Let me tell a joke about the "creed" first.
Many characters in the film, with different accents, keep repeating a sentence: We live in a twilight world. When the male protagonist was tortured during the mission test of the film, the Russian who tortured him said this in strong Russian English. The male protagonist was still confused: What does this sentence mean?
But to be honest, because there are no subtitles, I have been listening to We live in a toilet world. After listening to it, looking at the Russian guy on the big screen, I was still wondering. I am indeed a gangster of the fighting race, and my perception of the world is so cold, hard-core and profound.
Later I found out that I was thinking too much.
But what is certain is that the original sentence We live in a twilight world in the line is indeed the "key" to understanding the film.
So, what does this sentence mean? Let's go through the plot summary of the film.
Because the male protagonist passed the test, he was able to join an organization trying to save the world and seize the "artifact" that can destroy the world from a Russian oligarch. And this oligarch joins forces with the people of the future to try to destroy the world, and they each have their own reasons. People in the future cannot survive due to climate change, so they have to travel through time and destroy the present mankind in an attempt to change history; while the oligarch is terminally ill, he wants to die with the world, and stay in time forever, stay in his most In a good memory.
What the two male protagonists and the female protagonist with a leg length of 1.8 meters have to do is to reverse time and space, follow the villain who has also reversed from the future to the past, and prevent him from detonating the bomb, thereby changing the direction of future destiny.
The past, the present, the future, and the reverse playback of time like a video tape are played back in this movie.
Therefore, in the film, the Russian oligarch keeps saying that, We live in a twilight world, the world will end. This is not only the inner monologue of the terminally ill oligarch, but also the despair of the future people due to the desperation of the environment. Their roar is also the reason why they want to destroy the "past".
The world will end, and I will do it too. If I can no longer own the world, then no one will want to own the world again.
Nolan tells a very simple thing through a complicated story twisted in time and space: the cause of the world today is the result of the world of tomorrow. Be kind to the environment and don't wait for the desperate roar from the future.
"Creed" is his own unique personal style "Nolan Narrative", which responded to a series of international hot topics such as "climate change" in recent years. From this perspective, it is actually a concern for reality that was rarely seen in his previous self-creation that was immersed in time and space, even though the theme was expressed very obscure.
This is "one of the highlights" of the film.
As a world-class director who has produced "Fatal Magic", "Inception", "Interstellar", "Dunkirk" and other magical films (I think Nolan has far surpassed the category of "British"), He also has many new attempts in "The Creed".
I have seen many detailed inferences, interpretations, and even guesses about the plot of the film, which are very exciting.
Some people say that the hero number one played by John David Washington actually refers to the audience himself, referring to each of us, so he doesn’t even have a name in the film, and is codenamed "the protagonist." And in the interlacing of time, he is now fighting against the future self and the past self, which seems to be a high abstraction of the fate of mankind.
Nolan himself also said in the interview. He said that before the camera was invented, people could not see the past, let alone the "reversed" past, but after the camera was invented, this became possible. Therefore, from this perspective, the existence of movies has changed the way people experience time. People can see the past through images, and even see the "reversed past" through reversed images. This is why, from "Inception" to "Interstellar" to "Creed", he is very fascinated to tell stories about time travel, because in his opinion, movies are the art of time and the existence of movies. Make time travel possible.
There are also many bold conjectures about the maze-like plot structure, so I won't list them all here. The audience's "re-creative" interpretation of the plot has always been one of the advantages of Nolan's movies, because its complex beauty is too fascinating.
Perhaps the director himself understands this, so when he wrote his lines, he borrowed the words of the female scientist in a white coat and said something that seemed to comfort the audience: Don't try to understand it, but feel it.
In order to let the audience better "feel", Nolan can be said to highlight a tendency in "Creed": based on 007 special agent type films to achieve his own breakthrough and subversion.
So in this film, we can see those classic elements of 007: suits and leather shoes, high-end hotels, yachts on the sea, famous wine banquets, novel equipment, blonde beauty, racing on the road, majestic scenery, restaurant fights, and of course, the bridge of gunfights is indispensable. part.
From Nepal to Vietnam, from Oslo to London, all kinds of beautiful scenery and exotic customs.
He would take photos of the catapults used by the agents when they climbed stairs to assassinate them, how to install them, and how to eject them; he would take photos of mechanical sailboats in such detail (I was caught by Amway).
This is Nolan’s unprecedented commercial film attempt. I think it’s more thorough than "Batman". He is trying to enrich his "time and space narrative" with the most enjoyable elements in the 007 movie. It's not just a science fiction film in itself.
This is "Bright Spot Two".
Also, the heroine of this film is a transcendence.
Since the 007 element was mentioned above, in fact, at the beginning of the film, I also thought that the heroine played by Debicci was similar to the vase role in the 007 film, but I later found out that I was wrong. She even robbed Robert Pattinson of the limelight in the film to a certain extent and became a very dazzling character.
The characters she played have also gone through a process from despair, to fragility, to self-confidence. In the end, she even killed the oligarch husband, which changed history.
It can even be said that the changes in her mentality in the film are the most complete and least abrupt among the main characters.
This is not only in the 007 movies, but even in Nolan's previous movies, there are few female characters that are so meticulous and play an extremely key role in the plot. This is also Nolan's breakthrough for himself.
The last thing I want to say is the final war scene in this film, I am afraid it will become a classic in the history of film, because time is positive and time is reversed, the future and the past and the present appear in the same combat scene, a team of people are facing right. Running, the other pair is running backwards, all time and space converge at one point, this bridge is worth seeing.
After watching "Creed", we will find that the people in the film actually each have their own creed. The oligarch believes in himself, and even the whole world will bury him; the creed of the "protagonist" is whether time goes back or time goes forward. , Can't hurt the innocent, so he travels through time again and again to save the heroine.
People have their own creeds and stubbornly adhere to their own creeds. Perhaps it is this cruel reality that makes future people despair of today's world.
In the end, Nolan is likely to open a new type of movie: science fiction (time and space?) spy film.
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