The original text was written in 2014 and moved here.
On a typhoon day, he casually flipped through the list of films he had recorded before but had not yet watched, and picked out "Memories of Suffering".
As always, I don't check the information or watch the trailer, so I don't know who the director and actor are. I didn't realize it was Danny Bowie's work until I watched the whole film. "Trainspotting" and "127 Hours" have always been my favorite movies, especially the latter, which made me "suffer" sitting in front of the screen at the time! I really want to roll up my body, frown and scream out in pain, now I can still recall that terrifying scene when I close my eyes! !
The English title of "Memories of Suffering" is "Trance", which originally means ecstasy, trance, trance, and hypnosis; it is also the name of a musical style. When the night is quiet, turn off the lights in the living room, light a cigarette, and listen to this kind of music. What a joy it is...
The complicated and confusing "Memories of the Life" is like a Trance piece, intertwined with reality and reality. Many short phrases (scenes) are repeatedly repeated, and then the rhythm and speed are gradually increased with the development of the plot, which makes the viewers feel nervous and tangled. , there are several bridges with the beat of the music, which really made my heart beat fast, very exciting!
The plot of the film describes that at an auction, the "Witches in the Air" by Spanish painter Goya was sold at a high price, but was snatched by a group of stolen paintings. When Minnick returned to the secret base, he found that the painting had been hollowed out, leaving only the outer frame.
He suspected that it was his accomplice Simon who was black and black, and forced him to hand over the whereabouts of the paintings by violent coercion. However, Simon, who used to work in an art auction company, lost his memory after being hit on the head and forgot the process of that day. I couldn't remember where the painting went, so I had to find hypnotist Elisabeth, hoping to recall the memory of that day through deep hypnosis.
However, it also opened the prelude to this frantic dance...
One, about hypnosis...
I believe that when many people watch this movie, their first thought is: "Is hypnosis really so amazing? Can you control other people's will and behavior as you like?" You may also doubt whether the hypnotic plot played in the play is real, is it so? Can you be hypnotized by sitting in a chair and talking?
I myself had undergone hypnotherapy for some reason four years ago, and that experience had a profound impact on me, and I wrote down a complete note that night to document the process.
As Elizabeth said to Simon, through hypnosis, we can wake up the memories slumbering in our minds, and we can also bury the experiences we want to forget.
At that time the hypnotist said to me:
"You are very rational, as to whether you need hypnosis, we will test it later, maybe not, maybe you need it, but the things around you are the same as disintegrating, and your ability to recover may be poor, so it caused your confusion, or you I don't even know where to start.
I'm glad you came to me, hypnosis is not like a stage effect, telling you to fly, tell you to swim, and you won't lose consciousness, it's a conversation between you and yourself, like laying down a pipeline, we are bound to Take the road you smoothed out, re-dig it, bury the pipeline, and refill it. "
After ten minutes of testing, the real hypnosis process begins.
I was lying on the sofa, my consciousness was quite clear, but following his words, I saw myself standing in a huge forest with a rabbit running towards me, I could feel the warmth of the sun on my face , can smell the turf too... Finally I saw a big house deep in the forest...
I pushed open the door of the wooden house, and there was a hall and stairs like the one in the villa of the Evil Spirit Castle.
Walking up to the second floor, there is a long corridor on the left and right sides, with dozens of rooms facing each other. I tried to open the first room, but I couldn't push the door completely open. I pushed it five centimeters away. I told him that I wanted to close it. , I can't open this door, I feel my body shaking.
I couldn't see the inside of the door, but I felt like my heart was about to pop out of my throat, as if I was stunned by a senior who was strangled by the neck.
This development is like in the movie, Simon can't open the first package, some memories are locked in the deepest part of the mind, as long as you want to touch it, the body will have a violent rejection.
After that, the hypnotist suggested that I close the door and "ordered" me to open another room. I saw myself standing in the living room of the Heavenly House where I used to live. I saw my aunt and grandma, saw me, and reappeared. "The event at the time". Why "this event"?
I thought I had forgotten about it; no...I don't remember it happening at all...
Yes, this scene is like in "Memories of Suffering", Simon returned to the scene of the crime in a hypnotic state, looking at the stunned self from the perspective of a third party, it was not an out of body, but a kind of complete clarity. The bystander stance of...
Does hypnosis make you fall asleep? Not really, I realize that I'm still lying there, it's just that I can't resist my body, I can't refuse to answer any of his questions, I can't open my eyes, my eyelids are stitched together like a needle and thread.. .
Then I opened the third room, and I saw "myself at that time", I was in tears and trembling all over...
The hypnotist said, "This is a big trauma. Get out of this room. For now, wait for me to count to ten. You will be sent back to the forest. Please hold the rabbit, reset your mood, and then Opening other rooms is too heavy for you."
Then he flicked his finger, and I returned to the real world, with tears on my face, but in a very happy mood...
So I personally like this movie very much...
2. The power of hypnosis and the reorganization of the plot
Because hypnosis has the above-mentioned power, even though I have watched "Memories of Death" four times, I still can't figure out whether it was Elizabeth who hypnotized Simon for revenge, or the real hypnotized object was the leader of stealing paintings. Dominic?
Conspiracy theorists say that the character Simon doesn't exist at all, he's just Dominic's potentially violent personality, but after reading it a few times I don't think that's possible, because newspapers and online news do indeed publish "Simon Newton the auction heist hero.” message (with photos), Elizabeth is not insane, and the situation in Fight Club is unlikely.
But I believe that the initiator of the whole thing must be the hypnotherapist Elisabeth. Through hypnosis, she suggested that Simon continued to gamble, and then started the operation of stealing pictures, but two accidents happened in the process, which led to changes in the plan, which made her also caught in the storm.
