The Chinese translation confuses the genre of the film, which is an ethics film, not a science fiction film.
The protagonist, Damian Wanguan, has a strong family in the industry, but in the eyes of his 6-year-old daughter who has no fatherly love, he is an unqualified father who only knows how to solve everything with money. In fact, Damian has always felt guilty about her daughter and appreciated her non-profit career. Unfortunately, she didn't have the opportunity to open her heart to her daughter until she was on the verge of cancer.
At this time, a biological company that masters black technology claims to provide Damian with a fresh and young body, which can realize the transplantation of consciousness and wisdom to prolong his life (to be precise, migration, yes, data migration, the new body is like A mobile hard disk, it can be new or second-hand with old data), in addition to the huge cost, it must also take anti-rejection drugs regularly provided to resist the original owner of the body's conscious interference and even regain control, because the new The master's data just overwrites the old master's data.
Damian changed his body smoothly. The original owner of this body was a well-built and agile special soldier. However, he soon discovered that the black technology boss's statement that the special soldier had no father, no mother, no wife, no children, and his body came from the laboratory turned out to be a lie. Special Forces Mark is a real existence and has a happy and unfortunate family. He loves his wife and daughter deeply, but the tragedy is that the daughter has an intractable disease that requires unimaginable costs to heal. Mark sold his healthy body to save his daughter, and the still fresh fragments of memory pull Damian, who is indulging in youthful enjoyment, back to his old home to reunite with Mark's wife and lovely 6-year-old daughter.
Damian was shocked and hoped to make enough compensation for the Mark family. He hoped that his loyal old friend Martin would help send the mother and daughter out of the country and make a worry-free resettlement for a lifetime. Unexpectedly, he was hunted down by a black company. It turned out that the black company used health care. The body comes from murder, and Martin, an old friend who has experienced the loss of a child, is involved before him. The experience of being hunted aggravates Damian's moral torture of rebirth. In the end, he reached relief and reconciliation with his daughter through a letter handed over by himself; then, he stopped the drug and welcomed Mark to take over the body again and let Mark return to his family.
It's reasonable for Damian to give up the mentality of being born again. This film involves life-continuing themes, ethics, and religion. In terms of ethics, when your rebirth is based on the loss of someone else's life, it is beyond the scope of money; in terms of religion, do people have the right to save their own lives on their own? Is it possible to escape birth, old age, sickness and death originally set by the creator? And the price of being born again is another person's life and family? Damian's abandonment was not accidental but inevitable. The most basic reason was reverence. Damian's hesitation about this approach is also set up at the beginning of the film.
From the perspective of a drama film, although the narrative is flat, the details are relatively well laid out, the completion is good, and the soundtrack is just right. Of course, 39-year-old Ryan Reynolds still offers the best looks. Playing the villain is Matthew Goode, who has countless fans (female) in "A discovery of Witches". The character design is actually very advanced. His question of "how much Einstein and Jobs would have contributed if they were alive" is indeed representative. . The most important thing is that there are not many movies that can serve two male gods, right?
Four star recommendation.
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