Nolan provides everyone with a new view of time travel
1. Time travel
To understand the "Creed", you must understand the concept of time travel.
In our usual perception, time travel is divided into two types: to the future and back to the past.
Let's talk about going to the future first . Strictly speaking, we are going to the future every second.
After the general theory of relativity was put forward, people discovered that time is not a constant quantity. Wherever movement is fast and gravity is strong, time is slow. So when the speed or gravity is extremely large, time travel to the future can occur.
For example: In Nolan’s "Interstellar Traversal", the male protagonist is affected by the black hole's gravitational force, and the passage of time slows down. After crossing the black hole, the male protagonist actually completed a time travel: that is, it only took a few hours. Decades after coming to the earth.
"Going to the future" sounds more reliable, but "going back to the past" is not so easy.
According to the theory of relativity, when the speed increases beyond the speed of light, time will reverse. But the speed of light is the limit of the universe. This has led to "reversal of the future", which has become theoretically impossible.
In order to verify whether "traveling back to the past" is really feasible, Hawking even held a "time traveler party" on June 28, 2009. Before this party, he did not invite anyone and sent it after the party. Send out invitations.
Hawking's assumption is that if someone receives an invitation in the future, they will visit the party.
But unfortunately, no one came to the party on June 28.
Therefore, "going back to the past" is not feasible now.
Of course, everyone has made various guesses about this.
For example, people who have traveled to the past usually exist in quantum form and cannot communicate with people in the past. Therefore, someone may have come to Hawking's party, but you can't see him.
In other words, because of the existence of the "grandfather paradox", traversal does not work logically.
Of course, those who attacked the "grandfather paradox" also gave the self-justified "parallel universe" theory, that is, when you travel back, a new timeline will be opened, so the original grandfather and the grandfather you see now may not be the same anymore. The same person.
In "Creed", Nolan arrogantly ignored the "grandfather paradox" and gave his own explanation
In his setting, everyone shares a timeline, everyone drives on the same road, but some people drive from front to back, and some people drive from back to front.
For example: Suppose my day goes like this: I wake up, go to work, go home, go to bed, and spend 24 hours.
In Nolan’s setting, I can reverse the time and go back to the past from now. So the things in the world just 24 hours ago drifted before my eyes like a video tape rewinding, and I would see me "sleeping" , "Go home", "Go to work", "Get up".
When I reversing the car, I may find it very novel, and I will yell "Too awesome!"
At this time, these contents have been recorded on the time tape:
Anyone who comes to this timeline may encounter two "me"
If I go back to 24 hours ago, if I turn around again, then I will see my experience of getting up, going to work, and going home during these 24 hours. At the same time, I can see me driving backwards, yelling, "It’s a cow!" , Drifting in reverse order.
At this point I will say, "It's so stupid!"
I have experienced this period of 24 hours three times, so on this timeline, there will be three mes.
The three things I have done will be recorded truthfully on the time tape, which is what Nolan said "what happened is happened".
At the same time, from any one of my perspectives, there will be two other traces left by me on this time.
So when I went through the first 24 hours, I would see a reversing me, calling "Niu Tai", and at the same time I would see a third me saying "Too stupid".
Similarly, the second me, the day I saw the first me, would also see the third me making a fuss.
We found that under this setting, when I first experienced the timeline, I saw a few of me, which meant that I was destined to cross several times.
The timeline that will occur in these 24 hours jumps repeatedly. In fact, God has already written the script, and it has nothing to do with the time sequence.
This is Nolan's basic view of time travel.
Under this concept of crossing, it is possible to form a "time pliers":
Two "me" can work collaboratively at both ends of this timeline, at the same time and in the same place.
Not only has the number of people doubled, but because I have been backing the car for 24 hours, I know what the enemy's next move on the timeline will be, so the strategy value has also greatly increased.
You already know the concept of time travel. So let's explain another concept in the movie: "entropy".
Regarding entropy, we need to know its two characteristics:
- The entropy of the universe is constantly increasing.
- Entropy increases in the same direction as time.
For example, your room may be tidy at first, but it gets messy after a week.
The entropy of your room has increased.
If you don’t work, the room won’t be tidy automatically.
This is the so-called "law of entropy increase": as a whole, as time goes by, entropy must increase, and will not decrease spontaneously.
But in "Creed", due to the emergence of black technology, "entropy" is reduced in a world where time is reversed.
So in reverse time, not only the tape of time is playing backwards, but all the actions you do will cause the opposite result.
For example, ignition will make the temperature drop, stepping on a puddle will make the water more concentrated, and firing a bullet will cause the bullet to fly back into the barrel from a distance.
In the movie, Nolan added the concept of increasing entropy in time. First, it can provide some scientific background for time travel, that is, going back to the past is feasible because we may change the direction of entropy increase and entropy decrease.
Second, it also brings visual spectacles to the movie, such as stepping on a puddle to become smaller, burning a car, and causing frostbite to the male protagonist. Entropy is interesting here, but it doesn't really matter.
Second, the timeline analysis of the movie
The timeline of the movie, if one can see from the actor alone, the main event line he experienced is like this,
- Opera house mission, the male protagonist turned back because of the Ukrainian police, the mission failed
- The male protagonist was forced to commit suicide, was rescued, and received a mission to save the world
- In order to meet Satro, contact Kat
- Bombing plane stealing painting
- See Satro, gain trust, help him find plutonium 241
- The male lead got the plutonium and was snatched by Satro.
