In 1999, when the brilliance of the sci-fi blockbuster "The Matrix" began to illuminate cinemas around the world, a "Diverse Dimension Hacker", which was released in the same year and earlier, also provided a wonderful virtual world, But still silent.
A decade later, some people are beginning to realize that this neglected low-budget sci-fi production offers a more authentic, complex and thought-provoking idea of reality and existence than The Matrix.
The English name of "Different Dimension Hackers" is the thirteenth floor, and it is said that the original work came out in the 1960s. The translator may come up with an "different dimension" in order to highlight the mystery or horror of the time-space tunnel in the film. This kind of grandstanding is not as direct and authentic as the director of this film:
at the beginning of the whole film, before the first picture, the famous Descartes proposition - "I think, therefore I am." The idea of the film.
But we know that in thinking or methodology, Descartes was a thorough or universal skeptic, so it is conceivable that this film will use images to show a story about virtuality, reality and existence, rising from psychology to philosophy. The topic will cause the audience to think about how tangled and endless it will be.
If we forget the ridicule of God, have a cup of coffee and pretend to think about the following questions:
What is existence? To exist is to be perceived, and thought determines existence. This "thought" is of course the thought of human beings as the definer of everything in the world; however, in the electronic world of "Another Dimension Hacker", the most terrible thing is that "a bunch of wires also have human thoughts", if the virtual human also has The existence of the subject, then, what is reality? Existence is real? If truth is not false and verifiable, then, in the super-intelligence era of different dimensions, who will define "true" and "false"? The maker or the maker?
Now that the virtual online world can be perceived by users, does our digital "existence" live in the reality or memory of strangers? If they don't know our screen name, do we still exist in this online world for them? In dreams, we can also be transformed into ourselves or others. We all have real feelings at the time, so are these real and meaningful? In this way, the different-dimensional world returns to Zhuang Zhou Mengdie - if the dream is real enough, people have no ability to know that they are dreaming. Or simply, the real and the virtual can be transformed into each other.
If the two are based on the perception of "virtual reality" (VR), "The Matrix" defines "reality", then "Another Dimension Hacker" creates "reality".
What is the nature of the world in front of us? Do we live in several worlds at the same time? Dreams, imaginations, memories, should be another world and can be perceived; if they exist, where do they exist, another time and space? This leads one to ask, is there any other or larger world outside our world? This is the case with the world of "Alternative Dimensional Hackers", which presents a triple world - the maker's world (our usual everyday reality), the maker's virtual world, and the virtual world's existence itself again virtualized world.
Or, as parallel cosmology puts it, is there an equivalent parallel world outside of "us"?
What is the relationship between body and soul? Of course, the first is whether human beings have a soul. People say that when a person dies, the mind ceases to exist. So, can we "alien" exist? In other words, can the mind in the flesh be transferred? In the world of "Another Dimension Hacker", the body is unique, but the virtual person not only has thoughts, but can also be downloaded and overwritten by the controller, while its thoughts are cached or suspended. Thus, we have realized changing our position in the time series - going back to the past and stepping into the future.
"The Matrix", Neo's human-machine interface, isn't that the world?
Listen to this line from "Alternative Dimensional Hackers" -
Why do I get the feeling we've met before?
Maybe we have, in another life.
How can you love me? I'm not even real. You can't fall in love with a dream.
You are more real to me than anything I've ever known.
Everything is unknown, because existence is in chaos.
Philosophers have suffered for millennia over this shuddering question.
There may never be an answer, because the fundamental flaw of human beings is that they cannot surpass themselves. Just as Zhuangzi said: "The frog in the well cannot speak to the sky, it is restricted to the void; the insect of the summer cannot speak to the ice, but it is determined to the time; the scholar of music cannot speak to the Tao, but is bound by the teaching." The first two sentences say, Humans cannot break through the limitations of time and space. The last sentence may tell us that the answer to existence is only possible in the future evolution of human intelligence.
Stop it, stop it. Or pull the plug and keep drinking coffee, no one can give answers without questions.
Or skeptics are smart, they use skepticism as a sharp thought rig, but push the task of answering questions back to the God of programming.
If the ideas contained in a film make the film critics have nowhere to write, or if they are exhausted, they still leave countless question marks, and even make film reviews redundant, then this is a good film.
That's what Dimensional Hackers is all about. Compared with "The Matrix", it is less dazzling and more imaginative, and its mysterious conception also makes sci-fi films return to real sci-fi, and reminds people that
we live in the moment, which is the most real. Living in the present moment is the happiest moment.
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