Due to the large number of flashbacks in the film, as well as the illusion generated after hypnosis, the plot is introduced here in accordance with the narrative sequence of the film. The
hero Simon is the nurse of the auction house. One day the exhibition hall found an attack, and Simon was ordered to send a painting worth 25 million. Going to the vault, he was intercepted by Franck with a gun. Simon shocked Franck and was knocked unconscious by Franck. After Franck fled with the package, he found that the painting inside was gone.
After being discharged from the hospital, Simon lost his memory briefly, and Franck and his accomplices came to ask him the whereabouts of his paintings. They found hypnotist Elizabeth to help him restore his memory. Gradually Simon began to recover. It turned out that Simon and Franck were all in the same group. Simon was willing to gamble to owe a debt. Franck helped him pay it off but asked the partnership to steal the painting.
Simultaneously, Simon fell in love with Elizabeth, but he also had the illusion that Franck and his accomplices were going to kill him. Franck also fell in love with Elizabeth, and under the jealousy and impulse, Simon killed other accomplices and kidnapped Franck and Elizabeth to the location of the Tibetan painting.
This is Elizabeth telling the truth. It turned out that a few years ago, Simon hoped to quit gambling through hypnosis and found Elizabeth. The two fell in love, but Simon was very possessive and often violent. Elizabeth used hypnosis to make Simon forget himself and this relationship.
In the final rage, Elizabeth drove to kill Simon and rescued Franck.
When Franck wakes up, he finds himself at home. Received Elizabeth's video and drew it in her hands.
It turns out that everything was carefully arranged by Elizabeth... From the
beginning to the end, the film follows a pleasant British rhythm, and the narrative is concise and compact. When it is intense, it does not have the car chase and blasting of the Bond films, and it is not as slow as the 1950s. The story of the movie. Let you read it in one breath without worrying or impatient.
The beginning of the movie, and the most superficial story, is the gang of thieves trying to retrieve the lost paintings. An important form of expression that drives the development of the plot is hypnosis. The real heart of the film is the entanglement between an auction house nurse and a hypnotist. The main line and plot structure of the story are very similar to "Memento". The expression techniques and the handling of the scenes have the flavor of "Inception". This film can be called "Hypnosis Fragment Space", or a literal translation of "Hypnosis".
The film has as many layers as the previous two films, and the director did not focus on the division of the hierarchical structure, so there is no obvious definition between different time and space. Especially in the editing process, cross-spatial narratives often appear. The heroine Elizabeth appeared in the shadow of "Inception" when she introduced the hypnotic effect. She needed to hypnotize the hero Simon to remind him of the details that he had forgotten, which caused him to explore in his own memory space. She also said that a powerful hypnotist can tell you what you want. A woman who often appears in Simon's hypnotized world looks like his dream lover at first glance. Simon also fantasizes about traveling with her. In the end, the mystery is revealed that this is the female driver killed by Elizabeth by mistake. Similar plots also appear in In The Mechanic. The ins and outs are peeled off layer by layer like an onion, from stealing paintings, amnesia, to hypnosis, hallucinations, to jealousy in a love triangle, and finally evokes deep-seated memories. As Elizabeth said, Simon didn't "forget" the past, but hid it (memory) in a place he couldn't find in his mind through hypnosis. In the climax, Elizabeth recounts the past of the two, just like Guy Pierce in "Memento" realizes that the person in the story is himself.
If this film is interpreted as a "meta-cinima", then director Danny Boyle is the "great hypnotist", who is hypnotized by the movie audience, paralyzing the audience's psychological defense, and exploring the forgotten corners of the audience's heart while narrating . And the movie you see is the fantasy that he takes you into. The subtitles fell and walked out of the cinema, like a big dream.
The most distinctive feature of this film's photography is the extensive use of glass and mirrors. Carefully observe that almost every scene has reflections or refractions from the subject of the picture. Reflective mirrors, pools, and marble floors all reproduce the characters in the shot, creating a counter-relationship. The refracted glass doors, windows, and windshields blur the facial features of the characters, and the characters' movements are abstract paintings. The combination of the two makes the audience have an illusion in the shallow consciousness, giving people the feeling of a dream, and at the same time, it also maps out the ambivalence of the characters.
Blue is the main tone of the film, and the cold space is filled with several main scenes. And the use of large aperture and overexposure has produced a small and fresh aesthetic, which has a stronger effect on the screen image of the male and female protagonists. Blending with the Brit rock soundtrack is like a cup of blue-flavored coffee sprinkled with a little fresh caramel. The stolen painting is the fifth collaboration between
Spanish romantic painter Francisco de Goya's "Witches in the Air" director Danny Ball and Scottish screenwriter John Hodge. After the pre-shooting of the film was completed, it was stalled due to Danny Ball's need to direct the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, and post-production resumed after the Olympics. The story was originally set in New York, but because of the Olympic Games, Danny Ball had to stay in the UK, and then changed the story to the UK. The role of Vicent Cassel was originally played by Michael Fassbender, but he resigned due to scheduling conflicts, and Colin Firth was also considered. Scarlett Johansson, Zoe Saldana and French actresses Melanie Thierry and Eva Green were also considered for leading roles, but Rosario Dawson landed the role. (I'm still looking forward to Scarlett Johansson's nude appearance)
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