In order to show that I am not an original party who "no matter how I change it", let me talk about the advantages of the movie:
The mother-daughter relationship is still well-behaved-this is also the place that fits the original best.
Besides...
The alien-related settings are okay. The spacecraft is obviously borrowed from the black obelisk in 2001, and the process of entering the spacecraft is good: subtly revealing the characteristics of the heptapod barrel in the world of no top, no left, no right.
The way of writing in the heptagram: ink spray with smoke!
The creative point of this idea is great. The original work is really "hand" written stroke by stroke, and it will definitely take time to shoot it out. (Since the writing is inkjet, the shape of the heptapod barrel inevitably leans against the squid...whatever)
While the female pig learns the alien written language (seven texts), the original work is really written while learning with a pen (the normal process of learning writing language is impossible without a pen), and the whole process of computer-assisted image analysis is used in the movie. It is more reasonable. After all, the current computer data processing ability has improved a lot compared with the time when the novel was published (1999).
In the same way, the process of writing seven texts when the female pig communicates with the heptapod bucket in person, the film is no longer written with a pen, but has become pre-stored N "parts" in the tablet computer (similar to the radical radical ), what to write, select the parts, and quickly synthesize a standard seven texts by the program. This process is relatively intuitive and looks interesting.
Later, the female pig was loaded into the core of the spacecraft by the shuttle, and the clouds and mountains inside seemed to have no physical objects. In this environment, the female pig suddenly poured into a large number of future fragments, which actually echoed the original sentence:
Usually, heptagram B only affects my memory, and my consciousness is the same as before, like the flame on a cigarette, crawling forward slowly and continuously. The difference is that now, both ends of the cigarette are filled with soot from memory, and the other end is the same. Sometimes I will be completely dominated by language B. At this moment, at a glance, the past and the future come together at the same time. My consciousness becomes ashes for half a century, and time has passed. A glimpse of the divergence and concurrency of the fifty years, the rest of my life is in it. Also, your life.
The original book is a very simple story of contact, learning, and communication with aliens; and the film adds the reactions of governments and people eating melons around the world. Every step of the female pig’s decision is made under high pressure (the colonel threatens her : I have to report everything you do to a large group of people), and always pay attention to every step of a "superpower" on the other side of the Pacific. As a "blockbuster", the increase in these real-world interferences is also very reasonable... right.
After the praise, let’s talk a little bit noisy:
★The design of alien languages (seven texts)
This was originally the biggest attraction in my opinion after the novel was adapted from the movie. But goose...
The original description of Qiwen:
The logo text of the heptapod barrel is not arranged in rows, nor in circles, and their arrangement is not linear at all.
The heptapod bucket loves to put as many as seven words into a sentence, and it will stick into a big ball. This is just one sentence. ……One sentence, one paragraph, one page, the difference lies in how big the group is
……If a sentence is relatively long, the visual impact it forms is really extraordinary. If you put aside the attitude of studying and decoding, if you just watch it, this sentence is like a lot of mantises drawn in hastily and fantasy distortion, intertwined with each other, each posture is slightly different, forming a heraldic pattern. .
The text in the movie is not "a big ball", but becomes a circle (some are "Juan" and some are "ring"), and the ideographic logo becomes a tuft of ink dots attached to both sides of the circle. There are some tiny bumps on the ink dots.
A circle is probably a sentence. In the end, the heptapod barrel threw out a circle full of screen before the explosion. It is estimated that it contributed to their encyclopedia?
The Qiwen in the original work is just two-dimensional text, which can be expanded infinitely on a plane. The process of writing Qiwen is like spreading out a complicated pie.
The circle text in the movie is still three-dimensional, and the male pigs calculated the relative spatial relationship of the respective distribution of the full-screen circles, and concluded that they only obtained 1/12 of the entire encyclopedia.
I understand that it is more difficult to reproduce the setting of the original work visually, but... "The big pie turns into a circle" is still quite a bit of a gap. (︶︹︺)
In addition, the female pig showed an expression that seemed to be controlled by hypnosis/mental interference/thought in close contact with aliens, which is actually quite a bit of a pull. Aliens don't know how to read minds, let alone use their minds like martial arts novels. The female pig learns extraterrestrial languages by her own wisdom, and the female pig learns to predict the future by reshaping her thinking in the process of language learning.
★The disappearance of Fermat's principle
In the original work, Fermat's principle in physics (or "the shortest time principle of light") is a breakthrough point in scientific communication between humans and aliens, and it is also the key to understanding alien writing and thinking modes.
