How many times will the fantasy become reality?

Britney 2022-09-19 19:15:15

Buried Oedipus' fatalism: what we fear most is what we ourselves do not know we are going to do (or have done). What we fear in the face of the abyss is not the pure unknown abyss, but the illusion or precognition that we don’t know why we want or force to jump (as shown in the movie) In other words, maybe there is no precognition in the world , only the repeated reincarnation and repeated discovery of fate.

Or, it's all fantasy, and the prediction and the confirmation of it are fantasy. In this case, another horror arises: how many times does the fantasy become reality? I shudder when I think that every repetition we realize may have been the successor of countless repetitions: the dark fantasy that overflows our dreams like a liquid, becomes reality, a reality without redemption. I gradually understood the choice of the protagonist: instead of admitting this reality, I would rather choose to live in an endless dream: at least every time I wake up with a smile and lament that it's all just a nightmare.

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Dead of Night quotes

  • Hugh Grainger: Let's get this straight, Doctor. You won't for a moment admit the possibility of foreseeing the future?

    Dr. van Straaten: Not for a moment.

    Hugh Grainger: Well, you'd say I'm a pretty ordinary, down-to-the-earth sort of person, wouldn't you?

    Dr. van Straaten: I refuse to commit myself. Why?

    Hugh Grainger: Well, when it comes to foreseeing the future, something once happened to me that knocks your theories into a cocked hat. Something I'll not forget to my dying day. As a matter of fact, it very nearly was my dying day.

  • Eliot Foley: A funny sort of practical joke: it, it isn't funny.