A Great Movie Is Never Just A "Good Bullet"

A man reached out and the bullet came back from the table.

A man raised his gun and the bullet returned from a hole in the wall.

Cause and effect still exist, but time has reversed. Don't understand it, feel it.

Nolan returned to the cinema screen under the "post epidemic" with "creed", bringing new hot topics of creation and discussion. To be exact, most of them are not discussions, but more like many interpretations after the so-called "understanding". These interpretations successfully cover the discussion of film style, story expression and production level. Everything revolves around a question - understand or not. It's very strange.

Because the discussion of "I can't understand the movie" often only exists in those "boring" films. For example, last year's European Film Festival "sanatorium under the sand mirror", takkowski's "sneaker" at the Beijing Film Festival, or "2001 Space Odyssey", which is one of the most popular film reference museums. They are the masterpieces of the legendary masters. Compared with them, it seems strange to say that commercial films "don't understand". Hollywood movies, in particular, generally adopt the popular mode, the purpose is to make the audience enjoy watching the film, rather than artistic closed eyes frown contemplation.

Nolan is, of course, a Hollywood director. No matter how he flaunts "the author's film", it can't be denied that except for his first film "follow", the rest of his works are (quite wonderful) commercial films. For example, "Dark Knight" and "Inception" are still popular. It is undeniable that they all break through the stereotype of "superheroes" and "XX universe" in Contemporary Hollywood, and mark the distinctive "Nolan style". Heath Ledger created the classic "clown" in film history, and the top of "little plum" let fans care about it so far. Of course, there are also director Nolan's extremely rich picture presentation, twists and turns of the story narrative, the realistic style of film shooting, and the most bright spot - the use of multiple time line parallel editing to construct suspense "time game" - which is also the most important reason why Nolan's film is called "brain burning".

But "brain burning" is not equal to not being able to understand. It means that the film through layers of laying, such as falling into a fog of skills, so that the confused audience in a key node suddenly understand, and then lament the clever layout of the film. Among them, perplexity is the process, understanding is the result, and the ultimate result is still the pleasure of watching the film. If all the "brain burning" eventually turns into "can't understand", there will be no "brain burning", only "playing badly".

The story of the creed is actually very simple. The protagonist is like falling into 007 and mission impossible, roaming the world, completing tasks, overcoming difficulties, dismantling bombs and defeating bad guys. A very classic spy movie structure. Such a story core once again shows that it can not bear the "incomprehensible" that art movies have. That kind of "can't understand" is because those films set a threshold for watching movies. When we cross the threshold, we will be able to see the essence of life, the essence of human beings, how people deal with the relationship with their surroundings, how to understand the world, and how the world affects people

What about the threshold of the creed? The massive videos and manuscripts particularly explain in detail how time is reversed in the film, how the characters after the reversal act, and how they interact with the past and the present. Some people strictly analyze the two teams, one against time and the other along with time. When they meet and cross each other, what happens and how it happens; some people enthusiastically explain what entropy is and what the essence of matter is; some people really dispute whether the film is set strictly or not, how about the relationship between consciousness and time, why the heat reverses and catches fire Why does the car freeze It's like we've stopped talking about movies, and we've come straight to college physics.

"I can't understand you have reason" is no problem in art movies. Fifty years ago, Kubrick's 2001 Space Odyssey was packed. At that time, the audience did complain because of the depression and the long black field of the film. But it is the countless audiences who repeatedly observe and try to understand its behavior that makes it an immortal classic.

There is a threshold for art film, and it is necessary to learn to cross the threshold. Kubrick shows the closeness and loneliness of human beings in space by the long period of despair, and looks at the human beings in the eyes of machines with almost speechless indifference These may not be understood when we first see a movie. But we still feel the same today.

What is the "incomprehensible" in the creed? It doesn't mean that the concept of "objects" or "objects" can move backward to the core of time. Imagine an upside down video with a walking man. It doesn't take a lot of physical knowledge. In the film, people who return to the past do not change the world, they just complete the closure of the world's causality. However, it is not necessary to make it a fantasy film in order to emphasize the logic behind it. It's this that makes the movie complicated.

Those who have played the chamber of Secrets escape know that when we untie a complicated mechanism box, we aim at the contents of the box. But when we tried our best to crack all the mechanisms and open the "creed" box, we found that it was empty. The characters in the story are like a narrative tool without soul. They take away all the soft and transitional links, and then only the plot of Task-based dialogue is boring and dry. It's just an empty box.

A man reached out and the bullet came back from the table. A man raised his gun and the bullet returned from a hole in the wall. It's time, it's still time. It's just a feeling.

I don't know what the protagonist feels, but I don't feel anything outside the visual spectacle. All I know is that the bullet can't hit everyone's heart, even if it's flying in time.