In another world, both true and false are also false and real; floating life is as intoxicated as dreams.
Rating: 7.50丨 Movie Library List: 155
Synopsis
Jacob (Tim Robbins), a veteran who participated in the Vietnam War, is now a postman.
But even though the war was over, those cruel images kept reappearing in his mind.
Recently, he has frequently hallucinated, imagining that some hideous monsters want him to be taken away.
Jacob had no choice but to go to the doctor Carlson, hoping that he could help himself.
But after arriving at the hospital, the receptionist said that there was no such person as Carlson, and also claimed that Jacob's case could not be found.
In a hurry, he could only rush, but when he came to Carlson's office, there was a group of strangers inside.
One of the men told him that Carlson had been killed in a car explosion.
Jacob became more and more strange as he thought about it, and his illness became more and more serious, and one day he even had a fever and fainted.
Fortunately, nothing happened in the end, but the hallucinations did not ease.
On this day, his comrade-in-arms Paul called him and wanted to ask him to sit in the bar.
After the two met, the genius knew that Paul also had this kind of problem.
Jacob suspects that they have been drugged, and these hallucinations should be sequelae.
When the two separated, something terrible happened again. Paul's car exploded and he died in front of Jacob's eyes.
First Carlson, then Paul, Jacob finally realized the seriousness of the problem.
He decided to unite with his surviving comrades to find the truth...
Film Analysis
A very unpopular film, I can find it because of the personal charm of Tim Robbins, in my heart he is really a very good actor. The film has a slow pace and is very strange, because there are three lines of narrative interspersed with it, which makes it difficult to distinguish between false and true, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false.
As the originator of this type of film, "A Floating Life in Another World" can be spoiled in one sentence, but unlike the previously shared "Muholland Road", this movie is completely tasteless after the spoiler, so the following content I suggest you read it after watching the movie.
As usual, write down the truth in my understanding: the male protagonist Jacob is a soldier. He has a wife named Sarah and three sons. Among them, his son Gabe died after being hit by a car in an accident because of this accident. , His wife left her, and he was with the girl Jeze who worked at the post office, but he did not forget the dead Gabe and his previous family. The war began and Jacob was sent to the front. However, an accident happened during the mission together. He was stabbed in the abdomen by his own man, and the rescue was ineffective. The stories in the film are all his dying imaginations.
This kind of conjecture is equivalent to a dream. It is difficult for us to distinguish which is true and which is fictitious. Perhaps everyone's understanding is different, but some of the details in the film can still be judged as part of the truth. For example, his son Gabe is indeed dead, because at the end of the film it was Gabe who led him to the ladder leading to the ladder. From the previous plot, we know that Jacob was very guilty and blamed for Gabe’s death. of.
Regarding whether they are taking drugs or not, it is difficult to determine from the plot of the film. The fragmented fragments that appeared in the front are not necessarily real. The only real scene is the scene where the comrades stabbed him towards the end of the film. And it can be seen from the expressions of his comrades that there is indeed a state of delusion, so in Jacob’s dream, there is a plot of a confession by a chemist. These are all his imagination. As for whether it is a fact, The subtitles at the end of the movie are very clear.
In fact, the implication of the truth in the process of the film is very obvious. We can see that the whole story can be described in four words: "Escape from the dead". Whether it was almost hit by the subway, hit by a car, or had a high fever, or was kidnapped, every episode shows Jacob’s strong desire to survive, and these desires to survive are exactly what the dying talent has. Is it implying that Jacob is a dying man?
Compared with many similar works later, "A Floating Life in Another World" is not more prominent, especially the feeling that it brings to people is not deep enough, but at least this idea has been borrowed by latecomers many times, and most of them are A good reputation has been achieved, so it is the old saying that the reason why future generations can see far is precisely because they stand on the shoulders of their predecessors.
Sometimes whether things are bad depends on the way we look at them, and perhaps accepting it is what we should do.
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