To quote the most common expression of the butterfly effect: "A butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil can cause a tornado in Texas a month later. "How does the director understand? First, give the male protagonist superpowers, allowing him to go back to the past, similar to reading files in our game. The protagonist’s diary is a file stored in our game. If you encounter a problem, go back immediately. Reading files. But what is depressing is that after every file reading in the movie, the behavior of re-selecting will have unintended consequences, and this kind of consequences are disastrous, not as good as when not reading files. It’s like we play a particularly difficult game, read files continuously, or die. It’s better to cheat directly with the modifier (but reading files is not a small kind of cheating).
Let me talk about it first. Why this film can’t describe the butterfly effect objectively. The most obvious feature of the butterfly effect is unpredictability, but the filming of this film becomes predictable, that is, it is better to read files than not to read files, and to change is better than not to change. In fact, This is not entirely unreasonable. For example, we talk about heredity and mutation in biology. Let’s assume that heredity means not changing, and mutation means changing. In general, it’s better not to change, and mutation usually brings about it. Both are problems (but the reason why organisms can evolve is largely due to some very few mutations that are more adapted to the environment). The initial choice may be more compliant with nature, and the consequences of simple changes may be unimaginable. This It is also the reason why we humans are particularly afraid of things made by some scientists or will be made by the owner. For example, clones, such as genetically modified food.
In fact, the original intention of the butterfly effect is to change a small setting, and it may bring A huge change will come. And what settings need to be changed to cause a huge change and what this huge change is is unpredictable. There are thousands of butterflies flapping their wings every day, but hurricanes do not happen every day. Could this flapping of wings cause a hurricane or an earthquake or something else, who knows?
Another thing in the film that obviously violates the butterfly theory is the protagonist's selectivity to the initial settings in the film, which means that it can be judged which butterfly flapping its wings can greatly change the future and which cannot. There was a plot that he wanted to prove his superpowers to his inmates. First he used the super powers to go back in time, then he pierced his hands, and now there were scars on his hands, nothing else changed. In my opinion, this event was also a butterfly flapping, and it was also a butterfly flapping that might trigger a hurricane. Does it leave a small scar after piercing your hand? Maybe his mother won't see his paintings after the hands are pierced, and will not take him to find his father; maybe after the hands are pierced, he will have to rest at home for a long time, and will not go to other people's homes to play. , The filming incident will not happen; maybe in the hospital training stage, you will run into another cute little girl? In short, even with such a small change, it is difficult for him to return to the present.
Let’s use game play as an example. There are many role-playing or strategy games. For a specific historical event to occur, n results must be met at the same time. The most typical one is the fulfillment condition of the Inno-ji event in the Japanese Warring States game. I believe Anyone who has played has the experience. For example, if one of the historical figures is accidentally placed in the wrong position, the incident will not happen. The game is still simple, just meet those conditions. In fact, think about it seriously. There are so many conditions for each event. For example, I was late to the unit this morning. It may be because you saw a program you like when you were bored and changed the channel last night. Then you watched it and fell asleep late when you were so excited. , If you changed the channel yesterday, the channel was showing an advertisement, maybe you would not be late today; maybe if you chose to read a book instead of watching TV yesterday, you wouldn’t sleep late; maybe if you drink too much water tonight, you’ll be late today. If you get up early to go to the bathroom, you won't get up. . . . .
I think the most frequently used word in this essay today is “maybe”. If the word “maybe” is used in terms and voices, it must be the subjunctive mood of the past in English. It belongs to the past, not oriented. Future. The movie has told us that even if we can read files in life, we should not read it casually. What's more, we don't have the kind of super power to read files. We can only grasp the present, so how do we grasp the present?
According to chaos theory, maybe what you do now will make a huge and unpredictable change to the world. So what should we do now? Don't make the chaos theory nihilistic. The butterfly flapped its wings not to cause a hurricane, but to find food or escape for its own life. We should also learn from that butterfly.
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