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If you mind, don't look down anymore. This article will review the entire film of "Creed", including some details that may not be noticed until after the second brush.
The story of "Creed" is not complicated in the big frame, and it is no different from most mature Hollywood bandit/agent movies.
The protagonist receives a certain task-the protagonist summons a team-the protagonist group makes a plan-the protagonist group has gone through ups and downs and finally completed the task without risk.
This is like Nolan’s "Deadly Magic". The general steps of magic are actually those three. The difference lies in the creativity and techniques used by the magician to complete these steps.
The core of the "magic" of "Creed" is actually a more accurate term for our ancestors than calling it time-space reversal, which is "causal cycle" .
The plot of "Creed" can even be summed up in one sentence-the hero defeats the villain and saves the world.
The story begins at the National Theatre in Kiev , the capital of Ukraine . A concert is about to be staged when a group of armed robbers attack the concert hall.
Like most of Nolan's movies, the beginning of "Creed" is a dizzying action scene. It is hard not to recall the clown's bank robbery in "The Dark Knight" and Bain's "The Dark Knight Rises" Airplane robbery, but both times were to stand up the villain, this time it was to introduce the protagonist to the audience.
The CIA agent played by John David Washington seemed to have known this would happen a long time ago. He waited outside the theater with a car of crew members. After disguising, he mixed into the special police team rescuing the hostages and entered the theater.
This person is the protagonist of the whole story.
The male protagonist sneaked into the second-floor box of the theater, rescued the person who was the real target of the robbery, and took away a strange box hidden in the locker room by that person.
The male lead glanced at the box and found something small and chic. He couldn't help but say: "This is the first time I have seen this kind of packaging."
This is the first foreshadowing that Nolan left.
Then, in order to dismantle the bombs installed by the robbers under the seats in the theater, the male protagonist killed him again.
At the very moment, the male protagonist was rescued with a "rewind" bullet that was retracted from the bullet hole in the wall into the barrel of the gun.
There is a conspicuous red string pendant on this mysterious man's backpack.
This is another foreshadowing that Nolan left behind. I don't know if he was inspired by being a good person without leaving a name, "Call me a red scarf".
The male protagonist who thought he had successfully completed the task was captured by the villain together with a partner and tortured on the train tracks.
Nolan skillfully concealed the blood on the screen, leaving the entire torture scene looming only in the gaps between the carriages that the train passed through at high speed. The roar of the train also covered the yelling of the victim. This composition is like a train that keeps hitting the man. Generally speaking, although we can't see the specific scene, we have already made up for this pain.
The hero managed to swallow the CIA special suicide pill, and the title "TENET" popped up.
Since he was the male lead, he was of course not dead. When he woke up, he was already on a boat, sitting in front of him, who looked like a CIA leader, and said to him, "Welcome to the afterlife."
This sentence, which has been interpreted in various ways in the trailer, did not expect it to be just a ridicule.
The leader of Longtao congratulated the hero for passing the test and gave him a mission to save the world. He also said that the situation was worse than the Cold War.
The leader told the hero that "TENET" is the secret code for the task connection. When uttering this word, he puts his hands in a symmetrical gesture with a thumbs up. It is his own person.
The male protagonist came to a laboratory according to the arrangement and used the "TENET" code to understand the general situation with the researcher.
It turns out that in the future, mankind invented a technology that allows some objects to break the law of entropy increase and move backwards in time.
For example, if you trigger an inverted bullet, it will retract the barrel from the bullet hole on the wall, and if you make an inverted discard gesture at the inverted item, it will fly back to your hand.
Seeing this, I was as embarrassed as the male protagonist, but Nolan used the researcher's mouth to say the first-viewing rules of the "creed": "Don't try to understand, but try to feel."
The translation is, "No matter if you don't understand, you'll be over after reading it!"
Many of these reversal items sent back from the future are the remains of a war, so people understand that this is a warning to people in the present to quickly prevent this from happening.
By analyzing the composition of the bullets in the Grand Theater, the male lead targeted an Indian arms dealer.
