Recently, there has been a farce famine, domestic TV dramas are too idiotic (just a certain part), and the movies are less pitiful. (Because I look good, I've already watched it)
So I found the world's top ten high-IQ movies.
First introduce 10. Life and Death Stop
Chinese name: Life and Death Stay English name: Stay
2005 American film starring Ivan McGregor, Ryan Gosling, and Naomi Watts.
Synopsis:
Sam Foster (Ivan McGregor) is a psychologist who unties the knots of many mentally ill people and brings them back into normal life. However, this time, he does meet the tricky patient Henry Latsam (Ryan Gosling). Henry is a student at the nearby Ivy Union University, but he is gradually going to decadence after a good grade, and threatens to commit suicide in a few days and go to another world.
Sam decides to save Henry by taking a more effective approach to treatment, but after a little in-depth and understanding, he discovers that Henry has participated in some terrifying suicide organization. But strangely enough, in Henry's mind there were often many strange phenomena that were difficult to understand and explain in science. Henry himself often uttered terrible prophecies, and, for a short time, his terrible prophecies were confirmed. This increases Sam's courage and confidence to solve all the mysteries. Among them, Sam's girlfriend Lila Kurpe (Naomi Watts) also gave him great help and support. At this time, however, the terrible facts that Henry prophesied were still happening in the city one after another, and had gradually endangered Sam's love, in order to save Henry and save everything he loved, including the city. Sam did everything in his power to fight to the death.
First, let's introduce the three main actors
I. Ivan McGregor
He starred with Nicole Kidman in the movie "Moulin Rouge" and co-starred with Scarlett Johansson in the movie "Escape from Clone Island".
He played a psychologist in "Life and Death Stop", who untied the knots for many mentally ill patients and brought them back into the lives of normal people. However, this time he really encountered a tricky patient. In order to save henry who is suicidal, Sam decides to take a more effective treatment, but finds that Henry has joined a terrifying suicide organization.
II. Ryan Gosling
He played Henry Lasam in the play
A student at the Ivy League University, who had good grades, gradually went into decadence and threatened to commit suicide in a few days and go to another world.
Henry's mind often had many strange phenomena that were difficult to explain with science, and he would often say some terrible prophecies, and in a very short time, the terrible prophecies were confirmed.
Three
She plays Sam's girlfriend, Lila Kulpe
A fragile but extraordinarily insightful painter, Lila, who had attempted suicide due to depression during her college studies, gradually returned to normal life with sam's help, and the two became lovers. As someone who has experienced suicide, Lila hopes to be able to give Henry the greatest help.
The most important thing is here.
Why was this movie shortlisted for one of the top ten high-IQ films? Not without reason. Please see ~·
The story of "Life and Death Stay" is actually not unusual, the scenes about the prophecies that appear in the film, the audience knows that these so-called prophecies will be fulfilled when watching, otherwise this kind of foreshadowing will seem meaningless, but the audience will still like to watch such stories, because this is also a kind of touching (Sina Entertainment Review).
The first 120 minutes of "Life and Death Stay" are just a somewhat bizarre flat story, but the last ten minutes have a great reversal and subvert the perspective of the entire film. However, as for whether you can understand the meaning of the film in the end, it depends on the audience's own feelings (Sina Network Review).
"Life and Death Stay" explores the world of the human subconscious, the film is quite a director's personal style, and the ending is open-ended, part of the film expresses affirmation, and a larger part of the audience does not understand the meaning of the film (NetEase Entertainment Review)
The above are the movie reviews of major entertainment. (Recommended to watch this movie first)
On the surface, this is a psychiatrist treating one of his patients, but in fact there is a lot of article in it.
The content of the film after the end of the dream allows us to roughly speculate about the origin of the matter. Henry, a young man about to celebrate his 21st birthday, has prepared a ring to propose to his girlfriend on this day and reconcile with his parents who were originally in a ties. As they drove across the Brooklyn Bridge with joy, the front wheel of the car suddenly burst into a tire, and the whole car lost control in an instant. His parents and girlfriend died on the spot, and Henry was also seriously injured and dying. At this time, Sam, a psychiatrist who was also a passerby, and Lyra, a nurse, rushed up to try to save Henry's life, but found that Henry was dead. In the few minutes of this death from birth to death, Henry could not calmly pass away, he was full of guilt, thinking that his parents and lover had lost their lives due to his own faults, so he chose to stay, staying between life and death, creating a dream to make up for his mistakes and eliminate his guilt. This dream is the "story of the apparent release" that we saw earlier. Sam and Lyra, who were trying their best to rescue him, as well as the people watching the car accident, were all brought into this dream. When Henry committed suicide in his dream, his life came to an end in reality, and he was finally able to stop staying on the edge of life and death and calmly walk towards death after completing his wish in the dream.
