(If you don't have enough patience, strong curiosity, and research spirit, don't challenge it.) For
a suspense novel fan like me, I always read Conan Doyle, Edogawa Ranpo, Yokogu Masashi, Alex Qigang , Agatha Christie, etc., all the crimes in the American TV series are followed up with bone tracking, crime scenes, criminal psychology, etc. I still feel that everyone in the movie seems to be a murderer, and it is even more frustrated in the middle and later stages of the movie. Am I not getting it at all?
Since everything works according to the established laws, why is it so esoteric and elusive?
In the movie, Professor Selton's lecture on Ludwig Wittgenstein's "On the Philosophy of Logic" believes that it is impossible for people to truly know the truth, "There is no such truth, and there is no way to find an absolute truth. , an uncontroversial proposition to help people answer their questions. Philosophy therefore is dead." The professor sentenced philosophy to death.
Martin, a young and vigorous foreign student who admires Professor Selton, believes in pi, the golden section line, the Fischer sequence, etc. He believes that "the essence of nature is mathematics, and there is a hidden purpose in reality, and everything follows Arranged by a pattern, a plan, a logical sequence, even the smallest snowflake contains a mathematical principle in its structure, so if we can discover the mystical meaning of numbers, we will discover the meaning of life.”
Here It reminds me of "The Da Vinci Code", "Angels and Demons" and other suspense novels full of semiotics and crimes. Yes, this is also a series of murders full of semiotics and mathematical theories, but in some ways it is the opposite.
People often like to link contingency with established rules to imply themselves.
There is no logic at all. As Professor Selton told Martin in his lecture in the film: "Numbers can also lie... The real truth is not mathematics, but absurdity, chaos, randomness, disorder, and deep pain."
Seemingly an esoteric series of murders, all by chance. Four murders, guess how many murderers there are? I feel very guilty, like giving someone a book and writing the ending on the title page.
And the motives of this series of events-all murders cannot ignore the motives, and it is even more incredible. According to the butterfly effect, a butterfly flaps its wings, causing a hurricane in a distant country. The seemingly inadvertent goodwill caused a disaster, which is illogical and logical.
"Because we need life to have meaning, everything goes according to logic, not just random, as if we're not being manipulated by fate. But unfortunately, it's not about truth, it's just fear." Selton in the film the professor said.
Here I actually want to discuss contingency. People like to associate chance with so-called logic to imply their destiny.
And then let's put the movie aside and talk about something else.
In Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Life (although the subject of this book is to discuss the weight of love and responsibility that makes life really meaningful, we are only discussing some irrelevant minutiae here), author A lot of pen and ink are used to describe the beauty of the encounter between the hero and heroine.
Thomas took the place of a colleague on a business trip (the first accident), stayed in a hotel (the second accident, which happened to be this one), Teresa happened to work on a shift (the third accident), and met Teresa just overheard Beethoven's Song (4th accidental), Teresa gets a one-night stand after get off work and before Thomas leaves by train (5th accidental), Teresa soon quits her job and drags her luggage to the Czech capital to find him (sixth Accidentally, because Teresa's childhood misfortune made her a self-motivated person, she seized this opportunity to change her fate tightly), after the two ML, Teresa had a fever and she stayed at Thomas's house (p. Sevenfold by accident, as Thomas never stayed with a lover).
That's when Thomas had an association with the sick Teresa, using a dangerous metaphor—as if she were a baby, drifting down the river in a basket to the bank of his bed. Let's not discuss the Bible or Thomas' education for a moment. The metaphor made Thomas accept Teresa from the bottom of his heart, as if she was a gift from God.
In view of the fact that I do not have this book at hand, the above are all written from memory, and I ask readers to forgive me for any mistakes.
We often have such a mentality that this matter, this person, and this sentence must have some meaning to us. It's as if the logic of what should happen next, or I'm in love with this guy because he's like... balabala or something. Our fear of the unknown makes us want things to always work. The plots of those movies and the descriptions of those novels, aren't they all like this? Then we subconsciously think that something might go in the given direction.
This film overturned the analytical skills I had built up over the years. Or to eliminate my fear of uncertainty. The world is like that.
What I want to say is that when people regard a series of accidental events as a good arrangement of fate, or think that there must be some law behind these accidental events, it will affect people's cognition and even affect people's emotions.
After talking so much, it is nothing but loneliness and no one to speak, so I talk to myself. The first time I wrote a film review, the critics were merciful.
All in all, I look forward to the accidental events in life, and I hope that I will not use the books I have read and the movies I have watched to logically experience love. To use a common analogy, it is like chewed sugar cane. The experience of life becomes the first. Second round.
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