The title is more philosophical, hehe, I don’t really understand it. I
feel that there are some things, like philosophy, art, etc., which can’t be verified, and are often full of contradictions, but feel extremely harmonious and perfect after understanding. If we don’t understand, we can live the same way. , The same ups and downs...
Back to the topic, I can't bear it, I want to discuss with you this good movie that should not be missed, because this movie is not only a great suspense, plot, and noir film, but also contains too many intriguing The place, maybe I was too suspicious and
regarded many of the director’s usual plots as hints, but those hints always lingered in my mind. The director’s hints were not revealed in the end, which left a lot of controversy. Why is the film out for a while but no one discusses it? This is why I can't stand it.
There is one more sentence in the introduction: a teenager infiltrated a high school criminal group to solve the mystery of the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend. Most of the introduction to this film is just this sentence.
When I watched the first time, until the end of the film, I thought that this film was the same as other suspense and plot films.
Even I had already seen that the woman Laura’s scheming, the gangsters The Pin and Tugger finally ended, a little bit of ABrighterSummerDay’s smell
I was also immersed in the film’s soundtrack and shots. At the beginning of the film, Emily died at the exit of the sewer (as in the poster above). This piece of music is a bit similar to Mushishi, flowing quietly, as the plot unfolds, eloquently. As weeping like a complaint, just like the protagonist Brendan’s emotional encounter, his girlfriend Emily left him, letting go. The story happened when they broke up. Three months later, Brendan lived alone and lived alone for three months, between him and Emily. There is a wall that love cannot penetrate, and Emily was killed by others. The sadness and sorrow permeated every picture, every corner, and every action. His habit of putting his hands in his pockets was cool and showed his sadness. And loneliness. In the latter part of the film, it gradually enters the plot, the rhythm is accelerated, and the strategy and crisis are coming and going. Brendan has been beaten in the process of chasing the murderer, but he has been standing up, sleeping well, and coughing up blood. There are a lot of interesting plot settings in the film, Kara's lapdog, Brendan's fight with Brad & Tugger & a killer, "Coffee and Pie, O My!", and the protagonist's lines are also very interesting.
The truth that Brendan got from the murderer was that Laura stole The Pin's Brick (drugs) for personal gain, framed Emily, and used Tugger to kill Emily. There is no evidence, and Laura is the culprit. Although the plot here is complicated, I gradually sorted it out.
However, after watching the video, I went to imdb to read some comments, and I suddenly realized that I had missed a role, Brendan’s helper, The Brain, which turned out to be The Brain is Brendan’s brain! That’s amazing! It turned out to be the same as Fight Club. Split personality! Why? Even if I don't watch the film again, I believe that the director has indeed arranged it. No one in the film has real contact with The Brain, and the only mention of The Brain is Emily and she died at the beginning. Why? In the end, the director still did not clearly indicate that Brendan and The Brain are one, but it was very hidden and the most obvious hint was only the last short shot: the blurry image of The Brain came out from behind Brendan, asked Brendan, Laura said to Brendan What happened, Brendan said it was dirty words, The Brain didn't need to know, and then the blurred image of The Brain walked from the back left of the screen to the right and entered behind Brendan, but didn't come out from behind Brendan and continue to the right. Cut it out? This left a lot of controversy!
Whether these are really hidden under the superficially complicated plot, the director does not say, it is really hard to say, maybe the director also thinks it is just like this!
The second
controversy I watched tonight 1: What did Laura finally say to Brendan? Who is the father of Emily's child?
Laura finally said to Brendan: Mother f**ker! This should not be controversial, so who is the father of Emily's child? Is it really the protagonist Brendan? The general understanding is this, and it seems reasonable, but if it is mentioned in the film But Jerr did not appear, so Mother f**ker is not only dirty words, but meaningful. And when Emily broke up with Brendan, Emily said that Brendan betrayed Jerr because of jealousy, and in the end, Laura was right Brendan said that Emily didn't want to keep the child because she didn't love the child's father, but Emily loved Brendan!
