Chapter 85: Political Turmoil

In addition to the praise from fans and fans, various professional media and film critics have also given their opinions, and the headline of the Los Angeles Times is: "The most amazing work of the year!" ”

"The buckle is misaligned from the first one, but we don't often find out until the last one." Sean Thorpe, a guest commentator for the Los Angeles Times, wrote: "We didn't realize it at first, we made mistakes again and again, and in the end the truth was revealed, but then we doubted the truth of the story, like magic, a subtle trick that made people question, and we almost thought of ourselves as mentally ill." ”

"The film is full of suspense from the first set of shots, falling from one story to another, and then gradually buffering into another story, the plot slowly unfolds, everything is so appropriate, the huge waves, the gothic-like charm atmosphere, the extravagant but confusing island, the director does not desire the audience to understand the film immediately, which makes the film wonderful and classic!"

"A game of distraction on the big screen!" - The Hollywood Reporter

"There are a thousand kinds of madness for a thousand spectators!" -- The Washington Post

Sean Thorpe's article continues: "I must admit that this is one of the best psychological films I've ever seen, and unlike the Hitchcockian suspense that has been talked about before, director Mist has made a new style that has never been seen before in Hollywood film history, and this is a victory for Mist. Regarding the ending of the movie, I don't want to reveal too much, I can only say that it is a tangled choice, what is the truth in your heart, then what is the truth of the story. ”

"Is he really only 23?" - Michelle Clarkson

Unlike the average critic, Michelle Clarkson's film reviews do not contain anything related to the film's plot, in which he writes: "Is he really only 23 years old? After watching the premiere of Shutter Island, there was only one sentence left in my head. Yes, this movie is so shocking, and I can't believe that it was written with a 23-year-old director! Don't blame me for my incoherence, because I've been impressed by the charm of the movie. This is a good unbelievable, unforgettable suspense film, suspense film? No, no, no, that's not accurate, this film has gone beyond the realm of suspense, it has even subverted the existing Hollywood model. The 23-year-old Mister has wiped out the face of filmmakers all over the world. ”

"Memory or reality, which one should we believe?"

"Hollywood Avant-Garde" still maintains its usual sanity, and explains the content of the movie in more detail without spoilers: "When all the analysis and evidence in reality point to you as a madman, which one should you believe?" Everyone will have their own choice for this answer, because each of us has a teddy in our hearts. If the story of "Shutter Island" is placed in the United States today, what director Mister Sen wants to express is actually very simple, that is, when Americans are maneuvering in the urban jungle, will they compromise like life and bow their heads like reality when facing the blows of reality and the pressure of life? When watching the movie "Shutter Island", it is easy for us to substitute ourselves for Teddy, and then it is easy to ask ourselves, what is our choice? ”

In the one-sided crazy praise, "Shutter Island" swept all theaters in the United States, the first said, 3325 theaters attendance rate as high as 95%, this is an unprecedented movie-watching craze, looking at the long queue in front of the movie theater, all the media are exclaiming, is this to surpass "Titanic"?

From the night of the 15th to the end of the night of the 20th, in just five days, Xiansen received news from Cook, and the film's national box office has exceeded $100 million, with a total of $107 million! And the movie-watching craze has not dropped at all, after hearing this data, Xiansen can't control his excitement.

"50 First Loves" only has 18% of the box office share, and he has half of the copyright of this movie. To put it simply, after deducting the share and taxes of the theater chain, the rest of the box office will be divided equally between himself and Columbia. The box office in the United States reaches 100 million, and he will almost have an after-tax income of more than 20 million US dollars.

What's more, these five days are still working, and the box office will definitely usher in a ** during the two-day weekend on the 21st and 22nd, and it is not impossible for the box office to break 200 million in this way!

Although the genre of the movie is not pleasing, but because the outside world's evaluation of the movie is too high, and the ratings of major websites are also amazing, such as IMBD has maintained a fluctuation of 8.9 points at this time, and Rotten Tomatoes has a 96% freshness, in this word-of-mouth appraisal, more and more people poured into the cinema, and many people who have watched the movie also walked into the theater again on Saturday and weekend in order to figure out the truth, and in two days, just two days, it won 41 million box office again.

The first week box office of "Shutter Island" was finally fixed at $148 million.

The U.S. box office grew at the fastest rate, with the highest box office in the U.S. in its first week and the highest box office for suspense thrillers

All the data was broken one by one, and the speed came too fast, and Xiansen couldn't believe these facts.

"Fabulous Rise!"

"Shutter Island dominates!"

