The phantom that I watched 48 hours after watching Ultrain always feels like a drama.
The sci-fi element of the phantom body is a very crude and straightforward setting: let one's brain continue to operate in another body, so as to continue one's life. Have the skills and physical talents of the previous body, and all the memories of his own brain. But the brain will slowly remember the memory of the previous body. If you don't take the medicine, the memory in the transplanted brain will slowly disappear. The theme setting is exactly the same as Ultrain's 48 hours. The difference lies in the emphasis on the angle of the male protagonist: in Ultrain, the male protagonist is the person who receives the transplant, while the phantom male protagonist is the person who is transplanted. Therefore, Ultrain’s 48 hours is a very clichéd happy ending. The hero’s own memory has always been intact, but he gradually has the memories of the transplanted brain, and finally he is with the lover of the owner of the transplanted brain ( Although I don't accept this kind of feeling in my heart......). The ending of the film is full of sadness. The actor finally chooses to gradually let his brain lose his memory, return the body and memory to his body, and tell him all the truth through a message, leaving him and his girlfriend intact. Reunion, I will die from the body to the spirit.
Of course, the storyline of the film itself has many loopholes and unreasonable details, and the overall process is not rich and exciting. However, compared with Ultrain, the ending processing of the film is actually more complete but more touching. It is not love, but humanity and family affection, which is more profound than Ultrain's 48 hours. The beginning of the chapter pave the way for the disharmony between father and daughter. After the renewal of life, in order to find the truth and replace the physical deity with his wife and daughter, what is gained is not the hormones of impulse and passion, but the perception of family affection and reflection on life and death. Before he disappeared completely, he visited his daughter as a friend to break the gap between father and daughter.
The magic is that the lineups of the two dramas are also connected, both are Ryan Reynolds. The agent who transplanted the brain out of Ultrain's death in 48 hours was the male protagonist of the film. The two films can be seamlessly connected!
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