The story is absurd but does not hinder my touch

Bobbie 2022-04-20 09:01:27

I know this movie because I just watched "Wonderful Flower". Li Dan mentioned it. He said that it may involve spoilers. The protagonist is a person who lived for 14,000 years. I thought the spoiler would appear at the end, and it would happen. Many stories, in the end everyone found that he was such a different person.

After watching the movie for a while, this spoiler appeared, and I didn't even think that the entire plot behind it happened in a room like this, and it was a conversation between a group of people.

Li Dan analogized that he listened to the discussion between Professor Xue and Professor Liu. It was like in the movie, the two workers who helped move the house. The people in the house talked loudly, while the workers simply moved the furniture out. I don't know. Therefore, most of us are in our lives. It's just these two porters. I saw the same comment in the comments.

However, when I saw this plot, if they hadn't mentioned it, I might not have thought that way at all. I didn't care about the appearance of these two people at all, and just regarded them as the need for the plot. I don't know if the director has such an intention, but I think it's very reasonable, especially at the end of the movie, the psychology professor said that the protagonist was mentally ill, and said that he made up such a huge lie to deceive everyone, and the protagonist finally admitted it. thing. There was an indescribable emotion that came over me in that clip that made me uncomfortable. Yeah, what about the experience of 14,000 years, and what about these rhetoric, it won't have much impact on our real life. It's even more for the people in the movie, even if everything is true, even if they know this untold secret, it just makes their lives more confusing, their lifelong beliefs are broken Now, they are scientists, university professors, in a high position of human intelligence, but they are completely confused and confused in this story, and then completely angry in the "lie". I don't know if their last anger contained a bit of luck. I was glad that the beliefs I had built up in my life were not broken, and took advantage of the anger to leave this place and this person. Because they didn't really go into a rage or even cry.

In a scene at the end of the movie, the black scientist stops when he sees a police car coming in the direction he came from, but doesn't look back. According to common sense, such a scene shows that something serious must have happened, but he didn't turn around after thinking for a while, maybe he was also afraid, afraid of going back to the place where he almost collapsed just now, afraid that something beyond his comprehension would happen again. things, and shake the psychological defense line of their own reconstruction.

What struck me most about this movie was their reaction after the protagonist first started telling them the so-called truth. They questioned him, with disdain, and even started to attack. At that moment, it made me feel that the trust between people is like a paper window, it will be broken if you poke it. Even if you are a friend of ten years, you appreciate him and love him, but when he creates a kind of When the outright "attack", this trust collapsed instantly. But in another perspective, even now after watching the movie, even if I know it's just a fictional story, I still think, if I were one of them listening to the story, I wouldn't believe any of John's words, I would think this is a total lunatic who made up the story of it all for the sake of attention, and it just couldn't have happened. I even think that this movie is an unrealistic brain opening, giving a grand topic, but it can't fill the fullness at all. Especially when the protagonist says he is Jesus, I think all the stories are a joke. And the scientists in the movie gradually began to believe him in their constant questions and answers. At that moment, I felt that even the smartest people can't find any flaws in a perfect illusion. You will be led astray, you will be deceived, and you will be caught in a trap. But maybe it's because they're scientists that they know that there's something really unexplainable right now, and with a certain probability it could be true. Like the movie says, a lot of inventions come true from art, and they're ridiculous in the first place. Ridiculous.

In the middle of the movie, after the psychologist came, after listening to his story, he learned that he was a person who lived from 14,000 years ago to the present. Forget the memories of past lives, instead of living all the time. Because the psychologist had just lost his wife yesterday, and the next day someone told him he would never die. The kind of sadness and resentment when the psychologist pointed a gun at him, turned and left, came back with guilt, apologized to him, and finally came out to accuse him, asking him to admit that he was a liar, all this was a lie , just made up stories. But at the end, he found out that this man was his own father and died of exhaustion. The person who least believed in him became the last person who had to believe him.

In the few minutes I watched the movie and listened to the ending song, I didn't know what prompted me to write down these thoughts. During the few times I stopped typing and looked back, I found a lot of incoherent and repetitive semantics. , I even still think that this is a "bad movie", which is extremely ridiculous, but it gave me a lot of touch. It was also the first time I came into contact with such a film form, and I began to understand the charm of the film more and more.

In real life, from ancient times to the present, immortality has always been a topic people seek. In science, human consciousness will never disappear, so theoretically we may live forever as long as our organs do not fail. Artificial hearts have been developed, and artificial livers and other organs are also being gradually researched. Perhaps one day in the future, human beings can really achieve immortality. I don't know what the human beings were after at that time. If we are immortal, we have to watch the people around us leave one by one; if everyone is immortal, time brings boredom and boredom, what else can we pursue?

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The Man from Earth quotes

  • Dr. Will Gruber: If I shot you John, you're immortal? Would you survive this?

    John Oldman: I never said I was immortal, just old. I might die. And then you could wonder the rest of your incarcerated life what you shot...

  • Dr. Will Gruber: We will die, you will live. Will you come to my funeral, John.

    Sandy: You've gone too far, John didn't ask to be what he is.

    Dr. Will Gruber: And we did not ask to hear about it...