Film and television works with time travel and changing history as themes are not uncommon today. However, whether the grandmother's paradox or parallel time and space, there seems to be no good explanation and proof in theory, but this does not affect many The key to the attractiveness of related film and television works depends on the level of the creator's self-justification. For example, "The Night When the Comet Came", set people to meet with themselves in another time and space without being annihilated, and as in the first "Terminator", set the origin of the hero and heroine as a circular timeline without head and tail.
As for "The Mirage", it seems to me more like a piecewise function with breakpoints. Its formation process is not mysterious. It is what the movie tells in the positive sequence-two sets of breakpoints jumping and changing the local function story.
Pay attention to a few details:
1. Although the knife was in Clara's hand, it was Angel who pushed his wife onto the knife to death during the push, and later he also shielded his mistress Clara;
2. In the film, it was specifically mentioned that Angel was arrested and confessed that he was going to bury the body in the slaughterhouse, and repeatedly emphasized that it was strange through David's mouth;
3. The scene of the murder is reproduced in the film. Combined with the timing when Nick hit the murderer in the title, Angel should not have time to think about how to deal with the corpse;
Based on the above three points, the film is probably hinting and emphasizing that this is not a story about separate parallel time and space.
If Vera did not save Nick in that night, all life would develop normally, like a continuous function curve drawn based on the time axis, such as the blue curve in the picture (for the convenience of drawing a straight line, only the color is used to distinguish), It continues without any breakpoints, only solid lines and no dotted lines. She might find out that David was cheating on one day in the future, and she might never notice it. In short, she would live like before, ordinary and ordinary day by day, until the end of her life.
1) Name the original life function f0. On this blue line, Nick died in a car accident in 1989, Angel was arrested, Clara took away the watch, Angel shielded Clara to escape sanctions, and Hill Da's body was found in time. Ten years later, Vera met Captain Otto, intercepted David Hu from Ursula, gave birth to a daughter and gave up being a doctor. In 2014, David derailed as a nurse.
However, Vera couldn't ignore a 9-year-old boy. She pleaded hoarsely, changing the fate of Nick’s life and also changing the direction of her life. The blue f0 function ends at point D, which is 2014.11.9 night.
2) Two symmetrical continuous thunderstorms 25 years apart, together with the TV camera, formed a connection condition of time and space. Vera changed history and formed a function breakpoint at point D, and the blue f0 function between AD was replaced It is the green f1 function.
On this green line, Nick was saved in 1989. The body of the deceased was buried in the slaughterhouse. The principal offender married his mistress. Nick became a policeman, found Vera and fell in love and married, supported Vera to become a doctor, and David and Ursula. Married and suffering from meningioma, derailed a nurse in 2014. Because little Nick didn't know Vera's original life, it was an accident that he fell in love with Vera, and he didn't know what Vera had lost.
The f1 green line is generated by the f0 blue line after the breakpoint at point D overwrites the point B. This determines that the maker of breakpoint D, Vera, although on the green line, will inevitably undergo a sudden change at point D and has f0. The double memory with f1, that is, the blue dotted line that was erased between BD, and the newly generated green solid line between BE. Therefore, the Green Line Rivera does not live in Nick’s old house, nor can he successfully contact Nick through the TV, and it does not affect the continued development of the Green Line, because the changes come from the Blue Line.
For Vera with the blue line, it seems as if he came to a strange world after waking up after D point, and his mind is full of memories of the blue line. For the green line Vera, it was suddenly written into the blue line memory at point D, which seemed to be a different person in the eyes of outsiders, behaving strangely.
After the mutation of point D, Vera needs physical contact with others to retrieve the memory of the new timeline.
Since point D, Vera has active blue line memory and passive green line memory. Between DE is Vera has been trying to verify the erased blue line and find a way to go back. Nick who only remembers the green line has to follow Vera looked for the reason together, and in the process learned the story of Vera in the blue dotted line that he had never experienced.
If Vera abandons her daughter, she can continue to live with Nick with the memory of the blue dotted line, and let the f1 green line continue, which is the part of the green dotted line. But Vera didn't want to lose her daughter and would rather use his life to gamble, so the butterfly effect will continue.
