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always some amazing features than the movie itself will occupy your line of sight movie content, such as flying at the moment the money In the crazy money-spending movie circle, when the investment of hundreds of millions has become the basic starting line, there are some movies that have taken a different approach, earning a double harvest of box office and word-of-mouth at a very small cost. For example, the 2007 American film "This Man From Earth" was sold for less than $200000 (there are some online that say less than $200000, I think it's basically a nonsense that likes to exaggerate the speaker, and several actors in the film are indeed not well-known. , but not an unknown person, who has been active in the American film and television industry) budget success. Its secret is that this movie is essentially a talk show. A group of people gathered around the room and talk from beginning to end is the entire content of the movie. There are no exterior scenes, no special effects, and a few broken sofas are props. This naturally reduces the budget to lowest. This is called the Ten Days Talk in the ancient West, and it is difficult to answer the audience in ancient China. There is also a similar type of "Twelve Angry Men" in the history of the film. The secret is to have a fresh and attractive theme to ensure that the audience is pressed in Looking down in the chair. The theme of this film is only one sentence, but only one sentence can attract the audience strongly. This sentence is: If a person has lived from the Neolithic Age to the present, neither old nor dead, what do you think of him?
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It's very difficult to present such a huge subject in a two-hour movie, the trick is to make it real, and while the audience knows it's fiction on the screen, the deception for more than an hour in the dark is where all the fun comes from. In order to make this idea more real, the movie sets the identity of this 35-year-old guy named Oldman as a professor at Harvard University. He has the habit of living in another place every ten years. After spending a few years at Harvard, he has to leave as usual, but some of his colleagues at Harvard may have a very good relationship with him, or they may be surprised at why this man was rated as a professor in his 30s. Niu Ren is about to quit his job, come to his house to see him off, and try to figure out this problem. Perhaps it was because Oldman deeply understood how idiots intellectuals were, or because he knew that American experts were similar to Chinese experts, and the public would not believe anything they said, so he just told the truth for the first time. His account was challenged by his fellow biologists, archaeologists, logicians, and he kept defusing those doubts, bringing them a shocking truth. In fact, the director used the identity of these scholars to question his own conception, so that his lie could look like a little bit. But don't foolishly think that these actors' lines are at the level of Harvard professors (can you still watch movies well?), you don't need geeks from Nutshell or Squirrel Club to refute, and audiences with a little speculative level will watch them The doubts that come out are weak and shallow, because it is too difficult for the director to imagine something he has never known. But this idea is already exciting enough, and the two questions raised in the movie are also worth thinking about again and again:
1. If a person has a long enough lifespan, will he become the smartest person ever?
2. If a person's lifespan is extended tenfold, what changes will occur to his emotions, and will people be "inhuman"?
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Let's talk about the first question. The film seems a bit ambiguous about the first question. On the one hand, he believes that human intelligence is not completely linear. Oldman in the film also admits that although he has received more than a dozen doctorates, he has almost forgotten the content. Even knowledge that has not been forgotten is far outdated and useless. On the other hand, Oldman was an extremely important historical figure, he was a friend of Van Gogh, a disciple of Shakyamuni, he was revered as a leader in the tribe, and he was even Jesus himself. So what is the director's attitude towards this issue?
I don't think a person with a long enough life can be the smartest person ever. If he doesn't have the qualities of genius, I believe that's what the movie means. A long enough lifespan can only provide him with enough time to study, but the object of learning this action is the existing knowledge, a person cannot transcend the boundary of his era, although he can brazenly become the peak on the boundary of this era, such as Van Gogh , such as Einstein, but the Oldman in the movie obviously does not have such qualities. He has no commendable cultural creations, nor any inventions that promote human progress. He is just a traveler of an era, with the human race. History has come to this era, and he is like the oldest elder in a tribe, with the richest knowledge, but he is not the leader of this tribe. As for the fact that he became Jesus, it is full of intellectual irony, and he repeatedly disenchanted these devout believers in his conversations. He became Jesus, the iconic figure of Western culture, not by his own intelligence. Superb, but the product of the low intelligence of the masses. In order to overcome their own fear and ignorance, they have created one or several gods alive. This is something that can be seen everywhere in human history. What a helpless discovery this is: human intelligence has an extremely limited upper limit. Although scientists have repeatedly claimed that the human brain has unlimited potential, except for genius, ordinary people cannot reach the edge of the times, let alone surpass them, so Oldman spends After studying for more than 10,000 years, he is only a high-level intellectual, but he has not even fully understood his origin; but the lower limit of human intelligence is bottomless, and the unimaginable stupidity has created all kinds of peculiar At this time, we can once again deeply appreciate the correctness of Einstein's famous saying: There are two things in the world that are infinite, one is the universe, and the other is the stupidity of human beings. What I am not sure about is the former.
