To be or appear to be

Obie 2022-01-03 08:01:59

The basic point of view
The point of view of this review is based on the following understanding: the opposition between supernatural phenomena and science is just a bottle, and the old bottle is filled with new wine. There is no right or wrong of the two in this film, no one who wins or loses, and there is no absolute fairness and justice. For friends who are not good at this and can't accept this fact, you can say "I didn't spent 300 bucks to see hamlet." and ignored this comment.
The director
asked the audience the following questions. Why have you come here tonight? What are you hoping to see? Do you think I should surprise you? You think I should entertain you? What are you looking at so closely? What do you know about me? How much do you want to Believe?
In fact, the director did not have too much emotion in the film, and the commercial elements of the whole film focused on suspense and supernatural phenomena. "I did not care too much about anything during the filming process. Everything is I did it in my usual way. During the shooting, I tried to maintain an objective and neutral attitude, because in this way, I can shoot this story about the spirit as true as possible, and have authenticity to the elements in the story. The response to the letter. If you have some expectations for this story and the plot, then you will definitely compare the plot, characters and props in your heart, and then consider what should be included in the movie."
What can you really know? What can you really trust? What are your doubts? What are your certainties? What you call truth? For the above questions, the director just asks questions, and the answer depends on every audience, everyone has his own in his heart Answer.
Questions
to ask: which Simon Silver safe place is not money but a white towel.
Answer: To remove the stigma is more important to him than money.
Question: What does it mean that two birds hit the glass (blinds) and one dead bird is placed at the door?
Answer: The first time the bird hit the glass was the explosion of Tom's super powers, the second time the dead bird was placed at the door, Simon Silver had discovered Tom's super powers, and the third time the bird hit the blinds was Tom's no surprise to his super powers.
Q: Does the dialogue that Simon Silver had with Tom before the last performance means that he already knows that Tom has special powers?
Answer: Yes.
Q: What does Margaret's death mean to Tom?
Answer: Please answer on your behalf.
People's Choice--To be or appear to be
Life is choice. Becoming something and becoming something in the eyes of others is a more difficult choice, it can be said to be a painful struggle.
In the film, the theoretical cornerstone of rational actors is challenged. The movie thinks that Man is essentially rational is a false proposition. Everyone is struggling with the choice to be or appear to be, and unfortunately, quite a few people make irrational choices.
The little girl’s struggle is to achieve the purpose of moving without losing her father’s affection. She can only pretend to be innocent by lying and pretending to be afraid of deceiving her father.
Margaret's struggle comes from the bravery on the surface and the fragility on the inside. She worked madly to get rid of the feeling of loneliness and despair caused by lack of family affection. Simon Silver's female assistant ran out of her as a Lost lonely woman.
Tom's struggle comes from repressing and denying himself (a supernatural phenomenon that happens to himself) to gain recognition from others (on the surface, it is Margaret, but in fact is the mother, and the deeper level is authority).
Simon Silver’s struggle comes from, "We can go forward with lies, but we can never go back." This can be seen from the white towel he wiped his (black) hands clean instead of money in his safe. One or two. He kept saying I don't always demand payment for my services, did you know that? At least, not in money. There's other ways of paying for things, on the one hand, making money at the price of $4 million per "sharing".
Our worldview
The case of a boy with autism is to explore the functions and limitations of our current worldview.
In the 1940s and 1960s, regarding the etiology of autism, it was generally believed that improper parenting methods caused autism.
From the 1960s to the 1970s, Rutter’s research pointed out that autistic behaviors are more reasonable if they are considered to be caused by developmental disabilities from birth to early childhood. As a result, autism is gradually regarded as a physical developmental disorder that has nothing to do with parental care. During this period, Lotter published a new diagnostic criteria for autism, emphasizing the three aspects of social interaction, speech and communication, and repetitive activities as the basic criteria, and abandoning the Kanner diagnostic criteria about "special skills and attractive appearance." "Wait two. Later, on the basis of Lotter's criteria, extensive epidemiological investigations and studies were carried out. The generally accepted "autism incidence rate of 4-5 per ten thousand people" was the most important research result at that time.
In the 1980s, the research on autism entered a new stage. People began to abandon the hypothesis of the cause of the so-called "improper parental care", explore the cause of autism from the biological field, and completely separate autism from schizophrenia in terms of clinical symptom identification and clinical diagnosis. Kolvin's research shows that autism has nothing to do with adult psychotic disorders, especially adult schizophrenia. "DSM-Ⅲ" published in 1980 first regarded childhood autism as a generalized developmental disorder. Later, with the deepening of the research on autism, it was gradually realized that autism is a diffuse central nervous system developmental disorder caused by a variety of environmental factors under the action of certain genetic factors. On the basis of this understanding, many researches have been carried out from molecular genetics to neuroimmunity, functional imaging, neuroanatomy and neurochemistry. People are trying to find the cause of autism from these studies. But until now, there is still no hypothesis that can fundamentally and perfectly explain the cause of autism.
Although there is no perfect explanation for the cause of autism, its research tendency has gradually shifted from the theory of environmental determination to the theory of genetic determination. Is it possible that the indeterminism, fatalism, and mechanical determinism that have been defeated in the field of quantum physics have been restored from the field of genetics?

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Red Lights quotes

  • Margaret Matheson: Ever heard of Occam's Razor?

    Policeman: Occam's Razor?

    Margaret Matheson: When I hear the drumming of hooves, I don't think unicorns, I think horses.

  • Tom Buckley: Listen to me. YOU are the only guy separating the world from stupidity at this point in time, okay?