There are too many inseparable beauty in life (film review)

Randy 2021-12-11 08:01:38

From the beginning of the film, everything is weird, with sparks blazing tires, burning carriages, and stationary cars, with Henry sitting at the forefront. Then everything that seemed real was an illusion. After Henry walked away from the burning car, it meant that the curtain was opened and the story began to take place. Henry dying from the stage retreated, and then Sam suddenly fell from his dream. Waking up means that Sam was pushed into the protagonist's position. In this illusion, Henry himself plays the role of a mentally ill patient who is about to commit suicide with a gun in three days. Sam is an excellent psychologist and confidently tries to save Henry. However, the more he understands Henry, the more he feels about it. Unbelievably, Henry was able to predict the weather and hear what was about to happen. He became more and more confused. He also fell into an illusion that was irrelevant to reality. He even saw Henry's dead mother and dog, his friend for decades. , And became Henry's dead father. There are many supernatural things happening around me, and many plots of my life are constantly repeated. Even my friend is blind and suddenly I can see it. Let the psychiatrist himself start to be confused between reality and illusion.

Especially the series of unthinkable phenomena that Sam encountered. For example, Henry said that his parents are dead, but Sam played chess with Henry's father and talked with Henry's mother. When Sam went out, Lai Pull blurted out and called him Henry. Sam saw the same group of people carrying the piano in the same place twice. The same child fell and the balloon flew off. I don’t know what these things meant to express. Maybe it was to explain Sam’s His thinking started to be confused, just like when Sam went home, the camera played three times in a row that he opened the door and entered the house, and Laila greeted him and asked him what happened. I thought this movie was so boring, because I have seen similar movies before. The psychiatrist and the patient turned upside down. The doctor finally issued a desperate call for help to the patient. Sick, or the world is sick, I don't know what's real anymore. Such subjects are too common. At the beginning of watching life and death, I felt that the director was a little cryptic and confused the illusion with the truth too much.

However, the highlight of this movie lies in the last ten minutes. In the last few tens of minutes, the movie you watched for nearly two hours was overturned, and everything was as lost and shocked as waking up from a dream. I watched this movie five times, five times in two days. There are too many elements in this film's montage. In the early part, there is some style of "Mind Catcher". A psychologist tries to save a lonely and weird mental patient. The middle part of the plot embodies "Silent Lamb" and "Hide and Seek" ( A psychological thriller in the United States), in general, gives people a form of psychological film performance, mixed with some supernatural or illusion shots, so that the whole film presents the patient with schizophrenia and depression, and The doctor also had the same tendency. The movie reached its climax in the last half hour. The brave revealing of "Trumen's World" and the ending style of "Bounded Island" completely collapsed my feelings and understanding of the whole movie. My clear logic and lines of thinking disappeared with the twisted time and space on the Brooklyn Bridge before finally waking up from the dream.

The movie sounded inexplicably as the ending song to my surprise, and my brain was so dumb, and my feelings in my heart couldn't be calm after looking at the screen for a long time. This film is not related to the world or space like "Cloud Atlas" and "Inception", which are difficult to understand from the population. It has a certain logic. From the beginning to the end, the film is suspenseful, weird, and horrifying, but the sensible narrative, until the end, makes the original logic appear illusory, and the original truth becomes a lie. This movie is different from the previous plot and the logic that we usually accept. In our eyes, the world most people live in is real. When people all over the world are normal, but when you are being treated by a psychologist, you are Not normal. Even to the back end of the movie, we can habitually guess that the psychologist may also have schizophrenia. The male protagonist in "Containment Island" imagines that he is the FBI investigating a psychiatric hospital and a non-existent person, that The man is himself, but he actually guessed that Henry might be Sam's imagination, just as the hero of "Beautiful Mind" imagined a roommate of his own. But have we ever doubted the truth of this world? Still in our concept, this world must be real.

I didn't even understand what the movie wanted to express? Is it like the last psychiatrist said to Henry: If this is a dream, the world is in your dream. This movie is to express what you know, the real world of consciousness, maybe it's just illusion? I think this is also a kind of thought that the director Mark Foster wants to express, especially when Henry is about to wake up from his dream in the play, the time and space of the Brooklyn Bridge begin to appear distorted, and the whole world appears to be unreal. On the verge of collapse, but the psychiatrist who lives in this world still doesn't know anything, Henry said: You tried to save me, but it was too late, and I am about to wake up now. At this time Sam is still saying: Look around you, you are awake. But everything around is distorted. This may ridicule those who cannot see clearly in the end, and ridiculed the authenticity of the world.

Maybe many people didn't pay attention to their quarrel when Henry appeared at Sam's door in this movie. Sam said: Stop messing around! I want to know what happened? ! How do you know the future? ! I want to help you, but I need answers! If you want to commit suicide, you committed suicide long ago, why do you keep coming to me!

This is what Sam said, so I couldn't understand it until I saw this movie for the fourth time. I think this movie should be easier to understand if Cong Wei saw the head. In fact, in this movie, the world in the first two hours was Henry's dream. It was a dream before Henry's death. He kept going to Sam. He said to Sam: Because you are the only one who can save me. It shows that Sam did not give up Henry on the bridge in reality, and it also shows that in Henry's dream, only Sam can help him atone for his sins. In this film, Sam in the dream is Henry’s incarnation. In fact, the meaning of this film is the words that often appear: bad art, forgive me, going to hell, beautiful life. The whole movie has A form of dreams tells that Henry, who is dying, stays in life and death. The reason for staying is actually to preserve the "inseparable beauty in life." Even death he hopes that his life and the way of death is perfect.

I think. Whether it's life or death, dreams or reality, we all face and go through it, although it is painful, but only once. I think when I watched this movie, I felt a lot, and the one that made me most unforgettable was the sentence: There are too many unforgettable beauty in life. This can't help but remind me of my life, of the people I met in my life, of that night, of that person. . .

Thank God.

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  • Henry Letham: Do you know the Tristan Rêveur quote about bad art? It's "bad art is more tragically beautiful than good art 'cause it documents human failure."

  • Sam Foster: [gesturing to the surrounding paintings on display] Are any of these yours?

    Henry Letham: Ouch.

    Sam Foster: What?

    Henry Letham: Well... these are bad, Sam.