The creativity is very good, the storytelling is a bit obscure and rough

Marshall 2022-12-20 15:30:55

The target of this film should be Inception. In contrast, the shortcomings and shortcomings of this film are very clear.

The first is the setting of technical means. The technical means of both films are to influence and control the thoughts of others. The technical methods of "Inception" are rigorous and credible, just implanting influence. Use the way to enter the dream of the target, implant some hopes for him, thereby affecting his decision-making. For technical means, the film uses a lot of space for performance, from choosing a dream maker to choosing drugs to achieve fast deep sleep, from the design of dream details to the way of awakening, and even distinguishing whether you are in the dream personal small objects, very very rigorous .

In contrast to this film, the technology is further advanced. Simply insert an operating table, a mask, and a bloody needle with a data cable into the two people’s heads to directly control the subject’s thoughts. This is too simple and rude and credible. Degree is extremely low. The thinking activity of the human brain is still basically the unknown world of human beings. Consciousness, subconsciousness, ego, and id are basically still in Freud's fur cognition stage. Are you invading the host's brain, controlling part or all of the host's consciousness? Is the host's performance entirely your behavior, or is it a walking dead? Where is the other party's sense of autonomy? When will it confront you?

Think about it carefully, there are a hundred thousand whys. The thin technical settings directly lead to too many loopholes and extremely difficult storytelling.

The second is storytelling. The story of "Inception" is actually very complicated, but the story tells of clouds and water, although extremely brain-burning and suspenseful, but the look and feel is absolutely hearty, and it can withstand you repeatedly watching and studying all the details.

On the other hand, the film is obscure, thin, and protracted. The completion of the first mission brought out that the heroine’s brain had already begun to be hurt and became bloodthirsty and cruel. If she did not follow the instructions, she would commit suicide after completing the assassination mission, and she would lose control at any time. As a result, the second order was quickly started in the rudimentary laboratory, and the audience knew that something was going to happen.

In the second task, the heroine was properly out of control. The host started to fight back with the thoughts of two people in his head. According to the story, the host’s brain has the thought of the heroine at this time. In theory, everything about the heroine is clear. Since you know the heroine’s home and family, it is impossible not to know where the heroine’s stronghold is. In addition, once the host’s ego comes back, he knows that this life has been ruined by the heroine, and he should have a normal motivation and behavioral logic in his behavior. He should go directly to the heroine to repair his brain or to be innocent, or to run away. Or kill the heroine, and finally have two selves in his mind, and eventually schizophrenia? A low-level poisonous insect in Pan Gaozhi suddenly turned into a vengeful demon. There is a transition to this transformation, and the story is not clear.

In order to express the thought control process and division, the director repeatedly used the straightforward way of rubber masks and two people in the mirror to express it, and the methods were a bit low-level and crude.

At the end of the film, the host brutally killed the heroine's husband with a kitchen knife. This is the heroine's behavior in the host's mind. The host was stabbed in the neck artery by the heroine's son, and the son became the host for the heroine's companion to invade. The son must die before the heroine's companion can recover. The host shot his son to death, it was the host's own behavior, and the desperate cry was also the host's behavior in the host's mind.

In the end, both the heroine and her accomplices, whose family was broken and their brains flooded, recovered smoothly and could start a new mission again. It feels like eating a fly, what exactly does the director want to express?

The story should be clear, but the director shouldn't tell it well. In order to delay enough time, several sex scenes have been arranged. There are many ways to express short-term schizophrenia. Is sex scenes used to increase the box office? This operation actually lowered the grade of the work.

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Possessor quotes

  • Colin Tate: Just think, one day your wife is cleaning the cat litter and she gets a worm in her, and that worm ends up in her brain. The next thing that happens is she gets an idea in there, too. And it's hard to say whether that idea is really hers or it's just the worm. And it makes her do certain things. Predator things. Eventually, you realize that she isn't the same person anymore. She's not the person that she used to be. It's gotta make you wonder, whether you're really married to her... or married to the worm.

  • Tasya Vos: Pull me out.