。。
第一次看见这样的题材和形式!探讨网络暴力的表现手法是用电脑屏幕展示,实在是太有创意了,不应该被划分进“伪纪录片”,它应该是一种新的形式。不讨论什么形式大于内容,我就是非常喜欢,这部电影触及到了内心的活跃区,反正就是非常好看!超低成本电影,用花屏来象征鬼影,而且全屏观看很有代入感!
一堆垃圾菜鸡互啄挺好的,都活该。女主好大一朵白莲花。听他们吵架脑袋疼,太吵了
一只熟悉网络技术的鬼和好朋友玩真心话大冒险的游戏。和今年看的《完美陌生人》差不多的套路。不要试图去窥视人性的阴暗面,水至清则无鱼,人至察则无徒,就算是死去的劳拉也一样啊,这样拷问别人自己不参加游戏实在太无耻了。现在大家都变鬼了,劳拉你等着在鬼界被虐吧。
这个类型又给玩出新花样了\o/ 创意满分💯
其实评价更低的,不过看到后面,感觉女主打字后又删掉的这个细节很好的展示了女主心里的挣扎,勉强给个及格吧。话说这种形式的片还是少点吧,经常出现马赛克有点接受不了
互联网改变世界,同样也改变了电影,不仅是传播方式,也包括拍摄方式。科技不断创新,电影与时俱进。唯人言可畏,人心难测,虽万古而不易,于今尤甚,猛于病毒。故君子必慎其独也。
撕逼大战hin有趣 但是只有在电脑上看才能发挥功效,这片子要是在影院看能给憋死
女主都知道是鬼了还不赶紧忏悔居然还抱有侥幸心理,卡顿花屏都是剧情,但影片开头出制片方logo的时候怎么也卡顿花屏啊
7块钱的电影票 配合这个爆米花电影还算合理 一起看的都是高中生 在边上一直瞎逼逼反而给电影加分了 超级迷你小成本 但是看得出来演员跟制作都用心 只是剧本太low 做成15分钟小短片比较好 作为电影真的有点low 学生习作feel
正义使者键盘侠。
撕逼大战太闹心了 吵死。鬼会玩
看不见的东西最恐怖 被卡屏吓尿