At the beginning of the film, Descartes' classic point of view - I think, therefore I am. The male protagonist Douglas and the boss constructed a virtual world - 1937. Everything is in order until the boss dies and Doug travels back to 1937 to find the truth. Then the heroine appears, and the blond man in mid-1937 finds out that he is a fictional character under Doug, who kills Doug, and Doug begins to doubt his authenticity. As Descartes argued that we should be suspicious of everything, "How can you be sure that your life is not a dream?" In addition to Doug's existence, there may be another god in his grasp. Through technology, their souls can pass through the one-dimensional time and enter different bodies to circulate.
The fictional world I understand is actually a kind of thinking power, more precisely artificial intelligence in a mechanical device. This is exactly the way of thinking of Descartes' "rationalism".
If the story is only where God (David) created a world and then destroyed it. It can only be interpreted as a story of a virtual "power" (I don't want to use the word "right", this word has too many historical implications, and the power of control sounds more primitive and close to the people). Create the world, design and hack into the minds of others, and act as God. (I seem to understand the plot of "games" such as boys wow.)
Fortunately, the director arranged the appearance of the heroine, and there are more highlights. She has a line: "From the very beginning, I started to pay attention to you, your kindness, your integrity, I fell in love with you before I saw you", it sounds absurd, the love of this science fiction story The explanation is far from the cleverness of "The Matrix" and "Inception", and it is very untenable. But the ending is that the heroine ends it all, killing David and bringing Doug to 2024. This is clearly the outcome of the victory of the will! The heroine falls in love with a fictional person, or just a program - "Doug", which transforms the feeling into a willful action force, and finally enters the "perfect world".
I think this is more of an elegy than a happy ending. The heroine always looks preoccupied, her identity background is a mystery, and the reason for her appearance is only "husband is cruel" and "falling in love with Doug". She said something crucial to Doug "We met in another life". I have a guess that Doug might be part of her husband David's soul. Because David created this world, matrix must have copied his own will, and Doug happened to be the "kind and honest" part. (Just conjecture, only for entertainment)
The absurdity has an obsession with "staying time", just like the image in literary creation is created by "staying in time", it is understandable that the heroine falls in love with a fictional person In order to fall in love for a period of time, a person who can only stay in the mind.
Can this victory of the will be regarded as the return of love? David is a rational controller, so does the heroine have to be emotional? After all, the heroine kills David, which is also a kind of control. Besides, is David really dead? Or just the heroine and Doug pulling the switch and escaping to another undisturbed world. Maybe she's another David who wants to take over the world.
"The 13th Floor" is like a phalanx that can't be walked out. For someone like me who lives in firewood, rice, oil and salt and believes in gravity, I really can't agree that this is love. Maybe it has a little redemption flavor. But it can't give me the touch of Leonardo's desire to go home in "Inception", nor does Neo's fate in "The Matrix" make me feel the conflict between the natural world and the natural world. .
I don't like this movie because it lacks a kind of human feeling and pays too much attention to "wisdom". Wisdom is not innate, it is a gradual evolutionary process the day after tomorrow. And what is the price we pay for pursuing "wisdom"? I don't know what the price will be when we develop in China in the current economic take-off period.
Thinking of literature, there are more humanitarianism in the works of classical writers, praising beauty, love and sublime; while modern and postmodern leave us with deconstruction, absurdity, and dark humor, such as Kafka's "Metamorphosis" and "The Metamorphosis". Castle" (I don't mean to discredit him, because I am still a big fan of him at present!), throws us the next black holes, we have thought and suffered, but where is the exit?
We have created everything with strong willpower. Civilization has passed through fire, electricity, and light, but we have also abandoned our beliefs, morals, and true hearts while complacent. Maybe the end of the world is waiting for us, not victory, but Absurdity and nothingness.
So the film was an impersonal joke about willpower for me, a gravitational believer.
Bigger joke, I've also made a willpower joke. I held a gun with a deadly bug that wounded me and the people I longed to cherish.
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