"Night of Memories" is half suspenseful, half human, this movie that does not play cards according to common sense, even if it is the last second, you may not be able to guess the ending.
Night of Memories
In the first half of the story, although some old terriers are used, the director creates a horror atmosphere very well. The man's family moved into a new house. Strange things followed.
At first glance at the house, there is a sense of déjà vu.
The family was eating in the dining room, and suddenly there was the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground in the bedroom on the second floor.
There is also a room in the house that is not allowed to be opened.
But it seems that someone has secretly turned the doorknob from the inside.
What's even more frightening is that only the male protagonist feels that these are wrong.
His family attributed it all to his nervous breakdown and advised him to take his medicine on time.
On the night of heavy rain, the male protagonist was awakened by the nightmare and accompanied by his brother to the rooftop to relax.
However, on the way back, a group of people dressed in black suddenly rushed out and kidnapped their brother and took them to the car.
The man wrote down the license plate and ran home to report to the police, but the police who came to investigate told him that there was no such number.
As the days passed, the man who held his brother hostage did not call to demand the ransom. On the nineteenth day, the missing brother suddenly returned home.
What happened during this time, he remembered nothing.
But the male protagonist found his brother's abnormality, and one morning when his brother went out, he found that his brother was originally lame on his left leg, but it became his right leg.
And every night, my brother would quietly leave the house and go far away.
The man began to follow his brother and found that the people he went to see at night were actually the two policemen who came to the house to investigate, and they were no longer dressed as policemen.
This is definitely not really a brother! The male protagonist told his mother about this terrible discovery for the first time.
At night, I overheard my mother saying to the other end of the phone: "He has found out, what to do..."
The shocked male protagonist realized that everyone in the original family was weaving lies to deceive themselves!
He didn't have time to think about what their purpose was, and ran to the police station in a panic to report the case.
But in the mirror of the police station, I saw the real self - he was not the 20-year-old teenager, but an old man in his 40s with a face full of vicissitudes.
In other words, those so-called "family members" are not his relatives!
What's going on here?
The man ran home to confront the "family", but found that the closed door was open.
Inside the door were blood on the ground, and several "models" who had fallen into pools of blood.
Just when he did not know why, the family members appeared and told the truth of everything.
It turned out that the so-called "father" was a hypnotist, and the "mother" was a hired actor, and all this was the plan of the "brother".
They hope to use all this to evoke the male protagonist's memories of twenty years ago— memories of a murder case.
Twenty years ago, the "older brother" was a five-year-old with parents and an older sister.
But late one night, a man broke into the house and killed his sister and mother.
The next day, his father's body was also found downstairs at the hospital.
For twenty years, the "brother" grew up in an orphanage and went to great lengths to find the murderer.
But when he finally met the man, he found that the other party had lost his memory and did not remember that he was a murderer.
So the brother found a hypnotist and took the man to their previous house, hoping to recreate the murder scene to stimulate his memory.
Unfortunately, on that rainy night, my brother was taken away by the police to assist in the investigation, so the plan was suspended for a while, so that the truth was slowly discovered by the male protagonist.
At this point in the plot, the original victim became the murderer, and the original "conspiracy" was actually a means to make the murderer confess.
But the story is far from over.
The brother, who did not succeed in awakening the male protagonist's memory, decided to kill the enemy in his own way.
And the male protagonist still firmly insists that he is not the murderer.
What is the truth of the matter? As mentioned at the beginning of the film, this is a story about being "trapped".
The male protagonist in the film is trapped by hypnosis.
But when he broke free of the cage, he found that it was not only hypnosis that trapped him, but the memories of twenty years ago.
Also trapped by memory are the boys who survived the murders.
For twenty years, he had been living in the shadow of hatred and could not extricate himself.
Revenge became his only motivation to live.
But can life, which is sustained by hatred, still see the beauty and hope of the future?
Can this crazy and dark "Truman's world" still find the exit of life?
The ending of the movie may give you a stunning answer.