Do we ignore love because of busy work, do we ignore family relationships because we are far away from home, do we ignore friendship because of trivial life?
Number seven score: 7.83
Synopsis
Lao Fan (Michael Douglas) is a billionaire who owns his own mansion and luxury car mansion.
However, apart from work, he rarely had other social activities, and he refused all invitations from friends.
Lao Fan's parents died and his wife was divorced. His only relative is his younger brother Conrad (Sean Penn) .
Today was Lao Fan's birthday. What he didn't expect was that his little brother, who was usually idle, remembered it, and asked him to meet in a restaurant.
After the meeting, Conrad gave Lao Fan a special birthday gift .
The gift is a greeting card with a single page called "CRS" club.
Conard told him that this was a service tailored specifically for him.
In the newly-built office of CRS, CRS vice president Jim ( played by James Rebhorn) received Lao Fan.
He told Lao Fan that this service is a game, it can bring people what is missing, and claimed that they can refund money if they are not satisfied.
Lao Fan filled in his personal information, did a series of tests, and then went back to wait for notification.
But when he received a call from "CRS" the next day, he was told that he failed the test and was refused to participate in the game.
This makes it unacceptable for Lao Fan, who has always considered himself a winner in life, because he has never been rejected.
But what he didn't know was that the game had actually started .
At night, Lao Fan drove home and found a dead body lying in front of his house.
Lao Fan plucked up the courage and walked to the corpse, only to realize that it turned out to be just a human-sized doll.
After he checked, he found that there was a key in the doll's mouth with "CRS" engraved on it, and Lao Fan finally understood that the game had started.
So he put the doll in the living room, turned on the TV as usual, and listened to the show while thinking about how the game should be played next, but something strange happened.
The host on the TV even started to talk to Lao Fan. Not only that, he also knew what Lao Fan did.
It turns out that there is a miniature camera in the eyes of the doll . CRS seems to remind Lao Fan that he must pay attention to watching the game.
So in the next few days, Lao Fan began to pay attention to the surrounding things and pay attention to some details.
But what he didn't realize was that his life had begun to change, and what was the purpose of "CRS"...
Film Analysis
"Mind Game" is the work of the famous director David Fincher , also known as one of David Fincher's "Despising the Audience IQ" trilogy , the other two are "Seven Deadly Sins" in 1995 and 1999 "Fight Club", this movie is also a suspenseful masterpiece that is easily overlooked.
The film’s reputation and popularity are far inferior to the director’s other works. I think the most important reason is that the story is not rigorous enough, and there are loopholes in the plot arrangement, which makes people feel unreal. But with the excellent performance of the actors, the emotions of the audience can still be mobilized, and the ending reversal is also shocking enough, I like it very much.
David Fincher’s movies have always made people feel reasonable. For example, the warning to the world in "The Seven Deadly Sins" and the interpretation of people's inner desires in "Fight Club" are very profound. Many times, when we face the preaching of others, we will be dismissive and instinctively resist, but David Fincher can always catch people’s inner weaknesses and give them a heavy blow. After we are educated Also clap your hands and say hello.
The protagonist in the film, Lao Fan, is a billionaire. He has not done any bad things to the world, he just has an inherent sense of superiority . There is always such a kind of person in life who always feels that he is superior to others. People treat him well, he will take it for granted or intrigue. He ignores that human beings have feelings . Lao Fan is this kind of person. He has no real friends. In his eyes, it is possible that everyone came together because of the benefit transfer relationship, so he refused all invitations from friends.
Lao Fan thinks he has everything, but in fact he is alone. From the conversation between him and his ex-wife, we can know that he had free time to spend time with his wife, but he did not do so, so he lost his wife. When faced with the younger brother who came to send his blessings, his first reaction was that maybe his younger brother came to him because of something wrong, but he never thought that his younger brother might really care about him, so what he lacked was human touch .
Of course, his father’s suicide in front of Lao Fan had a long-term impact on him, and he has not been able to get out of that shadow. He may have been avoiding being like his father, but he didn’t even know that he had been with him. Father is very alike, the same quietly, the same without warning, because he has no one to tell his heart, so he can't get rid of the pressure.
In the year of his 18th birthday, Lao Fan received his father’s watch from his mother. As the eldest brother, he took the responsibility. I believe that he has always regarded himself as the family heir and has kept the family property through his own efforts. But in the process, I took on a lot of pressure, and unknowingly I was missing a lot of things, and some things were gone if they were gone, but the feelings must not be lost .
Lao Fan has no love, no friendship, so when the last remaining affection is lost, his reaction is reasonable, because when he put down his self-esteem and pride, he found that the world had not collapsed, and his ex-wife still cared about him. Help him, but until the moment he lost his affection, he didn't understand what he really cares about , and what he cannot lack as a human being.
Only when we lose everything can we know what we really want, and only when we truly die can we be reborn.
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