More than just an 8-minute until type cycle | It's gonna be OK.

Dorian 2021-10-19 09:50:05

Maybe life requires a voice in your ear to remind you "it's gonna be OK". The ending settings are really good, like "just have a lil faith" in Prison Break, or "take a leap of faith" in Inception. Lao Mei really loves to create the faith that is looming and seeming to be nothing.

Although the emotional part of this film is so vulgar-1> call my dad as my friend, apologize, express love-old fashioned, 2> love in 8 minutes-they really didn’t do anything , Just Colter thinks Christina is very beautiful, and she was spilled coffee on her shoes for eight minutes and she didn't scold her, so she was so nice, uh==.
But the cinema effect coupled with the picture depiction is still so moving. Especially at the last kiss, the director specifically thrilled you. It’s not bad to end with a conviction at the end. (ps is so vulgar, I still see the eye sockets when I watch the last part, kill the director or kill myself!)

ps This film makes people think of the horror tanker with overlapping wireless loop entities-where the consciousness crossing entities do not overlap, or small changes The big difference butterfly effect-Colter's little drill went through completely in one fell swoop.


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Colter - the military mission - down refers only to Colter's consciousness (or say Mind)
Shawn - History Teacher-down only refers to Shawn's body (Body)
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>>> What exactly is source code?

English level is limited, the black boss did not fully understand when explaining.
It seems that the source code is a time reassigning program. In this program, there is an 8-minute until-type loop. This until-type loop is like a virtual machine, which can simulate a past reality (source code reality). In this virtual machine, the source code can fill Colter's consciousness into Shawn's body, soldier's consciousness + teacher's body (typical dualism), and investigate the criminal who planted the bomb. Colter is like a function in the program. To be precise, Colter's consciousness is a function in the program. When the source code sent him into the virtual machine, Colter's consciousness attached to Shawn's body for investigation. When the cycle ended, Colter's consciousness returned to his disabled body. But the source code can make Colter believe that his entity is in that small black room, rather than half of the body + isolation box. The little black room is only in Colter's consciousness, other people can't see it. The window of the little black room is a reflection of the glass of the isolation box. In the program after the loop, the words spoken by Colter's consciousness will be converted into text by the source code and appear on the switchboard's screen, and the switchboard will interact and exchange information with Colter's consciousness through images and sounds. People at the switchboard (original reality) have always believed that this source code can only reassign time and cannot change the reality that has already happened. They are right, but they don’t know. Although it cannot change reality, the source code can actually start a new parallel world. , The world always starts eight minutes before the explosion.


>>> Let's talk about the end condition of the until loop.

It seems that the switchboard believes that the end condition of this cycle is 8 minutes, but in fact it should be until Shawn dies, the cycle will end, and Colter's consciousness can return to the little black room from Shawn.
If Colter was not killed when he got off the train when he pulled Christina off the train/he was not killed when he found the criminal, maybe his consciousness would have been attached to Shawn's body forever. The two times Colter's consciousness continued until the train exploded. Later. So it can be guessed that as long as his consciousness does not return to the reality of the switchboard, he will remain in the reality of the virtual machine. As long as Colter's consciousness is not called back out of the cycle, his consciousness must have a place to go, and it cannot disappear out of thin air. And the switchboard does not have a key to control the end of the loop. They just unilaterally believe that the source code's ability is only eight minutes. It is probably only because Shawn is always killed in the eighth minute when they are testing this program. Such a conclusion. So I guess every time the switchboard starts the cycle, the communication screen with Colter is empty and there is nothing. The switchboard cannot see what Colter sees (that's another reality), so you must wait for Colter after the cycle ends. Only when his consciousness returns to the current reality can it interact with Colter's consciousness. Probably the switchboard could only see the text that Colter's consciousness was converted into. Remember that when Goodwin accepted Colter's request, it was all just text messages on the screen. So even if Colter saves Christina in the virtual machine, Christina is still dead in this reality in the switchboard, because these are two different realities (remember that the black boss or Goodwin desperately told Colter not to waste time, "they are two realities" Ha, this is more like the director reminding the audience that you have to think in terms of two realities to figure it out), Christina in the reality of the switchboard was still bombed, but Christina was shot and killed in the reality of the virtual machine.
Of course, if there is a bug/error in the program, the cycle will also end. For example, when Colter saw a virtual image on Chirstina's face, he was directly pulled back to the switchboard reality.


