Reversal Movie Narrative Techniques Plot Ending Director Story Details
In the classic movie "Journey to the West", when the Zixia Fairy said that sentence to the Supreme Treasure: "I guessed the beginning, but I couldn't guess the ending." "How many people are also concerned in front of the screen. We didn't expect ah, originally wanted to see comedy on Zhou Xingchi's face, but did not expect to hand over a drop of hot tears.
But perhaps it is precisely this unexpected reversal that makes this film an indelible white moonlight in the hearts of many people. When we watch drama, many times we are actually waiting for a reversal, when the good guys are blackened, or when the bad guys are whitewashed, when the reversal appears, often the dramatic tension also reaches a climax. The movies on this list are all good movies that you can't guess the ending. When we watch movies, we may be able to get some inspiration from the narrative structure of these good films and apply them to our work lives
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="13" > I am also a member of the evil</h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="14" > Andhadhun</h1>
The power of Indian cinema does not need to be rambling, after all, Bollywood is located here. The Indian film industry, which has produced acclaimed and popular movies such as "Three Fools in Bollywood", "Lunchbox", "Slumdog Millionaire", whether it is comedy, drama or tragedy, Indian cinema has a superior performance. Not only in terms of original films, but also in terms of remakes, Indian films also have superior performances, such as "The Tuner", which can never guess what will happen in the next scene.
Born out of the French high-scoring suspense short film "L'accordeur", the unknown Indian director Sriram Raghavan perfectly undertook the tense rhythm of this short film, but also expanded the story with one reversal after another, one second the lamb became a hungry wolf, the next second the hunter became the prey.
In general, a movie will have positive and negative characters, and use the collision between them to create a dramatic conflict. But in "The Tuner", neither the hero nor the villain exists, and everyone is a mortal and will make the most self-serving decisions. Taking advantage of the dark side of human nature, Lagwan will reverse to the end, but do not make people feel the slightest drama. No wonder some netizens left a comment after watching this film, "This is a movie that made me hold my urine to watch", and attached five-star praise.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="19" > you don't necessarily see what you want to see</h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > Contratiempo</h1>
Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon is a classic in film history, showing the complexity of things by adopting different angles of narrative. I don't know why, this "Invisible Guest" also reminds me of "Rashomon", but it is a different story given by the same person.
Unlike other suspense movies, the ending of this movie is not difficult to guess, and you may already know the final ending halfway through the time you see it. But the beauty of this movie is that even if you know the ending, you will want to see how many layers of reversals it takes to restore things as they really are. I think this is inseparable from the meticulous conception and ability of the director and screenwriter Oriol Paulo to control the scene. By laying the line of ambush through details, overturning speech through logic, iterating out three different versions of the same cause and effect story, and then using the dialogue between the lawyer and the suspect/survivor to show most of the plot, Paul proves that if you want to play a good reversal, hiding the details and calculating the logic is the key.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="24" > you are something you repeat every day</h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="25" > Triangle</h1>
"After all, tomorrow is another day", Margaret Michelle placed an optimistic ending in Gone with the Wind, but in this movie, tomorrow does not mean anything new. In "Horror Cruise", the director shows a worldview that makes people feel desperate through a thrilling journey. It seems that everyone is a mythical "Sisyphus", constantly pushing a boulder from top to bottom, repeating the cycle, never stopping.
To say how scary the picture of this film is, it is not. In the European and American horror suspense film industry where bloody aesthetics are popular, the scariness of "Horror Cruise" is actually similar to the level of Cantonese people eating spicy, but the magic of this movie is that it uses different levels of reversal, so that you feel fear after watching the movie, it seems that the reincarnation of the horror cruise ship is a metaphor for the unchanging life, in the end, do not know the true face of Lushan Mountain, only because of being in this mountain.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="29" > you play checkers, I play chess</h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="30" > Cry Wolf</h1>
Do you like playing "Werewolf Kill"?
