A 100-minute German film about a father who cheated on his daughter and failed to take good care of his daughter, causing his seven-year-old daughter to drown and his wife could not forgive him. Five years later, the guilt-ridden father was unable to continue his life and attempted suicide, but unexpectedly found a door that could travel to the past. On the other side of the door was when his daughter fell into the water five years ago. The father who came across saved his daughter this time, but accidentally killed the self who was five years ago. The protagonist who concealed his true identity continued to live and had to make up one lie after another.
I won't talk about the final ending, it's still a pretty good movie~ The ending is not a happy ending. The protagonist has not changed his life because of the moment that made him feel guilty all the time, but it cannot be said that the protagonist's time travel is completely tragic.
The first time I watched a complete German film, the Germans of philosophy~ The film is full of silence, even dull, but also full of thinking. Right in tune.
I have to say that "you can travel to the past of a parallel world, but if you want to change the future, you have to kill yourself." This setting can't be more sci-fi or more realistic. In my daily life, I always habitually think, "If I go back to the past, I must not be like that, but I must be like this" blahblah, but the fact is, if I go back to that time, the soul in that body is still the self at that time, and If you have not experienced a lot of your current self, then it will not change the direction of life at that time. Since it was my own thoughts and practices at that time, the environment at that time, even if I go back and do it again, will not change in any way.
Therefore, if it is the present self who wants to change the past, then only the present "soul" can be used to think about what should be done at that time, that is, at a certain moment in the past, it is not the current self's thoughts that make decisions, but the future. Own. Would the self at the time be willing not to follow what they thought at the time? (For the self at that time, even if the future self tells him what to do, he will not listen or not necessarily believe it.)
In other words, if you want to change the past, you can only kill the past self, whether it is the body. or soul. It is also the first "pressure" and "choice" that people in the film who want to change the past have to face when they return to the past.
Going back to the reality without the sci-fi setting of "Crossing the Door", by analogy, in fact, if you keep thinking about "How I wish I did at that time", it is probably the same principle? Deny the past self, "kill" the soul and thoughts of the self at that time, and reimagine a possibility of life, but everything is experienced by the present self.
If you think about it, it doesn't seem like it. It's nothing to be denied or "killed" in the past. Anyway, he/she is already in the past tense and "doesn't exist" anymore, so why not be "killed" in your mind.
The film turns the illusory point of "killing your past self" into an actual act. What's interesting is that in the second half of the movie, there are various people who come back to the past. These people may struggle a little, or they don't hesitate, but the same choice is to kill the past self and let the present. to start life anew.
Is it really okay to be "killed" in the past? Obviously, killing "people who were real at the time" in the film was a serious and troublesome matter. It was necessary to deal with the corpse, to conceal it, and to find ways to make relatives and friends who do not know the truth accept the "new" self. After all, although there is one's "past", there is also the "now" of one's past self.
like now. If someone claiming to be my future me told me not to do things the way I think now, would I listen? Maybe when I'm not sure if I'm doing it right or not, and I hope someone can give me some pointers, I really hope that my future self can tell me what to do, but if I'm very sure about doing something now, or really want to do something , but a stranger who doesn't know whether it's credible or not suddenly appears to stop me from doing what I want to do at this moment, or even kill the current me to do it instead of me, will I still be happy?
Finally, my thoughts on watching the movie: Do what you want to do most now, what you are most sure to do, and then don't regret it again. Don't deny your past self.
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