Russell's Five Minutes World and Descartes's Brain in a Tank are both different in the same way, both showing the unreliability of the senses. People are controlled by their own sense organs and cannot be surpassed. Especially when measuring the passage of time, there are only very unreliable memories. Many science fiction movies have memory as the theme, such as Schwarzenegger's "The Sixth Day" on the subject of human cloning. Five minutes after the creation of a human clone, the memory of the human clone prototype for thirty years is entered in his mind. Then the human clone will be the same as the prototype after awakening, thinking that he has lived for thirty colorful years. I also think of an example to illustrate Russell’s thought experiment. For any newborn baby, using him as a reference, the entire world including his parents was created a second ago.
"Moving Soul City" is such a movie about memory. This movie, which was shot in 1998, is actually not very good. I wrote it because I watched this movie this weekend. In this film, humans are once again reduced to extraterrestrial experiments. The difference from "The Matrix" is that the designers in "The Matrix" have to study the perfect world in technology and algorithms, while the "Moving Soul City" The aliens in "are more humanistic, and what they want to study is human nature. This group of aliens are facing the tragedy of national subjugation and extinction like the Kryptonians. In order to save themselves, they have come to the earth as always and want to turn themselves into earthlings. But these guys with so high IQs and abilities that can change the course of matter and time with their minds alone, how do they want to be Earth people like the little guinea pigs we see? It turns out that all hemlock firs have a door. The more powerful the species, the more fatal weakness they have. These guys have no individuality, only a collective will. To put it bluntly, the people of their clan share the same brain. It may be that they realize that this kind of existence of one thousand people is lacking in variables and will inevitably go to extinction due to monotony. Therefore, they need to learn the personalities of people on earth and explore the mysteries of different people. It can also be said that they want to find the soul of people-since The flesh is similar, the difference must be in the soul.
However, the depth of thinking of aliens is obviously not proportional to their ability. Their methods are very low and young, and it can be said that they are far inferior to the designers in The Matrix. Aliens start with the human brain, and the key point is human memory. They use their super power to stop time, freeze time at twelve o'clock every night, and then send a "foreign rape" (foreign rape: a human who has defected to an alien) to inject the tester's brain with a needle. Different memories. For example, before twelve o’clock, I still did not invite people to see the king swordsman, one needle went down, and when the hands moved again, I had become the admired Aixinjueluo·Xuanye; of course in the new memory of others , Wang Dao Ke was erased, and Xuan Ye was added in. At the same time, under the magic of alien meditation, Beijing’s buildings have undergone transformations. Some sank underground, while others floated up. The modern Beijing city has no traces, and many ancient buildings rise from the ground, in short, the whole world. There has been a great change in the mountain and countryside that you can't perceive...In this way, you can examine what kind of changes a person's humanity or soul will have after becoming an emperor. (Is it a bit thunder and little rain?) Of course, there is no such exaggeration in the play. The changes in the city are basically the substitution or displacement of some buildings of similar shape. The protagonist of the film, Murdoch (pronounced like "murderer") is an experiment. He was injected with the memory of the murderer. He remembers that he killed six prostitutes. Of course, in fact, he didn't do anything at all. The details of Murdoch saving the goldfish in the film are nothing more than to illustrate his kindness. Aliens should use this to investigate the psychology or human nature of a murderer. What a naive and stupid alien (if not a screenwriter).
Unfortunately, just like Neo, Murdoch is also an unbalanced anomaly. It actually possesses the same superpowers as the aliens. While being injected, he suddenly woke up and ran away. The story begins here. A man who is almost amnesia has some sporadic and elusive memories in his mind. He wants to find himself. At the same time, the evil aliens are still looking for him and need him to complete the experiment; the local police station is also looking for him, because in everyone's memory, Murdoch is a suspect.
The film is extremely rough, neither the plot nor the special effects are good enough. Some comments have given the film the themes of existentialism, resistance to totalitarianism, and reflection on the future. In my opinion, it is far-fetched. It may also be that the director or screenwriter is too clumsy and fails to make it clear what he wants to express. First of all, the input of memory using a large needle tube injection method is very old-fashioned, and it is extremely disproportionate to the super powers of the aliens; the corresponding is that the aliens who can change the world with their minds, actually I always like to gesture around with a ugly dagger. And their magic weapon, the totem that can concentrate the power of the group's mind, turned out to be a huge metal bald head, exactly like Yuri, which shows that the director has never played "Red Alert". When the aliens are doing their work, there are a bunch of bald heads with solemn expressions and chanting words. From this point, we can also know that the director may be a devout Buddhist. As for humans, the foreign traitor Shu Bai is responsible for the allocation of human memory to the aliens. His method of deployment is to use different test tubes to operate under a microscope with a drip tube, a drop of childhood shadow and two drops of sentimental love. Memory is turned into a cocktail, what a lack of imagination. The most funny thing is that, just like some botched domestic cartoons, Murdoch's superpowers eventually destroyed the previously powerful alien team without much effort, turning the tide on its own. The fight between good and evil at the end of the climax is also the path of the masters in the Hong Kong Jin Yong drama in the 1980s, where the masters competed in the air. The specific manifestation is that the two people are several meters apart, launching turtle-style qigong, and the two qi fights in the air. Long; but unlike Gohan, both parties in this film do not use their hands, but use their brains. I saw two groups of energies tangled and tangled in the air. You came and went in a tug-of-war. In the end, the evil forces were defeated, and when they vented their energies, they were beaten to pieces... Oh my god.
None of the characters in the play are distinctive. The protagonist is like a fool, who makes him amnesia. The setting of aliens is originally a bunch of puppets with no characteristics, no personality, and no soul. The only police officer who did not have superpowers, but who felt that something was wrong in the world was regarded as a lunatic; this man should have been very funny, but the director killed him after asking him to say a few words that hid him. His mother committed suicide and didn't even leave a last word. As for the meaning of the spiral circle painted by this person (there is also on the corpse of a prostitute), it is not explained in detail, it should be the meaning of a maze; there is also a scene of Shu Bai letting a mouse walk through the maze in the opening movie. If this is a moral word-it means that human beings as experimental objects will never get out of the placement of aliens (even to show that humans cannot get out of centralized control)-it would be too straightforward. Another main police officer's capable inspector Frank is also anticlimactic, but he has a small detail that should be noted. In the opening he pointed out that a subordinate's shoelace was loose, which shows that he is a careful person at the moment; in the middle he was caught by this. The subordinate pointed out that the shoelace was loose, which seemed to indicate that Frank's memory change caused his habits (character? Humanity?) to change.
Most of the film takes place at night, and the part of people's memory about daylight has been cut out, because aliens are like Marshal Lin Biao who are afraid of light and water. If it is said that the film has a black tone because the scene is at night and the tone is dim and ambiguous, I cannot agree. In this case, don't the smiles of African brothers become black humor? The word black tone should refer to a masterpiece like "The Night of Lost Souls".
Okay, it's time to say a couple of advantages to show fairness. In the movie, the earth is actually a dark building block-like maze. This setting is quite creative; especially after the protagonist breaks a wall, there is actually a dark outer space outside the wall, aside from the common sense of physics and astronomy, From a visual point of view, the effect is quite shocking. The blue planet in our minds only exists in imaginary memories.
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