The robbery of the convenience store at the beginning of the film can be regarded as the opportunity for the whole film to happen - the heroine's greed made her kill the convenience store clerk - the initiator of the incident - opened the scene and appeared twice in the film But there is no clear indication of the role of the safe.
Then the film turns to a remote mountain and old forest, panicked weak women and dilapidated cabins, and a mysterious hero full of doubts, it is easy to reminiscent of the standard opening of many horror movies.
And the shrewdness of the film lies in this. At the beginning of the film, the male protagonist is portrayed as a person who is slightly mysterious, and people can't help but be afraid to trust him - an axe, a covered conversation, and some time ago. Only the two heroines have nightmares, and the male lead doesn't. The director's grasp of the plot makes people have been waiting for the hero to "expose his nature". Unexpectedly, with the development of the plot, the real theme of this film began to become clear - a sci-fi suspense film with a terrifying atmosphere, but it did not want to do anything with horror movies, and the male protagonist naturally did not become our guess. the devil.
The director's setting of suspense and the rhythm of mastering the suspense announcement can be said to be excellent. From the convenience store, the biggest burden, to the family reunion later, the suspense setting is quite Hitchcock-like. Even though this kind of setting similar to time-travel is relatively common, as long as the director's burden is skillfully shaken, it will still bring different excitement to the audience. Let's take a look at how the director sets up a few suspense.
1. Convenience store events:
As I said before, the beginning of all stories in the film starts from this mysterious convenience store. The convenience store is placed at the beginning of the film, similar to a prologue. Putting this episode at the beginning allows the audience to guess the connection between the entire film and the safe in the convenience store for most of the film. When the first heroine (young woman) falls in front of the wooden house, the audience will think that the first heroine insists on opening the safe to release some kind of supernatural power based on the title of the film and past experience. It's something like crossing, but releasing some kind of Pandora's box of demons lurking in this forest.
2. The female No. 2 in mature clothes, the mysterious male lead, and the rebellious female No. 1: At the beginning of the feature film, the female No. 2 (because I couldn't tell at a glance that this female lead was the same person on the DVD cover, so I thought she was the same person at first) It's just a small cannon fodder used to sharpen the villain's knife in a horror movie) walking aimlessly in the woods, obviously looking like a weak woman, people can't help but feel that she will soon be captured in the next shot The idea of brutal killing.
As for the male protagonist, the director used two shots 15 minutes ago to make the audience and the female lead have the same suspicion of the male protagonist, one is dragging an axe and the other is holding a hammer. The director used the same angle for shooting these two scenes as the perverted killer in horror films - ignoring the face and highlighting the action of the characters gives a sense of tension and oppression.
Immediately afterwards, the heroine fainted in front of the wooden house, which made the mysterious atmosphere of the film even stronger so far. Viewers will speculate whether the heroine's fainting has some inevitable connection to the previous robbery, whether it was because something in the safe drove her into this forest, or something else.
3. Newspaper:
In the first 30 minutes of the film, the only shot that clearly points out what the whole suspense of the film is about is the close-up of the newspaper at eight minutes and 44 seconds. This feature, which only gives the date of the newspaper, seems to foreshadow that the whole story is about time, not space.
4. Occasional gunshots:
When three people are trapped in the hut, strange gunshots are often heard. Since the three people don't know where and when they are, it is natural to think that someone is hunting.
5. Banknotes:
When the three of them were looking for a way out, a roll of banknotes in the heroine's pocket accidentally fell out. At this time, the audience naturally related this roll of money to the previous robbery. There is no guessing that this roll of money is the key to explaining the chain of mysterious events, it has no connection to the robbery at the beginning of the film, this roll of banknotes is just the proceeds of another robbery carried out by the heroine before the supermarket robbery.
