The story begins in a speeding car, and the sleepy brother in the car is awakened by the cool wind outside the window. On this day, their family of four moved in a car and moved into a single-family house.
When she came to the new house, Maki looked at the house in front of her, but she didn't dare to be unfamiliar at all. What made him even more strange was that there were often inexplicable noises in a small room on the second floor of the new house, and the door of that room could not be opened. And his brother, who lives in the same room with him, often does strange things to him at night, but when he wakes up, everything is just like a nightmare.
Maki was extremely panicked by all these movements, and these abnormal sounds seemed to be felt only by him. Because after his parents and elder brother heard what he said, they just comforted him and said that it was just a stress reaction caused by his neurasthenia, so he should not care.
One night it was raining heavily, and Maki woke up again from a nightmare. He went out to relax with his brother, but suddenly a group of kidnappers appeared. They tied his brother to a van and ran away quickly.
The panicked brother quickly wrote down the license plate and called the police. However, the police who came to investigate said that the license plate number did not exist.
Days passed, but there was no news about my brother.
On the 19th day, brother Youxi returned home without incident, but what happened during the 19 days of disappearance, the brother completely forgot. It turned out that he had dissociative amnesia.
Despite this, Maki felt that the returning brother was very strange. He was obviously injured in his left leg, but one day he was limping on his right leg. And every night, my brother would go out quietly, not knowing where he went. The nervous Maki begins to suspect that this brother is fake.
He began to stalk his brother secretly, and found out that it was the policeman who came to the house to investigate that day. The younger brother was convinced that there was something wrong with the older brother, and he told his mother the news, but the mother avoided him and quietly called a mysterious person: "Oops, what if he finds out?"
The younger brother was very shocked. It turned out that the whole family was making up lies and deceiving themselves. He hurried to the police station to report the case. To his surprise, it turned out that he was not in 1977 as he thought, but an unfamiliar time - 2017.
At the same time, he saw his vicissitudes of face in the mirror. It turned out that he was no longer a 22-year-old youth, but an uncle in his 40s.
This is how it happened? From here, the thrilling atmosphere dissipates, and the suspenseful curtain gradually opens.
It turned out that this family was not a family, but a family organized by my brother for revenge. His father was actually a hypnotist, and his mother was an actor hired by his brother. They got together, just to wake up the memory of a murder that his brother had forgotten more than 20 years ago.
More than 20 years ago, my brother was a 5-year-old boy with a sister and parents at home.
Late one night, a strange man broke into the house and killed his sister and mother, and the next day, his father died in the hospital. A lonely little boy grows up in an orphanage, determined to find the murderer of his loved ones when he grows up.
However, more than 20 years later, he found the murderer, Maki, who didn't remember anything. No amount of extreme methods could awaken his memory of his crimes.
So my brother found a hypnotist and took Maki to the house where he lived when he was a child, hoping to recreate the scene of the murder to stimulate his memory. And that closed small room was where my sister and mother were murdered.
However, why did Maki kill a family she never knew?
It turned out that more than 20 years ago, Maki's family was involved in a car accident. Both parents died, and her brother was seriously injured. She was in urgent need of medical expenses. Having nowhere to go, he posted a post online, saying that as long as he was given money, he would do whatever he wanted.
Unexpectedly, after this news was sent, someone actually contacted him. The person who contacted him was the father of a 5-year-old boy. The little boy's father bought insurance for his wife, and then wanted to hire a murderer to make a fortune, but the premise was not to hurt the child.
In this way, because of the heavy burden of life brought by accidents, because of the desires born in despicable human nature, the two originally happy families were destroyed. The little boy who survived was struggling to live by hatred.
When his brother killed Maki in the hospital and completed this revenge, he lost the only support to live, and no longer had a reason to exist in the world. In desperation, he jumped out of the building and ended his life.
On the surface, this movie is a thriller and suspense, but it is actually about a sad tragedy. In the first half of the story, through the layers of details, all kinds of suspense were buried, so that the audience followed the younger brother and screamed loudly in the repeated nightmare, and also began to fall into the fog of the plot? Are those abnormal phenomena really just the brother's delusion?
As the story progresses, the veil of mystery is revealed. Behind this disguised family is a murder that happened more than 20 years ago. The perpetrator is not a repeat offender, but a novice; the hirer is not an enemy, but a relative...
When the truth slowly surfaced, I had to feel that this tragedy was not outrageous and outrageous, and all the arrangements seemed to be self-inflicted.
Such an ending not only makes people feel heartache for the innocent, but also makes people feel nihilistic for the tragedy caused by greed.
The most amazing thing about the movie "Night of Memory" is its script setting. From the establishment of the character to the subversion of the character, the screenwriter keeps reversing, advancing the plot and cutting the veil of truth in the collapse of the character. Lead a nervous audience through a complex maze.
It starts with a thriller and ends with a tragedy of nothingness. Although the film exposes the ugliness of human nature in the details, it may be due to the constant reversal of the roles, which does not let the audience get what the director wants to express. Even if the murder scenes forgotten by the criminals are recovered, except for more than an hour of sensory stimulation, it is difficult to convey the emotions or intentions to the hearts of the audience.
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