Judging from the title of this film, I basically can't guess what the content is. Even if I finished watching the film, I didn't get what I represented. So put it aside, let's start with the male protagonist's doctoral era.
The male protagonist is a certified atheist, so that his project goal at that time was to find evidence of various stages of eye evolution to overthrow the religious belief that eyes are directly created by God. The shot starts with the male protagonist Ian drunkenly participating in a messy party featuring the American Emperor. When he walked to the balcony, he found the female protagonist Sofi, who thought she was wearing suspenders and stockings with stockings on her head. During the exchange, the male protagonist said a very unpleasant remark, asking Sofi that you will not regret it the next day, and then, of course, there is no such thing. But fortunately, the male protagonist, who was studying the eyes, photographed Sofi's pupils, a very beautiful two-color mutation through hole.
The next day, a newcomer, the female No. 2 Karen, played by Brit Marling, came to the male protagonist's laboratory. Anyway, as soon as I see a focused blonde girl with fluffy hair and light makeup, I can't extricate myself. I feel that this should be the material of the male lead. But the hero is stupid, he still can't forget those charming eyes from last night, and the graceful figure who turned and left after undoing his belt. . . So the director let the male protagonist discover the commercials shot by Sofi (yes, Sofi is a model) through various mysterious logics, and then further let the male protagonist find those eyes on the subway. The scene where the male protagonist is chasing Sofi on the subway is very good, it almost feels like a youth idol film. The male protagonist first put on Sofi his own headphones and then put on Dust It Off, a very beautiful, lofty and mysterious female voice song (very nice), then followed Sofi silently and walked, and finally it was done.
The next plot is Karen's obsessive research on the evolution of the eyes, the male protagonist and Sofi's various shows of affection.
Until one day, the day when the male protagonist and Sofi got engaged, the scholar Karen called and told the male protagonist that there was a major discovery, and the male protagonist hurriedly took Sofi to the laboratory to seize the research results. No, the two girls were very embarrassed to stare at each other in the laboratory, or our Karen was educated and said to go back to take a bath first, leaving the space for the two of them for the remaining two. In the passion, the male protagonist actually got the formalin in the laboratory into his eyes, resulting in being unable to see things for 24 hours.
After that, the plot took a major turning point. When the male protagonist and Sofi returned to the old apartment, the old elevator broke down and got stuck in the middle of the two floors. The male protagonist climbed up, but Sofi didn't dare to go up, as if he had foreseen something unknown, but at the insistence of the male protagonist, she still tried to be pulled up. The elevator suddenly started, and the picture became very beautiful (only the upper body picture), Sofi jumped into the arms of the male protagonist, very happy and eager, but he had already been cut in half...
The male protagonist's day of great joy turned into a day of great sorrow, The plot also echoes the lines of the opening film Sofi describing a bird whose happiness and sadness will happen in an instant. The male protagonist collapsed, Karen took advantage of the emptiness, and it was dry firewood again. . .
Seven years later, Karen is already pregnant with the male lead's baby, but the male lead still does not forget Sofi's good sometimes, and Karen doesn't want to care about the dead. After that, the baby was born. At that time, the hospital entered the iris data of the born children into a database. The company of this database was opened by the good friend of the male protagonist. Afterwards, a research institute in London used strange reasons to invite the male protagonist's children to do experiments. The man and Karen finally find out that their child's iris is the same as that of a dead black farmer, and the farmer died when Karen was pregnant with the child.
Here, the plot begins to lean towards fantasy... The religiousness suddenly becomes stronger. And the London experiment proved that their children retained certain memories of past lives of black ranchers. The male protagonist and others were shocked by this result. People began to look for a second case of this phenomenon to prove this bizarre inference. It was finally discovered that Sofi's iris had been entered into the database three months ago in India. So the male protagonist began to rush to India to find this little girl with the same eyes as Sofi. Finally found it of course. At the end, the little girl seems to recall some things in her previous life, she never takes the elevator, and she has an unusual intimacy with the male protagonist. The film ends.
This film actually wants to describe the wonder of reincarnation through people with the same iris having the same soul and the same memory from other times. In fact, it is a very religious film and cannot be viewed as a hard science fiction.
The reason why I wanted to write a movie review was that it was really shocking after reading it. In addition, there are many close-ups of eyes throughout the article, and the director's use of mirrors is also very beautiful, which made me realize that there are actually more charms and attractions in the eyes that I have not found. The picture is impeccable, and the actresses are of high quality, so this is a good film by my standards.
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