Interpretation of the movie "Red Light/Ability Sensor/Red Light"

Sigurd 2022-01-03 08:01:59

Interpretation of the film "Red Light/Ability Sensing/Red Light"

: The
female teacher Magaret Matheson does not believe in evil and is simply a firm materialist.
But because her son is in a vegetative state, she can't freely expect miracles in the world, and hope that people will have the afterlife or heaven.
The male student Tom Bucklay is a supernatural person, but he can't face this kind of self, so he constantly rejects himself, refuses to face and acknowledge his supernatural ability.
Silver, the master of abilities, is a liar, pretending to be a master of abilities in a more clever way to earn money.

Flow analysis:
At the beginning of the film, go to the house of the bald male Sidgwick to catch the demon.
As soon as she entered the door and smelled the rough situation of the hairdresser Traci, the female teacher showed disgust and disgust towards the hairdresser, and walked away without holding her outstretched hand, ignoring its existence.
This is because she sees a lot of such pretending things, and she doesn't bother to take care of that kind of little liar.
Then there was a strange noise in the house, and the hairdresser said in a nagging tone, "He (ghost) is a little angry today".
Tom said, "Who is angry?"
This is the main reason why non-believers are not afraid of evil. Because they heard the noise, they would not think it was haunted, but felt that someone was pushing or the cabinet was unstable.
This is an ambush that echoes the motto of the female teacher behind:
When I hear the sound of horseshoes, I don't think it is a unicorn coming, I guess it will be a horse.

Then upstairs, the bald man said: Thanks to her (hairdresser), she helped a lot (consoling the family in a way of evocation).
The female teacher said: I know she helped a lot, so when did it start?
This is a kind of irony. The implication is "Do you fart, even if it is a help, when did you start "helping/cheating money"?"

Entering the girl's room in about 4 minutes, one action detail is: seeing the cabinet crooked, the bald man went to help and closed the cabinet door.
This is an ambush, echoing the conversation between the female teacher and the little girl behind, and revealing that the little girl pushed the cabinet to make a noise.
As soon as the female teacher entered the door, she looked around in a pretentious manner. She must have seen the seemingly inconspicuous details of the
old man going to help the cabinet, plus the "two girls" and "this girl wants to be with that girl." After these conversations, the female teacher could see what was going on.

Then the hairdresser stood in a nagging posture, and began to happily invite everyone to evocation. . .
The female teacher scrutinized/enjoyed the pleasure of debunking the scam with contempt.
The vibration of the table is a trick, and Tom gave a vivid demonstration in the class behind.

Then there was the dialogue between the female teacher and the little girl, and it was revealed that the noise was caused by the little girl. She wanted to make it impossible for everyone to live in this way, and then she could be with another girl.
And it is very likely that the girl’s mother is also involved. Only bald men like this house (he mentioned many times before that the price of buying this house is very good).

At the beginning of the feature film, Da Niu Ren's silver appeared on the stage. When he appeared, he would be a private plane, a beautiful assistant, and a luxury car, which are two words: rich.
When he got off the plane, he took off his glasses, revealing a pair of blind eyes with glass flowers, which seemed to be an explanation of his blindness by the plot.
In fact, this was a foreshadowing, explaining that Master Yinzi got off the plane, took off his glasses, and looked at this long-lost Huahua world. He is pretending to be blind.

Then the class began.
Girl A asked: Are you saying that all paranormal phenomena are frauds without any exception?
Do you think "all unnatural phenomena are frauds "?
Female teacher: Actually, no, I am not. The majority simply have a natural explanation or are the result of subjective interpretation.
No. Most of these phenomena can be explained naturally, while others are subjective interpretations.
Boy B: Have you ever come across a single case that couldn't be explained?
Like the existance of an omalous ability? Have you ever
encountered the phenomenon of the existence of superpowers?
Girl A: So you are saying the existence of any kind of paranormal power is impossible? Is the existence of any kind of paranormal power is impossible
?
Female teacher: After 30 years of investigating all kinds of phenomena with the right controls in place,
I have yet to witness a single miracle
.

Then there is an old video of Master Yinzi. The metal strip inside the glass tube is bent. The host was surprised to say some scenes.
Master Yin said: Not every time, I was lucky today. In fact, every one of us can do it.
Note: Master Yinzi didn't tell a lie.
Not every time (really), I was lucky today (the trick was not seen by anyone), in fact, every one of us can do it (you can teach you tricks).

The following is the story of a dead reporter who tried to expose the scam of Master Silver.
Perhaps the reporter happened to have a heart attack, or perhaps the master of silver instigated the killer to do it.

