Change the world in 8 minutes

Bettye 2022-03-19 09:01:02

The male protagonist in Liu Wenyang's classic short story "A Prisoner for a Day" was sentenced to life imprisonment, but his life imprisonment is very special-always live on the same day. When he wakes up every morning, he already knows everything that will happen throughout the day. Because it was a repeating day, he was extremely bored. For him, there were no surprises or surprises on that day. He had an insight into everything in that world, but nothing could be changed.

The film "Source Code" has the same effect, but it is more interesting. The protagonist has to find the suspect in 8 minutes. When the 8 minutes is over, the train will explode and he will be pulled back into reality. Of course, he can do it again after failure, but he doesn't have that many times, the time in reality is limited, and his body and mind are also suffering.

At the end of the first 8 minutes, he was in a trance; in the second 8 minutes, he began to enter the scene; in the third 8 minutes, he took effective measures; in the fourth 8 minutes, he did things more radical and effective... …His style has changed from mild to radical, and in order to achieve the goal within a limited time, he has to do this. He searched for information from time and time again, summarized and accumulated experience, until finally found the murderer. He made a lot of mistakes, but he could "do it again", so his performance was better every time.

Some ideas are difficult to express in films that describe reality, so science fiction has become a better form of expression. This movie is also. Its ideological significance is beyond the plot. The repeated 8-minute story discusses what a person can do in such a short period of time. The answer is that as long as he tries enough times, he can do anything.

In the second 8 minutes of the film, the audience will be able to notice the man who forgot his wallet. But the protagonist didn't notice it, because other things attracted him. He was eager to achieve his goal, so he ignored other clues. In fact, he has extremely misunderstood others several times and adopted a straight line of thinking-this is the way of thinking that people usually use when the information is not comprehensive and not calm.

The last 8 minutes was disruptive. Goodwin violated the orders of his superiors to show the beauty of humanity, and what the director arranged for us was the emergence of another world, the parallel world. The bomb did not explode in that world. After the actor returned to the car, he quickly caught the suspect, then calmly called his father, and then confessed to Christian.

He didn't waste every second of the eight minutes, because he figured out how to do it before returning to the train. The time-fixed picture is the most beautiful part of the whole movie. Everyone is laughing-the male protagonist bet 100 dollars with the comedian, and the comedian makes everyone laugh. The freeze frame is very common in the movie, but the feeling it brings to people in this movie is extraordinary.

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This movie exists One possibility is that the actor noticed the man who left his wallet in the car in the second 8 minutes, and he might catch him-by luck. But the film did not make such an arrangement. Instead, let him continue to fail, get more information from constant attempts, and then step by step closer to the truth.

The hero is a captain, with wisdom and bravery coexisting. We say that such a person needs luck to succeed when performing tasks, which shows how difficult it is to make things happen. Continuous attempts can accumulate more capital for him, and it is logical to find the suspect in the end.

It's a simple truth, but through the presentation of this movie, it seems very profound. This movie deepens my feelings about this sentence—that is the benchmark of a good movie.

The last time he returned to the train, what the protagonist conveyed to people was:

Whether in the morning bed or in the moving train, when a person wakes up, if he knows that he will be in the next 8 minutes What to do, then he must be extremely happy. Because he already has the ability to change everything.

The performance of this film is very exciting, the plot is very tense, the picture is pale and beautiful, and it is among the best films.

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Source Code quotes

  • Colter Stevens: The explosion came from behind me.

  • Colter Stevens: You seem concerned about the time. What are you late for?

    Max Denoff: I'm on my way to an asshole festival. I hear you're headlining.

    Colter Stevens: Oh, that's funny. What are you, a comedian?

    Christina Warren: Yeah. He is a comedian.