I originally wanted to give it four and a half stars, but I really think this movie is good, although everyone's comments are not good. It does have some minor flaws though. The most obvious is that this translated name is too sucks. I glanced at it and had no desire to watch it, until I saw its original name selfless, and the translated name of the subtitle group "not me", how cool! Hundreds of times more powerful than a "phantom body" that can easily mislead people to think of a phantom limb.
Many people say that the subject matter is not new, but I think it doesn't matter. There must be more than one group of people shooting similar themes. As long as the story is well told, the audience can still happily accept it. Although the direction of the film can be predicted from beginning to end, it does tell the story well.
First of all, the remarks about the juniors in the restaurant show that the male protagonist is a principled person, which becomes the support for his "bottom line theory" and the series of behaviors that follow. Then, through the dialogue between the male protagonist and his friends and daughter, he learned that he feels guilty for his relatives, but he is always soft-hearted and lacks communication skills, making it difficult to have a good relationship. Burying a box in the cemetery to make way for himself shows that he is thoughtful in his work. Mr. Kingsley's about 15 minutes of scenes accurately expressed the male lead's personality and inner feelings. In fact, it was very risky for him to participate in this mysterious experiment, which did not fit his personality at all, but the time was running out. The film cleverly used terminal cancer to force the male protagonist to make this decision. It can be seen that he did not make this decision out of nostalgia for his money empire. He has money and power, and he has no regrets in his career. On the contrary, he has many regrets in his relationship, which makes him unhappy all day long. He needs time and Energy to make up for it, and the mysterious experiment just gave him this opportunity.
Through experiments, he was resurrected with a young and strong body, and a series of flash shots led the audience to experience the joy of regaining youthful vitality, but he could not repair the crack in his heart: his daughter. As the plot progresses, he soon discovers that the mysterious experiment he took part in risked to pay the price of other people's bodies in addition to money. Driven by his personality and experience to find out the truth and put an end to this inhumane behavior, he embarks on a life-threatening adventure, relying on the military-trained body and shrewd businessman's skills that the screenwriter has given him. The mind finally settled the crisis, and finally he returned his body to the person it belonged to and left the world alone.
I believe that when he knew the truth of the transformation plan, his conscience no longer allowed him to continue to have this body, but the situation was too dangerous and he had to kill the boss first. Then he still has a little time left, just to deal with the emotional problems he needs to deal with the most, and the stranger's body also avoids the unpleasantness of meeting his daughter, he has a perfect opportunity to reconcile with her daughter and say goodbye, and During his time with Mark's daughter, he got the happy time alone with his young daughter that he had missed. As a result, his last wish was fulfilled, he was able to implement his principles of life and become a hero, killed the bad guy and saved a strange family. Isn't this the best end-of-life care he gave himself?
Regarding the life of the male protagonist, I think the movie has fully explained it. But I mentioned at the beginning that there are some small flaws, such as that life-changing machine is too vulnerable, that awesome pill is not a new drug, but a combination of a few psychotropic drugs to fool the audience, and What about the other bodies in the boss lab? Why didn't the male protagonist try to save those people? And what happened to the good friend's life-changing son? Whatever, it's not a hero film anyway, I feel like the screenwriter is just focused on creating a unique hospice care for the male lead, so what about the rest ┓(´∀`)┏
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