The setting of connecting the past and the present with a phone call is not new. In the past, there were "Chasing the Murderer", "Signal", and the radio drama "Meet the Girl in 1983".
The common setting of them is that the current date will be contacted to the same day N years ago by phone.
After understanding the setting, the plot of the film is very logical, and there are no surprises. (So in the short films of some commentary movies, the whole story has been spoiled in one sentence directly in the video title...)
the surprise part
Female 2 is in the past, and the female protagonist is in the present. The past can affect the present, and she will feel that the female protagonist can only be coerced by the other party and has nothing to do. But the heroine is actually very clever to use the method to set traps, which is the biggest highlight of the whole film.
I thought it was a place where God foreshadowed
1. The goddess. When the goddess was about to kill the female 2, the female 2 asked why she wanted to kill her, and the goddess replied, because the female 2 would cause many deaths in the future. At this time, I thought it was a foreshadowing of the gods, and I thought it should be mentioned later that the goddess received a prompt from the heroine or another future person (future self, etc.) in some way, and asked the goddess to kill the woman 2 to repair the future. time line.
If it is really designed into a plot loop like this, the film will be amazing (like "Terrorist Cruise"). Unfortunately, no... The goddess is just a passerby.
2. Good hope. In the film, Female 2 always wanted to call her good friend Shanxi, but accidentally called the heroine. And the role of Shanxi has always existed even when the heroine grew up. There is also a scene where the goddess went into Shanxi's house, looked at Shanxi, and then wrote to Shanxi and saw that Shanxi had an injury on her foot (same as the heroine at the beginning).
All kinds of signs make me think that Shanxi should be an important character. Maybe he once helped the heroine to prevent disasters, so that the original heroine was injured and became injured; or the future Shanxi contacted the past goddess and let the goddess kill the girl 2... …
In the end, Shanxi was just a passerby...
Bugs that need to be ignored when watching
1. Causal logic BUG. Time is linearly ordered, 12345 are arranged in this way, from 1 to 5 must go through 234. But in the movie, if you save someone at 1, you will be resurrected immediately at 5; if you kill someone at 2, the person will disappear at 5. ...Since he died at 2 and never experienced 34, how could the person saved at 1 immediately exist at 5...
This bug runs through the whole film, not only in human survival, but also in environmental objects. The handwriting of the house appears immediately after writing the future in the past, and disappears immediately after erasing the future...
2... There are too many to go into details. For example, when the heroine receives a call from Girl 2 and learns that the other party is in an emergency, the first reaction is not to call the police; Will you press the redial button?); for example, after the heroine changed her past, her body changed, but she had no memories of these years; for example, after the heroine changed her past, she didn’t go online to confirm the incident, or make a phone call to confirm whether her relatives were still alive, but running around by myself...
The above bugs have been actively ignored - if you can read the ending, you won't care too much about the small flaws. The damn thing is, the ending is a bigger bug, which makes me remember all the shortcomings that I overlooked at once. (Like, usually the man makes some small mistakes, the girlfriend is tolerable, but one day makes an unforgivable mistake, the girlfriend will suddenly remember all kinds of his past mistakes)
redundant ending
Originally, if the heroine and mother walked together at the end of the film, it would end, then although the ending of the movie is a little vague, the whole film is still passable, and the ending is warm.
However, the director just wanted to superfluous, and whipped the corpse again at the end, like Tang Seng in "Journey to the West", you thought it was finally over, but he continued "only you". Are you bothered?
You ignored the bugs in the whole movie, and finally came to the end, but the director was afraid that you didn't see any bugs, and shamelessly put a big bug in front of you so that you couldn't ignore it!
At the end of this, when did the female 2 connect to the previous self? Before the current heroine saves her mother? ——Then the heroine will not have a mother now! After the heroine saves her mother now? ——Then bug1, if the heroine succeeds in saving her mother, there will be no female 2 in the present tense, so the female 2 cannot talk to her previous self; bug2, the present tense of the female 2 does not correspond to the present time in the past, but It becomes possible to talk to an earlier moment, which is contrary to the logic of the whole movie!
The director didn't understand the logic at all, but he felt very good and made a bug ending...
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