Time, place, encounters, death cannot make me surrender, my humblest desire is the least movement

Weston 2022-03-21 09:01:22

The more times I cross, the more torment I endure in my heart. In the end, I don’t know which time and space it came from, because every time and space is changing, but I am always seeking for change, but I have not really integrated into each ever-changing time and space. Too much uncertainty happened in the time and space that I tried to change.

Time, place, encounters, and death cannot make me surrender. My humblest desire is the least movement. —- Francis Quarles

Often the illusion created by the name of a movie will disappear in the process of watching the movie, so for some people who are sensitive to the name of the movie, a lot of curiosity and expectations before watching the movie are subjective suspicions about the quality of the movie itself. Especially time-traveling movies, it is easy to be criticized. Many people will criticize the plot structure during the viewing process. This is understandable in itself, but we must be clear that no movie has a perfect script, moreover. What's more, time traversal. The scientific and theoretical basis itself is based on mathematical calculations. How can we expect too much that the director can give a reasonable and perfect logic through a movie?

In this issue, I have chosen the three films "Butterfly Effect", "Time Traveler's Wife" and "Time Traveler" as an off-screen explanation.

Butterfly Effect (2004)
8.8
2004 / United States of America/Canada/ Story Suspense Science Fiction/ Eric Blaise J. McKee Gruber/ Ashton Kutcher Melola Walters

Time Traveler's Wife (2009)
7.7
2009 / United States / Drama, Fantasy and Suspense / Robert Swink / Rachel McAdams, Eric Barner

Time Traveler (2013)
8.8
2013 / United Kingdom / Comedy Romance Fantasy / Richard Curtis / Domnal Gleason Rachel McAdams

01-What exactly is a "movie"?

The essence of value output is not education, but feedback.

Regarding whether human beings can travel through time and space, and how? This kind of problem, if we are always entangled in the heart, and bring it into the science fiction film as the balance of reviewing a cross-theme film, then we can never see the back of a science fiction film itself. Many people say that movies are art, and watching movies is a kind of enjoyment. In fact, in my opinion, apart from the box office and ideology, the film is more a kind of preaching, and the film itself is a missionary, whether it is a transmission of their own values ​​by the director and the original author, or a country or a country. Class, an ordinary person, they let us see their hearts through their movies, and at the same time, through their movies, each of us can see our own hearts and re-examine our own hearts. In my opinion, the essence of value output is not education, but feedback.

The expression and summary that the movie can do is not that ordinary people can’t do it, but sometimes we can’t use a precise language or other ways to express what we have deposited or doubted in our hearts...

If we watch a movie to be inspired and applaud for the movie, it is not how outstanding the value output of the movie itself is. Whether it is the expression of the technical or artistic level, it is not the way to change the value evaluation of others. The most fundamental thing is us. Due to the feedback of the kind of thinking and emotional patterns formed from birth to the present in the inner subconscious, when we find that a movie matches our inner feedback, we will be inspired. We agree or partially identify with this movie. What the movie wants to express, and the reason there is partial identification is because people themselves cannot always fully identify with themselves, let alone others? The success of a successful film is because the filmmaker himself expresses his own inner heart and has received feedback from most people. This is not so much a resonance of values, but rather an examination of their inner heart by both parties. The expression and summary that movies can do is not impossible for ordinary people, but we sometimes cannot use a precise language or other methods to express what is deposited or doubtful in our hearts. Most people may most of the time. We don’t know how many thoughts we have in our hearts that really fit our own hearts and our attitudes and views on a thing, but when others happen to say or do something, we unconsciously awaken. This is a kind of feedback. , And the same about the views on movies.

Of course, what I’m talking about here is also the output of my own values. I’m not trying to gain the recognition of others, but there are some things you don’t say, how can you bounce back and give feedback to yourself? This is a process of expressing yourself. It is also a process of re-examining oneself.

02-Never expect science fiction movies to meet your cognitive "logic"!

