Thinking about time

It's been 12 years since the release of "Heavy Rain". The 1994 Golden Lion seems to be a long way off. People's attention has also gradually shifted from the war in Macedonia to Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq. In the blink of an eye, time has flown by, but the film is still talked about by people, which is a bit of a witness that time will never die.

The film tells the story of racial hatred in Macedonia, and the story is so simple that I don’t need to repeat it. It's just that for so many years, I have always sighed at the understanding of time in the film. In my mind, I can never forget my childhood education, the time irreversibility of Marxist materialist theory. Since then, the second law of thermodynamics appeared in physics, which further confirmed the irreversibility of time from the natural sciences.

But I've always been a restless person, I've always questioned the irreversibility of time. From the reincarnation of time to the free divergence of time, I formed a time-return and reciprocation in my heart, which is different from the Marxist materialism of the irreversibility of time. During this process, films like "Heavy Rain" have given me great inspiration and encouragement. Of course, not only "The Heavy Rain", but also Nietzsche's ideas, as well as Kundera's novels and many other things.

Going back to the film "Heavy Rain", I will never forget the phrase "The circle is never round". He seems to be pointing out to the world that the question of whether time is reversible. In fact, in my opinion, the film does not discuss whether time is going to die, I think the film is about whether time is reversible.

My theory of time looping and reciprocating, that time is composed of countless symmetries, but not repetitions, is actually roughly expressed in "The Rainstorm". The so-called time never dies in the film actually means that the time that happens and elapses never dies. In this way, the time that has happened will always exist. In theory, it is a circle, but it is not a circle, and it does not follow a certain trajectory. And what is the center of the circle is still a mystery. In "Heavy Rain", the center of the circle is Aleksander? Not sure, this is the charm of the film. You can start anywhere, you can end anywhere, and you'll go back to where you started anyway, but the experience is completely different. That's the nature of time.

Perhaps, time is only the energy of a moment, and only this moment, but it reverberates in our lives repeatedly.

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