In my mind, this is one of the few Pitt movies I've seen in theaters. When I first met Pete, I saw in a magazine that he stole the title of the world's sexiest male star from Xiao Lizi, and so on, I can't remember the exact name. People always have inertia. For example, if you like a star preconceivedly, it will be difficult to accept someone who surpasses or challenges him. The same episode also happened to Gu Zai. At that time, he stole Zhang Weijian's Sun Wukong. Role. Interestingly, the two have a similar temperament, and they are both representative actors of the era in their respective fields. The first time I saw Pete's movie was "The Burning Years". At that time, he was young and full of wildness, as if Tristin was himself. His wildness was pure wildness, not just like Guoda Statham An adult male with a hormonal smell. Pete is more of an innocent child, or more of a wolf child, like Tristin. In "Interview with the Vampire", the difference between him and Tom is that he always maintains a fragile mood, and he maintains pity and respect for everything. In "The Sixth Sense of Life and Death", he also vividly played the somewhat naive but very emotional death god, as if that is what human beings should be like, knowing everything but always maintaining the original intention.
The fact is, people tend to put on the shackles of reason in the learning process, and use rules to limit the way of thinking. When you grow with time and gain insight into all the world, you will not wisely let go of those who are limited by reason. Instead, it is to reject the uncertainty that sensibility brings to you in order to obtain the greatest benefit. Therefore, reason and sensibility seem to be the mortal enemies of human civilization. Reason represents wisdom and interests, and sensibility often points to ignorance and risk.
Many people will say that they do not understand what this movie is about, and then use a rational scientific knowledge to delve into the details of those sci-fi movies, and eventually come to the conclusion that this is a bad movie. Here may return to an important question, what is science fiction, and what is the meaning of science fiction? When I was a graduate student in Germany, there was a professor who studied science fiction. We majored in media studies. Several classmates who were studying together kept discussing, is science fiction a kind of media? Or what exactly does science fiction have to do with media studies? Science fiction may not be about realizing or verifying some existing scientific theories or hypotheses. It can present a world of science fiction based on these theories. However, the more important significance is that the question that science fiction has been exploring is, am I? Who, where did I come from, where am I going. Or, like all philosophy, science fiction explores the boundaries of human cognition, within which human cognition is uncertain and vague. And the idea of this film is this. Based on those grand pictures and the description of human loneliness, he throws out a torture: Why do human beings continue to explore, and what exploration brings to human beings is better? Life still makes human beings more lonely. This is different from some previous science fiction themes, which suggest the risk of scientific exploration, such as the risk of alien creatures destroying the earth suggested by "Prometheus". The problem suggested by "Interstellar Exploration" is that the significance of scientific exploration may not make human life better, but make human beings move towards a more lonely life step by step. In fact, the destination of scientific exploration is nothingness.
At the beginning of the film, the protagonist is answering a series of questions to confirm whether his state is suitable for the flight mission, which shows that the training of modern science has made human beings more and more inclined to be a tool man, he will not express his emotions naturally, but It is under the working principle that the restraint of emotions is regarded as an excellent performance. Carefully recalling the education of human society, it seems that it is helping human beings to escape from the state of barbarism and ignorance in order to complete human modernity, that is, standardization and regularization. Only those who follow the rules and do their best will succeed, no matter what the rules are. Human beings have been running wildly on the road of cutting off their robes with their ancestors, denying all instincts related to human nature in the name of science, in other words, reason is above sensibility. In the film, the male protagonist's father is a space hero, who symbolizes all the peak achievements of mankind in the field of space exploration. When he met the male protagonist, he said that everyone else had betrayed their original ideals, they couldn't bear the long journey, and they wanted to go home. Those who want to go home represent the sensual side of human beings. They need family, emotion, and social interaction. Humanity has always hampered their progress. Moving forward is for a better future for mankind. However, when human beings have never been to that beautiful future, that is, the present time, no one knows that that beauty may be nothingness.
