[Integration] Comments on Twelve Monkeys

Karson 2022-03-20 09:01:03

Parallel world, time machine. This film opens up the philosophical proposition behind this grand technical problem. This also supports the value of the film. In fact, science fiction is just the coat of the film, and it is also a metaphorical film that makes people happy. Just as the poet at the beginning of the film said: it has been written in black and white, all your piety and wisdom will not make it a little bit back, and all your tears will not change it a little bit. Director Gilliam used the most modernist time travel to show the most classical and tragic aesthetic realm, which is sincerely admired.

Psychiatry is the newest religion. Who decides the reasonable order in this world? What is right and wrong? How to judge who is crazy and who is not crazy? Regarding the future world, is the discussion of the current ideological system reliable or unreliable? Can the future change history? If it can be changed, will it affect the future? If it can't be changed, will it continue its results in any way?

In the face of the system, the brave can still fight; but against time, mankind only has the powerless and helpless vastness.

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12 Monkeys quotes

  • [first lines]

    Title Card: ...5 billion people will die from a deadly virus in 1997... /... The survivors will abandon the surface of he planet... /... Once again the animals will rule the world... / - Excerpts from interview with clinically diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, April 12, 1990 - Baltimore County Hospital.

  • Jeffrey Goines: All the doors are locked too. They're protecting the people on the outside from us from the people on the outside who are as crazy as us.