This desire to control is also very successful to some extent, but it is also very easy to backfire and produce a very bad impression.
Let's take a look at how it achieves the purpose of controlling the audience.
That is its unique "flashback" narrative method: deliberately split the film into many small segments connected by "tail-to-head", and rationalize it with a protagonist who has only short-term memory like a fish.
As a result, the audience is completely led by the nose and becomes the "slave" of the film, and even the audience's own thinking and behavior may be subtly affected and changed.
Therefore, under this premise, the film’s desire for control has been achieved quite successfully, and the "controlled" viewers can only call "God made" repeatedly.
But, very unfortunately, the story of this movie is really. . . Sucks, very mediocre, coupled with the narrative technique with such a strong pretense atmosphere, it gives a huge gap, which is really disappointing.
The storytelling of the whole story is very procrastinated. Perhaps the screenwriter thinks that the unique narrative method is enough to fascinate the audience, but it is a pity that this kind of script is difficult for people to buy. Coupled with such a storyline that subverts the normal sense of time and space, it will make people feel nauseous. This nausea refers to a physical reaction, not a psychological reaction. In short, it is caused by long and boring contrived gloom.
During the filming process, I even wondered if I could tell the whole story for a while, and I was very sure that in the end, there must be a long normal narrative plot to complete the story. Sure enough, the end of the film did exactly that.
However, it is still possible to pick a thorn. It is a bit old-fashioned to attribute all the causal sources to the "murloc" male protagonist. Of course, this film is in 2000. It is a bit unkind to say that, but it implicitly or explicitly refers to the principle of life. , That is, "find out the purpose of living", "the purpose of living does not exist", or all kinds of things, the performance is very thin, making the whole film more and more purely "splendid" work, leaving behind This gave me ample room for complaints.
In short, this film is not that magical, I only give three points for the five-point rating.
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