"Obstinence" that can't be put down - watching the movie "Passengers"

Luciano 2022-04-22 07:01:42

The teacher in English class recommended this movie, starring beautiful Anne Hathaway and handsome Patrick Wilson. Just for the looks of these two people, this movie is very interesting, not to mention its suspenseful feature film. The biggest feature of this film is that the director's grasp of the rhythm is very good. The audience of the 90-minute film will not think it is too long or too short, and the plot of each part will be arranged very well. I will explain the movie in detail below.
An air crash happened in Washington, USA. Only 5 people on the plane survived. In order to do a good job in the psychological work of these five people, Claire was arranged to do their psychological counseling. However, in the process of psychological counseling, it was revealed that the explosion of the aircraft engine caused the air crash, and then people continued to disappear. The heroine gradually realizes that all this may be a conspiracy of the airline, and arrests the survivors for her own benefit. At the same time, the heroine is still in love with another survivor, the hero, the president of a company, to help the hero get out of his psychological shadow. But with the occurrence of various strange events, the heroine also began to doubt herself, and finally she got the list of passengers in the plane crash and found her name.
To analyze this film, I will start from three aspects: actors, plot design, and conception. The actors mainly look at the performance of the starring Anne Hathaway. It is really good. At the beginning, I thought the whole film was just this kind of silly and sweet acting in the part where the doctor took over the task and flirted with the male lead, but as the plot progressed, the female The inner struggle of the protagonist becomes more and more obvious, especially in the paragraph when Claire finds her name on the passenger list of the plane crash, Anne Hathaway threw away the roster, shrieked back with her hair in her arms, and slanted by the door frame. Whether it's eyes, movements, or that incredible demeanor, full marks must be given.
In terms of plot design, it gave people a feeling of suspense from the very beginning. The male protagonist walked past the wreckage of the plane crash with a dull expression. Later, in the scene where the heroine and the hero meet, every survivor's room is full of strange scenes, and the hero is sitting on the hospital bed naked. These scenes are actually meaningful, implying a few Individuals have different fates, but no one thought of taking a closer look. And the landlady's appearance is also very strange. The whole scene gives people an uncomfortable feeling. It's the first time they meet, but they know everything about the heroine well. At the same time, the chat between the two is gloomy. Some of the male protagonist's strange behavior was for the sake of the female protagonist's needs in the plot. Only the dog buried a big burden later. Each patient has its own peculiar characteristics, which are actually arranged. In terms of lens processing, there are a few close-ups of people's characters, which are very weird and leave a deep impression, and also have a loop effect at the end. The fly in the ointment may be to highlight the suspenseful atmosphere. The director deliberately reduced the role of the patient and focused on the heroine's emotional line. Although the viewing ability has improved, some audiences who are not very focused are easy to understand. After a short period of distraction, I couldn't understand it later, and there are many posts on the Internet that said I didn't understand it). In the later part of the retrospective, the expressiveness of both the picture and the soundtrack was a little bit worse, so the shock was much smaller. At the end, the sister and brother-in-law who have been mentioned constantly from the beginning finally appeared, just to show the secondary line of the heroine's feelings, but it was a bit of a surprise to be played by Anne Hathaway herself, and it officially indicated that the heroine was dead.
In terms of conception, the epiphany at the end was that the whole plot took a turn for the worse, so many people didn't understand it. In fact, in the scene at the train station, the director has explained it very clearly. The actor was passed by the train through his body. He knew that he was dead. The heroine was blocked by the train on the other track and did not see it. This is just a metaphor for the fact that the heroine is dead, and she really doesn't know it. At the end, the heroine stepped onto the sailboat, knew that she had been killed in the air crash, and embraced the hero. In the next shot, the white sailboat is empty, which explains why the patients disappear one after another. The orphan disappeared after seeing his parents who fell off a cliff when he was a child, and the man with amnesia also disappeared after remembering the identity of the captain. The dog who died when the hero was six years old, the aunt and teacher who died when the heroine was a child, and many others who died before, are actually helping the deceased to discover the fact that they are dead. Only when the deceased finds out the fact that he has died can his (her) soul be freed from wandering alone in this world.
After watching the movie, I remembered something about death. Life is beautiful, and everyone hopes to experience more in this world. In some Western viewpoints, there is a saying that after death, people will live in this world as if they were alive, and only by knowing the fact that they have found themselves dead can they be relieved. I think the reason for such a statement is that life is too beautiful, and even a dying person will have such an obsession—life! Life! Life! Work hard to live, don't waste your good time complaining.
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Passengers quotes

  • [first lines]

    Claire Summers: [talking on her phone in bed] Hello. Hello... Oh, hi. Hi... No, wide-awake. What's up?

  • Claire Summers: "The truth heals." Who said that?

    Perry: I don't know. Some dead, white guy.

    Claire Summers: No. You.

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