After watching the seventh episode, I thought of Zizek's comment on "The Matrix" for the first time. When Morpheus found Neo, he showed Neo two pills, and after eating the blue one in his left hand, Neo would fall asleep, and when he woke up, he would forget all about it, and continue his current life;
Eat the red pill in his right hand and he will show Neo how deep the rabbit hole is.
Žižek pointed out that the red pill represents reality, the blue one represents fantasy, and what he wants is the third pill, that is, to reveal that reality is contained in fantasy. no longer exists.
Later, the progress of the plot of "The Matrix" coincides with Lao Qi's insight. We know that very few people living in the matrix try to break away from the matrix. If they are not properly handled, it will lead to the collapse of the entire matrix system. To avoid this, the Matrix abandoned them and returned them to the real world. In this sense, the real world exists to balance the virtual system of the matrix, which is what Lao Qi said "reality is contained in the virtual".
Besides Žižek, I also thought of Shi Tiesheng's words: "History was not discovered when it happened, and it has been reconstructed when it was discovered." In more cases, truth and fiction are not clearly separated. Novels such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms are all "three-part historical facts and seven-part Romance". In "Mirror", Liu Cixin also revealed the "truth" that Marco Polo had never been to China. He gave up halfway because of the long journey, and then used what he heard on the road to show off to his inmates, and eventually became a world-famous traveler. . "Truth" has been diluted. According to word of mouth, "illusion" and "truth" together constitute the "reality" we know well. In this sense, the question of "What is reality" should be replaced by "What consists reality", that is, what constitutes "reality" and in what proportion does it constitute "reality". By changing the way of questioning, we may be able to have a better grasp of "reality".
The episode 7 is called "Living in the shadows", rather than "shadows" here means "virtual", I prefer to think of it as the so-called "reality". The truth is like the scorching sun, and the virtual means the boundless darkness. Where the truth and the virtual are intertwined, there is a shade of trees that are either pleasant or too hot or too dark, which is "reality". In the seventh episode, the male protagonist is initially in a constructed "reality", although the "reality" at this time contains very little "truth". Later, as the proportion of the "truth" increased, he demanded to face the "truth," even though he didn't realize at this point that he wasn't ready. And when the shade on his head was removed, he was left unprotected under the scorching sun, and what awaited him was the fate of being baked to death, and it is not difficult to understand that his spirit collapsed.
ps: Except for the last picture from "Love Dead", the rest are from "The Pervert Movie Guide". Invasion and deletion.
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