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"Decrypted" is finally here.

This can be said to be a unique blockbuster in the summer season.

Director Chen Sicheng.

Adapted from Mai Jia's first novel.

Director of photography Cao Yu, the entire filming was specially made for IMAX.

Starring Liu Haoran, John Cusack, Chen Daoming, Daniel Wu, Yu Feihong…

In every aspect, it can be said to be a top-notch lineup.

There is no doubt that "Decrypt" is a blockbuster in terms of visual spectacle, but it may not be the kind of blockbuster you imagine.

This movie tells the story of a "weirdo" and a group of "unknown people".

The name of the "weirdo" is Rong Jinzhen.

He has a weird look.

In the description in the original novel, he has a "big head, thin body, and strange appearance." With the help of costumes and makeup, Liu Haoran can be said to have been reborn and perfectly transformed into Rong Jinzhen.

He also has a weird personality.

He had a bizarre and difficult life experience, so he has been very withdrawn and introverted since childhood and has no understanding of the ways of the world.

But sometimes, the more "weird" a person is, the more extraordinary talents they have in certain areas.

Rong Jinzhen is a mathematical genius.

At the age of 17, he was admitted to the top mathematics department in the country with excellent grades.

There he met another genius, university professor and world-renowned mathematician Schiess.

The two of them admired each other. Shees appreciated his talent and regarded him as his favorite student.

After the war, Schiess wanted to take Rong Jinzhen to the United States to continue studying computer science at MIT.

But as fate would have it, Xiyis left and Rong Jinzhen stayed.

In the United States, Schiess became a code maker, while Rong Jinzhen served the country and became a code breaker.

The two eventually stood on opposing sides of their country and their times, becoming rivals to the death on the chessboard.

For Rong Jinzhen, 701 is his true "place of destiny".

This is a dark secret world with strict security and numerous rules, where everything is unspeakable.

Don’t ask questions that you shouldn’t ask.

Don't say what you shouldn't say.

Don’t look at what you shouldn’t look at.

This also enhances the film's sense of "curiosity".

Prior to this, most viewers knew very little about intelligence warfare.

Although 701 often appears in Mai Jia's novels, it is often difficult to present it too much in film and television works due to confidentiality regulations.

But this time, on the premise that the information has been declassified, "Decrypted" takes us deep into a hidden front in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Based on real scenes, the film restores the era and the highly confidential atmosphere and environment to a great extent.

A weirdo and a group of unknown people are waging one intense and fierce intelligence war after another on a secret covert front.

To a certain extent, this is also a concrete manifestation of the "decryption" work.

Because the password is also something that "cannot be known". It is something that the enemy deliberately tries not to let us crack.

A password is a weapon.

Decryption is a competition of the highest level, of mind and intelligence.

701 is only a small area, but it affects the turmoil in the world at all times.

Soldiers with the most advanced minds are fighting a war here day after day in a dark and smokeless war.

For creators, completing "Decryption" may also be a process of "decryption".

Mai Jia wrote Decoded over a period of 11 years, was rejected 17 times, and wrote a total of 1.21 million words, but only 210,000 words were published in the end. The hardships and trials in this process can be imagined.

Bringing "The Decryption" to the big screen is an even greater challenge.

Mai Jia's writing is like a Borgesian maze. In it, you will see the rules and techniques of code compilation, the laws of code deciphering, the calculation of arithmetic progressions...all kinds of extremely complex and precise logical deductions.

These things can be presented in words, but how can they be visualized in movies?

Chen Sicheng’s answer is, dream.

The movie "The Decryption" is very groundbreaking in that it chooses to use the method of "dream interpretation" to present Rong Jinzhen's decryption process.

The film presents a total of ten dreams of Rong Jinzhen.

The first dream in the film is, from the outset, extremely misleading.

The young Rong Jinzhen was disliked by his clansmen. After Mr. Yang, who he depended on for survival, passed away, little Li Li came to the old house to take him away.

Suddenly, a strong storm blew up in the dark old house and swept him away.

This scene is very crazy and surreal. It turns out that everything is no longer reality, but a dream.

But when did the dream begin?

You don’t know, and maybe Rong Jinzhen doesn’t know either.

This implies the relationship between Rong Jinzhen and his dreams: he relies on his dreams, but he can also get lost in them.

All images in dreams have great room for interpretation.

The storm is the storm of Rong Jinzhen's destiny. Those numbers and symbols that are rolled up are wrapped up with Rong Jinzhen, symbolizing that his destiny will also be linked with these numbers and symbols.

And the storm is destined to be dangerous, shocking, and full of endless unknowns.

Therefore, Rong Jinzhen's life will be a glorious one, but his future is by no means a smooth one, but lonely, cruel and mysterious.

After joining Unit 701, the first challenge Rong Jinzhen faced was the “Purple Secret”.

Before cracking the "Purple Code", he also had a dream.

He dreamed of the amusement park of his childhood.

On the surface, this dream has nothing to do with "decryption", but every image in it, like a gear, precisely fits the trajectory of his destiny and the problems in his life.

He dreamed of pens, chess, and teapots and teacups.

The fountain pen given by Xiao Lili, the chess set used to play against Xiyis, and the teapot and teacups used by the Rong family to drink water were all the best things in Rong Jinzhen's past, and they have been transformed into facilities in the amusement park.

