In a trance, some scenes appeared for the first time, but they seemed familiar, and some things were obviously the first time, but they were very familiar. Maybe this world really has countless people living in their own time and space.
No. 7 Rating: 8.07
Synopsis
One night when a comet crossed the earth, eight friends meet at Xiao Li's house.
In addition to Xiao Li and her husband Mike, there are Amy (Emily Baldoni) and her boyfriend Kevin, Beth and her husband Hugh Sr., and Amir and his girlfriend Laurie.
The old friends should be very happy to get together, but a series of very strange things happened .
The first is the sudden power outage, which startled everyone.
Fortunately, Xiao Li's house prepared candles and light sticks, which made the whole atmosphere very romantic.
The outside of the house was also dark, and it seemed that there was a power outage nearby.
Old Hugh couldn't sit still because his brother was an expert on it and had told him to call him if something strange happened when the comet came.
But at this time, everyone discovered that everyone's mobile phone had no signal .
Old Hugh observed that there seemed to be a house with lights on two blocks away, and he decided to go there for help.
After the discussion, everyone agreed to let Amir and Lao Xiu go there together to take care of each other on this night when they could not see their fingers.
The remaining six people continued to sit and chat, but suddenly there was a heavy knock on the door.
The sound really startled everyone. Kevin opened the door very carefully, but found that there was no one outside the house.
Fortunately, the house was bright again. It turned out that Mike had repaired the backup generator, which relieved everyone's tension a little.
At this time, old Hugh and Amir also came back, but they looked very panicked, as if something terrible happened .
There was blood on Lao Xiu's forehead, and Amir also carried a small box in his hand, which he claimed to have brought back from the house opposite.
Although it is unclear why he did this, everyone opened the box after discussing it.
A horrible thing happened. There were pictures of the eight of them in the box , and there were disorganized numbers written on the back.
Even more bizarrely, Amir claims that his photo must have been taken tonight, because the clothes in the photo are the first time he wears...
Video Analysis
The production cost of "The Night the Comet Came" was only US$50,000 , and it took only 5 nights to shoot. It is called the most "plain" sci-fi movie. The whole film was shot with a handheld camera, and the picture shake was very severe, but that's it. The fact that a film of 2008 can get such a high evaluation directly shows the level of the screenwriter. This is a script that requires a particularly big brain hole to write.
The film has been closely related to the theme from the very beginning. The seemingly bland chat has its deep meaning, the details are very rich and hidden, and the picture freeze time is very short, so for many enthusiasts, they want to completely clarify the details of the film. For clues, you need to look at it several times before you can. I want to briefly talk about this movie from two aspects, because it involves some key points, the following content will have spoilers, it is recommended to continue reading after watching the movie.
"Schrödinger's cat" , at the beginning of the film, Lao Xiu dictated this concept to us, to the effect that there is a cat and poison in a box. There are only two possible situations for a cat, alive or dead, but these two Circumstances exist simultaneously, and it is only when we, as outside observers, open the box that we know which one is present. But if we put a variety of poisons with different effects on the cat in the box, the variable will increase, and the cat may have many different situations. The basic logic of the film comes from this.
We only need to imagine the party room as a box, the eight people in it as cats, and our audience is the external observer, and the variables set by the screenwriter for us are very large, everyone's choice, or accidents will occur Variables such as which color to choose when turning on the glow stick, the number of possible numbers generated when rolling the dice, or even Kevin's reaction when Laurie flirts with Kevin can all become variables, and the resulting probability (number of rooms) equals All variable values are multiplied together .
Therefore, we can't judge whether it is the same space-time from the color of the light stick we are holding, because this is only one of the variables. For example, after selecting the light stick, 3 parallel space-times are generated, and then the band-aid is selected to generate 2. The parallel space-time number It should be 3*2=6, and two different Band-Aid space-times may be holding the same light stick, and so on, it must be a failure for everyone to create a random box, because at the end, there are also people who roll the right number on the dice. Maybe not in the same house. In other words, if you go to the wrong house, you can't go back .
Next we want to talk about the theme of the film, "human nature", which I think is the key point of the chaos in parallel time and space. Among them, Mike is the most obvious. From the dialogue, we can see that he is a person who is not very good at drinking. After drinking too much, he may do some extreme things, so when he learns the truth, he will know that the first thing to be guarded against is It's himself.
The more obscure is the variable generated by the relationship between Kevin and Laurie. In the film, we see Laurie flirting with Kevin. Although Kevin rejected it, Beth still saw it. Beth told the matter. Amy. We imagine the worst-case scenario is that Kevin doesn't refuse, and what will Beth choose after seeing the whole process? And what will Amy choose when she finds out about it? So I think that the chaos that the director presents to us must not be the worst picture, but the most terrifying when all the worst aspects of human nature burst out .
At the end of the film, the irritable Amy was going to find the ideal time and space in her mind, for which she even knocked herself out of another time and space, but what if it was the darker Amy? Could she do something more terrifying? However, the director still does the opposite, making comparisons through the harmonious atmosphere of ideal time and space . In this time and space, we saw that Amy did not have any entanglement, and quickly agreed to Kevin's request. Beth and Laurie did not bicker, and they were peaceful. If everyone in this world can be the best version of themselves , with less deceit, betrayal and impulsiveness, even if thousands of parallel time and space intersect, we chat and joke with ourselves in another time and space, and when we leave Wouldn't it be nice to add a big hug?
We always fall into a situation of conflict with our self-consciousness, and we always fall into the fantasy of various possibilities of our own life. Only by being the best version of ourselves can we enjoy life better.
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