Are you also allergic to the ringtone of "Cannon"?
Have you dared to do the 45 bus recently?
Are red plastic bags and pressure cookers the material of your recent nightmares?
If all of the above points are met, then congratulations, you also have the "Beginning" syndrome!
The recently launched unlimited stream TV series "Beginning" has undoubtedly made a good start for domestic dramas in 2022.
In the countless cycles on the bus, an ordinary female college student and an ordinary social animal redeem the whole car, with the repeated explosions leading to the story of one warm and sad ordinary person after another, and reaching redemption and reconciliation in an infinite cycle.
Since we are talking about infinite streams, what exactly is infinite streams?
Unlimited streaming has two main features:
Due to the intervention of some force, let intelligent life go to different worlds to experience different stories and complete some tasks;
There will be real death, and theoretically there are an infinite number of worlds to experience.
In addition to "The Beginning", there are many excellent cases of infinite streaming in movies, so what is infinite streaming in the film world?
The Butterfly Effect
2004 (USA) Drama/Suspense/Sci-Fi
Douban score: 8.8
If there is an infinite stream, we have to mention the Butterfly Effect. There are three films in total, and there are many different endings. The first one is really a classic of classics, it is worth watching, and the next two are a bit unsatisfactory.
The Butterfly Effect was directed by Eric Brays and J. McKay Gruber, and starring Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, John Patrick Amadeuli, and Jace James, which was officially released in the United States on January 23, 2004.
A butterfly in South America can stir up wings to cause a tornado in Texas, USA, and a few tiny moments often have the power to destroy everything. The film also tells the story of Yang, Ivan (Ashton Kutch) who experienced a series of bad things as a child, which damaged his otherwise perfect life.
Tormented by terrible childhood memories, Ivan asks for the help of a psychiatrist, who encourages him to write down in detail what happened, Ivan accepts the psychologist's advice and writes down trivial life in a notepad, only to stumble upon the instinct to go back to the past through memorization. He fantasized about using his present consciousness to dive into his childhood body to make up for the harm caused by various mistakes, but things got worse and worse.
The so-called of a thousand miles is destroyed in the ant nest, Ivan's life is destroyed again and again in the trivial life bits and pieces, rebuilding, destroying, in an infinite cycle to a complete collapse.
The Night the Comet Came
2013 (US / UK) Science Fiction / Suspense / Thriller
Douban score: 8.5
"The Night the Comet Came" can be said to be the god of brain-burning hard science fiction! When it comes to infinite streams and parallel universe movies, this movie can definitely rank in the top 10. What will you do when a comet crosses your own space-time encounters other space-time?
The film begins with a dinner party with eight friends, and after a blackout, all relationships and even the world order have undergone a surprising change, incorporating various genre elements such as science fiction, suspense and indoor psychological drama.
The original title of the film, "Coherence," has a deeper connotation than the Chinese translation of "The Night the Comet Came." Coherence, literally translated as "coherence." The simplest definition in classical physics is that this is a property that interferes with two columns of waves. Judging from the name, the science of this film is very hard.
Using "Coherence" as the title shows that the screenwriter's understanding of quantum physics has exceeded the level of simply playing off the concept of "Schrödinger's cat" or using the concept of "parallel world" regardless of whether 3721 has taken it.
In addition to the hard-core scientific connotation, this film also has a deep humanistic care and unexpected flips, when you watch the whole movie and then go back to watch the first ten minutes, you will find that the original is full of foreshadowing.
"Happy Death Day"
2018 (USA) Suspense/Thriller/Horror
Douban score: 7.1
Monday, September 18, is the birthday of the indulgent college girl Terry Gelbman, as well as 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...
Overall, Happy Death Day is a good little-budget masterpiece, with a college student repeating the story of her own murdered day to track down the real culprit. The anti-climactic, anti-chicken soup, and multi-element mix-and-match plot setting is more in line with the tastes of young people, and the "infinite loop" type of film has been filmed in a new way, but the over-mixed style and the loopholes in the plot are really unsatisfactory.
The cycle of death again and again seems to have profound metaphors and hints, and the pain of going through the cycle and being immutable is vividly manifested through a simple curse of reincarnation, and the same is true of life, the most terrible thing is that it cannot come out in a narrow space and exhaust life in a cyclical time.
Horror Cruises
2009 (UK) Drama / Suspense / Thriller
Jesse (Melissa George), a single mother, and a group of friends set out on a yacht to visit the sea, but they encounter a strong storm at sea. The yacht overturned, the people fell into the sea, and after several struggles to climb onto the wreckage of the yacht, they boarded a huge cruise ship when there was nothing they could do.
However, the cruise ship, called Aeolos, turned out to be a mysterious ship that had disappeared in 1930, and it was empty. But the blood, mysterious instructions, and sudden murders that can be seen everywhere on the ship lead this group of men and women into a cycle of terror that will never be repeated...
The story of "Horror Cruise" corresponds to that sentence, and the so-called demons are often a fan of a thought. Everything that happens to avoid the disaster eventually becomes the fuse of the disaster, but in fact, it only needs to be changed in any one link, and the cycle can be terminated.
There is a saying: Most of the pain in life comes from the attachment of not wanting to leave when it is time to leave. This Sisyphus-like reincarnation of the heroine is a punishment, a curse that will sink forever and never recover, but at the same time it brings us a reflection, an opportunity, "facing the same situation again and again", learning and understanding the subject of life, which is the only way to graduate.
The big reincarnation sets the small reincarnation, the infinite loop, in one go, the killing is for redemption, the three cycles in the small reincarnation, the growth of the heroine, each cycle of personality advances to the next stage, confused and not chaotic. The photography is brilliant, and several details are also well advanced. Constant discussion, who killed me and who I killed, this is the ultimate question!
Groundhog Day
1993 (USA) Drama/Comedy/Romance
Douban score: 8.5
"Groundhog Day" is a rare infinite stream comedy, which mainly tells the story of weather announcer Phil, who after a snowstorm on a mission, stays the day before but can never take another step forward, and begins his repeated life.
In an infinite loop Phil begins to lose faith in life, but what is even more terrifying is that he cannot even kill himself. After many deaths in juxtaposition, Phil finally realized that since he could not escape all this, it was better to live such a good day. So he began to improve his relationships, to try to learn everything, not just for any purpose, to enjoy life.
Finally, after countless February 2nds, he found that his life was completely different, and he met all the people in the town he went to once a year, and had various stories with them, and became a popular and good person. In the end, the changed Phil finally touched the heart of the heroine Rita in one day, and finally spent a long day with a marmot.
"Groundhog Day" conveys the metaphor and core that a good theatrical work should have through an infinite flow of expression, life always seems to be the same, and we have long been accustomed to surviving every procedural day like a machine. But over time, it is inevitable that I will get bored, and my life will seem to stagnate. At this time, you may wish to face the various things of life in another mentality and way, and may find a long-lost clear sky from the tedium and darkness of the past day after day.
Crossing again and again, infinite cycles, killing and fear, facing the fear of the familiar and unknown, staring at the trembling of the abyss...
The story of "Infinite Flow" is not only to create a horror atmosphere in the loop, but also the story behind the loop, which is to show the changes in life and personnel through the cycle.
Some people say that life is a single loop, and love is not a waste. In today's increasingly mechanized life, do these stories of "infinite streams" also inspire you to face the sun of tomorrow?
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