A conversation between boys and girls in cafes. It explained that maybe the boy's mother was lost by the psychic liar, so the boy gave up his bright future to do this Sima Nan-style anti-counterfeiting and revealing research.

In this scene, the female teacher took medicine. It was an ambush, explaining that the sudden death behind her was not the master of silver using a technique to kill people.
Looking at the photo in a daze is used to express her deep feelings for the child.
After answering the phone, the spoon bends. This is what Master Yinzi instructed people to do, to put pressure on her.
This is where the silver master NB. He anticipated that the female teacher would come out to expose and criticize, so he did the work ahead of time, adding pressure to anger, intimidate, and contain the opponent.

Visiting Plant Son in the hospital to discuss life: The
female teacher said:
The reason people believe in ghosts is the same as the reason they believe in haunted houses or tunnels of light.
Because it mean that there was something after death. , The reason is that there are other existences after death.
She looked at her plant son and said: I only wish there were. I only believe that these really exist.
But I am not prepare to let my beliefs be determined by my desires or my needs.
But I am not going to allow my faith (belief in the truth) to yield to my desires and needs (hope for a paradise after death).
If David woke up now and looked in the mirror, He wouldn't even know the man was staring back at him.
He wouldn't know who I was. Don't recognize me anymore.
If I thought for one second that there was something else, I would shut off all this crap and let my son go.
As long as I have a second believe in heaven after death, I turn off this pile of junk, let my children leave .

This is the reason why she devoted herself to this kind of research:
Judging from her attitude towards these swindlers, she is absolutely unbelieving. This is her belief in the truth.
But she also looked forward to some unnatural and unexplainable phenomenon like Xianglin's babbling wife.
Then maybe she can let it go, and can let go of turning off the machine in relief and let her son leave.
It took her 30 years to find no miracle. She was afraid that after the death of her son, there would be nothing but emptiness.
Her heart was full of contradictions, unable to face the cold reality of her 30 years of experience, she had to reject herself, just like the male student Tom.
Then the female teacher told a joke about aliens, which was a mockery of that kind of bizarre event, and also expressed her helplessness in finding no miracle.

The next part was to assist the police in collecting evidence and expose a liar.
This is followed by a new TV talk show on Master Yinzi. The main point: The master pretends to be blind.

The more interesting content in the next paragraph is the female teacher discussing with Master Yinzi's assistant and other big experts in the TV program.
Tom expected every step the female teacher would take like a fairy. Not because he knows her well, but because he has supernatural powers.
In this type of debate, the female teacher is bound to lose.
Because completely negating this type of supernatural phenomenon is equivalent to cutting off a large piece of interesting topics, which is equivalent to cutting off a large piece of advertising revenue.
Therefore, economic benefits are entangled. A considerable number of big
companies do n’t really believe in that kind of weird phenomenon, but they believe it for the sake of money. At least they must not tear their faces to oppose and deny those masters who can bring a lot of advertising and ticket revenue. trace.

Then there was a long conversation between teachers and students. The core issue is "care is chaos."
Master Yinzi (through investigation) knows the situation of the female teacher, and uses her sick plant child as a topic to disturb the female teacher's emotions.
It made her doubt for a second, lost her (materialistic) self-confidence, thinking that Master Yinzi had really sensed her child's affairs.
The female teacher doesn't think that Master Yin is really supernatural, but knows that this master is very good at preparing various details before attacking the target.
The female teacher said that he is strong and we are weak. It does not mean that Master Silver is really supernatural, but that he is a very powerful mortal who is good at exploiting the weaknesses of his opponents.

Tom went to the theater to investigate Master Silver.
As soon as he was excited, the silver master noticed it, and the surrounding electrical equipment burst into flames.
On the surface, it looks like Master Yinzi has made power. In fact, it is Tom's powerful sending ability, not Master Yinzi's superior perception ability.
When the equipment was on fire, the master also looked around, not looking blind at all. The master himself didn't know what was going on.

Tom went back to school and saw the death of the female teacher. It was easy for people to think that this was the anger of the master, just like the reporter who was killed.
In fact, this is just a coincidence. As foreshadowed in the previous article, the female teacher died of a sudden illness.

Tom answered the phone and met a little bird that crashed to death. People thought it was the master of silver that had done kung fu, but in fact, it was Tom's own consciousness that had an effect.
Then he received news of the female teacher's death, furious, and then wept bitterly in frustration.
On the one hand, it is the feelings towards the female teacher, and more the feeling that I have lost hope, and I have to face my abnormal self alone.
What the incinerator burned was the body of the female teacher, and it also burned Tom's own hope.
Halfway through, the female teacher is gone. In fact, the female teacher is the supporting role, and Tom is the protagonist.