Our cognition is constrained by hundreds of years of industrial theory, but our imagination is still galloping.

So having said so much, I hope that everyone will eliminate "science fiction", especially the cognition of "time and space" in the process of watching the movie. Don't expect too much that the director or the movie can give you an inconsistency with the known reality. Reasonable explanation. Einstein's theory of relativity says that when one thing exceeds the speed of light, another thing will slow down or stagnate. In other words, the object that was in the same time and space as you stagnates, but you are gone, and then you pass through. But we cannot stay on the basis of the theory of relativity forever. That is the basis of the existing view of time and space. Our imagination has already surpassed the theory of relativity, but it cannot be explained by a principle. Our cognition is constrained by hundreds of years of industrial theory, but our imagination is still galloping. So we might think, what is time? Is time flowing or stagnant? What is space? Is space limited or unlimited?

Let us imagine: maybe time and space are just one slide after another, how do you know, maybe yesterday you will operate in another time and space that is equal to the present you? Maybe tomorrow you are also operating in the same time and space as yours now? When the space-time between you yesterday and you now reaches a boundary, the you yesterday becomes the current you. When the two space-times are separated again, the space-time between you and his yesterday still exists, but you are now The time and space of is being combined with the time and space of tomorrow to form a boundary, the current you will become tomorrow's you, and the current you and that time and space still exist. Your own time and space have infinite equal time and space, just like infinite gears interdependent, how do you know whether one, two, or even a few of them will get together? Then, maybe, now You will run into your gear in the future, and your gear in the past will run to your gear, and they are too. Is this a crossing? It's just an imagination, if it's really good, then we will never die, because only you in this time and space are dead. Maybe it's the one of you tomorrow who ran into your time and space today, causing you to die. When he returns to his time and space, will he still be alive? Who said that today's you and tomorrow's you will inevitably have a life and death connection? The above conjecture about time and space is also based on my own knowledge, so some people will agree and some will oppose it, but in fact none of us knows what the real time and space is like, and what time travel will be like. Yes, so we can only imagine, even if some imagination is almost far from reality, this does not hinder our interpretation and exploration of time and space. The same goes for movies that travel through time and space. What reason do we have to laugh at other people's ideas and fantasies? Maybe one day we will read the diary we wrote and then we will cross, hide in a dark place, close our eyes, close our hands and then we can also cross?

But if our evaluation of the film through the film is limited to the reasonableness of the time-space view embodied in the film, then I am sure that the feedback generated by this film to your heart is a failure.


03-Unlimited combinations derive infinite possibilities

The more times I cross, the more torment I endure. In the end, I don’t know which time and space it came from, because every time and space is changing, but I am always seeking for change, but I have not really blended into each ever-changing time and space. Go, too much uncertainty happens in the time and space that I have tried to change...

The protagonists of the three films "Butterfly Effect", "Time Traveler's Wife" and "Time Traveler" all want to change the known present through travel, hoping to make life more satisfactory, of course "Time Traveler's Wife" "It is a special situation. The protagonist is forced to cross without warning, and he can cross arbitrarily at different time periods of different ages, and can even go to the world after death and before death. Even if the three protagonists travel through different situations, the same thing is that it is difficult for them to change anything.

In reality, they all question and confuse time and space, but when they truly have the ability to travel through time and space, they are even more confused. Which time and space they created and the life they created for themselves are in that time and space. What do you really need? The more times I cross, the more torment I endure. In the end, I don’t know which time and space it came from, because every time and space is changing, but I am always seeking for change, but I have not really blended into each ever-changing time and space. Too much uncertainty occurs in the time and space that I have tried to change. As said in "Star Trek", "infinite combinations derive infinite possibilities". Maybe our original intention was to make the reality better, so we tried to change the past of our faults, but when the past is rewritten according to our own wishes, we are sure that there will be no more regrets in our future lives? If so, do we have to go through and change something? Everyone has more or less regrets in their lives. The reason for regrets is basically because of the influence of the past on people and things in the present. If you don’t take yourself or others and things that have been affected seriously. If so, regrets will not exist.

