Since the storyline is driven by mirror theory, there can only be one truth, and the structure and ending of this film cannot be open-ended. The truth is: Earth 2 didn't have the same crash. Because the synchronicity of the two planets was terminated from the day Earth 2 approached the earth (that is, the night of the car accident 4 years ago), the direct evidence is the live female scientist on TV and the "self" in Earth 2. "Have a 'conversation', the conversation is not synchronised - there is a first and then there is a question and an answer. So when there is an ending, the heroine meets "myself".
If the heroine is smart enough (and she should be), when she sees "self", she should be convinced that the two Earths are out of sync, and Earth 2 didn't have the same car accident. She should be happy. The director here arranged for her to show the audience with a disturbed expression, her conscience is really bad. Moreover, this method is not very clever, and the smart audience "despise" him!
So, the ending should be like this: when the male protagonist arrives in Earth 2 and sees that "his" beautiful family is still there, he will not feel pain in his heart. But he still struggles - he's already an outsider. But in order to maintain world peace and build a harmonious society, he could only choose to leave silently. As for the heroine, since her own people met, it was inevitable that they would exchange greetings for a while. In the end, each went back to his own house, each looking for his own mother. In the end, the hero returned to Earth 1 and the heroine lived a happy and beautiful life.
I'm trying to understand the movie in a deeper way. There are two understandings: 1. The bankruptcy of Plato's cave theory, the mirror image theory is also a fallacy, and there is no primary and secondary problem. 2. There are mirror images, and there are primary and secondary points, but this situation will change - the entity and the mirror become two independent running entities, and the shadow gets rid of the master. Does it imply that human beings can be freed from the control of God (God is Lord, Humans are second)?
In any case, the film is philosophically typically skeptical, beyond the confines of science fiction. Is there a world without truth or a world? Perhaps this film is originally an emotional literary film, and it seems hypocritical when we go deeper.
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