Happy new year everyone, first of all congratulations to you in front of the screen for possibly being the first to know the hidden clues of the movie "Phone". In addition, I am not a professional film professional, but a film lover. The process of pulling the film this time is like playing hide and seek with the director. It has been very enjoyable after a few days. If there are mistakes or omissions in the video views, you can discuss rationally in the comment area. Thanks!
"Telephone" is a story with the theme of time and space connection, "time" must be the first keyword of the film, we will also notice that there are multiple clear shots in the film indicating the date or time :
There are also many seemingly random shots that also remind you of the date or time:
According to my statistics, there are as many as 30 such lenses:
So I was going to make a timeline table to sort out the whole story line, but when I found the first scene in the whole article that clearly showed the date I broke down...
This shot is of Shuyan using a notebook to find the location of her lost mobile phone after she just arrived at the villa. Please note the date in the lower right corner of the notebook :
That's right, it was February 12, 2019 ... Anyone who has seen the movie knows that, whether in 1999 or 2019, the entire story of the movie takes place around November-December . Was it a major mistake by the director? February 12 actually coincides with the actual shooting time of the movie. The resources I watched are in 1080P, and the dates are clearly visible. There is a 4K version on Netflix to see more clearly. I don't think the director would make such a rudimentary mistake, and many details later confirm that I'm right. So here comes the question. If February 12 is the real time, then almost all the stories that follow are false. To be precise, they were imagined by the heroine. Some viewers here will say that many people also guess that the story is the heroine's fantasy or a split personality. I'd say they're guessing and I'm drawing conclusions based on brand new evidence. The conclusion is that the heroine is mentally ill, to be precise, mental illness.
Let's take a look at the next scene just now. The heroine (Seo Yeon) takes the call of the second woman (Ying Sook) for the first time. What do you see in the picture?
Yes, it is the medicine in the yellow bottle . And this bottle of medicine must belong to the heroine (Shuyan), because next this bottle of yellow medicine appeared 4 times with the call between the heroine and the second girl:
This is also the last time the medicine in the yellow bottle appeared. This is why the director repeatedly implies that the heroine suffers from mental illness.
Now that we know that the heroine is mentally ill, how do we distinguish which shots are real and which ones are imagined? One way is to look at family portraits .
This is the first shot of the heroine looking for the phone, notice the first family portrait of three people on the back wall :
After the photo fell by herself, when the heroine nailed the nails, the camera shot to the family Ford and wrote:
The heroine and the second girl mentioned their deceased father, and asked the second girl what the number of the family photo was after:
The above shots are all in reality .
Next, on the way to see the house with the whole family of the little heroine, a camera specially took a small photo of the whole family in the car:
The scene before the heroine's father disappeared after being killed by the second girl:
After the second woman killed the heroine's father, she drove the car to a hidden place:
When the second woman told the heroine the truth about the fire in her house:
The above shots are all the imagination of the heroine .
When we know that the heroine is on February 12, 2019 and the days after, we can find that the heroine seeing the doctor is already her imagination of her own road to redemption.
The hostess spoke to her mother in the ward:
The first two times the heroine went to the cemetery, that is, the two times when the tombstone engraved the date of her father's death was November 27, 1999:
There were a few times when the yellow bottle of medicine appeared. In fact, no one was really talking to the heroine these times, it was all her imagination.
Then we just look for the irrationality or hints of the rest of the shots. We come one by one.
1. The photo of the second female
The first time I saw this photo, I felt it was very inconsistent, but I couldn't tell what was strange. Later, I thought, does this photo really exist? The second female can actually take pictures outside? The date of the photo was taken on November 26, 1999. You must know that the second girl was completely locked at home from the beginning. It was not until noon on November 27 that her father, the savior, found a chance to run out. It was impossible for her to take pictures. next photo.
2. In 1999, my father drove the whole family to see the house
The picture of Uncle Cheng Hao driving the heroine to the villa in 2019
There is no difference between the backgrounds of the two lenses except for the filter:
If the director wants to make a difference in this shot, he can completely change the background or go directly to the post-production, which doesn't cost a lot of money. It is implied here that the scene in 1999 is the image of the female lead's brain.
3. After the father was rescued, the heroine had a conversation with the second daughter's adoptive mother. After the adoptive mother warned the heroine not to talk to the second girl, the heroine walked through the corridor to the door of the secret room to listen to the voice. You noticed this picture on the wall. Did you draw it?
The name of the painting is "Sound", and the original name is "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
The author is the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, the author of the famous painting "The Scream".
