In terms of low-cost soft science fiction network, "Parallel Forest" is remarkable, it is a rare science fiction suspense blockbuster in China, with only three actors in the whole process, and a lot of tricks in limited scenes. The plot feels like the night when various movies stew, horror cruise ships + comets come. As an online movie, in terms of plot design, although there are still bugs in detail, there is also a lot of room for improvement in actor acting skills and line design, but overall it can still be seen.
The film tells the story of the forest keeper heroine who inadvertently discovers a forest that can travel to parallel spaces, and meets her husband and her brother who are also forest keepers in different spaces, and a series of intricate stories that occur between entanglements. The story begins with a mother who has lost her child and redeems the poor mother from a sci-fi perspective.
The setting of the whole story is very close to the regeneration gate, and it is a couple who have experienced the death of their relatives who have crossed into the parallel world and re-felt the warmth of their families. The couple just want to go back to the original world to brush up on the experience, less than the drama of mutual secret invasion on the night when the comet came, and the sense of horror is much less. Mainly with the mother's obsession with the late son to support the entire film, let the audience think about whether a sudden accident is an inescapable fate, and accidentally hit the two crossers to get what they want. The fierce father directly killed the killer instead, while the mother who looked down on the gains and losses disappeared with the parallel forest after hearing her son's voice. If life can be reshuffled, will you have the courage to love in the face of the strangest relatives, and if you don't love, please don't hurt.
Whether the other half's love for another self in the parallel world is not cheating, whether the mother's love for the child in the parallel world is metaphysical love, whether the love is the concept of "son" rather than his person, I don't know how the director will explain two ethical issues, from the perspective of the film, he may not have considered. As a small-cost science fiction suspense film, it is very rare to be able to establish a world view, but unfortunately, logic is difficult to find the result, performance is only difficult to find the shell, and the rhythm control is also slightly delayed.
Deng of Hunan Qifa Culture Media Co., Ltd. said in the evaluation of the film that the concept setting of the whole film is very attractive, but the clues are too superficial, and the dialogue explains too much information, which should have allowed the audience to have questions with the progress of the story to discover the core setting, but it was thoroughly explored by the dialogue early, breaking the biggest MacGuffin of the film, directly destroying the suspense atmosphere of the film, and the story is also too simple, many places can be stretched out but there is no following, For example, the heroine can be hit at the end by a distance, and the beginning and end echoes to form a closed loop of the story.
As a small-cost web drama, the script is still quite careful. In the case of parallel time and space collision, the heroine crosses over and over again to find her own home, uneasiness shrouded in the unknown, but still strong gritted her teeth and insisted, as you continue to move forward, do you want to stop or continue to move forward, just to find a home? When the ripples of space sweep around you and me, will you replace a perfect ending, or will you sacrifice yourself just to make the other self happy? The heroine finally stopped at the other side of happiness and blew up the nightmarish exit, but what about us?
All in all, for small-budget movies, "Parallel Forest" is very good. The logic is basically self-consistent, and the theme is also a very rare parallel space theme for domestic films, which is still worth watching as a domestic film. Parallel forests can be dreams or reality. Swallows may have returned to their own space, or they may never have found the right entrance. The several spaces that extend from the parallel forest show swallows struggling again and again after losing their child, and the concept that a mother can walk into a maze for her child is far beyond the film's existing expression.
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