I have to talk about a few women in the film: Emily, Laura, Kara
Emily as the protagonist’s ex-girlfriend is quite pure, but she is at least affair with the three men Brendan, Tugger, and Dode. If you count Jerr, it is. Four, a lot! Tugger was used by Laura because he had an affair with Emily, and let Emily manipulated to deceive him that the father of the child was him, so Tugger killed Emily on impulse. And drug addict Dode may be really good to Emily, but the scene where he died is the only violent scene in the film, and it has a bit of violent aesthetics, ha ha. She took drugs, and her sinking broke the heart of our hero. "You are the only thing I love!" Losing Emily, Brendan lost everything.
Laura is Dangerous, a player just like the hero said. Play man! Playing with and manipulating men, attached to The Pin, the head of the gang, Tugger and Brad are her dolls with well-developed limbs and simple minds, but she did not conquer Brendan. Her love is as beautiful and dangerous as Xiao Ming’s, like a poppy. The more you destroy, the faster.
Kara is relatively poor and can only seduce freshmen. Dode seems to be one of her lapdogs. The protagonist used to be too, O My God!
(Girls in American colleges and universities are really "dangerous", why are girls in our colleges so "safe", they also have Scheming, but they have no ideas, if they have ideas, I guess they will be more "dangerous", digression, ha ha).
Controversy 2: Are Brendan and The Brain one?
I don't ask others to agree with my point of view, but if you consider Brendan and The Brain as one and watch this movie again, the feeling is different. It feels deeper into the inner world of the protagonist and feels the protagonist's loneliness!
Every conversation between Brendan and The Brain is like a person's inner thinking and inner thought struggle. Except for the last shot of the film mentioned above, at about 32 minutes, Brendan walked out of the teaching building behind The Brain. After a few words, Brendan turned to the left and then The Brain turned around. , The expression seemed to suddenly discover that there was no one behind him, as if he didn't know who was talking to just now. There are many details. For example, in a conversation between Kara and Brendan, Kara said: "Do you ever miss having someone to talk to? O yeah, you must." It is true that Brendan did not trust anyone since breaking up with Emily and was alone. Having lunch in a remote place, he is lonely!
But there are also some things that don't make sense. Brendan and The Brain seem to be acting separately, and Emily and Laura seem to have been in contact with The Brain. Maybe is
just like the few words I said at the beginning. In fact, in this film, I think that knowing whether Brendan and The Brain are one or not does not have much impact on understanding the "plot" of the whole movie. It is still excellent. Film noir (NOIR). Why does the director have to work hard to add a character from The Brain? A character that the protagonist Brendan completely trusts and has nothing to do with other characters?
This is related to "emotion" and "personality".
The Brain represents Brendan's honest, nerdy side, his sensible, analytical, and quiet side
. The Brendan in the film represents the passion, creative, brave, paranoid, and action side of
Brendan. The Brain goes to class, Brendan Go to fight.
So dirty words, The Brain doesn't need to know. There are more so.
Brendan couldn't sleep well and was haggard. There were many shots of the clock in the film. He was beaten by many people, coughed, and almost couldn't stand still. Brendan was almost a genius, calm and wise, but his experience, his loneliness, split him.
Is the sad Brendan accustomed to hands in his pockets really alone? So lonely! So lonely! Genius is divided by loneliness.
Compared with Fight Club, the protagonist being beaten is a bit like Fight Club, falling down with a punch and then getting up again, especially in the part of the parking lot with Tugger.
In addition, you can check some other posters of the film, which seems to be hinting.
The above point of view is not necessarily correct, I just want to cause controversy, because this is indeed a rare and intriguing good movie.
Of course, I must have missed a lot of details. I hope you all point it out and discuss it together. I'm used to watching other people's film reviews. I have never written so much for a movie, and I can't write it well. I really hope someone can summarize this film.
Will there be other versions of this film?
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