Another story about destiny

Jovanny 2022-03-19 09:01:02

If you can't change the past, why not smell the flowers.

The first half of the film was a little confused due to the exhaustion accumulated by several films in a row. This film gave me the feeling that the actor has no consciousness of being a time-traveler and a candidate for the savior, and is almost lost in the sense of self-existence of time-space alternation and repeated wavering. This is worthy of the contempt of many individual heroes for 5 minutes.

But, the more I look at it, the more I discover that this is a story that has nothing to do with salvation.

The plot of this film is relatively powerful whether it is placed in 1995 or 2008. The difference is that the audience may have been used to similar stories.

It is indeed a very clever technique to put the emotional entanglement of traveling through time and space in the gorgeous shell of salvation. The final ending seems to be the "history cannot be changed" school of time travel theory, but I have to admit that I am at the end of the film. At that time, I was immersed in the eyes of the heroine looking at the childhood Bruce Willis. .

In the end, it still did not stop the final boss from bringing the virus onto the plane. In the end, the actor still did not survive to give the audience a happy ending, and in the end he did not succeed in saving mankind.

Blood-stained blond hair, fate has violated.

Bruce Willis took the heroine to the airport and was shot. A slightly panicked child stood far away watching him fall, and the same dream for decades began. . Up to this point, all the clues are connected, and a perfect Mobius ring is drawn for the audience.

So far it has been perfect.

When watching a lot of movies, bystanders think clearly, if it were me, what would happen.

So, if it was me, I wouldn't have to spend so much effort. After all, the end was the same in the end. Why not smell the flowers gracefully and wait for the end gracefully. But reality is reality, and story is story. The lingering entanglement that is repeated to death is the biggest charm of the story.

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12 Monkeys quotes

  • [first lines]

    Title Card: ...5 billion people will die from a deadly virus in 1997... /... The survivors will abandon the surface of he planet... /... Once again the animals will rule the world... / - Excerpts from interview with clinically diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, April 12, 1990 - Baltimore County Hospital.

  • Jeffrey Goines: All the doors are locked too. They're protecting the people on the outside from us from the people on the outside who are as crazy as us.