The original title of the film is French, and translated into Chinese, it means “seemingly familiar”. In fact, this is a common experience for ordinary people. It feels that someone is familiar or that a certain scene seems to have been there before. All the memories are sensible. Thinking thought it was nonsense, so it left behind mysticism. But this film interprets the reason for the existence of this kind of thinking and consciousness in a quasi-scientific way. Of course, at present, we can only think that this interpretation is a kind of artistic creation, but in fact, will it be the case? I'm afraid no one knows.
Going back to the movie itself, Carlin was involved in solving the case due to the terrorist bombing on the dock. Inside the Bureau of Investigation, he found an instrument that can record the lives of others in a panoramic view. Unfortunately, the time of this instrument is set in the present tense. Four and a half days ago, everything that I saw happened four and a half days ago. So under the guidance of Carlin, the instrument began to investigate a woman named Claire.
A terrorist attack, at this time, due to the appearance of this instrument, turned into a voyeuristic video with a humanistic touch. Thus, the film began to proceed from two clues. One is the progress of the case, and the other is Carlin's alternative experience. But more importantly, also because of this instrument, two time and space appeared, namely the past tense and the modern continuous tense.
In modern times, Claire has died. Because her death was not due to the explosion, she became the key to solving the case. The instrument also began to trace the things Claire experienced before the explosion, and these things just caused it. Carlin’s deja vu experience. He thinks he can prevent this tragedy from happening, and more importantly, he thinks he already exists in that past time and space.
This is a very confusing story clue. In modern time and space, Carlin’s traces are all over Claire’s life, but Carlin did not realize when he had broken into Claire’s life, so he thought about it. The nature of the instrument’s performance has been questioned. An explanation about this instrument appeared.
This dialogue is very important. All theories do not lie in their authenticity and scientificity, but in a scientific tone to establish the basis of this story. There are many such plots in American films. In other words, it explains the director and The screenwriter’s point of interest in creating this story, of course, can put on a coat, and then confuse the audience. So this explanation is for the audience as long as they can understand the purpose of this instrument. It turns out that this is a space-time machine, and it can be explained in such a popular way, but this space-time machine can only go back to the past four and a half days ago, and it can't further reverse time and space.
Modern people's peeping into the past is perfected with a single instrument, so we know that in this case we are faced with two problems, namely, the arrest of criminals in the present tense or the prevention of criminal behavior in the past tense. Everyone thinks that modern people cannot change the past, but only Carlin decides to be God once.
This decision is obviously not Carlin’s wishful thinking, because he has found the shadow of his past in modern times. First of all, it is the various situations in Claire’s home, his fingerprints and the injured cotton cloth, etc. This is obviously the past. Traces left by modern times. On the other hand, Carlin used a piece of paper to try this time-space transfer function, and the death of his partner can be said to come from modern reasons.
This plot is very important. Modern people have changed the past, so that modern time and space have to accept the consequences of this change. At this point, the film almost directly refutes the theory that history cannot be tampered with. The next thing is to continue to sublimate and deepen this theory.
Carlin finally decided to go back to the past to save Claire and the boat of innocent people. Of course, the main purpose is to stop crime and bring criminals to justice. But in the present tense, the criminals have been arrested. This is a contradictory issue. As mentioned earlier, if criminals are prevented, criminals in modern times will not be established. This is a question, but the director apparently took this question with the death of the criminal when composing the story.
Therefore, in Carlin's rescue operation, the criminal died, Claire and the entire ship were saved, and the fact of the crime was not realized. That is, the past finally changed the result of the modern. Of course it changed in a good direction. Contrary to the death of a partner, modern changes to the past are possible in both directions, either for the good or for the bad, but in fact it is an unconventional possibility, that is, it is impossible to predict whether changing history is good or bad.
Carlin lost his life in the action. At this time we will find that a new Carlin has appeared. No one knows whether there is this rescue story in his memory, but in fact, this rescue operation is reflected in Claire. In his memory, Claire would think that all of this was a fact, and the new Carlin would think that all of this was just a feeling of deja vu. At the end of the film, perhaps due to the great unity, Carlin's appearance has become very illogical, especially out of the logic defined by the film. Thus, a question arises as to whether Carlin who went back to the past is real, or is it just some kind of memory of Claire?
Due to changes to the past in the future, the film has chaos at the end. When everything has changed, Carlin’s resurrection is the most unreasonable. It only caters to the consistent ending in commercial films, but puts aside the original. The logic inherent in the film. So we had to put aside the so-called space-time machine to watch this film. The future Carlin does not actually exist, he is just a fantasy or a mysterious experience deep in memory. The temporal and spatial clues of the film have also begun to change, from the past and the present at the beginning to the present and the future.
Many films explore the relationship between the past, the present, and the future. In this film, when the criminal describes his ideas in prison, God has actually been ruthlessly abandoned. Therefore, the so-called deja vu memory It has been physicalized from mysticism, but the film has made this discussion more complicated at the end, making it difficult to reach a state of self-justification. From this point of view, although this story is wonderful, it is an imperfect play.
The film directors have circumvented themselves into this puzzle of time and space clues, but it is undeniable that the most remarkable thing about the film should be the broken bridge of the car chase, day and night, past and present, prosperity and tranquility, everything is A sharp contrast is formed. This is the extraordinary attraction produced by the chaos of time and space, which can almost be classified as a classic. At this time, it is not difficult for us to understand that this half of the four and a half days is obviously extremely useful.
Han Xi
2007-4-10 in Tongzhou
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