1. The actor Dick is a person who has low self-esteem or mental problems since he was a child. When he was 16 years old, he met a very beautiful blonde girl, and unfortunately, he fell in love with this girl, but because of low self-esteem or other reasons, he dared not express his love to the blonde girl , can only watch her leave quietly. This is an eternal regret in his heart, and it is also the most important incentive for him to commit crimes in the future.
2. The male protagonist constantly lured the blonde women into the vicinity of Highway 95, then killed them, and buried them near the abandoned rest station (the police found the burial place later in the film, and a total of 13 bodies were found). Finally, the male protagonist meets the female protagonist Gina and wants to kill her in the same way, so the film begins.
3. The male protagonist and the female protagonist rested in the hotel for a night. When they wanted to leave, the plainclothes police had already stared at the male protagonist, and then the scene of the cafe appeared. But at this time, two different views appeared. One was that those conversations were real, and they were the dialogue between the plainclothes policeman and the male protagonist; the other was an advice from the "old Indian chief" to him. And both of these words seem to make sense. I prefer the second statement because the tone of voice and the content inside, and the fact that the policeman in the mirror is not speaking, that is the real appearance of the policeman.
4. When the hero asks the heroine to take one last look at the gas station they left, it means that he wants to kill the heroine, which also means that he has not killed the heroine at this time, but just has this idea. In the 360-degree rotating camera before getting into the car at the gas station, you can see that there is still the heroine in the car, and the plainclothes detective quietly watched the hero leave without any movement, which also showed that the heroine was still there at this time. is alive, not already killed by the male protagonist.
5. The plot between the first occurrence of lightning and the second occurrence of lightning (that is, a minute or so before encountering bloodface) should be something imagined by the hero, not real. When the first moth hit his front window, it heralded bloodface.
6. At 23:55, there was suddenly no road in front of the road, and a white flower appeared in the middle of the road. This indicates that if the protagonist continues on the planned path, his path will come to an end, and it will be a dead end. This is also his first warning after encountering bloodface. At this time, the heroine Gina should not have died, and the two of them encountered bloodface and carried him into the car should also happen in reality.
7. After the male protagonist and the female protagonist met bloodface, they actually fell into a strange cycle, so there was a strange phenomenon that the mobile phone had no signal, and the radio in the car had no sound, and the two of them returned to the meeting. bloodface where the wrecked car is gone. This is also a difficult place to understand, somewhat contradictory. But this also shows that bloodface exists, it's just the cycle of the male protagonist. Unless the heroine is dead at this time and is just a product of the hero's consciousness, it cannot be explained that the heroine can also see the bloodface and interact with him. But if the heroine at this time is already dead, it would be meaningless for the hero at the end to appear as bloodface, and it would become very unreasonable.
8. Around 29:50, bloodface asked the heroine to leave the hero, knowing that the hero would kill her. Around 32:30, bloodface asks the heroine if she has been murdered, just to determine if the heroine is in the same loop as he is, if she already knows what's going to happen next. When he knew that the heroine Gina didn't know what was going to happen, he decided to kill the hero to stop everything from happening.
9. Around 37:55, when the hero killed bloodface, the heroine stood by the car door and said, "This is not true, this is not true", and then suddenly looked in the direction of the hero and took a breath of air, panicking. Stepping back, and then the camera turned, it became the heroine in the distance, standing next to the door with an expression on his face, and the hero appeared in the close-up camera with blood on his face. All you have to do is pay attention to see that the heroines before and after these two shots are clearly different, backing back in horror in the first shot, and then standing blankly in the next shot. This is because in the previous shot, the hero approached and killed the heroine, so the heroine looked terrified and stepped back at the same time. And the heroine in the latter shot is not real, but imagined by the hero. At this time, the heroine is dead.
10. Around 50:40, the heroine suddenly disappeared from the outside and suddenly appeared in the car, which also means that the heroine at this time was not real, she was already dead.
