According to the introduction of the film, this is a movie about dreams. There are black and white factions in charge of human dreams. One group creates good dreams for people, while the other group brings people nightmares and steals human souls.
I was immediately excited and wanted to watch it, thinking it might be as exciting as "Inception". Unexpectedly, I was curious about how the director would interpret the human dream and the messenger who dominates the dream, but unexpectedly, the way that the so-called messenger appeared was a very ordinary person appearing on the street in the middle of the night. They even had to open the windows of people's bedrooms to get in, and then they needed to dream people's dreams in the most clumsy way possible: put their hands on people's foreheads...
and thought, oh MYGOD, This is too unimaginative, too old-fashioned. Then in the progress of the plot, a Nightmare messenger dressed in shabby clothes with no beauty at all (in the process of watching the movie, I wish I could enter the movie and take off his ragged clothes with my own hands) entered the A little girl's room. OK, he is playing a negative role, and he really doesn't need to dress too beautifully, but the makeup on his body is also real... neither magic nor crazy nor fantasy, just one word: broken! !
Silently watching... The next pictures, one after another, can be called the classic junk in American TV dramas, and even the shape of the nightmare messenger wearing a slideshow on his head is uncomplimentable. A large number of black, gray, tattered and outdated scenes lie in front of us. Compared with Zhang Yimou's film, they are two extremes: Zhang is big, empty, and beautiful. This film has a little content but is too ugly.
But it's not all that bad either (the world isn't good or bad, it's all relative) - the only thing that catches the eye in the film is the way the "Pathfinder" looks and the He kept talking about the strange way of doing things of "ONE TWO THREE FOUR". He has no eyesight, and his jokes and scoldings when he first appeared on the stage showed a very personal style. He did not follow the rules, never rigid and dull, and had a very artistic sense in the rhythm of his actions... He rewritten it with music without any rush and just right. The fate of the protagonist...he is the only little freshman in this film.
People who study psychology can still watch this film properly, if you don't pursue fantasy tastes as much as I do. Because this film actually tells and dissects the human mind through and through. The male protagonist in the film has experienced many traumas in the process of growing up, and he has formed a slightly split personality when he grows up. The metaphor in the film is the controlled side of the nightmare), he is ruthless, living in extreme anxiety, and is firmly controlled by the inner voice (that inner voice does not look like everyone’s inner self-talk all the time) Talking to himself?)...
under the control of the Nightmare Messenger (which we can see as the negative negative thoughts inside), JOHN (the film's hero) nearly sent his own daughter to the brink of death...
another remarkable point The character is the storyteller (the subtitles are translated like this, I am not the original text, I am too bad at English), she is the dream messenger (this title was invented by myself), entering another dimension to save the nightmare messenger. Girls (actually just souls). In fact, I think her real role is "the messenger into the soul", because instead of relying solely on force to solve the problem, she uses her own language to touch the mind of the nightmare messenger and remind him of her real role.
Her presence reminds people of Gandhi's non-violent non-cooperation movement in India. In addition to armed conflict, in this world where beauty and ugliness coexist, we have better ways to solve problems. And every person we regard as a wicked person is originally a kind angel. It is only because the soul (psychology) is ill that various problems arise...
There are thousands of human tastes. Maybe this film, which is not to my taste, can be loved by others. Besides, it's a small production movie, and it's quite a story. Seeing that it saves a lot of resources for our entire planet, I'll give it three stars. Ha ha. See how tolerant I am...
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