Create the reality of the past

Andy 2022-01-02 08:01:45

At first I thought that the structure of this movie would be like "Horror Cruise", forming a cycle of past, present and future, but after watching the movie carefully, I found that the story told by the film is actually a snake-like structure in time.
The hero of the story is named Hector, and he is divided into three different individuals. Let's call them H1, H2, and H3 for the time being. There are two different ways of thinking about the context of the whole story, one is time and the other is the protagonist. Let's start with the whole story from the perspective of the protagonist.
The beginning of the story is that the protagonist H1 used a telescope to see the girl's spring in the woods, and then couldn't help but enter the forest to find out. Then H1 was stabbed, and then strayed into the time machine, returned to the past, and became H2. And H2 is the bandager at H1, and then H2 arranges according to everything he saw at H1, and after killing his wife by mistake, he returns to the past again and becomes H3. H3 was the one who planned the H2 car accident in one hand, and the following story also has some twists and turns. In short, the well-meaning beauty became a victim, and the story ended, and the protagonist did not continue to return to the past. The general chronological sequence is also described in the film, and you can draw the following diagram.
-------- H1 ---------- X ---------------- H2 ---------- X - ------H3-------------------------------
Some details in the picture, the story goes on Completed within one day, the position shown by X is the time to enter the space-time machine. The second time was slightly later than the first time, which is explained in the film. The first time and the second time H returned to the time point is roughly the same, H3 is slightly earlier than H2. The story line of the protagonist is roughly this structure. As for the specific content, just fill in the coordinate axis one by one according to the content of the film.
Let's talk about this story from the perspective of time. Because the story takes place in one day, the contents of H1, H2, and H3 overlap with each other. The coordinate diagram is as follows:

H1 peeping--->H1 was pierced--->H1 escaped--------->H1 entered the time machine
H2 appeared--->H2 car accident------>H2 was pierced--- >H2 making funny faces-------->H2 assault-->H2 time machine
H3 appeared--->H3 made a car accident--------------->H3 met a girl -->H3 Planning------>Future

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here A few details. From the time point of view, H1 is not the first character to appear in the story. The first character to appear in time is H3, then H2, and finally H1. And if you look at the story as a whole in terms of time, everything that happened is both a fait accompli, and it seems that H can arrange it, especially when H3 cuts the girl's hair.
In the process of watching the movie, due to the truthfulness of the plot of the film, I first had a question, namely, a flaw in the film, but this flaw was later explained. The fault appeared on the girl. After H2 and the girl rolled down the hill, H2 tried the pulse of the girl's neck. Since I didn't study the plot of the movie carefully at the beginning, I mistakenly thought that the girl had died unfortunately. So it is convenient for the girl to scream in H3 when she encounters H3, because the girl is already dead at this time, no matter from the normal development of the story or the perspective that the reality has been changed, it makes no sense. But looking back at the H1 time story, I found that the girl was actually breathing when she passed out, so this question was resolved. Another small detail is that H2 found the girl's necklace on the bushes. How did this necklace drop? Can the necklace fall off during the dressing process? This should be a detail of the director's arrangement. It may be for those who did not watch the movie carefully at the beginning, such as me. This girl has escaped, not died.
The storytelling of the whole film starts from the perspective of the male protagonist. Although the structure and story are not as good as "Horror Cruise", there are still some interesting points. One is that although the protagonist was attracted by the girl’s nakedness, he chose his wife in the end and said to the girl: After you are so beautiful, you decisively pushed the girl to death. There is more or less irony here. And the cruel warmth. The second is that the film is different from some traversing movies. Past traversing movies often focus on changing the past and changing reality. The story of this film seems to be established. Although the beginning of the story is a bit confusing and it feels like it appeared out of thin air, the progress of the story seems to be the repetitive creation of the scenes that he saw around the male protagonist. H2 created everything that H1 saw, and H3 created everything that H2 brought about. That is to say, the reality was arranged from the beginning, and the protagonist did not choose to change, but merely obeyed. This movie also does not involve the issue of parallel worlds, because the three are always in the same space and time. The third is that the movie does not structure the story into an infinite loop, but jumps out of the loop after two loops. At this time, the story ends, which is also a novelty. Fourth, in order to continue the reality at different stages, the protagonist does not hesitate to hurt himself, which is really surprising. This arrangement makes people feel that the protagonist should be a citizen who is comfortable with the status quo. Perhaps such a character is closer to the reality we are in. .
The shortcomings of the movie are the beginning of the story. It is somewhat illogical, because if a cycle is not an infinite cycle, it needs a condition to start the cycle, and the beginning of the movie is a little headless. Secondly, although the story is over, the girl is also very tragic, but it does not make people feel that the film has a deep point, it is a little flat, but a small production of one and a half hours, it is inconvenient to expect how deep it will be, but if If you dig a little deeper, it is quite expectant. Again, whether the beautiful girl's naked mirror is for eyeballing or for the normal development of the story is doubtful here, but the naked shot at the beginning is quite amazing, but it is a pity that the beautiful girl eventually became a victim in the end.
Generally speaking, this movie can be watched, but there is nothing impressive about it, and the final murder is also lacking in shock. Quan Qi is just as good as a skit for Xiaoxia.

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Extended Reading
  • Ona 2022-03-23 09:02:23

    You are the most mysterious in the comedy, the most immortal in the sci-fi

  • Elenora 2022-03-27 09:01:12

    Is the horror cruise similar to this one? very familiar pattern. There is always a shadow that looks uncomfortable. I feel that the Dinosaur Cruise is better, whether it is the special effects of the plot performance, it is better than this one. The male pig's foot is stubborn, selfish, and clings to his obscene voyeurism. The beauty is kind but not rewarded

Timecrimes quotes

  • [last lines]

    Clara: Hector...

    Héctor: It's okay.

    [throws the scissors]

    Héctor: We still have a while before it starts raining.

  • Héctor: I need help. A man is after me. He's trying to kill me.