Plot introduction
"Creed" is an American science fiction action film released in 2020, also known as "TENET", directed by Christopher Nolan, actors John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Starring Debitsky and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, the plot tells the story of a mercenary protagonist who receives an espionage task assigned by a mysterious organization. He must rely on the two words "natural energy" to face the time limit beyond reality, no longer just limited In the present major challenge, trying to prevent the imminent crisis far more terrible than nuclear war, and fighting to the death for the survival of all mankind on earth.
Attitude to face the doomed test
Director Christopher Nolan, who is hailed as the "Time Magician" by fans, started from the first feature film "Follow" to "Memories" and "Fatal Magic" that brought amazing reversals at the end, The war film Dunkirk, which combines three different time and space scales of land, sea and air, all demonstrated his non-linear narrative ability of cleverly changing the timing to make the whole movie richer and more diverse. However, this time "Creed" Nolan no longer only uses plot layout and editing techniques, but further truly integrates "time" into the story itself, and through the setting of "time backwards" in the film, it brings audiences completely different from the past. Experience.
"Creed" movie evaluation is good?
Starting from the crisis that may trigger the Third World War and cause the destruction of human civilization, the story of "Creed" begins with an opera house bombing packaged as a terrorist attack. The protagonist who thought to be captured was passed the test. Selected into a secret organization, through his exposure to the "creed", a dangerous ability that can subvert the direction of time, seemingly fascinating but easy to get out of control, so that "creed" can be based on the traditional spy story that prevents villains from destroying the world. , Just like the time travel version of "James Bond" creates new ideas rarely seen in the past.
, as a work with a special theme, director Christopher Nolan unsurprisingly promoted the plot of "Creed" to his home in advance. Not only did he use the introduction and trailer that would make the audience unable to understand the story after watching it, he created a very special movie. An attractive sense of mystery. The title of the film is "TENET", which is derived from the Latin palindrome "SatorSquare", which is symmetrical and has the meaning of "understanding and mastering" in ancient Rome. The plots of the movie under the influence of mysterious forces echo each other, giving the work "Creed" a very unique and charming charm. What exactly is "creed"
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Maybe even after watching the movie, many viewers are still confused about the setting of the "creed" and the way the storyline of the whole film is conducted, but just like the scientist in the film said to the protagonist: "Don't try to understand it. "In the process of watching the movie, instead of entangled in these phenomena that violate the laws of the world, it is better to follow the character to reverse the time, and through his use of equipment that can make himself alive by one second, go back to the past to prevent the villain from trying to gather nine key items. , Use the few remaining lives of oneself to pull the conspiracy of the world's funeral, feel the incompatibility experienced by the characters of "Creed" in the space where the forward and reverse time coexist, break through our previous cognitive framework of time and space, Look at the world in movies and real life from an unprecedented perspective.
I really like "Creed" to present the sci-fi elements of "Time Backward" in the film in a refreshing way. It is obvious that Nolan is experiencing "Shards of Memory", "Deadly Magic" and "Dunkirk" Since then, I have become familiar with the intricate narratives, so that "Creed" can redefine "time" with the confidence of welcoming us to "make more challenges", although it is inseparable from our lives, but it cannot be grasped directly. Just a little change. An abstract concept that will become extremely unfamiliar allows the audience to get a rather satisfying experience by integrating into the story while their heads gradually knot and explode as the plot progresses.
"Creed" plot reversal time
because even with quantum mechanicsHowever, no one has been able to determine the feasibility of time travel and how the behavior of "going back to the past" will affect the real world. Therefore, there have been many excellent works of "traveling through time and space" in film history. Under circumstances, the most fascinating thing about "Creed" is that Nolan does not use the "time machine" that can take us back to a certain point in the past as the core, but instead uses "we can advance to the past on the timeline" as this kind of story. The theme makes innovative explanations that were rare in the past.
The core concept of the whole movie of "Creed" is "We can't change what has happened". That's why we don't need to discuss the "grandfather paradox" of time travel, but prefer the "fate paradox" "On", treat all events in the movie as established facts that must happen, and treat the storyline of each character as a continuous advance, even if it enters the machine, it is only a journey of changing direction. In other words, the final protagonist of "Creed" and others succeeded in saving the world from destruction, not so much because they went back in time to kill the villain and prevent the nine key items from being blown up. It is more that they followed The plot progresses gradually towards the ultimate necessity of "the world is not destroyed by this".
