After watching "Creed", I was in a daze and felt like an idiot.
The brain's storage capacity is squeezed out, and the brain keeps tracing back to the extremely informative dialogue between the characters, the detailed clues that seem to be helpful to the understanding of the plot, and a large number of reverse world scenes that violate the usual thinking. I tried my best to sort out the entire timeline with reasonable logic, but I found that things were always counterproductive.
Later, I tried to chat with a few viewers who watched the movie together, and I gradually felt relieved-it turned out that it was not my IQ problem, and everyone basically didn't understand it.
I used to think that watching Nolan is very similar to hitting the black soul. In the process, you feel very abusive, and you can’t beat the boss at first sight, but you will never be satisfied with just comprehending the fur and discarding it. Waiting for you to sink your heart to understand the hidden world of the work, and counter the strategy of the boss. Through penetration, you will get an unparalleled flow experience. But in the past two years of "Interstellar" and "Dunkirk", Nolan began to test a variety of business types, no longer set up confusing puzzles, and deliberately lowered the threshold for viewing movies, so that the public fans felt "It turns out I can easily understand Nolan." At the same time, these works were criticized by many senior Nolan fans for being too catering to the market, so that they lost the fun of deconstruction.
So in the new work "Creed", Nolan finally decided not to take care of the audience anymore. As the saying goes, not being mad and not alive, he once again took out the Rubik's Cube and puzzles that he was familiar with, and gave the fans a more obscure, more difficult and higher level. Intracranial experiment. In my opinion, this is an extreme fascinating movie, and the object of the fascination is Nolan himself.
"Creed" made me regain the crazy feeling when I watched "Shards of Memory", and it was worse than that. The intuitive feeling it brings to me is that it is more brain-burning and compatible than the latter. This compatibility is a clever fusion of commerciality and artistry, a meticulous filling of original ideas and self-consistent logic, and a flogging collision between the left brain and the right brain. The so-called brain burning is not the kind of Yiqi Juechen who completely ignores the audience, but gives the audience a certain degree of reciprocity like a novel, and uses high-speed, dense editing, dialogue, scene switching and other blind eye skills. The concealment-when you are trying to grasp the key information in this set of dialogues, the movie has jumped to another confrontation in a thunderous manner. If you compare this film to an exam, the first hour is a pre-test preview. Nolan outputs intensive knowledge points to you like a teacher. If there is a key point that is missed due to negligence, the subsequent exam may face a big crash. . And the most terrifying thing is that there is almost seamless connection between the preview and the exam, and there is no time for rest and breathing at all.
If Nolan’s previous works test the audience’s concentration and logical abilities, then "Creed" is more a test of the brain’s reaction speed and real-time deduction ability. Anything that does not meet the standard will be waiting for you. Please come back again.” In short, let the science students shout for fun, and the liberal arts students shout for help.
To sum up, although I dare not say that "Creed" is the best film in Nolan's life, it is definitely the work that best represents him, the most ambitious and arrogant. And the motifs involved in the movie-time, quantum physics, entropy increase and decrease, grandfather's paradox, the law of causality, etc., are also worthy of our repeated interpretation.
In fact, Nolan has devoted all his life to the concept of time. Looking back at his previous works, we can often see his presence in a limited frame of time. For example, in "Shards of Memories" he shatters linear time and recasts them, "Inception" sets a time limit for each dream to emphasize the urgency, and "Interstellar" uses the time measurement of the universe and the earth to benchmark the insignificance of human beings. "Dunkirk" he used a week, a day, and an hour to cross depict the three fronts of the French battlefield by sea, land and air. The multiple possibilities and clever use of time have brought a very broad imagination to his films, so there is a journey through, a time travel, a nonlinear narrative, and a cross-editing. What Nolan played this time boldly broke all previous conjectures about time, and put forward a new hypothesis-what would happen if the clockwise time and counterclockwise time existed in the same world at the same time?
In fact, before the release, I made some guesses about the title of TENET, and after actually watching the film, I found that it is not far from each other. First of all, everyone knows that this word is a typical back-and-forth sentence, both positive and negative, and the source of the word is the remains of the ancient city of Pompeii in Italy. Yes, it is the ancient city where PinkFloyd once sang.
In this film, TENET has three meanings.
The first meaning is the circular narrative structure. Starting from T, ending at N, then starting from N, and ending at T, it presents a Mobius ring structure like ouroboros. Putting it in the movie is to first explain the appearance of the matter, and then reversely restore the internal causes and logic of the inner layer. The two timelines are causal and correspond to each other, like a fateful spiral entanglement.
