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time travel is actually very simple for ordinary people, and it happens every day. If you want to go back to the past, then speed up your life rhythm to the limit and work hard. Grow to the top of the world's elite as soon as possible, such as going to the Physics Laboratory of Massachusetts Institute of Technology to be a Frankenstein, or to the United Nations as a diplomatic ambassador, and then suddenly one day, your head was traveled by a time a few years ago The plan is to remind the cramps again, it is time to go back in time, so you go back to a publishing house, library or school in a small city in China to continue working and living in obscurity, you will know what it means to go back to the past Up. On the other hand, if you want to go into the future, it’s easier to reduce your pace of life to the slowest. For example, if you are locked in a house and eat fast and reciting the Buddha for twenty years, if you can’t help it, you can commit a crime of robbery. Kind of, go to jail, release it after twenty years, and you will go to the future.
Therefore, the meaning of time travel does not actually lie in changing your past self or your future self, because you will always have only one self. Your past self and your future self are just a concept (memory and dream) in your mind, not reality. . The real meaning of time travel is actually to change the current self, change the speed of your current time axis, and you can grow at a different pace relative to the world around you. The most extreme example is the "child prodigy" and "juvenile genius" who grow up to the past at a high speed. They are surprised when others see them, but they are disappointed when they see others. Those who grow at a low speed to the future are the "hermits" and "young geniuses." "Guxian", others look at them very shameless, but they look at others but very pleased.
The filming of "Death Illusion" started in July 2000 and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001. As another time travel master after the "Back to the Future" trilogy, the film surprised four people. At the age of 25 Aries director and screenwriter Richard Kelly (1975.3.28) has been a blockbuster since then. This film also pushed the male and female leading roles to the pinnacle. After Jake Gyllenhaal successively played the blockbuster "The Day After", "Brokenback Mountain" and "Zodiac", Jena Malone also Starring in "The Resurrection of the Devil", "Cold Mountain" and "Pride and Prejudice". It can be said that "Death Illusion" is like a time machine, starting the artistic life of several young people.
After eight years, "Death Illusion 2" started filming in May 2008 and was released in April 2009. This time the screenwriter, director, and male and female lead actors are all newcomers. It seems that they want to restart the time machine and hold up the superstar again. But Richard Kelly denied any connection with "Death Illusion 2", and Jake Gyllenhaal did not have any shots in this film. The screenwriter of the new film Nathan Atkins claims to be a loyal fan of "Death Illusion." Looking closely at the credits, apart from the producer Adam Fields who is still holding the ground, there is only one key clue between the second and the first that is still disconnected, and that is the Leo supporting actress Daveigh Chase who played Samantha Darko in the first. 1990.7.24) This time became the second female lead. At the time of the first filming, she was just a ten-year-old child, and eight years later, she has become a young girl. It turns out that in the past eight years, what we have been waiting for is S. Darko's simultaneous growth as a role and an actor...
Although Richard Kelly denied it, looking back at the shots of Samantha in the first part of "Death Illusion" is indeed very aftertaste. It seems to herald that the sequel of "Death Illusion" will start with her: at the beginning of the film, Donnie was at dinner. Samantha was swearing; afterwards, when staying in a hotel, Samantha did not want to sleep with her brother; when she went to school at the station, her brother threatened her not to inform her of smoking, otherwise she would still be her unicorn; after the flood incident, Donnie and Frack Rabbit The conversation was interrupted by Samantha; when Donnie mentioned that Roberta Sparrow said that everyone would die alone, there was a scene of Donnie jumping on the trampoline with Samantha; while Samantha’s sparkle motion dance performance, Donnie was burning Jim At the end of the movie, Donnie was about to crash the airplane engine and send it back to the original world. Samantha and her mother were on the airplane... At the
beginning of the second part, Samantha was sleepwalking in the wilderness. When she woke up at dawn, she picked up her windmill and saw outside the car window on the road. The unicorn running on the wire, died accidentally in the back. When Corey organized her relics, she found that her childhood composition was exactly the homework of Samantha in the first Chinese class: Ariel was a lost unicorn. Prince Justin discovered it and was taken into an invisible magical world... Here, Prince Justin is precisely the male protagonist Justin Sparrow in the second part. He is the Grandma Death in the first part, which is the Upanishad Book of Time Travel. The grandson of the author Roberta Sparrow. Its actor James Lafferty is a bit like Jake Gyllenhaal and Mel Gibson, and should be a manufacturable.