>>> Let's talk about the ending.

In the reality of the switchboard, Goodwin has probably been convicted of a felony and arrested, while in the reality of the virtual machine, Goodwin received a text message from Colter.
I didn’t hear very clearly what the report that Goodwin heard in the office in the last virtual machine was about. And the prisoners were all arrested.
If it is to report some other events, such as the release of the security alarm, the source code is temporarily useless, then it still makes sense. At this time, in the world of this virtual machine, Colter died. Colter's consciousness will continue to participate in the source code project, and the Colter in Shawn's body is the consciousness from another universe. Shawn's original consciousness does not exist in this virtual machine world, because the world of source code has already taken away Shawn's consciousness when it is triggered.
If the explosion of that train is really reported, then I will be messy in the wind. .



Colter's request is very clever, or the director who took advantage of this loophole is really clever.
If the completely data-based virtual world enters a consciousness that cannot be returned, will it stay in that parallel world forever? Colter decided to take a gamble. He asked Goodwin to switch off at the end of the eighth minute. That is to say, his real entity died before his consciousness returned to the reality of the switchboard. At this time, his consciousness could not return to Xiaohei. The house was gone, and he did not follow any entity to die at the same time. At the same time, his consciousness was cut off from the entire program, but he could not disappear out of thin air, so his consciousness should always be pinned on Shawn's body, completely staying in the virtual Machine/another reality.
In the end, the director gave a perfect freeze and followed up, as if he was answering "Yes, this will enter another parallel universe", but that is more like a vision, or the belief that the old beauty loves to make.

Although the theory of parallel universes was only heard and not well understood before, the first thing I thought about when reading the source code was it. Once Colter's consciousness is recalled, the stories in the cycle are all virtual, just some 01 data, cold procedures. But if there is a real consciousness left in this world, a parallel universe can be created.
At the same time, I think of the Alchemist of Fullmetal. I watched it many years ago, and I don’t remember the specific details. It probably means that if you use alchemy to refine people, if you add the hair/blood from before your life, any element with genes, even if it fails, you will still create something. (Remember it seems to be a monster). But the alchemists themselves didn’t know, they only knew that they missed the dead and wanted to bring them back. They didn’t realize that the monsters that were trained were very painful, and in the end the alchemists had to eliminate the similarities to their close relatives. monster.
If one day the source code has a chance to become a reality, the person who invented it would foolishly think that this is just a program, start it constantly, and always put real consciousness into the parallel universe (like the genetic object in alchemy) ), probably the same level of chaos is going to happen. Humans always underestimate the power of things they invent, don't they.



Well, anyway, hopefully, everything's gonna be OK.



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After reading some comments, I don't think there are many parallel universes/parallel worlds in the film. If you really create a parallel world every time you start the source code, what happens to the Shawn in that world after Colter returns to the main program every time the loop ends? Shawn's own consciousness no longer existed when the source code was started, and Colter's consciousness left. This world is all the data of dead people. Without any living body connection, it should be just a virtual cycle. There will be no parallel worlds.
I still feel that there must be a real and alive consciousness that persists in source code reality in order for source code reality to continue. So there are only two parallel worlds in the film. Think about it if Colter dies in the last source code reality at any time, this reality has no meaning. To put it simply, although Colter has passed through, the source code reality is still Colter's own world (good Weixin = =), and other people's functions are still running as well as the real world like a virtual machine.




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Source Code quotes

  • Colter Stevens: The explosion came from behind me.

  • Colter Stevens: You seem concerned about the time. What are you late for?

    Max Denoff: I'm on my way to an asshole festival. I hear you're headlining.

    Colter Stevens: Oh, that's funny. What are you, a comedian?

    Christina Warren: Yeah. He is a comedian.