Can't change the past, but can affect the future

Sandrine 2022-04-22 07:01:24

On the basis of not having read the original book, I watched the movie, and I personally feel that it is a good movie. Although there are some loopholes and exaggerations, the imagination and potential of people are boundless. Who can expect thousands of It will look like a year later, just like the human beings thousands of years ago would not have thought that human civilization could develop to the present.
After watching it, I feel that the most inspiring thing is that every second and every minute gradually accumulates into your present appearance. The male protagonist in the movie cannot change the past in the end, but he can change the future. Although the movie is a bit exaggerated and abrupt at the end, But the symbolic meaning of this plot is worth considering. what if. . . Suddenly I think about what I would be like now and what kind of life I would be living if I hadn’t met some people or one thing in my life. Time is always associated with chance and destiny, and life is a series of choices.
The significance of knowing this is that I will be more keen to grasp and predict in the face of opportunities in the future, I will simulate more than a thousand different lives with different endings in my mind, put myself in the position to imagine the future, and try not to do anything. A decision you regret. But then again, who can predict the future, if possible, perhaps the surprises of life will no longer be surprises.

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The Time Machine quotes

  • Über-Morlock: You built your time machine because of Emma's death. If she had lived, it would never have existed. So how could you use your machine to go back in time and save her? You are the inescapable result of your tragedy, just as I am the inescapable result of you. You have your answer. Now go.

  • Über-Morlock: Who are you to question 800,000 years... of evolution?

    Alexander Hartdegen: This is, this is a perversion of every natural law.

    Über-Morlock: [grabs him by the throat] And what is time travel but your pathetic attempted to try to control the world around you? Your futile effort to have a question answered? You think I don't know you, Alexander? I can look inside your memories, your nightmares, your dreams. You're a man haunted by those two most terrible words: What if?