long and wonderful dream

I was watching a film lecture in a dream, the name of which was lost, but it was probably "On Kawitz's Fantasy and Elephant's Social Theory". The director talked about the first part of the series he shot, and explained in detail the plot, metaphors and shooting techniques in the film. There are three tragedies in the film, all stories inspired by the director himself.

I'm kind of envious, or envious of the director, if only I could write those stories.

bear

There are many bears living on a boat, and new bears will appear out of thin air after the bears die. All the little bears can't open their mouths to eat, they can only gradually starve to death. One day, a little bear suddenly opened his mouth to eat. He was happy and thought he could live longer. However, the other cubs find out about this and start to sabotage the boat. Eventually, the boat sank and all the cubs died.

They pull you into hell with all the pain, resentment and fear of living and dying. They cannot accept that you are rescued alone. Even if they give up the short-term time and hope of life, they will let you be imprisoned in a boat of despair and sink together.

soul replacement

After a person dies, if the body remains intact, the soul of another deceased person will appear to occupy the body, and the new soul can survive normally after combining with the old body. Soul replacement is a well-established technique in the movies, where people can book a life extension service or voluntarily make their body a container for other souls. However, the company has made many people unknowingly preparatory containers for experimentation and profit, and this list is never made public.

There are five stories in this part.

story one

A white woman and a black woman are good friends and they go to the beach together. Both of them are in their twenties, Xiaobai is slender, wearing a tight swimsuit, and Xiaohei is plump and wearing a loose T-shirt.

The two entered the sea, and Xiao Hei walked farther away from the shore. She pretended to be drowning to frighten Xiao Bai. Xiao Bai was very nervous and could do nothing after knowing that it was a prank. Xiaohei asked Xiaobai to throw her an object, Xiaobai threw it, and the object hit Zhong Xiaohei's head impartially, and Xiaohei fainted. If she didn't save Xiao Hei quickly, she would drown in the sea. Xiao Bai ran to her with all her might. However, due to the resistance of the waves and Xiao Hei being washed away from her place, it still took some time. Xiao Hei was rescued ashore, and after draining the stagnant water, he gradually woke up. Seeing Xiao Bai, who was apologetic and apologetic, didn't say a word. Xiaobai sent Xiaohei home, and Xiaohei kept silent on the way, occasionally replying a sentence or two.

The screen switches to the first perspective of someone, who is being strangled by Xiaobai. The image blurs and transforms into an elderly white woman. It turns out that Xiaobai and Xiaohei are both old, and Xiaobai is killing Xiaohei.

The perspective changes again, showing the audience the story that happened before. Xiao Hei didn't die when he drowned, and after recovering his spirit, he was reconciled with Xiao Bai. The two have been close friends for decades. Not long ago, Xiao Hei died suddenly and was rescued after arriving at the hospital, but the rescued Xiao Hei lost her memory and did not know any relatives and friends. Xiaobai is very worried about her and often comes to take care of her. In the process of getting along, Xiaobai found that Xiaohei seemed to resent her, many of her thoughts and concepts had changed, and sometimes she acted like another person with memories. Xiaobai realized the truth that the real Xiaohei had passed away. At that time, there was a soul replacement event, and the person in front of him was just a strange soul occupying Xiaohei's body.

Xiaobai was extremely indignant. She was saddened by the departure of her best friend, and she also hated strangers who took up her best friend's body and insulted her best friend. She lured Blackie to a hidden abandoned hut while walking, killing the fake Blackie. She wished her best friend's soul and body a complete rest.

story two

A pair of eight or nine-year-old sisters went out to play.

They seem to have a good relationship, often laughing and calling each other's names, chasing and playing with each other.

However, an accident happened on the road, and my sister was trapped and died. My sister hurriedly called for help, but it was too late.

After the funeral of the elder sister, the younger sister stayed alone in a place with no one, showing a natural and beautiful smile.

