(Serious spoilers involved) This review is purely personal opinion, please forgive me if there are any similarities or misunderstandings.
First of all, I didn't read the film review at all and only watched the film based on the recommendation of Xunlei. Although the overall score of the film is not high, I think it may be largely because the heroine is not too famous, although the scale is large, but the figure is really average. But I still watched the movie seriously because of Liam Neeson's sign. In general, the ending was still beyond my expectations. Because a movie has arguments and topics, it means that the director's shooting is more brilliant. Can judge the good and bad and the pros and cons, then it is a conventional routine film, not worth recommending.
Next, let's take a look at the three core questions of the play. Is the heroine Anna finally dead? 2 Can the male protagonist Elliot be psychic? 3 Can the little boy Jack be psychic?
1 Is the heroine Anna finally dead?
Note that it says final! The answer is obviously yes, whether it was her nightmare, a car accident, or being killed by the male protagonist of the funeral home, the female protagonist did die in the end, but she was alive 90% of the time.
Why do you say the heroine used to be alive?
Evidence 1 There are no actual evil spirits or ghosts in this film. All the special effects are due to the hallucinations and nightmares of the heroine after being brainwashed by the heroine in hypothermia, overdose of tranquilizers, brainwashed by the hero, and staying in the morgue for too long. , just imagine who could sleep in a morgue for a few nights without having nightmares? And eating and drinking Lazard doesn't affect it at all? Generally speaking, it's good not to be scared to death, so the nightmare of the female protagonist in the early stage is mainly frightened by the two corpses next to her and the brainwashing of the male protagonist who keeps saying "you are already dead". Many times the terminally ill person is not The disease took his life, but he was scared to death by himself.
Evidence 2 Because religion and ghosts are not really involved in the film, there are basically two types of people in the morgue, one is a corpse, and the other is a living person (including checkmate, suspended animation, injected, etc.). Wait)
Evidence 3 is also the most obvious one in my opinion. When the male protagonist finds that he has not brought the gas key and hurried home, it is enough to show that he is worried that the female protagonist uses the key to escape from the house. How about the soul of a dead person needs the key to enter and exit the house. ? Even if you are an atheist, you should have the most basic respect for the soul. Why do you need a key to go out of your body when your soul is out of your body? In fact, the heroine also tried N keys, and even broke one, and then opened the two doors, and these are all real occurrences, not dreams. In the same way, when the heroine first woke up, she shredded all the items in the room, which also happened in reality.
Evidence 4 The two breaths in front of the mirror, the whole building does not have any mirrors or even toilets, bathrooms, etc., all to prevent the heroine or the people in the morgue from seeing their appearance, and simply believe in their own reality. It is a dead person. After all, it is not the first time that the mortuary master has spoken to the heroine. When he later spoke to the corpse of the heroine's boyfriend, the hero used the same tone and opening. Although the male protagonist used a rag to cover up the anger the first time, the second time was discovered by the female protagonist, and it was too late to cover up. Of course, this did not affect the result of the female protagonist being buried alive.
Evidence 5 The heroine successfully called her boyfriend's house. Although her boyfriend thought it was a harassment call and hung up, it was obviously unnecessary for a ghost, and she could have more ways to contact her boyfriend.
Evidence 6 The police came to investigate and saw that the heroine's head moved unexpectedly, which obviously did not conform to the logic of a corpse that had been dead for 2 days.
Evidence 7 A little bit of medical common sense should also understand that blood will not continue to circulate in the human body after the heartbeat stops. At this time, it is meaningless to register any liquid medicine. Even in order to keep the body from rotting, it should be quickly frozen or Remove some perishable organs.
So from the beginning, the heroine had a car accident, sutured wounds, put on makeup, was buried alive, and was buried alive. Her death was caused by suffocation.
2 Can the male protagonist be psychic?
The male protagonist's psychic is obviously fake.
Evidence 1 If the male protagonist can be psychic, then he should be able to talk to all the corpses, not just the female protagonist. The old man in the morgue and the policeman's younger brother did not have any conversations during the same period.
3 Can a little boy be psychic?
Of course it can't. This is not just a cover up for the little boy to see when the hero and heroine are talking in front of the mirror on the second floor. After all, the child is still young, and Jack himself is not popular at school, and he is also at home. Not taken seriously, the only point of view expressed was also denied by the female lead teacher. When he was affirmed by the male lead for the first time, he felt that he was different from others because he had special abilities. Of course, this was also for the male lead. Looking for the foreshadowing buried by the successor, and even shooting a sequel (similar to Chainsaw, Master and Disciple Inheritance, in order to punish those who do not cherish life)
Then after analyzing the three questions, there are still some questions that I will explain separately:
First of all, it is very important to explain that at the end, the pictures of dead people left on the wall in the male protagonist's room. If a living person is buried in the burial, they will have their eyes open. If they are dead, they will have their eyes closed. It was also to make it easier for him to distinguish which ones were sent away by him. If you can accept this truth, then you can understand the subsequent explanations. On the contrary, you will still think that he is a psychic. Those who open their eyes belong to the dead, and those who close their eyes belong to normal death.
Why does the heroine believe that she is dead?
Because the male protagonist constantly injects tranquilizers into the female protagonist, which reduces the female protagonist's resistance and system, in fact, before finally putting on the dress and preparing for the burial, the female protagonist is already quite strenuous to walk, staggering and completely exhausted, even if she is allowed to leave, She also has almost no physical strength and courage to leave.