The amazing visual effects scenes of "Creed"
There is no doubt that Nolan used his best time magic to lift "Creed" to a height that has never been reached in spy movies in the past, from the characters looking for clues around the world and entering time backwards. The state hunts down the villains, and in the end it is divided into positive and negative teams to carry out a two-way time "clamp offensive", which not only gradually constructs the detailed settings and overall world view of the "Creed" movie, but also uses the creative ingenuity of the brain. There are powerful computer special effects and real-time shooting technology, showing that the audience has never seen it before, even contrary to common sense, to some extent out of our understanding.
deducts the super-mad bridge that Nolan directly crashed into a Boeing 747, whether it’s the bullets in the magazine flying from the board after the shot is fired, the items on the table can be picked up without contact, and the roll back A moving vehicle, or every person walking backwards in the film, in addition to allowing the audience to see the special appearance of each object in the picture moving in a different posture, Nolan reverses the "entropy increase principle" by reversing time. ", showing the world from "disorder" back to "order" (recovery of glass, restoration of scattered tiles on the ground). This indescribable sense of subverting our past cognition, I think it is all we need Only by going into the theater to experience for yourself can you directly feel the shock beyond the scenes of "Inception" and " Interstellar Crossing " from the entire movie of "Creed".
The fatal flaw of the "creed" movie?
Of course, "Creed" is not completely without its shortcomings, except for the lack of Nolan's queen editor Lee Smith since "The Dark Knight" in 2008. You can clearly feel that the editing of this character dialogue is a bit messy and broken. "Not like the previous works "Inception" and "Interstellar". Behind the science fiction theme of dreams and space, there is the fundamental core of a father who has made many efforts to go home, although "Creed" finally explains that everything is actually the protagonist. One-handed planning, but the whole is still lacking that can arouse the audience's emotional resonance. To understand his clear motive for taking this path, I think this is a fatal flaw that may exist behind the surface of "Creed".
But even so, we might as well watch the movie "Creed" from another angle, just as we wouldn't expect to see Pound's deep inner struggle in a "007", director Nolan did not help John David ·Washington’s "protagonist" designed a name that we can call for no reason. Like Clint Eastwood’s "The Red Dead Trilogy" or Edward Norton’s "Fight Club", these anonymous people seem to play quite special or mysterious roles, and "Creed" finally knows all the "past What will happen", so he planned all the story directions in one hand, and assigned Neal, played by Robert Pattinson, to return to the past to help him before. The same is true for the protagonist who exists like an all-knowing and omnipotent "God". Perhaps in the eyes of others, he is just an unknown man in a cheap suit, but in the world of the characters in the film, he is the hero who saves all mankind. Isn't this the greatest charm of the spy war movie?
The core theme of the ending of "Creed"
ended up with the same sentence: "Don't try to understand, but feel and experience." Nolan is actually exploring the essence of "destiny" through "reversing time." The film looks like "Going back to the past" to influence the future direction of the world is the main line of the plot, but in fact, the theme of "Creed" is no longer like many similar themes before to change its own destiny by "correcting mistakes", but after everything has been determined. , But when we are still in an unknown state, can we continue to persevere and believe in our destiny to succeed in the end? And with the spirit and attitude of not giving up, to perform the tasks or tests that are destined to be completed? From this point of view, "Creed" has indeed reached another level that Nolan's previous works have not touched.
"Creed" film review conclusion
Overall, as the only commercial blockbuster that can save the global film and television industry after the outbreak of the 2020 epidemic, "Creed" has indeed achieved this mission in a very special way, perhaps the threshold of too much information in the film. It may discourage many fans who just want to enter the theater to relax, but I believe that "Creed" is definitely a movie that people will never tire of. Every time you rewatch it, you can find different surprises. People have a lot of details about the story and the ability mechanism Interpretation must also be contending and colorful. Perhaps each audience has a different view and stimulates our follow-up discussion. This is the result Nolan wants us to experience and feel the goal to be achieved.
score:
entertainment coolness: 8/10
story plot: 8/10
atmosphere creation: 8/10
acting performance: 8/10
theme freshness: 10/10
overall overall review: 8.4/10
