Today, let's talk about the movie "Reminiscence of Mystery".
The film title Reminiscence (2021), alias Reminiscence / Memories / Remembrance People (Taiwan) / Memories Sneak (Hong Kong).
This is a love movie with sci-fi elements.
The film starred the familiar Wolf Uncle Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson the great beauty, Thandiwe Newton of Star Wars and Westworld, and we Wu Yanzu that every man will see in the mirror.
The film is set in the future, and the whole world is in a dystopian state. After a major war, sea levels rose, and all coastal cities became like water towns in Venice.
Rich and powerful people lived in the highlands and even built dams to create artificial highlands. Ordinary people can only live in low-lying areas and live in water every day.
Real estate developers snatch all the highland and dry land, and the gap between people's living standards continues to widen. Civilians have pointed their finger at the black-hearted real estate developers. Conflicts continue.
Hugh Jackman plays a small businessman named Nick Bannister who, by operating a water tank device, can awaken various memories of the user. Many people lose hope in life and want to paralyze themselves with good old memories, and Nick Bannister makes a living.
One day, a beautiful woman named Mae walked into the shop, asking to recall the past and find the lost key. That's how the two met and fell in love.
It didn't take long for May to leave without saying goodbye, Nick Bannister was in great pain and desperate to find May's whereabouts.
In search over and over again, Nick Bannister finds himself caught in a huge conspiracy, and May is not as innocent as it seems.
The fate of Nick Bannister and May is already doomed. The tragic ending of the whole story was already hinted at when Nick Bannister presented the story about Orpheus and Eurydice.
The story of Orpheus and Euridice does not have a happy ending, but Euridice is trapped in hell, and Orpheus is later beaten to death by other women.
It's like Nick Bannister and May, Nick Bannister trying to find May only to see May die in front of his eyes.
The film puts a sci-fi coat on the Orpheus and Eurydice-like story (the story of Orpheus and Eurydice ) , and the search for memory and immersion in the old times become the key to the whole film.
How much one can do for love, Nick Bannister and May give their answers. One is willing to spend the rest of his life, the other is willing to give his life.
In general, Nick Bannister's approach is relatively safe. In the case of uncertain future changes, he chooses to immerse himself in good memories forever, at least so that the situation will not get worse. As far as Nick is concerned, he manages to please himself despite the floods behind him.
The film's director, Lisa Joy, wrote the original script, which was blacklisted as the most popular unfilmed script in 2013.
Lisa Joy is Christopher Nolan's sister-in-law.
Hugh Jackman is also an old acquaintance of theirs, starring in the film "The Prestige" (The Prestige, 2006) directed by Nolan and co-written by Lisa Joy's husband Jonathan Nolan (Jonathan Nolan) in his early years.
The male and female protagonists of the film co-starred in The Greatest Showman (2017).
It can be said that Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson continue the "leading edge" of "The King of the Circus" in this film. In "The King of the Circus", the two couldn't be together because of the needs of the plot and the characters, and Rebecca Ferguson also sang the sad version of "Never Enough". It can only be said that Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson really call.
A few more words about "The King of the Circus", this is my favorite movie of 2017, and the soundtrack of the movie is also the album I listened to the most times that year. The entire film was actually sung by the actor himself, but "Never Enough" was performed by professional singer Loren Allred because it was too difficult.
Although Rebecca Ferguson sang hoarsely in the film, her veins were exposed, but she didn't actually use it. You can listen to "Never Enough" to know the difficulty of the song.
Things change in this "Reminiscence," where Rebecca Ferguson shows off her true singing voice. The difficult treble cannot be beat, but this lyrical minor can be easily won.
Composer Ramin Djawadi previously worked with Lisa Joy on the HBO series Westworld. Ramin Javadi also collaborated with Jonathan Nolan on "Person Of Interest" in his early years.
Also starring in Westworld are Thandiwe Newton and Angela Sarafyan.
There is also an interesting point, "Remembrance" is the first film by actress Thandeway Newton to use the original Zimbabwean spelling of the name. That's because Tandyway's "w" was accidentally left out in her first film, and she just "goes with the flow."
Wu Yanzu, who wears a big gold chain and shows eight-pack abs, plays the role of the villain Saint Joe in the film.
The biggest feature of St. Joe is that it is mixed with Chinese words in English. Just like the fake foreign devils around us like to mix some foreign farts in their speech, Saint Joe does the opposite, adding various Chinese words and phrases unexpectedly in English conversations.
Maybe in the future, the world has achieved a great fusion of languages, and everyone can master common words in various languages...
"Reminiscence of Mystery" was also made lazy.
In the aquarium scene, the shot from the bottom was used twice, and the same actor motion was used, different CGI fish.
Dystopian poignant love,
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