Before introducing the film "Reminiscence of Mystery", it is necessary to introduce LisaJoy, the director of the film.
Who is Lisa Joy? Before directing Reminiscence, she had only one TV episode on her directorial resume, The Riddle of the Sphinx, the fourth episode of season two of WestWorld.
The more recognized label is the younger brother and sister of the big director Christopher Nolan and the wife of Jonathan Nolan.
This time, Lisa stood up from the backs of the two men and became the director, screenwriter, and producer of Reminiscence. Master the right to speak in this film, and interpret the love story in this sci-fi background with your own personal style.
The story of "Memories of Mystery" takes place in the near future, when climate change causes sea levels to rise, and Miami becomes a "water city".
The protagonist Nick has a special device that allows people to return to memory.
One day, when I was about to get off work, a strange woman came here to find her keys.
Love at first sight, love at second sight, Mae became Nick's obsession.
Then……
Nick wakes up from his memories. Mae disappeared, and Nick could only look back at the past of the two over and over again.
While interrogating the suspect through "Revisiting Memories", he accidentally saw Mae's figure. Through questioning, Nick learns about the unknown side of Mae before the two met. Mae is a drug addict who is ruthless as the mistress of a drug lord.
Nick, who was shocked, still didn't give up looking for Mae. On the edge of life and death, Nick finally understands Mae and makes a decision for the rest of his life.
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There are very few films that can make me feel so shocked after watching it, as if the reverberation lingers around the beam for three days.
This is a love swan song written by a female director against the background of cold apocalyptic sci-fi.
The two met and knew each other, it was soft and hazy.
The unknown Mae is dark and cold.
The most wonderful setting is that in the memory of others, the former Mae and the then Nick meet.
Nephrite jade is warm and fragrant, whispering, the memory of the past is a long memory for you in the future.
Fall into memory, fall into Reminiscence.
The movie is not a hardcore sci-fi movie. There is no emphasis on advanced science and technology and broken social systems in the cyberpunk style, no various visual impacts, and no conflicts between people and technology. There is also no thirst for human judgment and survival at the end of the day.
It is not the novel concept and the chaotic narrative style of the Nolan family that the Nolan family is good at.
"Memories of Mystery" is an independent work by director Lisa Joy without her husband's surname. Borrow the shell of science fiction and the background of doomsday to reflect the warmth of memories. Use technology to reproduce memories, and narrate love in light and shadow.
Lisa's "Reminiscence of Mystery", let me see what love looks like.
Love is that I love you, love you as a person, and accept everything from you willingly.
Love is falling in love with a specific person, not a concept.
The so-called time has passed, and love has become family affection, or love is not as economical as the foundation. If you have never seen love, treat it as if it doesn't exist. To put it bluntly, I don't believe in love.
Many creators today do not believe in the existence of love in essence, so they have created a lot of works that hang love and sell material things. In order to reflect love, people have to be conceptualized and labeled. Gentleness, kindness, self-motivation... These are all concepts, and real people are flesh-and-blood and rich. The perfect love object in everyone's imagination must have excellent quality, and we will appreciate and like it. But in actual relationships, it's not just about dealing with attractive virtues. The other party's advantages are used to enjoy and cherish. And the other's shortcomings are used to get along and show love.
Everyone has a natural desire for love, but most people expect love to be loved. You can only get love if you truly love.
In the name of love, the romance films in recent years have instilled that the material basis determines the stability of the love spirit. What a weird social formation it is. Money and RVs are human creations. To elevate the created materiality and deny the innate emotional nature of human beings is to deny the essence of human beings.
The greatness of man does not lie in having a creative consciousness that can create a flowery world. But in the big world, we can create and usher in a better time together.
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