"Adam said that in human ethics, parents should take care of their children first, and then the children should take care of their parents. He said that this has always been the case since ancient times. Whenever Adam sends me such obviously wrong information, I just smile and pat. His shoulders, look out the window, why spoil his dream? What a beautiful dream."
——《Love in Time and Space》
In the early 1960s, an American scientist predicted that the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union would eventually evolve into a devastating nuclear war. He designed and built an underground nuclear shelter in his own home. The shelter was in the process of a military plane crash and mistakenly thought it had happened. The nuclear war activated intelligent protection, blocked the exit, and kept the scientist and his pregnant wife underground. In order to prevent them from being exposed to nuclear radiation, the next time the exit was opened is 35 years later. The scientist and his wife are also convinced that the nuclear war broke out. Fortunately, the scientist who had a hunch had stored enough food for three people in the underground for 35 years.
The scientist’s wife gave birth to a boy named Adam. The days before Adam was 35 years old were spent underground.
This is the content of a movie called "Love in Time and Time". It is not a real thing, but it is an extremely cute movie and also an extremely thought-provoking movie.
For 35 years, Adam was nurtured and educated by his parents who suddenly cut off from the outside world in 1961. He was gentle, gentleman, civilized, and respected and loved God. This was due to his parents' careful education to him, so that his father would occasionally explode with "SHIT!" (shit!) and would explain to him that "SHIT" means good night in French.
Thirty-five years later, the door to the exit was finally opened. The scientist’s former home has long ceased to exist, but replaced by a bar that has been in operation for 20 to 30 years but is dilapidated, and the owner of the bar has become a nerve. Xiong beggar. When the scientist "takes the risk with his own body" and took the lead to break through the floor of the bar by the elevator to see what the outside world has evolved into due to a nuclear war that has never actually occurred, he became a beggar owner of the bar. Think of him as a god who descended from the ground, and scientists regard him as the universal appearance of the world today, dirty, desolate, and neurotic. He went further, and the world has indeed changed a lot. The neighborhood he was in has evolved into the "Third World", which is full of alcoholics, gangsters and ladyboys. He exchanged a few words with the ladyboys, and the ladyboy said to him that he can "Serve" him, and let him be male, he is male, if he is female, he is female. The scientist was frightened and ran back underground. He believed that nuclear radiation had changed people's genes and made many people hermaphrodite.
The scientist refused his wife to go out. He fell ill during the dispute. In order to purchase food and other supplies, Adam volunteered to go out and take care of everything. Adam came to the new world with the limited edition card of baseball players his father gave him, and the stock he bought for him thirty years ago. The barkeeper regarded him as a holy son. And all the cards in the hands of "Shengzi" became rare antiques, and the stocks were also valuable because of their age and the unique vision of scientists. Adam became a veritable multimillionaire. But he didn't know. What's more, his words and deeds are incompatible with the society that is already somewhat "hippie", and many new things have surprised him, and naturally made a lot of jokes.
He saw the sky as if he saw the Virgin Mary; he saw the sea peeing on his pants happily; he heard people say that SHIT would go over and say good evening to him in French; he heard people say that Goddamne (damn it!) would warn He should not use God indiscriminately; when others say that he is wearing underwear of Ralph Lauren (an underwear brand in the United States), he will ask why this guy wears underwear that other people wear. Small enough to be placed on the corner of a desk in the bedroom, in his world view, a computer should be a big machine occupying several rooms. Many people think he is stupid, or crazy. And the heroine he knows also thinks he is silly, but she still helped him a lot, helping him purchase, helping him prevent being deceived, and taking the opportunity to make money. Adam has another wish to come to the new world. This wish is also from his parents. Both he and his parents hope that they can find a good girl to take to the underground as a wife.
Adam likes the heroine, and the protagonist is magically called Eve. Eve felt that Adam was a little crazy, in other words, traditionally conservative but ignorant and ignorant. Therefore, Eve rejected Adam's stupid and unacceptable confession. As a result, the following wonderful dialogue took place.
Adam said, "I want to ask you a favor."
"Say it."
"I'm afraid this sounds a bit crazy."
Eve smiled, "I believe it will."
"Then... forget it."
"No, no, I'm sorry. Tell me, what's the matter?"
"Eve, I want to ask you to help me find a wife."
"A wife?"
"Yes."
"why?"
"Because I want to get married."
"Why do you want to get married?"
"Because I don't want to be alone."
"Well, you can stay single without being alone. Marriage can hurt people."
"How to hurt people?"
"Very serious injury!" Eve said swearingly.
"real?"
"certainly."
"Oh, I don't know this." He was deeply influenced by the harmony and love of his parents.
"Everyone knows. I mean, ask my divorced brother, or my divorced parents, everyone knows."
