Before the recent theater, "Interstellar" and "Inception" were rescreened, and there was the upcoming "Creed" afterwards. It is simply Nolan fans who celebrated the Chinese New Year ahead of schedule.
We, as fans, made the "Nuozhi" as early as December, after the first trailer of "Creed" was released, with almost no reference, we made a trailer. Parse the video.
After the new trailer released in May this year, through careful observation and combined with the help of netizens, we successfully captured the core insights of "Creed".
Although we feel good about ourselves, after we actually watched "Creed", we were still confused by the amount of information exploded in the movie, and this is what many of us have come into contact with, and they have some research on Nolan's movies. The group of film critics The unified feeling after watching the film for the first time.
I'm a bit back to the simulation test of the year, and this time the teacher's papers are a little bit too big, and the test centers are also very dense. When I got out of the examination room and checked the answers, some individuals felt that the test was good, but after discussing it, I found out, eh~ there seems to be a big question that I didn't look at.
Therefore, we feel that introducing the concepts in the movie before the release will help everyone to free up time to digest the plot when watching "Creed". Although the content does not involve the plot, it is not completely free of spoilers. Therefore, students who want to take a "naked test" can also order a collection first, and then "right answer" after watching the movie.
Okay, now we get to the topic.
First of all, "Creed" this time is not like Nolan's previous movies, such as "Inception" and "Interstellar", through the characters in the movie, to give the audience a lot of explanation.
Even using the way of drawing pictures, the core brains and scientific theories of each movie are broken and told to the audience. This is precisely where Nolan's films have been criticized in the past, and a large number of dialogues teach the audience. This time, Nolan is a little bit off fortune, and it's not too much nonsense to go directly to the plot, it all depends on the audience's own understanding.
So we start with the core concept of the movie, which is the expression of Clausius of the Second Law of Thermodynamics: "It is impossible to transfer heat from a low-temperature object to a high-temperature object without causing other changes."
For example, if you put ice cubes in a coke, it can only become ice coke. If no other changes are made, it is impossible for the ice to get colder and the Coke hotter. This law is different from the basic equations we have learned before, including Newton's law, electromagnetic equations, relativity, etc. Theorems and basic equations. Because in other theorems, the state of an object is reversible.
In other words, when we watch a video of a ball rolling on a smooth surface, we can't actually tell whether it is playing forward or backward. But if heat is involved, it must be directional and the process is irreversible. The so-called "arrow of time" will appear, and we can distinguish the difference before and after time.
Later Clausius introduced a parameter to measure the one-way irreversible process of heat. This parameter is entropy.
Entropy will only remain the same or increase in an isolated system, never decrease. In physics, entropy is also used to describe the degree of chaos, which means that things will always develop in a more chaotic direction. If you or the Husky are locked in the room, the room will only get chaotic, but the speed of the chaos is different.
The universe as a whole also conforms to the law of entropy increase. Will there be an abnormal phenomenon of entropy reduction? If something is abnormal, there must be a "demon", and one of the four great beasts of physics "Maxwell's monster" has appeared.
That is, the symbol on the whiteboard in the trailer. The first rule Nolan added in the movie "Creed" is that the technology similar to "Maxwell's Demon" will be realized in the future. Any object, even a person, can switch between entropy reduction and entropy increase.
The simultaneous appearance of this entropy reduction is time reversal, or reversal of time and space, which is the "reverse" effect shown in the trailer.
Under the premise of the establishment of time reversal, Nolan also added the second rule "Grandfather's Paradox" to "Creed". This is relatively familiar to everyone. If a person goes back in time and successfully kills his grandfather. Then the future self will not be born, and the assassination of grandfather will not happen, and the paradox will arise.
There are many theories to explain the "grandfather paradox", such as introducing the concept of parallel universes. In fact, it was the grandfather of another universe who was killed, so he would not disappear, and the assassination still holds. In the "Creed" Nolan also proposed an explanation of the "grandfather's paradox", because it involves an important plot, and I will discuss it in the next article after the release.
As long as you accept the setting of entropy reduction, you can enjoy the meticulous storyline of the movie smoothly. Playing with the timeline is also the traditional craft of Director Nolan.
In "Shards of Memory", Nolan changed his sword on the timeline, interspersing memories with reality.
In "Inception", Nolan stretched his face on the timeline, extending the time in the dream layer by layer.
In the movie "Creed", it can be said that Nolan takes everyone to turn around on the timeline. Note that Ha is turning around instead of crossing. The visual wonders and plots in "Creed" based on the reduction of entropy are unheard of in my personal experience of watching movies. Borrowing a picture made by foreign netizens, Nolan has collected all the gems so far!
