I like to dream. Every night before going to bed, I have a lucid "daydream". I often experience a bizarre "dream within a dream" after falling asleep. Actually this is cowardice. Helpless to life, unwilling to fate, but unable to create a clear possession through the real world. This is really cowardly. Do you dream? Are you willing to dream?
The Russian film "Otherworld" tells such a story about "dreamland". The "dream" here is different from Nolan's "Inception". Compared with Nolan's dream with intense audio-visual shock, this "Otherworld" is closer to the dream experience we often fall into. Dreams are often things you can't have in reality. When Su Shi wrote "A big dream in the world, a few cool autumns in life", he was experiencing the event of being demoted to Huangzhou. The impermanence of fate makes the poet sigh. And as the protagonist in "Otherworld", an architect. The architectural model designed by myself is not recognized by anyone, and my girlfriend of many years has also empathized with him. Today's order has made him fall into an unforgettable dream trip.
The initiator of this order, Professor, has a huge "creation" ambition. The scientific research he has done makes people who suffer from brain damage or who are willing to join the experiment in a coma in reality, and in exchange for a different identity life in the world created in the dream world, and the time in the dream world can be prolonged compared to reality. times. The reason why the architect was selected by the professor is precisely because of his unrecognized architectural design that day. The professor wants to build fantastic buildings in the dream world for these people to survive. And so a bizarre adventure begins...
Movies are called the art of dream-making, and recreating a dream in a dream is a unique idea. The film's creativity is excellent, and the architectural models on the screen are beautiful and breathtaking. It's just that these are not the places that make me feel the most. At the end, when the architect told his companions that it was a dream and asked everyone to try to escape, the professor pointed to everyone one by one and pointed out their identities in reality. "Phantom" is a paralyzed patient in reality and nobody cares, but in a dream, he is an armed leader with an explosive force. The scientist who leads the way is in reality a marginalized person with autism who cannot integrate into society. In the dream, the "ghost" who relies on the mind alone to block one side turns into madness in reality due to the premature death of the child. In reality, the brave warrior in the dream shot and killed his family and neighbors because of drunkenness and lived in torment. These people who have forgotten their identity in the dream have found the meaning of life because of an unwarranted "escape". If back to reality, as a moviegoer, would you be willing? Before everyone knew the truth, the "phantom" already knew that this was a dream. It's just that in his dreams, he highly advocates violence and can actually implement actions, and his inner world is unwilling to return to reality to be a paralyzed patient who can't get out of bed. So far, all the foreshadowing points to the last question: do you choose to be unsatisfactory in reality or to create a world in a dream? "Ghost" stood in front of the near dream building for a long time and refused to leave. He knew in a dream that his real world was so cruel, how could he want to miss this "happiness" in front of him, even a moment of falsehood could soothe that broken heart. The professor said: No one in heaven should know the secret of the creator. The ghost turned into a puff of blue smoke and disappeared... At that moment, the desire and unwillingness in her eyes seemed to be the meaning that every frustrated person could understand.
Everyone here has failed in reality and has no future. The professor said slowly. The architect wanted to lead everyone out of this false dream and return to reality, but in the end, almost only he and his girlfriend actually walked out. Back in time, the architect back in reality received an order from the professor. He thought for a moment and locked the letter in the drawer. In reality, he is still a mediocre architect, unappreciated, living in a small room. He recalled the dream, but he was a creator who could create the Garden of Eden in his dreams at will. Do you think he will choose to go to the professor's appointment someday? Moses had a hymn in which he wrote: Our years are spent as a sigh. King Solomon also sighed: life is vanity. Those prophets, kings, and poets in history all sighed when they wandered all their lives. Life seems to be really like a dream, but it is just under the sun, and there is nothing new. The dreams of "Other World" are filled with people who are unsatisfactory in reality, and they are still reluctant to leave when they realize that they are all illusions. Life is really hard. Physical illness, emotional fetters, difficulties in life, setbacks in work, etc., are inadvertently like a sharp sword inserted into the chest, making people unable to escape and truly experience the pain of this fate. If there was such a world, would you choose to leave or stay? In reality who can give you the strength to support these? Paul wrote his argument in the eighth chapter of the great book of Romans. [Romans 8:6] To be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Almost all of these hard real pains are caused by the body, and we have almost lost our desire for soul awakening because of this hard reality. Paul continues: Rom 8:37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. This is the answer. Instead of escaping reality in otherworldly dreams, it is better to rely on God for victory in reality. And as weak as I, when will I be able to soar like an eagle?
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