the art of narrative

The movie is full of gimmicks at the beginning. A little boy has to face the "danger of death" every year. In the ninth year, he fell from a cliff and was resurrected 2 hours after the doctor judged him dead. It's all shattered, but obviously the heart is beating and the brain is working.
Then we will find that the protagonist's bizarre encounter is just a gimmick. The real story is actually very ordinary: a smart woman who is good at showing her weak side, because she is pregnant because of a one-night stand. to her. Therefore, she has always maintained a mental state, not only wanting to abuse and kill her own child (that is, the host, Tong Yi), but also taking advantage of the child's "disasters" to gain sympathy, and once met a good man (calling To him, he actually accompanies him to wait for the child), this good man is just about to get married, but she knows that this is a good man with love, so she uses his sympathy to seduce him. As the story told by the deceived man in the film, "There is a man, and there is a woman who loves to laugh and a woman who loves to cry. Who will the man choose?" Because men, especially those who think they are powerful, always tend to I like those girls who are charming and weak, so that they can show their "power" and satisfy their "protective desire". However, just because she accidentally met the woman she was going to marry before, Louis' mother fell into the "killing" disease again, and even tried to poison Louis with candy. Her husband stopped her, but she pushed her into the sea and died. Louis loved his adoptive father, so he also jumped down. However, because he didn't die, Louis was once again used by his mother, who used him to show her pity, win the sympathy of the child's attending doctor, and even almost succeeded in seducing him (he was also a married man).
Fortunately, the doctor in charge had a special brain and was able to get in touch with Louie's memory through sleepwalking. During the sleepwalking process, the doctor actually played the role of Louie, revealing Louie's real memory.
The ingeniousness of the movie lies in the conception, the introduction of gimmicks, and then the transformation of the false and the real, to hide the real story (boring and old-fashioned), and then create a lot of suspense, which constantly makes us think about "what's going on". The problem with the movie is that Louie's mother isn't neurotic or weak, just witty and weird. 17.2.1

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