Not surprisingly:
1. The process of the police tracking the magician is exciting, and the magicians continue to use tricks to deceive the police, so the police are always one step behind when they track the magician. 2. Behind a series of climaxing magic tricks performed by the magicians, there is a deeper mystery, and this mystery cannot be known until the end of the film. 3. The whole movie is to delight the audience through a more innovative perspective - a combination between magic and police.
It's a little surprising:
the whole movie story itself is a big hoax - the police responsible for tracking it is the origin of this series of magic. It's a bit old-fashioned that this is a story of a magician's descendant avenging his father.
Some things are really hard to resist commenting.
The magic show is really dazzling and delicate, but it still makes people think that the more dazzling things are actually fake, such as the special effects of magic shows using computer stunts. The logic of the story is precise enough - interlocking, enough suspense, tense and fascinating; but still leaves the whole story like a big magic (continuously pleasing the audience, of course, there is nothing wrong with commercial movies to please the audience)) impression.
The movie "Now You See Me" borrowed the "Four Horsemen", a religious symbol related to judgment, which was depicted in the Book of Revelation before the end of the world, and put the "Four Horsemen" -- four magicians -- Incarnate as the four 'lover, priestess, hermit and death' of the major arcna in the tarot card. As a result, the four magicians have the opportunity to transform gorgeously from social "gangsters" to dazzling great magicians. Thus, these four magicians become the hub of the suspense in the film. You can still see, though, that this transition between the film's preset identities is a bit blunt.
It should be noted that the 'Eye of Horus' on the tarot card repeatedly mentioned in the film undoubtedly laid a lot of foreshadowing for the film (the specific foreshadowing was only known to me later, as the audience, I was watching it. did not really pay attention), therefore, 'Eye of Horus' successfully completes the task of suspense laying like the 'baggage' of many other suspense movies. However, all these images borrowed from mythology and put on movie characters have little connection with the movie story itself, these images just make the movie look magical (in line with the atmosphere of the magic show in the movie) and serve the suspense of the movie; They don't make the movie have a deep theme (slightly sidelined with the Inquisition - revenge for the father). The only thing that is profound is the story of the magician's 'revenge for his father' itself - undercover for N years, planning for N years, and then waiting for a certain time to put this revenge plan into practice. Perhaps these are common problems with commercial films.
other questions. Why are these four magicians sent by you, the boss behind the scenes? (It can also be said that there is a problem with the connection of the story logic of the movie) The movie does not seem to mention it. All the actions of the four magicians are serving the boss behind the scenes, and the plot of the movie is based on this point, which weakens the portrayal of the images or characters of the four magicians themselves.
Having said all the pros and cons that I can see in the film, I still have to say, "Now You See Me" isn't perfect, but it's still a movie worth recommending.
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