A week after the release of "Shutter Island", the sensational box office made the media who had previously sworn that Xiansen's film would inevitably hit the streets changed direction and praised it in one color. Even the New York Times had to add a sentence of incredibleness while disparaging the film.

The New York Times article is still stabbed by Kate, in the article, he stopped mentioning the previous gambling contract to eat the newspaper, but used a disguised method to try to confuse the previous things, Kate wrote: "The director of "Shutter Island" threatened before the film started filming that this is a movie that only people with an IQ of more than 150 can understand, but the truth is very disappointing, this movie is neither scary, nor too suspenseful, let alone high IQ. This is just a psychoeducational film, and it is undeniable that the box office of this movie is incredible, but most of them are going for the short film "Hope", and there are not many people who are really there to watch the movie. Regarding the sensual attitude of the Internet and the media towards the movie, I would like to say here that this movie is not as magical as rumored, the story is very simple, the director is just playing tricks, of course, as a commercial film, as a product of entertaining the public, it is still very successful. ”

Kate's article didn't attract much attention, and at this time there was already a lot of argument on the Internet about medical theories and conspiracy theories, and who had the heart to pay attention to other things. Even Xiansen was attracted by a comment.

Shutter Island Conspiracy Theories - Mister Sen's Social Motivations

"The story of the movie "Shutter Island" takes place in Boston, and the time of the story is marked at the beginning of the credits - 1954. After World War II, the shadow of war still lingered in the United States, and after the death of President Roosevelt in 1945, Truman took over as the new US prime minister. The Truman Doctrine, which believed that a socialist revolution in any part of the world would threaten the security of the United States, led directly to the Korean Civil War in the early 50s and the subsequent Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.

And in the following period from 1950 to 1954, McCarthyism pushed the extreme politics of [***] to **.

McCarthy is in this phase. The malicious slander and persecution of Ben Cook progressives, whose impact involves many fields of American politics, education and culture, has shrouded the whole country in fear.

During the period when "McCarthyism" was most rampant, the US Premier of the State Department, important defense factories, the US National Printing Office, and other key departments did not escape the investigation of the McCarthy Subcommittee on Investigating Non-American Activities (HUAC). Note that the funding for the Ash Psychiatric Hospital in the movie "Shutter Island" was sponsored by this organizing committee.

As for McCarthy himself, who publicly defended the Nazi Party's Holocaust in 1949, the name McCarthy is directly synonymous with Hitler in Europe.

Teddy, the protagonist of "Shutter Island", believes that the mental hospital on this island is sponsored by Huac, where they are engaged in the same human psychiatric experiments as the Nazis, and the film repeatedly emphasizes that the protagonist participated in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in World War II, and the images related to the Nazis repeatedly appear in his mind, and there is a direct close-up of Hitler, and McCarthy is equivalent to Hitler, these political contents obviously do not exist in the film without a surname.

Shutter Island, which was secretly sponsored by the HUAC, conducted Nazi-like mental experiments on the island, and George Noyce, who was eventually driven insane, was emphasized as a brilliant college student and socialist, which coincided with the massive persecution of the Cook by McCarthyism through the HUAC in the '50s. Therefore, the protagonist is definitely not mentally ill, and the whole incident is a trap! ”

At the back of this film review, there are also many reasons for conspiracy theories, and Xiansen couldn't help but feel after watching it, this film critic knows more about movies than himself, to be honest, he really didn't think so deeply when he saw the script.

The people who saw this article also included Kate, because her first article did not cause much public opinion, Kate published her second article two days later, and this article, which was derived from this film review, was only in a different tone and way!

Mister Sen, the real conspiracy theory! 》

"The ending of "Shutter Island" is a conspiracy theory, yes, but it is not just a movie argument, it should be more of a conspiracy of this oriental director!

As everyone knows, Mister Sen is a Chinese citizen with Chinese nationality, and his country is one of the few socialist countries in the world at present. Although his father became an American citizen, he himself has not changed!

From the first movie "50 First Loves" to the animation "Hope" made using the 911 incident, to the more obvious intention of "Shutter Island", Mister Sen has carried out cultural erosion of the American people step by step!

All of his films have a strong sense of irony, which implies mockery and insinuation of the United States!

Take the recent short film "Hope" as an example, the main character of the animation is a bird without wings, this bird looks stupid and stupid and ignorant, and what is the totem of our country? It's a bald eagle! The bald eagle that represents victory! The totem of our country is mocked by Mister Sen as a stupid bird without wings! What did this bird do? It jumped off a cliff! That's right, what Mister wants to express is very simple, that is, the United States is killing itself!