The timeline after the reorganization of the whole film should be - -
Simon finds Elizabeth because he wants to quit gambling, and develops a love relationship between a patient and a doctor. However, Simon's own potential violent tendencies, excessive possessiveness and doubts lead to a change in the relationship between the two. After a violent conflict Next, Elizabeth decided to leave Simon's side.
But Simon finally found her again and continued to hurt her. Finally, she decided to let him forget himself through hypnosis, and planted a hint to start his own revenge plan. She hints that Simon, after forgetting her, will continue to gamble, lie, cheat, and steal a painting for the one he loves.
Under the influence of gambling addiction, Simon owed a large amount of debt. In desperation, he met Dominic through his friend Ritz, and used his position to plan a stealing drama.
And because of the hint, he couldn't give the painting to Dominic, because Elizabeth gave another hint: "Bring it to me." So he would take the painting with him and bring it to Ellie. in front of Sabine (even if this is unconscious).
But an accident happened. Dominic hit Simon in the head with a gun butt in the process. This shock awakened his memory...
When Simon was walking back to the street with the painting, he was chased by a car again. This collision loosened more than half of his implied shackles, and he began to have a confused memory, mistaking the strange woman in front of him for Eliza. Bai... Because he found out that Elizabeth had lied to him, an angry personality surfaced and strangled the woman in front of him.
After that, Simon was sent to the hospital and underwent brain surgery. It is estimated that this process sealed his memory again, because Simon paused for a moment when the attending physician asked him if he knew who he was.
And these two things were beyond Elizabeth's expectations (and she didn't know it), and then another accident happened. Elizabeth found out that someone was eavesdropping on the conversation during the hypnosis process, and then knew that there were four more presence of accomplices. In order to obtain paintings, she chose to join the group, and advocated to have the same status as the members.
It is estimated that during this period of time, she also hinted to Dominic, and it is not necessarily even a relationship, because Elizabeth's emotional display of Simon has only appeared twice in the film.
The first time was when she was reading the news and when she saw the "Witch in the Air" on the website, she remembered the scene of Simon wearing a coat imitating the painting and wept. The second time was when she shaved into a white tiger according to his preference and had sex with him. That scene.
Finally, under the leadership of Simon, the painting was recovered. After a fierce struggle, the painting fell into the hands of Elizabeth.
3. About some mysteries
Maybe it's Danny Bowie's mystery, but there are several mysteries throughout the film that I can't figure out.
◎Simon's Director - What is the role of Francis Lemaitre?
From the beginning of the film, Francis has always emphasized to the staff that human life is more precious than art, and don't be a hero... The implication is that if someone wants to rob it, let them take it.
When the Dominican Group infiltrated the auction venue, we could see one of them was holding the employee card of Francis Lemaitre, who then infiltrated the central control room and destroyed the surveillance equipment.
Later, when Elizabeth was reading the news, she could see the web page that read: "Francis Lemaitre was arrested and questioned yesterday," and another news article that read: "Because the surveillance equipment has been destroyed, the police chief has no evidence. Under the premise, it is impossible to determine whether this is a crime committed by a group with supernatural powers and external ghosts.”
In the next scene, Simon glared at Francis Lemaitre with a vicious expression. He was about to catch up, but because a car rushed out, he could only watch him get into a taxi and head to St.Pancras.
The relative location of this place and Elizabeth's clinic is as shown in the picture below, so it shouldn't have any special relationship.
Then comes the scene where Elizabeth weeps, because the camera finally stops on the witch in "The Witch of the Sky", and I guess she sheds tears when she recalls Simon in his coat teasing her.
But the beginning of the film is a bit unnatural for Francis's writing, and the latter part of the film seems to have evaporated from the world. Is there any temporary modification to the script?
◎Was Dominic finally awake or hypnotized?
During a hypnosis process, Simon received a package from a courier, and the courier finally appeared in front of Dominic and delivered the same item. The same packaging, the same iPad, the same picture.
When he suddenly got up from the pool, the process was like the description of a dream in "Full Power Up".
You never remember when you started dreaming, how you got here, it just unfolded so suddenly.
◎Is Elizabeth's final confession in the car true?
Elizabeth told Simon the ins and outs of the whole thing in the car, including how the two interacted, how they broke up, and why it turned into the current situation...
But after watching the movie again, Elizabeth was lying to some extent, and even changed the plot.
She said she didn't expect Simon to appear in front of her again, so when she found out that Mr. Maxwell was Simon, she was so frightened that she introduced herself and said, "I'm Elizabeth...Lamb ".
But thinking back carefully, when Elizabeth met Simon at the clinic for the first time, she did not hesitate at all, and quickly said, "I'm Elizabeth Lamb", with a firm tone, as if she knew that Simon would come. It's like looking for her, the difference is that, as mentioned earlier, four eavesdroppers accidentally popped up.
◎Why is Simon smiling?
After the first hypnosis, Simon retrieved the car key in his closet. After everyone left, he held the car key with a grim expression, and then the camera was turned off and his face became blurred, but we can see that Simon smiled.
This smiley face has appeared many times since, and frankly, I really can't guess the psychological state of Simon's character...
◎ Close-up of fingers that keep appearing
At first I thought it was going to be like "Full Boot", implying that the audience is injured or not, but it doesn't seem like that, but there are so many close-ups...
◎Extended reading
In fact, there are still many points that I don’t understand about this film, but I can’t find any results if I investigate further. If you have different opinions, please discuss together. If you think I think too much, you can criticize and exchange opinions with each other. , teaching to learn from each other, I think that's the fun of film.
You can learn more from the links below, including knowledge about the paintings in the play.
Trance "Memories of Death" - Deconstruction of the Decimal Trance Plot - To Each His Own Cinema - Memories of Death: Appreciating Paintings and Skills - Blue Movie Dream
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