There are reversal bad film warnings and a large wave of reversal good film list ahead...
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"Reverse reversal and reversal", "Brain-burning plus God reversal", "This suspense film has been reversed 40 times!" ”...... I don't know when to start, the number of "reversals" has become the highest standard to measure the level of a suspense film, catching a reversal will blow hard, as if the movie says what is not important, at any time to an air turn 720 degrees plus Thomas full rotation is the fierce person.
Ahead of the "reversal" of bad film warnings
The recently popular Korean movie "Telephone" is also under the banner of "reversal and reversal":
A fusion of time travel and psychotic homicidal elements that are popular with the audience of suspense films, it is about a girl whose father died early and her mother was critically ill, and the landline at home inadvertently received a mysterious phone call, and the other end of the phone was actually a woman from the 90s. Across 20 years of calls, there was a sudden effect of "influencing the future by changing the past" - people in the 90s moved their fingers, and life in 2020 was completely rebuilt; people in the 90s moved another means, and life in 2020 was destroyed again... According to the description of some public accounts, the reversal and reversal are shocking and weak, and they are frightened not to say it, and their brains are still a little burning.
Reversal + brain burning, now the standard of suspense films, ah, then open it to see - after watching the brain empty, only two words in it carry floating and sinking - just this?
Heartache artist renovated this house five or six or seven times...
Not to mention whether "changing the past affects the future" can be equal to "every change can affect the future in an instant and the heroine's memory can remain unchanged", through the film, make some settings that are conducive to shooting, and facilitate the creation of visual effects that change the surrounding environment instantaneously, which is nothing wrong with itself, justify itself. The problem is that its own logic is fighting.
After watching the movie, I want to call myself 110 minutes ago, don't waste this more than an hour! Oh no, according to the setting of the movie, only women in the 90s can call 2020, this phone is not only an internal line, the dialing system is still one-way - so the question is, when the last reversal, why did 2020 call the 90s? Thinking about it, the conclusion can only be: in order not to let this film fall into a true, good and beautiful reunion ending, in order to express his cult taste and the highest ethics of the thriller that "you have to scare you again", the screenwriter would rather violate the logic of the whole film than throw a flying knife at the audience before the end of the play.
Turning to this scene to see good is not good to receive?
As for saying that this film is "reversed many times", I am afraid that there is no misunderstanding about the reversal. Take the logic of "Telephone", even if the heroine's life is changed by the phone many times, it can not be called "reversal", the entire narrative logic can only be called "shun"- it is like a person falling from the second floor, it looks as if he fell to his death, in fact, he did not fall to his death, this is not called a reversal! If you look at a well-known "murderer" movie, it must first make the audience think that he is dead from beginning to end, and suddenly get up to be reversed!
However, although "Telephone" has more logical loopholes than sieves, it is also blood plasma and crackles a smashing reality special effect, and it is not impossible to look at it as a thriller. It's better than the following midnight cold joke with the "Agatha" sign!
The title of the film is "Agatha and the Midnight Murder", but the director's focus seems to be to tell cold jokes all the way, from Agatha's "Big Wave" to Hitler's "Egg Song"...
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Agatha's debut film, The Mystery of Stiles, and Agatha and the Midnight Murders may seem decent at first glance — starring Agatha as Ross's ex-British wife who was tricked at a wedding in Friends. The story tells that she plays Agatha Christie, who wanted to sell a manuscript of her latest Poirot work to a Hong Kong businessman couple due to financial difficulties in the early days of World War II.
First of all, it is more suspicious that Agatha will sell the manuscript because of financial difficulties. In 1940, she had completed classic masterpieces such as "Murder on the Orient Express", "Strange Case in the Clouds", "Murder on ABC", "Massacre on the Nile", and basically maintained the rhythm of one book per year, would she be poor enough to need to resell manuscripts to strange foreign businessman fans?
But by the time Agatha came to the bar to meet the fans, I couldn't care less about whether she was poor or not, and her words directly shocked me to the ground - she said modestly: I am old enough to know that Conan Doyle is better than me...
EXCUSE ME？！！ Will Agatha say she's inferior to Conan Doyle? Didn't Agatha spend half her life in fiction mocking Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmesian search for cigarette butts with a magnifying glass? When did she need to take Poirot, the proudest Belgian detective in her writing, to pretend to be modest?
I thought that this film, like "Agatha and the True Meaning of Murder", was a movie that Grandma fans were looking for; only then did I find out that there were enemies in the team! Isn't it Sherlock Holmes powder pretending to be a grandmother powder to shoot disgusting people?!
