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also initially felt that the film was about the past and present. But the last shot (actually, I was careless and didn't notice the same first shot) - the plane exploding high in the sky, is a reminder that it's not that simple. (The voiceover is a woman's cry)
So I watched it again, and sure enough, the truth is hidden in the front and rear cameras and the high-speed switching pictures. It was too late, so I could only pull the film like a running account:
at the beginning, it was the voice-over of the heroine, introducing Anthony and his current situation from her perspective, and pointing out the existence of the mistress. At the same time, the main scene appeared: At the airport where the third and daughters took Anthony on the plane, Anthony passed by some mentally retarded people with Down syndrome. In addition to the music in the background, there is a faint voice of a little boy.
——This is the first foreshadowing, just like the first bead of the heroine who loves to spell beads: the mentally handicapped.
It was followed by the scene where the heroine woke up and read a book called "Our Pre-Life".
——The second foreshadowing, that is, the second bead: the previous life.
A very interesting scene also appeared: in 1969, Lauren, a mentally retarded boy raised by his mother Jacqueline alone, looked at the plane flying in the sky and drew a trajectory on the glass along the traces of the plane. , and make up a drop line.
Jacqueline's decision to raise the mentally handicapped child to grow up was also revealed by the heroine's voiceover. After careful reflection, it is more like a decision by an author who has "life and death power" over the characters in the story.
The camera cuts back to the heroine, with a thoughtful look, she selects suitable beads from a box of beads and connects them into a string.
Anthony, on a business trip, wakes up in a foreign land as the church bells in 1961 mix with the alarm clock in 2011. Through the video, Xiaosan and her daughters told him that they raised a small hamster. And hamsters can "pseudo-hibernate", here is a metaphor.
As Anthony took his normal steps and hurried to work, the familiar shot of a high-altitude plane reappeared. Because Anthony was in the "safe period", the plane was also in the "safe period" and did not explode.
When Anthony was working, he saw "royal guards" in the crowd. Regarding this, through the dialogue between Anthony and the psychiatrist, we can know why there are royal guards? "After I moved out, there was wine in every two pictures..." Anthony moved out when he was a teenager, and lived with the heroine. The royal guard is the wine he and she are familiar with, not only that, "the guard "These two words have a deeper meaning for the heroine.
Female lead background voice: She and he will always be in love.
Jacqueline also said: This must be a dream, or God sent me to punish me, no matter which, it is irresistible.
In fact, this sentence is already on point. Then there is a picture: Jacqueline grabs her son's hand and brushes past the churchgoers. This scene is very similar to Anthony passing by the mentally handicapped crowd at the airport.
Female lead voice-over: Morning, noon, evening, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, grasping my dreams... stronger than life. "
Yes, dreams are stronger than life. So in the dream, the familiar scene in the picture comes again - the plane is still flying safely in the sky. The
picture was cut to two years ago, and since then, the voice-over of the heroine has temporarily stopped appearing. . And the voice-over of the male protagonist reminds the audience: "But since I have to fly around, sometimes my fate may not be up to me. The male protagonist was inexplicably anxious. When he smashed the notebook and left, the "royal guard" symbolizing the female protagonist's consciousness appeared again
. Perhaps, this is the answer to the whole movie.
I like these switching shots, and the characters correspond to each other: Temperance Club, the real encounter between Anthony and
Mistress; Lauren meets Willow in 1969; the
young heroine sees To the young Anthony
; Xiaosan greeted Anthony with a smile on his face;
Vero, with a smile on his face, threw himself on Lauren who was held by Jacqueline in her arms.
Male protagonist's voiceover: If there is a soul mate, they should be together and not separate, right? ——This sentence is the tone of the heroine. Seeing this, the audience thought that accusing men of liking the new and hating the old was still one of the inner monologues of the female protagonist who could not accept the death of the male protagonist.
The picture is cut to one year ago, is the exact date January 1, 2010? Anthony's father pointed to the old photos on the wall and said, "Travel is good for children and partners. The stories behind these photos..." Pointing out the background of the photos in the travel, it also paved the way for the penultimate shot .
- The third foreshadowing, the third bead: old photos.
The screen cuts to the heroine driving, which has caused hallucinations. After she got home, she took a lot of medicine. At first, she thought that she couldn't accept her lover's mistress, and she had a mental problem, but perhaps the correct answer should be: she couldn't accept her lover's death, so she had mental illness.
Lauren and Vero were more and more reluctant to separate, and the lost mother didn't see her son in the glass window where she often played cats and cats with her son. At this moment, Xiao San's face appeared on the glass window. This is the first time-space overlap between 2011 and 1969.
After Xiaosan and Anthony discussed marriage, the heroine's voiceover appeared: I won't let you leave me, I won't let you hurt yourself, you and I will be together for a lifetime... Grab my hand, wake up, please. "It's still an inner monologue with subtext.
The plot seems to be moving in an increasingly intense direction - Jacqueline prevents Lauren from meeting Willow - the heroine drives, the hallucination is stronger, and the back seat shows the little boy's Figure - The fierce conflict between Anthony and his daughter... The more intense, the more he seems to be immersed in this kind of living pain, the more it seems to prove that Anthony is not dead, so there is another scene of the plane flying safely in the sky. The
heroine When I woke up, there were already formed glass bead puzzles on the floor, and the pieces were stars—the star pattern on
Xiaosan’s neck. The hostess said a word to her best friend: "Now I'm going to lose it, there is only one way to survive, Either find the right reason, or I die. "The subtext is becoming more and more obvious - this is where past lives, twin flames, soul mates come from.
On January 1, 2011, the conflict between Anthony and his family escalated. Anthony went home with his daughter and Xiaosan. When Xiaosan closed the door, the "Royal Guard" was clearly reflected in the glass, and the guard appeared again, guarding Anthony's "existence".
The heroine continued to dream after smoking marijuana. In the dream, her cheeks swollen up unconsciously. This is a game that Jacqueline often played when she was kissed by her son... The heroine woke up from the nightmare and got up, and the camera cut back to the hero The shot that passed by with the mentally handicapped people, at this time the camera was pulled more clearly, showing the mentally handicapped tattoos (don’t forget that there are also many tattoos on Xiaosan’s body, this is like an element to be added to a character’s positioning, also It can be said that the past and present life of the mistress created by the heroine originated from the mentally handicapped children in the airport). It was probably because the hemp was exhausted. When the female protagonist staggered up from the bed, the camera landed on a painting. It was a female body with an invisible face struggling to be separated from her flesh, which symbolized herself. When the heroine went down the stairs, her dream continued. The camera cut to the picture of Vero's parents waving goodbye, and the camera cut to a huge picture that the heroine hung on the stairs for the audience when she went down the stairs: a few Hands are saying goodbye.
——All the switched pictures told us that the environment stimulated the heroine, and the heroine created a fantasy.
In a powerful hallucination, the female protagonist confronts the male protagonist and the mistress. In the eyes of the heroine, the male protagonist looks like a teenager - following the fantasy created by the heroine that she and he are mother and son in the previous life. At the end, she gave herself an ending, and would rather let Anthony and Xiaosan get married, and let everyone hug in love and laughter.
as long as he lives.
The real ending is in the two shots after the subtitles, the first non-spiritual shot that is not like "The Shining", in the background of the group photo of the heroine and Anthony when he was a teenager, there is an old photo, in the photo, there is a big man and two people. A child is waving at the camera. This is the source of Jacqueline, Lauren, and Vero in the heroine's imagination.
The last familiar scene that appears frequently in the film: In the distance, the plane is flying straight in the sky. Suddenly, it exploded.
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