The male protagonist instilled in the female protagonist that even if the dead person dies, they will leave their bowels at will, and he will continue to help deal with these, so even if the female protagonist has bowel movements, he will consider it to be the normal process of the dead. I have experienced the resurrection after being dead for 2 days, so basically what the mortuary or the doctor says at this time, the patient will believe that it is normal.
The male protagonist deliberately wiped off the breath on the mirror, and the color of the person reflected in the mirror is quite dim. It is not ruled out that the male protagonist will deliberately change the color of the female protagonist into that kind of makeup. After all, the main job of the male protagonist is to put makeup on the body. .
The male protagonist is brainwashing the female protagonist from the beginning to the end. You are already a dead person. Every dead person has done what you do. Even if the female protagonist is holding a knife at the male protagonist, the male protagonist will not change his face. He even moved the knife directly to his neck, because he had dealt with countless "corpses" like this before (in the final ending, the wall of the room was full of pictures of corpses), so the male protagonist is very concerned about these undead corpses. Humans are handled in much the same way.
Did the protagonist kill someone? Why kill?
I think the male protagonist has murdered, and it is not only these two who have been killed.
The cause of the heroine's death was because at the initial funeral, she seemed to see the male corpse in the coffin moving slightly (of course, the photo of the corpse on the wall also had his eyes open), which made the male protagonist murderous. , Then a car accident happened. In fact, whether it was the car accident of the heroine or the heroine's boyfriend, the car of the mortuary was at the scene, and it was just before and after their car. The state of suspended animation, the second is to promote the accidental acceleration.
The cause of the heroine's boyfriend's death was also because he firmly believed that his girlfriend was not dead. The evidence issued by the coroner was incomplete at that time, and he did not do an electrocardiogram. He just said that there was no pulse, etc., which proved that the local police were very sloppy. , will make the accident made by the male lead succeed again and again.
In fact, when the little boy JACK went to the cemetery to chat with the male protagonist, the male protagonist stretched out his hand several times. I think in fact, he had obvious intentions to kill the little boy, but the little boy never stretched out his hand, which was how he successfully escaped the scene. robbery, and the male protagonist was kept on the grounds that the little boy could be psychic. Of course, he also retained the heinousness that the film did not want to portray the male protagonist, and generally speaking, it is difficult for the film to directly abuse and kill children directly, so this plot Right is guesswork.
In the end, whether the heroine’s boyfriend who was lying on the operating table was killed by the hero, I think there are two interpretations. First, he did die in a traffic accident, because when the girlfriend was dug out of the coffin, the heroine’s His fingernails were already colorless like a corpse, and he also opened his mouth to tell him that the clothes were cut. This process was also the first step the heroine experienced when she woke up before her death. And the heroine's boyfriend can have this kind of soul contact with his girlfriend only after death. Second, everything is the hallucination of the male protagonist after a car accident. The male protagonist is finally solved on the operating table like most of the living dead.
So why did the male protagonist do this? He once explained that he had a similar incident with his mother when he was a child. It can be seen that maybe the death of his mother was also a similar reason. He arranged it indirectly, and he was not valued or abused by the family since he was a child. Caused him to have a deformed heart, he felt that if a person did not know how to cherish himself or his family, then he was not qualified to continue to live, so that in the event of an accident or a situation that he felt unbearable, he would act for heaven the solution to this person.
The female protagonist is basically half-naked or fully nude after 1 hour of the film, and the male protagonist has not done anything inappropriate except for tranquilizing the female protagonist. From this point of view, the motive of the male protagonist to kill It's not a deformity or a psychopath, but just a sense of mission to do things for the heavens. He feels that if people don't cherish their own life and time, then it is better to leave it to him to deal with it, which can reduce the suffering of people's life. , there was a moment at the end of the film, the male protagonist gave the female protagonist a chance to be reborn, but the female protagonist finally gave up, because her death did not even cause the slightest mother's sorrow and her boyfriend's sorrow (of course, these are all The male protagonist lied to her, in fact, both the mother and the boyfriend are very sad about her, and they can't even believe it).
Maybe you will say how to make sure that everyone dies is ultimately handled by him. Judging from the movie, the population of the entire town is limited, there is only one cemetery, and he is the only mortuary mortuary. Funerals are all made by him, which is why he knows most of the behaviors and preferences of everyone in the town.
After I watched the movie, I looked through some of everyone's film reviews, and I even found that there were people who insisted that the heroine is dead and that the hero can be psychic. If this logic exists, then this film can be said to be quite a failure. And it's full of loopholes, and it doesn't even make sense. If you can accept that the female protagonist is a living person, and finally solved by the male protagonist in the form of being buried alive, and even develops a successor, as well as the whole wall of pictures of living and dead people, you will find the mystery of the whole story. , I was terrified.
Of course, as a movie released in 2009, the special effects of dreams may still be flawed, and the casting of the heroine is also up for debate (but after all, it takes more than 30 minutes of full nudity, I believe any big star will find it difficult to accept ), and some of the reasons why the heroine does not go to the toilet for 3 days, can live without eating, and the car accident scene is not shown, I think it is understandable, after all, the core content of the movie happens after the heroine wakes up The basic film about memory is rarely used, and I do think the topic of whether the heroine is alive or dead is also the most controversial part. If the process of the car accident, hospital, and autopsy is complete, then There is no logic that the heroine is alive. The flaws are not concealed. I personally think that Liam Neeson's performance in this film is quite delicate, and the many micro expressions are also remarkable.
The above comments and opinions are purely personal thoughts, any similarity is a coincidence, thank you.
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