And I would rather give it another name, "Thinking Lost". The whole film uses stream of consciousness and surrealism to tell the story of how far people's thinking can go and what kind of incredible imagination can they show outside the shackles of reality. No violence, no conspiracy, no sex, no magic.
In fact, this is another "Inception", if you take off your dreamy and gorgeous clothes. In the end, it failed to reach the reputation and height of "Inception" for two reasons.
1. The title of the film. "Beautiful Girl" can't help but immediately remind people of stockings, high-heeled tube tops, and swordsmanship and thunder submachine guns. In fact, watching the movie with this kind of association is doomed to disappointment.
Second, the actor. The immaturity of the actors' acting skills makes the director's efforts to build a multi-layered thinking space and tragic consciousness wandering to naught in an instant. If a group of outstanding actors can be assembled like "Inception", what will be the fate of this movie?
Movie keyword interpretation (the following may spoil)
Deception: The director has used our habitual thinking about movies to deceive from the beginning. When we saw that the heroine was sent to a mental hospital by his stepfather, combined with the title of the film and the cover of the poster, we thought that the stepfather had a huge underworld background, and then the film ended in a crazy fight, and the stepfather was shot in the head. When I saw the dancing scene, I thought it was a brothel under the guise of a psychiatric hospital; even when I saw it at the end, it was all fantasy, I thought the heroine could be saved. But no, nothing. The bad guys are not thoroughly punished, and the heroine has gone too far along the long way of thinking fantasies and never returns. The movie came to an abrupt end, leaving behind a faint sadness and too many unknown answers.
Lost: The first world (reality) - psychiatric hospital; the second world (fantasy) - brothel; the third world (fantasy in fantasy) - big melee. The director tried his best to show what a sharp double-edged sword can become once it is divorced from reality. It presents the interlacing of time and space that reality cannot reach, and the depth of time and space that can be achieved. Reality will never be possible; and it will definitely reflect on human behavior, and the consequences cannot be predicted and controlled. And is the heroine really tragic in the end? Still not, she who will never come back, becomes what she considers a hero in the real world. After a fierce battle, she saves her companions, and then she embarks on a bus that opens up a distance, perhaps going home, perhaps to bliss. As for the real reality, it has become a fantasy world that has been abandoned forever. The extreme pain of breaking a family and dying does not end with the bad guy being punished, but is relieved by the way of thinking and behavior.
Watchmen: I haven't watched "300 Warriors", so I won't comment. Schneider's second film, "Watchmen," shocked me. Similar to this movie, behind the extremely sculpted pictures and lens language, there is always an unspeakable, but always heart-cutting sadness. "Watchmen" is under the banner of heroism, but it goes to the position of anti-heroism; "Surprise" under the banner of sexy loli violence control, but it says that the thinking is lost.
Soundtrack: The soundtrack of "Watchmen" stunned me. A large amount of carefully selected music appeared almost continuously, showing a sense of ritual and shock of a large-scale opera. "Surprise" is also inherited, and the audio-visual experience cannot be expressed in words.
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