Tom still couldn't believe that he had supernatural powers.
He also suspected that the crook he had helped the police caught in the past revealed his location in the theater and the method of investigation, which the crook denied.
The liar has the same view as the female teacher, who thinks Master Yinzi is a mortal with superb planning ability.

Tom followed Master Yinzi's motorcade, found the whereabouts of Master Yinzi's female assistant, and found a stronghold of the Master.
I didn't understand this paragraph, including a black woman who nearly hit him on the road and spit at him.
However, after slamming the brakes, the car's radio suddenly turned on, which was caused by Tom's supernatural power.

At 2 in the morning, Tom woke up from a nightmare. It was he who sensed that Yinzi himself or Yinzi sent someone to deal with him.
Upon returning home, Yinzi had already sent someone to make some arrangements and arrangements. The technique was the same, exerting tremendous pressure on the opponent.
It is expected (prompted) that he will participate in the appraisal meeting.

The next shot is a lot of SB onlookers grumbling.
After Master Yinzi made enough preparations, gathered enough atmosphere, and gained enough popularity, he began to conduct his appraisal meeting.
This is the challenge of clever tricks to the scientific community.
But the previous article has already laid the groundwork. The person in charge of the scientific side, that little ugly man is actually relatively poor in recognizing this type of high-level deception.
The liar can fool him by simply using the reflections of his glasses, and Master Yinzi is just a piece of cake to deal with him.
Master Yinzi chose him to host this appraisal meeting. It was carefully arranged and determined to be won.
As soon as the silver master came, after a few words of greeting, he said that the boy was also present. On the one hand, he expected and urged the boys to come, on the other hand, he saw it.
Then he touched Tom's face with his hand, wanting to know how the man grew up. This is a deception technique that helps convince people that he is blind.

At the beginning of the test, I need to check the hands of the master of silver. One detail is that silver said to be careful when picking up my watch. Please don't touch the hands of the watch to avoid mistaken time.
The watch door of the watch used by the blind is movable and can be opened, so the blind can know the time by touching it.
This is a foreshadowing, because Master Yinzi needs to use precise time in a subsequent scam in order to cooperate with his assistant to demonstrate the so-called telepathy.
As soon as the test started, the lights in the laboratory began to flash a few times, and then the master began to work on the camera.
In fact, it's like what Tom said to the girls: the core problem of taking a rabbit out of the hat and putting one in when others don't see it.
Master Yinzi draws everyone's attention through the control of the lights, and he can manipulate the camera himself, and then manipulate the camera under everyone's gaze is just a mystical performance.

A video describing the various tests accepted by Master Yinzi.
He didn't get the digital camera, he got the instant photography. I didn't manage to bend the spoon in the air, but I managed it directly with my hands. There is also a demonstration of pushing water through the air.
What the narrator said was relatively objective and more in line with scientific principles.
In other words, some of the content was not completed, and the ones that were completed could not be given a reasonable explanation.

Tom found an assistant in class to analyze the video materials in the appraisal meeting.
Tom was very excited and made the test equipment fire everywhere. It is his supernatural power that is going wild.
The assistant was very confused when seeing the abnormality of these devices, but from Tom's reaction, he had already begun to take offense.
He has become accustomed to the bird that crashed to death on the glass window.
At the end of the conversation, Tom said emotionally:
Do you know I know this?
Because telepathy dose not exist!
Because nobody has special powers!
No. The protocol, in theory, is sound. It's just that Silver has found a way of breaching it.
Okay, don't look for radio transmitters, Because the booths work as Faraday chambers.
I've checked them. They are isolated.
Ben, you have got 4 and half hours of footage they are from seven cameras. That is 30 hours.
What am I exactlly looking for?
An explanation, Ben, Just an explanation. Try to make it rational.
I know that telepathy does not exist at all! Because there is no such supernatural power!
The two of them transmitted the signal in a certain way. It should be a certain sound. Yin figured out a way to transmit the sound.
It must not be a radio signal, it must be some other trick.
Ben, you have to carefully check this bunch of video materials.
Ben asked: What should I look for?
Tom: A reasonable explanation! Just an explanation! Make things rational.
This is exactly what this Tom has been doing for so many years. He wanted to find an explanation that could explain the weird things that happened to him and bring things back to reason.

