More than eternity is your salvation

Athena 2022-09-12 23:32:44

I saw this movie on Weibo some time ago, and because it was a subject I liked, I immediately looked for resources. To be honest, it was slightly inferior to what I imagined. As a film with a suspenseful signboard, the atmosphere is slightly lacking, but it always implements humanistic care, and the plot direction is not enough to be eye-catching. In fact, the feature film is not as good as the rhythm of the trailer, just like buying a red bean pie and eating it It turned out to be a pineapple. But I have to say that the open ending is very good. It can be said that it firmly supports the theme and brings about a series of bigger things such as campus bullying and self-rescue. . The ending is enough to add another star.

To be honest, there are a lot of movies about this kind of marginalized people recently. I don’t know if it is a recent market trend. The movie is still a story of conflict between a popular girl group in an old-fashioned American TV series and a strange girl who is ignored and bullied. As the heroine reincarnates again and again on the same day, the whole picture of the event begins to be revealed. And began to awaken a little bit, saving others and saving myself.

Although the plot is old-fashioned, it can also remind people of the bullying phenomenon in reality, think of things that were unpopular and unpleasant before, and sometimes deliberately cater to others in the social background.

The process of the heroine constantly trying to escape from reincarnation is like the transformation of a black swan. At first, she was puzzled and doubted her life, she also had fears trying to escape, and she attacked like a hedgehog to vent her emotions. Until I finally found my true self, when I was a child, I would help all the horses to clean up the kind self that was left out in the cold, and I began to think about my family, friendship and love.

It can be said that finding oneself is a very difficult process. After we continue to experience continuous growth, we begin to get farther and farther from the original appearance, and that self also begins to gradually become hazy and out of reach.

In the end, the virgin protagonist sacrificed herself to save a girl's life and her painful heart, and was finally able to get out of the cycle of life and a bit of herself. The ending is open to speculation. However, the fly in the ointment is that the change of the heroine is a personal action from beginning to end, including the rescue of the unpopular girl without infecting other people or getting any help, which is slightly powerless, but it is also in line with reality.

In terms of language audition, the shots of the heroine when she wakes up every day are very similar to "Nocturnal Animals", which can well show the emotional state of the heroine at different stages; the sound effects of drums in the party are very atmospheric and suspenseful; the same In the plot of the film, different viewing experiences are created through the change of shooting angle and the deletion of lens.

On the whole, it is remarkable. It is a film in which the theme of positive energy overshadows other factors in the whole film.

Of course, after watching this film, you might as well find a time to calm down, think about what your real thoughts are, and how to spend 24 hours without regret, if only these 24 hours.

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Before I Fall quotes

  • Samantha Kingston: [Graffiti beside Samantha on the bathroom wall] Only those who attempt the absurd, achieve the impossible.

  • Samantha Kingston: Do you ever feel like you're living the same day over and over again, only like a few things being different?

    Anna Cartulo: Aw shit Samantha, you just described my whole life!