"They are all divorced?"
"Everyone is divorced."
"Gosh!"
"What kind of wife are you looking for?"
"Uh, um, then, one without genetic mutation." He didn't want a hermaphrodite like his father said.
"Gluck" Eve smiled, "Is there no dog? Okay, awesome!" I didn't understand Eve's answer.
"If I can, I want to marry the girls in Pasadena." Adam's mother told him that the girls in Pasadena were virtuous and smart.
Eve smiled heartily again, "Well. When will you marry?"
"Within two weeks?"
"Well, I can let you play with women in two weeks, but it will take some time to find a Pasadena-born wife who has no genetic mutation."
Adam said discouragedly, "I'm afraid of this."
Obviously, the world that Adam understood and the real world have been very different. People no longer believe in marriage, and no longer believe that love can withstand the test. He doesn't quite understand the reason, and no one thinks too much about it. In the past 35 years, what has happened has caused an unexplainable thing to lie between men and women, knocking out a beautiful marriage.
Eve once said, "Lying is a great dating tool."
Eve took Adam to the nightclub, looking for a suitable wife for Adam. Adam fell in love with a friend of Eve, and Eve said no. Adam instinctively felt that those women who were exposed, enchanting and plump, and rich in makeup were indeed beautiful. Eve still said no. Eve helped him point out a conservative dresser. Women, let him go and strike up a conversation. Unexpectedly, Adam, who is so naive, and has an amazing and gentlemanly demeanor, is so popular with women. Eve was jealous somehow. She really fell in love with this stupid guy. After a conflict, Eve left and went home. Eve went to build a bridge for Adam and asked if Adam had gone home with the two women who had flirted with Adam. The brother said no. Eve just felt relieved, but her brother said that he was taken away by your friend. Eve was furious and was about to kick the door, but Adam came.
Adam is a traditional person, he can't accept the hospitality of women, and he likes Eve more. He once again confessed to Eve and told him that he lives underground. He hoped that Eve would live underground with him. Eve thought he was a "Hannibal" lunatic or a lunatic. She called a psychiatrist. Adam escaped. He went back underground. Eve went to find him but didn't find him. He began to believe that what Adam said was true. And Adam came to the ground again because he missed Eve and left a message for Eve on the phone. He and Eve met again, and they finally figured out that the nuclear war had not broken out, and that all the weird phenomena were just the changes of the times and the changes in humanity. But the Adam family did not think that such a humanistic change was good, and Eve was still occupied by her own ideas. Therefore, even when Adam and Eve finally came together and came to the end of the movie, the narration of Eve that was quoted in the text still appeared.
The film did not give the reasons for cultural differences and social changes. The director and screenwriter seemed to leave this question to the viewers. Or, in other words, they never thought of pursuing the answer, because no answer is perfect. The answer After all, it is always given by people, and it is difficult to match the real objectiveness. They just want to show the problem and win others a smile.
I don't think it is the latter.
In the past, Americans respected marriage and inheritance as much as they recognized kinship. But as development progresses, everything seems to have changed, and there is no doubt that such an evolution is also happening in a country like ours that pays more attention to inheritance.
I think that I can think that in the materialistic flow and the relaxation of the rhythm of life, the right self is highlighted, and the emphasis on self has become the main theme of the times. People who are stripped cannot realize that people are formed in relationships. We are children between parents, we are partners in front of wives and husbands, we are colleagues and neighbors in front of colleagues and neighbors, but when we close our door, we isolate our parents, relatives, friends, neighbors, and colleagues, and abandon all identities and fall into absolute egoism. Among them, man is just a narrow concept of man, an animal, rather than a complex existence with a high degree of social relations in a broad sense. Abandon the complex self, one cannot call it human.
This view may not be new, but it can be regarded as an explanation and thinking.
Going back to the grotesque plot, during the Cold War, the farce of underground air-raid shelters did not seem to have happened. However, the United States and the Soviet Union did have a long time in the matter of underground drilling. They are like children who pee farther than anyone else. In the 1950s, the US "Moho Project" drilled a 4.5-kilometer hole in the crust of the Pacific Ocean. In 1966, the "Moho Project" was due to its nonsensical behavior. The investment will inevitably fail to balance the income and stop.
In 1970, the victorious and powerful Soviet Union felt that the United States could not do it. He had to give it a try. As of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the follow-up of Russia, in 1922, the fighting nation had drilled a hole of 12262M in the earth. But still because the gains outweighed the losses, it was almost absurd and was completely stopped.
It must be so. Confrontation and war are not used to solve problems, but to discover problems. They are like quacks who treat the head and feet with a headache. They let us see where the pain is and teach people. How to pulse yourself, pulse the entire human race.
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