Life choices in non-linear time and space (spoilers, multiple pictures, often crooked buildings, be careful)
Well, in fact, I have been wanting to write this for a long time, and I will rewrite it tonight at twice the speed. Old rules, this article is written for friends who have watched the show, and those who haven’t, please exit if you don’t want to be spoiled. The following is my personal understanding, not correct, just my own opinion. Often crooked Lou recommends other movies and dramas. There is no logic in the ramble, and the choice of words and sentences is not rigorous, but rational discussions are welcome.
Keywords: shaman, nonlinear time and space, choice, schizophrenia, memory, trauma, love
As I've written in several other reviews, the thread that runs through it must be love, and only love can travel through time (shout out to Nolan)
This play is made of animation, and its unique style is due to the ROTO (Rotoscoping) technology, which is to shoot real people first, and then let the artist draw them. Animated films of the same type are
Compared with the two-dimensional painting style of Rick and Morty and The Midnight Gospel and other masterpieces, this show gives people a sense of grounded reality, which I would like to call 2.5-dimensional.
Reality or fantasy? This is a problem.
There are two lines in the story:
1 reality
2 The illusion (let's call it flash) is usually her or her "spirit" with her father.
At the beginning of episode 1, the female protagonist was talking to herself, I think it is probably the voice of many people, about day after day, same shit different day. People are numb, as if they have forgotten something important but can't remember anything anyway. (It's okay, the universe will help you remember. Smile. GIF)
The reality line is very easy to understand, so I will focus on the fantasy line in the future. The heroine has the ability to travel between the two worlds after the car accident. Of course, she didn't use a teleporter to open a green portal. It's more like she shifted her attention to another scene. I have had a similar experience, so I saw it for the first time. I got goosebumps at that time (excited face)
In the reality line, life moves on, the sister is about to get married, the heroine feels guilty that she doesn't love each other as much as her boyfriend, and the heroine suffered a car accident after getting into trouble with her sister.
In the second episode, flash began to appear in the hospital , and I began to see my father's spiritual body. When I was emotionally unstable, I experienced different time and space scenes in a non-linear way. What do you mean, for example, you have to take an elephant out of the refrigerator. The linear time steps should be: 1 open the refrigerator door, 2 take the elephant, 3 close the refrigerator door. And what the heroine experiences is similar to 312, 321, 213, 231... and in the state of falsh , when she is experiencing 2, she can see herself in scene 2 and talk to it. Yes, especially as psychopaths describe what they see and experience. And the father's "spiritual body" also appeared at the end to seek help from the heroine. Of course, it was her free choice whether to help or not. (Instead of showing the ordinary and warm life of the heroine who has returned to reality and a sluggish life at the same time) The heroine who loves her father, of course, also made her choice yes.
Why do you say that She's awake after the black screen at the end of the second episode is a stroke of genius? Listening to the voice, it should be said by the mother or sister. In reality, it is very likely that the family in front of the bed in the hospital said what she said when she woke up. The implicit meaning is that the heroine has awakened (enlightened, any word will do) and awakened from what? I woke up from this daily trivial linear time and space. It was all because of her decision that she decided to help her father find the truth of the year.
This kind of nonlinearity may not be just a linear nonlinearity, if the universe is nine-dimensional or even eleven-dimensional and more dimensions. It is most likely the feeling of "Cloud Atlas" and "Arrival". Speaking of which, under the premise of the existence of reincarnation, karma, and the reincarnation system may be far more complicated than we imagined.
The truth of time and space, btw you're not crazy, you just need to find a way to act as a normal person.
In episode 3, my father talked about the concept of time and space using building blocks as a metaphor, which is actually the perspective of seeing the three-dimensional world from the perspective of four-dimensional creatures.
The analogy of driving a car with an automatic versus a manual is hilarious. Switching between reality and fantasy is equivalent to driving an automatic versus a manual car.
