Adrian Lane is a master of American glamorous movies in the 1980s and 1990s. His works are of higher artistic value than Shamantin and Ding Duzhi, but they are still slightly shorter than the masters. He directed "Fatal Attraction", "Peachy Deal", "Infidelity", "New Lolita", etc., are widely spread and talked about by mainland movie fans.
However, "A Floating Life in Another World" is like Mr. Lynn's extra work. How could he have made such a horror film, who has always brought you sensory entertainment? Since this movie is often included in the horror film list, I have been paying attention to it for a long time, but the resources of this film are difficult to find (pirates are also hard-hearted), so I haven't seen it until today.
The story is simple. The actor Tim Robbins was hit hard on the battlefield. His psychedelic review of his life and loved ones before his death seemed like a nightmare, ending with his death. After watching this movie, I have a feeling that I suddenly realized that so many movies that I thought were original ideas were "stealed" from old movies! ! If you have seen "Floating Life in Another World", the ending of "Sixth Sense" is not amazing; "Stay in Life and Death" is also similar to plagiarism. To be honest, fans who are easily surprised are just because they watch too few movies, so they give future generations of imitation works a high score that they shouldn't get!
Tim Robbins in the film is still fresh, very white and tender, like a big baby, watching him tortured to death, I really feel sorry for him. It is worth mentioning that the emotional scene in the first half of the film gave Ryan Space to do some sexy old skills: the heroine wandered around the room naked, and she got into the shower curtain and Robbins on a whim. Taking a bath together makes people feel refreshed; Robbins has a high fever, and the heroine resolutely strips him out, and summons a bunch of neighbors to collect ice cubes and put Robbins in the bathtub. I feel that the heroine played by the young actress Elizabeth Peña is more like Robbins' mother.
This film is also inferior to the domestic horror film (the audience has a feeling of being deceived and fooled after knowing the ending), but it is slowly peeled off through layers of maze, which makes the audience's psychological fear more and more. Shen, gradually has a terrible premonition that he does not want to believe, but has to face reality. It seems that only death can liberate the male protagonist, and only death can make this nightmare end. Seeing the end, I gave the actor one last sigh of relief.
Several "devil" images in the film have also been "inherited" by latecomers (such as "Invasion of Brain Cells"), so "A Floating Life in Another World" is indeed worthy of the reputation. I really feel deja vu when I watch this movie today. It's just that we are too late to meet. The screenwriter of this film is also very famous. He won an Oscar for his "Human and Ghosts", his name is Bruce Joel Rubin.
Macaulay King from the cutest period also appeared in the film. Forget what he looks like now. He was once the cutest blond boy in the world! No wonder the actor thinks of him before he breathes. He is really a little angel.
"A Floating Life in Another World" is not only a classic horror film, but also an art film worthy of repeated taste. The literal translation of the film title is "Jacob's Ladder". It is taken from Greek mythology and has profound philosophical meaning. Playing as cannon fodder on the battlefield. The film finally revealed the truth with subtitles, but the US Department of Defense firmly denied this statement.
It is said that incidents of drug abuse by soldiers occurred frequently during World War II. For example, the Kamikaze squad in Japan abused amphetamines. Before going into battle, all the pilots took a super-large dose of stimulant, and turned into lunatics, completely deprived of their sanity, and dared to rush to the warships and fighters of the opposing side, and the moths died out as if they were fighting the fire. This kind of thing also seems to have happened in China (eating smoke), and it is estimated that the Vietnam War described in the film inevitably happened.
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