Everyone must have known the story about the cycle of time and space.
I have also seen many similar movies, such as "Groundhog Day", "Edge of Tomorrow", "Former Destination", "Ring Messenger", "Terrorist Cruise", "The Night When the Comet Came" and so on.
So how to have new elements and cool points under the framework of this story is actually the primary problem to be solved by the "post-waves".
"Palm Springs" is actually a sketch, a romantic comedy.
In order not to be too entangled in the "quantum problem" of the space-time cycle, many relaxed and comfortable plots are designed.
Bivariate in the Quantum Universe
"Palm Springs" is a place name in the United States, which is actually quite the title of the film.
It is located in the Colorado Desert of California. It is an oasis city next to the desert. It is said that humans have lived here as early as 10,000 years ago.
The place is hot, with plenty of sunshine and lots of hot springs.
So, our male protagonist, "third cousin", Andy Samberg, has been wearing Hawaiian-style shirts and pants to reflect his casualness.
He's the first hapless person to fall into a loop that the writers say he's been in for more than 40 years.
And the heroine Sarah also followed him into "that cave" in "A Certain Accident".
From then on, the two stayed together on the wedding day of Sarah's sister.
In this way, although the love theme of "Palm Springs" is not new, the two people cycle together and omit the process of exploring the cycle mechanism, which also allows Bill Murphy to transform himself for his lover in the "Groundhog Day" mode. The unity of , further generates new chemical reactions and collision possibilities.
For the sake of the plot, we still inevitably have to accept Sarah's doubts about the circulation mechanism.
Such as suicide, fleeing Palm Springs, not sleeping, going to a cave, etc.
Of course, these methods are bound to fail, because the "three cousins" have already tried countless times.
Moreover, what distinguishes the two characters from other characters in other films is that they have cognitive a priori to this "cyclical immortality".
Considering that the audience would be impatient, the third cousin came up and told Sara everything, and Sara herself said that she had heard of this kind of story.
Therefore, they quickly adapted to this rule, and thus lived "happily" under this mechanism.
Although the third cousin had slept with Sarah hundreds of times, he still lied to her.
Because after Sarah also entered the cycle day, he could neither rush to sleep with her nor experience a true, progressive, restrained love.
This cycle actually satisfies the audience's pursuit of "eternal life" and the desire for "infinite trial and error".
No matter what you do right or wrong, you can keep trying and experience the butterfly effect brought by different choices, without being affected by the linearity of time, you can repeat it over and over again and enjoy it repeatedly.
It's like don't worry about drinking happy water and cake will grow meat, don't worry about life safety, don't worry about why you don't do it.
That's cool isn't it, it's a big cool point.
So the "third cousin" slept almost everyone he could, including men.
Even if this space-time category is only awake for one day, it is enough for pure experience or enjoyment.
Of course, if you want to be creative, it is still impossible, unless you can not sleep.
The meaning of circulation
The attitudes of the two immortals later clashed.
The third cousin felt that the only possibility of calmness was to accept the reality of "living forever" and the joy and pain it brought.
But Sarah felt that such a life was meaningless because it was stagnant and everything would go back to its place.
The third cousin took the initiative to invite another immortal in the cave, Roy played by J.K. Simmons, who also held the opposite attitude, so he has been chasing the third cousin.
Although Roy has a happy family, he cannot see his children growing up or the future. Such a "happy life" drives him crazy.
The phrase we used to say: "I wish this day would last forever". It seems to be a lie.
Everything in front of you is fake, including time.
Only the memory, and the pain, are real.
After hundreds of days, day after day, Sarah decided to end it all.
What changed her attitude and wanted to overcome this "comfort zone"?
In fact, it was the time when she woke up, always reminding her that she was a rotten person who "drinks alcohol", "drugs" and "stealed her brother-in-law".
Every morning, she wakes up from "the next morning of cheating with her brother-in-law". She can't avoid what kind of "thing" she is, so that she can't face her sister calmly again and again at the wedding.
So she disappeared for a while to study the theoretical problems of the "quantum universe", planning to blow up the cave with dynamite in order to escape the cycle and relieve the pain in her heart.
This time, Sarah cheated her third cousin with the "experimentally successful goat".
The goat has no self-awareness, and it cannot be verified by Sarah that the goat that jumped out of the cycle and the goat that remained in the cycle are the same.
Of course, the director had no intention of exploring the story of the goat. After a "mind battle", the third cousin finally admitted that he loved Sarah so much and gave up the idea of staying alone, and finally succeeded in jumping out of this scene with Sarah in an explosion. cycle day.
People say that facing reality is the true meaning of life and giving up unrealistic fantasies.
In order to wake us up, there is no way, the dream has to wake up eventually.
good expectations
The biggest difference in this movie is that after watching it, you will feel that it is really good to stay.
Live forever with the person you love, do all the crazy things, don't worry about the consequences, don't worry about getting old, you can learn anything you want, you can change anything you want, even eat hallucinogenic mushrooms together, watch dinosaurs together, what a Beautiful!
But these are our good hopes.
If you really don't leave this cycle, you may encounter another motif - loneliness and boredom, and those unpleasant feelings will eventually come.
Even if you're looking for fun in a different way, there will always be a day when you run out of fuel and the Prometheus pain will become more and more clear.
The immortal "world of the dead" has long been regarded by us as a kind of punishment, and true death is the liberation.
This just confirms the intention to use bombs to blow up the cave, and only "dead" can really live.
And it is better to die together than to be alone in loneliness, which is the footnote of this love.
Fortunately, the third cousin and Sara succeeded, and they were able to talk about a real love "mutually tired" and accept each other's aging and the passage of time.
They were relieved, but I was particularly reluctant to let go of this cycle.
Falling in love in an eternal day is the ultimate romanticism!
The dinosaurs created by the three hallucinogenic mushrooms are really fascinating.
But did Palm Springs really have dinosaurs?
*This article first appeared in the headline "Movie stalker"
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