The future has changed when you see the future

Haylie 2022-04-19 09:01:58

I saw this film around 2004, and I didn't feel anything at the time. I thought the plot was okay.
I had nothing to do today during the holiday, and I just watched this film on "A Date with a Good Film", so I watched it again.
Although as a commercial film, this film still has a good viewability, but upon closer inspection, I suddenly feel that this film actually has many bugs in logic.

First of all, the 20 items left by the male pig are prepared under the condition that the male pig knows his own destiny. With 20 items, there are 20 kinds of changes in fate, plus the kind of natural change that did not make any changes at first. The fates that occurred, that is, the male pig had to know these 21 fates in order to send the 20 items and know their validity. And since male pigs can change the future by predicting the future, predict, change, and constantly correct. Then the result of the destruction of the world should be the same, unless the person who uses the machine is a pervert. Now that you know the future, and also know the worse future caused by preventing or avoiding this future, why not continue to correct it? Since the male pig can correct 21 times for his own future, how can the world be destroyed so easily?

However, from the perspective of the film, the male pig just saw his own destiny and the final demise of the world. He read it over and over again, and over and over again, his fate has not changed. The second time I entered the laboratory, the machine was obviously going to be destroyed. The machine was still so stubborn in predicting that the world would be destroyed, and the male pig was shot and died. But when the villain No. 2 checked the machine, he foresaw the explosion of the machine! What logic is this! ! ! ! ! ! ? ? ? ?

In fact, this is very unreasonable. In fact, under normal circumstances, there are two preconditions: 1. If people can foresee their own future; 2. If the future can be changed. Then in fact, when you see the future, the future has already changed, and you will cause some situations to happen and some situations to be avoided because of your foreknowledge. That is, your future becomes unknown again. You can't know the future again unless you look at the machine again. That is, after you know the future, the changed future becomes unknowable again. You can only know the new future by constantly looking at it. In some cases, the future is here This situation is always unknowable unless you follow it strictly according to some future that you feel comfortable with, but in fact it is very difficult.

If you want a kind of destiny to be executed, it may be to clear this kind of knowledge after knowing the satisfactory destiny, make it return to this precognition point, and make this kind of destiny happen in one's own unknown! That is, for example, you keep using the time machine until you are satisfied with the 107th time, that is, after you know the 106th fate, your thinking and memory will lead to this 107th perfect fate, and you clear the 107th predicted fate. memory, keeping it in the first 106 situations it knows. But under the domino effect of the butterfly effect, in fact, unless the memory is perfectly cleared, any small change will actually change the fate.

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Extended Reading

Paycheck quotes

  • [after having his three-year memory erased]

    Michael Jennings: What happened?

  • Jimmy Rethrick: Michael, you're done!