现在人们的时间越来越碎片化。大部分的文学小说，基本上没人去认真读了。即便是这些小说改编的电视剧电影，两个到十个小时，人们也觉得时间太长。现在都流行在抖音和视频平台上，十分钟看一部电影。说实话，这是一个很糟糕的现象。
根据奥地利经济学的观点，生产越复杂，过程越耗时，才能拥有更好的产品。所以，需要企业家来管理投资，做那些低时间偏好的事情。这其实也好理解，越是好东西，它的时间偏好就越长，生产它的时间就越长。但资本家也需要遵循消费者的偏好。在大部分人都喜欢即时消费的情况下，生产者也不会花更多的时间去精雕细琢。这也是现如今很多影视作品，观赏性远远不如十几年，甚至二十多年前的作品。
即便当下为数不多的佳作，很多也是之前经典作品的续集、翻拍或者致敬。我这两天正好看了一部欧美经典恐怖片《凶兆》的前传，说来惭愧，难以免俗，我也是通过电影解说的视频看的。
不过，虽然同样是电影解说，有的UP主就是记流水账的套模板，什么注意“看这个男孩叫小帅，这个女孩叫小美”之类的文字。但有的UP主会非常用心制作解说节目，我选的这位是一个叫“瓦萨比抓马”的UP主，她的电影解说很棒，她经常解说一些恐怖电影，这些欧美恐怖电影很多与欧美的宗教和民俗传统相关，都是中国观众所不了解的。即使观看原片，未必能够有很好的观影感受。而这位UP主却能够非常详细地解读它背后的背景知识。而且她整部影片剪辑下来，也有将近半个小时的时长。所以说除了影片中那种一惊一吓的惊悚场景，惊悚感受少了之外，对故事情节的理解，甚至比观看原片还要好。
《凶兆》前传这部影片的故事并非全新原创，原片是一部70年代拍摄的经典恐怖片。正好我也没看过《凶兆》原片。不过既然是前传，所以没看过原片也没有问题。影片讲述的是在60年代的罗马，一位来自外地的见习修女进入一家高等级的修道院实习。这个修道在宗教博爱的表面下，却隐掩盖着黑暗的真相，还是挺受震撼的感觉。西方影视作品竟然可以这样拍摄教会。在中国近代，因为教会的传教而产生重大历史影响的教案层出不穷，比如天津教案之类，这些事件都是与天主教会和教堂的阴谋论传播所引起的。
但是和这部影片的脑洞相比，那些关于中国近代史上关于天主教堂收养婴儿，然后挖眼睛做药材之类的谣言，格局还是太小了一点。至于具体内容，明天再接着讲吧。
People have more and more fragmented time these days. Most literary fiction is hardly read anymore. Even the TV series and movies adapted from these novels, two to ten hours, people feel that the time is too long. Now it is popular to watch a movie in 10 minutes on Tiktok and video platforms. To be honest, this is a very bad phenomenon.
According to Austrian economics, the more complex the production and the more time-consuming the process, the better the product. So, you need entrepreneurs to manage investments and do things that have low time preferences. This is actually understandable, the better it is, the longer its time preference, the longer it will take to produce it. But capitalists also need to follow consumer preferences. When most people prefer instant consumption, producers do not spend more time elaborating. This is also a lot of today's film and television works, viewing far less than ten years, or even 20 years ago.
Even the few that are currently great are often sequels, remakes or nods to previous classics. I have been watching a classic European and American horror film "The Omen" prequel these two days, it is ashamed to say that it is difficult to escape the custom, I also watched through the video of the movie explanation.
However, although the same is the movie commentary, some UP the main is to keep a running account of the set template, what attention "look at the boy called small handsome, the girl called small beauty" and such words. But some UP masters are very diligent in making commentary programs. The one I chose is a UP master named "Vasabi Catching Horses". Her movie commentary is very good, and she often explains some horror movies. Many of these European and American horror movies are related to European and American religions and folk traditions, which are unknown to Chinese audiences. Even if you watch the original film, you may not have a good viewing experience. The UP Lord was able to interpret the background behind it in great detail. And her entire film, edited down, is nearly half an hour long. So in addition to the scary scene in the film, the thriller feeling is less, and the understanding of the story is even better than watching the original film.
The story of this film is not entirely original, the original film is a classic horror film made in the 1970s. And I've never seen The original Omen, either. But since it's a prequel, it's okay not to have seen the original movie. The film tells the story of an out-of-town nun who enters a prestigious convent as an intern in Rome in the 1960s. Under the surface of religious fraternity, this monastery hides the dark truth, which is still quite shocking. A Western film can shoot a church like this. In modern China, there have been an endless number of teaching plans with great historical influence due to the missionary work of the church, such as the Tianjin teaching case, which were all caused by the spread of conspiracy theories related to the Catholic Church and the church.
But compared with the imagination of the film, the rumors about the Catholic church adopting babies and gouging their eyes to make medicine in recent Chinese history are still a little small. As for the details, we'll talk about them tomorrow.
