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Let’s start with the conclusion. I personally think that the storm in the last scene must be real, which is also the real finishing touch of this movie.
The director's deliberate hints and even made it clear that Curtis has mental problems, so that the audience can recognize that Curtis does have some mental problems (and he does), and then the audience will come to such a logic: Curtis has mental problems , so what he saw and imagined was false.
This is only the first layer. In fact, many experienced audiences are still suspicious at this time. After all, Curtis has mental problems. It is too obvious to see that it is fake. Maybe the director will do the opposite. After all, is it really arranging a world-annihilation-level storm to reverse it?
Then the next step is when the film is nearing the end, a fake climax arranged by the director, really brought a storm, the scale of the storm is not small, the town has raised the alarm, at this time some audiences may feel that it really is a reversal . . Then the second floor came right away, and when the Curtiss woke up early the next morning, the Curtiss found that the storm was not fake, but it was the same scale.
At this time, the experienced audience smiled knowingly. It turned out that the director played a trick and used the audience's psychology to guess that he would reverse to give the audience a fake reverse. Seeing this, it is basically certain that the movie is about a person The story of a middle-aged anxious man with a family history of mental illness fell ill. The next conclusion should be that the family unites and works hard to live. This is the second layer.
Then Curtis went to see a high-end psychiatrist. The doctor told him that he needed to leave the family for some real treatment, but before that, the family decided to go to the beach that they go to every year for another vacation and enjoy a good life. , and then the real third layer reversed: the daughter who built a sandcastle by the sea found the anomaly first, then Curtis saw it, and finally samantha saw the giant storm, and it began to rain in the sky, everything was As seen in Curtis's dream. . .
Curtis foresaw the end in a dream;
It turned out that Curtis had a family history of mental illness;
A big storm really came, and Curtis's prophecy was about to come true;
It turned out that the storm was also limited, and the prediction did not come true, it was all Curtis's imagination. .
This tireless reversal of size, layer after layer, is all for the audience to let go of their guard in the process of repeatedly thinking that they can guess the ending, accept the reality that this is not a disaster film, but a mental health film, and then at the end In seconds, let a storm hit the audience. . .
The most interesting thing is that even if Curtis predicted the world-destroying storm and the maddening rain, it does not mean that he is not mentally ill. .
Finally, the discussion forum said that the last scene was fake because the Curtis family had no money to go on vacation. . Honestly this isn't really a problem. Both Curtis and Samantha had already recognized the fact that Curtis was ill at that time. They told the matter to their family (samantha's family) or Curtis' brother, and provided a little money. Before Curtis started the long treatment, It's really not a big deal to have the family go on one last vacation.
In short, the viewing process of this movie is still very interesting, layer after layer, guessing the final direction of the movie.
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