What is the meaning of strawberry in the Korean film Telephone?

"Life clue", also called "telephone". At first, I thought it was a black hole frequency, and then it gradually became a butterfly effect, and then it felt a bit like a Korean drama signal.

What is even more confusing and controversial is whether the heavy egg in the film is rigorous logic or countless bugs. Today, with these questions, let's talk about this new Korean film "Sound and Life Clues".

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Let's talk about impressions first. When it comes to science fiction films, there are soft and hard ones. Generally speaking, whether the film focuses on "science" or "illusion". Obviously, The Sound and Clues to Life focuses on "hallucinations", using the telephone as a tool to promote the opening of magical events, connecting the two protagonists at different times, and the story begins.

In fact, whether the sci-fi genre is soft or hard, the most important thing is to have a self-explanatory world view in the works, and logical self-consistency is more important than hard core or not.

If you don't talk about the Voice of Life, why can a mobile phone change this setting in the future and you can continue to watch it?

The film was originally released in South Korea in March, but it was eventually sold to Netflix due to the delay of the epidemic.

Clues to Life is the first feature film by director Li Zongxian. He's only 29 years old. He's awesome. 20 15 was followed by the short film Yan value. The short film runs through the whole film from the perspective of shaking hands, creating a simulated texture. The short film is about a woman who claims to be a virgin, dressed as a female student, and bargaining with a man about the price of a bed in a hotel room, but it's not that simple.

From the short film "Body Value", we can feel the director's special preference for suspense reversal, as well as "Sound and Life Clues".

Although Clues to Life imitates the classic sci-fi elements set by other films, Li Zongxuan does not reject other people's set routines for more than ten years, but constructs a complete world view of the film itself through multi-party combination. As a film with cool entertainment and business, it looks good.

The voice of destiny clue is actually adapted from Puerto Rico's 20 1 1 Call of Time and Space. Today, people are still debating whether this film is a good one, and so is The Voice of Destiny Clue.

Zhong Rui, who was once stunningly burning, once again showed us super acting skills in the film, especially the image of a bloodthirsty maniac in the second half and the details of licking his upper lip with his tongue, which made people shudder.

Although the rhythm of the first half is slow, the second half began to exert its strength, resulting in a small climax, which is a genre film worthy of recommendation.

Plot review

Next, let's briefly review the main plot.

Film No.1 Jin was in the present time and space of 20 19, and her father died in a fire in 1999. In her impression, she thought that her mother forgot to turn off the gas at that time, killed her father and left a burn scar on herself.

One day at home, she always got a phone call from a strange woman. Another person traveled through time from 1999 and his name was Mrs. Wu Ying No.2. Here, in order to deepen our understanding, let's call Wu Yingshu Prada Devil.

The devil wears Prada has been locked up in a mental hospital before, and her biological mother is dead. Her foster mother is a serious superstitious person. She thinks that if she doesn't control it well, she will become a serial killer in the future.

After they talked on the phone, Yan Shu convinced the devil that she was from the future, and the devil tried to save Yan Shu's father in 1999. Unexpectedly, this directly changed the direction of the future.

Yan Shu's family was reunited, her father was alive and well, her mother's brain tumor no longer existed, and Yan Shu and the devil became phone girlfriends. They talked about everything and made use of the time difference to make a linkage.

However, the good times didn't last long, and the time spent with Yan Shu's family was naturally the most important, thus ignoring the devil. At this time, the neglected demon happened to be caught stealing the mobile phone by the foster mother, so she used a more severe exorcism to punish the demon.

Curious Yan Shu will be killed by her foster mother after looking for the devil wearing a computer. Good Yan Shu told her about it. Sure enough, her adoptive mother estimated that Magic Wear would be a serial killer in the future, so she decided to kill her mercilessly, but Magic Wear was a long time ago, so she killed her adoptive mother in turn.

After freedom, the devil wore a lot of money and began to seduce Brother Strawberry. Brother Strawberry accidentally discovered that his foster mother had been killed. The devil hung up Brother Strawberry in a hat.

In Yan Shu, I happened to have contact with Brother Strawberry, but the sudden disappearance of Brother Strawberry made Yan Shu discover that the devil had killed someone. Later, Yan Shu found out from the computer that the demon was sentenced to life for serial murder. The demon had learned that she was going to jail, and she wanted to tell the police the details of her arrest through Yan Shu to avoid arrest.

Of course, Yan Shu couldn't help the murderer, so she didn't answer the phone directly.

The devil wears Prada became even crazier. She took advantage of Yan Shu's opportunity to accompany her father to look at the house when she was a child, and simply killed Yan Shu's father and put Yan Shu under house arrest.