In the last segment of the film, where the car crash is watched by Sam and Lyra, he is taken into the dream.
The middle-aged woman who first arrived at the scene of the accident but did not treat Henry became a colleague who dumped Henry to Sam in a dream. In the final scene, the woman who first arrived at the scene replied that the police said that her name was Levy, so Dr. Levy appeared in the dream.
Henry became an art student who wanted to commit suicide like his idol.
Sam became the only psychiatrist who could help him.
Lyra becomes Sam's girlfriend, and as a woman who has committed suicide, she also tries to rescue Henry, who wants to commit suicide.
Sam and Lyra are the two people who try to save Henry from the crash scene, and Henry looks at him head-to-head, so Henry imagines them as the only couple who can help him in his dream.
Because he was in a dream, Henry had the ability to predict the future. Perhaps this represents his desire in the real world to be able to predict the future, so that he can avoid the tragedy of car accidents.
The development of events throughout the dream is synchronized with the gradual death of Henry in the real world and the gradual blurring of consciousness. So the dream at first is clear and organized (Henry's consciousness is still awake in reality), then there are many triplets (consciousness begins to overlap, phantom), then Sam returns from Henry's mother, pushes the door open repeatedly when he enters the house (consciousness begins to appear repeatedly), and finally the Brooklyn Bridge is shrouded in fine veils (consciousness has been distorted and blurred), implying that the whole story takes place in the consciousness of Henry in the last few minutes before the car accident.
In the final shot, the Brooklyn Bridge is gradually pulled apart in the shot, revealing a series of slings that are nearly parallel to the grid, which may cause the buildings in Henry's dream to be composed of parallel lines.
There is a lot of dialogue and action in the dream that is very abrupt. For example, the Asian doctor directly reached out to drink the water in the tap, which may be Henry's habit in reality. Henry says his parents are dead and recorded in the archives, but Sam sees Henry's parents again. The scenes of neighbors hoisting the piano and children's balloons flying into the air appear day after day, all of which imply that the plot at this time is happening in the imagination. The owner of the second-hand bookstore suddenly pointed to Henry's painting for no reason and asked Sam, "Do you think he can do it?", and Sam replied "Yes, he can". The painting depicts the Brooklyn Bridge, suggesting that Henry wishes he could avoid a car accident on the bridge.
In the dream, Sam's pants are always short, because when Henry saw Sam after the car accident, Sam was crouching next to him, so the pants were relatively high.
8) Sam constantly shouts "Henry, stay with us" in reality, and this voice appears in the phonograph of Henry's house in the dream. Henry's ring fell to the ground at the scene of the crash, and in the dream, Sam fell on the stairs and the ring fell out
11. The black woman said at the scene that "he is still just a child". In the dream, she was a patient in a mental hospital, and she repeatedly shouted this sentence when she was ill.
12. In the dream, Henry's father regains sight, his mother forgives him, and his girlfriend hardly knows him (so that he will not die in a car accident later). These are the fulfillment of his inner expectations. As he lay dying, Sam told him that the car accident was not his fault, and that the nurse in his eyes, Lyra, had become his girlfriend, and he asked "Would you marry me?", and after receiving a positive answer, Henry left the world satisfied.
Transferred from the perspective of Douban Shadow Raising Youth
Going to a deeper level, this movie is actually a bit like Mulholland Road (although I haven't finished it yet, the next one will be written)
When watching this movie, I wondered about some scenes, such as different repetitions of the camera, and the children who passed by said to Henry several times: Is this uncle dying? Wait a minute..
But this view makes me wonder where the suicide coalition comes from. What if the previous plot is all about dreams?
In one of Henry's final suicide scenes, Sam tells him: You're real. But then he committed suicide. So is this really Henry's environment?
After all, there are many possibilities in this movie, waiting for you to give the po master guidance.