His father was mentally ill and died when Munch was 26, Munch's mother died of tuberculosis when he was 5, one of Munch's brothers and sisters died when he was 15, and one of Munch's sisters died Diagnosed with mental illness at an early age. Munch himself was deeply mentally tortured.
4. Before the adoptive mother of the second daughter was about to kill the second daughter, there was on the paper the date and date of birth of the second daughter.
However, after inquiries, it was found that everything else was correct, except that the "hour column" corresponding to 20:30 should be "Wu Xu", not "Ji Hai".
"Hai" should be 21:00-23:00. This may imply that there is a mistake because it is the heroine's imagination, or it may be a pure bug that I have overinterpreted.
5. When the heroine and the second girl had the closest relationship, the heroine read the book "What does Xu Taizhi mean to us",
Later, the book by the hostess' bedside was changed to "Scott. Nie Erning's Autobiography,
Nie Erning is an American economist. In 1932, he and his wife left the bustling New York City and retreated to the backcountry to start their farm life. Is it similar to the heroine's family leaving Seoul to buy a house and plant flowers in the countryside?
6. The real female protagonist is blue, and the real female second is red. The light distribution engineer of the film also said in an interview
After the second girl killed her adoptive mother, she changed the color and style of her clothes and bought a lot of red clothes at a shop called "Red Collection". The heroine wears bright colors such as pink, purple, and yellow at the happiest time.
7. After the second woman killed the young uncle Cheng Hao, the police came to investigate wearing a horizontal striped dress .
Does this dress look like a prisoner's dress? This implies that the second female lead will eventually be caught in this timeline .
This suit was worn until the hostess told her the address of the old man who collected the waste, because the evidence was destroyed by her.
8. The second woman stained her hair, clothes and pants when she was eating fried chicken and washing the floor, but there was no trace at all in the next shot, suggesting that it was all the heroine's imagination.
The heroine found out that the second female was killed at the party on December 29:
Wanting to inform the second female, the camera flashed and saw that the clock showed December 5th (here I specially checked that the Korean text shows that it is not 12:5):
When the salamander police and the heroine's mother came to look for the missing father and daughter, the TV show the second woman was watching was counting down to the New Year, which meant it was 12:00 in the middle of the night :
The calendar on the wall is also December 31st:
But then after the salamander police borrowed the phone, it was recorded as 20:23 in the evening
Many people have discovered that there is still a time BUG, the heroine's father was killed on December 31 , why did the heroine see December 11 on the tombstone at the end of the film ?
Where did this date come from? I also found out by accident that when the hostess’s mother took a taxi to the second girl’s house, she turned on the BB machine to see if there was any reply. If you look back at the picture frame by frame, you will find that the date at that time was December 11 :
So the chaotic time of this film is to tell us that all these are imaginary , that is, I can think anything in my mind, and there is no need for strict logic at all.
10. The second woman draws a handprint on the wall. The heroine compares her own hand. The size is almost the same.
Some people think it's a hint that two people are actually the same person, and that's true, but think again, can that handprint really show up in 2019? According to the original logic, the walls should have been repainted, so there can be no fingerprints. This also shows from the other hand that these plots are imaginary.
As for why the heroine's mother appeared and disappeared, I don't think there is any need to struggle, because there is no logic in the mind. If you have to give a reason, according to the original setting, I think that after the heroine's mother and the second girl fell from the building, neither of them died, but the mother woke up first and ran away with the little heroine, and the second girl woke up later and chased after him. The hostess mother, and then imprisoned the little girl for 20 years. However, a new question arose. When the second woman woke up, where did the body of the policeman behind her go?
There is no logic at all here.
Finally, let's talk about a few interesting points that I am not sure about, let's discuss in the comment area
1. When the heroine visited her mother, her mother mentioned a friend who did insurance, the one with fair skin and a high nose,
Is it similar to the second daughter's mother?
Including Shanxi, the supermarket has been open for decades, and it is impossible for the heroine not to know, but she has become a new role in her own story. I feel a lot like "Mulholland Drive" in this regard.
2. The Taiwan version of the movie poster is like a two-headed man,
The branch is used as the blood connection between the head and the head, which should also imply that the two people are actually the same person.
The above content can also be seen at station B https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ir4y1N71y/ to see the video I made.
Therefore, most of the story content of this film is the fantasy or imagination of the heroine, and the director also set up a lot of details to remind the unreasonable part of the fantasy, so most film critics should focus on the direction of studying the ending of the film. Rational discussion in the comment area is welcome.
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