In 20 19, Yan Shu happened to be driving with his father, and his father disappeared in front of him, which forced Yan Shu to pick up the demon's phone again. When Yan Shu knew what the devil had done, her revenge was kindled. Yan Shu found a plastic shed on 1999, and there was an unexpected gas explosion. He wanted to use this accident to kill the devil.

However, the devil did not die in the accident, which led the devil to retaliate with Yan Shu, who burned him as a child. More importantly, Yan Shu's mother is looking for her childhood Yan Shu and her husband, and the devil threatens Yan Shu's mother to tell her that the police have caught her clue.

Yan Shu had no choice but to tell her that the scene of the villa changed again after the devil solved the old scavenger who got the evidence. I haven't caught the devil in 20 years, and there are many freezers in the living room of 20 19, which proves that she killed someone.

At this time, Yan Shu and the 48-year-old devil were in the same time and space. 1999, Yan Shu's mother and police are rushing to the devil's house to search. Yan Shu warned her old mother by phone that the devil and Yan Shu's mother were fighting at 1999, and at the same time, Yan Shu and the 48-year-old devil were also fighting.

In 20 19, when the devil was about to cut Yan Shu, both Yan Shu's mother and the devil fell from the upstairs of 1999, and the future was changed again. The devil disappeared and Yan Shu was saved.

It's not over yet. The most important thing is to lay eggs. All this is only temporary. After visiting his father's grave, Yan Shu walked with his mother. The devil woke up and her mother suddenly disappeared. Yan Shu was tied to a chair and could not move.

Ending &; Analysis of egg brain hole

In order to better analyze the ending and eggs, let's first understand the world view of the film.

In the film, time goes hand in hand. If the demon side is1999165438+10/8, then the time in Yan Shu is 2019 65438+18.

This explains the setting that the past has changed and the future has changed. In the film, Yan Shu's father was killed in a fire on1999165438+1October 27, and the devil saved Yan Shu's father on this day, so the time to change in the future was also changed from 201965438+1October.

However, only Yan Shu's memory is not updated synchronously with the change of time, and Yan Shu will always stay in the memory of linear time she experienced, which is the same as the role setting of the butterfly effect.

Regarding the eggs, the first thing to explain is that the eggs are not divided into another ending, nor are they so-called parallel time and space, but only fill the phone calls received by the future demons in the decisive battle scene of the film.

The devil talked to his phone 20 years ago, that is to say, the egg is just an extension of the ending.

Someone on the Internet uses Schrodinger's cat theory to analyze eggs. Well ... this movie is not that hardcore. Eggs are just an extension of a plot. Yan Shu's mother and the devil fell from the second floor, but neither of them died.

At this time, some people will wonder why the devil suddenly disappeared at 20 19 when Yan Shu cut it. To solve this problem, we must first make clear the direction of the two protagonists in the whole movie.

At present, the role setting of voice and destiny clues is divided into two directions. One direction thinks that this is a film in which the protagonist is schizophrenic, and Yan Shu and the devil are the same person. The other direction is that this is a story that travels through time and space with the telephone as a bridge.

In my opinion, both directions have their own self-consistent logic, which is what I think is the most interesting part of the film.

Let's talk about the setting of the first protagonist first. As mentioned earlier, phonetic clues are adapted from Puerto Rico's Call of Time and Space, which is regarded as a schizophrenic movie by many people.

In fact, it has been hinted many times in "The Clues of Sound and Life". First, Yan Shu and the devil are both 28 years old, and the palm print drawn by the devil on the wall matches Yan Shu's hand.

The film first changed the future when Yan Shu's father was rescued.

Later, we also know that Yan Shu did turn on the gas, which caused a fire at home, so Yan Shu couldn't stand such a blow at that time, and she had panic attacks. At the same time, she also has dual personality, namely, Yan Shu's kind personality and Prada devil wears Prada.

Even Yan Shu's mother's brain tumor in the film may be caused by Yan Shu himself, which may also be one of the indirect reasons for Yan Shu's schizophrenia. Shortly after the movie started, Yan Shu listened to the report of brain tumor in the hospital. When the doctor said the symptoms caused by the operation, the movie BGM appeared harsh tinnitus, which seemed to imply the beginning of Yan Shu's intensive score.

Moreover, other characters may be made up by Yan Shu himself, such as the woman in the supermarket, whose leg was burned, and so was Yan Shu's previous burned part.

Therefore, according to the direction of subdivision, the truth of the film is that when Yan Shu was a demon, she killed her biological mother and foster mother, and then killed the police, strawberry man and scavengers.

This also explains why when Yan Shu and her mother walked on the grave at the end of the movie "Eggs", Yan Shu was not surprised by her mother's disappearance, but she moved on. This scene seems to show that Yan is a schizophrenic.

When Yan Shu's kind Yan Shu's personality overcame the devil in her mind, Yan Shu thought that her mother was with her, but when the devil woke up in her mind again, the future changed immediately, her mother disappeared, and the kind Yan Shu's personality was tied to the chair.