But it seems that the introduction just now is not very "quantum", now it is not enough to do science fiction without quantum mechanics. So another theory is the one-electron universe theory proposed by John Wheeler.
Wheeler observed all electrons and found that all their properties are the same. Wheeler's hypothesis is based on a concept, which is the concept of a "world line" of a single electron in time and space. If you have watched our "Interstellar" program, you should remember that Cooper transmits information in five-dimensional space through something called "world tube", and world tube is a collection of world lines, which is also the science of "Interstellar" The theory of film introduced in the book by consultant Kip Thorne.
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The world line trajectory of electrons in time and space is circuitous in Wheeler's imagination, traveling back and forth between the past and the future, so when we measure and observe at a single point in time, we find that there are so many electrons. Among them, the anti-time direction is the anti-particle of electron-positron, which is the "antimatter" that has been frequently mentioned recently.
However, when antimatter and matter meet, they will be completely converted into energy. The antimatter under the same mass has the property of how many times the explosive power is that of a nuclear bomb. You don't need to think about it when you watch a movie. After all, the director of "Creed" is Nolan, not Michael Bay, so you can rest assured.
It should be emphasized that even if you don't understand the above scientific concepts, you can still feel the audiovisual impact of the world under this concept created by Nolan through the presentation of the big screen.
After the big concept has no obstacles, I will introduce three background knowledge.
1. The threat of the Moscow Opera House
The incident took place on October 23, 2002. More than 40 kidnappers from the Chechen Republic broke into the theater of the Cultural Palace building of the Moscow Bearing Factory and hijacked more than 850 hostages in the theater. After several days of dealings, the negotiations between the two sides broke down. The Russian military police and special forces used a very controversial method-releasing anesthetic gas into the hall before conducting an assault rescue.
Although the operation was successful as a whole, the kidnappers did not detonate the bomb and perish the hostages. However, more than 100 hostages died unfortunately due to inhalation of an excessive amount of anesthetic gas, which is also the reason for the controversy of the anesthetic gas program.
2. Military term "action pincers"
The meaning is to divide the army into two lines, attack the enemy from two directions, and form a shape similar to pliers. This tactic has existed since the era of cold weapons, just from the demo animation found.
The advantage of pincer action can force the enemy to fight on both sides, forming a partial fight with more and less, and gradually accumulate one's own advantages and finally encircle. This military concept was also newly created and displayed by Nolan in the movie.
3. Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was launched in 1942 as a code name for the US nuclear bomb development program. Robert Oppenheimer, the leader of the project, was later named the "Father of the Atomic Bomb."
However, when the atomic bomb test succeeded, Oppenheimer had a feeling of opening Pandora's box. Especially after the explosion of "Fatty" and "Little Boy", he began to reflect deeply, and since then he has been committed to opposing the research and development of the US hydrogen bomb and promoting the world's atomic energy peace.
In addition to the three backgrounds related to the "Creed" just mentioned, three more details that require careful attention are believed to be the three key keys to understanding the "Creed".
The first one is the red and blue that appear many times in the trailer. In fact, it can be simply understood that red represents normal time and space, and blue represents reverse time and space. As long as you see the colors correctly, you won't be confused by the spectacle of the movie and the change of perspective.
The second thing to pay attention to is the difference between a gas mask and an oxygen mask. The gas mask is similar to a pig's nose, and the oxygen mask is similar to an elephant's nose. Clear the difference between the two and you will not be bothered by the seemingly bugs in the movie.
The third important detail is the small pendant that will appear many times in the movie. It is a very crucial prop for understanding the plot of the movie and the emotions between the characters.
Speaking back to the title Tenet of the movie "Creed", it first appeared on the palindrome excavated from the Sartre Square in the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii. Among them, 5 words can be read, Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas, these words can be found in the movie, and can be collected as Easter eggs.
Finally, if you want to talk about which movie Nolan is best to review before watching "Creed". We think it is not "Inception", but Nolan's early famous work "Shards of Memory." When you watch it, you can focus on practicing, the ability to remember the storyline and the details of the image. As long as you have enough memory, even if you don't know the physical concepts in the film, it won't let you see it in the cloud.
This is the first installment of the "Creed" analysis series-the first part of the non-spoiler screening. Next, we will release an analysis containing spoilers as soon as possible on the day of the release of "Creed". An article will be published shortly afterwards, about the Easter eggs and brain holes we discovered when we watched the movie, as well as the controversies that may have differences on the Internet.
I hope that in the next period of time, everyone will continue to pay attention to our updates.
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