Recently, walking alone on a breezy night, watching the edge of the city become blurred under the dark purple sky, because of the power cut, some huge lights on the opposite bank of Qianhai have become dim, and when I fall into the silent darkness, I often will Think of this movie.
Moving soul city, Dark city.
This is a dark science fiction film that was released in 1998 and was relatively unpopular in the early days, but it inspired the "Matrix" series that was later famous in the world (and even some scenes in Escape City were directly applied to The Matrix).
I watched this film about when I was in junior high school. Some people say that the songs you listen to when you are 14 years old will affect your life's aesthetics, and of course the movies are. The concept of this movie had a profound impact on me in my youth, and it also made me think about the truth and nature of the world and other grand and mysterious propositions during my secondary illness.
For example, I often think whether I am the only human with real consciousness in this world, and everyone else is an unconscious NPC; or the nature of the world is actually just a huge fantasy, we are like the brain in the tank, the mother body Li Nio-all the "real world" seen, touched, and heard is just a hypocritical structure conveyed to the brain by instruments; another example is this earth and the universe as we know it only exists in greater and higher heights. In a corner of a laboratory in Dimension, we are being observed and studied by the Creator, just like we are studying ants in an ant nest, tiny bacteria on a glass marble...
I believe that there are not a few people who have similar fantasies to me, because all we can perceive is our own perception, and we don’t know anything about the inner world of others. Our memory is so unreliable. It is just certain bioelectric signals stored in the brain. Who can guarantee that "yesterday" really happened. If the world was created only one second ago, we would have no idea. Distinguishable.
Okay, now let’s describe this movie in general, and you will understand why I have so many cranky thoughts.
My impression of this movie is always vague and dark, just like the picture of the city of eternal night depicted in the movie.
The city will always have only chaotic nights, dark and dilapidated, cold and depressed everywhere, and the age and geographical location are unclear, but the people in the city don’t seem to care. They only have vague memories of their work during the day and what happened yesterday. But no one has ever seen the real sun. Everyone is playing their respective roles in the night city, passing the erratic time numbly.
Then one day, the protagonist John woke up in a room. John found a woman's body beside him, and he became a suspenseful criminal pursued by the police. But the problem is that he doesn't remember anything, he has no impression of what he has done, and there are many people who know him, even those who claim to be his wife, he doesn't know at all.
John, with amnesia, evaded the police and mysterious people, and at the same time began to search for the truth in this city without daylight.
As the story progresses, the amazing truth gradually emerges.
It turned out that every midnight, everyone in the city would fall asleep, and then the city itself began to move quietly, change its structure, and become another city beyond recognition. In their sleep, the memories and identities of the people in the city were exchanged and tampered with each other. When the next night, when they woke up again, they became another person.
Yesterday’s wife will become a stranger today. The bastard who provoked you in the bar today may become your good friend for many years tomorrow... People rely on memory to distinguish between themselves and others, but when all When memories are all false, how do humans answer the most basic question of "Who am I?"
John is the only exception. He is the failure of this experiment, and his memory can be preserved continuously.
After various investigations and adventures, he finally discovered that this city is actually a creation of aliens, now far away from the earth, floating in the deep space of the universe.
Its main body is an experimental ground for aliens to study human souls. Aliens exchange human memories at will, in order to observe the soul essence of such creatures. In the accidental collision, John finally has the ability to surpass the aliens and approach the "god". He can use his mind to exchange objects and recast the world.
In the end, John destroyed the system created by the aliens, recreated his own world, and finally went to the beautiful beach like the ending of "Trumen's World", bathing in memory with his beloved one. In the beautiful sunshine that I have seen.
The heroine of this movie is Jennifer Connery. Someone is amazed by the slim figure who danced in "Once Upon a Time in America" when she was a girl, but I think she is the most beautiful in this movie.
This is the end of the movie. Of course, this long Aotian-style happy ending somewhat wasted the wonderful and black setting of the first half, but it is compatible with works such as "Trumen's World", "The Matrix", and "Western World" ( There are also many single episodes in the "Rick and Morty" series), but the follow-up shock and thinking that have brought me are far from stopping.
I think about it from time to time, even if I know the truth of the world, what will I do?
For example, the red and blue pills in "The Matrix" are placed in front of me. Which one will I swallow?
The blue pill can make you forget about this, return to the ordinary but beautiful false daily life, and spend an ordinary life without consciousness.
And the red pill will let you go to a real but extremely cruel world. You may know the nature of the world, but the calm life you used to be can never go back.
If it was you, how would you choose?
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