First, let's talk about the idea. The little boy experienced an airport shooting when he was a child. (I don't know if it was this shooting that caused him to start to have problems with his spirit or if he had a problem before and encountered this accident) The scene of this shooting is deeply accompanied by him in the boy's memory. Then he imagined the virus and saving the world.
Regarding several controversial points:
1. Correspondence of the scene. It can be regarded as the correspondence between the scene that the mental patient will see and the fantasy. This is most evident in this movie. There is a correspondence in any scene. First of all, time travels. It is mentioned in the cartoon that monkeys are on TV. Doctors and scientists, hospital beds and sheets, weird voices and old men, and some details and props. Everything has a corresponding relationship.
It’s very important that everyone carefully looks at the scenes in the lunatic asylum. They are all intentional, including the content on the TV, the various speeches Pete said about germs and freedom, the words of the black uncle, etc., all of which are related to the development of the plot. Play the role of paving the way, which shows from the side that for the protagonist, the lunatic asylum is actually the main source of the plot that he has imagined.
Because conjecture is an inference without evidence, as if I said this story is conjecture, you can refute me and say that all stories can be conjecture. Because of this, some obscure correspondences interspersed in the whole story can perfectly explain that this is a imaginary story.
2. Dreamland of the airport. It can be seen that the dreamland develops at the same time as the story of the protagonist, and it is the protagonist who renews the dreamland through the development of the plot. But a very important point, the basic part of the dream is the same, which shows that the airport shooting in the dream is a real thing that happened. However, the characters in the airport incident in the dream are different each time, which also shows that the protagonist’s long-distance memory and the story of his imagination are constantly intertwined.
3. News to rescue the little boy. Can you find out what is said in the news? The boy was in the underground tunnel and sent the monkey on the ground to rescue. Does it sound familiar? If you zoom in, isn't the plot of the whole story that humans are forced to move underground while animals are on the ground? This news is interspersed in the movie. Is it just a coincidence? And in the end, the news said that this was a prank by the little boy. Think about it for yourself.
4. Bullets and photos. As the protagonist of a mental patient, he can completely imagine the appearance of the person in his photo as his own. This is a very common disease of mental patients. It can be understood that the pattern of the photo already exists. But that book originally talked about prophets foreseeing disasters and the like, which can easily affect patients.
It is added that if it is contrived, then we don't know how old the protagonist is. It can be said that the so-called Dreamland Airport is precisely the most real thing. At the same time, the method of connection is very clever. The first shot is the scene of the little boy's airport, and then the protagonist "wakes up", and one shot covers the entire causal logic before and after.
Of course, this is just a way of thinking and does not exclude the logic of time travel. It's just that both of these make sense. This should be a good movie. Different people have different understandings.
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