In order to enter this arms dealer's home, the male lead needs the help of some professionals, so a friend introduced him to the middleman played by Robert Pattinson . Let's call him a cow from now on!
The so-called intermediary is to do illicit work for the male protagonist. The male protagonist only docks with him, and the other people are organized by him.
But Niuniu obviously didn't plan to share the money with others, and planned to do the work with the male protagonist.
Niuniu's appearance here is really a bit awkward, and it's still a state where he has just met the male protagonist because he went up and down the fire, and I didn't know it and thought it was love at first sight.
The first time I saw this, I felt that Nolan was so careless in order to speed up the pace of the plot.
Later I learned that even this kind of "obtrusiveness" had a hidden mystery, Nolan or Nolan!
The male protagonist He Niu Niu took a bow and shot himself into the arms dealer’s building. After capturing the arms dealer, we were not surprised to find that the arms dealer’s wife was actually the arms dealer, and her husband was just a smoke bomb. And this big lady is still a member of TENET.
Wipe, a family can kill several lives after meeting each other, can't you leave a phone call in advance to communicate?
Since the arms dealers are in a group and there is nothing to conceal, I admit that the bullets are indeed my products, but before I sold them to a Russian arms dealer, they were not inverted bullets.
That Russian made a fortune by reselling nuclear raw material "Plutonium", and had a very fragile relationship with his home government. He married a British woman and is now based in London. I will introduce you a MI6 master. You can see if you can get him through. That Russian arms dealer.
The miraculous man in MI6 is Michael Kane, the old familiar face of Nolan's queen.
Here is a comprehensive introduction to the situation of the old Russian classmate of the big villain. He was born in a secret Soviet city named "Stoke 12" . These cities are not marked on the map, and are often close to military industrial centers. After the Soviet Union, they were renamed and cancelled. .
However, in the 12th district of an old Russian classmate, a nuclear explosion occurred when he was young. Later the government hired him to dig out the precious plutonium elements left in the ruins. As a result, he hadn’t dug the plutonium yet. The capsule contains a box of gold bricks and a document with his name on it.
Since then, the old Russian classmates have become the doglegs of the future mankind, and have taken the exclusive rights to the 12th district from the government. They don't know what to do anymore.
The strange little box that was successfully rescued by the male protagonist in the Grand Theater before, is said to contain plutonium stolen from a nuclear warhead.
When Michael Kane saw the male lead, he suggested that he approach from the old Russian wife, who is the female lead played by Elizabeth Debicki .
The male protagonist thought about it. He is not the JB of 007 (James Bond abbreviated only, and everyone who wants to be crooked will face the wall), who can always seduce the target wife.
Michael Kane said that I didn’t count on you either. The hostess sells works of art. She has a friend who is a fake painting. She sent a fake painting of a friend to auction as a genuine one, and the result was just right. It's Old Russian. There is another painting of the same painter. It happens to be here. You threaten her with it.
The protagonist was relieved. Fortunately, it was not for me to seduce the protagonist, otherwise my family would be jealous. (Not)
The female protagonist saw the painting of the male protagonist, and frankly said that she was actually taken over by the old Russian.
Lao Ru is actually a PUA scumbag . The heroine wants to divorce, but Lao Ru refuses to let it go, so he kills the artist who has a good relationship with the heroine. He tricks the heroine into auctioning with his fake painting, and Lao Russian buys the painting himself.
If the old Russian exposes this matter, the heroine will not only go to jail, but also lose the custody of the child, so as long as the painting is in the hands of the old Russian, the heroine cannot disobey him.
The hostess said that not long ago, the old Russian forced her to go to Vietnam on a yacht with him, but the attempt to revive the old relationship failed. The two quarreled again, so the hostess took her son ashore to relax and saw a woman jumping when she came back. The boat committed suicide, and the old Russian disappeared all day.
I paid special attention to it during the second brushing. The woman jumping on the boat here is completely a silhouette, and there is no way to see any details.
After telling the story, Lao Ru's men found the heroine and regarded the hero as someone who wanted to get close to her, and prepared to teach him a lesson. As a result, he was conceivably killed by the hero.