Exploring the universe is the ultimate exploration of human self-knowledge. It will reveal who I am, where I came from, and where I am going. However, scientific exploration may lead human beings into a more lonely era while leading to nothingness. The advancement of technology and the explosion of information have expanded the dimensions of our lives in a limited time, so we are no longer a life model of "time is very slow, only enough to love one person in one lifetime", and the differences between people are becoming more and more. The bigger the personalized information life, the more and more separated people's thinking and the real life circle, the people we love may not understand what we are thinking, parents, brothers, relatives and friends are close at hand, but far away. . Human beings have begun to distinguish between close and distant by different knowledge and cognition. Emotionally we are the closest, but intellectually we are strangers. Human scientific exploration has left the human body far behind. So we see the male protagonist with a tube on his body, wandering in the vast universe. Science may have brought him to a longer time dimension and a more distant space, but what supports his life is the obsession of finding his father, this irrational It seems absurd, and was even ridiculed by netizens as the idea of "Where is the American version of Dad?". This is a bit similar to what Brand played by Annie in "Interstellar", maybe love is also a dimension that can travel through time and space. But this film interprets another angle, that is, technology has seriously stripped people's rationality and sensibility, and even turned them against each other. And this opposition is the fundamental source of human loneliness. On the one hand, the male protagonist is tasked with saving the earth, but on the other hand, after years of searching for his father and finally getting a response, he was ordered by the organization not to intervene. This is a requirement that is completely out of human nature. He was forced to read the manuscripts written by others over and over again like a tool man, and he could not express his sincerity in the face of the father that he had longed to meet since childhood. In the end, it was when he put down the manuscript and began to recall the little details of his life when he was a child, those meaningless little things soaked in sensibility, which caused his father's response. The funny thing is that the human organization, while taking advantage of their father-son affection, at the same time believes that this emotion will affect the execution of the male protagonist's task, and ordered to kill the donkey. This contradictory tearing act suddenly runs through the entire film, giving people a blunt feeling. The most conflicting part of the movie as a drama, I am afraid that the father of the male protagonist did not feel emotionally towards his son after seeing the male protagonist? He is more of a heroic self-praise, he keeps talking, he will continue to explore the mission of extraterrestrial creatures, he said that those who want to return The family members are traitors and cowards. He is more like a symbolic character, just like when the male protagonist boarded the ship, the captain told him about his father, like a labelled hero. He seems to have no emotions, but is an extremely rational tool man who stands on the shoulders of all mankind and believes that it is necessary to continue to explore extraterrestrial creatures. His father represents the part of human nature that has the courage to explore the impulse, which leads the progress and development of human science, and constantly shapes the human living environment and even the connotation and extension of human beings themselves.
So the question arises, whether scientific exploration makes human life better, or brings more profound loneliness to human beings? Does rationality bring more convenience to human life, or does sensibility anchor the value of life for human beings? Just like the university professor played by Russell Crowe in "Three Days of Dangerous Love" threw the question in class, is it rational or emotional that determines a person's fate? In the play, rationality tells him that his wife is a murderer with solid evidence, but sensibility makes him believe in his wife's innocence, so he abandons all rational plans and chooses prison to save his wife. However, whether the wife is innocent or not, there is no evidence to really prove it.
Life always has various rational plans, but still cannot rule out many uncertainties. The development of science has been moving towards certainty and rejecting those uncertain things. This makes the rational and emotional parts of human nature begin to tear apart.
We often complain that some content forwarded by our parents in the circle of friends is disdainful, but we do not realize that this is exactly the tearing of our lives brought by science. The way we receive information magnifies the differences in our level of education and the times we live in, which is not a simple explanation for the generation gap.
On the one hand, we are accepting the domestication of reason, but on the other hand, our body cannot escape the emotional factor. For example, we clearly know that eating sweets will make us gain weight, but we can't resist the temptation, we clearly know that there will be a lot of gains and losses with a person who is not in the right place, but we still can't resist love. Science may be able to improve the human body and make the body tend to be rational. For example, the male protagonist can keep calm when faced with critical things, but it cannot be ruled out that the last habitat of sensibility is human emotions. The male protagonist's loneliness in the space journey comes not only from his travels alone, but more importantly, he experienced the process of his father's transformation from an excellent astronaut to a criminal. In other words, he is not only physically, but spiritually lost, making him even more lonely. (It is worth noting that this film has little attention to the impact of social activities on people, which is different from the setting angle of "The Rest of the Island". It focuses more on emotional loneliness, and the male protagonist himself is A man who can't communicate with his wife and doesn't have random mood swings, and his emotional loneliness comes from the lack of his father's love, but also from this space journey that almost replicates his father's experience.)
