At the beginning of the new year, the four movies in the New Year's Day file announced the "word-of-mouth collapse" with the lowest score of 4.8 and the highest score of 6 points.
From "Li Mao changing the prince" to "Embracing You Through the Cold Winter", to "Love in Years", and finally to "Anti-Corruption Storm 5: Final Chapter G Storm", the titles of the 4 movies are more than one long, but none of them can play.
This seems to tell us a law: a movie with a long name doesn't necessarily make it attractive.
On the other hand, the IP masterpiece "The Matrix: Matrix Restart", which was restarted after 19 years, also seems to be unable to escape the above laws.
Although the film has played the "self-black" spirit to the extreme, it still can't withstand the baptism of bad reviews.
This seems to prove once again: the more intimidating the name of the movie, the more worrying the movie experience.
So the question is, if the name of a movie is not only long enough to be foul, but also particularly obscure, is it definitely a bad movie?
The answer is no, and the movie introduced to you today is a good counterexample.
The title of the movie is Who I Am: No System of Absolute Security
It's a suspenseful film made by germans, released in 2014 that tells a story about hackers.
The male protagonist Benjamin has had both parents died since childhood, and he has no friends by nature, and he has no sense of existence in society.
But he has an incredible talent for the Internet, and he has learned many hacking methods without a teacher, and invading the database is like probing for things.
Like many tech otakus, although Benjamin has superb hacking skills, he is limited to being able to show his might on the Internet.
Once his hands leave the keyboard, he is a takeaway guy who can't even speak clearly in front of the girl he likes.
In the process of delivering a takeaway, Benjamin, due to his bad words, was ugly in public in front of his crush girl Mary, and in order to get back on the field, he decided to "do a big job": for Mary to invade the school database and steal exam questions.
This was benjamin's first use of technology in crime, and his inexperienced skills eventually fell short.
Because he was a first-time offender and did not cause too much damage, the judge only sentenced him lightly to forced community labor.
This small punishment did not get Benjamin back on track, but instead allowed him to get to know Max in the process of community labor.
Max is a socialite who is adept at speaking, and he has always been eager to create social events to attract attention and change the world.
After meeting Benjamin, who is a great hacker, Max felt that the time had come. He introduced Benjamin to Stephen, a muscular macho man, and Paul, a hardware engineer, and together they formed a small hacking group.
At Benjamin's suggestion, the group was named "CLAY".
After clay was founded, it did several "jobs" that shocked the public:
They let political party scandals come to light, and let pharmaceutical companies, financial television stations and other institutions make public scandals
During this period, with the help of social talent Max, Benjamin also intersected with Mary, and their relationship also grew by leaps and bounds.
However, all this is not enough for them, because they want to attract the attention of the authority figure in the hacking world " MRX ", and only with his approval can CLAY be considered to have a firm foothold in the hacking community.
However, MRX seemed to scoff at CLAY's actions and sent them a set of toys mocking them as "pediatrics."
In order to prove that he was not a petty fight, Benjamin persuaded the other three to attack the Intelligence Bureau.
Through a series of elaborate arrangements, they successfully and completely took over the intelligence bureau's security system in the middle of the night, not only allowing their printers to keep printing mocking slogans, but also stealing a copy of their confidential information.
When they're done, the four happily go to the bar to celebrate, but Benjamin accidentally finds max and Mary hooked up.
In a fit of rage, Benjamin decided to cut ties with the other three and privately sent the stolen information to MRX.
Unexpectedly, this document contained informant information installed by the Intelligence Bureau in the hacking organization, and Benjamin's reckless actions not only directly led to the loss of a life, but also made CLAY a leaker and wanted.
In order to make up for the mistakes and exonerate them, Benjamin decided to abandon the previous suspicions and Max and they cooperated again, and the four pretended to "surrender" to MRX, lured MRX to cooperate with him on the condition of hacking into Interpol, and then used a two-way Trojan horse to locate him after MRX was hooked.
Unexpectedly, MRX had already seen through their ruse, not only making their arrangements ineffective, but also providing their place to the gang in turn. A panicked Benjamin is forced to turn himself in, and according to him, Max and all three others have been killed by the gang.
