Here I try to tell the story of this film in chronological order, only in this way can we find the context of the plot in the upside-down.
A year ago, Trevor was driving a red sports car and killed a child. After the accident, he picked up the child, took him to his residence, and killed him. Later, due to extreme guilt, he became an insomniac.
Insomnia is very painful, many people have experience, can not sleep all day long, but also have to work. Mental disorders can cause many problems.
According to the film, Trevor never slept in a year. We don't consider whether this is really possible, assuming that he really has insomnia for a year, then the consequences must be serious. As an insomniac, there will be problems with memory. It is conceivable to imagine a person who is half asleep and half awake. His memory is disordered, his vision has hallucinations, and his consciousness is in a state of chaos.
Trevor's insomnia caused him to forget that he had murdered, and imagined an Aiwen at work, and this Aiwen was himself. Because of Ai Wen's appearance, he accidentally caused his coworker's arm to be cut off mechanically. In addition, he was apathetic and looked like a ghost, so he became the target of public criticism in the entire factory.
Some clues led him to remember the fact that he killed himself, such as inexplicable notes that began to appear on the refrigerator, sensitive to the time of 1:30, and constantly used to use bleach to clean the floor.
Trevor, who lost his mother at an early age, began to imagine his own mother, and his mother took him to the amusement park, as if it was not himself in the amusement park, but the child who was killed, and it was not himself who picked up the child, but his mother. Playing the haunted house game with the child is not a haunted house game, but the tunnel he passed through when he took the child home, and the car he was in was the toy car that his mother took him to the amusement park when he was a child. The child suddenly has epilepsy while playing in the haunted house. The fact is not epilepsy, but fainting from being hit.
All sorts of intricate memory links keep popping up.
He thinks that his consciousness is awake, but his consciousness is often confused. He thinks that all the mistakes in his life are the joint arrangements of other people, but the fact is that he himself has never slept, resulting in confusion. All the facts ultimately point to the conclusion that he is a murderer.
When he realized he was a murderer, he decided to turn himself in, and in prison, he was finally put to sleep.
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Maybe people with insomnia will really be driven crazy, I hope you find the crux of your heart, and go to sleep quickly.
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