I believe that, like many people, I was at a loss after watching this movie. I feel that there are always some plots that have not been explained clearly. But I watched the discussion of netizens on foreign forums, and at the same time played it back myself, I think this movie is really shocking. The following analysis of the plot, pure dry goods, including spoilers.
(Please forgive the style of writing in science and engineering.)
First, I will introduce the heroine Abby and explain the important ins and outs of the dialogue at around 1:00 in the movie. She is a lover who was taken care of by the boss of a big company, and at the same time set up a set for the boss of the male protagonist Jim. She had read articles about the male protagonist Jim and the time machine in the early years, and at the same time she had written a novel based on this theme. In the novel, the protagonist's name is John and the prototype is Jim (insensitive to foreign names may be confused). Due to a blunder, Abby was sent by the boss to get Jim down, and at this time she discovered that she had actually become one of the parties involved in this series of time travel. When Abby narrates the plot of the novel, it is fictitious and true, suggesting for the first time that the novel is inspired by a true story, but it has not yet been completed. She herself really fell in love with Jim during her relationship, but the time they were together was destined to be very short, which was the reason for all her actions afterwards.
The Jim line is introduced below, which is also the highlight of this movie.
(Generally time travel movies are divided into two types: closed-loop type and parallel universe type. In the closed-loop type, time travellers cannot change anything, or the changed things have already happened. This kind of movie is very simple to deal with. The protagonist passes through in the later period, and then explains the ins and outs. That’s right. Parallel universes are too divergent, easily broken and unconvincing. The movie "Synchronicity" combines the two very well at this point.) The
first thing to note is that it is not just a parallel universe Jim During the journey, there are many Jim in many universes, and every time he is different, he goes to another parallel universe. We number different universes and Jim, and use the following list to show the process of traversal.
—> Jim1
—> Jim1 returns for 5 days to Jim2’s universe 2 —> Jim1 is dead.
—> Jim2 returns for 5 days to Jim3’s universe 3 —> Jim2 is dead.
—> Jim3 returns for 5 days to Jim4’s universe 4 —> Jim3 is dead.
—> Jim4 returns for 5 days to Jim5’s universe 5 —> Jim4 is dead.
…
—> Jim n returns for 5 days to Jim n+1’s universe n +1 —> Jim is immortal and lives with Abby happily ever since.
This is not a closed loop or simple parallel universe, but an iterative algorithm solution to a parallel universe.
Why does each crossing produce a new universe? The reason is that Abby is a "variable", and the medium is Abby's diary (fiction). In universe m, before Abby m meets Jim m-1 and Jim m at the entrance of the laboratory, her diary m should be the same. She fell in love with Jim during the boss's mission and tried to use her own way to make them love or stay together longer. Abby is a "variable" because she uses the same diary (fiction) to accumulately record the emotions between her and Jim, and allows Jim to take it (the information on it) through it, or that every diary exists The content that is different from the previous cosmic diary (or there is an increase), in short, because of the different content of this diary, Jim will travel to different parallel universes, make different choices, and the whole world has the possibility of slight changes. (Such as the bartender changes or Jim does not exist at all). Her simple purpose is to increase the time and memory of being with Jim during this long iterative process, and continue through the diary ("Time is our only currency" repeatedly appears in the movie). An indispensable reason here is that Abby also has a deep understanding of time travel and parallel universes .
One detail is that there is an infinity symbol in the diary (horizontal 8), which represents ouroboros in the West. The metaphor has no head and no tail. In the discipline of cybernetics, it represents a certain beginning with random changes. What is this change itself? Important, what is important is that once the changing trend is formed, the entire system will automatically run down and reach stability.
So the list of traversal should be supplemented as follows:
…
—> Jim n got the diary n (including information n, n-1, n-2.) and returned to the universe n+1 of Jim n+1 for 5 days —> Jim n died.
—> Jim n+1 got the diary n+1 (including information n+1,n,n-1.) Return 5 days to Jim n+2's universe n+2 —> Jim n+1 died.
—> Jim n+2 got the diary n+2 (Including information n+2,n+1,n.) Return 5 days to Jim n+3's universe n+3 —> Jim n+2 died
.
……
—> Jim s got his diary s (including information s, s-1,s-2…n+2,n+1,n,n-1…) Return 5 days to the universe s+1 where Jim s+1 does not exist —> Jim s is immortal and happy with Abby s Ground
Break;
One thing that is very shocking is that this variable is an extremely small variable, which only affects a little each time, especially the death of the protagonist, which is almost the same. Jim and Abby may need to travel hundreds of times to change Even if there is a sentence in the diary, change brings possibility. The entire system is a positive feedback loop, and there will eventually be a stable solution after hundreds of millions of iterations: there is a possibility that Abby completes the diary or Jim survives. This is Abby's motivation. If you want to make Abby a constant as Jim thought at the beginning, every universe will become the same, and Jim will die in the end.
I am very touched that at the end, Abby i sent away Jim i to find Jim i-1 with joy. She hopes that this is the last crossing (iteration) and that Jim i-1 can recover, but this possibility is more than 100 million. One in 10,000. As the saying goes, ten years of repairing can be done on the same boat. Just imagine how many years it will take to repair Jim and Abby in the end. A word from a professor of physics in Cambridge impressed me deeply. He said that the highest state of physics is actually philosophy.
(Please forgive the style of writing in science and engineering.)
