As I approached the end of the film, I experienced a freshness and excitement of re-understanding the film, which I thought had captured the heart of the film—a perfect "Mobius strip."
The "Möbius strip" is a fascinating and maddening phenomenon, and you can't simply and intuitively understand how it is possible. Likewise, in a time-traveling journey like a "Möbius strip," you can't understand how it's possible through ordinary linear or parallel worldviews.
It's a sci-fi movie with a unique temperament, and it starts out in a ridiculous, bizarre situation for a long time. The male protagonist is suddenly killed by a bullet in the head, suddenly and inexplicably brought back to life, suddenly and suspiciously caught in a murder case, with sudden memory loss and a "jail" (incarcerated for mental problems). prison-like mental hospital). The audience, like the protagonist, is dazed and helpless at the manipulation of fate and eagerly awaits a definite answer.
What brings us into the story is the time travel caused by the secret therapy.
In the process, the story gradually revealed another core theme - the hero's self-salvation. In one of the crossings, he recalled the murderer and the process of shooting the police, but at this time no one cared about the display of this detail, because we were all troubled by bigger doubts and hidden dangers - who caused the male protagonist not long ago After death? And what are the causes and details of death?
The brief "future trip" that influences the "now" in the film reminds me of The Butterfly Effect and inevitably produces a similar reverie of memory voids. From this, we can explain some of the suspense in the film's long and bewildering beginning: Could the memory gap of the murder process and the miraculous resurrection after a brain shot be the result of a time-travel?
Now you probably understand why I call this movie maybe (at least once I thought it was) a magical "Möbius strip," because as I imagined: the protagonist at the beginning of the film He was shot to death, and the reason why he was able to come back to life was due to the time travel in the mental hospital in the future, but the reason why he was able to get the ability to travel in the future was that he could not die in the first place (otherwise the story would end at the beginning of the movie). ). There's a maddening allure about such assumptions that you can't help yourself because you can't tell the beginning and the end of the truth.
The above is my personal interpretation of the movie "Fantasy Jacket", which may be influenced by the book "The Time Traveler's Wife" I read earlier and the "Butterfly Effect" I watched. In fact, at the time of writing, I have found that this interpretation lacks more solid factual support, and may require another over-explanation of more details of the film in order to justify it. In a sense, I had already predicated the death penalty for this review, but the core idea of the article stuck in my head and made me decide to spit it out.
(Postscript: I read "The Phantom Jacket" around October last year. As mentioned in the article, after reading it, a certain idea kept lingering in my mind. This article was probably formed at that time. I found it in the draft box today, After a little tidying up, it will be used as a supplementary review of the film.)
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