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It is said that the film was inspired by the director’s personal experience. Oliol Paul and his girlfriend were very affectionate, but they had a disagreement after a casual chat about the child, and finally broke up. Time has changed. One day, he woke up in the morning. Looking at the empty bed on the other half, he thought, if that conversation had not happened then, would they be different now? I think everyone should have had similar psychological activities before, and the director is right. , Movies about parallel universes are just suitable themes to show people’s strong psychological desires, so we have today’s wonderful "The Mirage"
Love in the world under the cloak of science fiction
Like other movies that discuss the butterfly effect and parallel universes (students who are interested in related theories can go to understand the chaos theory a little), this film uses countless details and descriptions to construct mutually verifiable parallel universes and show different worlds. The huge time and space ripples caused by the small changes between.
But what is different is that this film does not simply want the audience to fall into the brain-burning thinking about the logic of the story. Instead, it pays more attention to the love-hate entanglements and psychology of different characters (mainly Nick and the heroine) in time and space. Motivation, careful viewers can easily find that the main character’s behavioral logic is based on one word, love. The heroine wants to go back to the past because of her mother’s love for her daughter. Nick wants to change the past because he wants to save his beloved. Butcher kills. The dead wife is the protection of the lover (to cheating is not against the law, if it is submitted to the court, it should be a legitimate defense, even if the person responsible for the manslaughter is a lover rather than a butcher, but the heart is kind (seeing Nick's crash and adulthood Tuo’s narrative can reflect this), but he chose the craziest way. Apart from love and some fame considerations, what else can be explained), and the rest, I won’t repeat them one by one.
Behind the butterfly effect and the parallel universe are people's dissatisfaction with the present, obsession with the past, and the unpredictability of the world. These factors are also the fundamental reason why people are always interested in movies of this kind.
The movement of reality and the stillness of ideals
The world is easier, people’s hearts are changeable, people are dynamic individuals, and their mental activities and behaviors are all moved with time. Human nature is naturally disturbed and complicated, and life is added to this complexity and uneasy with countless powers, countless Human life and the natural environment together constitute this huge mystery that we call the world. In a sense, this chaotic dynamic is the essence of the world.
But people are not used to thinking like this. We always fall into the fascination with certainty easily. We like to regard frozen wedding photos as proof of happiness, or we like to add "If Napoleon does not expedition to Russia, if The hypothesis of Alexander’s long life, and the narratives in literary works such as “the prince and the princess have lived a happy life since then,” thus gave birth to “if you can do it again, it must be so”. With emotion, I don't know how this mystery can be penetrated by mortals.
You may have the ability to change the past, but you still cannot control your own destiny. In any world, there will always be joys and sorrows, gains and losses, and trade-offs, just like the director shows in the movie through his own experience, the existence of children and women. The success or failure of the main business is closely related. People's fanatical pursuit of static ideals appears to be so small and self-defeating before the unpredictable transformation from reality. This difficult to reconcile contradiction constructs a perfect dramatic tension, and the fatalistic tragic color is also the most reasonable parallel universe movie. Also the most common style.
About the ending
However, our "Oreo director" is a good guy, so he has to do the opposite, and don't want the audience to suffer from anxiety. The ending of the film is an uncompromising happy ending, and all the drama conflicts are resolved. In the end, the heroine finds her daughter, sees through the affair, exposes the murderer, and meets Nick again, but in my opinion, this ending is slightly clichéd. Compared with the ending of the "Butterfly Effect" hero sacrificing himself to save his beloved The theme is even more sublime and moving, but since the director said that this is a story about love, then people’s beautiful expectations for love and reality are understandable~
The most memorable lines
"I saved you once, now it's your turn to save me"
All in all, although there are some flaws in the character’s behavioral logic and rationality of the story under careful consideration, the flaws are not concealed. "The Mirage" is an excellent movie whose brilliance will not be completely covered by "The Invisible Guest", plus a good one. Click to watch the movie experience, 8.5 points, five-star offer~ I hope everyone can go to the cinema to support this work and other activities of the Tucao cinema~
An easter egg
and "Verbal truth"
In the section of the testimony provided by the butcher to the police, the classic technique of "The Invisible Guest" was used to show the things that did not happen through real shots, allowing the audience to think over and over again, providing a better immersive experience~
A question
Does the director use the news background of the fall of the Berlin wall with deeper intentions? (When I want to ask questions, I have no chance, sad)
A supplement on the issue of the Berlin Wall
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