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Xiaobian is a fan of Nolan, and many friends who pay attention to microns should know about it.
Most of his works have been seen by editors, including the very unpopular film of his debut "Follow". Of course, not to mention a must-see movie in the history of cinema like Inception.
His film editor has told you more than one, such as "Inception" that Xiaobian has always been regarded as his own film list Top 3, ah, his debut "Follow", "Memory Fragments" ah...
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Nolan's films, with their unique personal style and strong colors, basically have a common theme in all his films: playing with the timeline.
All of Nolan's movies basically don't tell you a story according to the timeline. This has been the case since the first "Follow".
However, the movie that Xiaobian wants to tell you about today, even in Nolan's film, is recognized as a very difficult to understand, or the most controversial film to explain.
Deadly Magic
Deadly Magic.
This movie, how to say it, even many professional film critics, there are many said that to this day still can not completely eat this film, or guarantee that they understand the movie.
Even in Nolan's film world, Deadly Magic is still an obscure and controversial movie.
However, there is a little interesting vignette, that is, the two main actors of "Deadly Magic", which happen to be the well-known "Wolverine" and "Batman".
At the beginning of the story, a magician dies, and the suspect is his magic opponent. While in prison, the opponent was threatened by a jazz assistant to ask for the magic secret by his daughter and given a notebook full of riddles, from which the suspect began his memories.
During the Victorian period, when magic was in vogue, two highly gifted young magicians appeared, and most rarely, they grew up together and studied with the same old magician: Robert Anger and Alfred Bourden.
With a complex and sophisticated personality, Robert Anjie is a natural performer who knows how to present himself perfectly to the audience on stage.
Alfred Bourdain, on the other hand, was the complete opposite of him, a highly gifted and creative magician who was a little out of place because of his untrimmed and naïve personality, and did not know how to use flowery means to express his magical ideas.
The two gradually build up their prestige in one performance after another, leaving the other magicians behind, but eventually turning into a competition between the former close friends.
The trigger began when Anjie's wife drowned because Bourdain temporarily tied the knot in her hand into a strange knot during the performance, and after that, the two began to fight.
Later, in the process of revenge, Anjie destroyed two of Bourdain's fingers, and the two were officially inseparable.
They replaced morality with bravery, skill instead of science, ambition over friendship, and in order to overcome each other so that they could prove that they were the first magicians of their time, they sought various auxiliary materials to enrich their magic shows, including alternating current, a scientific miracle that had just been invented by Nikola Tesla.
After Discovering That Tesla's replica clone machine that was missing after being hit by his scientific rival Edison, but left to Anjie, Anjie had a new magic idea in mind, and the performance was a huge success. Bourdain disguises himself as an audience member to sneak backstage during another performance by Anjie, but finds Anjie who has fallen into the water, Bourdain is too late to save him, and Anjie is dead, which is why Bourdain is imprisoned at the beginning of the story.
But the truth is revealed. Every time he drowned in the water, it was None of anjie who copied himself. For the sake of magic, he was willing to kill himself in the water again and again to complete the magic.
Bourdain, who had suffered injustice, was hanged, but then reversed - Bourdain's assistant Farón, in fact, looked exactly like Bourdain, and they made many sacrifices over the years, even after one person lost his finger, the other person resolutely chopped off his own finger to complete the twin performance in the magic.
Fallon shoots Ander, who tells him the truth about the magic he performed with cloning techniques and his lifelong belief in magic before he dies. Faron returns home to gather with his daughter, but the old magician once again proposes the three elements of magic in the opening of the film, and says lightly: The reason why you can't find the flaws in magic is because in fact, you want to be deceived.
The camera turns to Anjie, who is drowning in the water. The movie ends.
So far in this film, Xiaobian himself is good, Xiaobian is good at watching other people's explanations, basically few people can pat their chests and say that they fully understand this movie.
The above small editor introduced the storyline of the movie written for everyone, in fact, there are many details that everyone must actually go to the movie to know. If you write it all out in detail, it is estimated that it will be a lot of extravagant.
For example, for the sake of brevity, the editor basically cut off all the scenes of the two female protagonists, but in fact, the female assistant played by the widow sister and Bourdain's wife also played a considerable role and foreshadowing in the whole story, but the space was limited.
There are still many doubts, which are not simple to say in the story synopsis. For example, is it Bourdain or Fallon who survives? Did Anjie die in the end?
For example, was the person who sent a different knot on Anjie's wife's hand Bourdain or Faron?
Another example is a key question about a machine that can affect the direction of the entire story: is the clone machine mentioned in the story real, or is it just illusory from beginning to end?
This film does not live up to the title, the plot is complicated, and the director's switching and switching shooting methods are also like a magic trick. The whole film is full of foreshadowing, everywhere is a clever trick.
At first, you will inevitably look confused, but with the development of the film time, one suspense after another begins to be revealed, however, the biggest suspense you still can't think of, until the last moment of the film, you suddenly realized, the whole film... And not because of this, boots.
Well, anyway, xiaobian did not fully understand until he finished watching the whole film, but he still did not fully understand it.
The whole movie, from beginning to end, is a huge and brilliant magic trick in itself. It seems to be true and false, it seems to be real and illusory. Since the advent of cloning technology, it is equivalent to putting a large plug-in out.
Why? Because from the beginning of the emergence of the cloning machine, the direction of the film has become completely unpredictable.
Does the cloning machine actually exist? On this issue alone, there are two interpretations of whether it is right or wrong.
Under these two interpretations, there are endless changes.
The cloning machine does not exist, so whose fantasy is everything? Who the hell deceived whom with this non-existent thing? Is this possible and there are several possibilities?
If the cloning machine exists, then there are more possibilities and plausible explanations.
For example, from the moment the clone machine appears, until the end of the movie, you can say two (in fact, to some extent, n, but the doubles who are constantly dying in the water are collectively called an Anjie) Anjie and the two Bourdain (that is, Bourdon and Fallon) After the emergence of the clone machine, who is the main master and who is the stand-in, it is completely fine.
So, at each node, who is who, can there be dozens of possibilities?
In this way, people's brains basically crash.
Because of this, even Nolan himself is not in favor of giving a decent and perfect explanation for the film. But he himself said that if he had been given more time, Deadly Magic might have been better.
Later, we did see that Nolan, who was given more time, brought the world an excellent movie that can leave a name in film history, "Inception".
However, the editor sometimes thinks that "Inception" is almost unable to find shortcomings in terms of logical self-consistency, special effects, and plot, and it has no multiple explanations to speak of, basically a complete and clear story.
However, the film itself has a variety of charms, on this basis, there are such a complex and changeable charm of the film as "Deadly Magic", is not also indispensable, let people have unlimited interest?
That's the beauty of movies.
The film itself is already famous, and many people should have seen it. But if you have seen a small partner, Xiaobian really recommends you, this movie is really not to be missed.