The Ferris wheel symbolizes the rotary cipher, and the three Ferris wheels represent the Enigma cipher machine. The movement trajectory of the Ferris wheel is like the rotary cipher, and Rong Jinzhen got the inspiration to decipher the Purple Code.

However, the most glorious moments in life are also metaphors for disasters and traps.

Therefore, Rong Jinzhen also dreamed of images of destruction.

The Ferris wheel crushed and destroyed other facilities in the amusement park, symbolizing that while Rong Jinzhen gained the ability to decipher, he also lost the most precious thing in his heart.

He bid farewell to the past completely.

For most people, dreams are false, the opposite of reality.

But for Rong Jinzhen, dreams will point out the truth to him.

Because many answers are hidden in the depths of the subconscious, and dreams are the only path to the subconscious.

In those strange dreams, "I seemed to be talking to them."

“Here, I can find myself.”

However, dreams do not always bring him the truth.

Especially in the second half of the film, when cracking the more difficult "black code", his thinking becomes more difficult and his dreams become more abstract, huge and tense.

The dream embodied his true fear, pressure and self-destruction.

The huge data set swallowed him like a whirlpool.

Under such tremendous pressure, even the smallest details are distorted into highly tense and terrifying scenes in dreams.

For example, when Rong Jinzhen was deciphering the black code, he was disturbed by the record sent by Sheis. Combined with his experience of being assassinated by the Americans, he had an extremely strange dream.

He dreamed that he was being chased by foreigners on a train. He fled in the shaking carriage, but eventually he met the terrifying walrus man.

The name “Walrus” was derived from a line in the album.

In these surreal dreams, Rong Jinzhen saw wonders that ordinary people could not see.

In this visual spectacle, we also delve into the brain of a genius and truly peek into his bottomless inner world.

Dreams run through the entire film. The main narrative of the film, Rong Jinzhen's deciphering of the code, is always presented through the intersection and overlap of reality and dreams.

Dreams are not only a means for Rong Jinzhen to decipher secrets, but also a reflection of his mind and heart.

Every person is an unfathomable code. Deciphering it is a person's abyss and labyrinth.

This process is both abstract and concrete, leaving room for endless interpretation.

The ultimate presentation and control of dreams is a spectacle after another, and is the pinnacle of imagination. It is magnificent and magnificent.

These are, without a doubt, the best parts of the film.

Only by going to the cinema to experience it in person can you enter into the dream of these spectacular scenes in the most immersive way.

On the technical level, the film’s “dream-making” process is also a process of self-transcendence by the country’s top team working together to use the most cutting-edge film industry technology.

The most difficult dream to actually film was the red desert dream that was filmed on location.

The art and props teams also spent a month producing 105 tons of specially dyed and cured red sand.

It was also necessary to dig a two-meter slope in the studio and use a wave-making machine to simulate the impact of waves on the beach in order to restore the interaction details between the waves and sand that are difficult to achieve with visual effects.

The Reed Lighthouse Dream used large-scale real-life shooting to increase the realism of the scene.

In addition to finding real reeds, the art team built the entire lighthouse in three parts: the base, the internal spiral staircase, and the top of the tower.

In order to achieve the sunset effect that the director wanted, the photography team also worked together to develop a giant lighting stand, using 75 LED lights to form a huge lighting array.

In the opinion of director of photography Cao Yu, the challenge of photography on "Decryption" lies in balancing dreams and reality.

After all, in movies, “truth prevails”.

In order to create the realism of this scene, the art team worked very hard.

The art department worked intensively for 9 months and produced more than 3,000 design concept drawings.

There are 125 scenes involved, with a total construction area of ​​over 80,000 square meters.

It is easy to imagine how difficult it is to produce such a detail-obsessed and research-obsessed movie.

However, the crew of "The Decryption" only took two years, so much so that Mai Jia himself lamented that he did not expect to complete it in two years, and thought it would take another five years.

Mai Jia indeed has a very high opinion of the movie "Decryption".

"Decryption" is the story of one person and also the story of a group of people.

It has a grand dream and an even grander theme.

This work reveals another side of the world to us: the geniuses of an era, in order to complete the decryption work, locked themselves in the same room day after day, facing one group of numbers after another.

Ultimately, apart from the seemingly magnificent war of brains, the process of decryption is boring and requires great willpower.

Rong Jinzhen also completed his own physical sacrifice in 701, which was not seen by the world.

He experienced growth and tempering step by step, from a misunderstood genius to finding his sense of belonging and mission and becoming a true warrior.

Although he is a fictional character, he embodies the shadows of many unsung heroes.

These people's stories deserve to be seen by more people.

From the perspective of film genre, "Decryption" is a breakthrough, a huge challenge, and a brave attempt.

"Decryption" is different from Chen Sicheng's previous works and is a brand new work.

This movie contains the depth of human nature, and the reflection on fate, times and self. It is enough to make us think.

We use Rong Jinzhen's dream to reflect on ourselves: everyone's life is a process of decryption.

On the other hand, this is an out-and-out commercial blockbuster, with innovative subject matter, visual bombardment and spectacles.

This is a rare domestic blockbuster where fantasy and reality collide.

It mobilizes not only the creator's imagination, but also the industrial strength to perfectly implement the imagination.

And Decryption achieves both of these.

This movie is a dream-making process, and it is also a hearty enjoyment that can only be seen on the big screen.

Domestic films need such a "dream".

We also need people like this who dare to "dream".