The following is serious:
1. The embodiment and paradox of "circular". There are two main loops in the film: the time-world loop and the logical causal loop.
The first ring needs to be sorted out, because the film only focuses on the second ring. When old Joe (Bruce Willis) was sent back 30 years ago, little Joe (囧瑟夫) killed him-if successful, little Joe can live happily for 30 years, and then be sent back to the past. Killing himself, and then that self continues... the cycle goes back and forth, but in fact there is only one person from beginning to end, so the entire Joe’s life becomes a cycle of time and the world, as if the line of his life suddenly turned back and closed into A ring, endless-perhaps this is the meaning of the "ring" messenger, because a simple time shuttle cannot explain the concept of "ring".
The embodiment of this ring in the movie is that after the young Joe fell from a high altitude, the scene suddenly switched to that he successfully killed the old Joe-in fact, that was the life of the old Joe back then.
The second ring was revealed at the end of the film-the reason why the old Joe came back to kill the young "Raincaller" was because the raincaller killed her wife (Xu Qing), but the reason why the "Raincaller" Going to the extreme of darkness, precisely because the old Joe killed his mother when he returned to his childhood-here, you can tell where the event happened on the ring, but you can't tell the cause and effect of the event, or even the time. The sequence of events, because in this ring, events are both causes and effects, both before and after.
And what are the consequences of these two links? In the first ring, the infinite loop makes it seem that there are countless Joes in the marquee of life, but in fact, as the same person, the film makes Joe immortal between the age of young Joe and 50 years old. This is a bit like "Landboo" "Rice of the Rat"; In the second ring, the trigger point of the event disappears, and the law of causality is lost. Unless everything is a set program, it is difficult to explain—then fatalism becomes the answer.
Is such a result possible? It’s not true to tell stories from a realistic perspective. In order to avoid these paradoxes, theoretical physicists have put forward various hypotheses, such as parallel worlds ("Source Code"), and chaos theory ("Butterfly Effect" makes the film perfect The smooth closed loop has become a luxury), and the closest thing to the film’s "grandmother paradox" (can you go back in time and kill your grandmother? If you kill her, there won’t be you at all, How can you go back to the past to kill her?), the physicists said: Even if you really go back to the past, you can only be a bystander, or history itself prevents you from killing your grandmother. .
Therefore, the paradox of this film cannot exist in the real world.
Although this film is very good at depicting Lao Bu’s love and struggle and Xiao Bu’s struggle and awakening, the overall layout is not big enough, and the special effects scenes are not as good as Inception, but in fact, under this world view, I think there are many Things can continue to be discussed. For example, the description of the timeline curl is not in-depth enough, so that the first link was only sorted out when I was writing this film review, and because time and causality are two categories that human reason is extremely dependent on, once it happens Change, the impact on people's thinking and heart is bound to be extremely huge, but this is not enough in the film.
The second point is actually I think I can shoot a prequel-I'm curious, after you know that you will be sent back to the past to kill you in 30 years, why are you willing to join the ranks of ring killers? There is a very old proposition in this: Is it better to live longer or better? Although many people will answer "live better" without even thinking about it, once you live well, you You want to live longer, and in order to live longer, you have to live better-so how this perceptual cycle struggles in human nature so that living better takes the victory and waits quietly for death, just It has become a huge problem, and the content here seems to be worthy of a special book.
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