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Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
continues IMDB250, this series I am almost complete. I have also watched the film, but it took too long to watch, and the subtitles at that time were very poor, which made my impression of the film particularly bad. Now find R3 subtitles, enjoy it.
The movie is a science fiction story about the process of a man saving the world. In the future, the surface of the earth has been eroded by viruses, and humans will have to move underground. The actor won the favor of scientists because of a volunteer service, and let him be responsible for investigating the source of the virus-the Twelve Monkey Army. As a result, the actor is working as a time machine and intends to return to 1996 when the virus occurred. However, the kind that came in the wrong era, he went back to 1990. In 1990, he was treated as a mental illness and was sent to a mental hospital for nonsense. In the hospital, a female psychiatrist was very friendly to her, and the two felt familiar with each other. The actor meets a madman in a mental hospital, and he often babbles some strange things. At this time, the male protagonist was very annoyed by being locked up in prison, coupled with taking the medicine to treat mental illness, made him confusedly say "world destruction", "monkey", "virus", etc., all of which were The madman heard. Subsequently, the lunatic created an opportunity for him to escape so that he could complete his plan of "destroying the world". The protagonist did not escape successfully and was caught back. When the female doctor studied the situation with others, The actor has returned to the future. Scientists believe that the hero's mission has failed, and they have to give the hero another chance. This time he was sent to the wrong time again. He came to the battlefield of the First World War and was shot, but he immediately came to the right time—1996. In 1996, the female doctor was kidnapped by the male protagonist after the lecture on her new book about "foreseeing the future" was over. The actor asks the female doctor to help him drive and go to Philadelphia to find the Twelve Monkey Army. Along the way, the female doctor and the male protagonist gradually understand and help the male protagonist heal the gunshot wound. After some investigation, the actor learned that the Twelve Monkey Army was related to the lunatic who was locked up with him in the mental hospital in 1990, because his father is a famous virologist. The hero came to find the madman alone, but the madman didn't know what the hero was talking about. On the contrary, the protagonist's words inspired the lunatic and gave him the idea of organizing the Twelve Monkey Army to destroy the world. At this time, the actor understood that everything was caused by himself. The actor ran away after a dispute with the madman. He found the female doctor, but he went back to the future without saying a few words. In the future, a voice told him that he should go back to 1996 because the male protagonist likes female doctors. The actor lied to the scientist to continue the task and went back to 1996. In 1996, the heroine used the bullet in the actor's leg to tell her one thing that made her believe that the actor is indeed from the future and that there is indeed an army of twelve monkeys. When the female doctor tried to save the world, she found the male protagonist. The two continued to work hard, only to realize that all the facts they knew in the future were created by the two of them. The discouraged two decided not to consider these, they decided to go to the beach. After the two dressed up in disguise, they found on the way to the airport that the goal of the Twelve Monkey Army was only to release the animals in the zoo, and they immediately let out a sigh of relief. But at the airport, the protagonist met someone from the future and gave him a gun to perform a new mission. At the same time, the female doctor discovered the person who was actually carrying the virus, so she chased him with the male protagonist. When the actor was about to hit the person carrying the virus, the actor was knocked down by the police, and the person left with the virus smoothly. In this way, the male protagonist died, and the female doctor was arrested, and the world was not saved. All of this was seen in the eyes of the young male protagonist who was also at the airport, which is why the male protagonist and the female doctor seem to have known each other before. Finally, the person carrying the virus chatted with the female scientist from the future sitting beside him. The movie ends here. The discouraged two decided not to consider these, they decided to go to the beach. After the two dressed up in disguise, they found out on the way to the airport that the goal of the Twelve Monkey Army was only to release the animals in the zoo, and they immediately let out a sigh of relief. But at the airport, the protagonist met someone from the future and gave him a gun to perform a new mission. At the same time, the female doctor discovered the person who was actually carrying the virus, so she chased him with the male protagonist. When the actor was about to hit the person carrying the virus, the actor was knocked down by the police, and the person left with the virus smoothly. In this way, the male protagonist died, and the female doctor was arrested, and the world was not saved. All of this was seen in the eyes of the young male protagonist who was also at the airport, which is why the male protagonist and the female doctor seem to know each other before. Finally, the person carrying the virus chatted with the female scientist from the future sitting beside him. The movie ends here. The discouraged two decided not to consider these, they decided to go to the beach. After the two dressed up in disguise, they found on the way to the airport that the goal of the Twelve Monkey Army was only to release the animals in the zoo, and they immediately let out a sigh of relief. But at the airport, the protagonist met someone from the future and gave him a gun to perform a new mission. At the same time, the female doctor discovered the person who was actually carrying the virus, so she chased him with the male protagonist. When the actor was about to hit the person carrying the virus, the actor was knocked down by the police, and the person left with the virus smoothly. In this way, the male protagonist died, and the female doctor was arrested, and the world was not saved. All of this was seen in the eyes of the young male protagonist who was also at the airport, which is why the male protagonist and the female doctor seem to know each other before. Finally, the person carrying the virus chatted with the female scientist from the future sitting beside him. The movie ends here.
