Every interpretation is just a reflection of the current confusion

Kira 2022-03-25 09:01:10

Watched it off and on at home last weekend. The films of the 1990s have a strong sense of the times, and the suspenseful setting is already clear in the first half of the film under the hint.
It didn't resonate too much, maybe it's just a misinterpretation.

It seems reasonable to read the comments that you have worked hard all your life and suddenly find that everything will end only because of a button of others and will lose the meaning of survival. The results of the struggle are gone, so why continue to struggle? Is it really so?
No matter whether the world that exists is virtual or not, if the end of life will also end all existing struggles, knowing that it will eventually die, but also knowing that there is an unpredictable and uncontrollable cause of demise, does that mean that human existence itself has no meaning?
It is not because of being controlled by others that the struggle or existence of the self ends. The demise is only a moment, and the other moments are self-control, and the result can never be held. Only the process is one's own. The meaning of existence is to satisfy one's heart and achieve a certain pursuit of oneself.
In the past, I would wonder why others did this instead of doing that, I would laugh at me for not doing this, and I would think that what I did was always right. In fact, everyone's choice is just a manifestation of their inner pleasure . Whether you choose to read books, watch TV or play games on the subway, whether you choose to live desperately or just get by, it is just a choice to be satisfied with yourself. This is the meaning of self-survival. Terminate life and lose its meaning.
As long as one's own pursuit can achieve the realization of self-satisfaction, all choices are right or wrong, and they are meaningful.

The confusion about the self is that I always hope that I can achieve a certain degree, and the laziness of the self makes one unable to be satisfied with the current situation of the self, resulting in a sense of difference. , thereby denying the meaning of existence. This is just a deviation of pursuit, not a deviation of existence.

It is already the greatest meaning of existence to make actions more oriented towards pursuit and to live out the self that you want.
However, how many of us do it for ourselves and know what we really want?

View more about The Thirteenth Floor reviews

Extended Reading

The Thirteenth Floor quotes

  • Jason Whitney/Jerry Ashton: Why are you fucking with our lives?

  • [last lines]

    Jane Fuller: There's so many things I have to tell you about, Doug.