This kind of circular salvation is a kind of consciousness retrospect, a negative feedback that seeks the root to correct the deviation of reality, and the movie "Retrospect" tries to illustrate such a process. "Retrospect" is an Australian film with a Hollywood suspense style. The protagonist is Adrian Brody, who won an Oscar. The film revolves around the process of discovering the mystery, tracing clues, and discovering the truth. It satisfactorily reveals the truth of a case that was conclusively concluded decades ago.
Therefore, the film seems to incorporate elements of psychology, suspense, horror and exploration in order to fit this process. At the beginning of the film, the actor, as a psychologist, conducts psychological analysis for several patients. It is also mixed with memories of his daughter’s accidental death. It was a car accident that caused his daughter’s death. The indirect cause was the distraction of the person present at the time. The thing that attracted my attention at the time seemed to be a fishbone stuck in his throat that made the male protagonist completely unable to remember. The thoughts of his daughter and the regret for his own fault made the male protagonist depressed all day long. Until a mysterious girl visited her clinic and left a mysterious number, hallucinations began to appear in the life of the male protagonist. At the beginning, the male protagonist as a psychologist believed that his mental problems were caused by his excessive longing and lack of spirit. So the previous paragraph has a very suspenseful style. It is easy for people to think that this is a film about the protagonist’s multiple personality or schizophrenia, and the various horror fantasy experienced by the protagonist reveal the taste of a horror film. However, As the protagonist pursues the clues, the audience realizes that the film has really entered the main line. In space, the protagonist has returned to the root, but there are still doubts in time. Through the conversation with his father and former friends, and the spiritual guidance (he) of various ghosts lingering around the protagonist, the clues are becoming more and more obvious. , The truth of the case that happened decades ago has gradually revealed the tip of the iceberg. In fact, when the film is more than halfway in progress, the audience can already guess the general truth of the case, so the pale and weak plot reversal at the end of the film is really expected. In the end, the male protagonist and the female policeman (with few scenes) survived the villain, and the villain was killed under the mental attack of the angry vengeful ghost. It was a happy ending.
In general, the plot of the film seems to be a blend of psychology, horror, suspense, crime, and case-solving, giving the audience a feeling of a full seat. However, the setting of various ghosts and phantoms in the process is somewhat far-fetched and illogical. It's hard for the male protagonist's depressed and sad expression of eyebrows in the film. The plot of the first half of the plot seems to want to show the audience that the film is a psychological suspense film, and the second half returns to the plot of cracking the case and restoring the truth. The film festival can still attract the attention of the audience, but the combination of plot elements is a bit messy, the investigation process is relatively weak and straightforward, focusing on the psychological description of the first half. But overall, the viewing of the movie is still good.
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