In fact, movies of this type can be classified into categories. One of them is pure science fiction movies, such as the "Back to the Future" trilogy. The protagonist is a little kid who likes science and longs for adventure. He keeps going back to the past with justice in mind. Or change history in the future and save the people from dire straits, so the overall style of the film is still based on adventure. Another pure sci-fi film, such as "Butterfly Effect" ("Source Code" also has a similar feeling), the whole film is based on the theme of correcting mistakes in a period of time and constantly returning to the past and re-acting but getting a different reality, with a suspenseful atmosphere. , The logic is very strong, and the storyline is quite ups and downs, which is not unconventional in ordinary romance films and dog-blooded historical films, which often causes the audience to think deeply.
However, it is difficult to shoot well in sci-fi-based films, so the current time travel films are often a big background, and the films reflect the lives of ordinary people. For example, there is a type of film in which people from the past travel to the present or people from the present travel to the future, and then the ideas of people from different worlds collide. Most of this type of films are pure romance films such as "Through Time and Space to Fall in Love with You".
In the latest time travel films that have been loved by audiences in the past few years, ordinary people suddenly have this superpower, and the things that have changed are trivial in daily life. Sometimes they are happy and sometimes they are worried about it. Stories often tell the audience some truths in life (somewhat similar to chicken soup for the soul) through the protagonist's experience of different lives through this power. The story is warm or faintly sad, and the whole film has a small freshness or a feeling of vicissitudes. Similar films include "The Time Traveler's Wife", the cartoon "The Girl Who Traveled Through Time and Space", the cartoon "The Adventures of Li Xianji", and of course "Time Traveler". Of course, many of these time travel films are flawed in logic. If you watch this film from a scientific and logical point of view, it will be meaningless, because the director and screenwriter do not want to drink. For example, the overall style of "The Traveler in Time" is gentle, with soft lighting in the photography, warm and warm in the storyline, and just the right music. There is no great joy or great sadness, no crime and no suspense, so it is very similar to each other to a large extent. Personal life, moderate and ordinary, the only thing is that the male protagonist has the super power to travel through time, to constantly go back to the past to correct his life, to help himself find girls, to help his family change the misfortunes in life, and to help himself rekindle his family. The beauty of the members.
As long as this kind of film is made, it will resonate with all audiences. Who doesn’t want to go back to a certain point in time in the past, avoid making a mistake, relive a beautiful life experience, and go back to the past to escape reality (I feel that this kind of film is really cast what the audience likes)? Although at the end of the film, the male protagonist never crosses again, that's because his life is more perfect, the girl has also been soaked in, the baby has been born, the girl is also happy, the father's death has passed the last farewell. If he can face it calmly, there is nothing that can make him correct. But for the vast audience, including me, time never stops, regrets continue to arise, nostalgia for the past, escapism from reality, everyone hopes to have that kind of superpower, even if only once, back to a certain point, life may not be like this . But people often forget that even if you have this super power and can keep going back to the past, even if everything remains the same, but everyone knows that your state of mind is no longer the way it used to be.
Borrow a sentence from the end of "The Adventures of Li Xianji" to describe the mood after crossing: it just rained there, and people were wrapped in orange before sunset. Everyone looked happier than usual, and the air was cool and fresh, just like a head-on The Wang Qian he saw, even the simplest way of looking at each other, could stab Li Xianji to the deepest part of his hard nerves. That was the Wang Qian he saw for the first time. It didn't change at all, but Li Xianji couldn't do it any more. He took a step forward, because through the reflections of the abyss left behind by the rain, he knew that for so long, among the two of them, time had flown by only on himself.
However, I was still drugged by this movie, and I couldn't help thinking that if I had this superpower, I would undoubtedly want to go back to a year ago and stay in that early summer.
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