Text / Ichigo vs Peng
It seems that foreign cinema films prefer to have something to do with moving. Horror movies such as Master Key and Soul Conjuring are stories that happen after moving, while sci-fi movies such as this man from the earth are stories about the night before moving. The background of moving has always been the setting frame that they cannot escape.
The same is true of the movie "Mirage". Mother Vera moves into a new home and finds an old TV in the locker that can connect 25 years ago and now. She was kind enough to prevent the death of the little boy 25 years ago, but because of the butterfly The effect, unexpectedly, caused everything to change 25 years later.
Many times we like to sigh that we knew this earlier, why did we have to do it in the first place, but the reality is that even if you are given another chance, will you really be satisfied with your new life? Maybe you just let one thing achieve the happiness you want, but the composition of life is multi-faceted, because the butterfly effect triggers changes in other surrounding events. Can you accept it?
Twenty-five years ago, the little boy Nick witnessed the brutal autopsy of his wife by his neighbors. He ran out in panic and was killed in a car accident.
Twenty-five years later, Vera warned Nick on TV not to go to a neighbor's house out of curiosity to check the source of the noise.
Nick listened to Vera's advice and avoided the line of death. Live on your own, and history changes with it. In the new timeline, Vera woke up and found that she was not married to David, let alone gave birth to a daughter.
On the one hand, he saved people with good intentions, and on the other hand, he gained a new life. In the future, I will become the surgeon I have always dreamed of being a student and have a happy family. But it seems that this is not the result that Vera wants the most. Even after slowly regaining the memory of the new timeline, she still cannot bear the grief of losing her daughter Gloria.
Here is an inappropriate analogy. People often say that the first love is the most beautiful and unforgettable. Even if it is not the first love at the end, it will often think of the original beauty. The same is true of life. The beginning may not be the best, but it must be purer and more memorable.
Although Vera has realized her dream and has the full care of her new lover, the weight of her lovely daughter and caring husband in her heart can no longer be reduced. She hopes that the past can be restored. After ripping off the cocoon and pulling away the veil of competition for victory, Vera resolutely decided to end her life by suicide. She knew that Nick, who changed her name to Laila, would reopen the time channel connecting the past and the future. She firmly believed that she and her daughter 's rebirth.
So, the climax of the movie finally came. Nick 25 years later told Nick 25 years ago that he must forget Vera who had a conversation with her, what happened in the neighbor's house, and never mention today's events to anyone!
Vera, who woke up in bed again, found that as expected, everyone was back, her husband David was sleeping soundly beside him, and then ran to her daughter's bedroom, hugging her beloved Gloria and crying with joy!
The little padded jacket Gloria is back, her husband's infidelity has been verified, and she knows the grown-up Nick again. The double satisfaction of family affection and love, without any regrets, has gained a great perfection!
Mirage is different from some in-depth science fiction, which talks about the immutability of history, or fatalism.
For example, we are most familiar with the sci-fi film Terminator 1. Kyle returned to Los Angeles in 1984 to protect the future and became the mother of the human rebel leader John, Sarah, but she fell in love with Sarah's mother by coincidence, and he became John's father. ! Typical intent to protect the future makes history!
Another example is a severe brain-burning film like the former destination. The more you don’t want to have the present, the more you want to kill your past self and obliterate your existence, but you can’t help falling in love with the self before you changed and gave birth to yourself. Later, when the bomber said "you pull the trigger, you will become me", so that this cycle will never end, and it also deeply explores the meaning of fatalism.
Knowing that you can't do it, you can still do it. In fact, there is no meaning in this type of film, and what is destined will never change.
The film Mirage, on the other hand, hardly elaborates on cause and effect and fatalism. It only explains the persistence and greatness of maternal love from the perspective of a mother. At the same time, the logic is meticulous and there are no obvious bugs, which is both touching and enjoyable.
Villa saved Nick without other bad consequences. Change it again, he is still a doctor, as well as his lover and children, and Nick did not suffer a car accident because of curiosity. The interweaving of the four time-spaces does not contradict or conflict.
Of course, we can also have another explanation for the logical relationship explained in the film, the parallel world theory.
Let's take the well-known Schrödinger's cat experiment as an example: a cat in a box, along with a small amount of radioactive material. After that, there is a 50% chance that the radioactive material will decay and release poison gas to kill the cat, and there is a 50% chance that the radioactive material will not decay and the cat will survive.
In the ordinary universe, cats are either dead or alive. In contrast to the film, Vera either saved Nick or not.
If the parallel universe is explained by quantum mechanics, the cat's life and death happen synchronously, and it derives two different worlds.
Putting it in the video, we can understand it like this:
For the first time, Vera warns Nick on TV not to go to the neighbor's house, so a new timeline occurs, Nick lives and his life is changed. But at the same time, the previous timeline still exists, just because of the change, a new timeline has been separated, and a parallel world has appeared.
The second time, too, Nick forgot about Vera, didn't go to the neighbor's house, and Vera had another new life. The world is split in two again, towards the development of different options.
In the end, we can calculate that the first world split into three new worlds, which means that there are 2 squares and 4 worlds at the same time.
Whether it is the theory that history cannot be changed, or the theory of the world in ordinary times, they all tell us to be careful in everything, do not talk nonsense or do things without thinking, otherwise no one can blame the results that you do not want, and if you want to start all over again It requires far more wisdom and responsibility than ordinary people!
As for the 32 reversals of ballet that have been emphasized in many film reviews, the author can't feel it. In general, this film does not have too many surprises, nor is it excessively brain-burning. It is quite satisfactory, but the plot is slowly intertwined and worth watching!
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