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As a member who has not seen this film on the big screen, this silent re-screening of this film made me feel very pleasantly surprised. The surprise is that such a work that is set as "love", there are not many The romantic segment of the film is replaced by the classic romantic bridge that is less is more, as well as the thrilling and almost terrifying dramatic design, and the hilarious and evocative portrayal of human nature. This film has more layers.
When you are surrounded by sound in the cinema, you will definitely be shocked by the sound effects and camera movement at the beginning of this film, especially this is a movie about love, the perspective used is very special, we don't see lovers
, but walk through a gray building, as if we are some kind of ghost in this airtight ruin, in fact, the screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin (Bruce Joel Rubin) design is very meaningful, because the film begins from this A closed ruin begins and ends in this ruin. The foreground of the story is about people's mischief, and the background of the story is an enlightenment of the four-dimensional world for people who have no faith. Miracles (such as Sam did not ascend to heaven after death, but stayed in the world, and Or the awakening of the psychic blood of Audemars mother) is to make people change, and the villains in the same film have more than one chance to stop all actions because of "miracles" that are interpreted as "paranormal phenomena", but they do not. I didn't do this, but when we look back on the whole film, we find that everything had a sign, but the characters in the film didn't notice it. For example, Carl was suddenly stuck between Molly and Sam at the beginning. Bystander, he is an extra third person, so that the seeds of conflict are planted from the beginning of the film.
He who walks with Sam is similar to Sam to a certain extent. For example, he works in the same place. For example, he has a handsome but different appearance. The sturdy Sam is more upright and simple, while the slender Karl is more slender. More insidious, the differences between the two people have paved the way for the ensuing conflict. (Sam insisted on getting the job done by himself without Carl interfering, which led to Carl having to hire a gangster to steal Sam's wallet and cause the gangster he hired to accidentally kill Carl), and also earlier predicted that Carl would be stronger. The desire for material makes him need to spend more money, the devil hides in the details, Karl, who has no love and strong desire for material, embarks on the path of the devil step by step, and finally suffers the consequences, and Sam teased Jasmine when the angel swayed. That time also foreshadowed the "died to protect Jasmine" in the future.
One for himself and the other for him, and they came to a completely different ending. Carl fell because he didn't understand love, and Sam rose because he knew love.
But what is love? This can be said of the delicate design of the film, because love works on this design.
The film has cleverly designed five dimensions. The first dimension is represented by the female protagonist Jasmine, who cannot see or hear Sam, who has turned into a ghost. The second dimension is represented by the psychic Odyssey. She cannot see the ghost but hear ghosts
(The other representative of the second dimension was the cat before Odeme appeared, and the situation is reversed at this time, the cat sees the stare of the ghost but cannot hear the ghost) The third dimension is represented by Sam, who can Seeing and hearing but being unable to do anything about the first dimension (at the beginning) and having to go to the psychic medium of the second dimension, Odeme, for help, then what is the fourth dimension? We can see that it is the holy light of heaven and the evil ghosts of hell in the film. In those days, a way that will not be outdated to modern times was used to present the fourth dimension, a simplified and blurred way to present this effect. At the same time, the fourth dimension also silently It presents a series of small events similar to the "God's plan", such as the series of small events that happened before Sam's death, and the unknown reason he stayed in the world after his death, leaving the audience with infinite space for imagination, especially We can notice the series of dream montages after Sam's death, the meaning of which is even more terrifying, as if Sam's death was an inevitable arrangement, acting as a medium for the existence of the fourth dimension to change the lives of the living , like Molly, who has a close relationship with Sam, or Odyssey, who had nothing to do with them at first.
So what about the fifth dimension?
Of course, as the audience, we can see and hear everything in the film without being observed.
The five-layered design enables many romantic and hilarious occasions in the film, and also makes things come in and out with a sense of surprise, because you don't know which character will switch to in the next shot, and because of the character's point of view, some people will Invisibility some people will appear, so when Odeme was hysterical and panicked when she heard Sam's voice, Sam appeared in the closet where she fled, in fact, the five-dimensional us were frightened and laughed, because Odeme Beauty is frightened by the sound, and we are frightened and laughed by Sam, who is captured by the camera. Other scenes, such as Sam typing out a message on the computer to frighten Carl, are extremely scary in other films, but in There is always a hilarious element in this film, the difference is that the audience can see several layers more than the characters in it.
