Today we're going to talk about "loops".
A cycle is a state in which things move or change over and over again. It is a kind of repetition. The endless repetition will bring people the deepest despair. .
Yet our so-called repeating days are not pure cyclical replication. Perhaps for quite a long time, our daily behavior is to get up - go to work - eat - sleep. It was really boring, but not unbearable. After all, the weather when you wake up is different every day, the people you meet on the way to work have changed, the things you do every day are changing, you may meet a new friend on a new day, you will get a promotion and raise your salary, and you may go to travel.
Such "repeat life" is bearable and can be changed.
And if it falls into a pure circular predicament, it is a powerless and hopeless thing.
Just imagine, if you were walking on a strange "hanging soul ladder" described in the novel "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", surrounded by boundless darkness, and there is only a road that goes down forever and never ends, it may not take long. , the whole person will go crazy.
In film and television works, there are many settings about cycles and repetitions, such as "Terror Cruise" that many people have seen. The repetition is mixed with elements of horror and blood, which makes people feel heartbroken. There are also "The Night the Comet Came", "Source Code", "Butterfly Effect", etc. The cyclical settings are all impressive.
And today's discussion is also an infinitely repeating film - "Accidental Space".
It is also about repetition. This movie is not only infinite repetition in space, but also infinite loop in the timeline, which makes the scalp tingling even more.
This film is from Mexico, and it is full of absurd, peculiar elements. It wears a veil of despair that makes people feel chills in the heart, but after cutting the surface, it is found that it has a kind of humanistic concern with pathos and admonitions.
Unlike "Terror Cruise", it is more brain-burning, but more thought-provoking.
The information points of the story are mainly generated in 5 scenes, in rough order: an old woman with a dead face and dying at the beginning of the film; a pair of brothers and three policemen in the stairwell; Daniel, a teenager on the road, and him a family; a hotel waiter and a soon-to-be-wed couple; and a brief character "flashback" at the end.
The two brothers lived in poverty. The elder brother robbed and committed crimes, but was reported by the timid younger brother, and the police were called. The pair tried to escape through the stairs, but police followed closely and shot the brother in the leg. Then, the three of them suddenly heard a sound similar to an explosion, and then found themselves stepping on a staircase that could not end no matter what, it had no extra exit and no end, whenever they went down from the 9th floor to the 1st floor , and then continue down, it will return to the 9th floor.
The police couldn't believe it. He let the two brothers stay still, and then went down by himself. After reaching the bottom, he found the two brothers appeared below him.
Obviously, this would never happen in the real world, and the three entered an infinite loop of "unexpected space".
Not only is the space in which it is in an infinite loop, but every day, the things that have been used in this space will reappear. There is a small self-service vending machine in the stairwell, and the goods used every day will be automatically replenished, and the three people carry it with them. of personal items are also being replicated infinitely...
On the other side, teenage Daniel embarks on a journey with his mother, sister and stepfather. On the way, because of his stepfather's mistake, his sister's asthma fell ill, and Daniel remembered that he forgot to take his sister's respirator when he went out, and the spare was accidentally kicked by his stepfather.
So the group prepared to return the same way, and on the way back, a huge explosion sounded again. Then, they found that the road was also looping endlessly. Repeated roads, repeated billboards, repeated convenience stores, everything has become an inescapable circle.
Of course, the items that recur every day in the time dimension also declare that they, like the three brothers and the police, have entered the "unexpected space" of this cycle.
Generally speaking, seeing this, we may have doubts and speculate on the next plot direction: why did they enter such a vicious circle? What is the explosion sound? Is the next story about the protagonists who set out to analyze the reason for this strange thing, then accidentally discovered an amazing truth, and finally found the reason for being trapped and escaped?
not at all.
A turn of the camera gave us a message: 35 years later...
These two groups of people have been trapped in this unexpected space for 35 years.