First, I will introduce the heroine Abby and explain the important ins and outs of the dialogue at around 1:00 in the movie. She is a lover who was taken care of by the boss of a big company, and at the same time set up a set for the boss of the male protagonist Jim. She had read articles about the male protagonist Jim and the time machine in the early years, and at the same time she had written a novel based on this theme. In the novel, the protagonist's name is John and the prototype is Jim (insensitive to foreign names may be confused). Due to a blunder, Abby was sent by the boss to get Jim down, and at this time she discovered that she had actually become one of the parties involved in this series of time travel. When Abby narrates the plot of the novel, it is fictitious and true, suggesting for the first time that the novel is inspired by a true story, but it has not yet been completed. She herself really fell in love with Jim during her relationship, but the time they were together was destined to be very short, which was the reason for all her actions afterwards.
The Jim line is introduced below, which is also the highlight of this movie.
(Generally time travel movies are divided into two types: closed-loop type and parallel universe type. In the closed-loop type, time travellers cannot change anything, or the changed things have already happened. This kind of movie is very simple to deal with. The protagonist passes through in the later period, and then explains the ins and outs. That’s right. Parallel universes are too divergent, easily broken and unconvincing. The movie "Synchronicity" combines the two very well at this point.) The
first thing to note is that it is not just a parallel universe Jim During the journey, there are many Jim in many universes, and every time he is different, he goes to another parallel universe. We number different universes and Jim, and use the following list to show the process of traversal.
—> Jim1
—> Jim1 returns for 5 days to Jim2’s universe 2 —> Jim1 is dead.
—> Jim2 returns for 5 days to Jim3’s universe 3 —> Jim2 is dead.
—> Jim3 returns for 5 days to Jim4’s universe 4 —> Jim3 is dead.
—> Jim4 returns for 5 days to Jim5’s universe 5 —> Jim4 is dead.
…
—> Jim n returns for 5 days to Jim n+1’s universe n +1 —> Jim is immortal and lives with Abby happily ever since.
This is not a closed loop or simple parallel universe, but an iterative algorithm solution to a parallel universe.
Why does each crossing produce a new universe? The reason is that Abby is a "variable", and the medium is Abby's diary (fiction). In universe m, before Abby m meets Jim m-1 and Jim m at the entrance of the laboratory, her diary m should be the same. She fell in love with Jim during the boss's mission and tried to use her own way to make them love or stay together longer. Abby is a "variable" because she uses the same diary (fiction) to accumulately record the emotions between her and Jim, and allows Jim to take it (the information on it) through it, or that every diary exists The content that is different from the previous cosmic diary (or there is an increase), in short, because of the different content of this diary, Jim will travel to different parallel universes, make different choices, and the whole world has the possibility of slight changes. (Such as the bartender changes or Jim does not exist at all). Her simple purpose is to increase the time and memory of being with Jim during this long iterative process, and continue through the diary ("Time is our only currency" repeatedly appears in the movie). An indispensable reason here is that Abby also has a deep understanding of time travel and parallel universes .
One detail is that there is an infinity symbol in the diary (horizontal 8), which represents ouroboros in the West. The metaphor has no head and no tail. In the discipline of cybernetics, it represents a certain beginning with random changes. What is this change itself? Important, what is important is that once the changing trend is formed, the entire system will automatically run down and reach stability.
So the list of traversal should be supplemented as follows:
…
—> Jim n got the diary n (including information n, n-1, n-2.) and returned to the universe n+1 of Jim n+1 for 5 days —> Jim n died.
—> Jim n+1 got the diary n+1 (including information n+1,n,n-1.) Return 5 days to Jim n+2's universe n+2 —> Jim n+1 died.
—> Jim n+2 got the diary n+2 (Including information n+2,n+1,n.) Return 5 days to Jim n+3's universe n+3 —> Jim n+2 died
.
……
—> Jim s got his diary s (including information s, s-1,s-2…n+2,n+1,n,n-1…) Return 5 days to the universe s+1 where Jim s+1 does not exist —> Jim s is immortal and happy with Abby s Ground
Break;
One thing that is very shocking is that this variable is an extremely small variable, which only affects a little each time, especially the death of the protagonist, which is almost the same. Jim and Abby may need to travel hundreds of times to change Even if there is a sentence in the diary, change brings possibility. The entire system is a positive feedback loop, and there will eventually be a stable solution after hundreds of millions of iterations: there is a possibility that Abby completes the diary or Jim survives. This is Abby's motivation. If you want to make Abby a constant as Jim thought at the beginning, every universe will become the same, and Jim will die in the end.
I am very touched that at the end, Abby i sent away Jim i to find Jim i-1 with joy. She hopes that this is the last crossing (iteration) and that Jim i-1 can recover, but this possibility is more than 100 million. One in 10,000. As the saying goes, ten years of repairing can be done on the same boat. Just imagine how many years it will take to repair Jim and Abby in the end. A word from a professor of physics in Cambridge impressed me deeply. He said that the highest state of physics is actually philosophy.
End. The
following is a more interesting analysis, not a personal thought, not impossible.
The whole story is Abby's novels and daydreams. He was taken care of by the boss of the company but yearned for love. At this time, an accident occurred in the company funded by the boss. Abby wrote a novel based on this theme and time travel. Jim met him at the bar. The two flirted and fell in love. Jim's knowledge of physics helped her complete this traversal novel.
following is a more interesting analysis, not a personal thought, not impossible.
The whole story is Abby's novels and daydreams. He was taken care of by the boss of the company but yearned for love. At this time, an accident occurred in the company funded by the boss. Abby wrote a novel based on this theme and time travel. Jim met him at the bar. The two flirted and fell in love. Jim's knowledge of physics helped her complete this traversal novel.
