The story of the movie itself is very simple, but the experimental non-linear timeline blurs the memory, the gap between imagination and reality, and enriches the content of the movie. The montages interspersed back and forth are really wonderful. Many surprising and dramatic contrasts interrupted the audience’s coherent romantic feelings. Instead, the cold and bloody throat surgery in the operating room strengthened the dramatic conflict and deepened the audience’s feelings. The pain of the operation and the cruel impression of reality.
The story is mainly divided into two lines, one is mainly memories. The director sets up contradictions through the love concept of the heroine and the heroine: the contradiction between the heroine's bohemian love freedom and the heroine's lustful and loyal and loyal love relationship, which makes the story in the memory final. Lead to a horrible ending. The stereotype and superficial lust of the man made him unable to understand the heroine's desire for freedom in love. Through the hints of several interrogation scenes in reality, he strengthened the selfish and mean character image of the man.
Another character story line about the detective. Through the unique montage technique, the director makes the detective character seem to be wandering in the memory and reality of the male protagonist, creating an illusion of continuous exploration in the memory. Shaking hand-held photography and almost psychedelic montage editing assisted the detective's uncertainty, "but [HE] can see." hesitation, and made the audience empathize. In the end, the truth came to light, pulling the story line back to reality, and clarifying the inexplicable line of events that were suddenly inserted into the lens and the reasons for it.
If this movie is classified solely by the story of suspense themes, then this movie is not brilliant. The flashback interspersed back and forth disrupted the order of the story itself, lost the original logic, and even confuses the audience in order to confuse the audience. However, the dreamy atmosphere brought by the nonlinear narrative gives this movie a unique narrative rhythm and appreciation value. Even a very ordinary love story, under the seemingly illogical editing, smoothly leads to an absurd and surprising ending.
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