Before he set off, he had always thought of his father as a hero who was only used instinctively. However, the truth is revealed step by step, and he discovers that his father is a lunatic, a criminal, and even killed the entire ship's crew, and almost destroyed mankind in order to explore the so-called extraterrestrial creatures. His rationality and sensibility are tearing apart the image of his father. At the same time, in order to see his father's obsession, he inadvertently killed three colleagues and became a murderer. His sensibility was constantly eroding rationality to maximize his benefits. Sensibility seems to be a very worthless thing, and it has been destroying the good life that rationality has been working hard on. During his long cosmic journey, he seemed to relive his father's life. When he saw his father, he was not disgusted or disappointed with what his father had done, he just asked his father to leave with him, accept the reality, or give up the idea of continuing to explore. In the end, his father chose to stay in space and parted ways with him. The exploration of space proved to be a nihilistic, meaningless. Here, his father symbolizes human's desire and thirst for knowledge in the unknown, while the male protagonist and the rest of the crew choose to return to human nature and return to their true life.
Imagine if the development of human society slows down and sacrifices part of material life, will the spiritual life of human beings be better? Just like the sentence echoed by the male protagonist in the film, don't focus on those unimportant things. things. What is the importance of human existence? In my opinion, the idea of this film is grand, and at the same time it expresses this cosmology with empty pictures, a dull plot and a slow rhythm. Most people will feel bored when watching this film, not as imagined. Intense plot, everything is full of interest, and then comes to an abrupt end. This is like our life, most of the time it is dull, but we have to continue. Sometimes it seems that something happens, which makes you think there is a miracle, but suddenly you find that everything is just a false alarm. Even that annoying person, you cursed him with a swear word and cursed him to die, but after he really died, you will find that you are not happy. Some people say that this movie didn't fall asleep and finished watching it. Yes, that's it. Even if it's boring, life can't be skipped.
I remembered that a classmate once said that my dream when I was a child was to be a scientist, and he did live like an ordinary person in the end. Just like the male protagonist, he followed his father's teaching and became an excellent astronaut, but in the end he became the villain in his cognition, a murderer, because of his search for his father. Life is often about accidentally living the way you least want to be. Often all the benefits brought by rational calculation are shattered by those damn emotional moments, and the whole game is lost.
Most of the time in life is lonely, and most people are ordinary people. Learning to accept the nothingness of life, accepting the ordinary of fate, and feeling the beauty of emotions in life may be the greatest value of being born as a human being.
Some people will say that this kind of nihilism is not conducive to the development of society. It is as if many ordinary people admire the strength of the state, but ignore the perceptual needs of individuals in the entire social process. It is true that from the perspective of the development of the human race, rationality is the best formula for calculation. However, scientific exploration, constantly cutting off emotion with the premise of maximizing profit, has eliminated the best part of human nature. If the progress of science and technology is to further rationalize the training of modernity and turn people into even more torn creatures, then what value does the progress of human science have for individuals? Turning human beings into a rational tool that maximizes profits, and completely cut off from the sensibility of the most beautiful emotional habitat of human beings, is the final appearance of scientific and technological development, then such exploration will eventually lead to human civilization. tend to perish. This is why the father of the male protagonist of the film has been analyzing himself, saying that he made his wife a widow, made his son an orphan, and even abandoned his long-term education to become a murderer. the crisis of human civilization. Perhaps the continuous expansion of territory in the frontiers of the cognitive field has indeed brought a powerful territory to human civilization, but it has also made mankind pay a heavier price for this, that is, the severing of human nature and the tearing of sensibility. Fractures make people lose themselves and fall into loneliness.
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