When the male protagonist here knocked down one of them, he rubbed his face with a kitchen shredder. The visual pain conveyed and reminded me of the clown in "The Dark Knight" patted a pencil into the head of a gangster.
After showing her skills, the hostess felt that she might have grasped the life-saving straw, so she asked the host to steal the painting from a free port art warehouse controlled by Russia.
The male protagonist asked Niuniu to start the plan, probably because a big plane hit the back wall of the warehouse, and then the male protagonist stole the painting when the warehouse was closed, and the male protagonist found that there was a large space in the middle of the warehouse, which was very unsuitable. Common sense, if you want, take the opportunity to find out.
Nolan, a real madman, really bought a second-hand Boeing airliner to bomb for this important scene.
As a result, the male protagonist did not find the painting, but two rooms were found in the middle of the building, each with exactly the same machine. The male protagonist and Niu Niu entered the two rooms respectively. Suddenly, two fully armed and wearing oxygen rushed out of the machine. A person whose face is covered by a mask has all his behaviors in reverse time.
The male protagonist and Niu Niu dealt with one each. Niu Niu grabbed one of them’s masks, but let him go, and immediately hurried back to prevent the male protagonist from shooting the other opponent. As a result, this person was “sucked away” with the explosion. "Again.
The male protagonist found an Indian female arms dealer, and the arms dealer told him that what you saw was a person, and that machine could reverse the person, so the two people did not appear out of thin air.
The arms dealer also asked the male protagonist to snatch the plutonium he had saved in the Grand Theater and sell it to Lao Russia, in order to find out the true purpose of Lao Russia and stop him.
The male protagonist found the female protagonist again, told her that all the artworks should be destroyed by the plane explosion, and asked her to introduce old Russia for herself.
The following scenes are basically the preparation of the relationship between the three and the deepening of the role. Here is a brief cut.
Probably because the old Russian was able to communicate with future people, of course he knew that the warehouse was going to explode, so he moved the painting early, and the heroine still did not get out of his control.
On the other hand, the male protagonist reached a deal with the old Russian, preparing to help him steal the plutonium to be escorted.
Before the start of the whole scene, the villain and the heroine came to the scene and completely tore their faces. The heroine pointed a gun at the villain but did not dare to pull the trigger in the end.
It must be admitted that I personally didn’t like the performance of the old Russian actor Kenneth Branagh very much. This famous British Shakespearean actor himself is also a director. The performance of the whole drama is really too staged. It makes people feel like watching a brutal king in a Shakespeare show.
When he said "Don't irritate a tiger," I couldn't help but laugh.
But the film started from here, and finally entered Nolan's best "to shock the audience's jaw" link.
In a causal (non-chronological) order, the male protagonist (zheng) and Niuniu snatched the plutonium, but the old Russian (reverse) hijacked the female protagonist (zheng) and snatched the box containing the plutonium.
The male lead (positive) threw the real plutonium into a silver car, and the driver of this silver car is the male lead (reverse).
The male protagonist (positive) and the newly rescued female protagonist (positive) were kidnapped by the old Russian men. Niuniu said that support would come soon.
The male protagonist (positive) looked dumbfounded, "What support?" It's not easy for you to look like a bull with big eyebrows and big eyes.
The old Russian (positive) asked the male protagonist (positive) to watch the old Russian (reverse) shoot the female protagonist (positive) with an inverse bullet, so that the wound that violates the law of causality cannot be healed over time.
Niuniu arrived with special forces led by "Quick Silver" Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Old Russian (positive) fled into the instrument and turned into Old Russian (reverse), and went to find real plutonium.
In order to prevent the villain (inverse) from getting plutonium, the male protagonist (positive) entered the machine to become the male protagonist (inverse). In order to allow the female protagonist's wounds to heal, she was also sent to the machine to become the heroine (inverse).
The team is not sure if this instrument was here in the past, so they have to go to the day when Freeport was hit by a plane, because they were sure that there was a machine there that could help them back to the front.
And the male protagonist (reverse) first drove the silver car that had been crashed against time and space before trying to grab the plutonium. As a result, the silver car overturned in the past and the villain (reverse) took it away. Plutonium.