"Death Illusion 2" also does its best to imitate "Death Illusion" in terms of shooting techniques and plot details. The degree of screenwriter Nathan Atkins's fascination with the first part can be seen. For example, the note on the refrigerator, the slow motion of the music when entering the dance, the TV program, the meaning of water and iron, the water column-shaped vortex that appears on the chest, the flashing dreams, the slow motion replay at the end of the film. Rebirth of the role and so on. The plot is more obvious: (1) Both movie theaters and their entrance posters appeared. The first one is Halloween Frightmare, Double Feature, The evil dead, The last temptation of christ, and the second one appears. The movie is the later Alice in wonderland, 12 monkeys, Strang days, Elements of origin, The dark lands; (2) There are also issues of religion and child molestation. The first is Jim Cunningham's fear and love program and psychology. The atheist and agnostic agnostic mentioned by the doctor, the second part is the children’s education case of Father John Mellit led by Trudy Potter’s wwjd wristband and his discussion with Sam and Corey on Judaism and Satanism; (3) ) There have also been discussions on political issues. In the first part, there are reports on drug trafficking and infrastructure construction in the presidential election. In the second part, Iraq Jack in military uniform hints at the 1991 Gulf War. (4) Issues concerning justice and justice also appeared. The first part was about the police investigating the slasher and the arrest of Jim based on the handwriting of the police, and the second part was about the unjust, false and wrongful case of justin kidnapping and killing children by mistake; (5) In the first part, the bizarre death of old classmate Frankie Feedler mentioned by Donnie’s father Eddie Darko hints at the occurrence of other tangent worlds. In the second part, there are also singers elvis Presley and jimi hendrix who died strangely mentioned when the hotel owner knocked on the door. , Janis Joplin, jim Morrison, and after Samantha’s accidental death, Corey and Randy went to the archive to check the various bizarre accidental deaths reported in the newspapers. (6) The same detailed props that use a large number of rabbit heads, in the first part are the Halloween pumpkins carved by Donnie, Frank's sketches and manufacturing workshops, and in the second part, the manuscripts of Samantha's collection of brothers and Justin's search for scrap iron The handmade workshop, the shape of the crater formed by the falling iron and the shape of the vegetables on the plate when Jeremy last ate, are all rabbit heads.
The difference between the two films is that (1) the first time was in Middlesex virginia in the eastern region, and this time the story was set in Conejo Springs, a small town in the Midwest of the United States; (2) the first was 1988 The tangent world died 28 days before Halloween this year, and this time it ended 4 days before Independence Day in 1995; (3) The main perspective was on the death controller Samantha, not the living receiver Justin Sparrow. So it's mainly a film with a female perspective; (4) The second front shows the reincarnation of the dead body (the last time Samantha of the tangent world infinite loop took Justin into the wormhole from the windmill, Corey took the water to the cave, After the car was swept away by the wormhole) and the destruction of the live control body in the tangent world (Jeremy's fester), these are hidden dark lines in the first part.
Looking at the two "Death Illusion", the second one is more than careful and meticulous in the form of the first one, but the actual creation and breakthrough are insufficient. For those audiences who hope to find the answers to the questions left in the first in the second part, they will undoubtedly be disappointed; for those who have a growing appetite for the genius works of Richard Kelly, who are good at creating systems. In other words, I naturally feel that there are no surprises and it is difficult to compliment. Perhaps, some female audiences, such as fans of "Death of the Virgin", will feel that there is a female version of "Donnie Darko" and will love it. For viewers in small towns in central America, it may be closer to life in rural areas.
