The narrative structure of the film is very compelling, with what the writers call an "Inciting Incident" at the start:
The Inciting Incident must completely upset the balance of forces in the protagonist's life
The male protagonist has the ability to bring death to the people around him from the very beginning. This is too catchy, and the audience will watch it with strong curiosity.
Of course, this setting was thrown out from the beginning, not showing the male protagonist's life, but also to hide the true identity of the male protagonist - a serial killer, otherwise it would be impossible to establish empathy with the audience, and naturally the protagonist would not be able to become the center of goodness, and the audience would not be able to Put emotion into the protagonist
In fact, no matter whether the male protagonist is struck by lightning or not, he will also bring disasters of death to people. "Make a plan first and then kill people" or "You can kill people without doing anything". The most obvious change is the motive. It is a subjective will, the former has no repentance, the latter is really helpless
Note that the movie is not about "any pervert is just lost, can be awakened, and human nature is ultimately good" (yes, it is for the film review with the first hot review)
What is it that awakens his "goodness"? Is it amnesia, is it the male protagonist who actively amnesia? No, the logic of his behavior throughout the film is: escape from the "unknown virus" → escape from the crowd after realizing it is his own problem → self-isolate and sleep in the hut → return to the car accident site with the heroine → go to the hospital for a scan → help the heroine Seeking memory → returning to his own house to regroup → realizing that he will only bring death, even hurting the heroine, and choose suicide.
Being kind is not an act that the male protagonist chooses actively, it is "Thunderbolt" that makes him be kind, let him forget that he is a murderer, and let him start his life again - but with the shackles of the death radius on his feet: he will still hurt others
The famous Canadian science fiction writer Robert Sawyer said: "Scientists will predict the birth of automobiles, but science fiction writers will predict traffic jams in big cities; scientists will predict the invention of airplanes, but science fiction writers will predict hijackings and frequent flyer rewards. Appear."
Therefore, for science fiction literature and movies, how the car was invented is not the most important thing. What is important is the exposure of human nature brought about by this incident. The night the comet came too, did they explain the event in detail? No, they say "The incredible thing just happened, let's see what happens next"
The male protagonist suddenly became kind after losing his memory. There was no argumentation process. What happened next? He followed the principle of not hurting others and took every step carefully, but the harvest was almost tragic
What is this movie trying to say?
If you see the end and are shocked by the male protagonist's suicide, and think that the male protagonist can obviously have other choices, then the theme of this movie touched you
So what this movie discusses is, if a villain who only brings disaster to the people around him suddenly wakes up and starts again, he no longer intentionally hurts the people around him, isolates himself for stability, and can even sacrifice himself, society Can you accept him? Or, give him a chance?
If you have the idea that "the male protagonist can obviously survive", then the gist of the movie is:
The male protagonist was a villain who did evil intentionally at first, and then he became a saint who was willing to sacrifice himself for others—from absolute evil to absolute goodness. Such a person should be given a chance to be a human again. At least - not death (how good it is to be alive, you can also use it for scientific research, or let him ride a ghost motorcycle to go around the terrorist base, tsk tsk)
that everyone has a chance to be redeemed
Well, this movie is about putting down the butcher knife and becoming a Buddha on the spot
Therefore, the male protagonist cannot be beaten to death, he must commit suicide to complete the absolute transformation from evil to good, because only then can we believe in his will to good.
Note that here is only the male protagonist who has completed his own redemption, and the redemption in the social sense has been drawn out - should society accept him? At least not deprive him of his right to live?
The Code of Hammurabi tells us that an eye for an eye is a tooth for a tooth, and the fine tradition of our country kills for life. As for Western human rights, everyone has their own opinions.
Of course, there is a very interesting setting here, that is, if a person loses his memory, he has a brand new personality, should this personality pay for the mistakes made by the old personality?
We all know that people are made of memory. If memory is lost, it becomes almost another (look at the husband's face when the heroine is indifferent to her husband), does it mean that the previous self has been die? This is very obvious in Alzheimer's patients, your mother has forgotten you, is she still your mother? This is when we say, "I have her blood flowing through me, and she's still my mother," and we correspond to the fact that the memory of her as a mother still exists in our minds, and we admit it. It is mentioned in "Dream Hunting Travel Notes" that the opposite of life is not death, but forgetting. Your mother has completely forgotten you, you have completely forgotten your mother, and there is only nominal blood relationship between you, and there is no connection. And when a murderer has a new personality, can we say that he has murderer's blood on him? According to this logic, the way to forgive a murderer is: the murderer has rehabilitated and become a new person. We choose to forgive the murderer's crime and forget the pain of the victim, even if the victim is your friend or relative.
Will we forget our friends, loved ones?
Can we forgive him on behalf of the victim?
I think you should have an answer in your heart
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