On January 11, 2022, "Beginning", starring Zhao Jinmai and Bai Jingting, was launched, from the music "Cannon" that sounded at the time of the explosion, the discussion of Zhao Jinmai's acting skills after 00, to the love of a supporting role for a middle school teenager, this short drama with only 15 episodes stayed on the hot search every day during the broadcast.
"Beginning" with suspense and science fiction colors, tells a story of a time loop. Li Shiqing, who experienced an explosion on the bus, woke up again and found that he had the burning sensation and tingling sensation caused by the explosion, but in fact he was unscathed.
It turned out that she had entered an infinite loop.
In this issue, Half Cat will take stock of 10 "circular" movies that are as popular as "Beginnings"
Ready to go into the loop?
10th Place - Infinite Resurrection (2002)
Referral Index: ★★★★
Suspense Index: ★★★
Visual Index: ★★★
Plot Index: ★★★
Infinite Resurrection
Film description:
Lee Bo Yan (Zheng Yi Jian) is a waiter at a Macau casino, and because of his skill, his table has been winning money for two years and has never lost. However, Bo Ren is not willing to be a little minions, hoping to one day go to the casino Las Vegas scenery. However, when he told his companion about this dream, he was ridiculed by the other party. At this time, he was abandoned by his girlfriend again, and when he was desperate, he asked his companion to lend him the money from the safe for gambling, and the companion did not agree at first, but was moved by his impassioned speech and desperately took the risk. They came to the casino and had a good hand, but in the final set, they were defeated by a long-haired man. Disheartened, Bo Ren suffered one accident after another. After a car accident, Bo Ren wakes up in the hospital, when he meets the beautiful female detective Tina (Cecilia Cheung) who is in charge of the investigation of the case. During the relationship, Bo Ren exposed the true face of Tina's boyfriend, causing the two to break up. At the same time, their fate was also reversed by the red fan back stone...
Cycle index: 81 points
This film can be said to be more elaborately conceived and ending than "Journey to the West". Although there is no nonsensical funny means that liu Zhenwei's "Journey to the West" and other films have always appeared, there are still some classic jokes in the middle, and this film is not purely entertainment-oriented, and careful taste can also find some philosophical and thought-provoking effects, in short, this not-so-famous movie is not inferior to those famous Hollywood "high IQ" movies.
It was worth it to see Cecilia Cheung
Good sweet smile
Yomi
No. 9 – Sin in Time and Space (2007)
Referral Index: ★★★
Suspense Index: ★★★★
Visual Index: ★★
Plot Index: ★★★★
Time and space sin
A middle-aged man, Hector (Karra Elejalde), and his wife Clara (Candela Fernández) move to a villa on the outskirts of the country, where he uses a telescope to observe the surrounding scenery and accidentally sees a young woman who is taking off her clothes. Puzzled, Hector decides to check out the bushes where the woman appears, only to be chased by a man with a sharp knife and bandages all over his body. Hector fled into an empty laboratory and hid in a large sink. The next day, when Haeckel returned home, he saw another person who was moving furniture with his wife, and he unknowingly traveled through time and space to a day ago. It turns out that the sink is a space-time machine, and Hector's fate has inadvertently changed...
Circulation index: 83 points
H1 suspense, H2 absurdity, H3 darkness. Very small time loop movie, 4 characters, 3 locations, several props that are repeated and finally fully utilized, and the details are accurate to the flashing display screen. If you must find a starting point for the cycle, not in middle-aged men, but in scientists. The moment the machine of time and space is turned on, it is doomed that evil will appear.
Male lord
Explain the Serpentine Timeline
Madness
No. 8 – Happy Death Day (2017)
Happy Death Day
Monday, September 18, is the birthday of the indulgent college girl Terry Gerbman (Jessica Rod Jessica Rothe) and the birthday of her deceased mother. The night before, she was drunk and slept in the room of the boy Carter, who had a side of the relationship. She woke up and went back to her dorm room and hurried to class. As night fell, the sisters prepared a surprise birthday party for her. Who knew that on the way to the party, Terri was killed by a masked man. Paradoxically, when she woke up again, she found herself back on the morning of September 18, having to go through everything she had experienced more than a dozen hours earlier, including being killed. In this way, the mad Terry constantly tries to change her fate, and is killed by the mysterious man again and again.
It was as if she had fallen into the curse of eternal reincarnation, unable to be reborn...
Circulation index: 85 points
The first section of the thriller and the back of the funny ending also have a reversal, plus a self-deprecating "groundhog day": genre films are called fun to shoot like this. The heroine died infinitely, and successfully washed white, not to mention a cute male pot friend
Hello
Female lead emoticon show
The cake was awesome
7th place - Groundhog Day (1993)
Suspense Index: ★★
Plot Index: ★★★★★
Groundhog Day
Phil (Bill Murray) is a weather announcer who, in addition to making humorous weather forecasts to viewers on camera every day, travels to a border town called Pushutani on February 2 every year to report on the local Groundhog Day celebrations.
