Smart pigeons quickly learn the connection between "button" and "raise the partition - get food". But when the baffles are set to automatically raise every 20 seconds, the pigeon thinks, "What did I do to get this result?" If it's flapping its wings at this point, it's going to keep doing that and keep going. Be sure that this action is the decisive factor in raising the partition. We call this behavior "the pigeon superstition."
So why are we not pigeons in life practice? It is difficult for us to gain a thorough insight into the "law of causality", and we can only rely on inherent experience to draw "insights" and "conjectures", and establish "correlations" between actions and results. The law of causality is elusive, and the unpredictable butterfly effect injects enormous randomness, chance and uncertainty into life. This seems pessimistic, as if we are struggling to make the right choice. On a chessboard this is called "passive coercion", and the best action may be to stand still.
"Nobody" (Mr.Nobody, 2010) is a film about "choice". The film is extremely unfriendly to the general audience. In terms of subject matter, there are love, natural science and fantasy. In terms of narrative techniques, the sequence, flashbacks, and interlude are all available. The three clues of red, blue and yellow go hand in hand, and there is a "insanity-style" blend. There are also metaphors of "leaves" and "water" as symbols, and the picture constantly jumps from fantasy to reality. The world view adopts a single retrospective timeline, similar to the repeated reading and clearance in video games ("death" or "regret" triggers the reading of files), affecting the past will change the future, which is different from the "multiverse" in other sci-fi works. s". (no pedal three boats)
To put it simply, Nemo's parents met because of a "fallen leaf", and then they divorced because of their discord. The 9-year-old "Nemo" made the choice of "following his father" or "following his mother" on the station platform, and through this encounter A story of three women presenting seven (fantasy) life endings. The three women are Anna (red), Elise (blue), and Ginny (yellow), representing the three normal love states of "true love", "love but not", and "get but not love".
PS: The full name of the protagonist is Nemo Nobody (no surname and no name), Nemo is Latin, meaning no one in English. The song "Nemo" by the Finnish symphonic power metal band Nightwish (Nightwish) is the description of "Anonymous". So the protagonist can be understood as an inexistent character, perhaps referring to everyone who is reading this article.
1. Red Love: Anna (Choose Mother)
Branch 1: Accept Anna's swimming invitation and fall in love with Anna. After buying the wrong jeans, it caused the butterfly effect of the rain, lost Anna's contact information, and was lost in the sea of people.
Branch 2: Accept Anna's swimming invitation and fall in love with Anna. Nemo becomes a professor, but drowns in a traffic accident after hitting a bird.
Branch 3: Rejecting Anna's invitation to swim, missing Anna, and meeting Anna, who is a married wife, at the station many years later, and regretting it for the rest of her life.
The two are perverse, rebellious, ignoring the secular red tape, and their fiery red love full of hormones is enviable. The images filled with pink foam are vibrant without appearing sloppy or obscene. The director let the audience "see" love through details such as the hair stand up. In this "Anna chapter", the image of "water" as "love" appears again and again: the love at first sight when I saw Anna swimming when I was a child, the unwillingness of drowning to death, the persistence of deciding to have a swimming pool with Anna respectively, and Nemo when he grew up. The persistence of the swimming pool maintenance staff and the regret that the raindrops smeared Anna's phone number. The image of water and the strong fire-like Anna constitute a wonderful blend of water and fire.
2. Blue Unrequited Love: Elise (Choose Father)
Branch Line 4 (Fictional Novel Branch Line): He didn't hand over his love letter, he was racing to vent, and the "leaf leaves" were run over by the wheels and got into a vegetative state in a car accident. I wrote a travel note to Mars in my mind, scattered Elise's ashes on the surface of Mars, and died in a meteor swarm with the virtual Anna who was studying time.