Regret is the painful imprint of objective reality on subjective will. This just reflects that what we care about is the current people and things. Everyone wants to have a super power. But when this power affects the current self and the people and things around us, we have already expected this super power. Greatly discounted.


04-Time, place, encounters, and death cannot make me surrender. My humblest desire is the least movement

One sentence broke through the bitterness and sadness of the traveler's heart. In "Journey to the West", Zhizunbao traveled five hundred years ago and slowly transformed. When he took on the golden hoop, he had become a man, which may also be forced by responsibility and reality. If things are not now In this way, he might still prefer to be a roadblocker. He loves Bai Jingjing and Zixia loves him. He also fell in love with Zixia unknowingly, but in the end Zixia also died in his arms.

The person in my mind is a world-famous hero. One day he will step on the seven-colored clouds to marry me. I only guessed the first one, but I couldn't guess the ending...

Westward Journey: Moonlight Treasure Box (1995)
9.0
1995 / Hong Kong, China Mainland China / Comedy Love Fantasy / Liu Zhenwei / Stephen Chow Wu Mengda

Journey to the West: The Great Sage Gets Married (1995)
9.2
1995 / Hong Kong, China Mainland China / Comedy Love Fantasy / Liu Zhenwei / Stephen Chow Wu Mengda

In the end, Monkey King transformed into a sunset warrior. The samurai’s beloved person looked at the back of Monkey King on the tower and said, that person is so strange. The samurai said, yes, like a dog. This is probably Sun Wukong's heartfelt voice more accurately. Too many regrets and dissatisfaction became the past the moment he put on the golden hoop, but he can only accept it with pain and live like a dog. And passive. When he was wearing the golden hoop, he repeated the classic line again:

There was a sincere love in front of me. I didn't cherish it. I regretted it when I lost it. The most painful thing in the world is this. If God can give me another chance, I will say three words to that girl: I love you. If you have to add a time limit to this love, I hope it will be... ten thousand years!

The first time I told Zixia that she was deceiving her, the second time I said that it was not only about love, but also about reality and a kind of helplessness toward her own life. Every traveler has his own helplessness and bitterness, and will also leave new regrets, and a life without regrets has regrets.


When we say that film is art, the premise is that we have a standard and judgment for our perception of art itself. If there is no such prerequisite for this perception, film is shit in the eyes of others. Of course, the premise is also because we treat dogs. Shit itself has a cognition, it will be used to belittle the movie. Don't overuse the known cognitive framework to assess the quality of a movie, especially through movies. Who knows that perhaps one day the cognitive framework we think will collapse someday in the future?

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  • [Tim and Mary are in bed]

    Mary: So not such a bad day after all?

    Tim: No. It was pretty good, really. Very good day, actually, as it turns out.

    Mary: Well, that's a relief. Because it had been a very bad day, I thought I might have had to have had sex with you to make up for it.

    [she turns the light out]

    Mary: Goodnight.

    Tim: [he is lying blatantly and Mary knows it] It was a very, very bad day. It went very badly. I got fired from my job. And then I killed a man.

    [she turns the light back on]

    Mary: That is a very bad day.

    Tim: It's terrible.

    Mary: Yeah, the worst day ever. I'm so sorry.

    [they start to make love]

  • [Mary wants another baby]

    Mary: I just thought that maybe it was time for the insurance baby.

    Tim: What?

    Mary: In case one of them is really smart. We don't want the other one to feel stupid their whole life. And if we had a third one then we could have *two* happy dummies. What do you think?

    [Tim realises that once another baby is born, he will never be able to go back to a time before that]

    Tim: [voiceover] It was the toughest decision of my life. Saying "yes" to the future meant saying "goodbye" to my dad - forever.