The story begins here. In the third episode, the artifact blackjack game machine appeared. I am in another film review Love, Suffering, Dreams, Random or Destined? How much do you know in your dreams? It also mentioned that sometimes, some people are easy to leave the ground in the real world, which is a lunatic in the eyes of normal people. They need some "anchors" . (including but not limited to rosaries, crosses, small toys, etc.) to help them behave "normally" in the real world . After that, the heroine did rely on it several times to get through some emotional ups and downs.
The dialogue with my boyfriend about the sequence of the roller coaster photos on the wall in reality is also a symbol and metaphor
In fact, it was Sam who took advantage of her amnesia to hide the fact that the two broke up and moved back quietly, so the furniture in the house was slightly displaced.
In the last episode, the heroine saw the vision of one of her children, Oliver, drowning in the water. Disregarding others to treat her as a lunatic, she forced Amway's mother to send Oliver to learn to swim. I have to say, the heroine is really brave and awesome! Manual likes.
Would you do this if you were her?
She found the key!
Episode 4, this episode was amazing! A total of 8 episodes of the story, exactly half, is about to have a climax turning point. In English, in addition to keys, keys, keys also have clues, keys and other meanings. It just corresponds to the heroine who has mastered the ability to travel freely in this episode.
At the beginning, the father taught the heroine to "move the key", and the reference to Star Wars is also to die of laughter (May the force be with you!)
It's hilarious about Carrie Frances Fisher, who plays Princess Leia, in the Netflix documentary "have a good trip." If you are interested, search for it yourself.
And the heroine did it successfully. Jumping to another time node, the key moved.
In the second half, the father taught the heroine to master the ability to traverse and change reality in the dream. The heroine asked if there was a way to anchor without the game of blackjack. The words of my father are full of Zen.
There is a word called visualization, which usually appears with keywords such as meditation. When we try to meditate, the thoughts of the surface consciousness ocean will appear wave after wave like a wave. This is also a headache for most meditation beginners. There are two workarounds for this situation. One is to see, the other is to think.
For example, when meditating, a thought suddenly popped up and said, "Ah, I really want to eat pizza"
Roughly speaking, observation is pure observation, without judgment or judgement, without labeling any binary good or bad, diluting the adjectives and pointing directly to the essence. Let thoughts come and go, and you just “watch” the birth and death of thoughts. They are constantly arising and passing away, thoughts are not "I". After a while, the desire to eat pizza disappeared, and it turned out that I didn't really want to eat it. That's it.
Instead, you can try to retrace your thoughts. For example, when meditating, a thought suddenly pops up and says, "Ah, I really want to eat pizza." You can try to go back to the source and ask, "Why do you have the idea of eating pizza at this moment?" Oh, because I am hungry and I am not full at night. So why pizza and not something else? Oh, saw the ad on the way back and missed a friend's pizza last week. So why miss a friend's pizza? Because when he invited me to eat pizza at home, I happened to be chatting with someone who was on a date and she invited me out for coffee, so I pushed my friend's pizza bureau invitation under the pretext of being uncomfortable. In the end, I found out that she was just trying to sell me products, and she was not as interesting as I thought. When I got home, I regretted my decision, and I watched TV on the sofa and swiped my phone all night. It turns out that there are so many details... they are all hidden in the deep sea of the subconscious, if you don't ask, you don't know.
Here my father uses this metaphor of the sky and the weather, which is to see . This is a key. You are the sky, then the weather must not be you.
At the end, the heroine tried hard to escape the reality that she cut radishes and cut her fingers in a trance, but finally cut it (at the beginning of episode 5), but her father said that she changed the timeline.
shaman
Episode 5, from the flash in the fantasy to the scene of their family in the ruins of ancient buildings in Mexico when they were children, the dialogue between the father and the Indian sacrifice seems to prove the nonlinearity of time. When my father was a child, I heard the tune that my grandmother learned and hummed in a dream, and now it is the song that the priest is singing. The words of the sacrifice also implied that the heroine may have shamanic blood.
