I have always felt that Uncle Ba is a particularly gentleman, with gentle and elegant demeanor, his blue eyes and British accent are very attractive. Looking at Uncle Ba with white hair on the screen, Xiaoying is full of heart. distressed.
The story of "Psychic Detective" is very old-fashioned. John, a psychic doctor played by Anthony Hopkins, was invited to help FBI friend Joe solve a serial murder case.
At the beginning of the film, the tone of the background is so sad. JOHN's daughter left because of leukemia two years ago. After that, he gave up his career, dreams and even family, and lived in seclusion in a small town, where he grew flowers and raised grass, and had a quiet time living alone. However, the calm is always broken. Because of a serial murder case in the city, the police detective found the psychic detective.
In the character design of the movie, John has a special function. When he touches an object, he will see something that has happened or will happen.
As the story progresses, the murderer played by Colin Farrell gradually appears. In the movie, he manipulates everyone and controls everything that will happen. He kills the afflicted with a long steel needle into their spinal cord and lets them go away painlessly, free from the pain, while their families will be devastated by their accidental death Get a lot of stipend.
Friend Joe is such a victim. The murderer predicted that Joe would be diagnosed with cancer in seven months, so he helped Joe end his life in advance. He felt it was doing a good thing and helping them out of their pain. He felt that all the people he had killed would be grateful to him, and like God, he helped them end their own lives before they prayed for an end to their pain.
Seeing this, you will find that JOHN and the murderer sometimes say the same thing: in the opposite scene in the bar, the murderer said that his friend's son would take the pension that his father got after his death in the line of duty and go to Stanford University; Will have the same idea: when surrounded by the police, he and JOHN want to say: he has a gun in his hand! But it turned out that only JOHN got caught; and the same scars on their foreheads.
These foreshadowings are for the audience to reveal step by step, no matter whether it is JOHN or the murderer, the two of them are actually the same person.
The death of his daughter two years ago had always been difficult for him to accept, and the inhuman pain had made him almost collapse, so he split into another self to ease the torment of this memory. These two people are actually JOHN in different periods, and this whole story is actually just a dream of JOHN.
As a doctor, he hated himself watching his daughter struggle but could not do anything, and hated that he had to end her daughter's life with his own hands. When he injected the drug into his daughter's veins, the feeling of powerlessness and unbearable pain made him question the career he had loved all his life. What I have learned, learned, and even the things I have always been proud of, I can't even save the people closest to me! He was completely defeated by that sense of powerlessness, and he used living alone to launch a dream-like redemption for himself. This movie is his road to redemption. The murders in the film are all the way he found to relieve the inner pain for himself who killed his daughter with his own hands. There is no superpower, no serial murders, and some are just his dual personalities competing with each other. !
In fact, compared to the name "Psychic Detective", I am more inclined to "Solace" (SOLACE). In John's life without meaning, the turning point that allowed him to get out of those dark days was Catherine, his friend JOE's partner. Catherine is too much like John's daughter, and has had the same unpleasant experience, both of them have been through the torment of illness.
But the difference is that Catherine returned to real life with a brand new look after going through all of this. When she completed the transformation, she also got a kind of sublimation in the sense of life. At some point, something will come up that rekindles the desire for life in the lost, and Katherine is JOHN's redemption.
JOHN always predicted that Katherine would die in a gunshot, a bullet would hit her between the eyebrows. Because of the ability to predict, and the feeling that Catherine could not die at a young age, and the overlapping of her with his daughter, these factors made John have a desire to protect Catherine. He felt that Catherine's ending He can lead and change.
Therefore, in the end, the result of the rivalry between the two personalities of JOHN was that he used his injury to protect Catherine and completed the final consolation. He killed his past self and gained a new beginning. At this time in the film, the theme of electricity has also been sublimated, and a good personality overcomes a perverted personality at a critical time, which is also the traditional routine of the film.
However, when the dual personality confrontation of JOHN also turned around, although he shot the perverted personality, at the end of the film, the murderer said something: SEE YOU SOON, JOHN. Well, here comes the suspense, the murderer wasn't killed at all? Will his two personalities meet again soon? And John's own soul, will continue to be tortured? But in fact, these are not important. To put it bluntly, this is the introduction and suspense for the sequel of the movie. The director is a scheming bitch, and the identification is completed.
For an imported film, the box office and word of mouth of "Psychic Detective" are not so ideal. On the one hand, the director is a novice, and the expression technique is too obscure, causing everyone to be confused after watching the movie. On the other hand, the schedule for the film to appear is very embarrassing. The previous New Year's Day peak has subsided, and the Spring Festival fight has not yet started. "Spiritual Detective" seems to be tepid and tepid to occupy a hole and make a good circle of soy sauce.
For those spectators who bought tickets to enter the venue, Xiaoying thought that most of them were for Uncle Ba's face and Colin's handsomeness. And most of the scenes in the film have a very strong imitation atmosphere. Whether it is the setting of the plot, the gradual appearance of details, the chase on the road, or the style of the film, everyone has a sense of sight of "The Seven Deadly Sins".
Moreover, it may be the illusion that the early publicity gave everyone, psychic + detective, it always feels like a cheating weapon for the protagonist, even if the two movie stars are playing together on the same stage, they can't escape the sixth bad movie. Sense, so the bleak at the box office is also predictable.
But Xiaoying feels that it is a continuation of "The Seven Deadly Sins" rather than "The Seven Deadly Sins". With the passage of time, people will grow old, and no matter who they are, they will come out of their former peaks and face birth, old age, sickness and death. Compared with other chicken soup-style movies, "Psychic Detective" tells us that the redeemer himself needs to be redeemed. No one can endure too much pain without changing his face.
This article is original by Zhiying (ID: zhiying2048), author Wang Shu, please cite the source for reprinting.
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