After the first viewing, I couldn't calm down for a long time. I couldn't stop thinking about the film, but my mind was in a mess, a stone was blocked in my heart, and the whole person was suffocated. I have nothing to do in the summer vacation, and watch it again, some feelings can finally fall into the pen.
First of all, looking at the movie from a purely story perspective, some of its settings are not perfect, and some seem unreasonable. For example, why let a psychologist be the leader and choose people to study this flickering phenomenon? Why did you send a batch of special forces, and then decided to send five female scientists directly (there are so few people, there is no other logistical support) Entering such a dangerous and uncertain place, everyone doesn't even wear protective clothing or helmets? All in all, it is completely different from the human performance in sci-fi or disaster movies I have seen before, and it seems very amateur. For those who do not know why the director can turn a blind eye, he may have spent too much thought on the connotation and other details of the film, and ignore the beginning. . .
Secondly, in terms of art design, the film is really bold in color and unique in pattern, which makes people feel frightened but very beautiful. The concept of refraction runs through the whole film, the colorful colors and light, shooting through the water glass, give people a sense of confusion and trance.
These aesthetic and design analyses are too lame, so I won't say more, but mainly talk about the thoughts the film brought me~
From watching the movie, I feel that the movie left me with a few questions.
First, Lena and Kane love each other, why did Lena cheat? Why did Kane want to take part in this mission?
Second, is it Lina's body that finally emerges from the flash? What is it that distinguishes people from people?
Regarding the first point, I feel that the answer given by the director is very vague. There are only some relatively fragmented clues, and it is difficult to string together successfully. The best explanation is probably what the psychologist captain said. Human behavior is impulsive. Will want to break the old life.
The second point, I analyze from two hypotheses: (1) The copy version of the person can copy the memory but not the emotion. If this is the case, then it must be Lena herself who came out. Because in the process of recalling, Lena was very clear about what happened, and it was completely different from Kane's replica who only answered and didn't know when faced with various questions. In addition, when Lena was asked why she insisted on entering the flash, Lena replied that she owed Kane, and the tone was repeated twice, which was emotional. Contrasting with the various alienation and indifference of Kane's replica, I just felt that Lena's face was very familiar, and there was no emotion between husband and wife at all. Another point is that in the end Kane's clone knew very well that he was not Kane, but when he asked Lena back, Lena did not answer directly, because Lena's genes had changed, and it was indeed not the previous Li Na, but other than that, nothing has changed. So Lina didn't know how to answer.
Of course, this leads to another hypothesis2, because Kane is an imperfect replica, so he can't survive in the outside world and can't replicate emotions. However, Lena is a perfect replica, so can fully replicate everything including emotions. If so, there is no need to distinguish who is the copy and who is the body, because the two have been unified. If you have to go deeper, it is nothing more than the difference in the way the clone and the main body came to the world. Comparing Kane's clone and Lena who came out, the clone Kane is confused about life, and doesn't know how to face the original Kane's wife, friends, and work. And Lena can think about life and make new plans. Simply put, there will be a breakpoint between the past and the future in the life of the replica Kane, and his future is not limited by the memory of the original Kane. And Lena's life is seamlessly connected to the future and the past, and her future will still rely on her past experiences.
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