The film focuses on two undesirable brothers, after the two get a mysterious videotape, decide to return to the "cult organization" they fled ten years ago, but in a series of strange incidents of torturing the three views, they find that the true belief of this "cult" is very different from the impression in their memory
It's a story about the infinite cycle of time, and the film begins with subtitles: "The oldest and strongest emotion of human beings is fear, and the oldest and strongest fear is the unknown." "It's a horror film that uses the unknown as the source of fear.
Before we talk about it, let's introduce the horror theme elements of this film:
1. The so-called "monster" in the movie is a looming, invisible being with God's perspective. You can simply understand it as a "god" who can control time and space and master absolute power.
2. The God, on the other hand, uses a peculiar stick to form the boundary, which is hereinafter collectively referred to as the "circle", which you can understand as the tool used by the "God" to control space.
3. There are large and small circles in the valley, each of which can vary in scope or overlap. People trapped in the circle can't go out, and they can't see people outside the circle.
It should be noted here that different circles have different restart times, and the characteristics of the restart are that all objects in the circle are reset, but not everything returns to the original point. The restart time of the circle is not the same thing as your own natural cycle time, and the time of the natural cycle is different for each cursed person.
Story: One morning the younger brother received a tape, the younger brother took the money to install the battery in the car, bought a video recorder, the tape is about the content of the camp, the younger brother was surprised to find that the people in the camp did not commit suicide, in fact, the younger brother did not know that everyone who stayed in the camp would receive the tape, such as the tape found by the brother at the bottom of the lake, the tape that the person who committed suicide again and again dug out of the ground, the house in the camp was full of tapes, in fact, the content of the tape was the answer that everyone was looking for. The answer to the younger brother's tape is that the people in the camp did not commit suicide, the answer to the brother's tape is that the people in the camp are indeed cults, the answer of the suicide is that this suicide method cannot escape reincarnation, and finally the younger brother persuades the brother to return to the camp, when the brother finds that the two ends of the road have the same scenery, the brother sees the beginning of reincarnation
Where the young car accident occurred, the painting was not stained, in fact, it was also a reincarnation circle, what happened in the reincarnation circle, after leaving the reincarnation circle, the memory will gradually blur, so the brothers have forgotten the painting, when they returned to the camp, everyone welcomed the brothers very warmly, and there was no sense of blame, the uncle is still the same as before, the camp has come many new people, the brother promised the younger brother to live for one night, and at night the brother met a woman who went out to look for her husband, She told her brother that she had been here for a long time and had not been able to find her husband. Later the younger brother planned to stay in the camp forever, after the two quarreled, the brother decided to leave alone, on the way the brother met the strange person who persuaded him to leave, the strange man just hanged himself, the strange man told the brother about the reincarnation, the strange man knew the way out of the reincarnation, he asked the brother to help him take a gun over, when he took the gun, the brother came to another reincarnation circle, it turned out that here was a good friend who mistakenly entered the reincarnation circle in order to help another friend detoxify, they were different from the people in the camp, They find a way to escape from reincarnation by committing suicide, and the man without drug addiction tells his brother that he actually misses his wife and children, and when he is separated, his brother stopped the man, and he thinks that the woman who is looking for her husband in the camp may be his wife, but the brother does not bear to tell him, because he cannot escape from his reincarnation. After the quarrel, the brother and the people in the camp sat around the campfire, the bearded uncle who could brew wine stopped the kind uncle to talk aside, he told the uncle that he should tell the brother the truth of the matter, and the kind uncle felt that the two brothers belonged here, the two had a dispute, and finally the bearded uncle told the younger brother that he should follow his heart, the younger brother gradually discovered the strangeness of the camp, he asked the kind uncle, the uncle did not give him the answer, the younger brother decided to go to the brother, the younger brother passed by the good sister's house, when he left, The kind sister smiled and waved goodbye to him with tears, the younger brother finally found the older brother, the younger brother told the brother that he and the kind sister slept together, but there was no snapping, the brother listened to the confused, I also looked confused, whether it was because they did experience circumcision when they were young, so there was no impulse, this point I do not know.
The two brothers returned to the camp, the people in the camp disappeared, this night the three full moon appeared in the sky, through the tape playback, the two found that the people in the camp were sitting around the campfire, a hemp rope fell from the sky, the hemp rope swung like a giant snake, everyone who was hit by the campfire disappeared, only broken clothes were left, the brothers rushed to the car, because there was no battery, the car could not start, the brother pushed the car hard on the side, the brother lit a fire, in the most desperate time, the car actually started, They have come to the edge of reincarnation, many crows crashed and died there, the two brothers rushed to the invisible wall with their eyes closed, sometimes you think it is death, but it is actually life, and finally the two brothers escaped from the camp reincarnation circle, maybe a second slower they will be trapped in it forever, the reincarnation in the camp has begun again, the uncle looks at the brothers who are gradually drifting away, there is a smile on his face, after all, the brothers are brought up by him, watching them escape the reincarnation, the uncle is still very happy.
So did they eventually escape the circle?
End of film:
As they rushed out of the circle, the older brother gave up the steering wheel to his younger brother, ending with the last line of dialogue: The older brother said: The car is going to be refueled. The younger brother said: No. The brother said: The dashboard shows that it is empty, the younger brother says: It has always been like this, the brother said: Has it always been empty? The younger brother said: If there is really no oil, the car will not start at all..." After the words were finished, the brother said: "You also found ..." This dialogue explains that the brothers have understood that they have not escaped from reincarnation. But in a larger circle, their circle should be a circle that is very large, so large that there is no boundary, and several circles in the valley are within their large circle, so the brothers can freely enter and exit different circles.
In fact, at the beginning, there was evidence that they were still in the circle:
1. The so-called life of the older brother outside, there is no description of the third person at all, and the picture is very trance-like, giving people an illusory feeling. Moreover, how can a person who is not even willing to eat instant noodles buy wine and drink? And where are the people who drink on the lawn during the day? Notice that there is a close-up of the building in the distance on the lawn, and the letters are all inverted. All this says that their so-called real life is an illusion, created by "God."
2. The brothers' "life" is very depressed, the younger brother said, "Somehow life is always like this, I can't make friends, I have no life..." Because they are not in the real world, everything is circulating, and their memories are always restored to a certain point in time.
3. Careful observation, when the brother and brother stop to commemorate their mother, the birds and the pole, the brother can see on the left, and the right can still see, indicating that it is symmetrical
4. Their car does not have a license plate.
5. At the beginning of the film, when the brothers watch the videotape, the younger brother remembers the costumer and how delicious the food in the camp is. There was also a place on the way there, the brother called it "Twin Peaks", and the younger brother obviously remembered, but after arriving at the camp, he did not remember the costumer. This also shows that the brothers are in a cycle, and the memory will return to a certain node with the cycle.
6. At their mother's memorial site, they found a painting they had drawn together as a child, which was very new, indicating that they had just undergone a circle reset, and their brother did not remember such a painting, which also confirmed the above-mentioned law of memory retention.
At the end of the film, when they drive out of the boundary of the circle, there is a small river on the right side of the car, but when they first enter the camp, the small river is also on the right side of the car, which shows that they have been in reincarnation from the beginning.
End of the time to flee
When I first entered the camp