The article highlights the significance of ghosts as an element in apartment horror films and explores the potential social issues represented by these films.
What attracts me the most is the similarity between the living and ghosts when face with loneliness and isolation. Ghosts are usually only seen by a specific group of people and can only move within a certain range or through several media, which is the loneliness of ghosts. In addition, due to city redevelopment and modern transition, humans are controlled by the pressure multidimensionally and are forced to experience loneliness. When the building structure is isolated by temporary walls, and people are locked inside their rooms, they are hard to form a sustainable relationship and create personalized traces on the space. In other words, these people are separated from the world and resemble dispossessed ghosts in terms of weak connection with society and the world. It is a common phenomenon in society. Everyone is a ghost, continuing wandering.
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You have incorporated architectural components when trying to explain how the space supports the narrative of the film and creates the ambience for the ‘ghosts’. Yet, some of your interpretations may not be fully-developed, for example, why is it ‘hard for people to create relationships’ when ‘the buildings are locked by temporary walls’? Yet, your response is generally comprehensive and has showed your own reflective process.