◎ Chinese title: Ghost Forest/Hansel and Gretel

◎ English title: Hansel and Gretel

◎ Production year: 27

◎ Country: Korea

◎ Category: fantasy/ Plot

◎ dialogue language: Korean

◎ screen: simplified Chinese

◎ file format: rmvb

◎ file size: 1CD 841M

◎ video size: 8 x 432

◎ film length: 1:56:59

◎ directing. I met the girl Ying Ji (Shen Enjing), and she led me down to a beautiful house as described in a fairy tale. In the house, Ying Ji's brother Wanfu (Yin Yuanzhai), sister Zhenshun (Chen Zhixi) and her parents live. Eun-soo, who had agreed to stay only one night, set off again the next day to find his destination, but still turned back to the house. Helpless, he could only stay temporarily, but one day, the children's parents left a letter saying that they had something urgent to go out to Seoul. The strange food and the mysterious behavior of the children made Eun-soo feel more and more uneasy. I didn't know the true identity of the children until I bumped into the "mom and dad" who said that they had gone to Seoul in the attic. Eun-soo, who wanted to escape from this "home", tried every means, but he always failed. Finally, he found a fairy tale book with his own story, which contained the only way to leave this forest ...

A word comment:

In the past, the children in Japanese classic "Curse" series, Hollywood's "Rebirth" and China's "Flowers and Red Lotus" were all just adults.

◎ Behind-the-scenes production:

Hansel and Gretel, written by the Grimm brothers in Germany in the early 19th century, in which the plot of killing the mother and abusing the children is an anomaly in fairy tale literature, will be resurrected in the 21st century with Dark Fantasy. The original fairy tale is about a witch luring hungry children to a biscuit house, while this film is about children who are eager to be cared for and introducing adults who are lost in the forest into the house, hoping that adults will be able to do so from now on. The film borrows the structure of the original fairy tale, but the implication develops in a completely different trend. Director Pil-Sung Yim said that the film is to show the pain experienced by children who are not loved by adults when they grow up-expressed in a horrible image, which is in sharp contrast with selfish adults who just want to be loved when they encounter a crisis. When the innocence of children is ruthlessly destroyed by adults, the anger of the former is chilling, and the "horror" derived from this abnormal ecology is what the film wants.

Director: Pil-Sung Yim

Although the Antarctic Diary, which took five years to produce, suffered a box office failure last year, Pil-Sung Yim still has the same love for movies. Known by director Feng Junhao as "a big fat man with gentle temperament and rebellious attitude", his talent is recognized in the circle, and he personally completed the script of this film on the basis of modifying the manuscript created by Uncle Jin Min (the screenwriter for Holovitz). Pil-Sung Yim, who "wants to make a warm movie, but suffers from the lack of a good realistic theme", admits that for the sake of the market, he has automatically reduced the film's extremes, hoping that the film will be easy to understand and arouse the audience's reflection, as a cruel adult fairy tale like TheTwilightZone, and he does not deny the tragic ending. I have considered giving the script to others to direct before, but I still think that the pro-palm mirror can best express my meaning. Hansel and Gretel, which subverts the viewpoint and orientation of traditional horror movies, is a sincere work of the adults when they lose their innocence, that is, their judgment in life.

Beauty refers to Liu Chengxi

The grotesque and childlike atmosphere in the fairy tale world is terrible. Just like Neverland in PeterPan, it is a paradise for children, but it is a nightmare for adults' mysterious cycle. Liu Chengxi, a former production designer for memories of murder, old boys and Monster, is in charge of the setting planning of this film. Around the aesthetic center of "Deformed Innocence in Fairy Tales after Childlike Heart is Destroyed", all the toys loved by children who lack love are bought back at a low price, which reflects the ordinary realistic needs, and the art team modifies them themselves: dolls with lost ears, rabbits with blood on their skirts, etc. The inspiration for making the wallpaper pattern with rabbit as the main line with strong Gothic contrast comes from MauriceSendak, an American fairy tale writer. Even the food is full of children's unbridled imagination: green cake, blood-red jelly, blue soup ... all of them look gorgeous and chic at first glance, which is taken for granted by children's eyes, but the adults are more and more horrified when they see it: "When the ferocious and weird feelings penetrate into simple fairy tales, this unnatural feeling is just reflected." In order to cooperate with the overall aesthetic concept of "horror fantasy in winter" set by the director, Liu Chengxi had to complete all the scenes in cold weather. The interior and exterior of the house were built in Busan and Jeju Island respectively, and the cleanliness revealed a sense of chaos and desolation. Despite challenging the new style, Liu Chengxi emphasized that the horror of this film comes from the children themselves, and all the settings are set to better contrast the atmosphere and stimulate the actors' performances.

Photography: Ji-yong Kim

Ji-yong Kim is known as the "Golden Brand" in the Korean film circle, and almost all Korean blockbusters want to invite him as a photography director. After the famous work Sweet Life won the best cinematography in the Qinglong Award in that year, the plot of Scholar in 26 was criticized to pieces, but his exquisite photography skills still won recognition. "Innocent children's mischievous appearance and Chun Jung-myung's mental state of being afraid of words should be perfectly reflected from the perspective of dark lighting contrast and photography-Director Lin's requirements are too harsh, so I can only try my best." Modest Ji-yong Kim bluntly can't meet the director's high requirements, and how to be evaluated by the audience.

Music: Li Bingyu's

Flowers, Red Lotus, Scandal, Man of the King, Monster … If you are a loyal follower of Korean movies, you must have been infected by the emotional music in these films, and the producer of these music is Li Bingyu. Like Ji-yong Kim, he is also a frequent visitor favored by major film awards and music awards. In this film, you can enjoy his innocent and magical soundtrack.