The reason why the female pig realized this was because the physicist of the male pig mentioned in a discussion with her that the scientific theorem of the heptapod barrel for many human beings is not very good, but the Fermat principle is expressed. Out of approval. Then I explained Fermat's principle to the female pig, and then inspired the female pig to think about the writing principle of its alien characters.
I understand (again) that it is more difficult to express the principles of physics in movies than the linguistic principles of the "Sapir-Wolf Hypothesis", but...you can't leave it alone! ?
The deletion of the discussion about Fermat's principle directly caused the existence of the male pig physicist to be completely embarrassed. What is his purpose as a member of the alien contact team? If it is for the purpose of communicating science with aliens, but there is not a lens for scientific communication, and there is no lens for communicating with scientists from other countries, except for the calculation of "1/12" by computer modeling, the whole process is reduced to the female pig's side. Soy sauce (the relationship between the two is also very thin).
In the postscript of the original book, the author Ted Jiang mentions his source of inspiration, one of which is his "favor for the variational principle in physics" (Fermat's principle is an example of the variational principle). [Variational principle Jun cries and faints in the toilet!
In addition to the advantages and noisy points, there is a more controversial change:
★Foresee the future or intervene in the future
The details of the "non-zero-sum game" (the future female pig was asked a question by her daughter, carefully recalled the past (that is, the "now" on the timeline), remembered the answer, and then told her daughter) is in the original book The plot indicates that people in the future can go back to the past to absorb nutrients and use them for future events. It also reveals that the process of "perceiving" time is two-way. The female pig in the "now" can predict what will happen in the future. Things, and the female pig in the "future" can also "synchronously" perceive what is happening now.
It is estimated that the screenwriter got the inspiration from this, and further opened a brain hole on this basis: people now can also use consciousness to "build" the future, and then use the constructed "facts" to influence the historical process of "now"— —It’s the section where the female pig made a private phone call to General Shang: In order to prevent China from opening fire, the female pig "remembered" that General Shang met her at a peace meeting, and specifically mentioned the private phone number she had called him. The last words of the general's wife-this "special mention" process is very blunt, not at all like conversations that would happen in real life, full of deliberate traces of "I want it happen, so it happens."
I (still) understand the screenwriter’s effort to add a bit of conflict and suspense to the originally light-hearted “alien come and go without a trace of cloud” story, but can this paragraph be understood as: the screenwriter thinks he has a foresight The ability of the future also has the ability to "intervene" in the future?
——If this is the case, then this concept is completely contrary to the original .
The theme of the original work is: Under the circumstance that the future can be predicted, people will not want to change the future because of "free will". In the consciousness of the sequential mode, free choice does exist, so it is impossible for people to predict the future; in the consciousness of the synchronous mode, people already know the future, it is impossible to resist this established destiny, and it is impossible to know what they know. Tell others in the future. (An interpretation is attached at the end of the article)
Those who predict the future will not talk about the future, and those who have read the book of years will not admit that they have read it.
Maybe the screenwriter thinks that such a theme is too illusory like Eastern philosophy, so he should be more active as a person. So in the end, the female pig came to Hollywood ending, which made an effort to turn the tide and save the world.
If you insist on changing the theme of the story, you can barely find the reason in the original book:
Although I am already proficient in language B, I know that I still can't experience the world like a heptapod. My consciousness is human consciousness, and my language is linear language. These have been finalized. This point, no matter how familiar with the language of aliens, it cannot be completely changed. My worldview is a mixture of humans and heptapods.
It can be said that the female pig has "limitations as a human individual." Although she perceives the future and accepts the arrangements of fate in the synchronous mode, she is occasionally willing to change the future and create the unknown in the free consciousness mode. [Personally think she should not be far away from schizophrenia like this
So in the movie, the female pig seemed to "talk about the future" more than once, and asked the male pig at the base ("If you know what will happen to you in your life from now to death, what will you do?"), she later talked about it with her daughter ("Mom can predict the future").
The ability of the female pig to create the future and then reverse the present is a bit of a question. If even future world wars or peace can intervene, why does the female pig not even change her daughter's untimely death? ——Later I realized that the early death of the original work was a mountain-climbing fall (and the female pig knew this and still "let it happen", it is estimated that the female pig in the movie would "change the future"), in the movie it was changed The strange disease is to create a situation where even if the female pig wants to change the future, she cannot do it. Even the reason for dying early has to be changed. Everything is because the female pig has become a female paper who can predict the future and insist on retaining her free will. At the end of the original book, Louise, who regards every word and deed in life as an execution ceremony, deeply understands the performativity of language, is completely distorted.
