I only thought that it was a reasoning film that solved a case with the help of superpowers - how a decent old psychic can defeat a villain with higher psychic abilities.
I also think it's enough to invite two movie stars for this kind of film, and use two Oscar-winning actors for Mao to star in the film.
I just finished watching this movie,
and realized that the two Oscar winners are actually playing in this film in order to more perfectly perform the inner part of this film - the contradictory human nature and moral thinking.
The original title of the film is "Solace", and "Solace" translates as "comfort; consolation", which is very close to the inner nature of the film.
The inner theme of the film revolves around "mercy killing".
The serial cases behind euthanasia connect two psychics - John and Charles.
The young Charles' psychic ability far exceeds John's.
Charles can channel without contact. And he can see more and farther.
Charles can use his own ability to communicate with John spiritually.
After watching it three times, he feels that Charles is actually the leader. At the
end of the film, John can't bear to see his daughter again. Suffering from the pain caused by the disease, he finally decided to give Emma euthanasia.
Emma's dying expression perfectly interprets the title of the film "Solace",
but more importantly, the end of this scene turned out to be the monologue of the villain Charles "Sometimes the greatest acts of love are the hardest acts to commit"
which means that all of this was orchestrated by Charles.
Charles had channeled Emma's condition and the pain it brought to Emma long ago.
Emma suffered for a long time, John finally decided to give Emma euthanasia, and finally both Emma and John released.
Charles channeled all of this, channeled to John's mercy killing and brought both Emma and John release.
Coupled with Charles' ability, he can see all kinds of people's pains every day, even if he doesn't want to see it,
when he channeled the process and results of the 2 years between John and Emma, and finally Charles channeled for him. Ability found one of the answers.
Charles failed to control his psychic ability, but was controlled by ability. For ten years, Charles gave countless mercy killings.
Why do you say that Charles is the leader of the film?
In fact, with Charles' ability, what he did could be completely hidden from anyone's discovery, but eventually Charles' serial cases were noticed by the police.
But in fact, it was not the police who took the initiative to discover the serial case. In fact, Charles deliberately let the police discover his serial case, and then used the police to lure John back out of the arena.
Charles lured John back out of the arena not for a showdown of psychic abilities.
In Charles' eyes, John was regarded as his mentor to regain his life, and the one who could bring him to the end.
From beginning to end, the film does not show the end of himself that Charles channeled to.
However, in fact, Charles has channeled to his own pain and his own end, but not the pain caused by the physical disease, but the mental pain.
The great thing about Charles is that Charles had several contacts with John, and they all controlled John's ability,
never letting John see his end, only letting John see the death of his friends,
and then guiding John step by step to give Charles a killing,
An end that Charles himself wanted or that could be the end that Charles had foreseen.
The point is to return to the classic dialogue between Charles and John. Dialogue around mercy killing.
Charles thinks people will appreciate him for getting to the finish line painlessly before they suffer.
But John told Charles that not everyone wants to be able to leave the world peacefully and painlessly before the pain comes.
There are also many people who can face and accept the pain of death because they think that the pain or the pain that is coming is their whole part of life.
That's why John chose not to stop Charles in the first place, and then chose to stop Charles.
At first, John only knew that the people who Charles gave to euthanasia were people who actively wanted to die.
And Charles' ability is far superior to him, one is that it is impossible to catch Charles with John's ability, and the other is that John also feels no need to stop him. chose to quit.
But then the death of the little boy and his friend Joy made John choose to stop Charles.
Because neither the little boy nor Joy chose to die to end the pain they were about to suffer and the pain they were suffering, and John even pretended to be God.
In Jeffrey's case, Charles threw a question similar to the trolley problem to John about Jeffrey's genetic disease. Although John didn't know the answer, John expressed a very reasonable sentence "We can't play God."
Near the end, John sent a letter to Elizabeth, and then the warm scene between John and Elizabeth in the park made people think about the content of the letter.
This is the scene at the end of the film,
John couldn't bear to see his daughter suffering from the disease again, and finally decided to euthanize
Emma. Emma's dying expression perfectly interprets the title of the film "Solace".
The end of this scene is the monologue of the villain Charles "Sometimes the greatest acts of love are the hardest acts to commit"
This explains why I say that Charles is the leader of this film. Charles began to imitate John's mercy killing since John gave Emma to euthanize.
Charles started with John and ended with John. The monologue of Charles at the end also subtly expresses the inner nature of the film and is closely related to the title "Solace".
Classic movies are inseparable from the best actors. I pay tribute to the two Oscar winners and thank them for bringing us such wonderful and classic movies.
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