What are the aspects of "Transcendence" worth paying attention to?

Precious 2022-04-21 09:02:22

In the process of watching this movie, the tears kept lingering, and the mood was complicated (both depression and hope). I saw my own shadow in those students: those who were rebellious had no inner peace and lived without self-awareness. So the words the male protagonist said in class impressed me deeply: In the rest of our life force, 24 hours a day, it will drive us to work hard and lead us to perish in silence. So, in order to protect ourselves and prevent boredom from seeping into our minds, we must learn to stimulate our imagination by reading, to cultivate our own consciousness, our own beliefs, and we all need these skills to defend and guard ourselves. thought of.

If a person does not have his own consciousness and beliefs, he will easily lose his balance, do everything and do anything, and even go on a road of no return one day. The name of the movie is "transcendence", but at the end of the movie, it seems that only the male protagonist has been reborn in spirit.

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  • Henry Barthes: How are you to imagine anything if the images are always provided for you?

    Henry Barthes: Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false.

    Henry Barthes: Examples of this in everyday life: "Oh, I need to be pretty to be happy. I need surgery to be pretty. I need to be thin, famous, fashionable." Our young men today are being told that women are whores, bitches, things to be screwed, beaten, shit on, and shamed. This is a marketing holocaust. Twenty-four hours a day for the rest of our lives, the powers that be are hard at work dumbing us to death.

    Henry Barthes: So to defend ourselves, and fight against assimilating this dullness into our thought processes, we must learn to read. To stimulate our own imagination, to cultivate our own consciousness, our own belief systems. We all need skills to defend, to preserve our own minds.

  • Henry Barthes: [agitated at assisted living nurse] Let me be very clear here, you stop neglecting his needs, or I will start fucking with yours! I will have you fired! Then it's going to be your family! Your children are gonna be at risk! You got it?