The Hong Kong businessman's wife is named "Yuhuan"
A second later, Holmes was also hacked—"If anyone reads Holmes's novels in the Chungking Mansion, he will be immediately driven away!" Does the screenwriter only know a Chungking Mansion when he sees Hong Kong? Are you Holmes Black Powder or Agatha Black Powder?
Well, I would like to see how this double-sided spy lurks as a demon - and then look down, I found that this stage drama-style 90-minute movie, a total of more than a dozen characters appear, on average 2 people die every 10 minutes, see the 85th minute, see the remaining 5 minutes should be reversed, even the identity and name of these ten or so people have not been clear, only to see them die one by one, like puppets to lie on the stage even if the task is completed and the bento is received... This horizontal and vertical death is also too arbitrary.
After 5 minutes of countdown, the reversal of fate finally came. My heart is probably the same as 99% of the audience, not alarmed: "You turn, hurry up and turn me off to sleep." ”
Guess what the murderer's motives were? It was to kill Agatha so that her manuscript would become the last posthumous manuscript of Poirot's novel! Seeing this, I felt that Poirot's coffin board was almost overwhelmed! If he knew that there was such a thing, he would definitely jump out of "Curtain" and send the screenwriter to the West Heaven!
Seriously, a film that dies one after another, it is not easy to doze off, and with this midnight struggle, I will go to see "Eight-Sided Ambush" or "Memory of Life" is not fragrant?
This "Agatha and the True Meaning of Murder" is the really relaxed and pleasant Grandma fan orientation
I can't help but think of the popular "Translation Doubt" a while ago, it is also like a plate of werewolves killing too many werewolves - the first night the witch poisoned and poisoned a villager, the second night the werewolf blew himself up, the third night the hunter shot himself, and finally the werewolf still wanted to struggle to reverse - no reversal is okay, a reversal actually incidentally leaked the bottom of "Murder on the Orient Express".
Tricked by the poster design to see
Who gave the rarity screenwriter the courage to destroy the classic? Or is it that the ending of "Murder on the Orient Express" has long been known to the world not to be afraid of leaking? In any case, it is always very tasteless to leak the bottom of other people's (first-class) works in one's own (second-rate) works.
A truly classic reversal, once is enough
What to say to make the "reversal" obsession clear: a truly classic reversal, once is enough.
Believe it or not: from Agatha's "Prosecution Witness", Hitchcock's "Horrors", all the way to "Isle of Horrors", "Confinement Island", "Sixth Sense", "Master Key", "Fight Club", "Deadly Magic", "Chainsaw Horror 1", "Very Suspect", "The Life of David Gore", "Fear of the First Degree", "Mother"... Classic suspense crime films, all of which are a reversal, a blow into the soul, unforgettable.
The Sixth Sense
Classics can become classics, not by relying on the screenwriter to ambush at the end of the film, sneaking to give the audience who come here a stick, but from the beginning to do a good job of "deceiving" the audience layout, step by step to lead the audience into the pit - it seems to be the last foot in the air, in fact, all the way to be carried by people. Magic also scores a few steps – distracting first, then making false inducements, and the highest realm is the self-sacrifice of the magician, isn't it?
Deadly Magic
Do not pay attention to the laying of the mat on the simple and rough "reversal", minutes become hard, the audience is tricked into the ditch to struggle to get up, scold a bad film - for example, the "End of the Tunnel", which was also hot for a while before, the reversal relies on accident + spiritual machine to move, so if the protagonist does not have a spiritual machine to move? Where to go?
A good reversal is worthy of all the details laid out in front of it; a lifelong reversal can also make the audience's values rise up a small earthquake - "Island Horror", "Forbidden Island", "Master Key", "Fight Club", "First Level Fear", "Mother"... Do you think about it? Good and evil, right and wrong, falsehood, good and evil, self, other... It is not unusual for several philosophical or sociological papers to be hidden behind the reversal.
Master Key
The work of God that reverses and reverses cannot be sought
Is reversing and reversing must be a gimmick? Not necessarily. In the hands of the screenwriters of niubility, each reversal has a purpose, and several reversals can also form a subtle nested structure.
I've seen "Horror Cruise" or "The Night the Comet Came" and understand what the so-called nested structure is.
