American hard science fiction giant, Star Trek/Star Trek (Enterprise!) Father Jerome Bixby's death-defying masterpiece: "He Comes From Earth", his son finished the script. In a movie universe where special effects are flying, Jerome Bixby chose the most concise science fiction expression: a Harvard professor who resigned before moving, invited school friends: a group of anthropologists, psychologists, historians, etc. , in a mountain hut about to be emptied, reconstructed all the other possibilities that formed the present world with various theories, all because the resigned "young" professor half-jokingly mentioned at the beginning of the meeting that he was from four The earth of thousands of years ago, with the evolution of human beings, has never grown old...
The progress of science across the ages is mostly after the courage to deny the "common sense" of the past, and then refer to the special cases or approximate existences that are consistent with the existing knowledge system, Construct new theoretical models to be rejected. However, most people who don't like monsters also don't seem to like the existence of emotionally indeterminate existence. At this time, the political, economic, and religious systems that exist in the form of instrumental effects can of course be “appropriate” of science and explained by the empirical results of its stages—or simply play it into a temporary ethical right and wrong. From this level of nonsense, it's easy to think of science fiction as using frontier or fringe theories in this social collective hypnosis to bring more alternative explanations to the world. At the very least, these theories would be more acceptable if they were wrapped in the shells of various spaceship alien monsters. But after the quilt is covered for a long time, people will inevitably regard this layer of dander as the essence, just as nuclear physics is regarded as sterilization or atomic bomb, and astronomy is regarded as Shenzhou 5 or weather forecast.
In this way, the reality and simplicity of "He Came From Earth" reflects the fact that people who are interested in science fiction are trying to get rid of the false and keep the true. Of course, too much skin is removed, and it feels like a lot of monsters; especially because of the lack of a Western religious environment, many theoretical subversions of the story lack serious understanding, and sometimes it is like watching a group of Harvard professors facing a few It's stupider than watching a giant monster trample New York City. In addition, most of the in-depth academic discussions in simple language can make people gain insight and feel that they are in a different world. Most of the romance and horror of the world comes from its uncertainty. According to a professor in the film, it may be precisely because of this that the embryonic forms of many scientific theories first appear in the poet's literary works.
Similar to other successful dialogue films, the screenwriter and director have a good grasp of the seemingly simple language and logic conflict, making the entire log cabin discussion tense and interesting. Even if you are not a sci-fi person, you should be able to be attracted by the invisible monsters and get lost. in the contextual vortex of the philosophy of human nature.
Borges said: The real labyrinth is a straight line. If he is from earth, where are we from?
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