YO, for the movie we are going to talk about today, let's take a look at the cast first, Wolverine Hugh Jackman and "Mission Impossible" resident heroine Rebecca Ferguson, the two will continue "The Circus" Wang" "Front Edge", and co-starred in "Reminiscence of Mystery" together.
After watching the trailer for this movie, I was still looking forward to it. The screenwriter and director were Nolan’s younger siblings, Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan’s wife, and the main creator was the original cast. The team of "Westworld", among which Maeve in "Westworld" played an important role in the film, and many cameo roles also came from "Westworld", such as the cold Christina.
Of course, this movie also has the familiar Wu Yanzu Azu, who has not stopped yet.
I used to tease that after watching the trailer, it feels like a movie with Nolan family genes. It gives people a kind of water version of "Inception" + modern sci-fi version of "Deadly Magic" + movie version of "Suspect Tracker" + The illusion of the popular version of Memento.
"Remembrance" is Lisa Joy's first feature-length film work. She has been working behind the scenes as a screenwriter or producer before. In the analysis of the "Westworld" series, I have commented on the first The fourth episode of the second season has a unique and calm style. It can be drawn as an independent short film and the plot is smooth and complete. The fourth episode, directed by Lisa Joy, can be regarded as a practice.
So, how about the finished product of the "Reminiscence of the Mystery" I'm going to talk about today, serve it!
Let's progress layer by layer. In order to better comment, the old rule starts with the outline of the story released in the preview.
In the future, human beings have fought several large-scale wars, the climate crisis, the sea level of the earth has risen, and human beings have built high dams to prevent sea water from invading the land. The story of the film is located in the once prosperous Miami, but now it has become a water city like Venice. Most of the transportation is by boat.
Nick, played by Hugh Jackman, used to be a navy who participated in the war of mankind. During the war, he also served as a guide for interrogation of prisoners. In the future world, there is a machine to put prisoners to sleep, and then ask questions under the guidance of the guide. , and slowly present the prisoner's memories, in order to find the corresponding criminal evidence.
After the war, Nick got a machine like this. At that time, people in the future had no interest in hope. Instead, they reminisced about the good old days and asked for real and good memories. It seems that it has become a business.
So Nick hires Watts to start a small business that helps bring back good memories in others.
Until one day, a beautiful woman named Mae appeared before closing the door, and she also wanted to regain her memory. Nick fell in love with her at first sight and decided to make an exception to work overtime, which opened up the beauty's past memories, a strange and mysterious past adventure journey, and this opened , and Nick is also deeply involved in it and can't extricate himself...
I finished watching "Reminiscence of Mystery" for the first time, and I think...it's not OK, even though the film has some advantages that can be extracted, it can't hide the cliché and boredom brought by the story.
The biggest feeling that the film gave me can be summed up in two words, that is, "twisting", whether it is the motives and relationships of the characters, or the emotions of the characters, or the events that drive the story, all of them are connected together and feel that they fail to bring out what they should be. attractive.
Why does the trailer look attractive? Usually, the implantation of sci-fi elements with a high concept setting can arouse the curiosity of many audiences, and the Nolan family has never lacked such high concepts. Novel setting.
But if this high-concept setting is not fully utilized or complicated, and this setting is well digested and subdivided in the feature film, then no matter how good a creative idea is, it will only remain creative.
Another twist in the film is the genre. Today, a mature commercial genre film needs to have a combination of 2-3 genres in order to successfully drive a commercial genre film.
"Reminiscence Mystery" focuses on science fiction, suspense, love, and some detective reasoning. After these are intertwined, you can clearly feel the shortcomings of the story script to integrate these types of amplification, as well as the lack of the director's execution.
The overall rhythm of the film is slow, and if it wasn't for Hugh Jackman's hard-working and magnetic voice, I might really have fallen asleep.
If the film is divided into sections, you can see the delicate and weak side of the director, but after all, this is a film that focuses on science fiction and suspense. At least for me, I want to see a wonderful story that is intertwined, but in the end the film is too It's completely unnecessary to play with true love and long-term love.
Speaking of whether this is thinking about where our Azu has gone, the next step is a deeper spoiler analysis, only in this way can Azu come out.
Mae made a surprise visit at the beginning of the film, and Nick was swept up in love at once, and he fell in love with the heroine from then on.
Mae said that the key could not be found the day before, so Nick used the machine to restore the memory scene to help Mae successfully find the key, but Nick also accidentally discovered that Mae was a singer and sang one of his favorite songs.
