"70 years back in time"
This is a movie from 40 years ago, and the whole story portrays an impossible love story, but in terms of its mood, level, and cultural connotation, I give it a score of 9.9.
The story is simple: the young man falls in love with a portrait of a teenage star, so he tries his best to travel back in time to seventy years ago and fell in love with a young girl.
After a few days of twists and turns and brief pleasures, they return to the present with a small mistake, and time makes it impossible for them to see each other again.
So the young girl never married, waited for him for a lifetime; the young man fell ill with lovesickness, did not eat or drink, and died.
This can't help but remind me of "Peony Pavilion", in the story, Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei are also Nanke's dreams, but the two have a happy ending, which makes people feel comforted.
The pair of men and women in the movie are tragic endings, and they can only complete the explanation of this touching love through the beautiful imagination in the male protagonist's mind before he dies.
Lack of rigorous logic, coupled with unsatisfactory endings, it is easy for people to take advantage of the excitement and return home. But I still give it a high score, why?
First of all, the director is a very good storyteller:
The movie is not hurried, the rhythm is just right, and the preparation is also layered, unlike the movie, but more like a novel.
How does the movie traverse it? The male mentor said this:
Many years ago, I had traveled through, the hotel was very old, the air was filled with a particularly old smell, it seemed that this was not 1970, but 1570, I did not know what was going on in my head, but I kept silently thinking about me in 1517, and I was exhausted and uneasy, so that at some point, I seemed to really go back to 1517.
If you believe, you have it, and if you don't believe it, you don't have it.
Crossing also pays attention to the time and place: as long as you are in the right place, wearing the right clothes, and believing that you are in the past, then you can cross.
It sounds like a ghost: if there is no good narrative technique to make up for it, it is difficult to convince the audience, let alone move.
So how did the director lay the groundwork?
He first asked the twilight heroine to send a pocket watch to the male protagonist, and also asked the female protagonist to say: I am waiting for you to come back.
After 8 years, he let the male protagonist travel to the Holiday Inn and fell in love with the female protagonist because of a portrait in the old museum.
Love drove him crazy: he scoured the library, flipped through old magazines, read biographies of female celebrities, and even visited people who wrote books.
When he visits the old address of the female star, the mystery emerges layer by layer:
The music box of the female star plays the man's favorite song; the female star's favorite book author is the man's mentor;
So many coincidences, men are beginning to believe: is not their own really crossed.
In order to meet the lover of his heart, he found the ancient coins that were popular in 1912, put on old-fashioned costumes, matched the clothes of the time, and listened to a brainwashing passage: It is now June 7, 1912....
However, with these clues alone, how can he subconsciously believe that he can cross it?
The director gave a dose of medicine: the admission record.
The man saw the visitor's occupancy record in the pavilion and took the opportunity to rummage through the old records of 1912:
So, one day in June 1912:
The check-in record has his signature, time, room number. He's really been there!!!
The man mastered the time, place, and room number of the room that was checked in. After unremitting efforts, he finally crossed the success.
In addition to the director's meticulous preparation of the story, the details of the film are also worth investigating.
The old scene is quite elaborate:
Men wear beautiful blazers and hats, while women wear beautiful dresses and slightly exaggerated hats clustered with flowers.
--Clothes from more than a hundred years ago are still fashionable and beautiful.
The waiters of the Holiday Inn were all black, which showed the status of black people at that time;
The drama scene supports the orchestra to play music on the spot, reflecting an unusual style; the lady in the back row has her own telescope, and the details are arranged very well.
The background music is Rachmaninoff classical music, which makes the story more beautiful and vivid.
In addition, there are many interesting details:
For example: the male protagonist uses the habitual electric razor, comes to the past is very unaccustomed, scratches the face and is ridiculed;
Another example: carefully prepared ancient suits, but outdated clothes from 10 years ago;
In addition to the details, there is also a cross-end echo through the end:
Visitor records and old objects brought the man back to 1912, and the coin of 1979 made him disappear in front of the heroine and never saw him again.
Echoing from beginning to end, it proves once again the teacher: the theory of crossing between faith and belief, and non-belief.
Detailed scenes such as these make the audience feel real. The story is true, and the beautiful love is even more touching:
Imagine a woman giving up her career for a man of several faces and never marrying for life: what a pure love.
The same: a man, suffering from lovesickness for a dewy affair, does not eat or drink in the hotel where the beauty died, and ends up depressed: let the audience be relieved and strangle his wrist.
conspiracy theory
This concludes the main text, but I still want to say something. In my dark tone, be sure to make some conspiracy theories for this movie.
Privately believing that "70 years back in time" is a cross-over movie on the surface, but it is actually a horror film.
Imagine:
A playwright with a promising future inexplicably came to an old hotel and was fascinated by the picture of a dead girl on the wall.
Then frantically looking for women's information, spending three or four days with women in a dream, and then suffering from lovesickness for the woman, not eating or drinking.
Is the final death in the hotel more like the story of a female ghost seducing a strong man?