Men don’t believe it, you say it has no body, so why can I touch her, kiss her, and get the fragrance of her neck? The alien tells the man, it’s just that it uses its power to stimulate your sight and hearing The sense of smell is just that. It can know what you want in your heart, and it can directly let you see what you see, hear, smell, touch, and even the climax of sex is just that it stimulates your nervous system. , It just gives you the feeling. All of this is an illusion, not a real existence. Of course, after going through some necessary means of proof, the man had to admit in despair that this is a fact. From here on, the story has slipped into the clichés of genre novels-even though he knows that "it" is even human. No, but the man still regards "it" as his favorite woman, and decides to continue to protect "it", even if he sacrifices his life for "it", and "it" is also moved by the man's emotion, and finally chooses to give up Resistance, and the alien jailer left the earth. And a man, in his future days, will no longer be able to fall in love with any woman, and will be lonely for life in the end.
Tell another true story. Dr. John Nash, an American mathematician who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994, is a genius. When he received the Nobel Prize, Dr. Nash was already a 66-year-old man. One day when he was young, a man found him. He told Nash that the country needed him to do secret work for the country, and the only person he could contact was himself. As a result, in the next thirty years, the genius Dr. Nash became a man dressed in weird clothes, scribbling on the blackboard all day, leaving strange messages everywhere, until one day, he finally realized that he was suffering. With schizophrenia, the mysterious man who often came to contact him, and even his only friend and friend’s lovely niece in Princeton before, all came from his hallucinations. They were not real, but they constituted him. An indispensable part of the world. Under the care of his relatives, Dr. Nash started treatment, but he was faced with a dilemma: the drugs to treat schizophrenia would bring him back to the real world, but would destroy his brain. He said that he would spend his life in an ineffective way. This life. Finally, Dr. Nash made his choice. He decided not to rely on drugs for treatment, but to use his perseverance to endure and control his hallucinations, so that the person in the illusion would always exist in his life. He would not Talk to them again.
This story was finally adapted into the famous film called "Beautiful Mind". At the end of the film, Dr. Nash and his wife came out of the auditorium and saw his fantasy friends standing far away in the corner. They Looking at each other silently, no one spoke.
I suddenly remembered telling these two stories because I just watched "Don’t Look Back" co-starred by Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci these days. At the beginning, of course, I just rushed to the two heroines (maybe Everyone), but after watching the whole movie, it turned out to be an unexpected and rare masterpiece in 2009. Of course, this is because you can bypass the twists and turns and implicit narrative smoke bombs used by the French. Under the premise of understanding this movie. Many people say that they can’t understand this movie. In fact, I think if you can read the two stories I told before, and then reorder the storytelling methods, it will be easy to understand.
Jeanne, a beautiful writer living in France (played by Sophie Marceau at this time), suddenly found that everything around her was changing, her husband, her children, her mother, her home furnishings, her wall All of this is changing. The faces of relatives around him gradually become the faces of strangers. She can no longer recognize the streets that she has walked so many times. The pictures on her walls and videos of herself She became another woman (Monica Bellucci). Even when she looked in the mirror, her own face changed, but everyone didn’t realize this. They just thought she was a little nervous. Until one day, she discovered that she had completely become another person. Sophie Marceau was gone. It turned out that the husband, children, and mother she had seen and touched were also gone. The existing self became another. Woman, it was a grown-up look of a little girl she had seen when she was little, but she couldn't remember who she was. So she decided to return to her hometown to find out what happened.
The answer is actually very simple. The Jenny played by Sophie Marceau at the beginning of the movie is actually just an illusion. She is a childhood friend of the real Jenny (played by Monica Bellucci) and her adoptive mother’s The daughter, died by her side in a car accident, and the real Jenny has been living with the illusion of being Sophie Marceau for many years, just like the man in Ni Kuang’s story, she saw, Everything she heard, the faces and smells of her relatives, and the furnishings in her room were all an illusion she wanted to see, her brain told her senses, but this illusion also existed in her brain. Yes, it is as real as you want it to be. Until one day, the day the movie started, the female writer Jenny didn't start dreaming, but woke up from the dream. She didn't become another person, but changed from another person back to herself.
This is a world of schizophrenics, an unknown world that people are afraid of. In countless movies, it is a terrifying dark world, but in this world you don't know, there are bright colors. And Jenny, like Dr. Nash, chose not to seek help from a psychiatrist, but to solve everything by herself, and she has her own reason. At the end of the film, Jenny returned to her home. At this time, her schizophrenic personality was stripped from her own body. She saw her and stood at the door. It was her friend in life and also hers. Another "self", they looked at each other silently, and finally, she chose to let her stay and be with her forever.
This movie reminds me of a dream I once had many years ago. The man in the dream had no face, but was extremely real. It was not a spring dream, but a real dream about love. It was about the dream of a young man like a wind that you once thought existed, but finally could not be found in the world. The boy in the dream, he is not anyone, he was not in the past, and he will not be in the future, because I know he does not exist, so I have forgotten him for a long time, but now he suddenly appeared in my dream and made me Sitting alone in the morning sun for a long time, my heart was full of sadness.
In this world, what is reality, what is illusion, what is true, and what is false? The so-called "existence" does exist in this world or in our minds. When we die, these "existences" also die with us. These things we can touch, smell, and embrace. Everything is just what the senses tell our brain. How real is it? Or is all this not more illusory than a dream? In "War and Peace", when Prince Andrey was still alive, he thought of his death, no, he didn't die, he just woke up. The moment Zhuangzi woke up, he realized that he was just a person who turned into a butterfly in his dream, rather than a butterfly who accidentally dreamed that he became a human. Would he be disappointed? Jung said that those who look outward will dream; those who look inward will awaken. However, sometimes, some people are standing outside the self, looking into the inner world called the self. So for her, she is both introspecting inwardly and taking pictures of her appearance. There are not many people who look at the world in this way. Jenny is one. Because of writing, I am also one. Therefore, we are both lucid dreamers and sleepwalkers walking in the real world.
Jenny finally let Jenny stay, she did not completely return to the so-called "real" world, because for her, it was also a part of reality, a part of her own life. I watched her stand outside of my self, smiling, and staring deeply at another "self" in this world. My tears flowed down. The world is too cold, only the warmest in my dreams. I remembered that I was Dreams I have had, maybe, at a certain moment, I also hoped to be like this, and be with the person I love in my dream forever. Until death wakes me up.
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