The younger sister has experienced soul replacement, and the young body is the soul of an adult. This person is very satisfied with his new identity and body, and intends to start over as a child. However, the elder sister looks troublesome. Not only does she know her younger sister, she often chats and plays with her younger sister, and she may also share the family's resources and inheritance in the future. So, this man designed a trap to kill his sister and made himself the only daughter in the family.

story three

The protagonist of the story is a young man. His family and relatives thought he was a little strange recently. He remembered the names and identities of relatives, but when he talked about the past, he always gave the wrong details. The personalities of the relatives also did not exactly match the actual situation in his impressions. Relatives believed that the youth's mental exhaustion caused confusion in their memory, and they discussed going on a trip with their family to relax.

On the day of departure, everyone came to the station with their own concerns.

Suddenly, someone pushed the young man standing in the front row, causing him to fall off the platform. The relatives were all behind the young man, blocking the sight of outsiders. They looked solemn and did not make a sound. However, the young man flashed behind the relatives and pushed most of them off the platform. Only his father was barely able to maintain his balance on the edge. The young man hesitated for a moment, and then pushed his father away again. Relatives were shocked and screamed, but they were crushed to death seconds later by the speeding train.

The story shifts to the youth's perspective.

He found that all his family members had changed. They seem to have forgotten a lot, have very vague descriptions of past events, say things that are completely untrue, and say things that are inconsistent, as if they were just making up memories. They are not as amiable and lovable as they used to be, and their personalities have become sinister and selfish and disgusting.

After his investigation, he believes that he is involved in a conspiracy where all his relatives have been mysteriously murdered and then possessed by different spirits. This group of people had a premeditated plan. They teamed up to deceive the only young man who had real memory and concealed the identity of the family. They might even kill themselves.

He traveled with relatives and took precautionary measures. He decided that once relatives attacked him, he would kill them all. But when executing the plan, he hesitated in the face of begging his "father" on the edge of the platform. He loved his relatives, especially his father, and he never wanted to see his father die. For a moment, he suspected that his father was ignorant. His father was just confused. He couldn't remember the past and couldn't see the conspiracy of his relatives, but he was really his father, and he could still live with his father. He quickly denied this speculation, there is no doubt that the father in front of him is a fake. He still killed his father.

The young man sat slumped in a collapsed state. After he actually did it, he still did not dare to accept the cruel fact that he killed all his relatives with his own hands. He began to suspect that he was a fake, that his memory was false, and that his relatives were real. No matter what the truth is, only the fact of losing a loved one cannot be changed. He was in deep pain, remorse and despair.

story four

A salesman hid in a toilet cubicle, and two policemen knocked on the door, asking him about his relationship with Tetto.

He replied loudly, "I'm not familiar with Tetto!"

At this moment, the picture was still, and a phantom of a strong man appeared beside the salesman. The strong man shouted in a hoarse voice: "No, I am Titu!"

Tetto is a wanted criminal. He came from the bottom of society and had no education. He embarked on the road of crime as a teenager. He has committed multiple violent crimes and killed several people, and is a dangerous target for the police's recent search. He died unexpectedly while escaping capture, only to find himself in the body of a salesman he had known before, and the police were looking for him to inquire about the situation. The flustered Titu failed to fully understand the situation.

Run away subconsciously.

After Tetto clarified the situation, he calmed down and responded to the police's inquiries as a salesman. Tet decided to replace the salesman and live a new life. Anyway, the salesman is already dead, and he is just a dead person if he is not replaced.

Tetto returns to the salesman's house and finds the salesman living with his mother. He didn't want to reveal his identity, so he learned about the salesman's usual life trajectory through his mother and things at home.

The salesman cooks every day, and Tet was very troubled at first. His original body had no sense of taste, and he could only taste it after gaining a new body. So judging what ordinary people think is good taste, and learning to cook delicious food took some time. He explained his poor cooking skills with reasons such as physical discomfort and busy work. During this time, my mother did not complain, but cared about his state very much, and often enlightened him and made snacks for him.

