Movie reviews are spoilers, who cares?

Holden 2022-03-23 09:02:29

This is a wonderful film.
The three main characters share just the right amount. As the male lead, Murphy showed the kind of softness with firmness with great precision.
When the film begins after Margaret's death, the rhythm begins to accelerate significantly, step by step, and all the fog is looming towards Silver. Even though the director has always revealed some clues to the truth, the layout of the foreshadowing makes the reversal of the ending seem reasonable.
But that's not the point. The focus is on the chasing drama of the three protagonists in their beliefs.
Everyone has their own beliefs. Mulder believed in the existence of aliens, werewolves, and vampires, and could not be influenced by religion; on the contrary, Scully questioned all non-scientific existences, but religiously believed in the existence of gods.
As Margaret, who has always followed scientific evidence and exposed the deception that uses supernatural powers to deceive people, she eventually lost to the weakness of human nature. She was shaken when her opponent, using what she knew, suggested that the soul of her paralyzed son was at her side begging her to let him go. The last line of defense in her heart collapsed, she could no longer face her directly, and her conflicted psychology forced her to choose to escape. In the end, she, a scientist, did not witness an "unusual" existence when she died, but an existence like Silver's left a small piece of comfort.
And Buckley has experienced a similar mental journey of Margaret since Margaret's death, when she was almost hysterically pursuing her kind. The closer you get to Silver, the more contradictory it becomes. From the beginning to the end, he always implied to himself, "Silver is the culprit, he should be responsible for everything!" He did not want to think that all the abnormal phenomena were caused by his own power. Blind pursuit blinded his due experience and intuition. It was only because of the same "I want to believe!" in my heart as Margaret. It was only after the thugs who felt threatened by Silver's agent taught me a lesson, I finally realized that this old boy was just another clever liar. . . .
As for Silver, a deceive master who has been immersed in the arena for decades, has all kinds of auras in one, and is well versed in this way, he was eventually subverted. He believed that he had mastered various means and only responded to the substance of material and money. He had long lost the idea of ​​pursuing true power in his heart, but was informed by a physicist of the existence of superpowers in a one-to-one manner. The irony is that this may be the first and last time, and the rest of his life may be filled with regrets, just like Barkley's confusion at the beginning.
Originally, I went to this film after reading the comments of bean friends + spoilers, but even if I knew the ending, it would not affect the look and feel. The reason is the acting skills of the three leading actors. . .
The protagonist doesn't need to explain it repeatedly. The old bull's interpretation of the liar is quite easy, and it is Aunt Ripley that makes me feel that my eyes are bright. . . After watching the spoof Paul and the Cabin in the Woods recently, Aunt Lei's appearance as the chief Boss has been lingering, and it is only when he truly plays the role of a scientist and a mother in the serious drama that he truly reflects the sword. . .
After writing a lot, I found that diving has become a talker after many years of diving. In short, a good film, please enjoy it all.

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  • Margaret Matheson: Ever heard of Occam's Razor?

    Policeman: Occam's Razor?

    Margaret Matheson: When I hear the drumming of hooves, I don't think unicorns, I think horses.

  • Tom Buckley: Listen to me. YOU are the only guy separating the world from stupidity at this point in time, okay?