cursory sweep again, personal understanding as follows:
This is a film that tries to "deceive" the audience's inertia in genre movies. What is this mode of thinking? That is: Murphy is Weaver's student, and Weaver is De Niro's opponent. As a result of the hostility of the older generation, Weaver fell and Murphy decided to take revenge.
According to this inertia, De Niro really has "ability." Murphy himself also has "ability", but it is not yet known how high this ability is, but it can be roughly expected that there will be a super power showdown between him and De Niro!
The director seems to want the audience to follow this line of thought.
But the story has gone another way. The truth is: Murphy himself is the only one with superpowers, and various messages have been released to imply this, such as he guessed in advance what Weaver was going to say in a TV interview. The director does not care that the audience guesses that Murphy has superpowers early. What he really cares about is not to let the audience guess that Old De Niro is a liar! Therefore, indicator superpowers such as broken bulbs were displayed in the presence of Murphy and De Niro together, and Murphy's involuntary "superpower behavior" was used to cover up De Niro's nothing. But when all this is known, the truth is already revealed. At the time of the incident, we were misled into thinking that De Niro did it, and Murphy was panicked.
Weaver fell from a heart attack. It is a reminder to explain to her that she is taking medicine constantly on various occasions. And the time when the illness fell to the ground was "deliberately" arranged after Murphy (appearing to make you mistaken for De Niro)'s superpowers. But there is a question here. If Murphy can predict the future, why didn't he predict that Weaver was just having a heart attack instead of being tricked by De Niro?
Finally, Murphy's students found De Niro's flaw on the monitor. The design of this detail is not good. The "needle magnification" is too pediatric. It is simply a common method for casino monitoring to find second-rate fraud. If you really want to catch his flaws, you should expose how De Niro took out foreign objects from the man's abdomen. But not. Because this section was originally just to cover De Niro's identity and serve. The director also doesn't know where the "fake" is.
So this film actually encountered a problem similar to Nolan’s "Fatal Magic": it had to use magic or pseudo-superpower (that is, magic) as the background of the story, but the director could not really give the secrets of other important advanced tricks. Exposed. How to do? I had to make up my own show out of thin air. So there are twins, the curved bridge under the floor...Think about it carefully. In fact, there is no magician performing these things at all. They are just like the watch hands of this film. They belong to the "temporary professional subjects" especially for the film. ".
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