At the same time, Benjamin also put forward the condition that if the police can let him enter the witness program, he can set up a situation for MRX to self-cast the net.
Whether it was seduced by Benjamin's language or hoping to "make the most of it", the female police officer in charge of the case decided to give Benjamin a chance, and Benjamin did not live up to expectations and brought MRX to justice.
But during Benjamin's showdown with MRX, the unbridled female police officer personally went to the place where Benjamin lived to investigate.
Not only could she find traces of the lives of Max and the others, but she also learned that Benjamin had a family history of mental illness and suffered from severe schizophrenia when improperly taking medication.
The female police officer realizes that perhaps the story Benjamin told when he surrendered himself was a delusional experience when his personality was split, and in fact there was no Max or the others, and all the crimes were committed by him alone.
If this is true, then Benjamin cannot be included in the witness plan, and what awaits him will be severe punishment.
The female police officer, who has always been known for her iron-faced selflessness, suddenly softened, perhaps because she felt guilty for breaking her word, or perhaps because she was hit by Benjamin's tearful complaints, and she deliberately allowed Benjamin to modify the electronic file and personally drove him away.
After Benjamin once again showed the female police officer how to turn four candies into one, he turned and left, and has been at large ever since.
Finally, the camera switches to a boat where Benjamin and Max, Stephen, Paul, and Mary are celebrating with laughter.
According to their recollections, it turned out that they had already predicted that the female police officer would prejudge that Benjamin was mentally ill, so they let Benjamin deliberately let the confession show flaws when he turned himself in, and guided the female police officer to discover Benjamin's personality schizophrenia.
He can then seduce her through words, and use her infertility and compassion for children to obtain her help.
The story seems to end here, and on the surface it seems that the CLAY four-person team has successfully crossed the sea and won a big victory.
But is this the truth? In fact, the reversal of the last scene of the movie just shows that Benjamin actually has a split personality, rather than playing a delicate game with others.
The most direct proof is Mary, who suddenly appeared on the ship and fled with him, from the previous story we can know that Mary is a girl from a normal background and has a social circle, how can she leave everything without warning and elope with Benjamin?
Apparently, this Mary is a split of Benjamin's personality, a psychological projection of his yearning for love.
And this imaginary Mary can communicate with Max, Stephen and Paul, and it is not difficult to deduce that others are also personality projections.
When we go back and carefully recall the scenes of the three people, it is not difficult to find that they have always been in a state of beckoning and waving around the male protagonist, and when the male protagonist's criminal mentality sprouts, the three suddenly appear to form a gang;
When the male protagonist retreated because of jealousy, the three people who had originally lived with him suddenly disappeared without a trace.
What is more suspicious is that although in the statement of the male protagonist, Max is the initiator of CLAY, whether it is THE NAME of CLAY or its target, it is basically Benjamin's choice, which shows that the male protagonist himself is the real "helmsman" of the organization.
The three Maxes are just the "sub-personalities" split by the male protagonist in order to make up for the defects of his master personality, they have their own thoughts and actions on the surface, but in fact they are obeying the "orders" of the master personality, and the tricks are lingering.
Benjamin deliberately exposed flaws for the female police officer to discover her split personality, used her weakness to complete the escape, and used sugar cube magic to remind her that she might have thought wrong. When the female police officer returns to her senses, she will fall into another thinking trap:
Thought that CLAY really consisted of four people, and launched an endless hunt for the other three who did not exist.
At this point, the film with a name long enough to be foul really came to an end.
The biggest highlight of "Who Am I: No System of Absolute Safety" is the reversal and reversal of the ending, through the play of split personality and mental disguise tricks, so that the audience can still tirelessly think about what is the truth after 102 minutes of watching the movie.
In addition, taking the human heart as a metaphor for the security system also completes a pun on the point, while highly summarizing the main theme of the movie, it can also extend the deep thinking that human beings are the biggest loopholes in all systems.
Although this movie has been made for 8 years, I am afraid that today, it will be more worth watching than the New Year's Day movie with a longer name and the "Matrix" in the name of rebooting, right?