In fact, shamanism is not very good to be called shamanism, after all, it does not have strict rules and regulations like the three major religions. It might be more accurate to call it shamanism. Moreover, there are many branches of shamanism, including Asia, Europe, Africa and other places (the Chuma Xian in Northeast my country is also one of them), but all in all, shaman is a bit like a priest, a psychic, and a natural mage. Often act as a healer. In shamanic culture, keywords such as herbs, hallucinogenic plants, psychics, and nature are often linked.
If you are interested, you can read this article: The psychedelic past of mushrooms, reindeer and Santa | cacao Koka Magazine
Taking this dialogue as an opportunity, my father began to look for various eminent monks and great virtues, priests, shamans, saints and so on. Hope to scan their brains for research. It turned out that their ventricles were larger than the average person. The heroine is also, so it can be said that it is destined to inherit some ancestral power. (For example, the grandma who appeared earlier was speaking into the air)
Going back to the story, the heroine in this episode will play on her shamanic lineage and start healing each other. Originally, because of recalling the fact of the breakup, I was angry that Sam lied to me, but the heroine experienced the scene of Sam, an Indian-American immigrant, from the perspective of Sam in flash, who was reluctant to part with friends, being bullied by loacl, and also There was an interesting conversation about the first time they met, holding the hand of the unconscious heroine in the hospital bed and saying not to die... In the end, the heroine forgave Sam. Well, if you have experienced everything the other party has experienced and take an objective perspective, there is a high probability that you will understand why the other party will do stupid things or hurt you. No one is perfect, angels and demons stand on their shoulders, we just forget sometimes.
And the heroine also mustered up the courage, did not listen to her father's advice, and decided to tell Sam the truth.
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The "superpower" used by the heroine in the previous episode can experience what others experience. It may be the "Hexin Tong" and "Fate Tong" among the six magical powers in Buddhism. (remembers Lucy's sister hhh)
Come to this episode 6, sam helps the heroine to investigate together. They came to the university where their father worked, hoping to find some records of the laboratory being broken into. The bickering between the two is so adorable! ! ! ! !
sam asked to wait for him to talk because he was normal and confident. hhh
The next conversation with the guards really shows the difference between men and women.
Round 2 Change the heroine.
Then sam thought that the heroine had deduced from seeing Nancy's computer screen saver family portrait.
At the end, because the sister went to church with her fiancé's family, although the heroine wanted to continue the investigation, she came back to accompany her mother. After all, it was a candlelight ceremony hosted by my mother, which means a lot. Since the death of her father, her mother has only two daughters and the Catholic faith. Now that the younger sister is about to get married, the elder sister should spend more time with her mother. No matter what, the heroine still loves her mother.
And because the heroine didn't take medicine, the mother was in trouble, but the pastor persuaded the mother not to be persistent. The angry mother left in anger. In fact, many mothers have this kind of mother-bird mentality of mothers, especially eastern families, especially single-parent families. In addition to loving their parents, children should also treat them rationally.
Dance, child of God!
In the seventh episode, the heroine returned to the photo shoot, and for the first time, she told the truth about her sister's derailment, and the scene exploded. Once again, she successfully transitioned in a more gentle way.
The sister told the heroine that she felt guilty and wanted to escape from the marriage, but the heroine said that it hurt too much and persuaded her sister to enjoy the wedding today.
And the performance of the traditional Indian dance team in the hotel awakened the memories of the heroine when she was a child and resonated. After smoking and chatting with the dancers, I found out that it is the ancient dance of ancestors. And the heroine is from Mestizo, naturally in the same line. It is equivalent to what we Chinese often say, don't forget your roots and remember your roots.
Mestizo (Spanish: mestizo; Portuguese: mestiço), also translated as Mestizo or Mastiço , is a proper noun in Spanish and Portuguese , once in the Spanish Empire and the Portuguese Empire Use, to refer to the Latin people of mixed blood between Europeans and Native American ancestors. It is also used in some Asia- Pacific regions (eg the Mestizo of the Philippines ), but refers to the hybrids of Europeans and local Aboriginal ancestors [3] . Its etymology "mestizo" (Spanish) comes from the Latin " mixticius ", meaning "mixed" [4] [5] . The term primarily refers specifically to those of European and Native American ( Indian ) ancestry, whose populations are mainly distributed in Latin America .