Project Jackal is a game similar to "Werewolf Kill", and the rules are simple: avoid suspicion, manipulate others, and kill enemies. The plot of making it true can be regarded as a typical method of European and American campus horror suspense films, but the reversal of this movie is that you think you are playing a game, but you do not think that you are a pawn in the game.
With another game in the middle of the game, serious players may be obsessed with getting high scores in the game, but the players behind the scenes will achieve real high scores in the game of life. Maybe you can kill each other in the game, but not until the last moment, you never know who is the wolf and who is the sheep. So, even if you know who the real culprit is, you're just as powerless as the people in the film. Because your IQ is only enough to play checkers, while your opponent's IQ can play chess.
A reversal with a sense of power may be a reversal that makes the audience experience a deep sense of powerlessness - you know the direction of the story, but if you follow the same plot again, the ending is still the same.
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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="36" >this is my original sin</h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="37" > The Seven Deadly Sins (Se7en</h1>).
Lu Xun really said: "Tragedy is the destruction of valuable things in life for people to see." From this point of view, the Seven Deadly Sins is a tragedy.
Joined by big names like Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey and Gwyneth Paltrow, the film's acting skills are guaranteed. The interesting plot also makes the audience addicted, making people wonder what kind of choices they would make if they were Mills, played by Brad Pitt. But I think the real charm of this movie is the reversal of the ending. Everyone is blaming the perpetrators of heinous crimes, but shouldn't we also think about who are the sinners who committed these seven deadly sins?
They all say that "kung fu is outside the poem", but I think it is good to "reverse outside the film".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="42" > are you sure you're still you? </h1>
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="43" > comet's Coherence</h1>
The logic is not good, and after watching this film, I have a feeling that the monk is confused. How...... Why did he/she start killing people?
After seeing the analysis of the tall people, I slowly cleared this criss-crossing narrative line. The film's original name, Coherence, literally translates to "coherence." The simplest definition in classical physics is that this is a property that interferes with two columns of waves. In the movie, the existence of multiple parallel universes actually proves that on the night when the comet came, the world split into multiple parallel universes, so there are multiple "selves".
When the self is fissioned, reversals follow. Other films are one person twisting, two people tangling, three people ripping, this movie is the intersection of multiple universes. Just when you think the character is struggling to escape, "Boom—" is killed by a man who looks exactly like him. People from different universes kill each other, which reminds me of the famous "queen kills queen" in "The Biography of Zhen Huan".
However, the intention of this movie is quite surprising to me, I originally thought that like the refining, killing the king of the deception in the end is the end of the matter, and suddenly the director said a sentence with the help of the actor: "We always feel that we are 'dark personality' in another parallel world, but what if we are the 'dark personality'?" Well, it was suddenly raised again, and the entire film's character was re-established.
Therefore, when you really don't know how to circle the "reversal" of the bend, it is better to think of the famous saying: "When things are undecided, quantum mechanics".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="50" > she is a demon, she is an angel, she is a mother</h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="51" > kind gold (친절한 금자씨).</h1>
Director Park Chan-wook has made many good films, but my favorite is "Kind of Gold".
Of course, it was because of Lee Young-ae's beauty that I started watching this movie, but in the end, what impressed me was the layer after layer of reversals. Beautiful gold is the devil who kidnaps and kills people; he is called an angel in prison, but in fact he commits another murder; the first thing he does when he is released after completing his sentence is not to return to society, but to premeditate another murder; the teacher who is a teacher is a demon with a snake's heart; the old man with a kind face is the executioner who takes the last stab; the victim's family, driven by revenge, finally becomes a murderer...
Sure enough, it is the "revenge" trilogy, and the concept of revenge is implemented from beginning to end. But interestingly, through endless reversals, you will slowly support her revenge and want to see the grand success of revenge. Through the process of pushing down, resetting, pushing to, and resetting, using multiple reversals to coat the characters with a complex veil, such reversals are addictive.
What movies have you seen with interesting reversals? Please leave a message to recommend to me.