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Another work that extends a near-death experience into an entire movie. "Life and Death" should be the last work that has been relatively successful. The so-called near-death experience is an illusion that projects life events and real experiences together when dying, especially when people around you play these life fragments. Therefore, the protagonists of the fragments of three stories are revealed one by one, the first story turns out to be the cleaner, the second story is the assistant doctor, and the third story is the attending physician, and their faces are projected into the protagonist's flashback. , but these events are actually the protagonist’s own experiences or fantasies. It may appear that the professor is visiting these people as a bystander, but the stories are actually projected by the professor's experience. This determines that this kind of movie is quite brain-burning or quite confusing. Fortunately, the handling of this film is relatively friendly, and the big deal is to treat it as three bad ghost stories. . . It's not like "Life and Death" is true or false, or "Terrorist Cruise" also has a near-death experience explanation. If you don't know about the near-death experience, you will be half-swearing.
So this story is probably about a professor named "Goodman" (Goodman, a rather ironic name) because he was bullied when he was a teenager, forced by the pressure of the gangsters, and because of his cowardice, he allowed an imbecile to waste the old. After he died in the tunnel of the factory, he was tortured all his life.
The gangsters let the imbecile enter the tunnel, and they can join their gang by reporting the number on the tenth door. There is no tenth door at all. The imbecile walks narrower and narrower in the hole. The gangster tricks him into continuing to walk. The reason why there is a ghost in that room marked 79 on the door, 79 is one of the first three numbers that appear and is repeated several times in the movie. And that ghost is the professor's unborn daughter.
The old professor devoted himself to interpreting supernatural events, published books, and appeared on TV, but he was surrounded by lingering shadows all his life. And the more you interpret it, the more you feel that some things are not so easy, and this kind of fear will never go away. There is a second story. During the return visit, he pretended to be calm in the face of supernatural events and said that it was all an illusion, but this kind of self-deception was clearly visible in front of the audience. Maybe even if he was so cowardly when he was young, he was still scolded by his parents, so he had a psychological barrier. The young man was driving on the night road, humbly like his parents apologizing for not going home early, but still being targeted by ghosts. . . Of course, in the end, it should correspond to the professor's own suicide.
The third story is probably the professor's own story. The professor's wife is a strong woman, and she vowed not to have a partner in her financial institution not to have a baby. So when she finally became a partner, she was in her 40s, tried all means to conceive, and gave "the best care money can buy". Still, it was stillborn, and it may have been one corpse and two lives. The professor imagined hauntings in the empty mansion and imagined that his child was an evil spirit, because the B-ultrasound image was distorted and invisible, and a supernatural event was staged at home. Uncle Peanut's acting skills are so good that a figure standing in front of a floor-to-ceiling window doesn't need lines, which has already made people fanciful... I mean, I think there is a ghost behind the fantasies.
So Professor Goodman was haunted by these two ghosts - the daughter in the yellow skirt, and the imbecile in a raincoat and a hat. Why is this a good movie? Because all the details come together into one story at the end. The imbecile appeared during the decryption. I thought it would continue to be a ghost story. He would vent his anger on the male protagonist who was being bullied. I didn't expect to take off the hat and it was a person, and you found out that it was a real story. From then on, the plot took a sharp turn. The image symbol of the little girl in the yellow skirt gradually became clear. On the cloudy and low-pressure fields of Scotland, a faceless ghost with a long raincoat appeared at the end of the road. Peanut took a shotgun and asked the frightened professor, have you ever killed anyone? Of course the professor wanted to say no, or yes. The old man visited by the professor changed his face to peanuts. Peanuts reported a series of numbers on the door, pointing to the deaths caused by the cowardice of teaching students. Peanuts are actually the heart.
Peanut said, you have a ghost in your heart. If I remember correctly, this is the first and only time in the whole film that the word "ghost" is used, before using "spirit", "devil", or calling a supernatural event "that thing", but not directly "" "ghost", so I clicked on the title of ghost. This ghost stories is a story about a ghost who is entangled in his soul, his inner story, and also the story of the last flashback and regret in his life, accompanied by his inner demons. As the real objects corresponding to the supernatural symbols gradually appeared, their frequency reached a climax like an increasingly dense drumbeat. Although after decryption, the last crib on the rails, feeding the dog food, jumping out of the raincoat ghost, and the raincoat ghost who was lying on the hospital bed with the professor at the end were still a bit surreal.
So you think Professor Goodman murdered? Obviously not. He was just a violent submissive when he forced the imbecile to death, but he didn't mention the fate of the two little gangsters. Maybe they never received the condemnation of conscience. The haunting dead daughter is the victim of this money-worshiping social and economic order. The first dead soul, the professor may still have a part; but the second dead soul, the professor, is obviously the victim. Professor Goodman is a typical cowardly old man who succumbs to violence, but feels that he is an executioner under the violence of human beings and the violence of the social order, and a really violent vampire may be happy in bloodthirsty. If the ghosts in Professor Goodman's mind are also serious ghosts, the real ghost stories should be the ghosts and ghosts of the society. Therefore, if the audience who has seen the big world feels guilty about this kind of thing, they will definitely find the contrast of the author of the metaphor behind the absurdity.
The film has a very strong sense of stage play, and a certain amount of plot advancement is completed in each scene, especially the scene transition that is revealed at the end. You can almost imagine the transition of several layers of curtains and backgrounds when it is used as a stage play. This results in the relative linearity of the three stories. If the director intends to show off his skills, it is obvious that he can narrate in multiple lines, disrupt the combination, and tell a "Memento"-style story. And now, you can almost restore the classic structure of a prelude + three acts + epilogue on the stage, plus the relative independence of the three acts in the middle, it is estimated that many audiences will watch it as a low-cost boring ghost movie... This It can be said to be a drawback, but perhaps it is not the director's intention to burn the brain, so this kind of three-act drama approach, which is almost a textbook, is used. The final scene transition is the same as the stage of a drama, and it can basically put the audience in a fixed-point viewing position. I don’t know if the director was too lazy to copy the artist of the stage play, or it was intentional, but the gradually opening ward door and tearing The cracked windows are really fresh on the big screen.
The light and shadow of the film is actually quite apocalyptic. Scotland (FYI, judged to be Scotland based on the storage status of the guns, in addition, it can be added that many rich people in Europe have nothing to do in Scotland to find a whisky winery to hunt deer, fish and eat salmon next to it. The small island of Scotland that is rich in whisky is full of private airports, And many small islands have one or two places known as the end of the world) grasslands with low cloud pressure, abandoned factories, woods, old people's scrawl huts, bars with eerie lights, and the light and shadow are extremely beautiful. Of course, the lack of actors is also a reason. . . . The atmosphere of the music and the texture of the approaching ghosts are also in place, although as a member of the great atheist brainwashing group, I feel that the atmosphere is a bit more powerless than the plot, so that every time I am about to encounter a ghost, I think, Why don't you go and have a good chat with the ghost first, maybe it's your beautiful female ghost...
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