Tom's small universe broke out, and he went to the stronghold of Master Yinzi to kick the pavilion.
Yinzi: I am a little tired. To be or to appear to be, That is the question. It always is
. It is people's confusion about the choice between the two states.
As you can see from the previous article, Master Yinzi is a person who is very reluctant to tell lies, but what he does is fraud, high-level fraud.
It is a blatant, undisguised fraud that dares to face scientific appraisal.
A more beautiful way of deception is appear to be. He himself did not take the initiative to deceive others, but others made another interpretation of the phenomenon.
We all trying to be something we are not
.
From the perspective of storytelling, this is a pun. On the one hand, Yinzi himself has no divine power in the first place, and always pretends to have divine power.
On the other hand, it means that Tom, who was originally a man of supernatural power, always wanted to find a scientific explanation, and always wanted to prove himself to be an ordinary person.
But in terms of language, it was to warn Tom that he was wasting his efforts and trying to do things that he couldn't do.
From the time of ancient Greece to the present day,
philosophers and scholars have argued man is essentially rational.
I don't happen to agree.
If one observes and studies another person without having first syudied oneself.
How do we know whether our instruments are appropriately set?
How do we know we are reliable? We have no proof.
There is only one way of gaining access to the truth.
That's not to expect anything.
If our intentions aren't pure, we might end up creating monsters.
Please excuse me. It's getting late. For your too.
Don't worry, we'll see each other again.
People are irrational, and the necessary condition for exploring the truth is that you should not expect specific results.
(Otherwise, people will only see what they want to see) If the motivation is not pure, we will create monsters.
This is talking about himself, but also his advice and warning to Tom.
Too late means that it is too late. It is also saying that I am in the rivers and lakes, and I cannot help myself and embarked on a path of no return. Everything is too late.

The last scene.
Master Yinzi's opening remarks: Why have you come here tonight?
What are you hopping to see? What are you hopping to see?
A metaphor Man can see only what he hopping/expecting to see. Man can see only what he hopping/expecting to see.
Do you thing I should surprise you?
Do you think I should entertain you?
What are you looking at so closely?
What do you know about me?
How much do you believe?
How much do you want to believe?
I can feel your longings , your desires and I can feel your demands.
It is a deep, painful urgency of the animal forced to live in darkness which finally opens his eyes and voraciously demands light

with a howl of rage!
What is it you have come to see?
This ? (He flies, just like David Copperfield)

Intermission, student Ben still finds nothing, and Tom is hunted down in the toilet.
Master Yinzi is very powerful, not because of his divine power, but because he has done enough homework, has a dark heart, and has ruthless means.
When Tom visited him, he used a few words to seduce Tom to the theater and was discovered by the female assistant (the plot is clearly explained).
Therefore, perhaps Master Yinzi is not so thick and black, but he can't help himself. It is the devil created by that interest group (the female assistant is the representative) who has hit the black hand.
At the same time, student Ben and the girl discovered Master Yin's tricks.
This trick is not the sound Tom said, but the sight, and the master of silver is looking at the watch.

Tome couldn't see through this trick because he was deceived by Master Silver. The master wears sunglasses, touches the camera, and touches his face, making him mistakenly think that Yin Zi is blind.
He would not have thought of seeing Master Yinzi's tricks visually.
Ben and the girl did not receive much interference from these things, so they were able to observe with a pure heart.

Tom went back to the theater to kick the hall.
A scene confessed that the killer was assigned by the female assistant.
Tom: In the end I just wasn't able.
But you know that, don't you?
You can't deny yourself. You can't live in denial forever! No one can deny yourself forever.
I tried with all my strength. I tried with all my strength (still failed).
Today it will be over. Today it will be over.
For you and for me (I no longer refuse to admit that I am special, you should also stop pretending to be garlic).
I just hope we are both ready. I just hope we are both ready.

After a mess, Master Yin no longer pretended to be blind.
He started to look up and down and left and right with his eyes normally. (The lens explains very well).
He began to keep asking: How did you do it?
In fact, Master Yinzi is a thorough materialist. He doesn't believe in any unnatural forces. He thinks Tom has a higher skill.
He felt that he was inferior in fighting skills, so he put down all pretensions, all pretenses, and asked straightforwardly: How did you do it?

Tom finally made a big move and used his stunts to create a small earthquake, and he detected that he was pretending to be blind.
Then he tossed out a coin, Silver reached out his hand, took a step back, smashed his sunglasses and shattered the blind man's sign.
During Yinzi's questioning, Tom stepped out of the theater and closed the door by means of material control, as an answer to Yinzi: Laozi is the real god.
The door of the silver pretending to be a ghost was closed, and the door of Tom pretending to be normal was also closed at the same time.

Video theme: You can't deny yourself.
Be yourself!

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Extended Reading

Red Lights quotes

  • Margaret Matheson: Ever heard of Occam's Razor?

    Policeman: Occam's Razor?

    Margaret Matheson: When I hear the drumming of hooves, I don't think unicorns, I think horses.

  • Tom Buckley: Listen to me. YOU are the only guy separating the world from stupidity at this point in time, okay?