This led Tom to want to create a memory extraction machine so that he can understand the pain of the patient by reading the memories of others, and then prescribe the medicine in reality, constantly " "Brainwashing in good faith" to treat the psychological trauma of patients. This device finally received financial support from the mysterious patron in the final stage of development. However, the focus of the sponsor is not whether it can help the patient, but another bright spot—that is, the ability to directly participate and observe the memories of others.
At first Tom thought it was a vile voyeurism from the patron, but in order to shoulder the responsibility of the family, he had no choice but to agree. However, with the advent of the first experiment, the protagonist suddenly discovered that the real sponsor is the National Crime Squad, and the person in charge is Kenneth. After learning about the existence of such a machine, Kenneth suddenly thought that he could use the method of reading the prisoner's memories and filming it as a basis for accusation of whether the prisoner committed a crime.
The name of the prisoner who came to the experiment was Anthony. His father was a famous gangster in the underworld, and he himself was a drug addict. He was accused of shooting his girlfriend Adriana. The police believed that Anthony had received a text message from his girlfriend requesting to break up on the night of the incident, so he went to his girlfriend's house angrily to ask what happened. Adriana was shot and killed after a fight. However, Anthony insisted that he was not guilty, but he couldn't recall the process that happened that night. Hearing of such a machine, Anthony volunteered to participate in the experiment to prove his innocence.
The memory reading officially begins. The main method is that assistant Gary implants a tiny chip receiver into the tester Anthony’s neck by injection, and then Tom finds the receiver’s data interface and digitally loads the soul through the receiver into the tester’s brain to store the memories. Part. Subsequently, Tom can search the key field of the crime through the system Minnie, and then jump to the memory field to read the memory.
The process went very smoothly. Tom followed Anthony's memories to the scene on the night of the incident. Everything was shown as expected by the police. After fighting with Adriana, Anthony shot and killed his girlfriend. Then after taking some unknown medicine, he called his father and the memory ended.
There are two details to pay attention to here. One is near 19:10. An Adriana hit Anthony with a decorative Roman column, and then fell to the ground. This proves that Anthony's memory was wrong. The essential. The other is that when Tom asked about the credibility of Minnie’s memories, Minnie gave two key data: 95% memory credibility, with 17% background restoration. In fact, this is a strange data. When you are very sure of one thing, how can you hardly recall the surrounding background? However, Tom didn't care at first, he believed that 95% of the credibility of the recall confirmed the truth and indistinguishability of the matter.
Although the forensic process went smoothly, Tom ran into the biggest trouble in his life-unable to withdraw from Anthony's memory. Assistant Gary confirmed Tom’s memory location, but found that the machine could not withdraw his soul. Tom wanted to forcefully self-destruct and shut down and was not recognized by the system.
As a result, the story has a turning point in the second phase. Tom's soul was trapped in Anthony's memory, and Anthony was found guilty and went to jail. For the next four years, Tom's soul wandered bored day and night, reading various fragments of Anthony's memory.
One day Tom entered the memory of Anthony training the puppy Rex as a child as usual. As usual, the memory starts with my father repairing the car — Anthony wants to train Rex to sit down — Dad complains that this dog is too stupid and can’t learn that he can’t even shit in the right place — Anthony helps Dad End with beer.
However, that day Tom was surprised to find that when Anthony was holding a beer, he actually discovered Tom's existence. Tom immediately thought of what was wrong, and then read Tom's memory in reality (the short-term memory that just happened) at the time, and found that Anthony was looking at a picture of the dog. Searching through Minnie again, I found that the photo was given to him by his dad when he visited him some time ago. After further digging, Tom found that as long as Anthony started to recall and Tom happened to be in that recalling scene, the dynamic memory would be touched and Anthony could see Tom. Soon, Anthony met the priest in prison and confessed to him the story of the drug robbery of his father with a friend when he was young, and mentioned that he kept thinking about it and it was very painful. Tom used this point to repeatedly read the memory fragments of his robbing his father, so that the two could talk to each other when Anthony recalled one day.
Obviously this worked. After initial suspicion and misunderstanding, Anthony and Tom gradually gained trust in each other. In accordance with Tom’s request, Anthony contacted his wife Abby and told his wife that they could not return to reality just because they changed the material with higher safety performance as the material of the microchip receiver before the experiment, but did not withdraw the relevant information. The corresponding changes were made to the program, that is, because the program failed to recognize the new receiver, it could not be started and accepted on that day. As long as the exit system is upgraded, this problem can be solved. After learning the whole story, Abby tried a way to contact the former supervisor Kenneth and assistant Gary, so as to arrange the withdrawal of the soul as soon as possible.
During this waiting time, Anthony told Tom that at first he and Adriana only used drugs for each other, but as the relationship deepened, Anthony developed a true love for Adriana. In order to get rid of the ravages of drugs, he and Adriana vowed to give up drugs together. At this moment, Anthony has already got rid of dependence on drugs psychologically because of true love, and wants to be a man again.
By the way, Tom told him that four years of memory reading had gradually confused his memory with Ann, and sometimes it was impossible to distinguish the source. (Foreshadowing Tom's recollection of Anthony's memory at the end of the film) The
story reached its first climax after mutual complaints. At the scene of the soul withdrawal, Gary told Anthony that he must assist in finding the location of Tom's memories, so that the memory extractor could receive the soul withdrawal data. Then Anthony threatened Tom with this and asked Tom to help inquire about the real situation on the night of Adriana's death. Anthony always insisted that he would never kill Adriana, and most importantly, he was knocked unconscious by a dark shadow that night.
