Just as Ambedocles threw himself into Mount Etna and sought truth from within the earth, Nietzsche suggested that one threw himself into the universe to rediscover its eternal sanctity. Today, 100 years later, James Gray has discovered the disillusionment of rationalism representing progress with hindsight. He put on a nihilistic melancholy mask for Brad Pitt and exiled him to the vast universe to conduct human experiments. The hero Roy is pressed by the afterimage of his father and the events in his adventure step by step, and he has no choice but to "accept what is unacceptable, and is in a situation where he cannot hold on". Among them, the tangled narration set the tone of the movie, and Pitt was chattering and occupying, like the second sister-in-law of Liao in "Howl", full of resentment and chatter.
In Camus's analysis of Nietzsche's nihilism, he can only become God if he "renounces all resistance, even the desire to produce gods to correct the world." At the end of the movie, Roy passively gave up his father who symbolized God and abandoned him in the void universe. This vague move makes one wonder, is Roy resolute and complete in giving up on his father? Is his acceptance of his father's moral "evil" in order to transcend him? Gray kept going in circles, but he was reluctant to give an answer.
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