6. Space and time:
The disagreement between the two heroines' conversation in front of the wooden house, to the hero's confirmation that their disagreement is not nonsense, to the time-honored map in the dugout, some supernatural force in the movie begins to attract audiences. attention. But at this time, it will only be suspected that several people have been put together from different spaces, and there will be no doubt about time.
But when the female No. 2 told the heroine about her life experience in the air-raid shelter - her father was German and died in the war - the audience will definitely start to set the film, this story that has been surrounded by a veil, began to have a clearer idea.
The director also paid great attention to the metaphors that foreshadow the characters' emotions and psychology, as well as the atmosphere.
1. Carousel:
When the heroine fainted outside the door and was helped into the house by the second female, the second female found a small box with a merry-go-round from behind the telegraph when she was bored.
This object seems to be only used to echo the same carousel that the heroine saw in the convenience store after "awakening" at the end of the film. In fact, it is also used to allude to an atmosphere at that time - endless rotation. Just like the environment in which the cabin is located, no matter how you go or in which direction you go, you can't get rid of the fate of returning to the cabin.
And in the last shot of the carousel at the end of the film, we can find that the carousel suddenly stops from rotating. This design is quite clever, suggesting the end of the heroine's "nightmare" journey.
2. The relationship between the three:
At about 36 minutes of the film, when the three of them first knew that they had been brought to the cabin from different places because of an incredible force, the director used three simple shots to show the three people's psychology and mutual relationship at this time. relationship between.
For the relatively chaotic timeline in the film, it should be the director's attempt to maintain the balance of the film's suspense and logic. This is my understanding of whether this film belongs to multi-cosmology or single cosmology, and whether this film belongs to pseudo-scientific time travel, or the heroine's own journey of redemption and spirituality.
Assuming that the film's setting conforms to a single cosmology, when the heroine shoots the clerk and opens the safe, the safe or the clerk (with some mysterious power) will generate a power for self-protection. This power brings three generations of the heroine's mother and heroine's son and grandson, who were in the same universe before and after the murder, to the time of the heroine's grandfather (time travel, monocosmology), and uses something similar to The three people were imprisoned in the cabin by means of "ghost hitting the wall". The purpose is very clear, that is, to let the three of them rescue the German great-grandfather who was about to be killed in the air raid, and rewrite the later events to save the clerk from the disaster of blood.
And the final result is as expected, the great-grandfather survived, and the heroine is refreshed and we find that her life has changed 180 degrees. She will not stay at home alone during pregnancy and die due to the failure of rescue during childbirth, and the heroine will not embark on a path of no return because she has no mother's care since she was a child, then the clerk will not. In this robbery was shot by the heroine.
At the end of the film, the convenience store is robbed again, which is almost a replica of the beginning of the film. The same method, the same steps, the same scene, but the female robber has changed. It hints to the audience that what happened in the whole movie may not be the first time, and like the carousel mentioned earlier, the convenience store robbery seems to be repeated (maybe the second female robber is experiencing After the same time as the heroine, there will be a third robbery). This kind of setting makes the identity myth of the clerk, so that he begins to show a divine role similar to that of guiding people to goodness in religion.
If it is assumed to be a single universe, then at the end of the film when they change the past, although both the heroine and the second female lead can live happily, a question arises - will the male lead still exist? Obviously not, because it is mentioned in the film that the male protagonist is the daughter of the heroine and the little Fei at the beginning of the film, but at the end the little Fei is obviously with another woman due to the changed history. Since the male protagonist will never appear again, then the idea of time travel is a paradox - how to find an impossible person from the future of the same universe to change the past.
In one of the last shots, it is very clear that the book in the clerk's hand is "Time and Space Titans", a science fiction that describes the shuttle between virtual and reality, which will also make people have a little influence on the setting of the film.
But if the story is not explained in a scientific way, but is explained in terms of supernatural phenomena, that is, everything is just an illusion, then the logic is no longer important, but the level of sophistication of the film will be greatly reduced. .
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All in all, this is a movie excluding the Chinese translation name. Quite an interesting movie~~
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