It's time to talk about the proposition of life and death. Going to death generously, to put it lightly, none of us have ever died, how do we know how we would really react when faced with the overwhelming hand of death? Life doesn't belong to you anymore at this time. Even if you fight, you cry and you are facing collapse, all you can do is buy a little more time for the pain. In the film, the protagonist is repeatedly suggested that "you are dead", a woman who can read palmistry, a doctor, and so on. So why does he still struggle? Death is easier said than done. A person's life is tangled and intertwined, and once caught, it is difficult to withdraw. Even though most of his life is just a dream, but if the dream is real and warm, it doesn't hurt to fall into it. Every peace was broken by death, and every death he pulled himself back into peace. The first is the first death, the real death. On the battlefield, he was stabbed by a fat teammate, but he suddenly woke up in the tram, as if he fell asleep on the tram home from work one day. Like a dream. Then, because of fever, my girlfriend was placed in a bathtub full of ice and almost froze to death. After struggling to wake up, I realized that the window was not closed and I woke up. I told my wife how terrible I was dreaming of living with another woman. While whispering intimately, the youngest son ran over to make trouble and asked Dad to cover me with a quilt. At this time, the elder brother didn’t sleep, and clamored for tomorrow’s pocket money. The other little guy said, "Dad, I love you." He went back and continued. Sleeping, when you wake up but lying in the bathtub, are you regaining your life or sinking into a nightmare? His eyes were filled with despair. Which of these two is a dream? In fact, both are just dreams. In addition, he was sent to the hospital with a back injury. After being unconscious, he was pushed down to a horrible place like hell. With broken limbs, distorted body, and sluggish expression, it was discovered that it was his girlfriend who had undergone the operation. Stabbed into his head by a long needle, he struggled and woke up on the other side, with his wife and two children beside him. His little child had died before the war. Just when he thought he was at peace again, he heard a word in his ear, "It's a dream." Is his resistance to death meant to get rid of his girlfriend's nightmare, or does he want to keep his wife's tenderness? Finally, he was finally willing to let everything go, because the massage master said, "If you are afraid of death and want to stop. You will see the devil take your life. If you can be calm, the devil becomes an angel. , And save you. "The tuina teacher seems to be the person he trusts most. The youngest son was led to heaven, through this Jacob's ladder.
Watching the first half of this film, I was completely plunged into a staggered dream like the protagonist, maybe because I was too deep into the movie. The dreams of deja vu, and the panic awakening again and again, have affected every nerve in me. There are scenes of nervousness such as being chased by a train and fighting people in the car, scenes of walking, sleeping, and talking in a muddle-headed manner, and scenes of dark scenes full of severed limbs. It is difficult to simply define it as a feature film, a war film, a suspense film, a horror film, and so on. During the viewing process, I had meticulously grasped every clue, but I was still confused. It was not until the later biologists said that they were used by the army as experimental subjects of the "ladder", and I started to have a little idea. However, at the end of the film, all the chaotic and hopeless images were rudely ended. His half-life dream turned out to be only the dying Nanke Yimeng. He died of a knife from his comrade-in-arms after the action of the "ladder" drug. In the middle, he was in a coma on the grass, was discovered by the army, and was transported to a helicopter. This short period of time was the second half of his life in his dream. But this ending is the best. The protagonist is finally willing to put aside his fear and nostalgia, and is led to heaven by his youngest son. This is Jacob's Ladder, which sparkles in the biblical allusion and leads people to heaven.
Scientists say that all people and everything in dreams are embodied, and prototypes can be found in reality. Then I guess that the protagonist’s chaotic and strange second half of his life may be the result of the action of the "ladder" drug. . What is the drug? Drugs do not control people, but only awaken certain impulses of people's behavior and amplify them. The drug amplifies the protagonist's pain, so that everything in the dream is so suppressed and distorted. Although anti-war thinking is the main theme, in this film, it is always just the ingredients. Perhaps, the film accuses war through a deeper level: war not only brings death, but also brings endless pain between life and death.
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