But the most important thing is that with the five-dimensional design, the power of love is even more powerful, so that it can pull two people from different dimensions together. From Sam's face, which is the main line of the story, we can see how he Exhausting all efforts to protect his lover after death, just as he insisted on talking about love before his death often makes love light, and it is more important for him to act for love. However, in the secondary and parallel line of Molly, we also see that she is thinking about Sam, so that she has experienced a series of trials between faith and doubt. From the audience's point of view, the police or Carl makes Molly "don't believe it." Odyssey, the reason not to believe that Sam is still alive after his death" can be said to be extremely weak (because we have seen all of Sam's efforts directly) but if you use real life experience you will think of many bad incidents of fraud.
At this time, the beautiful melody of the film will sound, and it is at the same time that Jasmine will believe it.
So we will find that the way the movie wants to persuade the audience is not rational but emotional. For the audience, the role of various soundtracks and images is necessary. For Moli and Odemei, there are only words but no images (there are no flashes in the middle). It was the right judgment) that pierced the barrier of her unbelief, and it was not until Sam was able to show her a miracle that she completely re-believed in the fact that Sam was still there.
Just knowing is not enough, you must also believe, because knowing has its boundaries, but belief is infinite. This is a hidden warning in the script, because the key argument in the film is the heroine Molly and the hero Sam's "You never Never said I love you, but always said my heart is the same." It means that Molly knows that Sam loves her but suspects that he doesn't love her.
After this conflict comes death.
And the unresolved question of the movie must be answered by Sam's "I love you" written in continuous actions and the "I love you" of the final complemented words, and when Sam used the "Henry VIII" The lines that annoy Odemey and the mentioning of all the little things in the past between the two are proofs that he doesn't say anything, but he values Molly in his heart, and Molly is in bed with Sam in the movie. The question revealed her lack of confidence in this relationship, because she thought that Sam was upset about the two living together, but in fact Sam was upset about some kind of bad premonition of himself, which was also a disaster for the future. One of them, a premonition about death.
The only thing we know for sure is death, but because of death we have opened up our thoughts on other dimensions. Sam was definitely a straight-up optimist before this, but because of death, he was forced to look at his previous relationship with Jasmine from an angle that he didn't have before. This forced to think about everyday things in different dimensions is gradually in harmony with the audience's experience in this film. Death is really just the beginning, allowing us to discover the multidimensionality of the world.
In Dante's "The Divine Comedy", the learned Virgil can lead Dante through purgatory and hell, but only his lover Beatrice can lead him into heaven, and Sam's final confession to Jasmine opens the way to heaven again , Jasmine and Odyssey believed in the existence of a four-dimensional world at the same time. As two anxious artists (we can say that Jasmine is engaged in plastic art, while Odyssey is engaged in performance art), the two of them are in This moment saw the partial unfolding of the four-dimensional world, and the full opening of the three-dimensional world.
Interestingly, they did not see the evil ghost from the beginning to the end, and only the audience and Sam witnessed this event twice, which may also reflect that although the two were once lost, they did not go astray because of it, and they were entangled in it. Sam, who is revenge and love, almost made a big mistake in one step. The subway ghost is another being stuck in three dimensions like Sam. He is full of resentment, so he can never get rid of it. You can see that if Sam hadn't treated Molly of intense love, and only resentment toward Carl, who will only become another lost subway ghost.
Thirty years later, across many dimensions, we re-witness the true meaning of love. Taking the nipping pottery as an exquisite metaphor, a new perfect world was born. Two lovers in different dimensions were able to touch each other again because of their belief. , in this layered film, what we, as observers of the fifth degree, see is the trinity of love, faith and action, and what it arouses is that we are in layers of isolation, beyond death, A true heart that shines from afar.
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