Trance Psychedelic (2013)

Kiarra 2022-03-27 09:01:09

"We keep secrets from lots of people, including our self - and that we call forgetting." ——Trance, 2013

Accidentally saw the introduction of Trance's film and found a very interesting word "hypnosis".

Simon (James McAvoy) works at an auction house. During the auction of the famous painting "Witches In The Air", Franck (Vincent Cassel) and his gang of thieves stole the famous painting and wounded Simon in the head, causing him to lose his memory. . Simon and Franck actually colluded. When Franck discovered that the famous painting had disappeared during the transportation, he brought in hypnotist Elizabeth (played by Rosario Dawson) to try to use hypnosis to restore Simon's memory and retrieve the lost famous painting.

Personally, I think the whole story is not bad, and you need to see it at the end to know the whole picture of the story. The director deliberately made hypnotic scenes intersect with reality scenes, leaving the audience confused about what is real and what is fiction. Coupled with the appropriate lighting, shooting angle and soundtrack, etc., it gives people a feeling of both fantasy and real.

Hypnosis is a method, a means, it can help people, it can also harm people. If you like a hypnotist, you'd better reconsider.

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Extended Reading
  • Darian 2022-03-31 09:01:03

    Even if you like to take off Lao Tzu, you don't like to watch it!

  • Alden 2022-04-22 07:01:32

    General sense of form. No picture-in-picture.

Trance quotes

  • [first lines]

    Simon: [auctioneer is barking prices] There is a painting, it's by Rembrandt. 'Storm On The Sea Of Galilee', it's called, and he's in it. Old Rembrandt, he's in the painting. He's in there, right in the middle of the storm, looking straight at you. But... you can't see him. And the reason you can't see him is because the painting has been stolen.

  • Elizabeth: We keep secrets from lots of people, but most of all we keep them from ourselves. And we call that forgetting.