Cogito ergo sum

Wellington 2022-04-19 09:02:15

If someone asks me: what is truth, what is truth, what is truth;
if I have hesitated, hesitated, and considered before,
then after watching this film, I will have enough courage to answer - what exists is real.
But how do you know, how can you be sure, how can you be sure that all this exists, not imagined?
Because "I think therefore I am".
Because I feel what I can feel, I think, I grow, I sublime.
If it is said that the world does not matter whether it is true or not, the truth does not exist in the world, and the universe does not matter the truth, the inner world of each of us is the so-called truth.
Everyone has two worlds: the inner world and the real world: the subjective world and the objective world.
If you must explore whether the real world is real, let alone spend your whole life, you may not be able to find the answer even for generations. Maybe the result is as hopeless as this propaganda poster of the movie - it turns out that our earth is an undeveloped remote village in the Milky Way; it turns out that we earthlings are the simulated experimental samples of intelligent life forms in outer space; it turns out. . . . .
There are only two outcomes to finding the truth: death and rebirth. I can't help but think of "2001: A Space Odyssey"
hoping that everyone who sees this film can be reborn, re-examine their own lives, and re-cherish everything around them, whether they really exist or not.

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Extended Reading
  • Spencer 2021-12-31 08:02:51

    Plato said: The real world only exists in our imagination. If this world turns out to be false, what if everything had already existed? "Different Dimensional Hacker" heralds this tempting but terrifying possibility. The film points out the sad and pitiful state of mind of human beings, always wishing to become a dominator, at the cost of manipulating the lives of others. And the wisest has also become the saddest person. When you go further among the same kind, when you expand your eyes and discover the limitations of this world and the falsehood of existence, you become the poorest person. Survival is so absurd and sad, and the biggest sorrow is that there are too few people who know the truth. Cogito ergo sum. But who knows? Perhaps worldly happiness comes from ignorance.

  • Bobby 2021-12-31 08:02:51

    The meaning of the last shot is very obscure. It took a while to understand. Kind of interesting

The Thirteenth Floor quotes

  • Douglas Hall: We're nothing but a simulation on some computer.

  • Jane Fuller: I fell in love with you before I even met you.

    Douglas Hall: How can you love me? I am not even real. You can't fall in love with a dream.

    Jane Fuller: You're more real to me than anything I've ever known.