The most refined and exaggerated lines in By Random Success Learning are the words "I can". These two words make young people believe that everyone can achieve the double success of personality and wealth like the richest man in the world through their unremitting efforts. In reality, however, such "success" can only be achieved in a physical vacuum. Rather than saying that people are in infinite possibilities, it is better to say that people are subject to various limitations such as time, geography, character, family, educational background, etc. from birth to death. It is precisely because of the existence of various limitations and defects that human beings can become "humans" rather than supernatural beings. Come to think of it, any human in history who has claimed to be a god or a superman has failed in the end.
Success is a collection of random Brownian motions that cannot be replicated or followed. The only thing people can do is to do their best to do what they are doing now, so that history can continue on a normal path. The much-anticipated success is like the bright moon in the sky. It is beautiful but out of reach. For most people, trying to learn to face failure calmly is the necessity of life and the normal state of survival. The sci-fi movie "Another Earth" seems to have sent a quiet but warm sunshine to those young people who are depressed but have nowhere to go: If this earth is full of inexplicable helplessness And indifference, then "Another Earth" may be a good choice.
Another Earth is a low-budget independent film that won the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance International Film Festival in 2011. The film's plot arrangement, picture composition, line design, etc., all strive to be simple, and even use a lot of documentary-style line drawing techniques in the film. A large number of empty shots and words are left blank, which not only promotes the progressive layout of the plot, but also gives people unlimited thinking and aftertaste. The style of this film is simple, but the content of the discussion is not simple at all.
One night four years ago, Rhona (Britt Marling), an underage female high school student, accidentally ran into the car of the family of music professor John (William Mapother) while driving. John's wife and daughter died at the scene, and John was seriously injured and in shock. Lorna, who was not more serious, endured the pain, trembling all over at the accident scene, waiting for the arrival of the police car. As a result, although John woke up, the pain of losing his wife and daughter immediately made him into trouble, and his life was down and out. The promising Rona was imprisoned for four years for a traffic accident. The accident dealt a huge blow to Rona's heart, and four years of prison life did not alleviate her guilt in the slightest. On the night of the car accident, human beings discovered a planet very similar to Earth - "another Earth".
After being released from prison, Rona was withdrawn and reticent, and found a job as a cleaner in the high school she attended. She tried to exonerate her spiritual guilt through an ascetic life at the bottom. Through online inquiries, Rona learned about John's current situation and found his address. One day, she walks into John's already embarrassed life under the guise of offering free cleaning services. After a period of time together, the two icy hearts felt the long-lost warmth from each other, and the spark of love rubbed against each other in sincerity and comfort. At the same time, human beings have discovered that "another earth" is almost a mirror image of the earth, and that any person and everything that exists on earth, "another earth" is also going on synchronously. The only difference is that the mirror images of the two Earths changed at the same time that humans discovered the "other Earth" four years ago, and they were no longer "synchronicity" but evolved in different directions. Is there good news for the unfortunate people living on Earth that there is an alter-ego of humanity on "another Earth"?
Once, John had a headache because he was working so hard to fix the house. Rona, who has read a lot without going to college, told him a story about the Russian cosmonaut Gagarin to comfort him: Gagarin was the first human ever to step into the universe, when he was in the narrow space In the cabin, the first time I saw the planet I lived in through the plane window, I was completely intoxicated. But just then, there was a small, continuous ticking sound on the capsule's gauges that he could not eliminate with all his efforts. He knew that if he couldn't fix this, he would lose his mind for the next twenty-five days and eventually collapse. Finally, Gagarin thought of a way to keep himself from breaking down—that is, to fall in love with this sound. So he closed his eyes and started imagining to his heart's content. When he opened his eyes, what he heard in his ears was no longer a ticking sound, but a beautiful melody. For the rest of the time, he roamed space in the sound of the sound of nature, calm.
Maybe, "another earth" is not in the distant space, but in your heart.
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