Nearly 70 years old, Dominic looks back on his life of nothing: unable to complete his only book, without a partner, and dying alone. With deep regret for life, he was about to die and decided to commit suicide in a strange city on Easter Day. And God seemed to be playing a joke on him, a flash of lightning gave him a new life like an oracle, giving him a chance to make a new choice. Dominic was reborn into a healthy body around the age of 40. The clock of life was turned back and stopped on him. Dominic had enough time to complete his unfinished business, but he went and regretted that he was unfinished. If it was just like this, it would be too simple. He also got more things. His brain activity was greatly enhanced. In his dreams, Dominica could also learn and absorb knowledge at a high speed. The languages he studied in his previous life were in his dreams Being mastered one by one, his self-consciousness became stronger and stronger, and he developed deeper and deeper in both rationality and sensibility. As he went further and further in both directions, Dominic's consciousness split into two independent Personality, rational personality appears rigorous and ruthless, he can accurately grasp the current situation, accurately analyze data, understand the past, understand the present and even predict the future; perceptual personality can keenly perceive the surroundings and express rich emotions, and persist in acting when his personal abilities surpass those of human beings. An ordinary scholar continues to study the huge topic of "origin", which involves the origin of language, the generation of human consciousness, and even the question of time itself. As Laura said, Dominic's exploration of consciousness made his spirit as if he was detached from the real world, and it was difficult for others to understand him and enter his world. Rational Dominic is like the guardian angel of Sensual Dominic, always surrounding him and reminding him to communicate with this emotional Dominic who is trapped in the real world in the form of spirit or entity.
As early as in the hospital, Dominic showed the predictability and reality of his dreams. When he was discharged from the hospital, he said that he saw the car that came to pick him up in his dream yesterday, and this became a reality; After a full-body examination, Dominic said that if he confuses the spring dream with reality, his life must be more wonderful than he imagined, and he himself can't tell whether the dream really happened. Therefore, the rational Dominic should be the dreamer of the emotional Dominic, an extra new self, and this Dominic also has authenticity, such as the so-called four-dimensional logic theory, four possibilities: unchanged is the truth , change is truth, constant and change are truth, constant and change are not truth. Delicate roses, one for the emotional Dominica in reality, and one for the rational Dominic in the dream.
With super-strong willpower, Dominic has superhuman reading ability and memory, understands knowledge that is difficult for human beings to obtain, and possesses power that he cannot understand; he can spy on the ideology of others from a distance, such as he is for Veronica. Card interpretation of dreams; controlling the will of others, such as making a German doctor kill himself with a gun; changing real things, such as roses that appear out of thin air; and immortal bodies. In short, Dominic has become a special person who puts all possible human abilities to the greatest extent - human sophistication. He longitudinally explored the origin and whereabouts of human consciousness, and predicted the future nuclear war and the tragic end of mankind with his superhuman wisdom. He directly left a message to 2010 in his own language, hoping to remove the Despair, in a way, prolongs the history of mankind, maybe it is like the lightning that hit Dominica to give mankind a chance to be reborn. From the point of view of rational Dominic, human beings must experience a destruction to complete the evolution to a higher life form, that is, electronic pulses lead to the birth of new human beings with infinite potential. Of course, the price of evolution is the destruction of human beings and human knowledge. , There is no immortal race, the road of mankind will eventually come to an end and return to zero. With infinite nostalgia for human beings, Dominic did not hesitate to abandon the part of his rational consciousness and smash the mirror.
Rational Dominic's argument is the philosophy of religion's point of view on fate and the cycle of cause and effect. In fact, if you look closely at the film, you will find that there are hidden mechanisms in it. The film mentions destined and dreams many times, and the traps of fate are intertwined and run through. : Dominic failed to complete his life's work even with the help of superpowers, even only the last chapter, and failed to see the secret mystery; he was destined to lose Veronica, either leave or look at Victoria To die is like losing Laura, why is that? Is it necessary to repay at the cost of life and complete the causal cycle because of the information that humans cannot know through the dimension? Feelings and knowledge are really a multiple-choice question, do you lose the other? unknown. Dominic also didn't live to be 100 years old, and he will be 100 years old in more than a month, which is another incompleteness. In the extra decades of his life, he has come a long way, learned unfathomable knowledge, and done things that ordinary people can't do. However, he has never been able to know the secret of the origin of human language that he wants to know. No one will accompany him for a lifetime of loneliness. No matter how far he goes, it is like turning back to the original point. After God gave him the ability to choose, he still did not change the ending. There is no absolute difference between choosing and not choosing. Accident and necessity are mutual cause and effect. Still unfinished, unfortunately even more regrettable.
