Tonight I sat down and watched this "Double Personality", which also reflects multiple personalities. I have also read a lot of film reviews before. Some people said that the title of the film is a spoiler, and some people said that this film is like an EVA tribute. ?
First of all, this film is not a puzzle film, that is to say, there is no need to give the audience a last-minute sense of "Oh, so that's how it is", or to generate anger that their IQ has been fooled.
So the title is the double.
The film is generally black, yellow and blue. The scenes are basically limited to three scenes: the company, the dormitory, and the mountain behind the company. The soundtrack is basically violin, and there are Japanese songs... It's very bizarre and depressing.
It tells the tragic encounter of a despondent young man, simon james.
Simon stuttered a little when he spoke. He was a gourd with a saw mouth. Some normal people could express emotions, such as the simplest restaurant ordering, but he couldn't express all of them.
Over time, another person who looks exactly like Simon suddenly breaks into Simon's life.
Not only the appearance but also the name. But people prefer to call him james.
james is cheerful and generous, even very slick, opportunistically grabbing everything from simon, work grades, dormitory keys, and the woman he has a crush on.
In the end, Simon chose a tragic way to end it all, just like peeping on the balcony of the weird man jumping off the building beckoning to him.
If you just look at the structure of the story, it may not be outstanding, but many wonderful lighting, background music, editing methods, shots... can catch people's hearts unconsciously.
Some people comment that Simon's constant self-deprecation in the tram is a tribute to EVA. Because that scene is very similar to the plot of Eva Ikari Shinji in the train.
I think this is an excellent work, giving people a variety of experiences. More is to see their own shadow in the movie.
Are you nervous and speechless when facing the opposite sex you like?
Perhaps the food and beverage waiter is a little impatient with you when ordering, and you feel very uneasy?
You have been working for a company for 7 years, but the doorman makes things difficult for you because you don't have a key card, but you have to obey the doorman's arrangements, just like many other situations. You are always passive.
You want to be unique and yet be so obscure, and the people around you are weird, rotten, unreasonable. Except for a few protagonists in the movie, the rest are old people.
Simon probably symbolizes this kind of people who are cautious, repressed, and kind-hearted. The experience I got was to see some shadows of myself in him.... Shinji's inferiority complex in EVA, Asuka's conceit, Ling Bori's independence from the world, isn't it also very representative~ )
Some weird symbols and expressions in the movie are like constantly changing Rubik’s cubes, forming many colorful squares.
In short, this is a very indescribable film, and the reviews are very likely to be polarized. It's not difficult to understand (hehe thinks of Mulholland Drive), but there are also points worth pondering, many scenes and plots worth digging into by critics who like to over-interpret. For example, who is the man who started jumping off the building, and why is he talking about a dual personality, but others can see simon's other personality, james (basically, it can be determined that the Chinese translation of the movie name is not correct)?
It's suspenseful and a bit intriguing to watch. The last time I felt "suspenseful" was "All About Lily Zhou", which is also a very fashionable editing. It feels quite meaningful. After reading it, I know a general idea, but I feel hesitant to say anything.
Five stars.
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