What problems did the first part leave behind? Most people wonder where the airplane engine comes from. In "Time Travel Upanishad", this artifact is connected with the living body in the original world and the living receiver in the tangent world, by the living receiver in the tangent world (Donnie Darko at the end of the first part) Transport it and take it away by the living body in the original world (the FAA officer in the first part, the hotel owner and the meteorite collector in the second part). In the first part, the living FAA has no details; in the second part, where did the meteorite come from, was it launched by the living receiver Justin Sparrow from the tangent world? There is no above. This is the key to the inability of the two films to connect and resolve each other. In the real world, there are many incidents of flying to kill people, but the flying objects often come from the real world. "Everything has a reason" is not what the Lord said, but the reality. Even if it is a meteorite, it does not come from another. Time, but only from another space, is still logical. However, the origin of the flying airplane engine cannot be found. It is indeed the first inexplicable mystery left on purpose.
In what areas does the first part need a substantial in-depth understanding or even a creative breakthrough? The key lies at the beginning of this article: "The meaning of time travel lies in the speed of growth." The reason why the first part of "Death Illusion" is touching and attractive is not in love, but in irony. The education of mechanical rigidity, the moral politician of the moral integrity, the moral defender of the hypocrite... the various irrational phenomena that exist in the tangent world are just the norm in the real world where we are, and in the tangent world, the living recipients with divine power will To destroy all of this, the dead controller designed to frame him to resurrect, and the living controller tried to prevent him from living. In this world full of contradictions and conspiracies, a young man from ignorance to sober unscrupulously lashes out all the hypocrisy and ugliness in reality in accordance with the idealistic model, from cynical and cynical rebellion to firm and decisive burden and sacrifice, and transcendence It is the growth of oneself rather than time. This is the spiritual essence of "Death Illusion".
In the second part, observe the world from a female perspective, the complex and subtle relationship of love, jealousy and regret between Samantha, Corey and Randy, and in the eyes of beautiful women like Samantha, such as Jeremy, Pastor John Mellit and Justin Sparrow. Blame the men, their curiosity and disgust are full of metaphors. After all, the growth of women is different from that of men. They are more inwardly inquiring rather than outwardly acknowledging the world. So in the second book, science, religion, justice, money, beauty and friendship are symbolized by the relationships between these different men and women. This is the true spiritual succession of the second to the first. After all these struggles in the tangent world, Samantha is like her brother, who has grown up and matured. The swearing and aimless life before, was replaced by calmly and calmly taking the bus home. Although the world is still so fucking fucking, but unlike her dead brother, Samantha is alive and growing up, so she has to face the cruel reality with dreams. This is the meaning of drawing the heart at the end of the second part...
from the critique of the angry youth The mainstay of the society, from rock youth to parenthood. How often have you regretted or felt sad for your past? You spend your whole life trying and making mistakes and telling your children the lessons you have learned, but they just want to try and make mistakes again in person. Have you ever felt annoyed and helpless about this? See the beautiful and handsome guys in the bar disco, unrestrainedly exhausting their youth and having fun regardless of the future and irresponsible indulgence? Can you pull them out of the noisy nightclub and tell her in a quiet corner, what if you are old and declining and no one is chasing and no one pays? Who will raise your child after being pregnant? What should you do when your parents are old? What is the point of you living in this world? ...
"Death Illusion" uses the huge reduction in the tangent world to let people in the real world look at themselves, learn to be kind, and be grateful and cherish. Science fiction is science fiction after all. In reality and history, we cannot travel through time and space, but we can realize this self-reflection through the wisdom of our minds, the memory of the past, and the vision of the future (memory and dream). We know that past choices lead to current consequences, and we can change future results by changing current choices. Grow faster, mature faster, make fewer mistakes faster, and redeem karma faster. This is the meaning of time travel.
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