The main core of a horror film is to create a scenario or illusion, and ultimately to create a fear of the unknown in the audience through this scenario or illusion. If you think about it, any horror film, thriller or even ghost movie basically follows this logic.
What you don’t know is what you’re really afraid of, and what you don’t know is what really scares you. If you know everything, the unknown will seem like an everyday occurrence to you, and you won’t have any horror to guide you. On the contrary, this approach works a hundred times better.
The best horror films follow the logic that the unknown is fear. On the basis of this logic, the audience is then brought into the situation very quickly, and eventually identifies with what the protagonist is going through. Therefore, even after the end of the movie, such a horror film will still leave a deep impression on the audience. Eventually, it will become a classic. On the other hand, it will become a laughing stock.
Today’s recommended horror film is based on this fact. Then it creates a feeling of being in the audience’s shoes, and finally gives a feeling of fear to some of the audience who believe in the facts presented in the film. Of course, atheists or those who don’t believe in the facts of what happens in the film will naturally find the film too mystifying.
But is the film really that bad? It doesn’t seem to be, because the logic the film follows is still very plain, a normal logic, one that allows the unknown to take center stage. In the end, it also does its job well.
Fourth Contact is a horror film that focuses on unknown aliens, and this film uses a combination of documentation and performance to authentically recreate some of the psychic events related to aliens from previously documented sources, and then investigate and recreate real scenes based on these events in anticipation of creating a true unknown for the audience. Judging from the result, the film does a good job.
The core of the story of Fourth Kind of Contact is to explain people and things that have claimed to have had contact with aliens. And a few of the classic cases are recreated one-by-one, and then the power of judgment is left to the audience.
This is a very clever approach, because when faced with the unknown, any universally emphatic conclusion would appear to be imprecise, and the only rigor is the conclusion that there is no conclusion at all. Giving the viewer the power of judgment actually puts psychological pressure on the different viewers.
Those who agree will naturally let the film run its course, while those who disagree will laugh it off, but will not criticize the film’s director because he does not give an authoritative response to force a conclusion. This is the beauty of the film. Once we understand the logical basis of the film, let’s go back to the established facts of the film. Since time immemorial, human contact with UFOs or extraterrestrials has fallen into a number of categories, ranging from zero to five or six.
Category zero contacts speak of distant sightings, seeing aliens or UFOs from afar.
The first category is close up sightings.
The second category is touch after close visual inspection.
The third category is post-touch vision, in which humans see the alien’s face clearly.
The fourth category is about some of the phenomena in this film, where humans not only see the aliens’ faces clearly, but also make contact with them. But most of these are empty, and naturally they don’t get much recognition. But the contact itself is sworn by the person who makes the contact. This is the logical basis of the film.
The last type of contact is called the fifth type of contact, and it is based on an understanding between humans and aliens, a collision between two civilizations, and the most thorough contact between humans and aliens.
This film belongs to the fourth type of contact, and it is the one that is closest to the truth. Because of this, the film is able to sublimate on the basis of the unknown, which is fear. Imagine the moment of joy when anyone comes into contact with the truth, or the moment of joy before coming into contact with the truth. The answer is naturally the latter.
When you are about to come into contact with the truth, you will be excited, you will be afraid, you will have all kinds of emotions, and your mental activity is most active at that time. And the so-called truth is not very important in your eyes. Because the truth is known, and the moment before the contact with the truth is unknown. Therefore, the contact in this film is an unknown before the known, and this unknown is the most terrifying.
Therefore, this is the most subtle aspect of the film, because mankind is so close to touching the truth about the alien civilization, and then, on the eve of this, everything comes to a screeching halt, creating an unknown, an unknown that is the closest to the truth, and this is the core of the film that provokes discussion among people like him.
When a naked beauty stands in front of you, you may find it tasteless, but when she’s half naked, you’ll be tickled. This is the narrative logic of the film.
For a story that does not become an established fact, the film exploits the audience’s imagination to the fullest extent, as to what is the end, leaving the power to find out the truth to the audience, which has to be said to be a most clever way. Thus, this film is a good way to fulfill the proposition that “the unknown is fear”. It’s not surprising that it’s a favorite.
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