From a science fiction point of view, "Super Body" is not very rigid; from a commercial film point of view, it is quite successful, but as a prerequisite for the milestone comparison of "The Fifth Element", we still dislike those in the film that are not enough The third-rate elements of hard goods: the Korean villain with facial makeup; the car chasing scene of fighting for fighting; the spiritual chicken soup doctrine of "the meaning of life is to pass"...
Then there is no hard enough "Super Body" ", what can we gain? Luc Besson's own expectation for the role of the film is to let readers have curiosity and questions after watching them, so as to gain insights about the human brain, hallucinations, and potential. From this perspective, "Super Body" has its existential significance that cannot be underestimated.
In the film, in addition to the protagonist's name, the name of the world's first hominid female is also called Lucy. In the real world, she does exist. On November 24, 1974, American anthropologists Donald Johnson, Yves Cobens, and Tim White discovered a fossil of a hominid female in the Awash Trough of Ethiopia. This confirmed the evidence for evolution. A major breakthrough. On the night of the celebration, a song of The Beatles, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, was playing in the tent, so the expedition team suddenly named the primitive human woman Lucy.
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds depicts an extremely splendid world: Lucy is flying in the sky, surrounded by diamonds; you are in a boat in the water, the sky is like jam, and the girl with eyes like a kaleidoscope is calling; blue and green cellophane, flying above the head, The girl with the sun in her eyes is fleeting; the flowers growing wildly are incredibly tall! A taxi folded into a newspaper is waiting to take you away.
Such a montage full of fantasy images makes people have to suspect that the song is related to the state after the use of hallucinogens. Let us disregard Lennon’s denial and McCartney’s acknowledgment for the time being, and look at the song itself: the acronym for the song’s name is LSD. And now, Lucy has become the nickname of LSD.
In the 1960s, the psychedelic era, it gave birth to not only Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. The name of The Doors, an American rock band contemporary with The Beatles, is named after Aldous Huxley's masterpiece "The Doors of Perception". The lead singer Jim Morrison chose this name to mean "with Music opens the door and perception is infinite". Nowadays, Huxley is well-known in China for his dystopian novel "Brave New World", but his psychedelic masterpiece "The Gate of All Wonders" published in the late 1950s was a smash hit in the Western world.
The title of "The Doors of All Wonders" is derived from the verse of the British poet William Blake: "When the door of perception is opened, things appear as they are, endless." In 1953, Huxley gradually began to believe in mysterious experiences. The value of "The Gates of All Wonders" describes his actual experience after taking the hallucinogen Mescaline for the first time, as well as the impact of some mysterious experiences. The book explores the potential and the effects of drugs and humans. The relationship between the perception of things.
In "Super Body", the new drug CPH4 with potential market value is an opportunity for Lucy's brain evolution, plus the nickname of hallucinogens as the title of the film and the protagonist, all this is not just a coincidence. "The Gates of All Wonders" mentioned a view supported by Cambridge philosopher C·D·Broad: the functions of the brain, nervous system, and sense organs are mainly exclusionary. The things that everyone can actually perceive at every moment are far greater than what we do.
However, in order to prevent us from being overwhelmed or confused by such a large amount of mostly useless and irrelevant knowledge, the brain rejects most of the information, leaving only small, very special parts that may have practical uses. However, through appropriate methods, such as spiritual practice, hypnosis, or medicine, humans have the opportunity to temporarily overcome their limitations.
Although the key word in "Super Body" is the fictitious "brain evolution", and "The Gate of All Wonders" emphasizes the direct effect of drugs on the human body, the two tendencies are exactly the same: with the appropriate channels, humans have the opportunity to open the sense of perception. The gate, to observe the essence of things, to infinity. So in the film, Lucy, whose brain was developed to 20%, called her mother. She said, "I feel everything."
Lucy felt the inner fluidity of space, air and sound; she saw the pulse of a tree, How it is rooted in the ground; she also feels her own existence more deeply, the blood flowing in the blood vessels, the brain's deep thinking, those memories and touch hidden in the folds of the brain, in fact, have never been lost, the human brain is the most amazing The place is that it stores everything, but it is hidden or write-protected. In "The Gates of All Wonders", after taking medicine, Huxley's eyes return to the pure state of childhood. He feels that he is not immediately and mechanically controlled by concepts. He sees things gleaming with inner glory and sees infinity. The value and significance of.
In the film, when Lucy gains an overwhelming amount of information due to her rapidly expanding perception, her knowledge about mathematics, physics, and biology continues to grow...At the same time, her self is shrinking, her emotions are degenerating, and she can't feel pain or fear. ,desire. The disappearance of the self, the swelling "I" gradually melts into all things in the world, which is similar to Huxley's experience in "The Gate of All Wonders". When he was fascinated by the glory of things themselves, his ego was contained in things and became non-self. He longed to stay in a flower with "eternity", stay in a chair with "infinity" and follow "Absolute" stays in the folds of a flannel pants, but prefers to stay away from the usual but necessary interests of human existence, the world involving self, morality and utilitarianism.
"Super Body" and "The Gate of All Wonders" also jointly questioned the principles that people believe in. In the movie, Lucy bluntly stated that the mathematical theories created by humans are actually unreliable; and in "The Gates of All Wonders", Huxley pointed out that humans are easily trapped by the language and concepts created by themselves.
Language and concepts make people believe that simplified consciousness is the only consciousness, which confuses people's sense of reality. They treat their own concepts as data and sentences as real things. As a result, human beings are trapped in language and concepts, and gradually lose the ability to perceive, and cannot realize the true core of inner and outer.
At the end of the film, Lucy finally incarnates as God everywhere, integrating himself into any other in the world. Perhaps Lucy is a super virtual object that cannot be imitated, but through the transfer of "The Gates of All Wonders", we have seen some realistic possibilities. At the end of the book, Huxley pointed out that even without the help of drugs or hypnosis, we can still more or less perceive the nature of things, as long as we strive to get rid of the shackles of concepts, break away from utilitarian purposes, and use pure eyesight Watch, try to bring the self into objectivity. Although the infinity of the world cannot be fully understood by ordinary people, humans can change the way they perceive, although this is minimal and difficult.
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