The second half of the film on 1/26, pay attention to the awkward and inexplicable second half of the "World War" part in the first half of the film, and I have a new idea about the adaptation of the film [In order to try to help the film logic, I have completely eliminated the original Interference, I did my best... (I entered the cinema 15 minutes late for the opening, but I found that the beginning of the movie was removed, and the whole movie seemed to be much more compact. The feeling of "procrastination" in the first half was no longer ==) Starting from China, interrupting communications, intent " At the beginning, the movie began to insert the little girl’s background sound "Mom, why am I called Hannah?"-Note that this question has appeared several times. The first time there was only a question without answer, the second time there was a female pig’s answer. "Because this is a palindrome, both right and wrong thoughts are the same (to the effect)". The problem appears twice because the movie has a large number of images of palindrome from here on:
(1) First is the word "Hannah" by her daughter's name; (2) At a tense moment before the explosion, the alien asked the female pig to reach out and teach the female pig to "write" Qiwen through the screen. The female pig's right hand was from the right From top to bottom, the heptapod barrel is on the opposite side and from top to bottom from the left. Everyone will join together to form a circle (closed loop). ——Some problems in this place: ①I feel that the aliens teach here Did the female pig use a fake trick of "telepathy" in writing language? And it is true that the female pig started to have "flashbacks" of future episodes when she first came into contact with aliens. At that time, she did not start to learn languages, and logically has no ability to predict the future. The existence of such flashbacks can only explain : She was "head down" by aliens. (Retrieving the previous conclusion that "The female pig learns alien languages by her own wisdom, and the female pig learns to predict the future by reshaping the thinking in the process of language learning". The female pig is indeed open in the movie) ② If according to the book "learning to write = mastering to predict the future", at the moment when the alien taught her to circle the circle, she should also "open up" her mind to see the future clearly (the expression in the movie is also a sudden surge in her mind). (In the picture of a large number of daughters)-There is a question here. The "future" is actually very broad. Why is the female pig the first to see all the daughters? If you say that as a mother, it is naturally the most important thing for your daughter. The question is whether the female pig is a single at the moment of resuscitation, and the daughter does not exist at all. How can she become the thing she cares about most and most want to see? ? There are two inferences to this: 1) The alien was "headed down" again (because the alien let her see her daughter, and nothing else), but the alien did not seem to be so idle; 2) In view of the later The female pig seems to have seen the future of other non-daughters. The possible reason is that what the female pig sees depends on what she cares about most consciously or subconsciously at that moment. This point will be discussed below. (3) The female pig woke up after the explosion, went to a meeting to hear "non-zero-sum game", and then "remembered" that she said the word to her daughter in the future, and then went to the computer to call up a full screen of Qiwen images, The future she saw at this time: She received a bundle of new books that she had just opened. The book was her future book "The Language of the Universe". She flipped through the pages of the book "For "something", and then talked about why we came to Earth, because we need human help after 3000 years, so now we will help humanity-the "weapon" (or "tool"/"gift") here, originally everyone thought it was simple "Heptapod barrel written language", but after the second brush, I feel that it is not only the language itself, but also the ability to trigger the "closed loop of time and space" like "books and lectures" that start and end in the "future" (later call General Shang That scene is also a reenactment of this kind of trick). Moreover, the aliens may also be engaged in such a "closed loop of time and space": the heptapod barrel sees their future in trouble, and "3000 years later" the earth people come to help the heptapod. Barrel—→It is estimated that “after 3000 years”, the earthlings said to the heptapod after becoming Lei Feng, “Thanks to your visit to the earth 3000 years ago, you have taught us the seven texts—→so got the heptapod of the call of duty Just clean up, and suddenly came to the earth "now". The two encounters are like the process of teaching a female pig to write seven texts with a heptapod barrel. Starting from one end, draw a circle together. The humans draw half, the heptapod barrel draws the other half, and meet again at the other end.
