Think back

Misty 2022-06-21 21:23:18

In this era of sci-fi special effects, let's go back to thinking.

In the face of those disasters, we all need to do this, we need to examine our own existence, we need to think about the meaning of life, and we need to find the courage to face setbacks.

Look at The Matrix, Inception... I can't tell if their selling point is gorgeous stunts or peculiar ideas.

In contrast to this movie, the simplest plot, people can guess what will happen physically when they become smaller, but what really matters is the psychological change of the protagonist - he has been examining his own existence and thinking about the value of his existence and purpose.
So, he did not lose anything, but gained the truth of the whole universe.

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The Incredible Shrinking Man quotes

  • [last lines]

    Scott Carey: I was continuing to shrink, to become... what? The infinitesimal? What was I? Still a human being? Or was I the man of the future? If there were other bursts of radiation, other clouds drifting across seas and continents, would other beings follow me into this vast new world? So close - the infinitesimal and the infinite. But suddenly, I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet - like the closing of a gigantic circle. I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens. The universe, worlds beyond number, God's silver tapestry spread across the night. And in that moment, I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite. I had thought in terms of man's own limited dimension. I had presumed upon nature. That existence begins and ends is man's conception, not nature's. And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing. My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation, it had to mean something. And then I meant something, too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something, too. To God, there is no zero. I still exist!

  • Scott Carey: Relax Doctor. You can't tell me anything I haven't already imagined.

    Doctor Arthur Bramson: You are getting smaller. I... I don't profess to understand it Mr. Carey. There is no medical precedent for what's happening to you. I simple know that you're getting smaller. The X-rays prove it beyound any doubt.