Maybe it's because he has been immersed in Hollywood blockbusters and domestic big production movies for a long time, which has spoiled his taste, or maybe he has been waiting for the results of the philosophy entrance examination recently. The understanding of the movie is limited... In short, the feeling of depression and annoyance after watching the movie can be regarded as just personal feelings, if there are similarities, shake hands and nod.
The movie seems to want to discuss the issue of dreaming and waking. From the beginning, the movie screen presents a vague and ambiguous animation style, which seems to imply that the boundary between dreaming and waking is difficult to draw. Regarding the question of dreams, when Inception was hot, it became popular in the market. Now, watching this film, it will be earlier than Uncle Nolan, and how to distinguish between dreams and reality, Richard Jun has dealt with it. Much deeper than that. There are many overlaps between dreams and reality, but there may also be many absurdities in reality. Although the fragments of the dream appear to have no logical relationship, the confusion is actually imperceptible, so when you think you wake up from a dream , but you are in another dream, and the criteria for distinguishing between dreaming and waking are also different. So you can't find out by spinning the top between dreams and waking up. Of course, this creates a big problem for the audience. Until the black screen is pulled down, you also seem to be in the fog, and you have no idea when the male protagonist is dreaming or awake. In addition, the director is very good at him. The dialogue with pride, and a large dialogue full of philosophical discussions as the main content of the film, makes the already unclear plot become more obscure in these fantasy content. (I have a deep doubt, is this just an experimental film for the small audience? Or is the philosophical literacy of Europeans and Americans beyond our weak imagination!) As an unqualified undergraduate student in the Department of Philosophy, I was originally confused between fantasy and action As for me, I was instantly annoyed by this film. Looking at the faces of the uncles and aunts pretending to be professors in the movie one after another, and listening to them talk about how to control self-consciousness, free will, whether there is a soul, etc., I suddenly feel powerless. Is philosophy a vacant activity after all? Could it be that the director wants to show the philosophical dialogue to let the comrades who are immersed in this discussion see the powerlessness and ridiculousness of the dialogue? The most heart-wrenching thing is that our lovely and dear heroines, Hoxan and Julie, were discussing issues such as "Zhuang Sheng's dream of butterflies" in bed after the bed. , after the burst of desire, it is not you and me, but a cold discussion, director, the romance of love before dawn has disappeared without a trace, and there is no popularity at all! Of course, it's also entirely possible that this is the effect of my bias. Maybe the director just wants to lead us to the question itself through these dreamlike and real conversations. We think we live in a real life that we are familiar with, but it is actually no more real than our dreams. It's just that the way of expressing it is really hard for me to accept.
Richard is more shrewd than Nolan in that he did not give any clear definition of dreaming and waking. All the expressions about dreaming and waking are all under the guise of the feelings of the male pig's feet. At first, it seemed that he was in a dream. The male pig's feet only listened but never talked to the object, but gradually this characteristic was broken. The male pig's feet could chat with the object, and even tell that he was in a dream but could not wake up. From naivety, it brings us into profound problems, but dreams and reality without even a temporary judgment standard are frustrating. The audience who has lost the ability to judge can only wait for the director to slaughter, or maybe the director just wants to tell you , we are always in the process of waking, there is no starting point and ending point.
In short, although the film discusses profound issues, the content is not so close to the people, not so cute, no laughter and tears, a bit bitter and prostration, it is a good movie that can only be given to Samsung~
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