Among the three people in the stairwell, the elder brother has already become a pile of bones hanging on the wall, and the policeman has also become an old man on the verge of death. The vending machine in the stairwell has never been out of stock, and the things on his body are constantly being replicated every day, so he has no shortage of food and water, and has survived, spending a long 35 years in the entire corridor.
(Police after 35 years)
The other side is slightly better, the area around the highway is bigger and there is a convenience store. While his sister died of asthma, Daniel survived with his mother and stepfather. The mother was driven mad by the death of her daughter and the cage-like space, like a walking corpse, while the stepfather, who had finally quit drinking, spent his days drinking wine every day, together with the scrawny, old-fashioned mother.
Brothers Oliver and Daniel, the youngest of the two groups, have embraced life in predicament. Oliver exercises every day and takes care of himself. Daniel also maintains a normal life and keeps exploring.
There is no exit, no reason, this is a purely closed, circular, unexpected space where time and space are fixed.
If we think that we are in such a space, which is repeated every day, what can we do? Will we give up and fall like the cops, go down like Daniel's mom and stepfather, or accept and adapt to life like the younger brother and Daniel?
Perhaps the film is also conveying a reflection that its thinking about circular dilemmas is more deeply embedded in the film than the brain-burning plot. Why? You can find the answer yourself, or you can come with me to analyze the truth in the movie.
[The following content is a spoiler analysis, it is recommended to continue watching after watching the movie]
At the end of the film, the film still gave us the answer.
After being trapped for 35 years, the dying policeman suddenly realizes that his memory of the first half of his life is nothing but a lie. He regained his memory and finally remembered that he was actually Daniel - the teenager who thought that his sister died because he didn't have a respirator with him.
A lot of information in the film has revealed this truth. For example, the mini-card found by the police in his trouser pocket is actually the card Daniel has been playing.
When the police chased the two brothers, they found a tuft of hair on the back of their neck, which was also the mark left when he cut his hair and shave after getting into the police car.
The 35 years that the policeman (that is, Daniel) was trapped with Oliver coincided with the 35 years that Daniel was trapped with his mother and stepfather. That is, he was trapped for nearly 70 years.
Before his death, Daniel's stepfather also remembered his real name and remembered that he was trapped with a boatman for 35 years.
And the reason why they are trapped in the unexpected space is because of "accidents".
The boatman accidentally killed his stepfather's brother and stayed on the boat with his stepfather for 35 years. The stepfather was trapped on the road with Daniel for 35 years after his youngest daughter died of an accident. Daniel accidentally shot his brother, and Oliver was trapped in the corridor for 35 years.
Moreover, the same accident affected two people: the stepfather thought that his brother died because he wanted to take him on a boat with him, Daniel thought that his sister died because he forgot to bring her respirator; Oliver thought that his brother died because he betrayed him. The police (Daniel) think the brother was shot by himself.
Everyone is trapped by two accidents in their lifetime, and they will be trapped in the accident space for a total of 70 years.
This can also be inferred from the time it appears multiple times in the film.
Thinking of all this before his stepfather died, he persuaded Daniel not to forget his name, not to forget his identity, let him write down his name, and never get on the police car. Before Daniel died, he also told Oliver not to forget his name, otherwise he would be lost in the lie of another identity.
The stepfather was also reminded by the boatman, but no one did what the former said. In the face of the great temptation to escape from the predicament, they all chose to leave. Daniel spotted a police car on the road with uniforms, identification and guns, so he drove, put on his uniform, and left the place that had been besieging him for 35 years. After he left, he forgot his name was Daniel, and only remembered that he was a policeman who was investigating his brother's case.
And his second accident was that he missed his brother and caused his death.
The first accident in his stepfather's life was the accidental drowning of his brother on the boat. So he started the first trapped life and witnessed the death of the boatman who suffered the second trapped life. After 35 years, he escaped the first predicament, got into the red car, lost his original memory, became Daniel's stepfather, and caused his second accident-accidentally killed his sister.
Oliver's first accident was to report on his brother, which resulted in his brother being shot dead by Daniel's second accident, and then into the first predicament - witnessing Daniel's death.
