As a story that is not lengthy, the main characters are only single digits. Only by the director’s innovative erection of the film structure, the thorough control of the details, and the actor’s meticulous interpretation of the characters, they have a unique charm and fragmentation. Its success is not a miracle.
The film is most praised for its seemingly short story of the huge and unknown inner world of the characters and the interlocking and entangled relationship between the characters, even the fate of the characters, the essence behind the story, these "appearances". All the so-called minutiae such as lines, scenes, expressions and movements of the characters are perfectly covered by the director's lines, each of which must be thoroughly concealed by the judges.
I personally think that the fragmentation is not easy to understand for many reasons, the most important of which are the following:
1. First of all, the time setting of the entire story: the time of the entire movie story is completely set after the protagonist has amnesia. In this way, grasping the protagonist’s mental state and other details will test the director, while understanding its psychology will test the audience. The story can be said to be complete. Overhead, the relationship between people is complicated and confusing. The protagonist’s past comes entirely from his unreliable or self-deceptive memories. Therefore, when Lena’s wife died and how he died, it’s not easy to make a conclusion. You can only guess the most probable answer through the audience’s groping and research on the details. Therefore, it’s okay to say so, so it’s okay to say it. Every statement must assume that the protagonist’s wife died in that incident, then Assuming that the protagonist’s completely unreliable memory is correct in this place; the protagonist’s wife was not dead in that incident, but he personally shot to death, then assume that Teddy’s last lie is true. Various claims come from various assumptions. The establishment of the hypothesis can confirm the establishment of the facts.
2. Next, due to the problem of film structure, the film adopts a combination of flashback + narration, and flashback is the main one. The advantage of flashbacks is that they can be fascinating. Each segment has its pre-story, and the audience often has a strong interest in what happened at this time because they don’t know what’s before, and hypotheses about the past are generated from the later. , Until the story slowly develops forward, and then overthrow his own guess. What’s not conducive to viewing is that because the previous events have not happened yet, the audience’s view of the latter events, where is the key point of the character’s fate, which actions, which thoughts, and which mental activities are all insinuations from the previous events, It's hard to grasp, so you have to watch the movie again, or even watch the Shunsu version again, watch the film reviews, and deliberate on it yourself to get your own answer.
3. The director is accustomed to creating suspense, and the story itself is all developed through the protagonist, the first vision of a patient with amnesia, we can see that he is constantly listening to the truth and lies, and the other characters in the story are almost all separated I was alone with the protagonist at different times, but the key characters Natalie, Teddy, and Jimmy did not even appear in the same scene at the same time, so they can tell more lies to the protagonist of the amnesiac. And the protagonist has almost no ability to dismantle, even if dismantling, as long as he didn't record it with a pen at the time, he would forget it after a few minutes. Therefore, it has become an almost impossible task to distinguish between what they said is true and which is false. The director is happy to be so, their lies cannot be dismantled, the fate of the protagonist cannot be controlled by himself, and the development of the story is even more confusing.
Therefore, based on the above reasons, the exploration of fragments is often useless. The research is not only likely to be useless, and there may even be misunderstandings. The judge can try to explain what he wants to know and explore. , But no one knows the truth or not, and what’s more, even if there are two completely relative arguments, it is entirely possible for both parties to find a valid argument in the film.
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