On September 4, Christopher Nolan's new work "Creed" was released, because it was only a few days away from the British and American countries, it also caused a strong sensation in our mainland, and the carnival belonging to Nolan fans broke out at this time.
But after a few days of fermentation, a variety of different sounds have gradually sprung up.
Due to Nolan's return to the field of science fiction this time, and the concept is novel, many viewers have said that they can't understand it, and the Douban score has now exceeded 220,000 people, but the score has dropped to 7.8 points, which is also relatively rare in Nolan's works.
Nolan likes to incorporate some new concepts of scientific fields into his film productions, such as Inception and Interstellar.
The Creed also deals with the physics concepts of entropy, time clamping, and grandfather paradoxes, for which Nolan hired The Nobel Laureate in Physics Kip Thorne as a scientific advisor.
It is these advanced scientific concepts that confuse the audience, but as long as the timeline of the development of the story is clear, it is not difficult to understand. Let's take a look at the timeline of the film's story development:
One
Before talking about the movie, let's first popularize the concepts of portals, forward time and reverse time that appear in the movie.
The so-called positive time is the time at which our world is located, and the clock goes from 0 o'clock to 24 o'clock every day. If a person's home clock is the opposite of ours, going upside down from 24 o'clock to 0 o'clock, then he is in reverse time.
The portal is not a magic weapon in Doraemon's pocket, but a teleportation device used to transfer a person from forward time to reverse time, or from reverse time to forward time.
If a person enters this portal and turns his time in reverse, the world he sees after he comes out of this portal will have things in the opposite direction.
For example, birds in the sky are flying upside down, and cars and pedestrians on the street are walking backwards.
In contrast, those of us who are in positive time see a person who is in the opposite direction, and his actions are also reversed, for example: he will go backwards.
Of course, the advantage of turning time around is that you can go through the passage of time backwards and go back to a previous point in time to change some of the things that have already happened in the world.
Two
Then there's the plot of the film, which begins with a terrorist attack on the Kiev Theater in Ukraine on February 14, when a world arms predator named Andrey Sartre launched an attack on the Kiev Theater in Ukraine.
The male protagonist (John David Washington), who is a CIA commissioner, is mixed with Ukrainian special forces and police forces, and also arrives at the scene to carry out rescue missions.
At the scene of the shootout, the male protagonist saw a reverse bullet, and then the theater exploded.
PS: The male protagonist in this movie does not have a name, so we will call him the male protagonist - and this setting is also intentional by Nolan, who once said in an interview: "This is a great place in classic movies, there are some very classic characters in previous spy movies, the director will not give him a name, like some German war movies, like the role of a criminal, he will not have a name, but that person is a very powerful existence." ”
After being caught by ukrainians and undergoing torture and drug-swallowing suicide, the male protagonist returned to the CIA organization. It turned out that all this was a test against him, to test his loyalty, because he was about to be tasked with approaching and investigating Andre Sartre.
Then the CIA organized the female scientist Laura to give the male protagonist the knowledge of reverse matter, and let the mysterious handsome brother Neil become his partner.
The two were helped by arms dealer Priya and MI6 member Michael Crosby, and soon gained the trust of Andre's wife, Kate.
Through Kate's mediation, the male protagonist finally contacted Andre on February 28 and made a deal with him, snatching the plutonium element for him in Italy' Almafi.
As a result, after nine deaths on the road to grab the plutonium, he was snatched by a reverse Andre who came out of the portal. Andre also wounded Kate with one shot before leaving through the portal.
In order to save the injured Kate, the male protagonist and Neil also enter the portal with her.
As time went on, they returned to February 21 and met the arms dealer Pria in Mumbai, India, and after all this, he finally learned of Andrea's plot.
It turned out that Andrei was born in a secret city called "Stoke 12" in the former Soviet Union, and was suffering from advanced pancreatic cancer due to radiation from childhood.
Andrei's heart is connected to an algorithmic machine that can reverse space-time, and he is preparing to reverse to February 14, and then commit suicide to destroy the world.