3) Vera threatened death, Nick had to create a second breakpoint through the TV connection at point E before the end of the symmetrical thunderstorm, which is the night of 2014.11.12, erase the f1 green line between BE and rewrite it as f2 Orange line.
You can try to reason that Nick’s idea is to restore Vera’s blue line as much as possible, including:
Failure to inform the location of the hidden body to prevent Nick from reporting Angel, the watch as a testimony with Clara imprisoned, changing the life of the captain of the blue line, and then changing the life of Vera;
Dissuade Nick from going to the station to meet Vera when he grows up, so that Vera can successfully meet the captain, marry David and give birth to a daughter;
In view of the fact that Nick on the Orange Line is still a police officer and returned to his hometown, he probably did not persuade Nick to give up searching for the truth. If time is available, maybe he can teach Nick to learn to keep secrets earlier and suffer less unnecessary suffering. When he came back to find the murderer;
Reasoning from Nick’s point of view, Orange Line Rivera will return to David’s embrace, and she may also forget the memories of Green Line and Nick, and she will have memories of Green Line. Then there is a possibility that Nick lives nearby. At work, in addition to catching the murderer, she also holds the expectation that she might see Vera again and looks at Vera from a distance;
The last and most important point is that after finishing all the above explanations, Nick made the most reliable change in his opinion to keep the bottom line, that is, let Nick take away the TV and the camera to try to avoid Vera from the root. Save yourself and start a new timeline. For Vera, he wants to bring everything back to the original point, even if he might disappear.
Due to the urgency of time and the importance of the task, I personally believe that in order to save Vera, Nick has no time to think about himself, and because he knows little about the principles of changing history, the above may be all the efforts he can make within the scope of his cognitive ability. NS.
I'm afraid Nick can't think of it. In the orange line, he not only survived but also kept his old memories, even Vera kept all the old memories.
In the new timeline, the two can continue their relationship, which is the unexpected joy of Nick's sacrifice. This is the scriptwriter's commendation for the lover, and Vera's best of both worlds is the scriptwriter's feedback to the kindhearted.
Since Nick created breakpoint E, referring to Vera’s experience, Nick on the green line will suddenly find himself on the f2 orange line after point E, and has the double memory of f1 and f2, which is the green that has been erased between BE The dashed line is a new solid orange line generated between and BE. Similarly, in the eyes of people outside the orange line, Nick will suddenly become another person at point E, from a man who doesn't know Vera to Nick who loves Vera.
So after Nick saw Vera, after pretending to be a few words, he showed a meaningful smile, which meant that he actually remembered everything.
As for Vera, because breakpoint D has a higher priority than breakpoint E, the former is a prerequisite for the latter, so Vera on the orange line of f2 will still be affected by the breakpoint at point D, gradually gaining terrible and confusing Memory, which is what David calls nightmare "again", until after point E, Vera completely obtains the triple memory of blue, green and orange between AE, which is the memory Vera experienced and retrieved in the movie (yes Vera said that the orange line and the blue line’s experience were the same), but all of this was still too unreal, like a nightmare, so Vera verified David’s betrayal and Angel and Clara’s entrenchment. The corpse of the slaughterhouse, to prove that the dream is not a dream, and also to prove the love that Nick in the green thread sacrificed for her.
So in the days to come, on the orange line, Vera and Nick both have love, Vera does not have to lose their daughter, that is to say, this movie is Vera's change of fate, and in the end, both the fish and the bear's paw are big. Reunion story.
This film also expresses the story of choice determines life, good results from good causes, and the story of how to lose a horse and know what is not good fortune.
Vera gave up the good guy Otto, intercepted David from Ursula, and planted the seeds of misfortune for herself. She saved Nick’s life again, although it made Angel a happy life for 25 years. But it was because of this that Nick survived to get Clara's watch. As evidence of sending her to jail, Vera exchanged her sacrifice for her daughter's existence and gave up the possibility of David staying away from misfortune.
Not to mention that David’s foreshadowing is buried in clues that he might kill. In terms of personality problems of inertial cheating and emotional problems of potential violent factors, Vera’s rescue of Nick is precisely to save himself, no matter what Life or love.