Like an interlocking chain, the death of the predecessor connects the plight of the future, with someone's sacrifice as the fuse, with the sound of the explosion as the connection point, creating a never-breaking circulatory space, connecting countless Life is locked in this predicament endlessly, from youth to old age and death.
Only in the end will those who have lost themselves come to their senses. He will try his best to persuade the person who was trapped at the end of the first paragraph, telling him not to forget his identity, to accept the accident, not to try to get rid of the mistakes he made, and to face it calmly, in order to get rid of such a dilemma.
However, without exception, they all chose to leave.
Later in the film, after Daniel's death, Oliver finds that there is an extra elevator in the stairs, and the elevator is a set of hotel waiter's clothes.
He put on his clothes and took the elevator to a certain floor. The elevator opened and it was a hotel corridor. He met a newlywed couple, and he "accidentally" released a poisonous wasp in his confusion - this is the second accident in his life, the poisonous bee stings the groom, followed by a sound Huge explosion...
At the beginning of the film, the withered old woman is described as the bridegroom's wife.
The old woman here, who had caused the death of the groom 70 years ago due to an accident with the waiter, has also witnessed the death of the waiter and killed someone because of her second accident, and has warned A young man who was about to embark on a second predicament and died in agony.
And why do they know the way the living can escape their current predicament before they die?
That little red book has the truth of everything, including the script for how the next cycle begins.
This is the event logic of the unexpected space throughout the film. However, this is not the ultimate truth of the movie.
At the end of the film, there is a similar "flashback" scene. The picture presents another life of each person who died in the predicament, that is the real world - the world outside the unexpected space.
In this world, they got out of the first unexpected predicament when they were young and got a bright and beautiful life. But after getting old, he fell because of the second accident, spent the second half of his life in scribbled pain, and then died.
Two spaces and two lives, why come to the same destination?
It turned out that this was not a fantastical, cyclical accidental space, but a spiritual cage that they could not escape from and could not let go of.
Because of a difficulty or an accident, we have caused irreparable losses, and we blame ourselves for it, feel sorry for it, and suffer for it.
Young people have strong vitality, a positive and optimistic attitude, and the courage to face difficulties and setbacks, so they can always live strong in difficult situations. Like the stepfather, Daniel, younger brother or bride in the first predicament.
Even so, the shackles of the soul are still difficult to break free, and the scars of the soul will not be erased. In the protracted condemnation and torture of restless consciences, the courageous young people have also grown old, and their courage to face them has gradually been honed. They yearn to escape, to forget, to embark on a new journey, rather than living in the moment and enjoying the life in front of them.
Even if it is interpreted at the cost of life, it cannot wake them up. This point was made clear enough by my brother before his death.
So the stepfather chose to leave, Daniel chose to get in the police car, and the younger brother chose to put on the uniform of the waiter...
That loud explosion was the sound of the sturdy spiritual breakwater collapsing.
Without the courage and vitality of youth, naturally they no longer have the courage to face the second accident, so they forget the past, in the "new" life, they have never stood the test of difficulties, struggled, and suffered in pain. , spent the second half of his life in remorse, only in his last life before his death, and sadly glimpsed the truth, but it has already consumed a lifetime of years.
Deep in the brain-burning and obscure plot, it turns out that there is such a simple truth: accept the setbacks you have suffered, the difficulties you have encountered, the accidents you have encountered, and live bravely. It's not your fault, it's not what you want, don't try to escape and forget fearlessly, and live with optimism, only then can you complete the redemption of your soul and get out of the quagmire of pain, that's the real you.
Such a simple philosophy of life is very precious in the movie. Countless people are unable to do this in their entire lives, and can only spend their whole lives in a terrifying spiritual cage, in a day-to-day cycle, which makes people sigh.
Therefore, while feeling sadness and regret for the characters in the film, we should also start to alert ourselves and ask ourselves soul torture: If we are in such a soul predicament, can we break free?
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