The ultimate task of the male protagonist and Neil is to go to the ruined city of the former Soviet Union on February 14 to grab the "algorithm".
At the same time, Kate also returned to the Vietnamese cruise ship on February 14 to find Andre, trying to drag Andrei to prevent him from committing suicide with CIA poison.
After a struggle, the man and Neil grab the algorithm machine; Kate also shoots Andre with a gun and throws him into the sea, and the world is quiet.
Three
Nolan's three-year-old film, with an investment of $205 million, is a major selling point for the film's spectacle of perspective.
The story created by the gimmicky scientific concept of reverse time is also very creative, and it is a plot selling point that the audience can think about repeatedly.
Putting aside this elaborate plot setting, the core plot of the movie is actually still a rather simple one-line story - the male protagonist and Neil join forces to gain the trust of the villain Andre's wife Kate, and the conspiracy to destroy The world is disintegrated by the combination of inside and outside.
In order to make it easier for the audience to start and understand the plot of the movie, Nolan also deliberately used two colors, red and blue, to represent the positive and reverse time respectively, so that the threshold for ordinary audiences to watch the movie was greatly reduced.
But the reputation of this movie is general, in addition to the complexity of the plot, the whole story has no sensational flashpoint, that is, the story is told too flat, there is no literary drama that can show the personality characteristics of the characters, and the female protagonist Kate and the black male protagonist do not have emotional intersection, which is an aspect of the lack of the film story.
Nolan has never been a maverick director of literary films — he didn't hesitate to spend a lot of money blowing up real planes, building and blowing up buildings, blowing up and building, just to get a cool explosion shot, all to please the audience in front of the screen.
And IMAX picture quality and super sound effects are also one of the selling points of the movie.
Four
The actor, John David Washington, is the son of Denzel Washington, who has had many opportunities in Hollywood in recent years, and his last film, "The Black Party," also had a good reputation.
But the performance in this film can only be said to be decent, and there are not too many highlights of the role, but Robert Pattinson, who plays the supporting actor Neil, is impressive.
Robert Pattinson became a popular Hollywood movie star for starring in the "Twilight" series, and his latest work is DC's new "Batman" movie.
On September 4, 2020, the Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Robert was diagnosed positive for COVID-19, hoping that he would be able to survive this difficult situation and recover soon.
The heroine, Elizabeth Debitzki, is a highlight of the film, reaching a height of 190cm, the tallest character in the film, and is the focus wherever she goes.
Since her debut in 2011, Elizabeth has also starred in many excellent films, and I believe that her development in Hollywood can be further advanced after this film.
"Quicksilver" Aaron Taylor-Johnson also played a small role in the film, being the leader of the last CIA unit.
Since Aaron left the MCU, the development of these years has not been smooth, and in this film, he is only a soy sauce character, hoping that he can return to the MCU as soon as possible and continue the story of "Quicksilver".
Five
The 150-minute length of the film, which was released in our mainland, was actually uncut, which shows that Nolan has a good control over the scale of the camera.
Some people say: This is a movie that needs to be watched alone at home and savored. This view is also quite reasonable, nolan's films always have their own uniqueness.
Recently, many die-hard fans who like him have already brushed two or three brushes in the movie theater. At present, the box office of the film in the first week of release is close to 300 million yuan, which is growing at a rate of 10 million yuan per day, and it is expected that the final box office should not exceed 500 million yuan.
But the shortcomings of "Creed" are also obvious, the story is told too peacefully, the shaping of human character and the flashpoint of emotions are not grasped well, the theme of the story is placed on the interpretation of the concept of science and technology, and the concept of reverse time, although novel, is not complicated after penetration, and it loses the tension of the whole story.
The overall feeling after watching the movie is that there is a gap compared with the previous "Inception" and "Interstellar", and I even think: if "Inception" is broken, it is likely to be the appearance of "Creed"...
(Rotten Tomatoes Movie Editorial Department: Blood Dan Heart)