The Hollywood science fiction film "12 Monkeys" is one of the classic masterpieces of the "time travel" theme.
"In 1997, 5 billion people worldwide will die from deadly viruses."
"Survivors will be forced to move into the dark underground and survive."
"The world on the surface will once again be ruled by animals."
—Excerpt from an interview with a patient with schizophrenic delusions, Baltimore County Hospital, April 12, 1990.
The entire film revolves around these clues.
This is a "century old film" released in 1996.
By telling a poignant fateful reincarnation story and sublimating it with a holy and beautiful female character, it has a profound impact on many post-8090s and is an image classic in the old dreams of countless audiences.
And this film also has a different meaning for me personally.
For more than ten years, "12 Monkeys" has been seen three times in total, the most recent of which was in my junior year.
And shortly after that, in the middle of the night, I suddenly realized inexplicably that the core of this movie had already exceeded the traditional boundaries of a "science fiction film".
The first time I watched "12 Monkeys", it was the second year after the May 12 earthquake, and I had just entered junior high school, and it seemed that I should be a little more sensible than the sixth grade, but in fact, it was not like this at all.
It was a cold night Chinese New Year's Eve night, approaching the New Year's Eve, but the area suddenly blackout, after a momentary panic, every household lit candles, but on the street blinded by black lights, a few of our friends were still wandering around.
One girl said, "Go back, there's a power outage." ”
A boy said, "There is a power outage, what are you going to do?" ”
Since the power was cut off, we were inconvenient to run around, but we were even more reluctant to go home, so we went home and told us, so we pestered the big brother who drove the minibus and used his car TV to show us a movie.
During May 12, I watched "Anti-Eagle" in this car, and this time, it was "12 Monkeys".
This incident has been remembered for a long enough time, but some of its details are still vividly remembered.
That year, my family's old house did not have the "Crystal Blue Lake" opposite the real estate, but a wide open and undeveloped grassland on all sides, and the road to the South Lake Bus Station was not so spacious, narrow and compact.
Our minibus is parked just along the street in the wasteland.
I vaguely remember, at that time through the car window, I looked at the road outside on all sides of the dark, the street lights are broken, a large area in the square, there is a faint glow on our car, I don't know where there is a slit, from time to time into the cool breeze, now I want to come, it is a kind of "doomsday survival" lonely taste.
The most memorable thing is the fragrant warm roast meat and the unrestrained laughter of the friends.
When I first watched "12 Monkeys", I actually had a general impression of this movie, neither captured by the perfect temperament of the heroine, nor impressed by Brad Pitt's ghostly acting skills, let alone to deeply understand the despair of "exhausting all efforts can not turn over the Five Finger Mountain", I did not even understand the concept of "time shuttle" in the movie.
I just remember that the final ending of the movie seemed to be tragic, and the girl next to her was incited to cry by the end of the tragedy.
Remember the boy casually asking, "What are you crying?" I don't know what this movie is about. ”
Then the girl sobbed and said that the plot was "first this, this way", and then "then this way and this way", although the specifics can not be recalled, but the girl seems to really understand the movie.
It's so much better than me.
In the past, when I think about it now, I really have a sense of withdrawal, and many things are initially unconscious, but after many years, I can taste many different meanings.
"People's assessment of everything around them often does not jump out of their current vision."
The second time I watched "12 Monkeys", it was after the age of 18 after graduating from high school.
That year, I had my first notebook, and at that time, I didn't know anything about computer configuration, and I was fooled by the sales of the physical store to buy an office book and play lol into ppt - of course, this did not hinder my enthusiasm for downloading pirated movies.
When I brushed it twice, I saw it by one person, and the look and feel was very different from the first time.
For me at that time, to understand the plot of this movie, it was natural to grasp it in my hand, and it was a natural thing to say.
Brad Pitt's "fine division" performance took me by breath, perfectly illustrating what is called "the humanoid textbook of a mentally ill person."
David Morse, who has always been known for his mild-mannered temperament, plays a perverted villain in this film who is "mild and almost weak, but has no doubt that human beings are the cancer of the earth", and obviously shows a gentlemanly demeanor in his hands and feet, but he is chilling.
And this character is also one of the most successful villains of all the movies I've seen so far.
At that time, I didn't feel anything when I watched it, but when I looked back on it after many days, I was afraid for a while.
"The lethality that the weakest you despise will be an unbearable weight for you."
As for Madeleine Stowe, a "stunning beauty", although there is no particularly refreshing highlight in acting, the warm temperament of "angel" is really intoxicating.
In the movie, she is as holy as the ice and snow of the divine peak, and her beauty is incomprehensible, which makes me marvel beyond compare.
One brush away from the horse to see the flowers, two brushes off the horse to see the flowers, the second time to see completely refresh the earlier understanding of this film, but there is one point of consistency before and after, that is, the male protagonist Bruce Willis, as always, disgusted me.
A brush hates the male protagonist, is the opening of the movie his "salivating" shot is very easy to cause discomfort.
The second brush also contradicted him, and the reason was different.
Those who have watched "12 Monkeys" know that several other characters in this movie have contributed brilliant performances, but the male protagonist has almost no sense of existence, and the only role is to promote the development of the plot...
An optional "tool man" identity seems to be the whole treatment given to him by the director.
To what extent is this male protagonist a waste of firewood?
He was a waste of firewood, shouting with his mouth to liberate himself, but he always made childish and stupid moves on his hands, and wasted firewood to the point that with his useless kindness, he eventually killed himself without a place to die. From beginning to end, the whole is faced with a strong enemy who is powerless to resist and has to sit and wait to die.
At that time, the most hated thing I hated was the "bear child".
When I brushed "12 Monkeys" three times, I was 21 years old, and in another year, I would graduate from college and enter society.
The high school I graduated from was a nationally renowned national high school, but the university I graduated from was only a second college that was little known in the province —of course, I was not dissatisfied with this.
On the contrary, I loved and respected my alma mater, and it was here that I completed the most critical transformation of my life, and it was here that I spent the most precious and unforgettable four years of my life with my three roommates.
The third time I watched 12 Monkeys, I watched it with three of my college roommates.
When we watched this movie in the dormitory, there was no popcorn and coke, but there was beer and marinade, no sharp spit, only unspeakable silence throughout.
I don't know if the three of them had watched the film before, and what they felt after watching it this time, but for me, watching "12 Monkeys" this time had the most dramatic impact on my thinking.
The moment the ending song sounded, thousands of troops rushed out in unison with gongs and drums, and endless fragments of memory in the mind emerged at the same time.
Many people who have experienced in the past but have not understood many things, in such a moment, all understood.
In terms of human sophistication, I am always so naïve, others are precocious, but I am late.
When I really entered the society to participate in the work, and worked hard all day for my livelihood, I finally understood that in fact, I was not qualified to arbitrarily accuse the male protagonist Cole, because in reality, I was a "bear child" who was even more incompetent than the male protagonist in the movie.
But despite that, what does it matter?
It is impossible for people to really "go against the sky" in this life and live in the present with their feet down-to-earth, which is the most difficult thing to achieve. Those who should go have already left, and those who should come will always come.
For me once, the so-called "New Year" is to get together without heart and lungs to fight, and joyful friends, but now that I think about it, the real sense of "New Year" in my memory is ——
It was that year, the last time.