Soul-moving city
This is a 1998 movie. In terms of age, it can be said to be the inspiration and originator of a series of movies.
The story tells that in an alien space station, there is a city created by aliens. Humans in the city are captured by aliens from nowhere, and their memories are replaced every night for aliens. People observe and study the behavioral patterns produced by different memories of the same person.
The aliens hope to explore the origin and meaning of human individual consciousness and soul by studying human behavior patterns, because this group of aliens only has a collective consciousness.
Aside from the pictures and special effects bound by the age of the film, as well as the limitations of the final imagination about the duel of power, in fact, the film itself can be seen as the speculation of the soul space of many Americans at that time.
Among them, what are aliens? On the surface, they are a group of insects occupying human corpses. These insects have extremely strong spiritual power and relatively fragile bodies. They can achieve the purpose of increasing their spiritual power through technology within the family, and have the ability to create things. ability. In essence, I personally believe that the aliens represent the higher dimensional space and the upper forces. As early as the end of the last century, the United States has already carried out research and exploration on this. The dimension of human beings is three-dimensional, above the three-dimensional is the four-dimensional time, and above the four-dimensional to the N-dimensional is an endless process of increasing the frequency. The control of human beings and the transformation of the world can be regarded as the projection of the low-dimensional world and the high-dimensional world. The change of memory in sleep shows that such projection is done unconsciously and silently; the change of city shows that the change of high-dimensional space in low-dimensional space is equivalent to the existence of the creator.
In the description of the film, there are two awakened people in the whole city, one is the sheriff who committed suicide. He knows the truth of the world, but no one believes it and is powerless to change. One is the male protagonist. He masters a creative ability called TUNE possessed by aliens. This ability allows him to overthrow the aliens and become the new god of the city.
From this point of view, there are two conditions for becoming a god. One is to master the ability of creation; the other is to realize the truth. Both are indispensable, and it is a matter of opinion as to which is more important.
The male protagonist who doesn't know the truth is just a man who is being hunted down; the policeman who only knows the truth is just a lunatic talking to himself.
But this kind of speculation is actually talking about the question of which came first, the chicken or the egg. It does not discuss the origin of human beings, but only says whether to understand or experience high-dimensional existence first, but there is a saying that is good, all No low-dimensional can understand what a high-dimensional is, and only when you are in it will you understand.
Ants cannot understand the human world, and humans cannot understand the world of God.
In fact, what is interesting is that there are many foreign films about this speculation, why aliens are good at spiritual power, why they exist in the form of collective consciousness, why they control human beings, and why they explore the source of human souls , why does it have the ability to create, such a perfect existence, and why does it encounter the danger of extinction, and instead chase individual consciousness.
Every question is not only a suspense in the movie, but also a discussion about the nature of the world. It is just a transition from the debate between idealism and materialism to a deeper impact on the real world. After all, even if someone knows the truth of the world , but lacks the ability to change the world, and such people are either hidden in the city, or, like the sheriff, are regarded as lunatics.
So for me, the whole movie does not have a place that deeply appeals to me or has a sufficiently suspenseful plot, but there are still two highlights:
1. By studying human memory and exploring the perspective of the human soul, it may be unanswerable speculation at any time, "The reason why I am me is because of a bunch of neurotransmitters, a bunch of memory signals, everything I've experienced. , or what?" This is an unanswered question, reminiscent of the "non-self" in Buddhism, there is indeed great wisdom hidden in it, not only let go of the ego, let go of the ego, but you can't find it What I do is my answer, and confirming me from any angle is an attachment, and in the eyes of Buddhists, such attachment is both an obstacle and a delusion.
The same is true in the eyes of the human mind. It is precisely because of the distinction between me, you, and the world that the five poisons of greed, hatred, delusion, and doubt arise. Life in each dimension has also changed from experience to possession, and Bodhi has become affliction over time. .
Moreover, every night, the setting of tampering with memory is indeed very novel and bold in the 1998 sci-fi. Such tampering is terrifying from the human heart, even too life and death, but this is gain and loss. Charm, if life is like this, if there is a series like this, it will be very exciting, the fear of death is just forgetting, if you have an afterlife and remember your present life, what fear of death, but your new It is only a game or an S/L, and the meaning of Meng Po Tang is also here.
2. Jennifer Connelly is really beautiful, and her peak appearance can be drawn into the beauty that has been handed down from generation to generation. For me, appreciating beauty and daringly chasing the beauty of the world is the most interesting aspect of life, because beautiful things are high-frequency existences. It is a process of increasing frequency and a kind of Pleasant enjoyment. It makes me interested to read all her works and understand a person's life. It is a situation that is difficult for me to come into contact with in my projection, or a situation that is difficult to create. It is desirable and worthy of appreciation.
In other respects, there is nothing that touches me too much. After all, it is a movie from 20 years ago, and it is difficult to really satisfy the appetite of today's people in all aspects.
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