Trance's sequential narrative (spoiler and careful entry)

Ike 2021-12-19 08:01:03

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following narrative is in chronological order, and there are a few points that I don't understand.

1. The male protagonist (James McAvoy) is an auction house employee who loves to gamble, but his gambling luck is not good, he often loses money, and finally has to turn to a counselor for help.
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Foreshadowing: The male protagonist later mentioned his motive for committing the crime to the female protagonist and indicated that he loved gambling, and said that he had gone to see a counselor before he knew it.


2. The female lead psychologist (Rosario Dawson) found that the patient's illness was not easy to treat, so she adopted a continuous treatment plan, but this close contact caused the two to fall in love.
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Foreshadowing: Later, when the two of them went to bed, the hostess shaved her pubic hair first. When the host asked how she knew he was good, the hostess said, "You told me before (You told me)"


3. Unexpectedly, the male protagonist is not very good, he is jealous, and he likes to beat women. As a result, the heroine finally couldn't bear to break up with him, and as a result, she was almost choked to death by the hero. Since then, the seeds of revenge have been planted for the heroine.
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Foreshadowing: The male protagonist cannot extricate himself from the fantasy of the female protagonist while lying on the MRI machine. There is a passage in which he imagines himself and the female protagonist holding hands intimately in a restaurant. This restaurant is actually the place where he and the hostess had a big fight with jealousy and broke up in the real world.


4. Later, the hostess used her professional advantage to hypnotize the host, but this time it was not for him to give up Gambling, but to make him forget the heroine, forget the feelings with the heroine, but to help the heroine steal a painting to make up for the heroine's injured heart......
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foreshadowing : The female protagonist once said to him when she was ambiguous with the male second bandit leader (Vincent Cassel) that 5% of the people in the world are extremely suggestible. And the male lead is this 5%, he has been implied without knowing it. When the heroine hypnotized the four members of the bandit group, only one person, Big Black, was successfully hypnotized, and he couldn't remember what happened after waking up from the hypnosis. So although the male protagonist was hypnotized and wanted to steal the painting, he didn't know that this was because the female protagonist encouraged him during the hypnosis.


5. Later, the male protagonist went to find a Hupengouyou (the bandit leader male number two), and the male number two entangled with a few criminals and prepared to grab the picture. This is the scene described at the beginning of the movie.


6. The process that everyone has discussed is that the male lead takes the painting somewhere underground, and the male number two responds in the form of robbery. Unexpectedly, because the male protagonist was previously hypnotized and psychologically hinted by the female protagonist, he actually cropped the painting and wrapped it around his waist. But when he met the male second, the male protagonist did not hand over the empty box that was not drawn, but beat the male second with an electric baton. As a result, he was hit in the head by the male number two and fell to the ground.
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I don't quite understand the plot of the male lead hitting the male number two with an electric baton. I think the director added this somewhat unreasonable plot to give the bandit gang a reason to believe that the male protagonist has amnesia.


7. The male protagonist woke up not long after being beaten up instead of going directly to the hospital. After waking up, the hero touched his butt. Well, the painting is still there. At this time, the male protagonist walked out of the auction house, and when he was crossing the road, he received a text message from the female protagonist "bring it to me".
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Foreshadowing: The male protagonist muttered to himself "bring it to me" before being killed by the female protagonist, which should indicate that he picked up the last fragment of memory . Here, the heroine can send text messages to the heroine immediately after the robbing of the painting incident so accurately, perhaps because he has seen relevant reports in the news media.


8. The male protagonist was hit by the soy sauce woman driving because he did not look left and then right because he was crossing the road. The impact caused the male protagonist to really lose his memory, making the male protagonist forget about all the things that happened in the first few hours and thereafter until he was admitted to the hospital.


9. Although I lost my memory, I also knocked out the memory that I had forgotten when I was hypnotized. The male protagonist remembered his former girlfriend and hostess, and mistakenly identified the soy sauce woman who came to help him as the hostess. The hero remembered that the heroine hypnotized him to make him forget, and thought that the heroine deliberately drove him against him, so he madly strangled the soy sauce woman. After being strangled, he threw the soy sauce woman and the stolen painting into the trunk...
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Foreshadowing: The above process is not known to the heroine, and the heroine only knows that the bandit gang really grabbed it. I painted it, but I don’t know what happened later. During a psychological hypnosis, the male protagonist dreamed of entering a castle full of stolen ancient paintings. As a result, in the illusion, he remembered what happened before strangling the soy sauce woman, so he yelled "You made me forget!". It's a pity that the male protagonist in the illusion once again became mad and smashed the iPad that symbolized his memory.


10. Later, after the male protagonist parked the robbed red car in a parking lot, he walked down the street in a daze, and he rolled down the escalator and fell to the ground. He probably knocked his head for the third time in a day. . Then he was taken to the hospital. Since then, all the memories of the day have been forgotten.
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Foreshadowing: This paragraph appeared when the male protagonist went to see a psychological counselor for the first time later. At that time, the male protagonist recalled exactly the memory of the murdered Tibetan painting. The key that the male protagonist found in the closet through hypnosis is precisely the key to the red car.


11. The storyline of the hero after waking up from the hospital is basically the same as the narrative sequence of the movie itself. The male protagonist went to see the counselor several times and remembered little by little the memory he had missed before.


12. In the end, the heroine was hypnotized by the heroine when he was in bed with the heroine. The heroine made him feel a real sense of security by guiding the hero to get the gun, thus revealing the location of the Tibetan painting.
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Foreshadowing: The heroine said earlier that the main reason why the hero cannot recall is because of fear. He must be in an environment where he thinks he is safe and can even kill his accomplices before he can remember it.
Although this illusion is very realistic, the director still gave several reminders. For example, the football match of the Brazil team broadcast on TV has actually appeared in reality before. And when the heroine guides the hero to find the drawer, she reminds him, "It's not this, it's the one below." However, it is impossible for the heroine to tell the hero which drawer was opened at the time by phone. At the end of the illusion, the male protagonist's subconscious said through the mouth of the male number two whose head was broken in half, "you have been used by him all the time".


13. The heroine woke up from the illusion and found that the heroine had already left. It's a pity that the heroine didn't go far, but was captured by a band of robbers. This should be unexpected by the heroine. The female protagonist saw that the plan was falling apart, she secretly swallowed the bullet from the male second's gun and put it in her pocket, and then passed the bullet to the male protagonist by kissing with the male protagonist. The male protagonist used these bullets to destroy the younger brothers of the bandit gang. It's a pity that Brother Black hadn't taken off his underwear before he was shot clean by the male lead.
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I don't understand why the heroine took the bullet out of the gun.


14. In the end, the male protagonist with a gun once again madly wants to kill the second male. (Isn’t the male number two just sleeping with your ex-girlfriend, you both broke up at that time, where's the deep hatred...) The hostess couldn’t persuade her, so she drove the truck and killed the hostess in a hurry and took away the famous painting. Hidden in the arena, deep hidden merit and fame.

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Extended Reading

Trance quotes

  • [first lines]

    Simon: [auctioneer is barking prices] There is a painting, it's by Rembrandt. 'Storm On The Sea Of Galilee', it's called, and he's in it. Old Rembrandt, he's in the painting. He's in there, right in the middle of the storm, looking straight at you. But... you can't see him. And the reason you can't see him is because the painting has been stolen.

  • Elizabeth: We keep secrets from lots of people, but most of all we keep them from ourselves. And we call that forgetting.