Human, how to become human?

Damian 2022-03-22 09:01:23

After watching the movie, I noticed that it was actually a 1998 movie, but I didn't feel the outdated and uncomfortable special effects at all.

Although there are some flaws in the story and the plot of the sci-fi, there is no need to care about these details at all.

What I want to say is that the most profound thing about this film is not the special effects and the story, but the exploration of philosophical questions - how do people become people? Is it a memory from the past? or something else? This question has puzzled human beings for countless years, including the aliens in the movie, but people still cannot accurately answer this question.

The past and the present make up the whole of life, but what about the future? Where should the future be? In what form does it appear?

We are always full of fragility, tortured by the unbearable past, living in endless questioning and endless contradictions, but we do not know that the road under our feet has already begun: what is the past? "Past" is the present before the previous future; "present" is the future of the previous present.

We always feel that we have lost something, and we feel that there is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that haunts us from time to time. In fact, it only comes from one reason: we always entangle ourselves with too many memories of the past. In fact, we can see the original heart, the original heart is in the abandonment, and everything is clear.

In the face of life, if you can see your true heart like John and always fill your heart with beauty, then every present moment can be created as a beautiful "memory" (past), and every "future" , all because of this inner beauty that turns it into a happy "now".

Don't care if the past should be forgotten, or should the past be remembered at all times? Because when you create every present as the beauty of your life, it doesn't matter at all whether you remember it or not.

How can there be no happiness in such a life?

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Extended Reading
  • Heath 2021-10-22 14:41:20

    Unconventional alien invasion! When the girl said "I love you, this can't be faked", I immediately felt that human beings are indeed superior to aliens from this point of view. So let's cherish our right to be a human being.

  • Casimer 2022-03-25 09:01:06

    There are two important aspects of sci-fi movies, one is ideological, which can guide the audience to examine the reality and imagine the future; the other is imagination, it is best to design breathtaking ideas. I think this "City of Souls" has achieved the latter and is considered a qualified science fiction movie. The heroine Jennifer Connelly is the highlight of the movie, and at the end of the movie, the scene where the city in space ushered in the dawn is very shocking and impressive.

Dark City quotes

  • John Murdoch: I was just thinking, what you do seems kind of dangerous right now. I mean, how do you know I'm not the killer?

    May: I don't. Why, you feeling any urges I should know about?

  • John Murdoch: When was the last time you remember doing something during the day?

    Inspector Frank Bumstead: What do you mean?

    John Murdoch: I just mean during the day. Daylight. When was the last time you remember seeing it? And I'm not talking about some distant, half-forgotten childhood memory, I mean like yesterday. Last week. Can you come up with a single memory? You can't, can you? You know something, I don't think the sun even... exists... in this place. 'Cause I've been up for hours, and hours, and hours, and the night never ends here.