1. The film starts the discussion based on the "survival" of the two protagonists who have exactly the same appearance.
First, there are two people here: actually living in two different realities. Meaning, it all happens real, realistically, not psychologically (the theme of the film has nothing to do with general arguments like "split personality").
Only by receiving this correctly - faithfully - can you further hear and understand what the film is talking about, otherwise you must be puzzled by the fog-like "depression" that pervades the film from beginning to end.
So where does this frustrating "fog" come from?
2. The fog of life is in its repetition—in its reality repeated uselessly—in reincarnation. The film starts its speculative questioning with such a motif.
Our eyes first focused on the first protagonist, the professor.
A professor of philosophy (or sociology), - by implication, a "thinking man" - is not difficult to imagine, or we can assume that he already has deep perceptions and doubts about the above-mentioned "fog of life": despite his The days of calm, successful careers, and a peaceful and beautiful life are unfolding in an orderly manner: the day-to-day nature of happiness makes everything more hollow and boring; even the truth—his lecture— - also in its own duplication and repetition in the same taste, has long lost its luster. The reality of existence makes it extremely long, protracted, dull, and uninteresting—like a bad show that never ends without an exit. - This is fatal to a person who is still "beautiful". To live as if breathing with half a lung forever - but civilization has come through all the hardships - the end point: its name is: happiness. Above it, what can one expect? —At the highest point of existence, man finds himself in an ultimate predicament: what choice is there but to return to pain and suffering? - Life is but: here to delay - carefully disguising the fact that there is no way out. If there is any "better", it is to make this ending more common: to walk into happiness, even though the joy is gone.
And the root cause of all this sadness may lie in this: man, who is always eager to improve, to be different, to be - fresh - has the mind and taste of a designer, but not the right to decide, the reality is just It is the product of a pair of inhuman and tasteless hands - ignoring all the differences, at the bottom of all life, there is only one standard formula. Life is but its inexhaustible forms. ——And the only dignity of an individual is to possess the uniqueness of form.
Is that so? ——The professor pondered. He was frustrated, but there was no evidence.
Until he discovered the existence of another "self".
3. The bottom is a formula, and nature is just a lie?
How terrifying it is to witness another "self" standing alive in front of you! The insignificance of man - not even his insignificance - is false, incomplete - self-deceiving!
What else can you do? What else can you expect? truth? - The professor withered. His mother's unequivocal words, that he was her only son, gave him no consolation, and even worse: because it was more terrifying - even nature was repeating itself!
Due to a small "mistake", nature gave the unfortunate man a glimpse of the truth of life.
"It's really unpredictable!" The professor laughed at himself. ——How ironic: when the fate of human beings is unpredictable and the road is endless and sighing, how can you know that the last accident is the non-existence of the unexpected!
4. What is the real difference between people? --blueberry.
"Stop thinking about a third-rate little actor," added the professor's mother. ——Meaning, there are also culture, identity, status... There are so many, in short, far from it.
Fifth, the ultimate suffering of human beings: the same. - Perhaps the only thing left to do is: take advantage of this.
Exchange life! Go into someone else's life and experience that fresh, uncorrupted love.
Success, upon failure of another. because:
Evil keeps us apart, goodness brings us closer.
A final reveal:
However, subtle differences are not nothing - sometimes, a shallow imprint can make two people unable to approach, or even lead to destruction, and completely change each other's fate.
6. It seems that, despite all this depressing, there is still a mysterious force in it that brings good people to new worlds and magically saves everything! —Oh, love, how great! If only it could end there.
who will save
our love,
After you save us?
7. What is the ending?
I guess that's what the film says: he'll come across a freshest of the most unexpected things at the end - a giant spider!
before stopping.
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