Card’s short story of about 1,000 words says that the obese protagonist spends a lot of money to go to an underground hospital for a kind of operation, through which he can rebuild a young and fit self. This fat man uses this method to change into a bodybuilder himself every few years, but he never wants to do with that obese himself. This is the 8th time he has changed himself. As soon as he paid the money, the hospital took out the newly created person who had transplanted all his personality traits and memories. The person took all his identity certificates and walked out of the hospital instead. He has gone to live a life of feasting and drinking. And this fat man realized at this time that in order to have only one himself in this world, he faced only two choices: death, or the hard work that death prisoners would not want to do on an isolated farm, he chose The latter, code-named i, was cruelly abused and exploited by supervisor a. In the end, i discovered that a was the first time he entered the hospital and was replaced. At this time j was sent to the farm again. . . The self who is alive in the world will always only care about the fit self who walked out of the hospital, who cares about the fat man who has not walked out of the hospital!
Inspired by this, I found that the existence of a person can be determined by two points: personality characteristics and memory (/history), just like the coordinate system of two elements: personality is like a coordinate angle, which determines the direction of destiny development (such as artificial humans) Inheriting the original vengeance and the spirit of sacrifice, he can also make the same decision as the original-sacrificing himself); and memory is like the initial position of the coordinate point, which determines a person’s various social relations skills, etc. A point can determine the uniqueness and inevitability of any person’s existence, just as the origin and angle of a coordinate must determine the only ray in a plane coordinate system. If two people are exactly the same at these two points, then they It's the same person. So it doesn't make sense to discuss which Angier died. The dead and the alive are the same person.
Of course, this is only the prototype story of the twist of this movie, but the theme of this movie is even more sublimated, that is, great achievements come from great sacrifices.
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