The protagonist "powder" (meaning "powder" in Chinese) was struck by lightning while still in his mother's womb. The lightning strike caused her mother's death and gave birth to an albino "freak". In the hospital, his father decided to abandon him after seeing his pale child, and as his father said in grief, "He's not my child...", powder's brain waves shook violently - yes, he Can feel other people's brain waves, or he can read minds. This is the first highlight of the film, and several clips in the subsequent film clearly illustrate this point. For example, he helped the sheriff to communicate with his wife who had become a vegetative state, he implanted the pain of a dying wild deer into the deputy sheriff's mind, and he spoke out the painful memories of the state welfare house bully. I don't think powder's "mind reading" is a supernatural ability, but a normal ability that has not yet been discovered by humans. The appearance of thinking activities in the human brain is in the form of brain waves, and why can't brain waves be a kind of "radio waves" other than bioelectricity? Radio waves that can propagate in any space, and the brain is just this A generator and receiver of "radio waves". The powder, the son of lightning, was struck by lightning, which turned on the switch, so that his brain could receive this electric wave. Maybe humans will have this ability in the near future, when the world is like powder said: no need to mock, no deceit, no exaggeration.
The second point: super memory ability, people have souls!
It is not that he can remember all the books he has read, but that he remembers things when he was born. For example, when the sheriff asked him why he wanted to escape from the hospital, he replied that the hospital was the place he hated the most and had the happiest memories. ! (Mother died, father abandoned him). And in another conversation Powder said he remembered being struck by lightning the day his mother gave birth to him. This ability I prefer to believe is his innate ability, rather than the product of lightning strikes. If it was born to him, does it mean that he may also remember the memory of the previous life, not just the memory in the stomach. There are vague hints in the film: the physics teacher said that there is an afterlife in Einstein's theory. According to the theory of oriental reincarnation, human beings have souls (the word soul can only be used first), but they are memories of past lives that are forgotten in the process of reincarnation. But some people remember their past lives by chance, and there are a lot of reports in China and abroad about this part of the case (you can just click on Baidu if you are interested). Powder's soul is clearly different, maybe he was born with memory.
At the end of the film, powder said in a conversation with the sheriff at the door of his house: "She (the sheriff's wife) didn't go anywhere else, she didn't stay away, she just came out of her body, everywhere." I think the author of this dialogue wants to tell people that people have souls, and maybe powder can see souls. This reminds me of the book "The Boy Who Sees the Truth". Powder is very similar to the protagonist of the book "The Boy". They are all freaks and have psychic abilities. They all tell us the truth of spirituality. The topic of soul and reincarnation is too big, and it has been discussed countless times. If you have faith (be it in Buddhism or in God), you may be more willing to accept this view.
Third Point: Transcendent Spiritual Levels
In the film, the sheriff's wife said that powder is an angel. That's right, he has an angel-like beautiful mind. Even the kindest human beings (represented by the female social worker Jessica and the sheriff in the film) pale in comparison to him! The physics teacher said that the technological level of human beings has surpassed the existing human nature, but after seeing the powder, he felt that human beings have the hope of surpassing our technological level in human nature, and he saw the hope of human evolution. In the episode of hunting and traveling in the film, powder can first have friendly contact with small animals (lizards or four-legged snakes), and then when he sees the dying wild deer, he conveys the pain of the wild deer to the deputy sheriff's mind. Here the author may want to express that all things have spirits, and human beings are the butchers who slaughter the living beings. But powder's mind is just like his skin, white and flawless. His perfection greatly contrasts the barbarism and ugliness of human beings. ——I think this is the most intense thought that the author of this film wants to express.
Human beings known as a "civilized society" are actually still in a backward, barbaric, violent, and ugly stage in terms of spirituality, but we have the technological ability to destroy the earth. This is very scary, just like a three-year-old child Sitting by the fire and playing with bombs is as dangerous. Human society is still a long way from a true "civilization", and we are still a three-year-old child on a spiritual level.
The film's elaboration of the human mind is quite similar to the film "Miracle in the Green Mile". The protagonists are full of love and possess extraordinary abilities. Both films expose the ugliness of human nature. I also want to talk about the series of novels - the book "Children of Star Ami", let's take this book as a novel for the time being, and let's not discuss aliens and other plots, just say that this book's exposition of human spirituality is also very high. "Ami" said that the spiritual level of human beings can be measured, and used numerical values to indicate the level of spirituality. They will rescue humans whose spiritual level exceeds 700 degrees. Anyone who selflessly thinks about the happiness of others and whose motive is purely love will do so. more than seven Baidu.
With the process of industrialization and global commercialization, in just one or two hundred years, our mother earth has been riddled with holes and overwhelmed. We are constantly asking for Mother Earth, constantly destroying surface vegetation, water sources, and atmosphere, and constantly extracting the internal organs and blood of the Earth. The space we live in is becoming less and less habitable. We are like cancer cells attached to the surface of the earth, constantly eroding our mother earth, and sooner or later, we will be removed from the body by mother earth.
Fourth point: unique insights!
There is also a very interesting dialogue in the film, which is the dialogue between powder and his female classmate on the playground chair. Powder says that most people feel isolated inside, but it's not, they're part of everyone and everything.... Because there is something in the man's forehead (he pointed at the female classmate's forehead) that prevents you from seeing the past, my grandparents also had it, they were taught to isolate from everything. If they can see, they can see how beautiful they are, there is no need to hide and lie….
This dialogue is more difficult to understand, this dialogue has two parts, the first part says "they are part of everyone and everything", am I part of the tree? I am part of a dog? Am I part of a prisoner? I'm part of a fisherman? ! I think the author is trying to express this: we and everything in this world are one, and we are part of each other! The theory of modern quantum mechanics has mentioned similar opinions. This theory is too profound, but it probably means that the particles in the universe (the basic constituent factors of matter) and the particles will continue to jump and exchange. Maybe I The particles in your body will run to you in the next second, and the smallest particles that make up everything are actually the same for everyone. This theory also seems to be more like the Buddhist theory.
The second part said, "There is something in the forehead, which leads to isolation...", the landlord, I was thinking what is this thing, the pineal gland that is turned on? Unopened third eye? Psychic? Oh, this is only what you think about yourself, but you can check what the "pineal gland" is.
There is also a passage about Einstein's theory that the physics teacher said: "There is an afterlife after death, just because energy never stops, it transmits, but never stops... If we can use our brain, We'll be totally energy, we don't even need a body...". I think this is also a question that the author of this story throws us to think about - "energy life form". Powder finally disappeared in the lightning, perhaps telling us that he has become an "energy life form", he has not disappeared, he can exist in any corner, because he is not a solid object but exists in the form of energy. In the end, his disappearance can also be understood in this way: God took back the angel who was left in the world.
To sum up, the protagonist of this film also has some extraordinary abilities, such as high IQ, electrified body, turning metal into magnets, shattering glass, etc., but I think these are secondary, the most important core idea of this film It is a discussion of the human mind and a torture of the ugliness of human nature.
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