When I watched Mirage, I felt a very comfortable feeling in my heart. It would be really cool to watch this kind of brain-burning film. The continuous twists and turns for more than two hours made me not dare to get distracted at all, although it was still old-fashioned. I expected the Butterfly effect, and it did not disappoint."The Invisible Guest" was my favorite suspense film last year. Although this film did not surpass my love for the invisible guest, the plot will never disappoint you along the way.
But I have to say that this film is much more complicated than the invisible guests. It is repeatedly interspersed in different time periods and spaces. The heroine has experienced three lives: murder, car accident, dismemberment, and the derailment of the mistress. The rhythm of a family ethics drama, but this magical director uses the events of different time and space through the events of the heroine and the hero (personally, I strongly feel that the hero was a police officer when he was a child, and his acting skills of hiding under the bed when the neighbors were dismembering the corpse simply exploded). The TV stations are linked together, and the intensive reversal of the opening and hanging all the way makes you even more late to think. You can only follow the protagonist and travel back to the little boy of childhood, and suddenly become the heroine who lost her daughter in an instant. In the end, the three murderers also got the most perfect ending in time and space.
I think the most ingenious part of this show is that the director told you from the very beginning: who was the murderer? Who died because of this? You will leave a stereotype in your mind at the start, but as the film progresses, you will discover that there is more than one murderer, the reason for the murder, and the final result is different from what you thought at the start. The changes in the middle of the development are another layer of clues, and no matter which time and space, the two protagonists are in the environment of thunderstorms, which makes you feel both pressured and tense. The whole article is from the first-person point of view of the heroine, who has experienced three changes in time and space. In order to analyze this film, I want to use the hero of the play, that is, Nico. Next, I'm going to start the spoiler!
First homicide
I'm Nico, a little boy who likes to play the guitar and sing. I use my mom's video recorder to record my singing videos every day, and today is no exception. I heard on TV that on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell and the East German government announced that citizens would be allowed to apply to visit West Germany and West Berlin. At this time, there would be a rare symmetrical storm in the sky. But I was still recording as usual, except that my mother suddenly appeared and planned my recording. She was going to work and told me to stay at home. I agreed to her and continued my recording after she left. While recording, I suddenly heard a loud noise outside the window. I ran to the window and opened the curtains. I saw that there seemed to be a fierce quarrel in the neighbor's house. I was a little scared, but I decided to go to the other side.
I ran to the opposite side anxiously. The neighbor's dog kept barking at me. I was a little scared, but I pushed open the neighbor's door. I saw a pair of high-heeled shoes on the door. There was no sound in the room. I held my breath. I walked in slowly, breathing. I saw a portrait of him and his wife hanging in the hall of the neighbor's house. When I looked down, I saw the neighbor's wife lying on the ground with a lot of blood on her chest. At that moment, I was so scared that I was about to faint. I felt that my breathing had become very short. I suddenly looked up and saw my neighbor on the top of the stairs. He also saw me and looked at me in surprise. Suddenly, a voice in my heart told me to run! I rushed outside immediately, and I also heard the neighbor running down the stairs with a knife and chasing me. I didn't dare to look back for a second. I knew that if I was caught, I would die, and I had to run out. Disclosing the neighbors, but as I struggled to get out of the neighbor's house, I felt a van coming from the left, and I didn't have time to dodge.
In the first homicide case, the neighbor killed his wife and was seen by "I". Because I wanted to avoid the neighbor's pursuit, I was hit and killed by an unexpectedly driven pickup truck as I was about to expose it; the neighbor was also seen holding a knife and was arrested.In the end, the neighbor confessed his crime and committed suicide not too long in prison.
Second homicide
More than 20 years later, the heroine moved to "me"'s house and saw the videotape of "me". Because of the thunderstorm, she and "me" more than 20 years ago were on TV on the day of the video. A connection was made. According to the story she heard from her husband and friends at night, she helped "me" escape the fate of the car accident, so "me" started the second time and space destiny.
That night, it was the same night. I was recording and singing as usual. My mother went there. I continued to record. Suddenly, strange snowflakes appeared on the TV. I walked up and took a picture of the TV. I thought it was because it was outside. The reason was that the thunderstorm caused the TV to malfunction. Suddenly, a woman appeared on the TV screen. I looked at her in surprise, and she looked at me in surprise. Both of us seemed startled by each other. She ran to the TV in horror, and the picture disappeared. It seemed that she had turned off the power. Before I could react, the TV screen appeared again. I mustered up the courage to say, like a woman, hello. Who are you? She told me she was from the future.
I saw a license plate behind her that I was very familiar with. I asked her why she had that. She told me that she and her husband stole it. She made me believe she was from the future and also took out my box of videotapes. I was afraid and anxious. At that time, I heard a loud voice from the neighbor's house. The woman on the TV shouted in horror, and shouted at me hoarsely. Come on, Nico, don't go out! Don't go out! You'll die if you go out! She took out a thing with my picture on it. It said that I was killed in a car accident, and she yelled, "You must believe me." I am from the future. I know the clock tower of your school tomorrow. There's going to be a thunderstorm, and you're going to have a power outage for the whole school for a week. I was scared and anxious. I ran out of the room immediately. I don't know what happened, but I didn't dare go out. I stayed in the living room all night. I kept drawing the picture on the TV, and the woman — I'm wondering, what happened?
The next day, my friend and I went to school with his uncle. His mother used to take us to school, but I heard that his mother was not feeling well today, so he asked his uncle to take us there. When I came to the school, there were a lot of people at the gate. I looked up at the clock tower, and there was really a trace of lightning strikes. Others also said that the school had a power outage and that classes would be suspended for a week.