When I first watched this movie, it was still in the rmvb era. It was probably the version of the film and television empire, and it was definitely not R3 subtitles. After reading it, I don’t understand. Does the Twelve Monkey Army really exist? This is the question that comes to mind when encountering this movie in recent years after watching the movie. Now, after a lapse of four or five years, I finally understand the movie and finally resolve the doubts in my heart for more than ten years.
On the whole, the film mainly expresses two aspects, one is to show a pattern of changes caused by "time travel", and the other is the boundary of "crazy". In addition, the film also shows the crisis brought to the world by human development and the troubles it caused to people, as well as people's doomsday mood at the end of the century. What really makes this movie commendable and highly acclaimed is the fatalism it expresses through the first aspect, that is, everything is destined and everything cannot be changed. From the perspective of the plot, it is to tell the audience that the world will eventually be destroyed, and no one can save it!
Let me start with the first aspect. Since my opinion is that the world cannot be changed, how does the movie tell? Let’s explain them one by one below.
1. We must first abandon that the male protagonist is a patient with schizophrenia, everything is a deduction from his imagination. Because everything in the movie is fact and is happening, although the future and current actor have experienced the same things, such as bathing, questioning, spiders, etc., but through the changes in the hero’s dream, the female doctor’s rescue operation in 1996 and The appearance of the World War I bullets, photos, and the last female scientist all proved that time travel does exist and everything is reality. These repetitive scenes set by director Terry Gilliam are nothing but to confuse the audience's understanding of the film and artificially set up barriers to understanding. At the same time, this also involves a little bit about the relationship between dreams and reality. Through the film, we can know that the boundaries between them are very blurred.
2. The core issue of the movie now is-the future is history, and history cannot be changed, so everything cannot be changed, everything is destined. Why is the future history? The "future" here refers to people's future in 1996 and 1990, which is already history for the male protagonist. Now that it is history, how can it change? To put it simply, what has happened cannot be changed. Most people may disagree with this view, because many film and television works have plots of going back to the past and changing the future, and they are all successful. It can only be said that these film and television works are not rigorous, they do not touch the essence of time travel, and the excellence of this film lies in this-through the plot, it describes the impact of time travel on the world.
Regarding time travel, there is such a definition on the Internet: time travel, or time travel, time travel, and travel, generally refers to the movement of people or other objects from a certain point in time to another point in time. In fact, all people follow the natural progression of time every minute and every second, so time travel simply refers to a way that violates this natural time change: either it is going to the future by a large margin, or it is going back to the past. Since people can go back to the past, it will change the people or things on the time axis, which also makes time travel full of unpredictability, and also makes things contradictory, the most famous of which is the "grandfather paradox." Grandfather's Paradox: Suppose someone goes back in time and kills his grandparents before his father is born; because someone's grandparents are dead, there will be no one's father; without someone's father, someone won't Will be born; then contradictions arise. According to the understanding of modern people, such a thing will certainly not happen, so the Russian theoretical physicist Novikov (Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov) put forward a new rule about the time travel paradox in the 1980s, namely Novikov The principle of self-consistency: People can go back to the past, but they cannot change the course of history. Its basic meaning is that our world is the final outcome that has been changed. This film tells such a story.