11. Around 58:50, the male protagonist found that the watch was missing, and told the female protagonist to go back to find the watch. In fact, his watch was not missing when he buried bloodface, but when he went to bury the female protagonist just now. The heroine is still his fantasy. In fact, he didn't bury the bloodface at all, and he didn't even lift the bloodface into the car at all. Then the heroine was killed by him at that time. How could he carry the bloodface into the car with the heroine? The real situation should be After he killed the heroine Gina, he put Gina in the front seat of the car (this is guessing, based on the hero's fantasy that the heroine is sitting next to him and guessed that he placed Gina's body in the most possible position), and then imagined and the heroine. At the same time, a metal plate on the bottom of the car came loose and made a sound. He got out of the car to check because the bloodface was not dead, and found that a metal plate on the bottom of the car came loose. In this way, he turned to the side and dug a big hole by himself, and then imagined that he dug it together with the heroine. This is about 50 minutes into the film. Finally, he returned to the car and asked the heroine to bury Bloodface. In fact, there was no body of Bloodface at this time, and there was no heroine, so he came back here again later. Only then did he see a big hole dug here, and Bloodface's body was gone, because there was no Bloodface's body here at all, and he just dug a big hole and didn't fill it up. In his consciousness, He had asked Gina to fill it in, but it didn't exist. And why is it when the heroine disappears and reappears in the car at around 50:40, when the hero turns on the lights, he will see that the big hole in front has been filled? This is because the male protagonist at this time is already in a fantasy. In his imagination, the big hole at this time has been filled by the heroine, so he will see the heroine appear in the car again after a while. If it was in reality, it would be impossible for him to still see Gina alive.
12. Around 67:00, when the male protagonist returned to the rest station to look for Gina because of the sound of gunfire, he found the bullet casing from the ground, and then followed the footprints to find a place where the body was buried, and dug out a hand, But in fact, these were all his fantasies and did not actually happen. It was not until about 67:40 when the lightning appeared again that he woke up from his fantasies and met the police. From this moment on, what happens is real. Pay attention to the changes in the eyes of the male protagonist after the lightning appears. This is a very important reminder. That is to say, from the time the hero heard the gunshots to the time of the lightning, what happened during this period of time was not real, but imagined by the hero. He just kept driving on the road, and did not repeat Back at the rest stop.
13. Around 75:00, when the male protagonist saw that the female protagonist Gina was dug out, he was wearing the clothes he changed at the rest stop, but when we turn to the next shot, we can see that Gina was actually wearing A dress, the one she was wearing at the beginning, which means that Gina died before she entered the rest stop, and she did not change her clothes, which also means that some people say that Gina was killed by bloodface at the rest stop. Makes no sense. Gina was supposed to be buried here by the male protagonist, and after the male protagonist buried the female protagonist, he may be due to schizophrenia. His evil personality has been hidden, and the kind personality that dominates the body has forgotten that he buried the female protagonist. The protagonist's business, so he will go back to the place where he imagined bloodface was buried to find the lost watch. And when the police found the actor's lost watch, a voice appeared, saying, "I told him to go down Route 95." And this voice is completely different from the voice of the plainclothes police later, which also proves that this voice is not made by the plainclothes policeman. Chief", it advised the male protagonist to stop killing people. At this time, he felt that it still could not change the male protagonist, and the tragedy still happened.
14. Around 79:40, the hero's car suddenly disappeared, and then rushed out of the siege of the police car. I can't figure this out, because the oncoming police cars are three side-by-side, filling the entire driveway, and the male protagonist's car is facing them, it is impossible to pass through them and rush out Surrounded by them, according to common sense, the collision of the two should be the only outcome. But in fact, it was the male protagonist and his car that seemed to have suddenly turned into nothingness, passing through three police cars inconceivably and whizzing away. My understanding is that from here on, the "Old Indian Chief" stepped in, it didn't want the hero to die like this, it had to rescue the hero first, and then let him fall into an infinite loop of nightmares that could never be freed, Take this as a punishment for the male protagonist to ignore its warnings and kill again in its territory. The "wake up service" at the end and the actor's self-talk at the beginning of the film indicate that a new cycle has begun!
To sum up, the male protagonist Dick is a 16-year-old man who has low self-esteem and dare not express his love to a blonde girl he meets, so he can only watch the blonde girl leave helplessly, which triggers a kind of perverted love for the blonde girl. A schizophrenic who is possessive and thus murderous.
After he met the heroine Gina, he ignored the warning of the protector "Old Indian Chief" and killed the heroine. The "Old Indian Chief" led him into an endless cycle of nightmares, which he could never get rid of. as punishment for his sins.
This is a wonderful movie, you have to watch every detail carefully to understand this movie, it is worth watching!
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