I watched this movie again after many years and found that I didn’t understand it when I was a child. I used to think that everything was an illusion of James. Like the time-traveling machine of a hospital scanner, the bear specimens that James saw and the "alien" schizophrenia in the mental hospital are similar to the male protagonist, clues such as the gender composition of the doctor in the mental hospital are consistent with the scientist), fatalism, Bobby The imaginative story theory and even the interpretation method of illusion mixed in the traversal seems to be self-evident. But personally think that everything exists in reality is the most complete explanation method.
Since I knew the ending when I re-watched it, there was always a sense of despair that would eventually come, and no matter what I did, I would inevitably run towards the doomed ending.
The content of the story is actually not complicated. Although the timeline is more complicated, the single-line narrative of the movie makes the story easier to understand. However, director Terry Gilliam’s personal style is very strong, and the character looks a bit crazy, giving the whole movie a secretive atmosphere.
~Phase 1~
The beginning of the film is James’ dream, and also James’ childhood dream, dreaming of the fall of the blond man at the airport and the running and howling of the blond woman. This segment will appear repeatedly in the movie.
In the future, due to the outbreak of the virus, nearly 5 billion people in the world will die. James was selected to travel back to the past to investigate because of his good memory, and he knew that the past cannot be changed, only the future can be saved. As a result, the injured officer was sent to a mental hospital as a mental illness (James met Madeleine and thought she was familiar, and Madeleine was very friendly to James as a psychologist). The virus broke out in 1996, but the male lead came in 1990.
In the mental hospital, he met Jeffrey, and under the control of the drug, he told Jeffrey about the idea of destroying mankind. Jeffrey helped James escape the nursing room of the mental hospital, and was later caught in the isolation room. , I met Bobby here (I think Bobby is a real traverser who monitors James, not an illusion), and James returns to the future. After returning to the future, the scientist received a female message and asked James if it was the message he left. James was reprimanded after denying it.
During this time, James' thinking was still clearer. Although oppressed by the mental hospital, he was sure that he was not schizophrenic.
~The second stage~
James crossed again. As a result, in 1917, during the war, he saw Jose (but from Jose’s mouth, I must find them to speculate that he might be looking for other missing travelers), and James was hit by a bullet in 1917 here. Mid-leg.
In 1996, Madeleine mentioned the Cassandra plot in a lecture. After speaking, I met an assistant.
Cassandra plot
In fact, in the movie, the explanation is clearer.
The prophet of Cassandra Troy. Because she can predict the future, she is classified as a witch. It is said that the source of Kassandra's power is that one day Apollo, the god of truth, saw Kassandra and fell in love with her. Apollo gave her the ability to predict the future, but Kassandra refused Apollo's show of love and became angry. Apollo put a curse on her, so that others would never believe what she said, so she was destined to always know the truth but powerless to prevent tragic things from happening. She is a member of Troy. She predicted that if the Trojan horse is welcomed into the city, Troy will be destroyed, but no one believes that Troy will be destroyed like this.
Foreseeable people often have to endure great mental loneliness. People who are not foreseeable are incompetent, and those who foresee prematurely are helpless. Trend cannot be reversed, cannot be violated, cannot be artificially promoted, you can only watch it quietly.
Just like James and Madeleine, the two are people who know the future, but are hindered and attacked by the unknown, and they are powerless in the face of the ignorance of the entire world.
James came to 1996, kidnapped Madeleine, and asked for her help. The journey of the two began. James discovered that the blond woman in his dream was Madeleine.
I met Bobby, a homeless man, and told James that the tracker was in the tooth. (At this time, Bobby had already extracted his tooth, and according to his description, he thought James knew the tracker was in the tooth)
I will experience all kinds of things later, and I won't tell them one by one in the film reviews. In short, the two became familiar and trusted. Madeleine took out the bullet in James’ leg. James went to Jeffrey’s house to party and found that the virus destroys humanity. He told Jeffrey when he was in a trance in the mental hospital. The world His destruction may have been caused by him alone.
James was about to collapse at this time, and Madeleine told him that all of this was an imaginary caused by his schizophrenia, and he could become normal as long as he wanted to be cured. James also hopes that if he is really schizophrenic, the world will not be destroyed, and he can live in the past. He is in love with the past world, he loves the birds here, the flowers here, he has not seen the sea yet, and he wants to live in the past world. Unfortunately he can't.
The officer was approaching, and Madeleine tried every means to get the officer to spot them and let James surrender. However, James was taken back to the future.
The scientists told him that he had completed the task and he was exempted. But he just wants to be "cured." All of this is fake, and scientists are fake, he said. At the same time, he heard Bobby's voice. Bobby said that what he really wanted was the past world. James asked Bobby about the tracker in his teeth, but Bobby did say that he didn't know anything.
Bobby
So according to my guess, Bobby’s time-space route is as follows.
Time-traveler Bobby monitors James »James tells Bobby about the tracker in the tooth» Bobby pulls his tooth and flees back to live as a homeless man »Bobby tells James that the tracker is in the tooth (at this time Bobby thinks James knows this Matter, but it was the first time James learned that the tracker was in the tooth at that timeline) »Later, Madeleine met Bobby again.