3. From the second point, we can know that no matter what method the male protagonist uses, he cannot change the fact that the world is destroyed, because according to Novikov's principle of self-consistency, history will always modify it, and the movie describes it in this way. First of all, the shooting scene in the hero's dream is exactly what he witnessed at the airport when he was a teenager, but the fact has changed. The man who fell to the ground at the airport has changed from a lunatic to himself. This is a correction made by history. Secondly, through the comparison between dreams and reality, the male protagonist gradually discovered that the details have changed, because he said "different" many times, especially in the movie theater, it can be seen that history has corrected the details. Third, the mysterious person who makes a sound in the male protagonist's ear is a direct participant in the historical correction. He used the voice to remind the hero that there is a tracking device hidden in his teeth, allowing the hero to escape the scientist's tracking, which prompted the hero to call and leave a message, leading the scientist to send someone to deliver the gun, and finally let the hero die under the gun. Fourth, the actor came to 1996 to investigate the "Twelve Monkey Army", because the Twelve Monkey Army was indeed related to the virus in 1996, but the appearance of the actor has changed in 1996. The male protagonist left a message, and the recording of the future phone call also changed. From the words of the gunman, "Oh my God, it would be nice if they heard the news sooner." It can be seen that the people in the future have just deciphered the recording. This is history. Another revision. Fifth, after listening to the first dialogue of the movie, I know that there are many people who go back to the past to perform tasks, but these people have not come back. People are still living underground. It can be seen that no one who returned to the past has changed history. This also proves Novikov's principle of self-consistency and proves that history can be revised. Sixth, in the female doctor's speech, she mentioned that there have been many abnormal occurrences in history who predicted that the virus will appear at the end of 1996. This time confirmed Novikov's principle of self-consistency. History has corrected these characters. Changes to history. Moreover, these people are likely to be people sent to perform tasks in the future. It can be seen from the above points that aside from the complex shell of the film, a careful analysis of the essence of the film will find that although the male protagonist has entered history, he has become a part of history. No matter what changes he makes, history will undergo corresponding changes. To correct the changes made by the actor, to maintain the stability of the results. This just proves Novikov's principle of self-consistency, that is, our world is the final outcome that has been changed. This is the fatalism that the movie wants to express, everything is doomed!
4. The female scientist who appeared at the end of the movie was a genius and another obstacle to understanding set by Terry Gilliam. If it is an ordinary audience who has not studied this film carefully, they will definitely think that the future will change. Because the female scientist has appeared, and she is a contemporary of the male protagonist, it is obvious that she is the future person, and she will definitely save the world. But don’t forget Novikov’s principle of self-consistency and what has just happened to the male protagonist. Although female scientists will make changes to current things, such as killing people who carry the virus, another factor will also appear in history to stop her behavior. , Or let her cause the spread of the virus by herself. Because all this must follow Vikov's principle of self-consistency, history needs to be revised. In addition, people carrying the virus have already released the virus at the airport, and the appearance of female scientists can no longer change the fact that Philadelphia was attacked by the virus. In short, the emergence of a female scientist is only in vain. She can only change the process, not the result.
The above is the first aspect of film performance, and it is also its core theme. It proves Novikov's principle of self-consistency through a story with a rather tortuous plot and a little suspenseful taste, and presents the scientific side of time travel to the audience. This makes it very different from other travel movies. In the film, it does not involve complicated scientific theories or magical time machines. It only uses a story to tell a very profound theory in physics and logic. In-depth movies are rare. In addition, the fatalism conveyed by the film tells the audience that everything is doomed and that all changes are in vain. It tells a religious theme in the cloak of science, which makes the film even more unique. This has to remind me of the "Death Illusion" I just watched two days ago. The two films have very similar themes and viewpoints, and both use scientific theories to illustrate religious thought. This also shows that religion has penetrated into the depths of American thinking, and movies have become a way for them to express their religious thinking. For me, although I don't have any religious beliefs, the theme conveyed by the film has to be convincing. At least I believe the film. Novikov's principle of self-consistency is a reasonable explanation.