Tetto felt unprecedented warmth. He had never experienced the love from "mother", nor had he ever had the opportunity to say "mother". He gradually sees the salesman's mother as his own, and tries to love her and take care of her like a real son.

He experienced happiness in the life of a salesman, had expectations for life, longed to get a better job, set up a happy family, and let his mother spend the rest of her life safely.

However, he found that things were not that simple. Mom, probably knew that he wasn't his son. Because it is impossible for a mother to fail to recognize her child. She knows her son too well, personality, abilities, habits, language, etc., and she doesn't know any aspects well. The longer he was in contact with his mother, the more he understood that his mother knew his son very well, and the more that his mother could not mistake him for a son.

Titu clearly felt the danger of revealing his identity and considered going back to his old ways, but his fear gradually diminished. My mother has long seen that he is not a son, but has not exposed it, and will not necessarily expose it in the future. The guilt he vaguely sensed became stronger as time went on. The mother loves her son so much, but she never sees the son she really loves, and is deceived by strangers to use her son's body to gain family affection, and be deceived to spend the rest of her life, how painful it must be. Although he didn't kill the salesman, he did choose to replace the salesman without hesitation, and wanted to live his life without telling the truth. At the same time, he has the mentality of luck and self-comfort. Maybe the mother really didn't recognize that he was not the son, maybe the mother would rather believe that he was the son in her heart. If he told the truth, the mother would have to suffer the loss of her son, and conversely indulge in the illusion of tenderness. As long as he takes care of his mother with all his heart, she can live happily, and perhaps accept him sincerely as her own son.

Not only does Tet have guilt towards her mother, but it is also painful to think about the past. He was originally a despicable and murderous murderer with a serious crime, not a gentle and kind salesman, but instead of his identity, he used his resume and relationships to live a happy life. Are you really qualified to do this? Even if it is to complete the work for him and take care of his mother, these responsibilities are not the responsibility of the murderer. His hands were stained with blood, he didn't pay for the murder, he didn't make up for the people he had hurt, so he abandoned the past and devoted himself to a new life... How could he possibly be allowed. With the soul of a sinner, he defiles the one who is truly loved by the one he loves, and his sins cannot end and cannot be forgiven.

The painful Titu couldn't make up his mind to confess for a long time, and his mother seemed to sense his strangeness, but said nothing. Beneath the calm surface of life, undercurrents are surging.

I haven't seen the story after that, so I don't know how the story ends.

movie commentary

Explain the wonderful aspects of this movie, some opinions are said by the director-considering that it is my dream, the professionalism is worrying, and some opinions are thought by me.

The story of Xiaobai and Xiaohei is very suspenseful.

When Xiaobai and Xiaohei are playing in the sea, the director will use methods such as using chiaroscuro and shaking the camera to make the audience suspect that the harmony between the two is an illusion. But what I suspected at first was that Xiaobai was going to attack Xiaohei, and this suspicion reached its peak after Xiaobai stunned Xiaohei.

However, Xiao Hei's abnormal performance after waking up quickly made me shift my suspicions. I thought the real Xiao Hei was dead, and now there is a different soul in Xiao Hei, that soul might kill Xiao Bai in order to keep the secret. I couldn't help but sweat for the unsuspecting Xiaobai.

In the end, the scene switches to Xiaobai killing. It is understandable that Xiaobai kills Xiaohei, but the timing is unexpected decades later. It turned out that the previous plot was to confess that the two have a good relationship and have been dating for a long time, which will pave the way for Xiao Hei to be replaced decades later and Xiao Bai to take revenge.

The suspense of the story focuses on who will be replaced, who will kill, and why. The story did not mention it, but through the skin color of the protagonist and some pictures, the audience was reminded of racism, and then suspected the true relationship between Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai, but at the end it was revealed that all this was a smoke bomb. This arrangement also shows that the focus of the story is not on suspense and criminal elements, but on exploring human nature and human feelings in special situations, and imagining the social phenomena that will be caused by soul-replacement technology.

