Saw a little bit of Heidegger's shadow

Easton 2022-10-27 12:57:15

First of all, I have to admit that this film is not very deep.

But somehow I always think of Heidegger's philosophy of time, first of all the special "time situation", Hai always said that his time is not a vulgar time and requires special technical means to enter into his time," The time in "being in" is actually played clearly by the movie. It is a kind of time that ordinary people can't explain, but ordinary people are all explained by "this kind of time". The movie forcibly opens up the philosophical phenomenon of "time". This phenomenon is something that is difficult for us to understand and often overlooked. We can understand it as being as being. Yes, we do not understand existence.

The backgrounds of each character are also worthy of consideration. There are doctors and nurses, actuaries, "beautiful women" (self-beautiful artificial beauty, which will be discussed in detail later), artists, old people, and little friends. They can actually be understood as various specialized academic fields (one of the objects of Hager's criticism).

Medical staff represent the categories of natural science, anthropology, and biology, actuaries represent mathematics, and even empirical science, beauty represents aesthetics, religion, sociology, and politics, and artists represent. . . nothingness? The elderly can be regarded as the empirical history of human beings, and the children can be understood as the restoration of everything.

In fact, they can be regarded as the epitome of human beings, and they are brought into the unfolding situation of a special time by chance. The first thing that catches the eye is the death of others. The inexplicable death of the tool girl sister paper brings inexplicable fear, and then the doctor of the natural science of biology collapses first. In fact, the accelerated time is still time, the time has not changed, but this special time makes people "closer to death", and then a series of "deaths of others" are brought into the situation, the human beings face Everything is just an inevitable daily occurrence in life, but when this daily acceleration occurs, the two phenomena of time and death are very strongly emphasized. This is unacceptable to the daily sinking human beings. This is for ordinary people. very horrible.

Next, the accumulation of human empirical experience (the elderly) died, and the self-righteous aesthetics of human beings collapsed (a careful analysis of the lines guessed that the beauty-loving woman is actually a product of medical beauty, and she has enough elements on her shoulders. It's also one of the places where the movie is not detailed enough. What you want to express is beyond your ability to express yourself.), and then the math is blind, oh no, the actuary is blind. Haiyou said that mathematics is a very narrow thing, and I guess the ultimate mathematics is probably blindness. The wife who works as a museum planner also got a little dementia, so history is not reliable. The history here refers to the history of the existence level.

The only thing that stands firm is time, time, time. Even the gold jewelry on the beach is finally buried in the scouring of the waves, and yes, the value system has collapsed.

When the two brothers and sisters seemed to be relieved, they found the key to "solve" the problem, that is, to ask the truth, go back to the past, and the information left by the friends in childhood allowed the brothers and sisters to find the "answer to the question". But this so-called answer is nonsense. In fact, it is to deal with the audience at the level of "beings". It is just a nonsense about any observer medical experiment, which successfully makes the film cater to the taste of commercial science fiction films, and also gives "face-to-face" death and truth. The abyss" people (and mostly audience gents) an excuse to take a breather. Let's break away from the terrifying truth and return to the sinking world. The order and time rules here are still familiar. There are 24 hours a day, and our society has police to enforce the law, and the damned "existence and time" People who characterize it as an "evil experiment against humanity" arrest it.

I think it's quite scary. The first layer of scary is that the theme of the movie is very scary. It is time, aging, and fear itself.

The second layer of fear is that many people are still afraid of such problems, and instead look forward to movies that can tell the content of life, family, time changes, growth, and redemption. (See your own reviews.) The scary thing is that we're still sinking, and that temporary awakening doesn't change anything.

The third layer of horror is the nonsense of the ending. It is hard to give the audience an "account", and it is understandable to cater to the market and capital, but this is a way to make the "possibility" commit suicide, calling itself to commit suicide, just like resurrection kill Heidegger and then kill him, then tell him to shut up, the times don't need you!

The fourth level of fear is that we don’t know what fear is, nor why we are afraid. Fear is deformed in subtle distortions, but we don’t want to know it. If we say that we cover and sink, we are definitely not self-criticism. This is our original existence structure. Just as the truth cannot be separated from the non-authenticity, and the falsehood is a part of the truth, we are likely to be trapped in such a state of existence forever. in until death. If we give the movie a low score for its scribbled ending, we can only give it one star at best for our understanding of our own existence.

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  • Kara Aged 15: [Kara and Trent sit in the sand as she clutches the remains of their newborn son and states off into the distance] We're not getting off this beach. We never had a prom. Or a graduation. There's so many memories we didn't have. It's not fair...

    Trent Aged 15: [leaning against her] He needs to rest now.

    [She looks at him, then away again, vacantly loosening her grip on the bundle and allowing him to take it]

  • Guy: We're we fighting about something?

    Prisca: We were.

    Guy: Well... whatever it was, I'm not mad anymore. I can't remember - why did we want to leave this beach? So beautiful... It doesn't matter. It's funny, I forget the word... it's about my feelings for you.

    Prisca: I know.