Many people are impressed by the movie "Life and Death Stay", mainly because it dominates a scene, and what will flash in people's minds when they are dying. Which film gives the audience an intuitive imagination that answers a question and satisfies the audience's curiosity. The moment of death really feels like a world away.
Let's not care whether this feeling is right or not, just to say that "Life and Death Stay", which endorses this feeling, many people think that it is a good movie, because the movie that could have such a setting more than a decade ago was considered good enough. However, this is not the case, because decades ago, this setting has long existed, and what is recommended to you today is the originator of this setting. This film is "Otherworldly Floating Life", including "Life and Death Stay", many latecomers, have different degrees of reference to this film.
"Otherworldly Floating Life" is a movie that you don't know what it says before you watch it, and in the same way, in the process of watching the movie, you will always face the dilemma of being guided. Sometimes you feel that this film is about post-war psychological trauma, and sometimes, it will be disturbed by strange forces and chaos. In short, from any angle to cut in, this film will give a corresponding answer, and this answer will always make people feel reasonable, this is the charm of this film, but also because of this charm, many excellent films of the same type later have the idea of referring to it.
The protagonist of "Alien Life" is a veteran who has experienced the Vietnam War, unlike other veterans, he looks gentle and elegant, and he is knowledgeable, and his comrades call him Doctor, which is an honorific title and a kind of awe. However, this reverence slowly blurred later.
Because he was wounded in the war and the cruelty of the war was difficult to recover, the retired Doctor became a postman. The Doctor's life has changed drastically, his previous marriage is difficult to maintain, and he is later married to a girl in the post office. Although the previous life has been said to have said goodbye, the doctor always feels that some things in life have changed from time to time. As this mutation became more and more frequent, the doctor fell ill.
It wasn't just his feelings, several of his comrades in arms who also fought died because they saw something that shouldn't have appeared in real society. When the fear of death envelops the Doctor, he is not only troubled by the changes in front of him, but after this, everyone around him seems to be moving in the direction of alienation, and the Doctor himself is facing the embarrassing situation of being in a three-tier parallel world. What is going on with all this, this film is trying to unravel this mystery, but the answer behind it is lamentable.
Because this film focuses on one of the most tragic local wars for Americans after World War II, the Vietnam War. So a lot of the elements that we can see have a clear direction, and that's anti-war. When the Doctor's comrades first frolicked, they showed disgust for the war, and the Doctor returned home after the war to engage in a relatively peaceful profession. They were all trying to draw a line from the war, but the clouds of war did not easily leave the Doctor and their comrades.
The film begins with a patient with post-war trauma syndrome, and the main reason why the Doctor thinks that there are always people following him is, in the eyes of the audience, a collection of tragic memories of those who have faced on the battlefield. This is also a simple anti-war film that many viewers think at the beginning is that the core of this film is to use individual memory to carry out anti-war propaganda, but what happens later once again blurs the boundaries between the audience's reality and the virtual. Because the doctor thought the same thing before, but then he was shocked.
More than once, the Doctor felt that the life in front of him was illusory, because he did not explain why he had parted ways with his ex-wife. Just because his son died before the war? This is obviously not convincing, but the entire film does not explain why the ex-wife divorced the doctor. The reason for the combination of the doctor and the current girlfriend is not clear, at this time, some viewers can see that this film is not just anti-war. However, no matter what, the core tone of this film is still anti-war.
However, the doctor's real life changes its appearance, and he suddenly travels back to the pre-war, he lives with his family, and the sleeping doctor dreams of a scene in his dream, and this scene is now his life with his current girlfriend. At this time, I believe that seeing here, more people began to be confused, is this a dream or a reality? Or which one is reality and which one is the dream. Meanwhile, the Doctor's comrades approached him, who told him a shocking secret. It turned out that all this was premeditated.
Seeing this, many people have a sense of sudden enlightenment, the original sense of this film created throughout the film, the collection is this, after this sudden realization, the audience will feel that this film may be the end of this, but the next plot is the most important turning point of the film, the original doctor is really dead, and the whole story is only the doctor before death experienced a "stay" This is the main purpose of the film, the same is the center line of this film, but this center line is more special, In the creation of the world before death, this film has several layers. Looking at this film, you will come to the conclusion that classics are classics, and how classic the latecomers are, the classic degree of this film will only be a little more.
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