In fact, Phil scoffed at the holiday and began to get bored with his work, and when he finished his routine for this year's coverage, he was anxious to return home, but was delayed by a sudden snowstorm.
After waking up on Day 2, Phil is surprised to find that time is still stuck on the previous day's Groundhog Day, and that yesterday's everything is happening again. Surprise, disbelief, excitement, ecstasy, boredom, anxiety, uneasiness, despair, burnout and other emotions took turns to invade Phil's sensory realm, but no matter how he chose to spend the day, he could never go any further and begin his life repeatedly.
Circulation index: 88 points
Probably the earliest time loop movie (if there is an earlier one can tell half a cat Ha)
Weatherman Phil, every day is February 2, trapped in the same place, going through the same thing every day, while he struggles every day to make some changes. Life doesn't go so ridiculous, but we do live repetitive, monotonous, tedious lives over and over again. And each of us, too, lives in such a boring way struggling to reject mediocrity.
Heroine, different beauty
The prodigal son turned back
6th place - Edge of Tomorrow (2006)
Visual Index: ★★★★★
The edge of tomorrow
The future world is in the panic of an alien invasion, and the military orator Major Cage (Tom Cruise) is afraid to go to war, he never thought that the general (Brendan Gleeson) would let him command the upcoming "Battle of Normandy", and after refusing to accept the order, the general actually corrected him, that is, threw him into the camp as a deserter. Cage is assigned to the J Squad to fight, and dies on the first day of the battle, which gives him the ability to cycle through time, and the only person who believes in him is Rita Vorataski (Emily Blunt), known as the "All-Metal Warrior". The two begin a space-time loop battle, and while training Cage, they discover the mystery of controlling time, which is related to the alien "master brain" Omega, but the only way to win is to let Cage keep dying and constantly restart time. While repeating the battle on the day of the landing, Cage is increasingly reluctant to lose Rita...
At first, it was thought to be a combination of "Battle of Los Angeles" and "Pacific Rim", then there was the reincarnation of "Groundhog Day" and "Source Code", and then the two male battles of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", the process had the spiritual output of "Saving Private Ryan" and "Full Metal Shell", and the ending was "X-Men: Reverse Future".
Licked
Heroine
5th Place - The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Ivan (Ashton Kutcher) had a bad childhood because of his actions that filled his childhood with unforgettable memories. In fact, he really only vaguely remembered a little terrible scene that had been haunting his normal life. Ivan accepts the psychologist's advice to write down trivial life in a notepad, but stumbles upon a trip back to the past through a notepad.
Only then did he clearly remember that he had done so many wrong things in his childhood. He fantasizes about using his current consciousness to dive into his childhood body to make up for the harm caused by various mistakes, especially hoping to finally walk back with Kathy, who was a crush at that time. However, his repeated changes across time and space can only increasingly incur the incurable treatment of the real world. Everything is like a butterfly effect, involving the whole body.
Cycle Index: 90 points
A butterfly flapped its wings on the small yellow flowers in New York's Central Park, and Tokyo set off a storm of lightning and thunder.
The first half is "Seducing the Skin" and the second half is "Rushing Lola". Through the brain opening plug-in, various realities are constantly topologized, and finally the step is corrected back to the origin. You can't change a person without destroying him. Soft sci-fi, hard thriller, shocking ending.
Male and female
Eerie paintings
Little Evan performed fabulous
4th place - Lola Run (2014)
Lola ran
Lola (Franca Potente) and Manny (Moritz Credo) are a pair of young lovers, of whom Manny is an unprofessional, while Lola is a love supremacist who believes that there is love on top of the big things.
One day, Manny completes a diamond deal for the boss and waits for Lola's answer with a money bag containing 100,000 marks, but Lola's bicycle is robbed, delaying the agreed pick-up time, and Manny has to take the subway back. In the subway car, Manny picked up the beggar next to him, and at the same time, saw two policemen coming toward him. In a panic, Manny got out of the car and forgot his money bag in the carriage. Apparently, the money bag was taken by the beggar. At this time, there are only 20 minutes left before Manny and the boss agreed to meet and pay the money, and if 100,000 marks are not raised within 20 minutes, Manny will be killed by the boss. Desperate, Manny calls Lola for help, and if Lola can't arrive within 20 minutes, Manny has to desperately rob the supermarket opposite the phone booth.
The time had come to test Lola's love, and in order to raise 100,000 marks in 20 minutes and rescue Manny, she rushed to the banker's father for help.
