It’s not usual to see analysis on ghost themed movies. Horror movies are relatively underestimated since people usually treat them ways to seek excitements so the plots and techniques tend to be ignored by the audience. However, this reading lists out many symbols of ghosts may represent, especially connecting to modern people’s living condition and life style. In mega cities, senses of insecure and unfamiliar create a fear that specific to city people which gradually develop into a social notion, which thus converge into the ghosts in these movies.
I would like to share my idea over the horror movie “Dead Silence” (2007) by James Wan, in which the ghost is the spirit of an old lady who lived in her dolls. I feel like this character implies a social bias and stereotypes over people who live alone, or old single persons who do not have either children or partners. This sort of corresponds to the idea that loneliness is one of the factors driving people create these iconic ghosts.
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Jasmine Zhang Ziqi
You have provided a summary to the key ideas introduced in the reading and from there, you have extended to your personal reflection – ‘people tend to emphasize the excitement they can look for in the ghost-themed films but overlook the plots and techniques (or to be more accurate, the hidden meanings) of these films’. I appreciate your attempt to incorporate a film that you have watched as reflection, but it might be better if you can actively respond to the examples given in the reading.