Now Hollywood directors are addicted to dream movies, and their techniques are getting better and better. Of course, there are many excellent movies. This movie should be one of them.
There are two theories about this film. One is reality, the other is dream. The reason is that no matter which angle you use to explain it, it seems that it can be explained.
I still think this film belongs to the dream theory, and the reasons are as follows:
1. Many people think that it is a reality theory, and the reason is the dream that the male protagonist had when he first appeared. How to explain the dream at the beginning? First, that dream has four elements. First, the male protagonist is a powerful agent of martial arts. Second, beauties accompany you. Third, perform special tasks. Fourth, protect the beauty agent from being injured. How does softening these elements feel especially like a legendary agent? Yes, it is 007 James Bond. As the so-called day and night dream, I still remember the book "Iron King Kong Brave the Underwater City" that the male protagonist read every day when he went to work and took the geocentric car. Isn't this the 007 series of novels?
2. Regarding the wound on his hand, in fact, the male protagonist had already said when he was teaching the new Asian rookie worker that the wound on his own hand was a work injury wound that was accidentally hit by an electric welding machine before. It is estimated that this work injury also caused a lot of shadows to his psychology, so he appeared in his own dream, and was imagined as a gunshot wound caused by protecting a beautiful woman.
3. The male protagonist is an ordinary worker in the real world, living in a dilapidated apartment in the colony, unhappy. Every day is the trajectory of life between two o'clock and one line. The male protagonist has long been tired of this kind of life. This is evident from the fact that he and his black friends complained that the seats they sat in had not changed for so many years.
4. The male protagonist encountered a lot of unhappy things at work, inexplicable forced overtime requirements, and the bossy and arrogant expression when his superiors asked him to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Terrible reality.
5. Another very important point, when did the male protagonist decide to go to rekall company? On his way to work, he happened to see the advertisement of rekall company. During the day, he was fed up with the leader's uselessness. At night, when he got home from get off work, his wife's promise of a good passion scene was not fulfilled. All these made him feel that life was not satisfactory, and finally decided to go to rekall company. make my dream come ture. His original intention to go to rekall was not to uncover his so-called identity as a secret agent.
6. The switching point between reality and dream actually happened in rekall company, and after the male protagonist was hit with chemical drugs, everything that followed was the male protagonist's dream. If it is still in reality, when the police come to arrest the male protagonist, there is no need to kill everyone in the rekall company. If it can be said in a dream, the male protagonist subconsciously wants to make the dream more real, after all, the boss is superfluous in his dream.
7. During the long series of conversations between the male protagonist and the boss when he came to rekall company, the boss said very confidently that the dream will be as real as the reality.
8. In the male protagonist's dream, why did his wife become the villain? In fact, the answer has been given in the conversation between his wife and him, that is, there is a problem with the marriage between the two of them, and they are in the sensitive period of the "seven-year itch".
9. There is a small episode in the film. The black friend of the male protagonist said that the male protagonist was already in a deep dream and could not wake up. He was arranged to enter his dream to wake him up. That's when he said he called his wife who was working. Note that the black friend here said that the male protagonist's wife came from the work place, because the male protagonist lied to the black friend when he was drinking at the bar that his wife was working overtime, but in fact the wife was sleeping at home at this time. If a black friend does call his wife, he should know that his wife is not at work.
10. At the end of the film, the seal of the rekall company on the male protagonist's arm is missing, and the large advertising screen of the rekall company also appears on the large advertising screen in the distance, which also shows that the male protagonist is still in a dream. Or the male protagonist is enjoying it and is unwilling to wake up.
11. When the black friend found out that the male protagonist wanted to go to the rekall company, he warned him not to go, because a friend had an anterior lobectomy after going there. In layman's terms, the friend who went there fell into a deep dream and couldn't wake up, causing schizophrenia. But the Asian worker said that he went three times and everything was fine. This may depend on individual determination. Obviously, in the end, the male protagonist gave us the feeling that he didn't want to wake up, and the result can be imagined. The director left us with an open ending.
Another easter egg was left in the video: When the male protagonist went to the bank to pick up the documents, the head portrait of the 50-yuan bill in the file box was the US President "Obama".
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