The sister's story is a standard children's body, demon soul type horror routine. Similar films include "The Orphan", "Joshua", and "Case 39." So it's not hard to guess the truth of the story, it's just that the evil sister's beautiful smile sends chills down your spine.

The story of the youth, the beginning makes the audience think that the youth is the replacement, curious about the family travel. However, the story did not develop into the travel plot at all. Relatives killed young people and youth counter-killed one after another on the platform, which surprised the audience to the point where they paused in their thinking.

The youth perspective reveals the truth for the audience. It is not the youth who have the wrong memory, but the relatives. The reason why young people are recognized by everyone (including doctors) as having mental problems is because all relatives are lying and using money and power to make others listen to them. Relatives also made travel plans not to help the youth, but to create the illusion that he had committed suicide. There are so many of them that it is feasible to kill young people unwittingly, but if the weak young people resist, they will inevitably expose themselves. However, the young man did not worry about his own safety and future, and was unwilling to choose to escape or obey. He only wanted to kill the replacement to avenge his relatives and maintain the family's reputation. When the young man was pushed off the platform, his heart was full of despair. He recognized that all his relatives had passed away, and resolutely executed everyone in public.

At this point there was another turning point. The youth's anger was released after the execution, and the obsession of revenge and protecting the family was completed. The youth lost his spiritual support, and his heart was overwhelmed by the pain of bereavement and personal destruction of the relatives' bodies. Under the severe mental shock, he could no longer be sure of his memories and emotions, and began to suspect that he was false and regretted killing his relatives.

The emotional transformation of the young man was something I did not expect, and his distressed, deranged appearance was pitiful. He wants to protect the family and execute those who replace his relatives, but he cannot protect himself after achieving his goals. The plot of youth's psychological change enhances the appeal of the tragedy.

Tetto's story is the only one in the current story that does not have a murder element, and it is also the most complex and delicate in emotional shaping.

Tet's violence and evil are influenced by the environment. He lacks guilt, but also hates living like this. Once he has the chance to live the life of an ordinary man, he does not hesitate or miss the past at all. He can also quickly learn social rules and life skills and integrate into ordinary people. The difference between him and the former substitutes is that he is really willing to be the substitute, accepting the existing social relationship and paying for it.

His thoughts and emotions changed naturally after he experienced love and kindness. His emotions are gradually enriched, he begins to understand and consider others, and his moral awareness is also increasing. These seemingly good changes pushed him into the abyss of his soul. Because of his sins, he has caused irreparable and serious harm to some innocent people, and is not qualified to have the current life.

The mother's emotions are also worthy of attention. From her perception of her son's change to the process of confirming that her son has passed away, what she thought about and how her mood changed, although the movie did not show it directly, the audience would definitely imagine it. Why didn't she reveal Titu's identity, because she wanted to keep a glimmer of hope, or because she couldn't bear to hit this stranger who pretended to be her son? Tetto's love for her and her meticulous care may have indeed touched her. However, strangers and sons are different after all, and what choice she will make is also what the audience cares about.

I think that Tetto's wish to have a happy life as a normal person will probably not come true. If you want to design this kind of ending, you must make the characters' psychology undergo drastic changes.

He may not confess to his mother for the rest of his life, serve her as a son, and then give up his life. He may also confess to his mother, and then obey her request. If she wants to live with him, he will continue to take care of her as a son. If she wants to cut off the relationship or even commit suicide to accompany her son, then he will not live alone.

Humanity, justice, sin, forgiveness, this story has multiple elements, and if handled properly, it should look good.

Finally, there is a terrifying plot in the dream.

I found that my father most likely went through a soul replacement. I don't know when that happened, I can only speculate that the person was not born in the body now. I asked him directly, but he avoided the question.

He wasn't acting out of the ordinary, so I was hesitant to speak up. If he was replaced since he was a child, it is okay not to expose him, but if he was replaced after marriage and childbirth, he would be sorry for his real father if he didn't expose him.