Successful propositions and failed solutions

Kacie 2022-09-26 07:12:37

The "Zero Point Theorem" opens with a question: What is the meaning of human existence? The film is designed in a fictitious future, where human beings are immersed in fast food culture such as alcohol, psychotropic drugs, and media advertisements, and they cannot find and no longer care about the meaning of survival. And Q, in the words of Boss at the end of the film, is "the only person who still has faith", insisting that a certain phone call will tell him the meaning of his existence. So Q gave up all social entertainment activities and stayed at home every day waiting for a call.
At this time, the Boss appeared and gave Q a task: complete the proof of the zero-point theorem, and the reward is that he can receive a call.

(Note: The zero-point theorem is a mathematical proposition:
let the function f(x) be continuous on the closed interval [a, b], and f(a) and f(b) have different signs (that is, f(a) × f( b)<0), then there is at least one zero point of the function f(x) in the open interval (a, b), that is, there is at least one point ξ (a<ξ)
In philosophy, the zero-point theorem is extended to search for the meaning of existence. To find the zero point is to find the meaning of existence. (Personal opinion: In the function image, the zero point is the intersection of the image and the horizontal axis of X. Perhaps finding the intersection with reality, or finding a position in society, is finding the meaning of life.

Q has never confirmed the zero-point theorem, and finally Boss revealed Open the truth: The zero-point theorem cannot be verified. Boss just wants to use this to prove that human life and human civilization are worthless (by the lines, it is "just a mistake caused by a big bang"), fooling his people, To achieve the goal of totalitarian rule. Let Q prove the proposition is to break his belief in the meaning of human existence.

In the process of proving the zero-point theorem, Q met a certain girl, she moved Q, and made Q realize that he had missed too much in the past , he gave up life while looking for the meaning of life, and put the cart before the horse. The phone call he has been waiting for does not exist, because the meaning of life cannot be calculated through rigid calculations, but to experience life and find the pleasures in life (some feel like a moment of pleasure) ).
So in the end Q played happily in the peaceful utopia created by his heart\("▔□▔)/In

general, he was a little disappointed with "Zero Theorem". The director put forward an excellent proposition, but did not give Give an equally good answer.
The main problem is that several places that need to be explained by the camera are not given:
1. What is the zero-point theorem?
2. The boss's purpose is to rule by totalitarianism, but the presentation of the future society in the film only makes People feel that this is a fast-food consumption and exaggerated society, and it cannot be reminiscent of totalitarianism or dictatorship, which makes the Boss's confession at the end of the film a bit abrupt.

However, it is still very impressive to say that the film's exterior shaping of the future society is very impressive (small A model of cost). There are the neon lights of the traditional futuristic world, the strange clothes, the brick walls of the earth (and the garbage everywhere), the reality of the futurists.

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Extended Reading

The Zero Theorem quotes

  • Bob: Did you know that more than 33 different aboriginal tribes believe that the soul resides somewhere in the lower intestinal tract? Absolutely true, but here's the zinger: none of these tribes have any knowledge of each other's existence. Coincidence? Coincidence? Why do you think all these separate peoples got such an idea?

    Qohen Leth: Dysintery.

  • Bainsley: Is that what's inside you? How can you live with that kind of emptiness?

    Qohen Leth: One day at a time.