After the success of "Hope", Mister continued his behavior, and his political intention expressed in "Shutter Island" was clear, that is, the American political axe was Hitler!

Movies have no borders, but directors have borders!

Awake, Americans! Mister Sen is invading our country with culture!

Patriotism, starting with the boycott of Shutter Island! ”

As soon as Kate's article came out, it was immediately reprinted by major media websites, and even these media added fuel to the fire to amplify Xiansen's conspiracy infinitely.

For a while, no one discussed exactly how the movie ended, and instead engaged in a series of arguments about whether Mister really had a conspiracy.

"Bella, do you think I should say something to the outside world?"

It's been almost two weeks since the movie was released, and the box office is heading towards $200 million, while calculating the source of the evil that is about to add to his bank, Xiansen is talking to Bella Marceau on the phone, and he knows almost all about Kate's elevation of her film to the political level.

"Say something to the outside world? What are you going to say to the outside world? ”

Hearing Xiansen's words, Bella Marceau replied angrily: "Say that China and the United States are one family? Say you didn't intend to carry out cultural aggression at all? Let's not talk about whether anyone believes what you said, even if you stand up, it is estimated that they will still say that you are in such a hurry to deny that there must be an inside story. ”

"So I'm just staring? Don't you know, in the past few days, there have been a lot of strange men near my house, and if I suddenly disappear one day, will I abscond? ”

Xiansen lay on the bed, turned the phone into amplification, and said a little depressedly, he really didn't expect that Kate to be so mad, is it really that he is too easy to provoke? Thinking of this, Xiansen continued viciously: "I don't care, anyway, I have to pay some price for this bastard, he wants to play with me, I really have to play with him!" ”

Bella Marceau let out a long sigh after hearing Xiansen's words, this is how this star has become famous, and a celebrity who has no messy scandals is not a celebrity at all.

"Do you think people all over the world are stupid? Who else believes Kate's words, except for some extreme radicals? Those media are just to increase sales, and many people laugh at it after watching it, and you are getting more and more famous now, and you need to learn to adapt to this kind of thing. ”

"Adapt? I'm going to get used to him? That's impossible! Bella, you know my temper, I'll make him look good at this guy who has come to provoke me repeatedly, and don't forget, he's betting to eat the newspaper! The box office surpassed "50 First Loves" in the past few days! ”

Xiansen doesn't care whether celebrities should ignore these hypes, since Kate said the gambling contract in the newspaper that day, this guy has been remembered by Xiansen, you know, Xiansen likes to bet the most, and he will resolutely crusade against the behavior of not admitting losing the bet!

"Well, since you have to play with him, you might as well be a little more ruthless"

Bella Marceau lowered her voice and said, "I know a lawyer who we can call the New York Times for defamation."

"What is the success rate?"

Xiansen doesn't know much about lawsuits.

"It's low, about 10%."

"Then why fight?"

"Disgusting them, don't you think so?"

Hearing Bella Marceau's last words, Xiansen laughed wickedly.

"Even my will, even my will"

A week after the film premiered in the United States, it also began its global release, and 45 countries imported "Shutter Island" from Columbia for the first time.

The small town of Auvi, Paris, France.

It is a town with a population of less than 7,000 people, known for its pure, abundant, vibrant spring water and tranquil nature.

In the cinema of the town, a suspense thriller from Hollywood - "Shutter Island" will be released today.

Despite the film's success at the U.S. box office, theater owners are still not convinced, and cultural differences have caused many Hollywood blockbusters to fall in France. Sure enough, even if Leonardo's sign was played at the entrance of the theater, there were still very few people who actually came to watch the movie.

"Hello, a ticket to Shutter Island."

Just when the theater owner decided to reduce the number of screenings of the film tomorrow, a girl in her twenties walked in through the door.

The girl has a good French pronunciation, but she is not very proficient.

"Shutter Island? I don't think the style of this movie is suitable for you, beautiful girl, and I suggest we go to see "Love World Wave" together. ”

The French have a kind of romantic feelings, and the theater owner kindly proposed a sentence after seeing this beautiful girl, in fact, it is not impossible to say that it is a conversation.

"No, I'm just watching Shutter Island."

The girl shook her head, gently stroked her hair and smiled: "Also, I don't like romantic comedies, it's boring, it's very boring"

[The film review of "Shutter Island Conspiracy Theory" in this article refers to the analysis of mtime netizen The Count of Monte Cristo, and I would like to express my gratitude]