People's defense mechanism against things beyond their own cognition has always firmly limited people's transcendence of their own intelligence. This mechanism ranges from the church's persecution of Bruno, to the small ordinary people against a young man driving a sports car galloping away. The idea of a "bitch" created by women continues to appear. What is the attitude of people towards knowledge and thinking? I am afraid this also depends on the pursuit of advantages and avoidance of disadvantages. If you don't believe it, just look at these professors in the movie. The instinctual resistance shown by cognitive theory.
So what kind of qualities do geniuses possess? Or, to put it another way, how can learning result in a sufficiently substantial intellectual growth? Perhaps this is closely related to the method of learning from the beginning. If the method of learning is not correct, it may already be doomed to hit the ceiling early and turn in circles. The ancient Chinese also thought hard about this problem. The philosophers Zhu Xi and Lu Jiuyuan of the Song and Ming Dynasties formed two theories of learning. Zhu Xi believed that learning depended on gradual accumulation, while Lu Jiuyuan believed that learning depended on inner reflection. It is not difficult to see that this inexplicable method of "enlightenment" was borrowed from Buddhism. "Enlightenment" got rid of the simple straight line process, it is a kind of leap, similar to the space folding in the theory of cosmonautics (it is not a straight line from point a to point b, but the space is folded so that point a and point b coincide), The film also clearly endorses this method of "enlightenment", so it boldly identifies Shakyamuni as Jesus' teacher and the wisest man ever.
But the biggest problem with this method of "enlightenment" is: first, time is ineffective in this method, it is possible to realize the Dao in an instant, or it may be obsessed for a lifetime; second, cooperative learning is ineffective in this method, people in the world do not understand, and one person is alone Thirdly, knowledge is ineffective in this way, and what the educated person can’t understand, the illiterate Hui Neng can realize.
Therefore, if you don't have the qualifications and understanding of a genius, even if you give you 10,000 years of time, you will not achieve much success except to use the loopholes of human intelligence to pretend to be a "master". There will be success, and there will be more failures. We will talk about this problem below.
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Emotions and ethics are things created in the process of social development, and they are the lubricants of rules and interests, such as the relationship between classmates, teachers and students, and comrades-in-arms, etc., are created in the process of social development. And human feelings are so easy to domesticate,
As long as enough time is spent on an object, the emotion will be cultivated and the basis to resist consumption will be established. For example, when old friends meet for many years, even if the identities, thoughts and tastes are completely different and unsustainable, but the memories are rich enough to be consumed in a short meeting, then the embarrassing moment will be postponed. A decent relationship, although that relationship died a long time ago. But the time of dating is always a relative concept. We feel that a friend who has been with a friend for ten years is a veritable old friend. That is because our default life span is only seventy or eighty years, and ten years occupy the length of our life. A firm position, not so much the status of an old friend, as an affirmation of ourselves, but what if we had 10,000 years to live? Ten years of contact is equivalent to more than 20 days of contact. Do you feel that more than 20 days is enough? However, the exchanges between friends are not always together, and the specific time evenly spread to each time period is small, because it continues to grow, and more than 20 days of contact is equivalent to attending a training or summer camp , I met a person who was relatively easy to talk to, and left contact information for each other, but they never contacted each other again. After a few years, it is very rare to be able to remember his appearance, let alone special. feelings?
From this, it is not difficult to understand that when Oldman was revealed to be the father of an old professor at the end of the film, the old professor burst into tears and could not restrain his feelings, but Oldman was calm and even indifferent, because to him, it was just a rush Although he is his descendant, he already has countless descendants. In this sense, he can no longer understand the feelings in it.
The movie "watch man" also explores this issue from the side. There is a great character in the movie called Dr. Manhattan, who turned into a blue monster because of a mistake in a physics experiment, but at the same time. With super powers and an immortal body, after having an immortal body, because of thinking in different dimensions, his feelings for humans became thinner and thinner, and finally he went to Mars to be company with rocks.
So if a person does have immortality, he will probably end up going mad (because he can't succeed in suicide), because he can't stand the anxiety of intellectual stagnation and emotional shattering under the continuous growth of time, the whole The world presented to him is a hell on earth.
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Human intellect and emotion are still sad after all. In the face of extended time, they are ultimately vulnerable, relative, and even false and full of self-comfort.
But on the other hand, this is not an achievement.
Human beings cannot live forever. It is a really good idea to live enthusiastically in an extremely short period of time and make great achievements, like a rainstorm and thunder and lightning, instead of procrastinating in the extension of time. The things that I dare not do, think of death, I will no longer be afraid; the reluctance born for the sake of fame and fortune, think of death, I will destroy most of them. Because of death, there is hatred, regret, and taste. If we are faced with a blank space, what can we ask for, and where should the point that shakes the universe be placed?
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