The reason for wanting to see it is simple.
First is the cast.
After "Bad Education" in 2019, " Uncle Wolf" Hugh Jackman, who has no new film in 2020;
Rebecca Ferguson, the stunning "spy girl" in "Mission Impossible 5" , once cooperated with Uncle Wolf in "The King of the Circus" , and they had a dewy relationship in the play;
Coupled with the participation of Wu Yanzu, it is even more interesting.
Secondly, the main creator is Lisa Joy, the screenwriter of "Westworld" for two seasons . She is the wife of Jonathan Nolan, the sister-in-law of the great director Christopher Nolan, and a common sci-fi of the Nolan brothers. , Suspense type, it can be said that it is produced by the Nolan family.
However.
Such a good card, but failed to play a boutique.
"Reminiscence of Mystery" was exposed to poor media reputation before its release. After its release, the box office was bleak, and the audience did not buy it much, and they kept complaining.
Ended up with a total fiasco, why?
Read the story first.
Nick Bannister, played by Hugh Jackman, runs a "memory experience hall". The service items are similar to the memory implantation in "Total Recall" , allowing customers to enter a matrix similar to " The Matrix" and experience a beautiful memory . It's just that his memory here is not fake, but comes from the customer's own real memory.
The film spends nearly 10 minutes explaining what the "Memory Experience Hall" is for, and implants a larger story background - after a war, and due to global warming, the sea level has risen, and it has become a "game". "Bopunk Venice" Miami.
Lisa Joy used the dialogue between the characters to convey more information about this worldview, but using Uncle Wolf's monologue as a supplement, or telling the information directly, is a bit "lazy".
比如“当太阳升起，迈阿密变成了鬼城，为了躲避白天的酷热，这座城市变成了夜间活动的城市。”就完全可以用白天的死城和黑夜的繁华做对比，并用一句“白天出门想热死啊”之类的台词表达出来。
Of course, different expressions have their own pros and cons. It is straightforward to say that the audience understands better, and the film language is more artistic.
The problem is that after Lisa Joy builds a world similar to DC Comics Gotham City, the exploration of society and humanity is not the core of the story.
This allows the audience to come with two tickets for science fiction and dystopian future, and find that their tickets are wrong, and the feeling of going in the wrong place can be imagined.
Two lines of the story.
The main line is the love line.
Nick falls in love after meeting a female client, May.
But one day May suddenly disappears, forcing Nick to use his memory experience device to find May's whereabouts. However, he found out that his encounter with Mei had other hidden feelings, and he seemed to be deceived.
After experiencing complicated emotional ups and downs, Nick vowed to find May, not because May told him to lie to him. And the truth that awaits him is beautiful and cruel.
One of the more brilliant parts is the setting of the memory experience instrument in the narrative, overlapping the original plot with Nick's virtual experience later, a montage allows Nick to go from reality to memory, and from memory back to reality, the plot It's great to push hard.
The secondary line is the detective line.
A worldview of a broken future is constructed in order to match the story line of "the rich can do whatever they want, and the poor can only suffer".
May is related to the case to be told, and she is the key link between the two story lines.
The suspense setting and foreshadowing are more conventional, leaving blank, exploring, and revealing.
Maybe Lisa Joy felt that there were too many suspenseful detective stories like this, and she wanted something different.
How is it different?
Take the love story as the main line, and let the detective story intersperse it. The protagonist is not investigating the case for the sake of investigating the case, he solves the case by the way for his own selfish desires.
Unfortunately, her attempt was unsuccessful.
The experience in the story should bring character arcs to the characters, otherwise, the plot will appear dispensable.
The love line did give Nick huge twists and turns, leaving him lost and self-doubt at one point.
But the detective line is very tasteless.
Nick really just found out the truth while searching for May. Whether the case is broken or not has nothing to do with him, he only needs to know the real situation and ending of May.
Lisa Joy revealed the truth about May first. At this time, the overall emotion has risen to a peak , and it is completely possible to skip directly to the ending.
However, the foreshadowing of the detective line has to be explained, so there is an additional plot to reveal the truth of the case without emotional twists and turns .
So it doesn't matter how well the front is laid.
Things are like drinking coffee with a red wine glass and telling a love story in a suspenseful way. It always feels weird.
The most deadly is the truth of the reversal, there really is no surprise.
It would be interesting if Mei was set as a character who went from good to bad with a ruined worldview. This made the whole case of moral collapse and a world of dehumanization have a profound impact on Nick.
He loves Mei, but the original beautiful Mei is destroyed by this dark world, which makes his feelings fall short, after which he decides to change the world. This is how the two storylines really come together.
In the end, I don't know if Lisa Joy didn't want to make it too dark or what, and a truth that was reversed turned into a clichéd Madonna plot.
Yes, just like the silly thing that Zack Snyder 's daughter in "Legion of the Living Dead" did not long ago.
There is not much to explore in the role of Nick, as a comment said, "Come on, Azu, Uncle Wolf just wants to have a relationship."
Yes, the whole movie is about the unfinished love of the male lead.
Maybe like "Inception" , make an open ending, don't say whether May is dead in the end , let Nick and May reunite, but it is not clear whether this is a memory or reality, leaving a space for discussion will save a lot of points .
Uncle Wolf's performance has saved a lot of points, and this time he really won't play Wolverine. But in many cases, it is really not enough to have actors, unless it is a one-man show with special settings.
If you look at Wu Yanzu, you may be disappointed.
Because he is not the villain at all, just a tool to advance the plot.
He only officially appeared in a main scene, and he has nothing to do with him.
With limited space to play, he could only embarrassedly add Mandarin to make the character more distinctive.
I don't know how foreigners will feel when they hear it. Anyway, Chinese people will be very strange when they hear it.
Rebecca Ferguson is still beautiful, and for Remembrance , that's definitely enough.
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