4000 people scold the tail for being rotten, but it doesn't prevent it from being a top-level magic film.

20 19, China science fiction film year.

Since the outbreak of word-of-mouth box office in The Wandering Earth at the beginning of the year, a large wave of domestic science fiction is heading for the battlefield.

Unfortunately, the number one player "Shanghai Fortress" took the lead in jumping off the street. Uncle Rou can't help worrying about the next two films, The Tomorrow War and Pioneer.

Uncle Rou flipped through interviews with several directors and felt that there was a misunderstanding in China's science fiction circle:

Science fiction = burning money.

If you don't believe me, look through the announcements of these contestants, the title is "big production, costing XX billion":

Shanghai fortress, 360 million; The Tomorrow War, 450 million; Although Pioneer didn't announce the cost, Zhang Xiaobei made it clear at Wonder 20 17 fantasy video exhibition that the main problem was lack of money.

Wait, you can make a good science fiction movie with money?

Hee hee, not necessarily Isn't the 360 million gold and silver lying in "Shanghai Fortress" the evidence of coolness ~

Han Song, the great god of science fiction literature in China, has a good saying: Science fiction literature (movies) is essentially conceptual literature (movies).

In other words, money is not the most important thing at all, the most important thing is the idea.

Sometimes all you need is a brilliant idea, which is better than hundreds of millions of special effects.

For example, this cost is only $32 million, but it has won10.47 billion dollars in the world, and it is strong on the TOP250 list with a score of 8.4.

Compared with Shanghai fortress, the source code is simple, and the basic scene is a laboratory, a cabin and a carriage.

There are no special effects shots except the train explosion.

Over and over again, it is a highly concentrated concept: source code.

Captain Colt, a pilot on a mission in Afghanistan, woke up and found himself on a train.

Outside the window is a strange scenery, look at the other side, a strange sister is talking to him:

I accept your suggestion. That's a good idea. Thank you.

?

Colt doesn't know this sister, and he doesn't know what she is talking about.

He looked around and didn't know anyone.

I don't think so. He is stupid, and the girl opposite is more stupid than him.

Colt showed her his identity. I'm the captain of the U.S. Air Force, flying a plane in Afghanistan.

Sister laughed: Sean, are you telling a cold joke?

Sean.

Colt was scared to death before he asked who Sean was-

He glanced at the window by accident.

A handsome Nordic face like Jack Jirunhao is just an ordinary middle-aged man's face in the reflection.

Colt once thought he was wrong.

But the mirror told him: you are not mistaken.

Who's Colt?

Who is Sean?

Before the man knew the situation, the train left. ...

It exploded.

Colt has just entered a program to extract Sean's memory.

Source code.

Female officer Goodwin told Colt that he was selected by the military to enter a top secret project, which can repeatedly enter someone's memory before death.

The explosion that Colt just experienced was a terrorist attack outside Chicago this morning. Sean was one of the passengers who died.

Terrorists say: the train explosion is only the first attack, and there will be nuclear weapons attacks against the city next.

So the military sent Colt into Sean's remaining eight minutes of memory, trying to find out the terrorists who planted the bomb in the car and stop the next attack.

Colt was in pain, and then he died countless times-

He was sent back to the train, in the same position, the girl who was naturally invited.

As a result, I was busy setting up my identity, and I was killed before I found the bomb.

I can't help it Read on and start over. ...

Let me put it this way:

The source code is like a role-playing game. Colt needs to read the files in the same archive repeatedly to enter the game.

You see, The Source Code is not very sci-fi, but more like agent training.

The only science fiction it can play is actually the concept of source code.

Please look at the teachers who are interested in making science fiction films and see how people play with a simple concept-

Just telling stories ~

First of all, Colt goes back and forth in the process of decryption, and you will constantly find his new problems.

This is easy to understand.

Every time he returns to the train, he will be more experienced than the last time, and he can avoid some misfortunes that would have happened in advance, such as spilling coffee on his feet.

I will also plan this action according to the memory of the last time I entered the "game". For example, I know that the girl opposite wants to go to India, and this time I said, "I think you are the most suitable to go to India", which shows that everyone has a tacit understanding.

In other words, watching the source code is like playing a game-

Constantly control the protagonist and approach every possible ending.

