This 2003 Hollywood movie "Memory Rift" was directed by famous director Wu Yusen, Batman Ben Affleck, the heroine of "Kill Bill" Uma Thurman, and the double-sided in the Bell version of "Batman" Starring Alan Eckhart. But it was such a star-studded movie that became Wu Yusen's last movie in Hollywood. The story of the
movie mainly takes place between the male protagonist Jennings played by Daben, the heroine Rachel played by Uma, and the big company boss Jimmy played by Allen. The hero Jennings, played by
Daben, is a high-IQ scientific research talent. Many companies will outsource his business to him and let him develop the products he needs.
However, because he is not an employee of the company, the company will amnestic him every time after completing the product to ensure that his company's technology is not leaked.
On this day, Jimmy, the big boss played by Allen, approached him and invited him to help him develop a new product for three years.
Jimmy told Jennings that this project has an eight-figure remuneration and shares in the company. He worked properly for three years and rested for a lifetime.
Because Jennings and Jimmy are classmates, plus such a rich remuneration, Jennings agreed. In the process, he met the heroine biologist played by Uma.
Three years passed quickly. Jennings fulfilled his promise and completed the work, but when he planned to collect his own money, he had a big problem.
He was told that he had given up the money four weeks ago and all he could get was twenty small items of unknown function.
because he has been erased from his memory, so he does not remember the incident at all, and the police chase and the villain chase after him.
The first half of "Memory Breach" firmly attracted the audience's hearts through high technology, abandoned money, erased memories, and twenty small items that did not belong to them, making the audience eager to know the truth. .
However, as the saying goes, it’s too greedy to chew. It is precisely because of the foreshadowings laid out in the first half that the film cannot deal with these foreshadowings in the second half of the film. In the end, the foreshadowing becomes a big problem that plagues the film.
For example, the point of "high-tech"
at the beginning of the film shows that Jennings is a high-tech talent who can easily create "virtual reality" technology, showing a feeling of high-energy science fiction, and a follow-up did appear. A machine that can predict the future.
But that's all. The second half of the film is mostly about playing scenes, car chasing scenes and other scenes that are not related to science fiction. It is more of an action movie than a science fiction movie. The reason for this problem is probably the rise of the Hollywood movie "Mission Impossible" series at that time. After all, Wu Yusen himself is the director of "Mission Impossible 2".
, for example, is the "giving up money". The first half of the movie has been using this money to attract people's attention, making the audience desperately wanting why Jennings gave up the money, but the movie ended without giving up the money. s reason. In the
movie, Jennings used the predictive machine to peek at the future, so he knew what was about to happen. In order to cope with all this, he made several preparations:
1, collected twenty items that could cope with the future situation, and then sent them to the future self
2, left the word
3 for the heroine Rachel, and gave up what he deserved. The first two points of Qian
are well understood. The first point is to prepare for the future self, and the second point is to leave clues for the heroine.
So the third point, what is the purpose of Jennings giving up money? Is it because he gave up the money villain and would not attack him, and the police would not pursue him?
is actually not. The police chased him because he was suspected of plagiarizing the government's secret technology. The villain chased him because he broke the machine before he left. These two points of
have nothing to do with whether he does not give up money. Even after watching the movie, it can be found that Jennings does not give up money and will not affect the development of the film's plot.
In addition to the two points of high-tech and abandoned money, the film is also very forcibly set in the plot.
Because Jennings planted a virus on the machine that predicts the future, the machine cannot be used. The villain Jimmy originally planned to let others Researchers slowly investigate the virus, The researchers also told him that the virus would be found in one day.
But Jimmy suddenly thought of a very "smart" way: let Jennings sneak in and fix the machine, and then catch him. The idea looks good, but is it really that simple?
Jennings repaired the machine as Jimmy wanted, but also set it up for self-destruction.
Jennings planted a virus in order to prevent Jimmy from getting the machine. Since Jennings can do this kind of behavior, how can Jimmy dare to let him get close to this machine?
So the end result is that Jennings blows up the machine, the villain fails, and the hero and the heroine live a happy and beautiful life. There are many foreshadowings in the first half of the
movie. As long as you make good use of it, you can make the movie a masterpiece, but Wu Yusen just gave up these foreshadowings and chose simple and crude action scenes.
This also caused the front and back styles to be different, causing the plot to be dragged down by the foreshadowing set before. In order to promote the development of the plot, the director had to set up some "forced" plots, which turned it into a bad film.