In addition to the core theme, the film explores the boundaries of "crazy" through plots such as mental hospitals and female psychiatrists. It can be seen from the movie that the definition of madness and not madness is an artificial standard, so "crazy" is only a relative concept, and it needs a reference. For this film, in the first half of the film, the male protagonist is crazy to the female doctor; in the second half of the film, when the female doctor believes the male protagonist's claims, she and the male protagonist are considered crazy together. Therefore, it can be seen that when two contradictory facts are in opposition, the majority will judge the minority as "crazy" according to their own principles. It can be seen that madness has nothing to do with the mental state, but only with the human environment. As the female doctor said in the film, "Psychiatry is the newest religion." This is the simplest and most direct explanation, because you can't prove it, you can only believe it.
In addition, the film shows people's sense of crisis in terms of viruses, nuclear weapons, population expansion, etc., and this film is exactly the mid- to late-1990s film, which highlights people's despair and helplessness towards the end of the century. To put it simply, people are afraid of the future, because the world is full of threats, and it coincides with the end of the century that people’s feelings have become more important. From this aspect, we can deeply understand the sense of crisis that Americans had in that era. This aspect of this film expresses the same views as many movies of the same period, such as "Last Century Riot" and "Fighting Club", "Seven Deadly Sins". In addition, the Twelve Monkey Army that appeared in the movie also reflected people's animal protectionism and expressed the view that animals should not be used as experiments. In short, although this is only a movie, the content involved is quite extensive.
Let's talk about the filming of the movie. The overall style of the film is an apocalyptic atmosphere, and the extensive use of mechanical devices gives the film a slightly steampunk feel. Moreover, whether it is the science laboratory of the future, the buildings of Baltimore and Philadelphia in 1996, and the chaotic urban atmosphere, they all give people a doomsday scene of frequent collapse, as if there is no hope for everything. This is what the movie gave me. The most direct experience is also the outstanding part of the scenery and props. The film’s perspective is also very unique. In the first half of the film related to the mental hospital, there are few horizontal perspective images. Most of the film uses a vacillating oblique perspective to show the madness, chaos and depression of the mental hospital. This is also true. The strengths of the movie. In other aspects, the music, pictures, editing, structure, etc. are all very accurate interpretations of the entire story, and the film is perfectly expressed in various ways. There is also a clever borrowing of Alfred Hitchcock's film. It closely combines the plot of "Victorius" with the plot of the film, leading to a line that I very much agree with, "The movie will not change, it will not change. But you Every time I look at it, I feel different every time, because you have also changed.” This sentence clearly shows my current point of view. It can be seen that the director of this film is a genius. While paying tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, he can also express his own ideas, which is amazing.
The actors in this film performed very well. The protagonist Bruce Willis changed his lonely heroic image into an ordinary person who was tortured by time travel to blur the boundary between reality and illusion. His confused eyes and painful expressions delicately interpret this tragic character. It's just that when he is dealing with emotional scenes, he is still a rough man's way, and he can't be romantic. Supporting actor Brad Pitt's performance in this film is the best performance I have ever seen in his film. Brad Pitt's performance in the film, you don't need to look at other things, just look at his eyes, you can deeply realize that he is a real lunatic. It's hard to imagine how Brad Pitt interprets this kind of gaze. Madness, dissociation, sensitivity, etc., are all reflected in this character. After watching this film, I know that Brad Pitt has acting skills. The performance of the heroine Madeleine Stowe is equally brilliant. Although she is not a stunning beauty, she is also a great beauty. In the film, she perfectly shows the role of a female doctor. From her firm belief that the male protagonist is a madman, to gradually changing her viewpoints towards the male protagonist, until she saves the world together with the male protagonist, and every state changes her. They are all just right. It's a pity that such a woman with good color and art has not become popular. I checked the information and found out that she was the beauty that impressed me in "Bloodbath in Chinatown". The others are all tricks, not much to say.
In general, this is a movie with a profound theme and a tortuous plot. It is very attractive and beautiful. And under its attractive appearance, there are profound themes about science and religion, which can make people think a lot. Such a movie is not uncommon in IMDB250. However, compared with "Death Illusion", this film is a bit less complex, although their themes are the same, that is, everything has been established, and no factor can change the result of history.
Madeleine Stowe
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2011-12-13
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