Two years ago, a small-cost Spanish suspense film, with a budget of 4 million euros and , won 172 million box office in China.
The suspenseful and endlessly flipping plot makes people experience the essence of the suspense film.
That's right, it's the "Invisible Guest" made by God.
relied on the popular word-of-mouth, "Invisible Guest" became a new member of Douban TOP250 with a high score of 8.8.
After nearly two years, the director of the film, Auriol Paul , who was given the nickname "Reverse King", once again brought the new film to meet the audience.
▲Auriol Paul
is a suspense upgrade, or a routine? Let me give you a detailed comment (minor spoiler)-
"The Mirage"
Mirage
So far, the movie "The Mirage" has entered domestic theaters. On the first day of the release of
, only 5.9 million box office, the later reversal can only be seen by word-of-mouth fermentation.
However, the film's evaluation on Douban is only 7.7 points and , which is far from the previous 8.8 points.
's previous work "The Invisible Guest" is so successful because the director and screenwriter has played suspense to the extreme .
is mainly embodied in the lawyer and the male protagonist. The two people's different versions of the case elucidation continue to confuse the audience. When
buried the hidden line, it finally revealed the lawyer's identity. This reversal was almost in the soul.
▲ "The Invisible Guest"
traditional suspense film except for the suspense setting of the story.
has two commonly used magic weapons, one is story concept , and the other is narrative method .
As long as you can make good use of one of them, it is a good suspense film. Of course,
, like Nolan, can play both concepts and narratives, indeed a few.
▲ "Inception"
"Invisible Guest" can be regarded as small and delicate in the concept of the story.
arrived in "The Mirage" this time, and the director's ambition was not to just tell the story of a case. The upgrade of the
film is actually the fusion of elements, including , including murder solving, parallel time and space, and love ethics.
You can find different story elements you like in the movie.
But for the suspense film, this also greatly reduces the tension and excitement in one go. The story of
tells that the heroine Vera and her husband moved to a new house.
found in the warehouse the camera and television used by the original owner’s son to record.
The boy's name is Nick. On a stormy night in 1989, he witnessed a neighbour killing his wife.
was hit by a speeding car while fleeing the murder scene.
Twenty-nine years later, the same stormy night opened the space-time tunnel, and Vera started a dialogue with Nick through the TV.
Out of inner kindness, Vera adapted Nick's tragic death in one sentence.
However, when she woke up again, everything around her changed completely.
Husband does not know himself, and even his daughter is gone.
saves her previous memories, she already has another life.
spoiler here, does it feel like it has been shown? The parallel time and space of
, the change of the timeline, obviously borrowed from the classic suspense film "Butterfly Effect" , and the science fiction film "The Night Comet" .
Of course, it is common to play old routines, depending on how the old pot is filled with new wine.
"Butterfly Effect" is a fatalism in which the protagonist travels back and forth in the timeline and then changes his destiny again and again.
"The Night The Comet Came", shocking and brain-burning is with hard science fiction, parallel multi-universe theory of quantum mechanics.
▲ "Butterfly Effect"
Then you might say that "The Mirage" must have carefully laid out murder clues under multiple timelines.
However, unfortunately, the filmThere is not too much plot to solve the case. The murderer of
has been accounted from the very beginning, and the film unabashedly defines this murder as an infidelity killing. After changing the timeline of
, all the plots follow the heroine to retrieve the original life .
and the double line is how the boy Nick, whose fate has been changed, dealt with the murder of his neighbor.
The two time and space tell each other, there is no dense interweaving, and there is no suspense of buried thread.
and even plot are very easy to understand.
As for what is said on the Internet, the fancy reversal, the brain-burning plot, I think it is too much to brag. The only reversal in
is at the end, which is more moving than shocking. When
saw the last sentence, I even thought of an animated work "Your Name".
Yes, it turns out that in this film, suspense is just a narrative appearance, and its core is actually a love movie .
crosses time and space, the memory of the two is forgotten after changing time. The dividing line between time and space is a natural phenomenon, a falling meteorite, and an eye of a storm.
However, "Your Name" expresses the pure love of youth.
and "Mirage" is more adult. According to the evaluation of netizens,
is the version of "Your Name".
through parallel time and space, it accurately points out that the essence of man is derailment .
No matter where you are in time and space, no matter who you are, the green one will always be green.
However, the film is full of human sins, and it is not as difficult to distinguish between good and evil as in "The Invisible Guest".
To summarize the theme of the film, we still have to explain the motivation of the heroine Vera.
After changing the timeline, Vera can have a better life.
She has an ideal career, a loving and dedicated husband.
However, in the last timeline, it was her beloved daughter that made her deeply attached.
Not everyone has a chance in life, , but there must be good memories in every life .
And these memories are irreplaceable in any time and space.
So the heroine Vera will desperately find her original life.
Among them, not only her love for her daughter, but also the love and support of others for her.
Compared with "The Invisible Guest", the viewing and exciting experience of "The Mirage" is indeed greatly reduced.
However, the director and screenwriter Auriol Paul still maintained the rigor of the script , and the story can justify itself. The bug that
said on the Internet is why the heroine has multiple memories of time and space, and the film also gives an explanation.
The first is the time and space rift in the eye of the storm. The heroine changes the timeline through the time rift, which leads to memory confusion.
The second is that things that happened in the past cannot be changed, only through the eye of the storm to create parallel space.
and the last reversal, although the plot did not deliberately arrange clues.
However, the director uses some film techniques to suggest the audience psychologically.
wants to solve this suspense, the only way is to look at the correspondence of the characters in the time-space transition.
solves these problems, and basically the whole movie can be understood accurately.
Generally speaking, "The Mirage" is a moderately suspenseful film.
Although it has a classic story concept, as well as a clear-thinking story advancement.
But it lacks the most important element of a suspense film.
That is the looming real thought and the emotional power that can stimulate the audience at any time.
However, the film also tells me a simple and profound truth.
Don't lie to a woman casually. If you don't know her, she just spy on the truth outside the door.
