Let's take a look at the timeline of this film: not far in the past - the Gulf War in 1990, Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) is a common soldier in the Marine Corps, shot in the head On the way back to his hometown, he met Gene and Jackie ((Keira Knightley) mother and daughter; now - a mental hospital in 1993, due to being suspected of being a murder suspect but suffering from mental illness at the same time Illness, Jack was sent here for treatment; in the future - around Christmas in 2007, Jack met Jackie who had grown up on Christmas Eve, and the two lonely people began to like each other gradually. The knot of the movie is now in this time and space, It's in the narrow space of the drawer where Jack's therapy is, and it's only here that Jack can remember the past, enter the future, and change the fate of himself and those around him.
"The first time I died I was 27 years old", the film opens with such a voice-over of Jack, which seems to sink into an atmosphere of memory. However, when the movie follows Jack repeatedly in and out of the present and future time and space in the therapy drawer, the clarification of the confused memories of the past is more like an introduction to the suspense of the movie. The key turns, about the fate and psychological development of the characters, are based on the clues Jack finds and acts on in the future and present world. The news obtained in the future confirms what is going to happen now. The current decision will ultimately affect the fate of different characters in the future. This way of dealing with the causal cycle brought about by traveling through time and space has been used in many films and is not new. The unconvincing part of this film is that the traces of the design are too heavy, and people have no experience of blending and empathizing with the overall plot of the film.
At the moment when the dust settles at the end of "Fantasy Jacket", I believe that many viewers will be dissatisfied with muttering, "Why is it like this?" Just like last year's "Rebirth" packaged feelings with thriller and supernatural, this film is still taking the same route. When the winter sunshine in the film finally broke through the deserted and gloomy overall environment, it was finally discovered that what the director wanted was the importance of the warmth of love in life. It's not that such a theme cannot be established, but it goes around in a big circle and does not even consider giving a reasonable explanation for the main suspense (the much-criticized "Rebirth" has at least found the psychology of the little boy's "ghost upper body" The description above), the film's so-called description of suspense, supernatural, thriller, horror, and love in one furnace, but it has become an attempt to put on "the emperor's new clothes" for a simple plot. In the end, in order to pursue novel narrative methods and shells, the director sacrificed a more layered psychological portrayal of characters, a richer emotional drama, and a more convincing sci-fi plot. From this point of view, this film is a very representative empty work in a series of pseudo-suspense films I have seen in recent years.
The director has been trying to express the psychology of a few characters in the film, each of whom has a past or present that he cannot let go of. It is a pity that because of the reciprocation of time and space, there is no more in-depth presentation. The only thing that makes people feel is the changes of these people after the changes of the years and the imprints left by the past in their lives. The daughter and mother Jackie and Gene have finally come out of the haze of life, and Dr. Baker (Chris Christopherson) and Dr. Lawrenson (Jennifer Jason Lee) may never be. Can't forget what happened in the mental hospital that winter. Several veteran actors have done well, Jennifer Jason Leigh's Dr. Laurenson is so impressive, it's hard to believe that the pale doctor and the "Nude Cut" In The Cut are so impressive. The prostitutes are all performed by the same actor, demonstrating the plasticity of this unusual actress. In the film, it is still the youngest actor in Oscar history, Adrien Brody, who always attracts our attention. As the male protagonist, although there is not much dialogue in this role, Brody is wonderful through his terrified eyes and distorted facial expressions. The expression of Jack's helplessness and pain in the mental hospital, while in the future world with adult Jackie, he is quiet and introverted, a little shy and weak. It can be said that the film would be more empty without Brody's performance. And Keira Knightley, who is optimistic about the future of stardom, can only say that her performance is mediocre, even if it is impressive, it is not as good as the little black-haired girl who played Jackie in her childhood.
When it comes to the performance of the film's theme, "it comes naturally" is a compliment, and "Spiritual Jacket" is just the opposite, so even if there is a "suspense" of psychedelic "novelty", if the director has no intention to let the audience understand the reason, the final result It can only be a waste of time travel.
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