We are all superstitious pigeons.
Each of these lives is the right one, every path is the right path, everything could have been anything else and would have this just much meaning. -Tennessee Williams
time
Stirred mashed potatoes and salad dressing can never be separated again, nor can the smoke from a burning cigarette shrink back.
Time is a dimension, it is irreversible.
That's why, the choice is difficult.
choose
The countless forked roads on the rails, the various moves on the chessboard, the falling leaves and the directions of drifting away... Like this world full of countless possibilities, we are born with countless choices, active or forced. Chocolate or cake for dessert? Heads or tails of the coin? Which little girl will be the future wife, red, blue or yellow?
At the railway station, my parents are about to say goodbye. Should I choose to go with my mother or stay with my father?
The worldview of the entire film takes place in the nine-year-old who cannot decide his own life.
However, as long as you don't choose, everything is still possible .
In chess, this is called "passive coercion" (Zugzwang), and the only possible move is to not move.
do not choose
I am reminded of a gift I "received" when I was young.
I saw a notebook at the stationery store over the weekend, it looks very nice. But I ran out of pocket money. In class on Monday, I kept talking about that much-needed book. The boys at the same table listened carefully, giggling while listening, as if planning something.
Tuesday. I thought he would show up with that book, but no. He told me regretfully: I searched for a long time in the stationery store, but I couldn't find it. The book must be so beautiful that it was sold!
So over time, the gift I never received became the best gift in the world. Because I can't choose it, it can be anything.
He can be anything.
can't choose
Before, he was unable to make a choice because he didn't know what would happen. Now that he knows what will happen, he is still unable to make a choice.
The male protagonist has the ability to foresee the future, and can see the possibilities and outcomes of all his choices.
We can't choose when we don't know, and we still can't choose when we know every possibility.
"You can't have both." People are indeed sensitive, greedy and fragile.
Sensitive, greedy, and vulnerable, because people are "superstitious pigeons".
superstitious pigeon
Looking back on the trajectory of every destiny of Mr. Nobody, he (all of us) prays every future future with the most sincere superstition, hoping that it will be the beginning of happiness. He (all of us) thought that happiness/true love could be earned by hard work.
The red girl gave his life the most meaning and the most joy. But not because Mr. Nobody voluntarily did something different than treating blue girls or treating yellow girls as a result. The tragedy of his destiny was not avoided because of his hard work and sincerity, and his happiness did not come because of his longing and pursuit. Occasionally, when the partition separating the food and the pigeons was opened for the first time, the pigeons had no idea what was coming behind that partition. It flapped its wings by accident, and it happened that food appeared at that time, so in order to get the food, it began to flap its wings in a daze, but the truth behind the food partition, as a pigeon, could never be known.
But we do not know the conditions behind the happiness we desire to achieve it. But what if happiness does not require conditions? Like the door that feeds the pigeons open and closed for no reason, love is such a natural thing that we don't need to flap our wings superstitiously and laboriously for it.
It turns out that true love is unavoidable.
if i love you
Not choosing to have you, not choosing to lose you, seems to be the best choice.
"It's better to forget each other in the rivers and lakes."
I will calculate the possibility of meeting you, I will calculate the possibility of losing you, I will be afraid of the passage of time with you, and I will look forward to a better or better future with you.
If I loved you, I would throw away all the seemingly best options. I will definitely choose you.
The Big Crunch - Nice to meet you
I really like the ending of the movie: The Big Crunch will happen in 2092, and people who live until then can experience miracles.
When the Big Crunch occurs, gravity begins to counterbalance the diffusion force of the universe, the universe will enter a contraction phase, and time may be reversed.
Go back in time and I will definitely meet you again.
At that time, I would also greet the process with a smile like Mr. Nobody. The dead can be resurrected. The broken vase of the parents is as good as their relationship. The little boy and the little girl picked up the stones one by one from the float by the river. What a naive ending.
Every treasure we cherish is a turning back in time.
Nice to meet you.
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