When I saw the general content of the movie "The Man with No Name", it has been more than a month since I tested the micro-movie "One of the Masquerade Balls", and I feel that the main narrative line is very It's similar, so let's look for it.
In terms of story structure, there are really some similarities. If you are not convinced that you have not seen this film before, I really think it is a parody.
"No Name" is director Van Dommel's third feature film. It was shortlisted for the official competition section of the 66th Venice Film Festival. The main theme of the film and the gorgeous and complex expression methods won praise.
The film takes place in the future of 2092, Mars, where science has conquered the age of birth, old age, sickness and death. The 118-year-old Nemo was the last natural person to die. In order to explore his past, the staff made him constantly recall his past through hypnosis and interviews. Nemo, who has a confused memory, has different versions of his life appearing in his memories. When the fragments of memory slowly take shape and form the choices of life at each time, we are told that all these stories, whether now or in the past, are illusory, and they are just the YY of a 9-year-old boy.
As far as the narrative style of the film is concerned, the film basically combines the elements of "Lola Run" and "Memento". The difference is that the narrative is more fragmented than "Lola Run" and more fragmented than the narrative of "Memento".
Nemo's choice for the run of life begins at birth. According to his memory (or pondering), the angel forgot to touch his lips with the finger of forgetting, so he remembered the process of choosing his parents' incarnation. After that, for divorced parents, who to live with becomes an option again. Then comes the choice of love, the choice of unexpected events, the choice of life and death (including how and when to die).
Each choice naturally leads to a different outcome. Just like a question I often think about, what kind of fate would it be if I was cast in someone else's womb? As the old song sings: If I hadn't met you, where would I be?
Originally, the layer-by-layer spatial pattern of "Inception", the director also adopted a multi-line narrative technique to make the theme more scattered. Although the confusion of the old man's memories is used as a reason, coupled with the intersection of reality and illusion, so that the confusion of many details can be established, but it still seems a bit fragmented.
In particular, the film also includes lens interpretations of the butterfly effect, the Big Bang theory, superstring theory, and time characteristics. If you haven't seen Terrence. Malick's "The Tree of Life" will also think that there are some grand narratives mixed in it, the exploration of life in the universe. However, compared with the scenes of the Big Bang, the origin of life and the choice of attitude towards life in The Tree of Life, it seems too crude and dogmatic.
Of course, 156 minutes of "No Name" is a respectable good work. Except for the smoothness of the main line and the clear signal transmitted by the lens, it is technically perfect. There is also the beauty of the pictures and music. The deepest impression is that after the Mars teleporter encounters the explosion of the meteor swarm, the space is filled with floating bicycles, soothingly floating towards the camera, which is very beautiful.
At the same time, there is also a very strong belief in the connotation of the film:
there are actually various possibilities in everyone's life, and each choice leads to a different life direction.
There is a line in the play, which roughly means that every chosen path is correct and has equal significance.
Yes, so there is no need for us to sigh, regret, be proud or ecstatic about the choices we made in the past.
"Diamond Sutra" has a verse: All the dharmas that exist are like dream bubbles, like dew, and like electricity, so you should look at them like this.
There is also a Buddhist saying: The mind of the past cannot be obtained, the mind of the present cannot be obtained, and the mind of the future cannot be obtained.
It should be viewed as such.
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