After combing through the whole process of the formation of the piecewise function, we can get the creative ideas of the screenwriter. If the story in "The Mirage" is explained by the butterfly effect, it is the result of superimposition after partial changes in the same time and space. If you use more Time and space to explain, then they are not parallel and independent of each other, but three space-time superimposed and collapsed into one space-time.
Regardless of the explanation, there are breakpoints similar to space-time wormholes at D and E. These two points are like curvature discontinuities in a continuous curve, or singularities in a unified formula function, or Breakpoints in the piecewise function, in short, this story does not need to be understood with continuous solid lines and a coherent life consistent with common sense.
The film also deliberately emphasized the discontinuity of the virgin’s behavior and memory at the breakpoint, so there is no need to be overly entangled in how the orange line camera is taken away and how the change occurs, because this change originally started from the blue line, the three colors The lines are finally joined together in a discontinuous way.
For others, life is still continuous, but for Vera and Nick, every time they come to a breakpoint, they will undergo some strange changes, and then naturally skip and change the conditions, which is What Nick said, "We live in a chaotic system." On the orange line after point E, the two of them will carry on with the memory of surviving decades longer than others, and the feelings that have been in love for a long time.
[Supplement] A summary of the orange line:
At point A, Nick was dissuaded by Vera and did not go to the neighbor’s house to escape. Later, he sneaked into the neighbor’s house and saw the body part. He found Clara’s gold watch. After reporting, he was forced to apologize to Angel, but Nick was not reconciled. After being misunderstood, he guarded the TV. At point B, I was persuaded by Officer Nick to take away the TV and camera, hiding his wish and quietly trying to grow up to become a policeman without disturbing Vera, so that Vera could get to know Tony and marry Davidson at point C. Next daughter.
Vera lives in Nick’s old house and starts to be written into the memory of the blue + green line at point D, which is like a nightmare. Three days later, after point E, Vera’s memory is written in full. At the end of the film, when Vera wakes up All the memories before the suicide were continued. At this time, she still felt as if she had had a long nightmare. She was very happy to see David beside her, and then went to hug her daughter.
Then she found that there was no TV at home, and found the matchbox that was thrown out three days ago downstairs, but this could not prove whether the dream was true or not, and whether David's derailment in the dream was true, because throwing the matchbox was before going to bed. What happened, and then she saw Angel and Clara together, which showed that the news of Angel’s arrest had changed, but she was still not sure whether the so-called news she had read was a dream or a real occurrence, so She went to the slaughterhouse alone to dig out Hilda’s bones. Only this iron-like fact [no outsider knew and mentioned in the news and the body has not been buried], like the spinning top in Inception, can truly Become proof that all dreams are true.
For Vera, the life between AD, the orange line and the blue line are the same, as if returning to the original life. For Nick, the orange line still changed the blue line. He died at the tragedy of 9 years old, and also changed the green line. He waited for Vera's suffering and met Vera's happiness. When he reached point E, Nick would change suddenly, remembering to follow Everything that Vera has experienced, but all of them will feel like a dream. He needs to contact the people around him without disturbing Vera to verify the history of his life. Within hours, Vera had found Hilda's bones, so they met again. When they met, Nick would pretend not to know Vera like the green line, but it was sad last time, this time it was a joke.
Going back to the news of Angel’s arrest in the blue line again, why the screenwriter would emphasize that he confessed that he wanted to bury the body in the slaughterhouse, because that was his memory in the green line, and it was a memory very close to the arrested point A . Based on this reasoning, Angel in the green line may also dream of being arrested, Nick may also dream of a car accident, and so on.
During the erasing and rewriting of the three blue, green and orange lines, "Schrödinger’s superposition" occurs. The erased dotted line is hidden under the solid line. All overlapping experiences may occasionally be in the consciousness of the parties on different lines. The cross flashes are like dreams and illusions, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false. This is quite the feeling of Zhuang Zhou's dream of butterfly.
The only certainty is that, no matter what kind of life, Angel tried his best to protect Clara, Otto will miss Vera and be cut off, David always cheats and suspects murder, Vera will always marry and accompany her. The person who steals the stop sign.
The so-called character determines fate, maybe this is their "destiny".
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