This movie premiered in the United States on February 19th. Martin Cisco Cissé and DiCaprio’s teamwork was so appealing that it was sitting in the theater. There are quite a few people. Because there is no spoiler, so I can only use the above media evaluation to express the mainstream perception of the film. If it is released in China, it is still quite worth watching.
1. Is this movie a horror movie?
"Closed Island" neither follows the bloody brainy horror route, nor is it a typical thriller movie. However, the environment and increasingly dangerous storyline of the whole play are really breathless. This movie is a typical "secret room" type movie. At the beginning, the audience was led into a closed and gloomy island with gloomy weather and raging sea rain. Until the end of the play, no scene left the island. The claustrophobic environment brings despair and fear to people, and the protagonist's behavior brings step by step clues to make people feel chilly.
In recent years, DiCaprio has put on a good, beautiful boy and disfigured himself into a fat middle-aged uncle, vividly portraying a police officer suffering from war traumatic sequelae. The film follows his psychological activities, most of which are Telling the story from his perspective, but turning around in the last few minutes, giving the audience a clear and normal perspective, subverting the audience's previous image of the film in just a few minutes.
If I have to classify this movie, I would rather classify it as a psychological suspense film, similar to Momento.
2. Tedd, or Andrew, is he crazy?
This is the most critical point of the film, and it is also the director's brilliance. At the beginning of the film, the audience followed Tedd's perspective, thinking that he was just a normal police officer who went to the island to investigate cases of missing mental patients. However, as the film progressed for most of the time, we all doubted the authenticity of the actor. His own psychological problems made readers even more suspicious. Is he a police officer or a patient who has lived on the island for several years? On that note, who is the 67th patient?
I was leaning towards Andrew being really crazy, because in the end the evidence presented to him by the doctors and nurses was too conclusive, too real, and so real in combination with his nightmare plot. But for a moment out of the theater, if Andrew is really mentally ill, then the previous plot, including the plot of his encounter with Rachel on the cliff, is meaningless, and the film really wants to show that it is indeed the subject of anti-Nazi and totalitarian experiments. Moreover, the last empty shot of the lighthouse representing totalitarian and violent rule is very intriguing. It seems to tell us that Tedd will never get out of the island. He has been brainwashed by experiments on the island, making him feel no pain or loss. The state machine of memory. If Tedd is only brainwashed, or just chooses to become a victim reluctantly, then the performance of the doctors, nurses and police officers on the island is chilling. Everyone knows the secret, but the performance is so amazing. play.
After watching the movie, I dare say that no one can tell if the actor played by DiCaprio is normal or crazy. The director's brilliance is that he did not explain the face of the story itself, but just let the audience "a thousand people have a thousand Shakespeare" to interpret and have their own opinions.
3. What does the specific imagery in the film represent?
Many of the details in the film are intriguing. Apart from the main branch of the second point, many images with obvious symbolic meaning are also worthy of careful scrutiny.
lighthouse? The lighthouse is an important image that has been talked about throughout the film but only appeared at the end. Rachel said: “Everyone on the island knows what happens in the lighthouse.” Normally, the lighthouse is a hope that guides people to the light, but in the play, after Tedd pursues the truth on the lighthouse, the lighthouse becomes a representative In the prison center of totalitarianism and taboo, no one can cross the prohibition of the lighthouse. That is where one feels desperate.
mouse? The swarms of mice that emerged after Tedd ran to the beach are one of the most disgusting shots in the film. These mice should mean that no matter what, the hero can only escape hopelessly at the end of the world, and there will never be a way out.
Flame in the cave? This is almost the only place in the film where a warm shot appears, immediately after the rat shot. Does this warm flame mean that only this place and what this person says is true, and this is the only force to fight against the power of the country? This metaphor also seems to coincide with the theme expressed by the director: Although there is resistance, the Nazi experiment implied and tolerated by the state is as endless as the endless cloud on the sea.
The wife of the dream? In addition to the theme of totalitarianism, Tedd himself is also a victim of war sequelae. In his constant nightmares and headaches, the images of his wife and his favorite daughter have always appeared. Regardless of whether this person exists or not, or she is just an illusion of starvation on the roadside that Tedd saw in World War II, "she" represents another self in Tedd's heart, trying to prevent "his" behavior, and is more protagonist. Struggle adds a heartbreaking color.
No matter whether Tedd chooses "Live like a moster" or "Die like a saint", the cloud of suspicion of the confinement island will always hang over his head, and he will never be able to wave it away in this life. Whether the story is an illusion of the protagonist or the reality that drives people crazy, the film will not tell us the answer, and its charm lies in the "flowers not flowers, fogs not fog" in Tedd's mind.
Finally, give some comments:
a novel with very ghostly temperament! Grasp the soul and challenge the limit of imagination. The ending was unexpectedly beautiful when I thought I would not be shocked again.
——The plot twists and turns of the "Atlanta Constitution" , the story is laid out with suspense, and the charm of reading is hard to resist. —— "The New York Times" is
like stepping into a crazy, weird, and sad nightmare...—— "Washington Post"
Stephen King and Allan Poe can write such a novel together after eating LSD! ——Associated Press
Article: Wang Jing
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