- The hero and Neil successfully prevented the calculator from being buried in the ground
- Kat kills Satro
In the whole film, the three links of 6, 7, and 8 all jump repeatedly on the axis for a period of time. The most critical and classic are the two clips of 6 and 7.
As for other incidents, it was nothing more than these three horizontal jumps that caused some projections. For example, the male protagonist suddenly saw himself who had traveled back, and Kat saw a girl jump into the sea, but he was actually himself.
Retrograde chase
The perspective of this scene is shot from the perspective of Kat and the male lead. Since Kat and the male lead are not mainly passing through people in this process, they will see various strange phenomena caused by others crossing, including the car retrograde and bullets flying back. .
The audience was even more dazed.
And in order to understand what happened in the timeline, we need to start from the people who "traversed". In the whole scene, the person who passes through is Satro, so from his perspective, it is very clear:
1. Satro caught Kate and had a domestic violence. His younger brother caught the male lead and sent him back to the Red Room.
2. He asked the male protagonist "Where is the metal". The male protagonist has not yet reacted from the dullness. When the support troops arrive, Satro enters the revolving door and escapes through the revolving door.
3. Satro enters the blue room and starts to reverse. He sees the male lead a few minutes ago and listens to the male lead saying that the "box" is on the "BMW co-pilot"
4. Shot Kat and threatened the male lead
#Note, 3 and 4 are in the male lead’s perspective when Satro hits Kat first, and then he talks about the place of the box. But after the reversal, Satro needs to do it the other way around, that is, he will first hear the male protagonist say the address of the box, and then give Kat a shot, in order to ensure that a male protagonist is threatened and will say that.
5. Satro took Kat back ten minutes ago. On the way the male lead was driving, he found the co-pilot of BMW and found that there was no plutonium 241.
5. On the road, I encountered a group of male protagonists who turned back and also drove backwards. After Sato anger blasted the male protagonist’s car, he left;
5. Satro drove backwards, returned to the beginning of this period, and sent Kate back to the red room. At this time, Kate had returned to the place where things just started, which is the timeline of 1.
6. Satro left, got the metal block, and then went back to Vietnam a week ago, hoping to spend a good time with his wife.
There will be several logic bugs:
1. Kat's perspective, because Kat has not reversed, but he also drifted on the timeline with Satro's reversal. In order to deal with this problem, everyone can think of Kat as an accompanying figure, and items can go to the future or the past with the direction of the owner of the timeline.
2. When Satro turned back, did he know that a few minutes ago, the male protagonist saw his own behavior reversed? The movie shows that he doesn't know, but if he doesn't know, how can he think that after the male protagonist has said the address of the box, he will perform a series of threatening actions to ensure that the male protagonist will say the address of the box?
For this kind of small bug, Nolan's suggestion is "just feel it".
The second time pliers action is very wonderful, I think it is the perfect application of time pliers.
In this incident, the male protagonist and Neil attacked the building from both ends of time. The goal was to prevent the enemy from burying the calculus in the ground and seizing the calculus at the same time.
One team set off from a position 10 minutes away from the building, and the two teams were blasting the upper half of the building when they were 5 minutes away from the building.
The reverse team blew up the lower part of the building.
In this way, the building will always collapse in the eyes of the enemy in normal or reverse order, so it can effectively prevent the enemy from setting up defenses.
After bombing the building, Neil reversed many times, so we will continue to interpret the following subdivisions from Neil’s perspective
- Bombing
- Seeing an orderly enemy planting a bomb, trying to prevent the male protagonist from going underground
- Rewind to the beginning of the mission and reverse it. At this time, Neil's timeline is normal. He saw the male lead going down the mountain, honking the horn, it was useless, so he waited for the male lead to be captured, then reversed, and went back. A few minutes before the male protagonist was arrested.
- Enter the tunnel, pry open the door, and be shot in the head by the enemy and die.
Neil's timeline is over here.
So returning to the male protagonist's perspective, after he was arrested, he first saw Neil dead, and then saw Neil suddenly come back to life, opened the door, so the male protagonist was able to enter the house to fight the enemy, and finally returned successfully.
When he succeeded in this operation, he realized that Neil would actually die in this battle.
This was the beginning of his friendship with Neil, but it was the end of Neil and his friendship.
The male protagonist was very sad, but Neil relieved him and said that he would see you at the beginning of the encounter between him and the male protagonist.
The "creed" under fatalism
What happened is happened, this is the core idea of "Creed".
The interesting thing here is that the journey itself carries a very strong idea of changing fate, but in Nolan’s worldview, there is a time tape. Any way of writing to the tape will eventually be played on the tape. When presented.
From this perspective, everything is arranged.
Neil's death, the hero's initial failure and final success, the calculus was not buried in the ground, the world was not destroyed, everything was arranged.
But when we know the ending of everything, are we still willing to make such a great sacrifice and effort for the ending? Can the hero choose not to act in the first place? Anyway, winning or losing is a written answer.
Some unsolved problems
Although we are trying our best to answer the logic of the film, there are still some points worthy of scrutiny in the film. As mentioned earlier, in the car chase scene, Kat’s timeline seems to follow which timeline Satro follows that timeline. This In essence, it doesn’t conform to the setting. I haven’t seen a reasonable explanation yet.
For another example, if Neil traveled back, he should have already understood his own death, and also knew the ending, whether he knew the process, this process is because he has seen the play in this way, so he strives to be a qualified person. The actor, or to say, he doesn't know the details, and he is doomed a long time ago.
Nolan did not answer either.
In any case, "Creed" has done a huge exploration in the possibility of worldview, and there are very few films of this type.
One brush is not enough, two brushes are enough.
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