It's actually a horror movie

Kole 2022-04-19 09:02:36

This small-budget film is similar to "The Man From Earth" and "The Night the Comet Came", both of which rely on dialogue to advance the plot in a single scene. The difference is that this is the least sci-fi or deductible. It does not provide a self-justifying system. The principle of the vacation house, the ins and outs, the true identities of the fake male and female protagonists and marriage counselors are not explained. The director used the fake male protagonist in the play to clearly tell the audience that I will not explain it to you: the aardvark in the dark room has learned to turn on and off the light, and should enjoy this magic instead of asking why. (Soul Dan, you ask people not to wonder if this is really appropriate after watching so many mysterious supernatural phenomena) So I have to open my mind to help you sort out the plot. Welcome to brainstorm together.

The marriage counselor is actually a character similar to the old man in "Chainsaw". He is rich and has a very happy life. But one day his long-loving wife suffered a misfortune (probably an accident while helping young couples to persuade them), and the younger generation's insolence towards love and marriage strongly stimulated him, so he created this resort to test those couples, their original intentions and electricity The saw door is similar to "only those who fear life deserve to have life", and here, if you don't respect love, you have to die.

So the old man built a resort on this remote land, and handed it over to his secret organization to run it. There is a full range of monitoring to control your every move, and there are invisible electronic barriers to prevent escape and outsiders from entering by mistake. This is similar to the setting of "House in the Woods". The specially made guest room is the residence of the fake male and female protagonists, which can be automatically locked as needed, which explains why the fake male and female protagonists can't get out, and the real male protagonist can't get in outside, and smashing the windows has no effect. Later, the four of them went out at the same time, all of which were controlled in real time in the monitoring room.

The old man used his identity as a marriage counselor to find and select suitable targets, collect as much information about them as possible during the conversation, and at the same time collect hair cells to create clones. (That's right, clones. This is the most reliable explanation compared to parallel time and space and real people pretending to be.) After the production is completed, brainwash them and tell them that they are real people. They are trapped in this game and have to do it. They can only go out if they lose a couple. After everything is ready, the old man introduces the hero and heroine to the resort for treatment, so the game begins. In the end, the old man judged the outcome of the game through monitoring. Whether it is the true combination, the true and false combination, or the false and false combination finally wins out, the remaining losers should die, because their social roles and relationships are perfectly replaced by another pair. Killing them is the same as killing ants, and will not cause people to disappear. And the resort will also welcome the next pair of customers, and the assembly line will start producing new fake couples, and there will be no more space to keep them in captivity.

so, good luck to the next couple!

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The One I Love quotes

  • Ethan: Well, I'm not an aardvark.

    Ethan: [fake] And *I* am not a gorilla.

  • Sophie: [fake] Are you more concerned with the experiences that me and your Ethan shared or are you more concerned with what I know about the experiences that you and my Ethan shared?