Very complete suspense film.
As a psychological film, the protagonist’s motivation (confession) is clear and reasonable, and the psychological mapping produced by this motivation is also rich and complete.
As the comment said, it is a mixture of Mulholland Road, Life and Death, Butterfly Effect, and Horror Cruise. The effect is not as good as these films. Perhaps it is because of this mixture that the focus is not clear enough. The audience generally knows that it is an illusion. Films, however, they constantly travel through time and space in the illusion, and strive to change the history while traveling, and the changed history is just an illusion.
In contrast, Mulholland Road produces hallucinations purely based on psychological motivations (the timing is unchanged), the butterfly effect is to go back to the past to change history, and the horror cruise ship is an infinite loop, which is a single path, but it can bring strong Shocking and lasting mark.
The reason why I don’t want to use a single main line is probably that it’s too simple, and the story seems a bit thin and it’s not worth watching a second time. Solution: Like Mulholland Road, there is enough attention to detail in each part, enough detail to map enough complicated, or creative enough and the process is strong to see (ex: the continuous destruction of the terrorist cruise ship).
Several routes of psychological suspense films:
Hallucinations. Daily hallucinations (continuously misidentifying something or misinterpreting the world around them)
Dream hallucinations (a whole illusion produced in a dream/coma/mechanical action)
Enter the subconscious mind. (Unlike hallucinations, the subconscious mind is another strange world completely separated from the daily life. It does not need continuity and logic. Daily things are just sporadically projected in)
Psychological forgetting. (Forget about my crime/huge pain)
Cognitive error. (Ex: I think the other party is a ghost, in fact I am a ghost) (The protagonist of this misconception is rational, but because the premise (I'm dead) is too unconventional, I haven't considered this possibility)
Split personality. (A little aesthetic fatigue)
A substantial distorted world is produced due to a certain strong emotion (this world may only be accessible at certain times or by certain people, but it can cause actual harm/siege). (Ex: Silent Hill)
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