"Prophecy" is such a puzzle movie.
The storyline has been shown in the trailer: the housewife Linda (Sandra Brook)’s husband was killed in a car accident, Linda fell asleep in grief, and the next day she woke up to find that her husband was still alive, the two of them The dull married life continues; another day, the husband is dead again, Linda's mother is helping to arrange the funeral... Linda's time and space are obviously out of order, what is going on?
There is a detail in the trailer. Linda draws seven grids on a piece of white paper, marking Monday to Sunday, and then rolls up the paper, indicating that time and space will pass back and forth, and space will circulate. I was fascinated by this detail. I went to the movie with curiosity about how to explain the curl of time and space. I thought "maybe there is a theory of relativity or something"; while the movie is going on, what I think is also: "What is this endless loop? How can I solve it?" But halfway through, I found that the film has nothing to do with the cycle of time and space. The logical concept of this system is completely another matter. Even, the scene in the trailer that predicted the cycle of time and space was completely cut out in the movie-I was deceived by the trailer!
Of course, this kind of deception is harmless: I was originally going to watch a fun puzzle and enjoy the process of solving the puzzle. I was fooled by the trailer before, and it can be said that it just adds to the fun of this puzzle. Later, I found that the time-space operation in the movie was very different from the previous movies that showed the time-space disorder. From this point of view, this movie is quite innovative-it turns out that the time course can be arranged like that, and it turns out that causality can still be used like that. This kind of tactics to disrupt the reorganization. I enjoy the process of analyzing the sequence of time and causality in the film.
However, compared to other puzzle movies, this movie has one of the biggest disappointments. It gave out puzzles, but there was no corresponding answer. Specifically, "Prophecy" showed the audience a specific way of expressing the confusion of time and space, but when the audience naturally asked "why" and "what's going on", it flinched, saying nothing and nothing. Explain, it's over. Of course, it is also inaccurate to say that the film is "completely unexplained": in the film Linda went to the church to find a priest and explored the related events of the time and space disorder in history, but the conclusion is-"believe in God" and "obey the will of God" These nonsense. I don't know if the screenwriter is not smart enough, so I decided to give the explanation to God for the audience to understand, or it was originally there, and the movie was cut out for various reasons. But in any case, this kind of movie with no beginning and no end looks very uncomfortable, even if it is implicitly said, it is still unsatisfactory. This kind of meaning is still unfinished, not because the work itself is fresh and timeless and has been around for three days, but because it suddenly stopped inexplicably!
I don't want to disclose the key details of the film, so its own time and space sequence is not explained here; but there is one detail, and the disclosure here should not affect the interest of the audience who intend to go to the theater to enjoy the film. In the film, Linda's eldest daughter ran to the backyard in a hurry and didn't see the transparent and clean glass door, breaking the glass with multiple scratches on her face. Other specifically emphasized details in the film are carried out in chronological order, but this detail is inconsistent. Personally, I think this is another fatal flaw in the movie besides its head and tail.
Generally speaking, this movie that shows the chaos of time and space is still very innovative, and it is also very interesting to recall the sequence of the film reorganization after the film. If you like to guess puzzles, especially those puzzles that give a part of the facts to let readers sort out the ins and outs and discover the truth, then this movie is still worth watching.
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