1. The time view of film-parallel time and space view
Excluding the "Mulholland Road"-style interpretation, most of the online interpretation of the movie's time-space view is a circular space-time, that is, the so-called future is immutable. Our poor Willis has an inescapable tragic fate-he cannot save humanity. Nor can I save myself. In my opinion, this is not the case. The time-space view of this movie is not a circular time-space, but a parallel time-space. At 1 minute 57 seconds, 25 minutes 04 seconds, and 54 minutes 08 seconds, Cole’s dreams appear three times in the film. The dreams also reveal the future in detail: Cole (Bruce Willis) was shot and killed, and the blonde woman was shot. The beautiful female psychiatrist, and the blond man with the virus is Crazy Pete. This obviously contradicts that the last man who carried the virus was a doctor's assistant. If we rule out the possibility of Willis’s dream being wrong (that is, because Cole saw Crazy Pete in the mental hospital, the assistant’s face was modified in the dream world by the so-called dream and replaced with Pete’s face. In fact, our dreams There are also such situations. For example, a person’s face cannot be seen clearly in a dream, or a person’s face becomes the appearance of another person. This is caused by our dream supervision mechanism. For details, see "Dream "Analysis") Of course, this possibility is very low, because the director really does not need to do so, which is misleading. After excluding this possibility, we can understand that, in fact, history has been changed. The original spreader of the virus was Pete. Due to Cole's appearance and influence, Pete gave up the idea of extinction. Or the phone call from the female doctor prevented Pete from stealing the virus (the female doctor called Pete's father, and finally his father improved the security system), which in turn gave the assistant the idea of extinction and possessed the idea of stealing the virus. chance. We can also find some clues of parallel time and space elsewhere in the film: at 73 minutes and 03 seconds of the film, Cole said to Pete: "I can't stop you, because that has already happened. All I want is information." Obviously. , Even if Cole kills Pete in this time and space, it cannot change the fact that the disaster has occurred in Cole time and space. (Refer to the grandmother's paradox) And Cole himself said: "Scientists need unmutated viruses to study antidote in our time and space." Scientists don't need Cole to kill people from the past to change the future, but Hope to change the situation in the future in the future. As for the end of the film, Jose gave Cole a gun to kill the doctor's assistant. I think it is still to obtain the unmuted virus.
2. The end of the film-I'm in insurance
At the end of the film, the future female scientist unexpectedly appeared next to Mishi's assistant. This is obviously not a coincidence, but a hopeful ending carefully arranged by the director. The female scientist apparently appeared in the future (the scientist has traveled through time and space), and she happened to sit next to the assistant of Destroyer and said: "I'm in insurance." The meaning of this sentence is obviously not that I am engaged in insurance work, but It means that I am here to act as insurance for the whole plan. That is, after Cole failed to kill his assistant to obtain the virus, he used it as insurance for the entire plan to obtain the virus. But the director did not continue the story, but gave us more reveries about the future of the whole story and the future of mankind. This is the finishing touch of the whole film.
3. Mysterious tramp-"But i fooled them"
Throughout the film, the mysterious person who calls Cole Bob tells Cole that there is a tracker in his teeth and successfully helps Cole escape the tracking of the future world. It can be speculated that the mysterious vagrant may be a "volunteer" who came from the future and preceded Cole, and is reluctant to leave because he is nostalgic for the old world. However, in the film, there have been situations where only the sound is heard but the person is not seen. For example, Cole heard the weird voice in the toilet in the film, but in fact there is only an unrelated obese man in the toilet. This makes me wonder. Perhaps the director told us through the tramp that Cole does have a certain degree of mental problems (Cole also said that he could not distinguish reality from imagination due to multiple crossings) and increased through this tramp. The mystery of the whole movie. Looking forward to a more reasonable explanation.
Fourth, the connotation of the film-speculation
The film explores the dangers of technology, and the scene of the extinction of the whole film coincides with the "Revelation" in the Bible. In the film, the female doctor speaks at the university and the preacher speaks at the entrance of the theater: seven The golden bowl was handed over to the seven angels, and the bowl was filled with the wrath of God. The first six bowls were poured into the ground, in the sea and river, and also on the throne of the sun and wild beasts. The army of the Antichrist gathered in Armageddon. The seventh bowl was poured on the air, and all countries in the world poured out one after another. This is exactly the scene of the destruction of the world in "Revelation", and God will finally accept judgment on all kinds of human sins. With the rapid development of science and technology today, materialism has taken the leading position, people are more realistic, worshiping money, and their awe of nature has disappeared. This story also tells us that if we cannot make good use of technology, be kind to the environment, and be kind to animals, we will be judged in the end.
The connotation of the film is still more than that, I look forward to your better insights.
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