I saw a Weibo on the Internet a few days ago. The article told an extremely wonderful science fiction story in a short 200 words, the content is as follows:
In 1945, a baby girl was abandoned in an orphanage. In 1963, the girl who grew up fell in love with a man at first sight in the park. A year later, she gave birth to a baby girl. Then the man disappeared and the baby girl was stolen. The heartbroken woman had sex reassignment surgery and was drunk all day long. In 1970, when she passed by a tavern, the tavern owner recruited her into a mysterious organization for time travel. He was sent back to 1963 and fell in love with a young girl at first sight in the park, and the girl gave birth to a baby girl a year later. At this moment, he received a new task. In order to prevent the girl from being an unmarried mother, he traveled to 1945 and abandoned the baby in an orphanage. Then he received a new task: back in 1970, to go to a tavern to pretend to be a tavern owner, looking for opportunities to recruit people. . .
At that time, I was stunned after reading the summary of this story. I didn't expect such a wonderful and shocking story!
I believe the discerning audience will immediately see: the baby girl, mother, mysterious man, baby thief, transgender, and tavern owner in the story are actually the same person. This story is about reincarnation of fate. It tells us that a person’s fate is actually made by himself. Some people have filmed film and television works of similar themes before, but this is the first time I have seen this kind of unexpected and surprising story, and I was surprised for the first time.
Just when I was wondering why no one made such a good story into a movie, I was idle yesterday to look for a movie on the Internet, and then I flipped through it and found a film called "Pre-Destination", Ethan Starring Hawke. When I saw it almost halfway, I suddenly realized that the story told in this movie turned out to be the short story I saw on Weibo the other day!
There is not much difference between a movie and a novel, and it is almost based on a novel. On the basis of the faithful original work, some plots have been polished, adding some details and enriching the plot.
After so many years, Ethan Hawke has become a star in Hollywood. In the past two years, he has been shooting some low-cost movies, such as this film and last year’s "Human Removal Project". It is said that the latter’s shooting cost was Only 3 million US dollars. . . Although the cost is low, fortunately, the scripts of these two films are very good.
This movie also reminds me of "Loop Messenger" three years ago. Although this film is much better than "Loop Messenger", in fact, the two films have many things in common. The most obvious one is the shooting cost I mentioned earlier. , Both are very low, and the scenes are basically selected in some basements or dilapidated warehouses, which really saves money. . . Second, both science fiction elements are very unobvious. Probably due to limited funding, CG special effects are rarely seen in the film. The weapons and the "time machine" in "Pre-Destination" look so rudimentary. It's like shabby, like ordinary musical instrument boxes, nothing special. There are almost no big scenes, and there is no feeling of big movies at all.
Fortunately, the script is excellent and the story is novel, otherwise 100% will be labeled as a "bad movie". After you understand it, you will feel that this film is almost as if it were made by God~
If we assume that the setting of this story is true and logical, then in the real world we live in, is there really another appearance and Is the age-different ontology intersecting with us and changing our destiny? Are we changing our own ontological destiny in contact with strangers?
Maybe everything is destined.
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