The story of the film is very simple, and it shows us a bloody picture in the most direct way. The film still follows the old route of serial killer movies. Train killers commit crimes repeatedly, and the protagonist follows the killer like a tabloid reporter. But in this film, the "parties" of both sides have been greatly removed. The protagonist is uncharacteristically in the dark. Behind the whole incident, the murderer is no longer hiding half his face in front of us behind the guitar, but "aboveboard" in the car, killing people. Although this design is not innovative, it can separate this film from traditional thrillers and murder areas, thus bringing us the most direct violence. Midnight Meat Train is a European and American horror film directed by Japanese violent master Ryuhei Kitamura. According to clive barker's novel The Book of Blood, the first horror story, The Meat Train at Midnight, is adapted. Clive barker is a famous American fantasy novelist who has won many world prizes. He "pushed the horror novel to an unprecedented height". Because of his persistent exploration of the dark world, clive barker is known as the "dark philosopher".
This film tells the story of Leon, a little-known photographer in the United States, who is active in the bustling streets of new york every night in order to shoot good materials. One day, Leon was wandering in the dark downtown street as usual, and suddenly he found three youths who looked like gangsters, so he followed them to an underground garage and met a tall Asian young beauty supermodel Erica. One of the three gangsters picked up a knife and tried to rape a beautiful woman. Leon saved the beautiful woman by pointing at the camera opposite the crime scene. After that, Leon specially took the dark side of new york as the material to shoot. On this day, Leon found a man in a straight suit. Leon felt that his eyes were full of murderous look. He must be a person with a special background. Leon followed the man all the way to the subway. When there were fewer and fewer people on the subway, there was only one male retired black soldier left. A cautious scene appeared, only the man took out a small hammer with a short handle hidden in his briefcase. I hit the black man hard on the head, but fortunately, the black man found it in time, but after some fighting, the black man was killed by a bigger man with a hammer, and then his hair and nails were professionally pulled out. It turns out that he is new york's serial killer, demon butcher.
When Leon came home, his wife advised him to mind his own business and didn't believe him, but Leon was trapped in the deep darkness of new york. Leon told the police that the police didn't seem to believe it either (in fact, the police knew it). Leon followed the killer again, and the killer continued to kill. Leon filmed the murderer leaving evidence, and then he was found when he followed the murderer to the slaughterhouse to take pictures. Then Leon's girlfriend was taken away by the murderer. It turns out that Leon is the next butcher chosen by the killer. In order to save his girlfriend, Leon chased the butcher to the terminal, where he saw the people who had been plucked and washed on the train being sent underground and fed to the ghouls. Facts have proved that the butcher is in league with the train conductor, the lawyer and the police. In order to reduce the population they think is redundant in the city and prevent ghouls from going to the ground to harm the world, they slaughter several unlucky subway passengers every day for the devil to enjoy. Finally, the photographer killed the butcher, his wife was killed by the train conductor, and the photographer became the next butcher inexplicably.
The film does not win by plot, and there is no obvious clue to the motive of the train killer. It is the protagonist's psychological changes before and after various events that are the focus, which can be seen from the photos he took. In the past, the photographer's photos only showed the bottom of society, but they were sneered at by his immediate boss. When he just pointed the camera at the dark side of society, he rose to the top. However, the negative effects that followed made him suffer from this morbid society and turned him from a vegetarian to a carnivore. He can't even take some ordinary photos of his fiancee. Those dark scenes always appear before he holds up the camera lens. When he realized that he was involved, he finally became one of them. The inner meaning of this film is a hint to today's capitalist society. The monster inside is a big capitalist, and the conductor, butcher and policewoman are capitalist government organs. In order to prevent the capitalists from being too powerful and plundering all the savings or income of ordinary people, it plays a certain balancing role, limits the power of big capitalists and prevents them from being too powerful. On the one hand, some of them sacrifice the interests of the people, so that the capitalists will not eventually explode.