Of course, if you don't agree with this fine point setting, that's fine. Another more mainstream movie is the real two women setting the route, which will also make the sci-fi setting logic of the movie more valuable.

According to the interpretation of two real women, let's solve the problems mentioned above. Since the demon didn't die on 1999, why did she suddenly disappear when she hacked Yan Shu on 20 19? This explanation has actually been shown many times before the film.

According to the above-mentioned setting that the past and present time changes in parallel, after Yan Shu's father survived on1999165438+1October 27th, Yan Shu was reunited with his family on 20165438+1October 27th.

However, on the mornings of 1999, 12 and 3 1, Yan Shu and her father went to the devil's house when she was a child. After the devil killed Yan Shu's father, on the morning of 20 19, 12, 3 1, Yan Shu's father disappeared, and she lay in the tunnel until she went home.

To sum up, the past changes instantly, and the future will change synchronously. The setting of sci-fi elements in Fast Changing is very important.

Therefore, when Yan Shu's mother and Prada devil both fell from the building, the future changed immediately. In 20 19, the devil wears Prada disappeared, not because the devil wears Prada died, but because the devil wears Prada chose another way of life and fought against Yan Shu's mother and daughter.

Combining the ending and eggs, the whole ending event should be like this.

The future changed after Yan Shu told the devil of the past that she had killed the scavengers. The devil has been at large for 20 years, and the house has changed. The devil will live in that house forever.

Then the demon of 1999 called and answered her future self.

Note that cross-border calls can only be called from the past to the future, and the future cannot be called back to the past.

In the movie egg, the 20 19 demon waited until the phone rang before answering it.

20 19, the devil has a scar on her neck, which also proves that it was left by her fighting with Yan Shu's mother in the past. So 20 19, the devil wears a warning that she may die in the past. Why did she use "maybe"? In fact, this line is very rigorous, because the past can change the future, so the devil wears 20 19 warning. Can it be done?

Some people here will wonder why Yan Shu's mother got the mobile phone at that time, since the devil knew everything in the past, and the devil in the egg 20 19 also stressed that it is necessary to hold the mobile phone tightly to change everything.

My understanding here is that the japs were careless. The devil thought that as long as she sat by the phone, there would be no problem, but as a result, Yan Shu's mother picked up the phone rudely.

But 20 19 devils probably didn't say the relevant details, which led to the scheduled development of the past and changed the future, that is, the ending we saw.

After Yan Shu's mother and Prada devil fell from the second floor, we assume that it happened in the early morning of June 5438 +654381October +0. After that, Yan Shu's mother woke up first, then left Yan Shu with her childhood and called the police. But before the police arrived, Prada woke up and fled the scene to hide, and the house was uninhabitable.

Changes in the past instantly changed the future, so in the early morning of June 65438+1 October1in 2020, the devil disappeared instantly, and the environment in Yan Shu changed instantly and became uninhabited. She immediately rushed to the cemetery to confirm whether her mother was dead, and found that her mother was not dead.

At this time, in the daytime of June 65438+1 October1day, 2000, the devil woke up, found Yan Shu's mother and daughter again, and killed Yan Shu's mother, causing Yan Shu's mother to disappear instantly in 2020.

Some people will think that Yan Shu's mother died after the demon woke up, which led to the disappearance of her future mother. Although this statement is true, the camera didn't give her the next mother when she woke up, so it also proved that Yan's mother woke up before the devil.

But this shot is a bit awkward. In fact, the police's body is lying not far away, and it is gone. Did Yan Shu's mother wake up, leaving not only with her childhood Yan Shu, but also with the body of the police?

There is an egg in the basement, and Yan Shu is tied in it. This can be understood as that in the past, after the devil killed Yan Shu's mother, she put her childhood Yan Shu under house arrest, or the time jumped directly to 2020, and the devil arrested Yan Shu.

Of course, the reason why the film is more realistic is to pave the way for the sequel, that is, the duel between the two heroines is not over yet, and some pits are buried in the film. For example, although the foster mother is superstitious, she can really figure out that the devil wears a serial killer, and there are pictures of the devil wearing a future killer when the foster mother "tells her fortune".

It may be uncertain whether the foster mother will find someone to talk to in the future, and how the devil's mother died has not been explained. These are all the details that can be dug up in the sequel, if the movie is a sequel.

All right! The above is my shallow interpretation of Clues to Sound and Life, and rational discussion is welcome. After all, this is a movie that focuses on entertainment and business. It runs through the theme itself, especially in the world setting of specific film and television works. From an extremely harsh scientific point of view, there must be so-called bugs. I don't think it's necessary to be too reluctant. The Thread of Sound and Destiny can be interwoven with several typical sci-fi setting routines, and it can also be logically self-consistent in multiple directions.

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