The director of "The Butterfly Effect", Eric Brace, took 16 years to create the film. The plot tells that during World War II, five American soldiers were ordered to go to a manor in France that was once occupied by the Nazis as a command post, but when the When they were stationed here, a series of unexplained paranormal phenomena began to occur inside, and this nightmare was inescapable.
Five American soldiers stationed in the old manor encountered a supernatural event that they could not cope with. After investigation, they found out that it was the family of the manor owner who was killed by the Nazis. Therefore, they not only had to resist the invasion of the external German army, but also found a way to Destroy the evil forces that are poised to strike in the manor. After a series of counterattacks and deaths, a diary tells them that the owner of the burial not only fails to quell the resentful spirit, but instead resurrects the resentful spirit. Unexpectedly, who would have thought that the ghost stories that happened during World War II could be combined with the "sci-fi imagination" that can't be beat? This series turned out to be an artificial dream for the treatment of psychological trauma. Through these packaging, the various crimes committed by the Nazi German army in France, and the threat to the people of the totalitarian regimes in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and other places in the Middle East many years later. connect.
The French aristocrats in the dream are actually a family of doctors who secretly provided U.S. military intelligence in Afghanistan in reality. However, after they were discovered by the rebels, several soldiers who came to rescue the U.S. soldiers could only hide in the wall and watch the family get killed. Executed, failed to do their duty to protect the people, ended up with limbs blown off by a suicide bomb by a distraught mother, and suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome caused by war crimes, this ghostly shadow seems to tell the audience It's not just those who killed the killer who caused the tragedy, it's just as sinful to choose to sit on the sidelines.
On the whole, the core of the story of the whole film is very good. It seems to be a reversal of a horror movie to a sci-fi movie and then to the ending of a horror story. In addition to causing the deaths of soldiers and people, war will also leave indelible damage to those who survived. Once again, the core of all war movies about anti-war and peace is that the ending is a bit unfortunate, and the reversal is a bit quick and abrupt. Less Some space for thinking and understanding.
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