In order for everyone to better clarify the most complicated plot of the whole film, I made a mind map, from the perspective of the male lead and the old Russian, to show you how all this happened in a chronological order, please click to open Enlarge the original image for viewing.
Because of the reverse explosion in the reverse state, the increase in entropy becomes the decrease in entropy, so people will not be blown to death but will freeze to death, and because the reverse explosion is equivalent to peeing against the wind, the effect is not good because of the law of entropy increase. The male lead was not killed.
Here is a setting. After the reverse, people need to wear reverse oxygen to breathe, unless the space is filled with reverse oxygen. This is why the villain (reverse) interrogates the heroine (positive) in a room full of reverse oxygen. The one with the mask is the heroine instead.
In order for the audience to better digest this interrogation scene, the director used red and blue lights to distinguish between the forward and backward time and space in the most efficient way, but after that, the distinction depends on whether the character wears a mask.
The male protagonist embarked on the freighter to the free port on the day of the explosion. Niuniu confessed to the male protagonist that he had always been an Indian female arms dealer and promised that if everyone was alive in the end, they would confess everything like the male protagonist.
Here Niuniu finally explained what the future people are going to do. It turns out that the weird box is a concrete algorithm , just like the cooking has already been prepared with ingredients. You pour all the ingredients together and heat it up, and it will become one. Plate delicacies.
In the future, a female scientist will discover this kind of algorithm that can reverse time and space. In the future, people will ask Russia to find this kind of weapon that can turn the entire planet into a reverse direction and destroy mankind with a nuclear bomb.
However, the scientist who invented this algorithm feared that human beings would be destroyed by power, so they divided the only concrete algorithm into nine parts and hid them in the nine nuclear warheads of nine nuclear countries. After all, these missiles will be stored in the world. The safest place.
This also explains why people in the future will look for Lao Russia as an agent, because the period when he was active was the period when nuclear weapons custody was the least restrictive. Lao Russia had indeed assembled 9 algorithms, and it was only a matter of choosing a good time and place to detonate it. Can.
Upon hearing this, the hostess also revealed that Russia has been affected by radiation since childhood, and that there is not much time for advanced pancreatic cancer. I am afraid that she will commit suicide and bring the whole world to burial. Several people speculated that the time of suicide chosen by Old Russian should be the day when he took the heroine to go to Vietnam on a big boat and then disappeared.
Because that day happened to be the same day that the old Russian attacked the Kiev Grand Theater. At that time, the hostess was with the heroine and returned to that day after grabbing the algorithm, and then turned to the old Russian who was preparing to commit suicide.
The reason why the female arms dealer suggested that the male lead sell the plutonium to the old Russian was actually told by the male lead who went back to the past at this time.
Back at Freeport, the audience was not surprised to find that the man in black that the male protagonist met in the warehouse center was himself.
It is estimated that for the first time many people saw the "two" people who suddenly rushed out of Freeport, and when Niuniu deliberately let him go, they all guessed that it must be someone from the protagonist group, so Freeport will have to explode backwards. Once, everyone will not be surprised.
I think the reason why Nolan allowed the audience to experience the Freeport explosion through reverse time before the final battle, and given so many clues that there is no suspense, is for the audience to deepen the reverse time again. Set understanding.
It is also because Nolan has previously shown two major episodes from both forward and reverse perspectives. In the final climax battle, Nolan increased the difficulty and divided the protagonist into two waves of forward and reverse, and then edited them in parallel.
On the one hand, Mike Kane found out that a nuclear explosion did occur in District 12 that day, indicating that the place where Russia destroyed the world would be his happy home.
On the other hand, the main female returned to the cruise ship in Vietnam and dragged the old Russian who wanted to commit suicide with CIA poison, because the nuclear bomb in District 12 would detonate if he died.
This shows that MI6, OK! CIA, no!
Nolan still loves Britain more.
The whole scene runs in parallel with three lines.
The male protagonist and Kuaiyin led the team that broke in ten minutes before the explosion to snatch the algorithm.