Dominic once went to the Choice Cafe on the eve of his suicide. After 30 years, he returned to the Choice Cafe tiredly after a long walk outside. This also seems to imply that Dominic, who has returned to the origin, has taken the last step in his life. , this step that God gave him is like a dream of Lan Ke, which is wonderful, but this step is still a step towards the end, and it cannot change the ending. He said that it was like Zhuang Zhou dreaming of a butterfly, the dream would wake up, and there was no old friend of his in his young dream, as the old friend said: When Dominic became conscious, when he woke up, he would go straight to the cafe of choice , maybe this is where he subconsciously chose to belong. Seeing an old friend in a coffee shop means he will wake up in the consciousness of the old Dominic who was their generation, so the young man's dream is forgotten by the nearly 100-year-old old man, but he knows it secretly There were so many problems that plagued him, and he ended up in the snow still full of regret. Another possibility is that the young Dominic had a dream of dying in the coffee shop he chose. In the dream, he returned to the original point. He met his old friend of 38 years, and the old friends did not know it. What happened later, and his own dream was real, in an instant, the old man in the dream became a reality, forgetting the knowledge and memory of his youth, his mind was dull, and his teeth were lost. The cafe waiter's words also confirmed that there was no His old friend did not appear, and he was old and had no super spiritual power. He was unable to wake up from the dream of aging, and died unwillingly in the snow. The third rose, dedicated to the dreaming or dreaming of old Dominic. Life is like a dream, only the way.
Veronica's experience is another episode, much like what Eastern religions call soul conversion and soul possession. In the 14th century, the Indian Madhyamika Lopeni appeared on Veronica. Perhaps he also experienced heavy rain and lightning and was trapped in a very similar cave, which provided the conditions for Lo to appear. Lo in a different time and space was in Victoria. Wake up in his body, while Wei's spirit is temporarily dormant, showing no sympathy for what happened when Luo dominated his body. From the point of view of Buddhist reincarnation, it is also possible that Luo was Wei's previous life, so they were connected spiritually. The Orientalist Giuseppe also mentioned that what happened to Veronica was like a dream. Wei dreamed that she was Lopeni, and this Lopeni once really existed. The time, space and even the time she lived in. She herself is well-documented, this is a dream back to history; or maybe it was when Lopeni was trapped in a cave that she dreamed that she came to an unfamiliar world, saw Dominic and many others who spoke other languages When she was brought back to the cave in India by these people, she suddenly woke up. The awakened Luo must have guessed that she would be buried in this cave forever and turned into bones. This was a foreseeable dream. After that, Veronica's body opened the door, and all kinds of ancient souls (let's call the consciousness of the dead as souls) came in and out of Wei's body, and the souls that came to Veronica's body seemed to stay in At a certain memory stage before he was alive, he did not know that he was dead, which was more in line with the dream. All kinds of consciousness in Veronica caused Wei's brain to be overloaded, causing serious wastage. The transformation of consciousness subjects of different ages made Wei's brain unable to correctly judge his own age, and Wei accelerated his aging. This is the price Dominic is unwilling to make her pay, so she gave up her writings and left Veronica in exchange for Wei's youth. A few years later, maybe ten years later, Dominic and Veronica's encounter at the train station leaves us with countless questions and suspense. First, is that Veronica? She met Dominica face-to-face but didn't recognize each other, and she spoke French; if she were Veronica, would that ten-year-old boy be Dominica's child? There is no answer.
Did Dominic's consciousness really disappear? This is a question we are willing to guess, will he start another dream, or wake up from a dream in another time and space? Coppola took everyone to a serial dream.
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