The fable at the beginning of the film - the superstitious pigeon. The pigeons first found themselves with food at the push of a button. Later, scientists set the feeding device to turn on every twenty seconds. The pigeons found that they did not need to press the button, the feeder would turn on, so they would also think about what they did to turn the feeder on, if it happened to be fanning at the time. With a flick of the wing, it mistakenly thinks the action caused the feeder to open, so it keeps flapping its wings.
When people are faced with what happened, they always think that they did something special that caused it to happen. - In fact, everything is set up by a higher being (scientist/God). Are we the observed pigeons?
This fable, however, seems to only deal with the time-space context of the movie: unborn babies remember everything that happened. (all options) - this setup is more complicated than "Arrival", "Arrival" seems to be a bit more "negative", everything is fixed, like the movement of a piece of music, we just replay everything according to the movement Just for a while. It's an eternal repetition on a loop.
The establishment of "People with No Surname" is that there are multiple options at the same time. So the life we experience is no longer playing music repeatedly, but is like an interactive game (such as "The Invisible Guardian"), with the right to choose (although in the linear time view, the choice cannot be reversed, just like smoke cannot return to cigarettes , the mixed ketchup and mashed potatoes cannot be separated again, the principle of entropy growth governs the orderly development of the world in a certain direction).
This establishment seems to hand over subjectivity to us to a certain extent, but in fact, it is only a choice in a limited combination. This is what Nietzsche called God throwing dice. On the one hand, the game of dice is full of variety and uncertainty, but on the other hand, the number of combinations of dice is certain. Therefore, the result of the falling of the dice is nothing but the difference after the repeated actions of countless dice rolls.
In the movie, Nemo said that if you don't choose, you have all the options. It's as if to say that without rolling the dice, we have all the possible combinations.
"Children are innocence and oblivion, a new beginning, a new game, a spinning wheel, a primitive movement, a divine affirmation."
- "Thus spake Zarathustra"
Only children can play this game. The child of the forgotten angel who forgot to touch his lips.
While watching the movie, I thought that Nemo didn't seem to think about the meaning of life if everything had already happened (called Déjà vu by his mother). I wonder if this feels like if you were an interactive game, you already knew the side stories that all the options might bring. Would you still have the urge to keep playing?
Perhaps Nemo was a superman in the true Nietzschean sense.
What a person will become in the end depends on the choices made when knowing the real life.
Although the effect of the movie is - Anna is true love
And there is a kind of life where he lived until 2092.
So is there really a right choice?
Although perhaps part of the fun lies in combing through each storyline logically, exploring the different outcomes of each fork, and then figuring out, like a game of reasoning, what choices Nemo made in 2092. But perhaps, the "eternal return" embodied in the whole story, the repeated experiences in a breath of despair and nihilism, are the truly moving parts themselves.
"What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end: what is lovely in man is that he is a transition and a decline."
- "Thus spake Zarathustra"
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