I never know anything about physics, but I do know a little about cats. On the way back from the American event center, I kept Baidu's "Schrödinger's cat" theory
. Yes, the probability of each possibility is 100%, but once there is a subjective observation, there will be a "probability collapse", and all possibilities can be attributed to a "fact".
Then there's a phone split-screen showing a six-page encyclopedia:
put a cat in an opaque box, and connect that box to an experimental setup that contains a radioactive nucleus and a container of toxic gas. Imagine that this radioactive nucleus has a 50% chance of decaying within an hour. If it decays, it will emit a particle, and the emitted particle will trigger the experimental device, open the container of poison gas, and kill the cat. According to quantum mechanics, when no observations are made, the nucleus is in a superposition of decayed and non-decayed, but if the box is opened after an hour, the experimenter can only see "decayed nuclei and dead cats" or "undecayed" nuclei and live cats".
Along the way, I began to struggle with this half-dead Schrödinger cat, this serious man who was in constant trouble, and the 20 yuan in the little boy's Walkman.
Perhaps, the serious man who talks about physics in college is himself a half-dead Schrödinger cat. When his life is put into "an opaque box", family problems, neighborhood problems, work problems, and emotional problems occur one after another." Decay", he still fantasizes that he is the same as before, but can only live the life he wants in a dream. In my impression, every time he encounters a difficult life problem, he will choose a smooth way to solve it, but the result is just a sad dream.
He is like "the cat in the box", he doesn't want to live this kind of unclear life, he starts to seek one rabbi after another, he wants to know whether he is 100% alive or 100% dead:
The first rabbi summed up his point of view of looking at things and believed that he should observe from a different point of view, just as the life and death of "Schrödinger's cat" depends on people's subjective observation. The second rabbi made a big circle of "help me", but finally concluded his statement with "who care", no one wants to care about the invisible cat. The third rabbi was more pure, sitting in a room with the door closed, and his announcement to the man outside was "he's busy".
He had no choice but to struggle in this "invisible box" until at the end of the film he received a phone call and he needed to go to the hospital to see his X-ray immediately, the real "serious" thing was finally going to happen in " a man". Or maybe God was crazy about Schrödinger's cat and shot the poor cat like Hawking.
At the end, the little boy finally has the money to pay back the "creditor" who has been chasing him, but it seems that the "creditor" has long forgotten about it. This seems to be another "Schrödinger's cat" mapping, if you don't care about the cat's life or death, then the cat doesn't exist. Everything depends on your point of view.
The composition of the film is very special. The protagonist always appears on the left side of the screen, and the beautiful scenery of the blockbuster occupies most of the right side. Many of the pictures are ingeniously conceived and the shots are used very skillfully, which should be the narrative language that the Coen brothers are good at.
I don't understand the first paragraph at all, and there are many places in the middle that I can see "in the middle", but the film is very interesting overall. The dark humor and "Schrödinger's cat" mix together to create a unique flavor, which makes the whole film wonderful and beautiful.
ps: This film is one of the screenings of the "Jewish Film Festival". I watched it at the American event center. I was impressed by the friendliness of the organizer and the staff. Thank you for the screening.
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