This film was the opening film of the Toronto Film Festival. After the premiere, fans on imdb website gave me a high score of 8.2, which made me a sci-fi fan of the year to smell the flavour of the annual masterpiece. A good meal is not afraid of late, so let’s postpone it. I have been looking forward to it~ After the
busy early October, I used the rest time to finally watch this film wholeheartedly, and I feel like I finished watching it. . . How should I put it, it may be that the expectations were too high, and it was not as good as I expected. I was disappointed. Before watching it, I had always imagined that this might be a sci-fi masterpiece with peculiar ideas and tightly structured like "Inception". As a result, I only guessed the front. . .
The director’s idea is indeed peculiar and is a good idea. It has opened up a new concept of traversal-"sealing the ring" (kill yourself), but whether the director can make the plot round and become the biggest attraction of the film, we all know about The time and space shuttle always encounters the age-old problem of the paradox of time and space. The past traversing films have tried to avoid the encounter between the future traversing body and the actual ontology, so as not to cause historical rewriting, but the director of the film did the opposite, not only let the two I met, and let the reality ontology kill me who had traveled back from the future. The awesome idea of the director at the beginning of the film made me shine, but whether the filming behind such a non-mainstream concept is smooth and meticulous in the plot, I have Khan on behalf of the director.
The first 30 minutes of the movie was a bit messy, with two lines interspersed and mixed with various flashbacks. It seems that there are parallel universes. People who travel back can change history. A small change will have an impact on the future. For example, one of the lines is that the old Joe was killed by the little Joe, and the other line is that the old Joe was not killed by the little Joe, which has a feeling of "butterfly effect".
Then another 30 minutes passed, and I found that the director’s worldview was not a parallel universe, but like "Horror Cruise". This is a cyclical process, and different situations will appear in the cycle, combined with the film’s name "Ring "Emissary", I seem to understand what the director meant. The entire timeline is a circle. Old Joe sent back to the past and was killed by little Joe. After completing the ring, little Joe took the gold bar to enjoy 30 years, and then was sent back to the past to be killed. This cycle goes back and forth, but accidents happen during the cycle, and the old Joe is not killed, there will be another ending. But unlike "Cruise of Horror", this film belongs to a single cycle. If there is an accident in the cycle, the previous cycle will not be there. Instead, it will be cycled according to the new situation. Obviously there are contradictions between the front and the back, but It can only be understood according to the worldview set by the director.
Then the plot of the next 30 minutes suddenly changed. The new employer of the ring killer of the future world is a cold-blooded brutal murderer with super powers. The whole world is about to be turned into a purgatory by him. The first thing he has arrived. The thing is to seal the ring for all the ring killers. The new employer’s men killed the old Joe’s wife by mistake during the process of arresting the old Joe to seal the ring. After losing his beloved, the small universe broke out to kill the person who escorted him to the ring. Later, he took the initiative to travel back. The purpose of his trip was to kill the new employers in his childhood, in order to save his wife and the future world.
At this point, the director's intention is becoming more and more unpredictable. How did it become the plot of "Terminator"? How familiar is this situation? So much was laid before, just to destroy the demons in childhood and save the world? Because of the starring role of Bruce Willis, coupled with this plot, there is another kind of chaos in "12 Monkeys", the more you look down, the more it looks like Lao Bu has crossed over from "12 Monkeys" to save the world. . . . . .
In the last 20 minutes of the plot, the director completely collapsed my worldview and outlook on life. It turned out that when the devil hired Chairman De in his childhood, he had a psychological shadow on seeing his mother killed by old Joe while protecting himself. He was a ring killer. With an unforgettable hatred, he became a demon 30 years later, sealing all ring killers. But this is not the climax. The climax is that Sid’s mother is a TK superpower with the ability to move objects through the air, and Sid inherited his mother’s genes and possesses tens of thousands of times stronger energy than his mother. Little Sid can be angry after being angry. Use powerful thoughts to control everything in the world, and can destroy everything, and I have a fight with the Phoenix girl. Only here I realized that the director was filming "The X-Men Prequel: TK Demon", a science fiction film was turned into a fantasy super by the director. For ability films, the director is really a god-like existence, and his purpose is to kill the audience.
Do you think this is over? No~No~No~ The director is not happy yet. At the end, there is another super big reversal. In order to prevent the old Joe from shooting and killing the little Sid’s mother, the little Joe made a surprise and shocked the world. Action-he committed suicide! ! ! Without little Joe, there would be no old Joe, so old Joe just disappeared out of thin air, so little Sid’s mother was not killed, so little Sid has no shadow, so there will be no later He has become a murderer, and in the future, under the guidance of his mother's Chunshun, he will grow up to be a useful pillar of the society. Little Joe indirectly saved the world through self-sacrifice~~~ I am grass, I was completely defeated by the director.
It turns out that the director has tossed for so long to express an ultimate theme-this world is full of love, through self-sacrifice, to the future A chance for the world to change for the better. . . Nima is too positive, I rub ~~~~
There are many bugs in the film that the director can’t justify, I won’t list them one by one, I just want to talk about one of the ultimate big bugs in this film~~~Back below The question of the title of the article, this is also the question that has been in my mind after watching this movie-"Let you kill yourself from the future, will you get rid of it?" I thought about it, and set the movie. The situation in my body is on me, my answer is: I’m sure I won’t get rid of it.
Such an obvious answer, will the future bosses think of it? This is a bug. Nima killed people in the future. Can’t it be enough to send the corpse back to the past? Does it need to be as complicated as in the movie? There are 3 people who have been sealed in the show, and 2 of them are sealed. Failure, if you do as I said, you can seal the ring perfectly, which not only reduces the risk, but also saves unnecessary trouble caused by a ring failure. There is another ultimate bug-is Nima's future killing as difficult as the movie begins? The old Joe’s wife was killed casually. In the future, the old Joe’s career is also a killer. He drove on the street with a gun and shot wildly. Nima is so casual, and it is necessary to kill this person in order to kill someone. Forcefully travel to the past and then kill? ? ?
I just want to say, the director, you are so domineering, and you have successfully played the audience. . . . . .
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