Niuniu led the reverse team and returned to the forward team before the blast for ten minutes from the time of the explosion, telling the team the future information.
The most critical message in the entire paragraph is that the male protagonist and Kuaiyin are about to get the algorithm, but they are blocked by the locked iron door. Old Russian uses the phone to remotely yin and yang, and his subordinates are preparing for the final explosion in the iron door.
At this time, there was a corpse lying in the iron gate, and the backpack on the corpse was tied with a red rope that was exactly the same as the man who rescued the hero by the Grand Theater!
At the very moment, the corpse stood up. This turned out to be a person who died in the reverse action, so he died in the past, but in the future he helped the male protagonist open the fan to decide whether the end of the world will happen.
. When the dust settled, Kuaiyin was supposed to kill Niuniu and the male lead who had seen the algorithm, but divided the 9 algorithm into three parts, and let the male lead Niuniu go to a corner of the world to hide, but Niuniu took his own. The algorithm was given to the male protagonist, who turned around and resolutely walked towards the building that had just exploded.
On Niuniu's backpack, the red cord was exposed.
Before he left, he told the hero that it was the future hero who recruited him in Niuniu's past , and he must now complete his task.
That is to act in the opposite direction again, becoming the corpse that opened the door of hope.
The acquaintance between the hero and him is only the beginning, and the acquaintance between him and the hero is over. Niuniu's task is to ensure that the hero saves the world, even if he has long known that his end will be sacrifice.
If this is not love. (Not)
And the male lead is the one who will establish the "TENET" in the future, and his journey has only just passed halfway.
On the other side, at the moment when the algorithm was taken out, the heroine once again picked up the gun and pointed it at Old Russia. This time she bravely pulled the trigger.
The diving woman she saw when she returned to the boat was actually the female protagonist who went back to the past and escaped after killing Old Russian. Here, Nolan let the audience see clearly the costume of the heroine who jumped down.
Finally, of course, we still have to use mind maps to try to show the ending of the battle.
After sorting out the plot, I believe most people can figure out what the "creed" actually says.
Then we enter the link of in-depth analysis. The first thing I want to talk about is the role of Niuniu, who can be said to be the hidden hero of the film.
His first appearance was actually to save the male lead in the Grand Theater, but Nolan did not say clearly, but used a symbol such as the lanyard on the backpack to show it.
The first time Niuniu saw the male protagonist, he ordered himself a drink and a Diet Coke for the male protagonist, and said that the male protagonist liked to drink. When the male protagonist said that he actually likes to drink soda, Niuniu said without even thinking about it. "You better be!"
When you second brush, you will find that it turns out that Niuniu didn't investigate the male protagonist in advance, but really knew him.
The male protagonist and Niu Niu talked about reverse time for the first time. Niu Niu accepted this setting very calmly and quickly, and also started popular science for the male protagonist, and said that he was a graduate student in the Department of Physics.
The first time I saw it, I felt that this person had set the halo a bit too much, so in order to explain the setting, I don't have to force it.
We didn't realize until the end that this was also one of the reasons why the male protagonist would recruit him. It was very self-consistent.
When he told the hero that the existence of fruit means the existence of cause, so even if it is a reverse time action, what you have done in the past, which you saw in the future, must be done again. The protagonist asked him who stipulated this, and Niuniu answered that we are the makers of the rules.
This word is a pun, and now it seems to be a hint to what I have been told a long time ago, and at the same time it is heralding the end of Niuniu's sacrifice.
These details that were difficult to get when I watched the film for the first time made me even more moved when I saw the end of the second scan. This is also a unique experience that is almost unique in my history of watching movies.
Before the release of "Creed", some media said that "Creed" is a sequel to "Inception", but now it seems that the two can only be regarded as distant cousins, and there is not much DNA relationship.
Rather, "Creed" is more like a rumor of "Interstellar".
In the story, "Interstellar" is an environmental problem that will cause future crops to wither, food shortages, and humans are on the verge of extinction, so a group of people went to outer space to find a solution.