◎ tidbits:

This film may be Chun Jung-myung's last film before his military service, so it has attracted the attention of all parties. He plays Eun-soo who strays into the home of three children in the forest in search of his lost mother, and finally becomes the only adult who can walk out of the forest. As a witness, the horror and fright of this film are also unfolded from his perspective, and his emotional acting largely determines whether the whole film can successfully scare the audience, thus conveying "the warmth in the cold" to the audience. Chun Jung-myung has long been recognized as an acting actor in the industry, but he is as desperate as any newcomer in filming. In order to shoot the scene of waking up after an unexpected coma in the film, I didn't sleep for 12 hours in a row but never showed fatigue. On the way, I carefully picked up the fallen props and sorted them out. This detail made the staff present sigh. He thought that he had an eye disease, which accounted for more than 9% of the scenes in the film, which delayed the filming process for about a week. Therefore, from the press conference held in the middle of filming to the recent interview with reporters, he still mentioned that he was sorry for this, which shows his professional attitude. Chun Jung-myung, who used to watch horror movies until he couldn't watch two-thirds of them, didn't expect that he would become attached to this film. The hero can bring the same fear and empathy to the audience, which is the key to the success of the thriller, and the acting skills brought by Chun Jung-myung, who was already "scared", are more realistic.

Pil-Sung Yim said with a smile that he was not following the trend of Fox, what are you doing? Instead, he found that Chun Jung-myung was a somewhat shy boy in a variety show: "I think his appearance is soft and he is not aggressive to children, so it is easier to interpret the emotion that Eun-soo in the film is the children's' physical and mental partner'."

In order to shoot this film, Chun Jung-myung persisted in spite of his finger injury, but admitted that he didn't like children at first, and it felt a little unnatural to get along with several children. However, as the days went on, they became closer to each other, which naturally changed their original ideas, showing that they hoped that their sister would get married and have children as soon as possible-realizing their desire to be uncles. Between filming, he was often teased by Shen Enjing and Chen Zhixi's practical jokes and played chess with Won-jae Eun. He mentioned that he was moved by the willpower of the young actor to film with the best mental outlook in the middle of the night just like adults. Chun Jung-myung's sports such as football, baseball and gymnastics with the children once enlivened the atmosphere of the studio, and people who don't know thought it was a joke. I don't know if it's really so weird, or if it's a propaganda "example card". This film, like previous horror movies, came out with the news of the hell on the set: Chun Jung-myung revealed that when shooting in Jeju Island, he vaguely saw an old man walking slowly to the beach on the balcony, and other staff members had the same experience. Both truth and falsehood are good, which gives the film a more "gloomy" atmosphere.

' Anyone can break into a dense forest ... '

Breaking into a secret in the dense forest, it exists in that corner and slowly grows and sprouts. There are more and more secrets. Some people say that secrets will always be secrets, which is actually perfect. However, there are too many imperfections in the world, which makes the perfect things look extremely dazzling.

There is a wooden house deep in the dense forest, with warm light and bright surface. My father, mother, brother, sister and family live happily together. The room is full of cute dolls and endless doughnuts and cakes. This is a paradise for children. One day, someone broke into the secret and the thing was being discovered. That is the children's dream, the beautiful fairy tales made up by the children, just as they always believe that the ending of the prince and princess is always happy. No one told them that it was just a fabricated lie, and because they were children, they had the right to fantasize about perfection. Once you break into this dense forest, it's hard to go out. This is a paradise for children, but it's a nightmare of adults' mysterious cycle. The protagonist enters their lives, witnessing the continuation of the story and the result of the matter. He tries to leave this dense forest and knows more and more things. Soon, things are really pieced together bit by bit. They are not as happy as they seem.

This house used to be an orphanage, but this paradise is actually a hell. They are kept as dogs, beating and cursing at will. There is no food to eat, and I have to endure any insults. It is completely colorless. Crying and begging for mercy is useless at all. The ugly face of the director of the orphanage makes people feel sick. Such an innocent child, how could he have such a heavy hand? Once Santa Claus said, you can get everything you imagine. Really, they did, and then these children who were eager to be cared for began to introduce the adults who were lost in the forest into the house, hoping that the adults could treat themselves as their own children from now on.

Hansel and Gretel, which was written by the brothers Grimm in Germany in the early 19th century, is a rare story in fairy tales. Now this horror film, which is also wrapped in fairy tales, is scary, but it is also very touching. It expresses the suffering of children who are not cared for by adults in a horrible way, hoping that people can better understand their hearts. Children's endurance is much weaker than that of adults, and what seems good to adults will be magnified countless times in children's hearts. Therefore, their abuse will increase infinitely. Children are actually fragile, so they want more after losing so much, so this story will happen.

' This is an innocent horror film ...' is not a traditional horror film, and it will make people cry. They should be just innocent children. Although they have no parents, they are also blessed children. Children say that we have everything here if we just imagine it.' Children's childhood should not be destroyed, and every life is beautiful. Psychologists say that if you want to destroy a person, you should first destroy his childhood. It can be seen how much attention should be paid to children's childhood. It is not difficult for them to have what they want. As long as they care more about them, they will be very happy. They should be happy.

smiles belong to children ...

P.S I think the last three children may have chosen not to fantasize, so they came out of the forest, and then they seemed to pass by Eun-soo's downstairs. (Eun-soo looked out from the balcony window, and three people passed by. Then Eun-soo saw something like a diary on the ground, opened it and found that only the last page had pictures, and the three children held hands happily. Maybe they want to tell Eun-soo that they will have a good life ~ ~ ~