(I suggest you watch my review again after watching the movie!)
For the first time, I knew that this movie was on Weibo. Someone posted a trailer for this movie, and the plot in the trailer was fascinating, so I always remembered this movie and thought it was November. It was released, but I saw Fandango’s information today that I knew it was just released today. It was still Pg-13. It just happened that the school activities were only half a day in class, so I went to see it.
At the beginning of this movie, I think the editing is a bit chaotic, the rhythm is a little faster, and the photography was a bit abrupt at the beginning. When the heroine Tree (the name is strange...) was killed for the first time, roughly The details and background have been told to the audience. Some major characters such as Tree’s roommate Lori, her affair with the university teacher and doctor, and every time they are killed, they wake up in Carter’s room, etc., so they died for the first time. In the story, we can also know that this day is Tree’s birthday and her memorial day. Her father always calls to wish her a happy birthday, but she always does not answer the phone. Tree is not a nice person at the beginning of the film. He is not friendly to people, indifferent to volunteers, mocking female classmates who have breakfast, indifferent to roommates, and even put the birthday cake specially made for her directly in front of her. Throw it in the trash can.
In Tree's first death experience, the above is roughly all the information given. In the subsequent deaths, we can also know some other important clues: every night at a certain point in time, no matter whether Tree is in the dormitory or the hospital, there will be a short power outage for a few seconds; one of Tree loves her very much, but unfortunately The deceased mother really hit her hard; no matter what Tree did at night, she would end up being killed by a man in black wearing a mask. Then she will return to the same day: her birthday, and repeat it.
After that, Tree became unbearable and nearly collapsed. After waking up another morning, he finally told his story. He woke up in his dormitory every day. When it came to the solution, I figured out a way that is to find the murderer, maybe this is the only way to save Tree. So Tree started investigating. She made a list of murderers, which included her friend Danielle, the wife of her university teacher, and someone who had an appointment with Tree, and asked her why she didn’t reply to text messages, but she was deep in her heart. Male classmate, but the ending is the same every time. Tree was killed by the masked man again, and none of the "suspects" she thought was the real murderer.
This endless torture made Tree feel so painful. After waking up again, he vomited and was sent to the hospital. At the same time, the hospital started to lose power for a few seconds. This part of the strange atmosphere made the audience think that Tree’s doctor, her university teacher Gregory was the real murderer. Tree took the opportunity to escape and found the mask hidden in the office. This made her think that Gregory was the murderer. However, it was not. Gregory was also killed. Tree tried his best to escape but did not get rid of the fate of being killed again. After this time, Tree miraculously was not killed by the masked man, but hanged herself to death because she did not want to catch Carter's life (Carter was killed by the masked man, if Tree killed the masked man, then Carter would be permanently Died).
The climax finally came. Tree seemed to have an epiphany. After waking up in Carter's dormitory again, she told Carter to see him at lunch, filled out volunteer publicity forms enthusiastically, and even put pillows on the students who were about to faint. , I met my father, opened my heart, eliminated the estrangement with my father, and suddenly awakened that the murderer was actually a serial killer who had been under surveillance in the hospital. After that, he was fully armed, set a watch, and came to the hospital. After a few seconds of power outage, The anti-murderer, met Carter in the dormitory, and gave a close-up of the cake made by Tree's roommate.
However, Tree unexpectedly woke up again on her birthday again. She collapsed again and ran to her dormitory. She finally realized that the murderer was her roommate, who was given to her because she was jealous of the relationship between Tree and the university teacher Gregory. Poisoned in the birthday Cupcake, this time Tree finally "resurrected", and from then on to live a happy life with Carter, the whole process is also the process of Tree's own growth, from mean to nice, she chose Zeng willing to serve her in the ending Carter who gave up his life, not the men who only cared about her body. The constant "rebirth" and "death" made Tree truly understand the meaning of life and changed her choice of life forever.
I think the script of this movie is very good. The first half of the film feels that the director is in general mastery. Maybe it is to shorten the length of the movie. Generally speaking, I also think it is fair. Maybe I am too fond of those long shots with fixed positions. Bar. I saw many comments that there are loopholes in this movie, but I think the setting of this movie is that Tree will keep repeating the day of her death unless she finds the murderer, this is the setting of the whole movie. If you have watched Charlie Mack Dowell’s "I Love You", you will find that this "science fiction" movie does not explain the principle of the whole story at all, because its setting is like this, and there is no need to explain it. Another example is "Silent Night". This movie is a very pure thriller. It doesn't even explain the murderer because it is just a thriller, not a suspense.
Just like this "Happy Sacrifice", he did not explain why Tree would wake up forever on this day, nor did he tell the audience why Tree can continue to live after finding the murderer, because the mode of the whole story is its Setting. This A popcorn movie costing about 5 million US dollars. The transformation from suspense to thriller to love campus movie in 96 minutes is amazing. Maybe it won't win many awards, and the evaluation won't be too high, but I think it is at least worth it. The ticket price of 10 dollars is worth seeing.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Just like the sentence shown in the last shot in the movie, today is the first day of our remaining life. We have to live today and tomorrow there is the rest of our life. Don’t regret your choice, and remember to be a good person. !
Finally, I welcome everyone to pay attention to the official account of my essay: Andysspace, I am currently 17 years old and I am studying in high school in the United States.
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