To survive, Tom helped Anthony gradually restore another memory of that night. Memory is like a jigsaw puzzle. When one piece is confirmed, the next piece is immediately generated. Starting from a small environment, Anthony stitches together pieces of memories. In the process of restoring, Anthony not only recalled the reason why the Roman Rod actually landed (proving the contradiction with the previous memories that is at 19:10), but also found the black figure who really stunned Anthony that day-Passerby. Annoyed, Anthony escaped the police's surveillance through a series of small means, and drove to find passer-by A on the spot to ask what happened. Later, he discovered another version of the story that night: Adriana could not get rid of the entanglement of drugs, and as a condition of mutual benefit, exchanged sex for drugs. A further analyzed and believed that Adriana told Anthony the truth of the fact that night, and Anthony couldn't bear it, so he shot and killed Adriana. In the course of the dialogue, passer-by A's accomplice B controlled Anthony's actions, and then A shot Anthony.
After a fight, Anthony was seriously injured, but at this moment he remembered his promise to Tom, and drove to Abby's home, where he made a soul withdrawal on the spot. Tom was rescued after all, and Anthony died due to excessive blood loss.
This is the end of the matter, everything seems to be over, when an ordinary second-rate science fiction film is about to end, the real story climax has just begun. With a feeling of condolences for Anthony's death, Tom drove to visit Ann's father.
The two enjoyed the photos their father gave to Anthony in prison. When he saw the picture of Rex, Tom smiled and said that he remembered that Rex was a stupid dog who could not even sit down and shit. Ann's father pointed out on the spot that Rex was actually a very clever show dog, and explained that-when a good dog trainer was interested in Rex, he gave the dog away in order to save money and trouble. But on the other hand, in order to gain little Anthony's approval, he told little Anthony Rex more than once that he was a stupid dog and shit.
Tom suddenly realized that the truth he believed from the beginning to the end appeared to be a refutation-the fragments of memories that people believed were not necessarily true-this refutation was even Tom's original intention in creating the device in the first place. At this moment, his memory fragments seemed to have a chain reaction that caused the understanding of this matter-because he already had Anthony's memory deep in his soul, he read and understood what really happened that night:
Anthony, who loves Adriana so much, wants to ask Adriana after receiving a text message of the breakup. However, Adriana didn’t actually know that Anthony would come that night. That night, she was guilty of betraying Anthony (to exchange drugs with Passerby A), to get rid of dependence on drugs, and more likely to get rid of Passerby’s sex. Threatening, she decided to commit suicide. This moment happened exactly when Anthony saw Adriana. The moment Ah pulled the trigger, I could hear Anthony's heartbreaking cracking sound. His most beloved person is living in front of you with a deep brain burst. Years of love and hard work to re-behave and get rid of the oppression of drugs all gathered at this moment. The sad Anthony chose to amnesia. He hid in the toilet and took some medicine, and called his father to tell him the real situation.
Perhaps while waiting for his father to come, Passerby came to Adriana's house to seek sex that night. After Jia inexplicably discovered Ah's body, because of panic and self-preservation, he stunned with a Roman pole and heard the movement. Anthony came over, thinking that Ann was so embarrassed and killed Ah because of their incident.
At the same time, Ann's father, who has been retired for many years, always feels that Anthony is a rotten wall that can't support the mud. According to his years of experience in the underworld, his son will eventually die in a street corner alley due to drug abuse. . So he thought of the trick of losing the car to protect the handsome, forged the scene of his son's crime (I believe that the fingerprint on the suicide gun was made by him while his son was not awake), and reported to the police anonymously. Abandoning the body near the crime scene, and constantly instilling the facts of his murder into his son. As the police continue to ramp up and impose what they believe to be facts, the selective amnesia of Anthony gradually reconstructed the crime scene of the homicide that night (but because the real situation cannot be recalled, it led to the initial 17% background restoration. Because the other parts were constructed and fabricated by Ann
himself ) However, Anthony's pursuit of true love (to give up drugs for love, God knows how deep is needed), and the retention of other episodes that night made him believe in his innocence.
In the same way, Ann's father, who was the mastermind of the incident, did not actually realize that his son was already changing himself because of love, cherishing himself, and wanting to be a new man. Even in the process of his son believing in God in prison, constantly repenting, and wanting to change himself, his father blindly suspected that he was taking drugs (so he felt that he was still thin), and he didn't want to make progress, so he confronted him with indifference and toughness. . But he didn't know that his self-righteous paternal love led to the death of his son.
At the end of the film, on the surface, the improvement of the memory extraction machine is still being talked about, but after a series of experiences, Tom finally realized that to solve the psychological trauma, we cannot rely on this superficial understanding of the memory model. In the play, he and Anthony The dialogue is precisely the interpretation of this understanding: you look at my memories, just look at my deeds, and listen to what I say. But even so, you don't understand me who really thinks. Therefore, it is never the indifferent data analysis of the machine that guides us to relieve the trauma, but love and care. Tom learned the most important thing in life from Anthony. Only love can change everything, stick to his beliefs, and sit on the future.
I hope that the procrastination analysis can give you a little help. This is really a love story that should not be ruined by bad subtitles.
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