I don't know which red and blue line to subtract from the bomb.

No problem, try to cut it first, and then try the next one after frying it.

Hey!

Speaking of this, there must be a well-informed friend who will say: fart, what's so strange about this? 1993' s old movie groundhog day has already done this ~

Yes, but think about it. If groundhog day is completely copied, why can the source code be ranked first in Douban TOP250, but the original can't?

To tell the truth, Uncle groundhog day was tired after reading more than half of it. He told the story of that day from beginning to end, without any progress, but the source code didn't. It's pushing colt to run faster-

The director also consciously "speeds up" each cycle, gradually reducing the repeated information, so that you can reach every possibility of Colt's operation faster and faster.

Colt located the bomb for the second time. what should he do ？ The third time, the most suspected passenger was excluded. Who is the real murderer? The fourth time, he quickly picked up the key "prop"-the gun. How does he use it?

Unnecessary repetitive information is compressed, and new questions spiral into the plot. You don't want your brain to have even a moment of leisure.

Like a taut string, keep winding and winding until the bowstring is stretched to the limit, and you find that the director has played a big joke on you-

In 60 minutes, only two-thirds of the film went on, and all the secrets of the terrorist attack were revealed.

What to shoot next?

When your attention is completely attracted by the bomb.

Remember the original question:

Source code, what is it?

Because the plot is tense and the rhythm is compact, after this question is suddenly raised, all previous desires are put on hold and immediately become extremely fearful.

Dr. Goodwin and a female officer who developed the source code, why don't they want to explain it to Colt in detail?

In the process of searching for the real murderer in Colt's game, various hidden clues have also been buried-

If the source code is really just a program that repeats strictly according to memory, how is that possible? ...

Pay attention to a small detail. Every time Colt enters the program, the flight attendant will spill coffee.

For the first time, it was purely accidental to spill it on Colt's feet; The second time, the relationship with my sister made progress, and my sister helped him clean up; The third time, coffee spilled on my sister's feet.

These carefully buried clues are the places where you should pay attention to being cheated by the "bomb"-

Is the source code repeating a past memory or creating a new experience?

The end of the source code is despised by many people.

Colt finally kissed the girl.

On Douban, more than 2,700 people agreed with the short comment about letting the ending stay in this kiss.

It would be perfect if the picture stopped at the last kiss (@tower)

Uncle Rou doesn't think so.

If the movie stays at the last kiss before the explosion, the source code is just an unconventional and slightly sad ordinary love movie.

It is the seemingly "failed" follow-up that makes the Source Code a classic of imagination.

If you look closely, in fact, the "bomb" stunt in front of the source code is actually secretly working hard for this ending-

According to the explanation of Dr. Military Base, the source code is just a program, but it reproduces the memory of the last 8 minutes of the dead Sean's life.

In eight minutes, whether Colt can successfully stop the murderer or not, the game will be over.

Eyes are Goodwin's lines:

This program is not used to change the past, it can create the future.

This is a wonderful pun game-

At first glance, it means that in the source code, Colt's game experience every time, even if the murderer is found, will not change the established fact that the train exploded. At most, we will only find terrorists and help the police intercept their next terrorist attack plan.

But if you think of the details of "coffee" and look at the redundant ending, you will understand-

Colt kissed his sister in the eighth minute.

According to the program setting, the game is over.

But a second later, the world ...

It is moving.

Every time the source code runs, Colt is not just "playing", but-

Create a new parallel universe.

At the beginning of the article, Uncle Rou quoted Han Song's sentence, but he didn't finish it. The complete words are:

Science fiction is not just conceptual literature, it should be more inclusive, more complex and richer. Solve the problem of the destination of human mind.

All "rich" source code exists in the mobile world-

Colt asked his sister a question:

-What would you do if you had less than a minute to live?

-I will cherish every second.

This answer has a perfect score.

Just like two possible endings: after a kiss, the world stops or continues.

Everyone knows that life will come to an end, so why not play?

The world of casual play, 8 minutes ago, was already boring.

And the world that makes every second meaningful can still live forever after 8 minutes.

In the so-called "superfluous ending", the director used a condenser, and the lens swept everyone who laughed, and they all kept a happy smile.

As if forever.

It is the happiness of this moment that gives time meaning.