Just like this, the two began to fall in love, but when their relationship reached the deepest point, Mae suddenly disappeared, which made Nick in great pain, and he had no intention of running a business. He immersed himself in their memories every day and couldn't. extricate themselves.
But during the period when assisting the police to investigate a drug smuggling case, Nick discovered that the drug lord's boss, Azu, was actually Mae's old lover, so Nick's shop was closed, and his life was lost. He created Azu's bar by himself. , want to ask about the whereabouts of mae.
Azu was not moved when he learned that Nick went to the bar for love. He didn't stop but wanted to kill Nick. Watts came to the rescue at a critical juncture, and Azu was killed. That's right. Count, 1...2...two.
After some painless investigation by Nick, he finally found out that this was a game. In the future, land in the world will become more precious. Of course, it is very expensive now.
The local real estate tycoon is old enough to make a will. His only son usually looks innocent and harmless, but he knows that his father cheated on a mistress and gave birth to an illegitimate child in his early years.
In order to get all the inheritance, the youngest son secretly sent a corrupt police officer to threaten Mae to approach Nick, and stole the mistress's memory card from it to destroy the evidence. in love.
After Mae took the memory card and handed it over to the corrupt police officer, the corrupt police officer immediately started to kill his mistress and the illegitimate child. As a result, Mae's conscience found that he saved the illegitimate child and hid it, which is why Mae suddenly disappeared from the world.
After that, the corrupt police officers caught Mae and tortured him to extort a confession. Mae finally could not bear to choose to commit suicide, and was unwilling to reveal the hiding place of the illegitimate children.
And all of this was only when Nick caught the corrupt police officer using the memory machine, and the truth was revealed.
In the end, Nick still did not let go of this sincere relationship. He chose to live in the beautiful memory of getting along with mae all his life...
After watching "Reminiscence of Mystery", I always ask myself, what exactly does this film want to express, does it want to convey a poignant and beautiful love, or does it want to show the corrupt and sleazy humanity of the future world , or the game and discussion between memory and reality, when the end comes, do you live in good memory and die or hope in the cruel reality?
All of the above mentioned, the film feels like I want to talk about it, but they don't talk about it.
The film did create a lot of trouble in the love between the two, but these troubles did not make the love between the two a driving force that resonated with me, but a driving force for the suspenseful incident of the heroine's disappearance, and this kind of driving force It didn't seem attractive in the end.
Because the film has always emphasized that there seems to be a big conspiracy at the end, but it turned out to be the end... that's it...
Maybe at the end, I may have missed some details. Maybe the story is not as simple as it seems. After all, it is a movie of the Nolan family. Is it possible to hide a brain-burning story? It's so boring, and I don't want to dig deeper, no matter how secretive it is.
There is also a more subjective comment. Previously in "The King of the Circus", I felt that Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson, the CP couple, did not call, but they were not too heavy on CP at the time. In this "Reminiscence of Mystery Game", the love between the two people is fierce, but no matter how they eat it, it doesn't taste right.
Hugh Jackman was also able to shoot love scenes when he was young, but now, at 52 years old, what strikes the audience even more is his old ruthlessness and twilight hero's taste. In the film, setting him as an injured soldier is very good. Appropriate, but it would be too strange to put a love brain on it.
The film is also very weak in promoting the tension of the story. Except for the suspense point that the real identity of the heroine Mae has been hanging on the audience, everything else is creating accidents and weakening opponents, so that everything creates a strange atmosphere of love for the hero and heroine.
The ordinary rhythm of the plot is protracted, the character design has no charm and attraction, and the high concept element of the memory machine is not well used, so that this "Memories of Mystery" cannot stand out in all aspects, and it has become a meme A very bad movie.
And what made me play the most is Azu's lines, You know, Azu says somthing in the film, must be combined with Chinese and English, it makes people want to laugh very much!
Actually, I am actually quite used to this kind of bilingual daily Dialogue, and I often say when I order coffee, the boss, I want Kopi to be less sweet.
But when Azu played like this, he always felt that this bad guy who wanted to write bad guys on his face became not bad at all, but rather cute.
Ah, all in all, if you want me to say "Remembrance" is a bad movie, it's not, but it's one of the few more disappointing movies I've seen this year.
The reminiscence emotions that "Reminiscence Mystery" wants can't come out, and the creation of the mystery is not surprising. In the end, only the CP is left uninteresting and has no empathy. The result is a 148-minute "Remembrance" After watching "The Mystery", "Reminiscence of the Mystery" was finished after 148 minutes.
good! I hope this review of "Reminiscence of Mystery" can give you a better understanding of the film. If you are interested in the film, you can go to the original film to experience more details.
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