If the woman's words really came true, then she must be from the future, but why did she stop me from going to the neighbor's house? What the hell happened to the neighbors last night? I hid from the windowsill and found that the neighbor had given a passport to my friend's uncle. I saw that he was driving immediately, so I decided to sneak into his house. The neighbor's dog kept barking at me. I smashed the glass of the side door and sneaked in. There was a pair of high-heeled shoes at the door. There was no one on the first floor. I quietly climbed up to the second floor and saw it on the toilet floor of the room.
A water-shielding cloth hung in front of the bathtub, blocking the view. I had a premonition of what was going to be inside, and I gathered up the courage to open the cloth. The body of the neighbor's wife was lying in it with her eyes wide open. She was already dead. I came out of the bathroom in fear and hurriedly rummaged through the drawers of the room to find other clues. I found a fake passport and cash. At this time, I heard people's voices from downstairs and started to go upstairs. I was very scared, and in a panic, I hid under the bed. The neighbors didn't find me but went into the bathroom, took out a plastic sheet and a chainsaw, and dismembered my wife's body in the bathroom. I was hiding on the bed, and when I saw this scene, I was already frightened.
I was about to suffocate. I wanted to shout. I felt a little sick, but in order to survive, I still held my breath. At this time, I saw a watch under the bed with CM written on the back. I immediately put it away. The neighbor finished dissection and was about to leave when the phone rang, and a woman said anxiously on the phone, "Her watch fell on the floor of the bedroom, so the neighbors must find it, or it will be discovered that it is her." I was scared and anxious. I knew that I would be found in the next second. I can only bet that I immediately climbed from under the bed to the back of the stool. From behind the stool, I saw the neighbor looking down at the bottom of the bed, and after one glance, nothing happened. I didn't find it, so I left. I ran away from the neighbor's house as fast as I could fly. After I went back, I told my mother about it, and we reported the case together.
However, the police said that the conversation with a strange woman from the future that appeared in my testimony was a supernatural phenomenon and could not be used as a basis for reporting the case, and that I was a child and the allegations I made were not reliable. Plus, the neighbor claimed I broke into his house and stole the watch. The police asked me to return the watch to my face. At that time, I was shocked and disgusted when I looked at the face. I became more and more unable to understand the whole process, and my mother moved me out of the original residence with me. In the second murder case, the murderer was not caught, but married the mistress and successfully buried his wife's body in the meat farm at work.
And before I moved out, I tried to use the TV to contact the woman again, but nothing appeared except a trance-like figure. I was also sent for various psychiatric tests, and my mother told a writer and a professor about my experiences. Later, I recalled that future conversation over and over again. I remembered the stolen station sign. When I grew up, I stayed at the station every day until I actually saw the woman who appeared on the TV. I met that woman on the train, and the time came for the same day of the parallel thunderstorm. On this day, the woman suddenly entered the second parallel time and space from the first parallel time and space and lost all her memories in the second parallel time and space. She found herself without a daughter and a husband.
She came to the police station with a confused memory but did not recognize me as her current husband. When I saw her appearance, I immediately mentioned it. It must be the conversation we had 25 years ago that changed all time and space and the outcome of both of us. I wanted to find out why, but I had to find the answer on the TV, so I broke into the house where I lived as a child, stole the TV and VCR, and tried to get in touch with my childhood self, but when I saw the picture, I immediately turned off the TV (it was the black shadow on the TV that appeared earlier). I'm sure I already know what happened in the story.
And that woman lost her daughter because of her memory confusion. She panicked and wanted to find her daughter. She broke into my childhood home and wanted to steal the TV, but found that it was gone. She told me there was a neighbor's wife's body in the slaughterhouse, and we did find it. Finally, after so many years of waiting, I can finally bring the criminal who killed my wife to justice. In this moment, I am going to tell that woman that I changed history and changed her life in the original text. In this time and space, I became her husband, and I advised her to stay and not try to change time and space. But she couldn't let go of her daughter, so she shouted at me, "This time it's your turn to save me," and jumped off the balcony. I was shocked, but time was running out, and in order to save her, I got in touch with my 25-year-old self before the thunderstorm ended.
Third homicide
Back when I was a kid, I had the same experience as before. I saw the whole process of killing people, and I failed to report the neighbors. I was very puzzled, but suddenly one day, the TV screen appeared again. A self-proclaimed future self told me not to try to find and contact Vera. She will find you in 25 years. So, I was relieved and left this place with my mother, and later I became a policeman. Finally, one day, I received a call from a woman who said that she had dug up her bones in the slaughterhouse. I saw that woman at the scene, the future woman I saw on TV when I was a child. We looked at each other and smiled: "Yes, one day you will come to me."
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I didn't give a lot of details because the movie is actually quite complicated. I just filtered out the murder case, especially the scumbag of the heroine who cheated on her husband. If it was me, I would choose the second time and space. It’s okay to stay with my little policeman, Nico, for a long time. Why should I commit suicide for a third time and in space? Later, I found out that Spaniards attach great importance to their children. But her daughter is really cute; she looks like a Barbie doll. Like most people think, I think the open ending is actually that the heroine wins her daughter, and she will definitely get a divorce from her scumbag husband and be with the police (after all, she is so handsome).
But it seems that the director really hates Xiaosan. In either of the two movies, there is no happy ending for Xiaosan. There is also great family affection among the invisible guests. It seems that the core of the two is the same, but the story is very exciting. Many details are recalled later after reading it again. Please join us in our discussion.
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