The whole movie, full score 10, I am willing to score 8 points. Let me tell you what I think of this movie. (The following is related to spoiler)
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In this 70-minute movie, the conversion from 2D to 3D is actually a stunt. From the perspective of perception, there is little difference between the two. The main purpose of the film is to remind the audience that the plot after switching to 3D is actually a dream, that is, the moral of inserting a poster of "The Last Night of the Earth" halfway, and the last night has arrived.
70 minutes ago, the movie was narrated by two timelines. One was about the hero Luo Hongwu's search for a woman who troubled him in real time and space, and the other was about his acquaintance with a woman in the past, Joey Meng Yee Man Iman. In these two lines, a large number of long shots, colors and light and shadow effects are used, which makes the film have a unique aesthetic in the first half. Joey Meng Yee Man Iman, played by Tang Wei, is wearing a bright green dress, which is really sexy. At the same time,
The dream after 70 minutes is a reflection of the reality that happened before. The children in the first story can be seen from Table Tennis, Twelve Years Old and Named. The man Luo Hongwu has a knot with his unborn child, which may or may not exist, and finally named "Little White Cat" is a knot he owes his friends. The woman in the second story is called Kaizhen, which means that Kaizhen is also a married woman. She is also considering talking about Kelly, which corresponds to the mysterious woman Joey Meng Yee Man Yeeman whom he never forgets. In the last story, the crazy woman responded to the man's mother. In reality, the man told the white cat's mother that his mother might have dyed red hair. In the dream, the crazy woman is really a red hair, and the torch she holds implies the torch her mother used when stealing honey. Finally, the man chewed the apple hard and tried to eat the core, which meant the same catharsis.
In the second half of the movie, the dream shaping was actually very successful. Many absurd scenes are really similar to the Dream Tower. They seem to be logically flawed and unclear, which exactly meets the audience's expectations for their dreams. For example, the second story is just a tent with air leakage, but two people can't get out because the iron gate is locked, and finally they come out of the tent easily. This deliberately created logical chain is "missing".
Finally, many people may have watched the whole movie and didn't understand its theme. Let me talk about my family's views. This is the journey of redemption of the hero's soul.
Many people may not have noticed that in the movie, when the man visits the prison, the fence of the cell is like a "honeycomb hole", which is consistent with the iron gate between the red-haired woman and the hero in the dream. That is to say, the hero has been locked in a "cage" built by memories and dreams, which is why the whole movie looks so depressed.
In this case, the director and screenwriter are kind and try to show that this person is saved. For the first time, for the little boy, I fulfilled my promise to play table tennis with him in my dream; The second time, exchanging gifts for the proprietress of billiards room and getting a fireworks symbolizing "simplicity" also means subconsciously disappointing the protagonist; The third time, he was broken by his mother's symbol of "forever" and gave him a woman image entangled in dreams.
Many people may find the ending inexplicable, especially the two narrative lines 70 minutes ago did not explain the result, but in my opinion, it doesn't matter anymore. The dream journey of redemption has been completed, and the theme of "The Last Night on Earth" has come to an end.
The whole film is not recommended to non-art cinema fans, otherwise it will inevitably be scolded. Literary film lovers can take a look at the topic of digging, and they should gain a lot.
(Text/Starry Night)