Branch 5: Marry Elise. Elise suffers from severe depression, runs away from home because of her bad boy lover from the past, and becomes a hairdresser, but fails to recognize the person she misses. (Time is a butcher knife)
Branch 6: Submit a love letter and marry Elise. After the wedding was completed, Elise died on the spot when a fuel tanker exploded after she came out of the church. Nemo was disfigured and became a professor. Nemo's colleague and Anna's husband drowned in a traffic accident, but Anna was unsuccessful. (corresponding to branch line 2)
Love and not being is the emotional experience that resonates the most, like melancholy blue. Nemo, who has become autistic and silent due to taking care of his sick and weak father and lacks normal social skills, can only foolishly tell boring knowledge such as the gravity of Mars and the composition of iron oxide on the surface of Mars in front of an emotional girl. The emotional force and the inability to communicate are distressing. After the marriage, Nemo tried his best to maintain their marriage. . Perhaps in the emotional world, choice is more important than effort. This line inserts the sci-fi scene of the space adventure, which, although not very important to the main plot, gives the film a unique look and feel experience.
3. The Yellow Betrayal: Ginny (Choose Father)
Branch 7: After being rejected by Elise, he became a scumbag, pursued Ginny in anger and got married. After marriage, she had a successful career, and got the disease "I am a winner in life but I am unhappy". Desire to seek death, took the initiative to pretend to be someone else's identity, and was shot by a killer.
The yellow line is the least inked line in the film. And Ginny seems to have an oriental imagination of the western world: oriental face, superior economic conditions, poor communication, forbearance, resignation, loess-like simplicity. Ginny is a smart girl who sees through everything, but chooses to bear it silently. The swimming pool configured in the mansion and the red convertible luxury car all imply the true intention of "Multiple Nemo": Anna.
As the line says "If you mix mashed potatoes with sauce, you can't get it back. The smoke comes out of Dad's cigarette and you can't go back. You can't start over, so choice matters. , you have to make the right choice. But as long as you don't make a choice, everything is still possible." This seems to be Schrödinger's view of love: as long as you haven't made the final choice, you are "in love with everyone" and "in love with no one." The superimposed state of "love" collapses only at the moment when a choice is made. (I did not encourage everyone to build fish ponds)
This is very similar to Michelangelo's sculpture concept: "I saw an angel in marble, so I kept carving until I made him free... In fact, this form already exists in marble, I just put the unnecessary Part of it has been removed." As the film progresses, all fantasy branches come to an end. The imagined future world also collapsed, and the timeline returned to reality. In 9-year-old Nemo's "Precognition", he saw seven "forms" in the "marble" with sad endings. What will happen to today's little Nemo?
The choice of life is so difficult, and it affects the whole body. Under this cruel theme, there seems to be a different kind of selfishness hidden by the director. Remember old Nemo reminiscing about the past? The timeline once faded back to before he was born, and he said that the forgotten angel forgot to put a lip print on his lips, so he remembers everything, and can even foresee the future (at the cost of peeing his pants), little Nemo once Predicted the scene where my father accidentally knocked down a passerby.
Standing on the platform again, Nemo learned the lessons of the previous seven times and resolutely chose a new path. He ran into the woods and blew the fallen leaves that symbolized fate. In branch 1, Nemo lost the news of Anna, waited on the bench in the lighthouse, and boiled himself into the shape of Jesus. In the dream, he saw himself rising up, and Anna stood beside him and gently stroked his eyebrows. When he woke up, he drew a circle with chalk on the place where Anna had stood. And the fallen leaves that made Nemo's parents meet also floated into the circle, bringing about the miraculous reunion of Nemo and Anna.
Although the film has been rendering the fate of the ill-fated, the director must be a firm romantic in his bones. The big bang brought about the beginning of time and the expansion of space, and things tended to become more and more disordered. This is the principle of entropy. But when the gravitational force checks and balances the expansion force of the universe, the universe enters the contraction stage, that is, the Big Crunch. Will time be reversed? The virtual Anna who studies time has said (Spin 4) that at 5:50 am on February 12, 2092, the universe will enter this phase. Things began to go back to the past, Nemo's parents reconciled as before, and little Nemo returned to little Anna's side. As Nemo's father said when he was born to choose his parents: Have you ever heard of fate?
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