Linear Inference: About the Bride and the Elderly

Alessandro 2022-09-27 21:13:54

I looked through many of the previous film reviews, and some of them caught my eye, but there were also many things that made me wonder. At first, the most questions were about the relationship between the bride and the old man, whether it was a movie similar to "Terrorist Cruise", the role of the hamster in this film, and the identity of the child who took the hamster from the old man's hands.

At first I thought that the child who took the hamster was Daniel, then the new wife was the woman in the picture of Daniel in the box, and after thinking about it, Daniel did arrest the brothers in real life, and the younger brother was indeed The person who caused the new husband's potion to shatter, so the hamster should just symbolize that they can't escape their inner magic .

Then let's sort out the context of the whole film first, and I will explain it according to the timeline .

The first 35 years of the boatman were on a never-stop train, and the last 35 years were drifting on a bamboo raft with his ex-husband "Reuben" in red. The boatman died, and Ruben was finally able to dock. Found a red convertible to pick up Daniel 1st 35 and his mother, Reuben 35 and Daniel 1st 35 on the road with no end, then Ruben died Daniel could drive The police car left, Daniel, who left, arrested two brothers and killed his brother, Daniel of the last 35 years and his brother Oliver of the first 35 years were trapped in a stairwell without an elevator, and then Daniel died Oliver could leave from the elevator and leave Oliver became the elevator operator of the hotel, so Oliver of the last 35 years and his new wife of the first 35 years were in the escalator in the hotel until his death.

In simple terms, this is the sequence of characters : - Ruben - Daniel - Oliver - new wife - unknown child -

It is not difficult to see that when they were young, they did not stop because of the mistakes they made, but when they were old, they fell into a nightmare because of a certain thing, even a small thing. Strangely, this accident has the feeling that both people have made a "mistake" to create the space, because the space doesn't look like an accident, but is manipulated by someone who gave them the red book and told the dying person Warn the next person not to forget their names and not to enter the nouns I bolded above: convertibles, police cars and elevators.


In combination with the real world, this guess is also reasonable.

As a child, Daniel blamed himself for not bringing a spare asthma machine to his sister, and Ruben divorced his wife for spilling his stepdaughter's asthma machine to make her miserable. Daniel did not fall into this predicament and continued to move forward, marrying a wife and having children, while Ruben was even more decadent, drinking and visiting prostitutes and finally committed suicide by cutting his wrists in the bathtub. ——This is mainly because of the guilt of old Reuben

Growing up, Daniel was a policeman. When he was chasing the Oliver brothers, he accidentally shot his brother. He didn't want to shoot. Pharaoh, after being released from prison, he was very old and finally hanged himself. Oliver also felt guilty because he confessed to his brother, thinking that he had harmed his brother, but life did not stop. ——This incident is mainly due to the guilt of old Daniel

After being released from prison, Oliver found a job as a hotel elevator operator. He met a newlywed couple. He accidentally lost the backpack that was handed to him. His husband was acutely allergic to honey bites, and the medicine he needed was broken. If the new wife doesn't speak, Oliver won't get out of the elevator to help them carry their bags, so the wife is also the wedding dress person who appears at the beginning and end of the film. - This is mainly because of old Oliver's guilt

The old lady at the beginning of the film and the new wife at the beginning of the film are the same person, both wearing the wedding dress on the day of the accident. According to the inference, the child who ran away from her should have a connection with the new wife in the next 35 years, because she is the main trapped person. ——This matter is mainly because of the guilt of the wedding dress person.


"If you cause an accident, the same thing will happen to you."

This is what the dying Ruben told Daniel, and told him that this is a false world, and on the opposite side of the real world, all they can do is to provide them with happiness in the real world, and we also know from the end that, They have all committed suicide. From this, it can be inferred that "this matter" has a psychological burden on both sides, but the old ones are crushed because they can't walk out, and the young ones go to the next direction.

Therefore, when the old Oliver and the old Reuben were intertwined with pain, it was true that "35 years of loss did not exist". The camera gave the book "Chaos Time" several times, probably just to tell the audience. , the loss of time we see is false, the real time is not here.

What scares me in this whole film is not the endless road, nor the endless stairs, but the "them" that each deceased said at the last moment of awakening, the warnings they needed to repeat, and their hands. That red, the red book about the "Forgotten"'s own accident, painted on it how the accident was going to happen.

The horror is because it is not themselves who said the warning, but the previous deceased who has a relationship with their own existence. The horror is that when they choose to abandon the warning and fall into the next unexpected sense of control, so - who are they?

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The Incident quotes

  • Roberto: We're lost on an infinite road that runs both ways... but not to the sides.

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