I remember sitting in a coffee shop with my friends and chatting two years ago, and once discussed the philosophical topic of "what is life". I forgot whether it was her or the answer I gave myself: life is a process of constant choice. In these two movies, the protagonist faces such a situation. Especially when they are faced with the possibility of being able to come over again, facing the future or going back to the past, the "choice" is more obvious and urgently placed in front of the protagonist: to choose or not to choose (in fact, the so-called not to choose is itself The choice of giving up), how to choose, the causes and consequences of the choice...These are all the problems that the protagonists have to face, and their respective life crises are closely related to this list of problems. If Sam (Sam Rockwell) in "The Moon" is "locked" in the past because of being cloned time and time again, then Dr. Chris Kelvin (George Clooney) of Solaris /George Clooney) is living in the present. However, Sam finally chose to put aside the past and face the present; Kevin chose to stay in the past and start again.
Take Kevin as an example. He is a widower who has lost his wife. Although he loved his wife so much, he left after a quarrel, causing his wife to commit suicide to end her life. Since then, he has fallen into nostalgia and self-blame for his wife. And when he was sent to the space station, he found that the dead people could reappear in a material form. The appearance of these humanoid substances in the space station is not random. Because those human-shaped substances are related to the unforgettable memories of the people living in the space station. And in an occluded environment like the space station, people must face their past directly. The only choice they can make. Either like Dr Gordon (Viola Davis) who is also trapped in the space station, leaving the past behind, boarding the spacecraft and returning to Earth, facing the future and restarting his own life; or like Kevin Staying in the space station like that, and being with memory, even turning oneself into that "material", so that it can be substituted into another space and go back to the past.
It takes courage to face the future, but does it not need determination to face the past? No one can say who is right and who is wrong in their respective choices, because many times the choice is not an easy decision. This is why many people regret certain choices they have made, hoping to have a chance to come back. However, movies are movies after all. People in reality cannot go back to the past, nor can they fly to the "Solaris Star" like the protagonist to have close contact with their beloved deceased, so as to smooth out their inner experiences. Emotional trauma. All we can do is to make good choices about the present, because no matter what the future is, the present will eventually become the past in our memory, and these deep or shallow or "sleeping" memories will pop up from time to time to remind ourselves that we have done it. s Choice.
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