Circulation index: 91 points
The success of Lola Run isn't about the story itself, it's about creating a whole new way of telling a story. In this "Beauty Saves the Hero" story, Tekkwoo abandons the pattern of the whole story, the smooth narrative, the linear development of time, and the development of the plot from the beginning to the climax, and uses a unique way: a simple story is told three times over and over again, and Lola's three same runs lead to three different outcomes just because of some trivial details.
Lola and boyfriend
Wonder Woman?
Source Code (2011)
《Source Code》
Captain Cott Stevens, a U.S. Air Force pilot on a mission in Afghanistan, suddenly wakes up and finds himself on a high-speed train with a woman he never knew next to him, Christian, who is talking to him. Cole doesn't know why he's in this car, and he finds himself in the identity of another person, and just when he is confused, there is a sudden explosion on the train...
Cotter wakes up again and finds himself in a confined space compartment where a female officer, Goodwin, is talking to herself via video and asking her to report what happened on the train. Before a confused Kurt could figure out what was going on, he was once again put on the train. After this time, Kurt finally realized that he was on a mission to investigate the Chicago train bombing to find the terrorists and find his next target. Cotter was sent to the high-speed train again and again, each time with only eight minutes to investigate, during which Cott found that he had died a week ago, and it turned out that he was participating in a secret mission that was a "brainwave original code", which restored the event and investigated the truth of the matter through the images of the brain cells that had died, which was not yet completely dead. In the end, Kurt successfully completed the mission, but he decided to return to the train again and save the innocent lives on the train...
Circulation index: 93 points
This is perhaps the most similar movie to "The Beginning", which also has an explosive plot and constantly investigates the case
The film depicts agents on a mission and begins to uncover the mystery in the last 10 percent. It turns out that the protagonist has long since become a half-dead vegetative person in the war, and all that remains is the signal of the link between the electronic components and his remaining organization. But every reincarnation seems so real.
At the end of the movie, it also left a semi-open ending, whether the male protagonist has entered another parallel universe and lived happily with the female protagonist, what do you think?
The last moments before the explosion
Fictional world
Only half of the body remains
2nd Place – Former Destination (2014)
Suspense Index: ★★★★★
Former destination
Agents of the Space-Time Labor Bureau were ordered to travel back to the 1970s to stop the sabotage of the terrorists "Flash Bombers", who had caused great harm to the city. Who knew that his mission failed, and after a long recovery, he embarked on a journey again, vowing to bring the Flash Bomber to justice. This time, he wandered into the city as a bartender, and one day he met a writer with the pen name "Unmarried Mother". The writer told him about his bizarre life. The writer was an orphan named Jane, and with an eccentric personality, she fell in love briefly and gave birth to a baby girl after failing to apply for a space company, and as a result, her life also changed dramatically.
Cycle index: 95 points
The story of the snake finally eating itself is not a simple time loop, but a mobis ring, which is more complex in structure. All the characters are the same person, can you believe it? Let yourself engage in yourself, hurt yourself and blame yourself, have to kill yourself, can't forgive yourself.
Are you dizzy?
Is he the protagonist?
1st Place – Horror Cruises (2009)
Recommendation Index: ★★★★ ☆
This poster and title hurt Cruises of Terror
Jesse, a single mother, and a group of friends go out on a yacht, but she always has a feeling that something bad is going on. Soon after, they encountered a strong storm at sea. The yacht overturned, the people fell into the sea, and after several struggles they managed to climb up to the wreckage of the yacht. Just when they had no choice but to do anything, a huge cruise ship slowly approached the crowd. Overjoyed, the crowd boarded the cruise ship called Aeolos without thinking, only to discover that it was a mysterious ship that had disappeared in 1930, and that it was empty.
Blood, mysterious instructions, and sudden murders everywhere lead this group of men and women into a cycle of terror that will never be repeated...
Circulation index: 98 points
This series, half a cat's favorite one
Another movie that was tragically damaged by the "movie title". In fact, it is a very high-quality, wonderful suspense movie.
The cycle of "Horror Cruise" is actually visible to everyone, but only seeing the loop has just begun, if you see 3 different heroines, you are still just getting started.
In the movie, in fact, there are 9 different heroines who have appeared, have you found them?
The famous scene of "Horror Cruise"
Heroine vs Heroine
Guess who I am
Conclusion
Well, here are the 10 "circular" movies selected by Half Cat. If you have already watched "The Beginning", you can come and see these movies and burn your brain together.
Circular Index Ranking:
01- 98 minutes "Horror Cruise"
02 - 95 points "Former Destination"
03- 93 points "Source Code"
04 - 91 points "Lola Run"
05- 90 points "Butterfly Effect"
06- 88 minutes "Edge of Tomorrow"
07-88 minutes "Groundhog Day"
08-85 points "Happy Death Day"
09-83 points "Sin of Time and Space"
10-81 points "Infinite Resurrection"
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