The night the broom star came, I didn't know it
"Fatal ID" is also a classic masterpiece of reversal and reversal - in the hands of the "low hand", if you have to make 5 reversals, you will find that the first 4 times must be counted, and there is only one reversal that is really written with enough strength. Otherwise, like "Old Nightmare", the director himself turned dizzy, turned open-mindedly, turned away without knowing it, and couldn't stop the car all the way to Siberia.
Fatal ID
And here in a master like "Fatal ID", every reversal is not a waste, and even the first few small reversals can become a smoke screen for the big reversal, so that the truth is hidden deeper and more confusing. The same is to give the audience another fright before the end credits are finished, "Telephone" can only rely on the destruction of its own logic to be hard, and the last fright of "Fatal ID" is not only completely logical and self-consistent, but also deepens: some things are hidden more deeply, people are unpredictable, and senior psychologists have planted it.
True "multiple reversals", each one should not be nonsense – that is, when the latter reversal overturns the conclusion of the previous one, the previous reversal is not written in vain.
The Vanishing Lover
If you look at David Finch's "The Vanishing Lover", what is frightening is not only the crime itself, but in the entire narrative process of the crime, you will find how manipulative the mass media can be on people's views - the media does not even need to falsify, just need to focus on one side, so that you can see more square views being displayed, you are easy to believe the square; once you change hands and release more negative views, the onlookers are taken to the east to the west every minute, and they still feel that they are thinking independently and have great reasoning ability!
Previously, there was a British drama "Truth Capture" that also had many reversals, about the maturity of the "face-changing technology", the world is more and more without the truth to speak of - but compared to "The Disappearing Lover" or slightly inferior, because what is more terrifying than the fake is: you see the truth (part), but still do not get the truth (the whole), and the part of the truth that is deliberately presented may just make you come to the wrong conclusion of deviating from the truth.
British drama "Truth Capture"
When it comes to high-level choreographers who can really play with "multiple reversals" and make great changes in the structure of the film, they must know how to cherish it - it seems that the japanese director Kenji Uchida's many reversals in "Encounter with Unfamiliar People" are completely textbook.
"Unfamiliar With People"
He also has a "Method of Stealing the Key", which is known by more people and is particularly good - behind the reversal of multiple identity changes, the director expresses a simple truth - human nature will not change, the sloppy one who comes to the palace is still sloppy, and the orderly one, even if thrown into the garbage heap, can rebuild the life recycle station.
"The Method of Stealing Keys"
Creators who can really play often seem simple, and the problem is that these niubility filmmakers can't be sought! When you hear the "reversed and reversed brain-burning god film", you must first calculate the probability - do you say that it is more likely that a big god will suddenly appear again, or is it more likely to come up with a swindle?
"Featherweight single reversal" is the conscience
So now, seeing the propaganda sign with the slogan of "reversal and reversal", vigilance arrived at the first moment. On the contrary, those who honestly and painstakingly try to find another way for their own small films to play a "featherweight single reversal", the possibility of looking good is still a little bigger.
We are not a big god or a shocking idea to shatter the three views, just polish a featherweight reversal can't we?
Recently, the new "Invisible Man" has played well, integrating an old terrier of an "invisible person" into a little high-tech, integrating into a little anti-domestic violence, honestly shooting, the atmosphere of the place where the horror should be made, the place where the audience should be relieved, and the evaluation is also good.
The Invisible Man
Counting further ahead, the Spanish small-budget thriller "The Invisible Guest" and "The Dark Side", the American popcorn blood plasma comedy "Happy Death Day" and "Ready or Not", the Korean crime film "Memory Night" and "Montage" (remade in India into "Eight Years of Pursuit"), the Indian brain-burning suspense film "Tuner", "Heavenly Mystery Case", "Maiden Murder", the German hacker crime film "Who Am I: There Is No Absolutely Safe System", the Japanese mystery film "Confessions after 22 Years", the Chinese reverse suspense masterpiece "Hypnotic Master", "Witnessed by the Whole People" ...... Isn't it all pretty good- in the end, the reversal doesn't need you to be upside down, as long as it has a new meaning, you can challenge the audience's habitual facial feelings and linear thinking a little, and it is easy to win, and the audience is happy to be deceived.
"Ready or not", a proper cool film: sorry my man, the whole family will explode in place, do you say cool?
"Montage" Indian remake version of "Eight Years of Pursuit", the remake exceeds the original
"Murder of a Girl", like Agatha's look at this is not wrong
"Night of Memories", a reversal is also amazing enough
Promise me, next time don't reverse and reverse 40 times, okay?
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