After being rescued, Madeleine explained to the police officer for James' murder and other acts. The police officer asked why many victims always emphasized to the police how kind the perpetrator was after being rescued. This reminds me of the Stockholm effect.
Stockholm syndrome
Stockholm syndrome, the Stockholm effect, also known as Stockholm syndrome or hostage complex or hostage syndrome, refers to a complex in which victims of crime have feelings for the offender, and even help the offender in turn. This emotion causes the victim to have a good impression of the perpetrator, rely on the perpetrator, and even assist the perpetrator.
The fear of human performance has a fragile bottom line. When a person encounters a ferocious assassin who is unreasonable and wants to take his life at any time, the hostage will gradually entrust the right to life to the assassin. Time has dragged on for a long time. The hostage eats a mouthful of food and drank a mouthful of water. With every breath, he himself feels that it is the forbearance and compassion of the terrorists to him. For the thug who kidnapped him, his fear will first be transformed into gratitude to him, and then into a kind of worship. Finally, the hostage also subconsciously thinks that the safety of the thug is his own safety.
Of course, this is what the police officer thinks, but James and Madeleine are not. The two are familiar with each other, Madeleine wants to help James psychologically, and James also protects Madeleine, and the two gradually develop trust.
~Phase 3~
Madeleine discovered that the bullet taken from James' leg came from 1917, and began an investigation, and found that what James said may be true. He also called Jeffrey's father to protect the biological sample from Jeffrey's eyes, and his assistant mentioned Madeleine's lecture.
On the other side, James applied to the scientist to go back in time. In fact, he just wanted to go back to life. According to fate, James and Madeleine met again. This time, James insisted that he was mentally ill. He wanted Madeleine’s psychological support. He loved the world. He loved Madeleine. He wanted to be with her. Live at this time and become a whole person. This time in the hotel he did not kill for her, he pulled out his teeth in order to be able to live in the past. But Madeleine is no longer the original Madeleine. She wants to save the world, even if she doesn't want to believe that all this is true.
I fell in love with the past world
I want to live in the past world
I want to be with you
How i wish i had schizophrenia
How i wish now is now
How I hope all this is my own imagination
How I hope the world is not destroyed because of me
Why
You clearly said that all of this is my imagination
You clearly said you can explain everything to me
You clearly said that as long as I want to heal, I can be healed
Why
I obviously just want to be a whole person
Madeleine called and passed the information received by the future scientist.
Jeffrey's group arrested Jeffrey's father (father said he didn't know where the sample was, implying that the sample was in the hands of his assistant), but in fact they just released all the animals in the zoo.
Madeleine wanted to take James to escape somewhere else and came to the airport in James' dream (James said he seemed to have been here). This is the closest place to Huanhao, and the two can spend a sweet time on the plane. But the two did not survive the darkest time before dawn, and a desperate ending was inevitable.
James called a future scientist to expose himself, Jose came to James on a mission to kill Madeleine and gave James a gun. But Madeleine saw the assistant, presuming that the assistant was a spreader of the virus.
assistant
The assistant's time and space route is relatively simple.
Listen to Madeleine Lecture »Believe the Prophecy» When Madeleine warned Jeffrey’s father, the assistant told him about the Madeleine lecture, which made him think that Geoffrey might really be spreading the virus, and Jeffrey’s father gave the sample to the assistant ( Jeffrey’s father hinted when he was arrested) »Assistant spreads the virus
Madeleine told James about his guess that James drew a gun to chase his assistant and was killed by the police. James died beside him when he was young, and James saw Madeleine help on his body and wept bitterly (this is why James thinks Madeleine is familiar). From then on he dreamed of his death and Madeleine every day.
The assistant fled to the plane and met the female scientist who had traveled back (the age is the same as the future, so I prefer to travel back). The female scientist said the classic I'm in insurance. Maybe she hates this era and wants to destroy the world to ensure the spread of the virus. It is also possible that the past cannot be changed but the future is unknown. Female scientists want to bring virus samples back to study, save the future and ensure their dominance. But the female scientist is not important anyway, because the story of James has been completely connected into a circle.
Perhaps it seems that the themes of Novikov's self-consistency principle and fatalism are not new now, but I can still be deeply moved by the part of love. And its openness leads to a variety of understandings, which greatly enhances the scope and depth of entertainment and its discussion. It is a classic of science fiction works in the 1990s.
It is also worth mentioning that both "Dark" and the ending theme of this film are "What A Wonderful World", and they are both time-space-traveling circular story works about Novikov's principle of self-consistency.
Novikov principle of self-consistency
It is the rule of time paradox proposed by the Russian theoretical physicist Novikov in the 1980s. This principle states that people can go back to the past, but they cannot change the course of history. Its basic meaning is that our world is the final outcome that has been changed.
She put her lover's hand on her face with her blood-stained hands,
Feeling his residual temperature for the last time,
In a daze, she seemed to realize something,
Looked around.
Finally, she found him, the childhood him.
She looked at him,
A little smile appeared on his tired face,
Perhaps in the pool of her lover's blood, she gained a trace of solace.
Her lover will die in the future,
But now, he is still alive.
He witnessed all this when he was a child,
after this,
He can dream of her every night.
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