I read "Fatal ID" first, and then "Donnie Darko". This Chinese translation is very unskilled. It may be easy to spoiler or mislead. In short, it is very bad. Not as good as the sensational "28 days of horror" that the Hongkongers turned over. This film was supposed to be a thrilling suspense film like "Fatal ID", but I didn't expect to see another scene. I was a little nervous to entertain guests with a projector, so I walked a few times at the beginning and the middle of the film, and some details were not noticed, which directly affected the understanding of the plot. The whole film, from the soundtrack to the lines to the performance to the plot, is a bit weird (after checking the information, we understand that there is a reason for this weirdness. As for the reason, I won't spoil it here). The movie is very cool. I feel that the director spoke a lot of interconnected things, but failed to clarify the connection between the clues and them, which hindered the audience's understanding of the film. This film is notoriously obscure, and it is said that the degree of incomprehension even exceeds that of David Lynch's famous "Mutland Road." But perhaps it is precisely because of this that a crowd of movie fans will watch the disc over and over again, and the disputes are so bloodshed that they can't produce a perfect and complete result. The theme of this film is a bit like "Butterfly Effect", but the former focuses on expressing the perplexed and desperate youth mood in the form of science fiction, while the latter's science fiction is the main axis and origin of the story, and the plot revolves around a certain theory. Compared with "Butterfly Effect", this film is much more "art". The film does not have strong sensory stimulation and impact, but it is quite intriguing. After watching it, its plot and atmosphere will linger in the hearts of the viewers. It makes people feel that if there is no thinking about the film, the whole process of watching the movie seems to be missing. What seems incomplete.
At 14:30 on April 16, 2009, I got off the bus and walked on the way to the office. The sun was dazzling, and there were a lot of people on the street, all in a hurry. No one would turn their heads and look at others. Everything I saw before my eyes overlapped very disharmoniously with everything I felt in the movie. I was in a trance, lost and depressed: What proves that everything you have experienced is a real existence? What is the difference between destroying the world and changing the world? If it is a dream, are we in the dream or out of the dream? If the current life makes me feel unhappy and cannot get rid of this arrangement, what should I do? What is the track of life? I even began to doubt whether exposure to too many such movies is a good or bad thing for
me ... I know my understanding ability is okay, but my logical thinking ability is not generally bad. When I watch the movie, I am confused and some things are clearer. , But others are unclear. I read a lot of information and movie highlights on the Internet to understand most of them. There are already a lot of articles analyzed on the Internet, so I won’t publish my unskilled thoughts here. Just talk about one or two interesting places I found.
The various elements of building this film and some details of the enrichment of the plot seem to be unrelated mashup styles, but if you pursue them one by one, you will miraculously achieve perfection with the few keywords that the film wants to express. echo. For example, in the second half of the movie, the male and female protagonists went to the movies. The scene they watched was "Ghost Man". "Ghost Man" is a classic American horror film in the 1980s. The book of death, the content of the book is that people can lie in sleep for a long time, and never really die. Several college students chanted the spell in the book, but the devil who survived never died. The students were killed one by one. In the end, the heroic male protagonist finally saw the beautiful dawn after a life and death struggle with the devil, but in the end he still died in the hands of the devil. The cycle of the devil's immortality coincides with the cycle in "Death Illusion", and the hero in the story is also similar to the final fate of DONNIE. The hero also mentioned "Back to the Future" in the film, which is also a classic film about time travel.
After they came out of the movie theater, the director gave a close-up shot of the advertising lights with the names of two films hanging above the entrance of the movie theater. One of the two was "Ghosts Playing with People" and the other was "The Last Temptation of Christ". The director of "The Last Temptation of Christ" is the famous Martin Scorsese, which has been classified as a banned film by many Christian countries. The release year happened to be 1988. "Christ" was a general meaning that Jesus went through all kinds of things and was finally hanged. Enduring great pain on the cross, an angel in a trance told him that God had relieved him from his responsibilities, and he could live a normal life from then on. Accompanied by angels, Jesus walked down the cross, married and gave birth to children like ordinary people...Decades later, dying Jesus saw several of his former disciples before his sick bed. Judas suddenly accused Jesus of betrayal and failing to fulfill his mission of atonement. At this time, Jesus discovered that the angel who had been by his side turned out to be the incarnation of Satan. He was full of remorse and asked God to come back again. Jesus returned to the cross. He woke up from pain. This time he got rid of the last temptation and became immortal. This story coincides with the film’s concept of salvation and salvation and the plot of DONNIE being instructed by the controlled body FRANK to make some violent sabotage events in a dreamlike hallucination state. In "The Last Temptation of Christ," Martin Sicoses did not actually tamper with the results stated in the Bible, but deconstructed the story or the process of history. After a tortuous road, in the end, Jesus still accepted the arrangement of fate and went to the cross, completing his mission of salvation. The author of the original book of "Christ" made a very touching passage in the opening preface. The excerpt is as follows:
"He finally chose the path taken by ordinary people. What a good and sensible choice! What a crazy idea to save mankind. To be able to escape hunger, torture, and the cross, and to spend a lifetime at ease, gave him much happiness! The last temptation only happened in a flash of lightning, when the savior was about to die. But Jesus immediately shook his head and opened his eyes. Open your eyes and come back to reality again. No, he is not an apostate, the glory is to God! He is not a deserter. He has completed the mission entrusted to him by the Lord. He is not married, and he has not lived a peaceful life. He He has reached the highest peak of sacrifice and was nailed to the cross.