The second meaning is that both directions are reasonable. The meaning of TENET is consistent and reasonable regardless of whether it is read positively or negatively, which implies that there are two independent worlds in the film—the present and the future. Moreover, these two worlds are inverse to each other, a relationship that is a mirror image of each other.
The third meaning is that the code name of the mysterious agent organization in the movie is "TENET".
On this basis, Nolan made the following rich settings.
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1. In the future, due to some man-made reasons, human beings are on the verge of extinction.
2. Human beings can reverse people or matter through some kind of black technology.
3. This reversal is not only a jump in time, but the order in which matter occurs is also inverted.
4. Human beings can push people or matter into the past through a certain "door".
5. In order to eliminate the past, the people of the future are about to launch the "third world war".
6. Positive matter and reverse matter can appear at the same time and space.
7. Positive matter and reverse matter can interact.
8. If a positive person wants to control negative matter, he must adopt a reverse thinking mode.
9. The same individual in the forward and reverse directions can fight, but it may lead to serious consequences.
10. The reversibility of time can be explained by entropy, involving many elements such as plutonium 241.
11. The grandfather's paradox still exists, and there is no clear answer.
12. Bullets and bullet marks are highly directional symbols and prompts, similar to the spinning top in Pirates.
If we put aside these complex settings, the main axis of the story of "Creed" is actually very simple-simple spy war stories like 007, impossible missions, and many spy shadows. The two heroes save the world and pride themselves on gods. The design of the villain is not new. The most valuable thing about Nolan is that he has given this traditional commercial routine a brand-new gameplay, and played an unconventional reverse spectacle with the spy warfare we are familiar with.
In the wonderful world view constructed in this film, every battle is actually a different-dimensional contact of quantum physics, which always challenges our normal positive thinking. The viewing process is novel, interesting and tense. We see that the bullet can be returned to the barrel in the reverse direction, and it is equally lethal, and the bullet marks on the wall will disappear immediately; we see that the drag racing chase is also reverse, not only the car is driving in the reverse direction, but the explosion is also going in the reverse direction; we see The broken rubble of the tall building was restored in the reverse timeline, and immediately exploded in the forward timeline; we saw the present and future two male protagonists beating themselves, the moves are also one forward and one reverse; in the last big scene In the game, the forward and reverse forces are engaged in the same battlefield. At this time, the audience’s attention is captured not only by the massive details shot by the long lens, but also by the jaw-dropping "unreality". This strange sense of unreality is in the past. It is not common in movie works. The closer part is the folding buildings and inclined corridors of "Inception", and the farther part is the dance of yin and yang in "Underground" by Kusturica.
Nolan dared to take a panoramic view of the battlefield where the pros and cons coexist to show the audience, which shows how confident he is. I think there must be rigorous physical logic and causality behind this-who should be walking in the right direction, who should go in the opposite direction; where the explosion explodes in the forward direction, where the explosion is reversed; what is the behavior and motivation of the character Supported by foreshadowing... "Creed" leaves a lot of puzzles for the audience to solve. If you want to understand the whole picture in a macro and complete way, you may need to thoroughly analyze every small detail, and then stand in the perspective of God. Splicing the fragments in hand in a certain order, while also taking into consideration the profound physical and philosophical issues. I can already foresee that a stormy wave of "bug hunting frame by frame" is gaining momentum.
Of course, in addition to these high-concept problems, Nolan also contributed what an action movie should have-gunfights, melee combat, car chasing, blasting. The US$200 million investment is not a joke. In order to film the scene of the plane crashing into the building, he insisted on not using CG, and he actually bought a Boeing plane and then blew it up. Maybe this is the so-called investment and so willful. It is also thanks to the full-film + IMAX camera shooting that we can feel the immersion and oppression brought by live ammunition as if we are on the scene, and the road is as stable, accurate and shocking as a stepping point. The heartbeat resonance brought by the soundtrack is definitely a cinema movie suitable for the big screen.
Finally, my "creed" movie suggestions are:
Before you see, you must sleep well and rest, and if necessary, have a cup of American refreshment. You can take a look at the related science popularization of entropy increase and grandfather's paradox in advance, don't be afraid of spoilers, spoilers for this film have little effect. Keep your full attention while watching, and don't try to discuss the plot with people next to you. If you still don’t understand it after reading it, it’s normal, then buy a few more tickets for a few more games.
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