The whole film unfolds according to the clue of exploring extraterrestrial civilization, during which the human nature and belief are used as clues to depict the choices different people make when faced with opportunities, challenges and unknowns. The whole film has a certain background of the times, and we can see some shadows of the American socio-political level at that time.
Let’s jump out first and talk about the way of expression: the use of the camera in the whole film will leave a deep impression on people, especially the picture of Ellie running to the bathroom cabinet in order to save her unexpected father when she was young: while keeping the characters The facial detailing and the successful use of the mirror on the cabinet door makes the whole process smooth and flawless in my opinion. Another is that the film used a composite image of then-US President Bill Clinton, which looked real on a TV screen. Although the filmmakers received protests from the White House, doing so left a deeper impression on the audience. However, what the whole film wants to show most is probably the logic and values behind those shots.
The first thing to think about in the film is how we should think about today's exploratory new projects. It is true that exploration is human nature, and breakthroughs in new fields often have a huge impact, taking human beings in a whole new direction; however, there are costs to achieve these, which is why Ellie and his early stage. The boss confrontation will be so sharp. I think new directions need to be explored, but otherwise we will do our best to make a last-ditch effort under the pressure of survival, or we will leave a certain percentage to explore. If such an exploration as in the film produces results, it will shock all mankind, and the whole thing will develop in an unpredictable direction; but as far as our reasonable estimation of the density of intelligent life in the universe is concerned, we can receive the transmission of intelligent life. The probability of the electromagnetic wave is extremely low, and its priority is possible. Therefore, allocating more resources and uniting the world's equipment to explore those things that have the desired outcome and produce stackable progress may be a more cost-effective option. This kind of thinking about choices also inspires our own planning.
The second place worth thinking about is the relationship between science and religion. These two seem to be incompatible in our eyes today, because religion often represents those things that are related to belief and cannot be falsified, and it seems to represent conservative; while science emphasizes giving new interpretations, step by step forward People theoretically construct new theories, one step at a time, which seems to represent progress. I've thought about it in the past, but the truth is more complicated and fuzzy than that. The first thing to be clear is that philosophy of science grows out of belief in religion. The great theologian Thomas Aquinas of the 13th century once perfectly integrated Christian theology and Aristotelian philosophy; under the brewing of time, with the Renaissance, political and moral beliefs gradually separated. In order to explain God's intention, a school of philosophy represented by science began to stand up, and it was mixed with the subsequent historical torrents of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution, and its influence was growing like a snowball. So much so that after the era of great wars in the first half of the 20th century, coupled with the control of people's minds by the two camps of the Cold War... People's attitudes towards science and religious beliefs have become very divided. Some see it as an outdated belief related to superstition; others think we have strayed too far from God's teachings over the past two hundred years and should go back to the "good" times of the past; others may be in between , who place their beliefs in the gods of their own religion or culture, but do not interpret them too much or be influenced by their teachings.
However, looking back on history, I feel that the core of religion is more fundamental than science. Science emphasizes objectivity, results are universal, replicable and falsifiable, it can produce superimposed progress on the footsteps of predecessors, and it can continue to iterate its own theories, so that it can describe the real world as much as possible; however, these It is all based on how to perceive and see the world. Religious beliefs, in a sense, answer why we know, the meaning of our existence, and the meaning of our thinking and actions. Compared with scientific thinking, the discussion given by religion seems to be very crude and full of loopholes, and many conclusions cannot be tested. But I think religion or belief is a short-cut answer to a more profound kind of question that cannot be clearly defined. A question about why is often deeper than how and what, and it is difficult to answer even in words. Because these questions are about how we build the bottom layer of the world. After all, I think the film wants to tell us that there is no fundamental contradiction between religious belief and scientific research, both of which have their own unique meaning for us to better understand the world. It is belief that quickly gives us For the answers to some meta-questions, we can start to explore as much as possible in this context, and always maintain a calm and objective, calm and scientific view of the world.
Last but not least is a new interpretation of time travel. In the past movies, people thought that time travel was a parallel world that traveled to the past. According to whether it can change the past, whether it can return to a certain point in the past at will, and so on, this idea can be further divided. The heroine in this work finally moves in time and space. She has experienced 18 hours herself and saw unimaginable things. Let's think it's real; however, other people on earth think that she is tightly in that ball A free-fall motion was carried out in a type device... This kind of time travel based entirely on the subject can be said to give a new interpretation of the object commonly used in science fiction works.
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