He closed his eyes and felt at ease. Then there was a triumphant roar: The mission is complete...."
All of these are consistent with the ending set by the dead body that the male protagonist of the film has been set by the dead control body step by step in countless cycles. This passage of Taoism can almost be used as a monologue for the male protagonist. Even the weird and ironic smile on the face of the male protagonist from beginning to end can be seen projected in the movie "Christ". The perspective of the offline universe and the original universe can also be seen in the comparison between the pre-eternal world of the Greek Scriptures of the Bible and the real world of ancient Rome in the Middle Ages. The torment and choice faced by Jesus in the film, and DONNIE The situation is similar, and the donation of DONNIE as a living recipient to maintain the balance of the universe is similar to that of Jesus giving his blood to the world for atonement. It's just that the film is very low-key, and there is no obvious manifestation of the male protagonist's mental state. So why do many movie fans feel that the theological and religious meaning of this film is far greater than the meaning of science fiction. Whether the ultimate science fiction will return to the realm of theology is unknown. I believe that the director is also an agnostic just like the hero in the film.
During this period, I even thought of "Journey to the West". In "The Big Story", in addition to funny and love, time and space, Tang Sanzang said a paragraph that I am also very impressed. He said, what is life and death, and what is it? I sing this song "ONLY YOU". The Supreme Treasure finally made the decision to abandon all the earthly things, follow the arrangements of fate, and go to the west with Sanzang to learn the scriptures. Isn't it the same as the male protagonist in this book, "Who knows the big dream beforehand, I know myself in my life"?
Take the band TEARS FOR FEARS that appears in the background music again as an example. The GOOGLE search of the band’s profile is as follows: TEARS FOR FEARS has always been an ambitious British pop/rock band. Perhaps the biggest feature of the band is that they are unwilling to repeat themselves. They pursue a "destroy and rebuild" style, regardless of the previous album. Anyway, their next album will never simply repeat the old style of the previous album. They would rather break everything and start over. This coincides with the "destroy", "destroy" and "creation" repeatedly mentioned in the movie. TEARS FOR FEARS is my favorite British band from the 1980s. When I was in college, I accidentally bought their collection at the school's booth selling tapes, and then I looked around for information. Heard it countless times. In the film, the director arranged several of their songs as interludes. The emotions and atmosphere expressed in the songs are so relevant to the film. The addition of the name of the band makes me doubt the original motivation of the director to make this movie. It's because I like this band. The right "MAD WORLD" is placed at the end of the film, with a long lens like a group photo. It is beautiful and vivid. It directly touches the viewer's most sensitive nerve endings and pushes the film to a more connotative and poetic state. .
The above are all personal opinions. Just like a friend said, science fiction has its own paradox. The more you discuss it, the more confused you will be. Maybe the focus of the director's expression may not be here. Taking a step back, even if you skip the plots related to science fiction in the movie, the film creates the unique nostalgic, sentimental, and confused atmosphere of youth, some details worth repeating, and impressive. The sweet and sentimental soundtrack of the film is enough to make it an alternative classic in the genre and it will be followed by fans for a long time.
In addition, the actors in the play also found many familiar faces. Jack Black, the funny fat man who dubbed Kung Fu Panda, plays a rogue student who is estimated to have stayed in grades for many years. The strange English teacher Barum Moore is the original. The filmmaker also played the heroine in "Girls in the Thunderbolt". The female teacher who is an admirer of the theory of fear and love plays PETER's mother in the American drama "HEROES", which is also an impressive role. The male protagonist Glenn Hall was really young at the time. But playing a 16-year-old boy is a bit far-fetched.
Lyrics of "MAD WORLD":
English:
All the faces near me are familiar faces,
familiar places, familiar faces.
Every morning, happily
running
without a goal, running without a goal,
their tears are filled with their glasses,
no emotion (emoji),
no emotion (emoji)
Hiding my head
I want to drown my sadness.
There is no tomorrow.
There is no tomorrow
and I feel like I am a little funny.
I feel a little sad.
My death is the best dream
I have ever had. I feel it’s hard to tell you about
me. I find it hard to get
when people are running in circles. It is a very, very crazy world.
Crazy world.
Children are waiting for them. They feel
happy
birthday on the day they grow up. Happy birthday.
I feel that every child should sit down and listen. This method
sits down and listens.
I was very timid at school.
No one knows me.
No one knows me.
Hello teacher.
What my courses are.
She turns a
blind eye to
me. I feel I am a little funny.
I feel a little sad.
My death is the best I have ever had. Dreaming
I feel it’s hard to tell you
I find it hard to get
when people run in circles it’s a very, very
crazy world
Crazy World
Enlarge Your World
Crazy World
English Lyrics:
All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
And their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'Cos I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me
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