Schrodinger's cat

Adelbert 2022-04-21 09:02:17

The cat repeatedly mentioned in the movie should be Schrodinger's Cat, the cat that was alive and dead before opening the box. This is a paradox that illustrates the unpredictability of the field of quantum mechanics, the core idea of ​​this experiment is that because there is no observer when the event occurs, the cat in the box exists simultaneously in all its possible states (both dead and alive) .

In the final film, the hero himself is like a cat in a box in his sleep, both dead and alive, in a world that no one knows about. This metaphor is not only a vernacular metaphor for the transformed human body, but also a philosophical metaphor for the final meaning of the protagonist's life.

Maybe the screenwriter wants to hint something, but the repeated lines of the cat in the film may not be suitable for the theme of the film. This important narration should be closely related to the spirit of this article. However, it is used to describe the last life form of the protagonist. I think it's more appropriate, because whether the male protagonist is still alive, from a materialist point of view, he is no longer alive in a strict sense, but from an idealist point of view, he is still alive. Perhaps my strange understandings stemmed from the director's arrangement of the film's themes too loosely.

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  • Kenton 2022-04-24 07:01:08

    3 stars above. The most beautiful part of men and women digging each other... The ending is too good.

  • Shakira 2021-12-16 08:01:04

    Is there a reason to star because of the ending?

Repo Men quotes

  • Remy: I guarantee, you'll run out of Repo Men before I run out of ways of killing them.

  • [first lines]

    Remy: I remember reading about a scientist. He had a thing for cats and boxes. What he'd do is take a cat and lock it in a box. And then, just to make things interesting, he'd also put this machine in there that released poison gas. Now, the scientist didn't actually know when the machine would release the poison and when it wouldn't. The only way he could tell for sure was to look inside the box. Here's the science bit. Until he opened it up, he figured the cat had to be alive and dead. See, if either one was possible, then both had to be possible, too. Ever since I read about that cat, I can't get the story out of my head. Don't get me wrong, I don't give a fuck about the plight of small, furry animals. I just don't understand. How can anything be alive and dead at the same time?