In the "Creed", the Russians also mentioned at the end that humans will be extinct in the future, and the reason is also because of the environmental problems caused by humans in the past, so they want to use algorithms to get rid of humans in the past.
This can be seen as the same future, two different groups of people have chosen two different solutions.
Conceptually, "Interstellar" is the future human beings have mastered the high-dimensional space technology, so in this way, the male protagonist can enter the high-dimensional space, and when time becomes a spatial dimension, it will be brought to the daughter of the past to save mankind. And recruited himself to participate in this interstellar adventure.
The future mankind chooses the male protagonist and his daughter, of course, on the one hand because they can do it, and on the other hand, it is the male protagonist and her daughter who save mankind in the history of those future people.
Such a cause is an effect, and an effect is the deconstruction of the cause, which also appears in the "Creed".
The male protagonist was saved by Niuniu and began to participate in the "TENET" organization to save the world step by step.
Niuniu was recruited by him, and he himself is the leader of the establishment of "TENET" in the future. And on the day when the male protagonist first met Niuniu, it was actually possible that after Niuniu and him saved the world, he went to the Grand Theater to rescue him, and finally returned to District 12 to open the door that must be opened by him.
In this way, "Creed" and "Interstellar" are like extensions of the same time issue in two different ways.
The scientific advisors for both films are Nobel Prize winner Kip Thorne .
Finally, after the release of "Creed", many people will definitely say that the gameplay of "Creed" is fancy, but in fact there is no soul.
Whether it's the heroic sacrifice of the cow, or the heroine's escape from patriarchal control, it seems to be a cliché.
In fact, it was only in the second brush that I realized what Nolan really wanted to talk about this time.
Nolan put almost everything he wanted to say to the audience in a scene where the male lead and the researcher met.
When the male protagonist saw the inverse bullet, the first question he asked was: "Does that person still have free will?"
This question hits the core of the "creed".
If everything is arranged and everything is a cycle, where does this cycle start and what determines it?
I have seen many comments on the "Creed" that misused the term "fatalism ".
The root of fatalism is the belief that the destiny of mankind is arranged by a specific supernatural force. Obviously, this is definitely not what Nolan wants to express, and there are few religious expressions in his works.
What the "Creed" presents is actually "determinism" . Once the cause is certain, the effect is certain. As long as the effect exists, the cause will definitely occur.
The male protagonist and Niuniu in the film strictly follow this theory, and even the old Russian has to obediently carry the words of interrogating the female protagonist upside down after the reversal.
The reason why humans in the future dare to destroy the humans in the past is because on the one hand because of the madness before the end, on the other hand because of their existence, which means that this behavior is either unsuccessful or the "grandfather paradox" is invalid.
In fact, on this basis, we can make more gameplay extensions. For example, different free will choices will have different parallel universes, so the future is not certain but there are countless possibilities.
But once the quantum mechanics method of cognition of the world is adopted, the story of "Creed" is no longer valid, and it becomes "Interstellar".
So every character in "Creed" strictly abides by the rules of the game.
In this set of rules, human beings are rescued. Even if people in the future know about this, and someone is scheduled to kill the cow before the door is opened, there must be another person who will rescue him before the cow is killed.
I believe that after the release of "Creed", someone will pull out all kinds of "evidence" to prove that the role played by Robert Pattinson is not dead, but in my opinion, Nolan is such a rigorous director. Will not break the fundamental rules established by this film, just to leave a thought for the audience.
Although this is a controversy that has not yet begun, it can also be declared over in advance.
After all, there is a cause and an effect.
Having said that, besides Nolan, there are really other directors in this world who dare to make a commercial blockbuster with a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars to discuss philosophy, theoretical physics, and ethics that may not have much to do with real life in the next life. Question, can it cause widespread heated discussion?
I can feel that "Creed" is likely to become the most controversial of all Nolan's works so far.
It is even possible that more people will fall in love with Robert Pattinson because of "Creed" than the movie.
But in any case, this is a movie worthy of being explored just like Nolan's previous works, and it's the kind that the more you talk, the more you discover.
Especially all editors, I am afraid they have homework to do.
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