This reminds me of the Sufi Zikr in Islam
A way of practice, through the non-stop spinning dance to reach a state of emptying oneself.
I have heard people say that there are monks who run in circles around the pillars, and they can run for three days and three nights to empty themselves. This is indeed possible.
Concentration, there is no need to sit still, movement and stillness are originally the unity of yin and yang. Move to the extreme, and enter into concentration. In this way, in fact, some extreme athletes are constantly testing back and forth on the edge of surpassing themselves.
At the end, the heroine began to regain her excitement, just like when she was a child, she took off the sarcastic coat, became herself, and danced ecstasy anytime, anywhere, like a madman, a cute madman.
Schrödinger's father, entangled father
In the last episode, as expected, I have to go back to the night of my father's accident. The heroine finds out that it was my father who drove the female assistant down the cliff in desperation. The father apologized to her in shame, wanted to escape, and admitted that he was not so good. people. But as the heroine who has completely opened her heart, she persuaded her father to face this fact head-on and change it. (Blue is better than blue, Indian shaman blood is awesome, respect brave heroine hhh)
The heroine ignored her mother and sam's obstruction and drove to the ruins of the Mexican pyramids that her family visited when she was a child. She firmly believed that she changed the time line and her father would come out of that cave. The younger sister also came all the way to accompany her and told her that she had told the truth about her cheating. She felt a lot easier when the marriage contract was ruined. The truth is, when you are yourself, you unknowingly affect those around you. Everyone is not stupid and knows what they really want, but sometimes it is inevitable to deceive themselves. Be brave to be yourself, although it will hurt at the beginning, and it will also hurt the people around you to some extent, but it is never a wrong thing to be ashamed of.
However, the reality is skinny after all, and there is nothing wrong with waking up for a night. After persuading her sister, she gets in the car and waits for the heroine. The heroine is also ready to pack up and accept this reality. However, as the first rays of sunlight rose, her expression changed subtly.
So dad is out? Without telling us, the play ends here. The so-called open ending. You never came to a conclusion. The heroine may still be a snake spirit.
But I'd say it's fine. There are countless possibilities, none of which is absolutely right or wrong. As my mother said, the bathtub is also very good (the daily life is also very good for getting married and having children), but it is just a choice, just like the two cans of beans in the hands of the hostess in the supermarket at the beginning.
No matter what you choose, you will regret it. No matter what you choose, it is the best choice. But I still want to sigh, the heroine is very lucky, sam is very cute and kind (although she is also very boring) and she still loves and tolerates her even though she knows she is nagging. What I may hope to meet is a female lead who is so rambunctious, interesting, dreaming together and changing the timeline with consciousness, manifesting a magical future. A future in which the ashes can be scattered on Mars when they die, like in "No Name."
Yes, for me, I yearn for a world with aliens, interstellar alliance, coexistence of humans and machines, N-dimensional space, cyberpunk, and nonlinear time. But I have to understand and accept that this "boring" "reality" is also very good and cute. Only when I understand that there are countless parallel universes and countless possibilities, which are essentially indistinguishable, can I solve this singularity now. Enjoy the story of the moment.
Well, it took several hours to check the data with screenshots and finally finished writing. I hope that every friend can reconcile and let go of the pain in the past like the heroine. Follow your heart and make the decisions you feel most comfortable with. Accept every decision you make. Friends, we'll see you next time, which one is Snowflake talking about next time?
A few other reviews I've written:
"Classmate Manas" - a continuation of the Big Buddha Plath universe (with spoilers)
Reincarnation happens anytime, anywhere.
Love, Suffering, Dreams, Random or Destined? How much do you know in your dreams? About the American drama "Mad Men"
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