Introduction First, let me tell you a story before we cut into the film.
Once upon a time, there was a little boy who studied very well. He was lost when he was traveling in many places with a volunteer in Xiali Camp organized by the school. Later, when wandering in the city, I encountered a lot of people and things. There were preachers who preached the imminent destruction of mankind, old beggars full of nonsense, and the seemingly mysterious animal protection association, and some children thought it was cool. Monkey doodle. Then the child was raped by two people in an abandoned theater, and was stripped naked and taken to another city. Later, the two rapists had an accident. The naked boy escaped and wrapped his body in a garbage bag. He was found by the police and taken to the police station. Due to the intense stimulation, he lost his memory and was unable to communicate. ,nonsense. The police station contacted a female psychiatrist to help the little boy, and then took him to the local welfare home, and tried to get the little boy to tell his identity, so as to help him contact his family. With the help of the psychologist, the little boy The boy gave out a phone number, but his identity was not confirmed through this call. The little boy had to stay temporarily in this orphanage. Here he met a little friend who loves bragging, fantasies and pranks, watching a certain In the animal experiment TV show, this bragging little friend claimed that his father was a scientist who studies viruses, and the two imagined the virus's plan to destroy mankind together. During the period, the little boy wrote to the female psychologist to express his love. Later, the little boy tried to escape from the orphanage, but unfortunately it was unsuccessful. Afterwards, the orphanage contacted the female psychiatrist in charge of the boy. The doctor came to the orphanage and took him to the hospital for a comprehensive brain examination. The boy's continued stay in the orphanage was not conducive to his recovery, so he was taken away from the orphanage. Under the care of the doctor, the boy gradually recovered his memory, remembering where he was lost, and the doctor decided to take the boy to the city where he lost. During the period, the little boy watched a lot of cartoons and went to the cinema with the doctor to watch movies. Among them, his favorite was the theme of time travel. The doctor also took the boy to the zoo, and the various things inside left a deep impression on the boy. As the boy's memory recovered, they came to the street where the little boy first lost, the mall. At this time, the little boy really remembered a phone call, through which the doctor finally contacted the boy's parents. At the airport, the doctor and the boy, accompanied by the police, exchanged the boy to his parents. In the airport, the little boy saw several impressive (fearful) faces and one that made the child full of fantasy and put on a lot of stickers. Mysterious suitcase. Then something unexpected happened at the airport, one
This caused the little boy to be frightened and irritated again, and eventually became the cause of the little boy’s mental illness, causing the little boy to enter a fantasy world. The composition of this world is made up of the various things that the little boy saw during this experience. Imagine that the human world is destroyed by the virus, and then become the savior for time travel. (Additionally, the little boy and the little partner in this story may be the same person.)
Finally, after hearing about the little boy’s experience and fantasy world, a screenwriter wrote a script and moderated the fantasy part. Adult-style perfection and rationalization. But what is certain is that the intention of the screenwriter or director is definitely not to tell a science fiction story, because the screenwriter or director has made countless hints in the film, the seemingly unintentional TV content, movies, newspapers, street scenes, and characters in the film. All hint that this is a fantasy world.
Let's cut into the film and summarize some points of view:
1. If the whole story told by the film is believed to be true, the protagonist is here to save the world, regardless of which world it is. This is [Science Fiction through Time and Space]. There are too many illogical and coincidences. If anyone still wants to die and say that this is a sci-fi story, I only ask a few questions, why the protagonist sees a 12 monkey graffiti
that says [we did it] on the street and can believe that the destruction of mankind was done by this organization ? Why did the protagonist's only three crossings appear next to this psychologist? Why does the protagonist need to kidnap this irrelevant psychiatrist? Why does the psychiatric hospital that the protagonist enters, happens to be closed by a small partner who has a scientist father who can destroy human viruses? Why does this little friend happen to love the protagonist who haunts us to save the world? Why does this little partner happen to be the leader of the 12 Monkeys? Why did the real virus spreader appear at the airport again? Now that the future scientists have lost their goals, why would they show up at the airport? Since you don't know who is the spreader of the virus, why give the protagonist a gun?
2. If it is determined that only the future part of the entire story told by the film is partially true, the protagonist is mentally hypnotized by future scientists, creating an illusory world and countless coincidences based on his own experience, and executing it by letting him complete the so-called task Force to judge, in order to achieve the spiritual transformation of the male protagonist, and ultimately achieve the purpose of controlling human behavior. This is [Mind Control Conspiracy Theory with Science Fiction Elements]. Although it can explain why there are so many coincidences and irrationals, I personally don't like it very much.
3. If it is determined that the entire story told by the film is not true from beginning to end, including the part when returning home from the airport. So, this whole story is a story written by a screenwriter (director) based on the fantasy world of a mentally ill who was stimulated as a child. The story itself is just a story, a fantasy, and fantasy has the reality that builds fantasy. This is similar to [Mulholland Road], a story that depicts a dream. The story itself is just a fantasy, a dream, in which there is reality that constructs fantasy.
Then, we take the story I told before to re-examine the whole film and treat it as real. You will find that the seemingly unrelated story I told and the absurd fantasy story told by the film can be synchronized and integrated. . It is the truth in this fantasy.
As my title says, the screenwriter (director) uses a fantasy story to tell another true story behind it.
Let me show you some suggestive pictures below. If you are interested, you can check it out. Among them, it is particularly worth mentioning that when the protagonist escaped from the mental hospital, the guard read the front page news of the newspaper [BAT CHILD FOUND IN CAVE!]. The director used multiple sets of shots and angles to repeatedly and completely show it. Importance and special significance. This is an American supermarket tabloid that has been discontinued. It is famous for reporting anecdotes and absurd news [World News Weekly]. It was openly fabricated fake news on June 23, 1992 (and this film is a 1996 work ), and bat boy is undoubtedly fictitious. Interested friends can go to learn more about the characteristics of [World News Weekly] and the birth process of [bat boy].
The following passage is taken from Baidu [World News Weekly], please think carefully about what it has in common with this film:
[While other gossip tabloids have turned to report on celebrity privacy and gossip, only World News Weekly still insists on reporting these weird "news events" that are "ignored" by mainstream media. According to Mark Miller, the author of hundreds of the journal's news, these news are 100% fictitious. However, although the content is absurd, the news content of World News Weekly still strictly follows the news report format, with report date, news source, expert opinion and other common news terms. The editor of the journal told Miller that the news he wrote must "look like this" on the surface, because they must satisfy half of the serious readers and the other half who read the news purely as a joke. When an editor was interviewed, he recalled a "news" he wrote: "A man on a diet was so hungry that he chased the dwarf with an axe because he regarded the dwarf as a chicken", although it was completely fictional
Yes , but it must be written as if there is such a thing] Are you willing to be a so-called "serious reader" who never doubts the authenticity of this fictitious news ([Science Fiction through Time and Space])? Or are you willing to be a "reader who treats these news purely as jokes (entertainment)" ([Mind Control Conspiracy Theory with Science Fiction Elements])? Or are you willing to be a reader who discovers the truth behind this not 100% fictional story and explores the causes?
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