(5) The female pig returned to the base from the spaceship, because at that time the focus of humans against aliens was General Shang. In order to prevent the war, the female pig tried to "see" the part related to General Shang in the future, so she felt it. Their meeting, this meeting is really the result of a bug: If you follow the above deduction, on the surface, this is another "closed loop of time and space" that "future determines the present" triggered by the female pig. But during the meeting, General Shang said that you called me 18 months ago, and the female pig was stunned! Say I don’t know your private phone number. ——If the female pig at that moment is really in the future & the person who has made this call in the past, why is she so confused? Next, General Shang took the initiative to reveal his phone number, and then took the initiative to read out what the person who called him "Zeng" said on the phone. If this is a normal meeting, the conversation and behavior of the two will not be too great. Is it weird? Let’s look at a sentence from General Shang during that meeting: I’ve always wanted to meet you 18 months ago. I think I have a mission to do this (that is, I have a mission to show the female pig’s phone number and Explain the content of the call) (to the effect)——After receiving a call from a female paper "now", what mysterious power made him feel like he should go and tell the female paper his call in person 18 months later Number? Is it possible that Shang Sir was lowered 18 months ago (that is, "now")? According to the "closed loop of time and space" that "the future determines the present", it will not work, because this "future" is not like the future that is actually written in the "book of years". It is a hard-crafted creation to solve the problem of "now". "Future", then this is back to my mind when I first brushed it: the female pig can not only "see" the true future, but can also use some mysterious power to construct a virtual mirror of the "future" in her consciousness, although It is virtual, but there is real information involved (the female pig and the general business are like being hypnotized before saying those words, but the phone number and wife's last words are true and correct). This principle is not clear, but this ability is very impressive. ——So this is more like a brain hole in Philip Dick's novels. I think this is not the original intention of the director, nor is it a feature of the movie. So it's just a bug, a pure bug.
To sum up, the logic of the movie is very different from the novel. Starting from the modification of the alien characters, the two start from the basic setting, to the three views (time view, physics view, universe view...), to the characters based on the first two. And the plot went on two different paths . The text of the novel starts from writing the first stroke, and all the following strokes are planned in advance, and each stroke is in a precise position and will not change. The corresponding "view of time" also knows all futures in advance, and at the same time loses free will, and will not deliberately change/resist, but precisely let these futures happen. The text of the movie is a circle, a ring, without a beginning and no end, but when writing, people can decide where to write (start and end). The corresponding "view of time" is that time and space can produce countless such "closed loops of time and space", that is, you can select a certain point "future" you want to see in advance, and design your way from "now" to that point according to this point. To complete this path, a closed loop is completed. Use that point as a starting point to decide what you should do now. The imagery of palindrome represented by "Hannah" also echoes this view of time. ——At this point, I finally understand why Fermat’s principle should be cut off in movies, because Fermat’s principle is used to help explain the concept of time in novels. Since the concept of time in movies has completely changed, Fermat’s principle is not used. Soy sauce. ——But even with the "New Three Views" endorsement, the scene of calling General Merchant is still a bug.
Regarding the subject of human attitudes facing time after predicting the future in the original work, I have written a summary before, and I will elaborate on it here:
In the linear thinking model, a common paradox is that if a person knows what will happen in the future (such as winning a lottery ticket), and he is a rebellious personality, he will not let it happen (such as not at all Go buy the lottery ticket), then the future will no longer exist, and his prediction is meaningless. So the existence of free will means that we cannot predict the future.
And "The Story of Your Life"'s innovative view of this paradox lies in:
In the synchronous mode of thinking and consciousness (that is, the mode in which consciousness can fully perceive the past and the future), "freedom" has no meaning, because there is no "have to". The past and the future are spread out in front of you. You have a clear understanding of all the causes and consequences (causes and purposes). You will no longer have "unquestionable" and "difficult intentions". What is the difference between being free?
In the consciousness of the sequential mode, free choice does exist, so it is impossible for people to predict the future; in the consciousness of the synchronous mode, people already know the future, it is impossible to resist this established destiny, and it is impossible to know what they know. Tell others in the future. Those who predict the future will not talk about the future, and those who have read the book of years will not admit that they have read it.
For the reason why you still have to "execute" meticulously knowing what the future will be, "You" is still a linguistic explanation: from the teleological point of view, human language has "performativity" (performativity). In addition to communicating information, language can also correspond to various behaviors. For the aliens who "know everything beforehand" in "You", language is no longer used to communicate ideas, but to complete behavior.
Aliens come to the time and space of mankind, "communicate" passionately with mankind, knowing what will happen, and still meticulously recite their own lines. This is to produce behavior and turn everything they know into real facts, just like Perform some necessary rituals. The ritual is executed, the facts happen, the future becomes reality, and time and space produce order.
Such an alien, in the eyes of humans, can say that it knows everything, but it can't do what it wants; it's a marionette, but it's not without initiative.
Under this premise, the "meaning of life" is no longer "finding the answer" (just as the meaning of watching a movie is no longer knowing whether the ending is HE or BE), but has become Make It Happen, and in the course of time Understand cause and effect, understand purpose, experience pain, and experience love.
(——This is also the most beautiful and touching part of the original theme. However, Mao can't realize it in the movie)
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