care? "The teacher's answer is also very meaningful: "Because we are rabbits. "Then Donnie further clarified his confusion: "We are humans, why should we be sad for rabbits?" "The implication is that the rabbit is a completely different existence from us. What is the point of being sad for an existence different from our own? In fact, the rabbit here is already an object with very rich meaning. It does not just refer to it. The rabbit in the cartoon still refers to an existence that is completely different from the self at the moment in a broad sense. It is not only a species, but can also be extended to an existence in time and space, which is in a different time and space from us, even if That kind of existence is the same species as ourselves: people, even people we may be familiar with, or even ourselves in another time and space, but it is an existence completely different from the self in this time and space at this moment. In other words, to a certain extent, the people and things in that time and space have nothing to do with this time and space, so Donnie’s real puzzle is, why should I be responsible for the people and things in that time and space in this time and space? Of course, Time and space can also be relative here. The self in the "primary universe" can think that things in the "deviation from the universe" are irrelevant to oneself, and the self in the "deviation from the universe" can also be regarded as the "primitive universe". "The things in "are irrelevant to him. From the final plot point of view, donnie's responsibility is even to sacrifice himself to protect other people in another time and space. However, here is a philosophical problem of identity identity. , That is, when Donnie plans to save the people in the "primary universe", he is in the "deviation from the universe". Therefore, at this time, the things of the "primary universe" are actually irrelevant to him. But when he When returning to the "primary universe" to implement the plan of sacrificing himself, since he has returned to the original universe, everything around him is already relevant to him, so his behavior at this time is no longer related to the world he lives in. It’s irrelevant, so his behavior has meaning. But the difficulty lies in which universe his personality belongs to when he travels through the original universe and deviates from the universe? When he returned to the original universe with the memory of deviating from the universe, To a certain extent, he came back with a personality that deviated from the universe, but at this moment his body and thought belonged to the original universe. In this way, there is a problem of "personality sharing", that is, his personality is in two unrelated aspects. There is cross sharing in the universe. Perhaps this can be understood to a certain extent that he has become a bridge between the two universes. The key to the problem may be that he has his own life when he goes from one universe to another. Personality and memory have not been erased. The two universes may be irrelevant when viewed independently, but because of the sharing of his personality in the two places, the relationship between the time and space of the two universes has been realized to a certain extent. (This part is actually a philosophical discussion that I personally associate more. The main theme of the original drama may not be this, but it is also a meaningful extension.)
Let's continue to return to the main theme of the original drama. Donnie thinks that the rabbit is irrelevant to us, so we should not be sad for it. By extension, the people and things in another universe are irrelevant to the time and space where we are now. Why should we be responsible for them? The teacher responded: Does donnie think that a certain species is of a higher level, so its existence or extinction would appear to be more meaningful than other species? Extending it means that the people and things in the universe we are currently living in are of a higher level than the people and things in another unrelated universe? And obviously at this time Donnie's answer is yes, "the rabbits not like us", "It doesn't make sense to cry to a dead rabbit". But just then her girlfriend spoke: these rabbits were imagined by the author, and the author cares about them, so we should also care about them, otherwise we "miss the point". The "author" here should be a god with religious meaning, that is to say, no matter which species or the people and things in which universe, they are all creations of God. When God created them, God will care for them, and we Just like God, they should be given equal care instead of discriminating. In the end, the teacher’s summary seemed to correct this: "Aren't we forgetting about the miracle of storytelling? The deus ex machina? The god machine? That's what saved the rabbit." The stories that happened echoed each other.
Later, in the hypnosis part of the psychologist, the doctor said that Donnie is an agnostic, that is, he neither affirms the existence of God, but also does not completely deny the possibility of God’s existence. This actually implies Donnie’s state of mind at this time. There was no faith in God at that time. In the end, his girlfriend died and Frank was killed by him. He drove to the vicinity of Desperate Storm. When sitting on the roof of the car, he said "I'm going home.", and He laughed, at this moment he really began to believe in God. And then he used the wormhole to return to his home in the original universe, laughed loudly, no longer escaped, lying on the bed with relief, accepting his destiny safely and welcoming the engine that descended from the sky. In the end, he used his sacrifice (sacrifice) to save other people in the original universe, and the sacrifice is also a quality that Christianity values most. His sacrifice not only saves other people, but also completes his own self-salvation.
Therefore, this film is mainly a religious film, telling the story of a person who has always avoided his own destiny and finally accepts his own destiny safely, believes in God, chooses self-sacrifice to break the cycle of reincarnation, and complete self-salvation. But in addition to the religious dimension that the film itself wants to express, the issues about the identity and coherence of personality that I discussed in the previous article are also a good philosophical dimension that is worth thinking about.
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