——Comment on "The Butterfly Effect 2" and "Life Remote Control (Click)", two movies that have the same goal by different routes have
been elated when they heard that "Butterfly Effect 2" was about to be released To wait. As a follow-up to a great work in my mind, its expectations are infinite. It really came out, but I was disappointed when I saw it.
This "Butterfly Effect 2" tells an independent story, just using the protagonist's signature time control ability. And no matter from which aspect, it is far less gorgeous than its predecessor. It seems to me nothing to exaggerate the evaluation of using the dog's tail to continue the mink. In fact, it is difficult for me to find a sequel that tells an independent story so far from its predecessor. Okay, let’s just say that I thought of Peng’s "Damn 2" that I thought of through my memory. At least Shu Qi’s performance will prevent this work from being described by me as a dogtail.
So laugh at it point by point. "Butterfly Effect 2" shortens the time limit of the previous work through the beginning of the cycle of life to the protagonist's youth, specifically, only a fraction of a year. It is also a kind of reincarnation, one and a half years of life, its shock has been half-discounted. Looking at the protagonist’s abilities, it doesn’t matter whether the medium of the supernatural ability is triggered by words or images. In the previous work, the protagonist’s irregular childhood amnesia and weird behavior can create an absolutely weird atmosphere at the beginning of the film. , And to pave the way for the future protagonist to return to "steal" the memory at the time. In other words, the previous protagonist has two abilities; perhaps considering that the audience who went to watch "Butterfly Effect 2" knows this ability well. , The protagonist’s abilities have been simplified to the level of third-rate science fiction creativity: look at photos, go back to the past, change it... Is this a tribute to Fujiko·F·Fujio? The story is even simpler as Xiaobai. The life that is indirectly affected by the protagonist’s abilities has been reduced from three to two, and the trajectories of these lives have not been able to well reflect the butterfly effect. The whole situation will be messed up. Under the time limit of one year, the protagonist has not been able to use the crimes and disabilities in the previous work to cause almost desperate difficulties for the protagonist, which makes the audience feel distressed to suffocation. Compared with the topical elements of anti-traditional education, child abuse, drugs, and prison violence in the previous work, this work is not available. Even the ending of the previous work (director's cut version) sublimated the kind of Cult's extremely miserable life, and the Nirvana thought that was normalized to nothing was finally passed by the "Butterfly Effect 2". In this way, "Butterfly Effect 2" has become a completely mediocre work-just with the hat of God's work-to the point where we eat our own money, it seems that we don't need to expect "Butterfly Effect" to meet It's a trilogy.
If I hadn't watched "Remote for Life" with my classmates in the bedroom a few days ago, my comment on "Butterfly Effect 2" might end here, and I just saw it.
This "Remote for Life" is a standard Adam Sandler comedy, while "Butterfly Effect 2" is a slightly tragic drama. The reason why these two films are brought together to talk about things is to see a common theme reflected in them: family or career?
This seems to be an eternal topic that will always be given the same answer, and there are naturally many movies with this theme. In addition to the close production time of the two films, there is also a graceful similarity, that is, both have a certain science fiction color. What's more, in "Butterfly Effect 2", it is going back to the past and changing the future, while in "Remote for Life" it is changing the present and rushing to the future... It
is not two movies of the same type, so it is not good to comment. Which is better, and I have already degraded "Butterfly Effect 2" quite miserably. But on the whole, it may be that "Butterfly Effect 2" irritated me at all, but I insisted on saying that "Remote for Life" is better in terms of the interpretation of the theme.
Adam Sandler has always been best at playing such a comedy role: a contradictory middle-aged man with a happy family and a half-career business. The protagonist of this "Remote for Life" can be said to be familiar to him, which makes the film. The overall effect is quite good. In the film, he obtained a remote control from an old man-like angel of death, which can pause, rewind and fast forward the surrounding living environment like watching a DVD, and even has auxiliary functions such as language translation. Perhaps what I did was to go back to the past like the "Butterfly Effect". Adam made full use of this magical remote control to meet his needs in every aspect of his daily life and work, and a successful business negotiation with this made his obsession and dependence on this remote control impossible to add. Whenever he encounters a setback, he just fast-forwards and reaps the rewards, but at the same time he unknowingly loses his patience with the family. When he discovered that he lost his wife, daughter, healthy body, and the last meeting with his elderly father by relying on the magical function of the remote control in the future, he regretted it but did not help. The memory function of the remote control was even more popular. Pour oil. After experiencing all this, Adam, exhausted physically and mentally, fell to his own son's wedding. With the help of the angel of death, he realized how stupid it is to use the external force of the magic remote control to change his life and to focus on his profession and neglect his family. Before his death, he braved the storm and used his last breath to exchange the loss of his life. The idea that came was passed on to his son who had just gotten married and almost repeated his mistakes...
Well, your big brother Adam had a dream...
For a comedy, it's hard for me to come up with the kind of crisis-sense words like commenting on some Cult movies. I can go deep and dig at every turn. I just want to summarize the plot like this. As a comedy, "Remote for Life" has done well. And it combines the elements of science fiction to explain the dialectical contradiction between family and career with such a story and such a form, which gives people a very deep impression. Compared with "Butterfly Effect 2," the irreparable past of "Remote for Life" looks more sympathetic and shocking than the imperfect future. And compared to the "Butterfly Effect 2" which is almost a tragic negative ending, even if the "Remote for Life" does not need to dream of the old-fashioned ending to maintain the overall comic effect, it is enough to pass the final touching One scene conveyed its positive meaning. From this point of view, "Remote for Life" is still slightly better.
The so-called same destination by different routes, family, friendship, career, fame and fortune, life crisis, and fear. These kinds of realism themes have reached agreement here through two completely unreasonable styles, plots, and even science fiction films with completely opposite views of time and space. They each conveyed the same thought to the audience in their own way, and at this point, they were all successful. Perhaps, in fact, there is no need to put them in the ring at the beginning and judge their pros and cons.
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