Let's take a look at the film structure first. Before starting the analysis of this article, I searched for a lot of reviews about this film at home and abroad, and they are basically positive. When fans of this movie talked about the reasons why they liked the movie, they also talked about the exquisite structure of the movie. The industry also generally believes that the structure of the movie "Amnesia" is of epoch-making significance. I think the reason why the structure of this film is well received is based on two reasons. One is the film itself, which is the so-called screenwriting skill level. Director Nolan creatively uses the alternation of color and black and white pictures. The interspersed narrative techniques of narration, narration and flashback deduce a suspenseful storyline. The two story lines are distinct, one is flashback in color, the other is in black and white, interspersed every few minutes, until the end of the film seamlessly connects all the pieces to reveal the truth. Combined with the plot of the film, we can also feel that this is true. This fragmented image form also intuitively reproduces the hero's mental state of amnesia. In short, breaking the time line and re-architecting it postmodernly according to certain rules is the innovation of the film director in the way of storytelling. On the other hand, I think it should be analyzed from the psychology of the audience. The extraordinary structure endows "Amnesia" with extraordinary meaning. For the audience, this movie is not just a simple film and television work, it is also a It is a brainstorming jigsaw puzzle game. While watching the movie, the viewer is playing this alienated jigsaw puzzle game in their minds. This is no longer a "watching" movie in our traditional sense, but a process of "seeing" It is mixed with "thinking" and even "playing", which brings viewers a multi-layered pleasure in watching movies. How can this kind of deconstruction and reconstruction of traditional viewing methods not be affected by the so-called "playing generation" in the new century? To admire and even worship.
In addition, the semiotic elements in this film are also deeply fascinating. At the beginning of the film, the male protagonist Lenny who suffers from short-term amnesia appears. Disease, basically, if he does not rely on the help of some external factors, he will not be able to move an inch, and then we know that Lenny relies on the tattoos on his body and the photos recorded in his hands to help him confirm his identity and clarify his life goals. The only purpose of living is to obtain more unknown information through these existing information and finally track down the murderer who killed his wife. In short, Lennie relies on or even relies on symbols such as tattoos and a few words on the photos, which support the ultimate meaning of his life. However, as the plot progresses, we slowly discover that these symbols that Lennie trusts are actually Unreliable, we have doubts about these symbols, but Lennie is still in the dark. At the end of the film, the director shakes out the biggest burden. Lenny has already removed the murderer of his wife. However, in order to continue the passion of his life, he keeps forging symbolic information. Due to his illness, he has no basic ability to judge. He can only keep following the guidance of those symbols, these symbols lead him to more unknowns, so that he will always have a destination in front of him, but he can't reach it. What a creepy idea this is, maybe the director's setting is trying to tell us something: the worldview constructed by symbols is unreliable, and only the objective reality that can be seen and touched is more reliable.
The last sentence, "Amnesia" is a movie with a world view, no matter when and where, only such a movie can really occupy its place.
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