Maybe you've heard of the Mobius Strip.
After twisting a rectangular strip of paper 180°, the two ends are glued together to make a paper tape loop.
If you try to run on the circle, you will find that the beginning is connected to the end, looping forever, and it is just a circle. There's no way you can get out of this horrible Mobius circle.
As in the stairwell at the beginning of the film—
The detective was chasing the two criminal brothers who were about to escape in the stairwell. He accidentally hit the criminal's brother's leg, and suddenly there was a loud explosion, and then they found a strange thing - there was no exit in the stairwell.
The doors on each floor could not be opened, and he could only climb the stairs to find the exit. When he went down from the 9th floor to the 1st floor, he found that it was the 9th floor when he continued to go down; when he went up from the 1st floor to the 9th floor, he came up the stairs under the 1st floor.
9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 9, 8…
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 1, 2...
So he took out the key and threw it downstairs, but the key fell from the top of his head...
From this beginning, in the movie "Accidental Space", several different lives gradually unfolded. Like a jigsaw puzzle, it seems unconnected at first, but it expresses a picture together.
El Incidente (The Incidente/The Incident) is a Mexican science fiction film directed and written by Isaac Ezban, starring Humberto Bustos, Erick Trinidad Camacho, and others. The film was released on September 21, 2014. Released in Mexico today.
As a high-scoring sci-fi thriller and suspense movie, it is well worth watching.
Especially when you try to interpret life, the genius director Isaac Ezban expresses his thoughts on life in the film may give you a reference answer.
The inescapable cycle of death in life.
In the film, there are a total of six loops.
Train Loop - The boatman mentioned to Ruben that he had been on a train with a shop assistant for 35 years.
Bamboo Raft Cycle - Reuben drifted on a bamboo raft with the boatman for 35 years when he was 10 years old.
Road Cycle - Daniel has been lost on the road with his stepfather Robert and mother for 35 years.
Stair Loop - Detective and robber brother Oliver has been trapped on the stairs for 35 years.
Hallway Circulation - Carl the waiter and the honeymoon bride have been unable to find the door in the hallway.
Elevator Circulation - The old bride lies on the elevator in a constant cycle.
Human life is composed of various cycles and accidents: as expected, most of our time will follow a specific trajectory, such as the cycle of life, the cycle of life, old age, sickness and death, the cycle of three meals and four seasons, the cycle of going to work and get off work; If there is an accident, you may go from one cycle to another, just like the boatman got off the train and got on the bamboo raft, Ruben left the bamboo raft and got lost on the road, Daniel got off the road and got stuck in Stairwell, Oliver walked out of the stairwell, but was trapped in the corridor...
Renewable matter and irreversible life.
In the film, the vending machine's goods are replenished and updated every day, the things in the red backpack of the brother will reappear, the goods at the gas station and the red car will be regenerated, and the spare asthma that I once forgot to bring for my sister will appear in the school bag every day. The death of a brother who died of blood loss, a sister who choked with asthma, a parent who died of old age, and a police detective taught us that life is a one-way ticket: there is no return.
Your life may not be real.
The police detective who spent 35 years in the stairwell didn't remember his true self until the end of his life, and the wife he remembered was someone else's, his daughter was someone else's, and his stepfather was someone else's. They appeared in his life, as supporting roles in his life, as absurd or vivid and cute or like the walking dead, but they never lived in his place.
Life has its own script, and everyone is just a supporting role in the life of others. Your identity may not be real; the life you have experienced may not be real; only the feeling of being alone with yourself is real - the trembling of drifting on the bamboo raft is real, on the circular road The guilt and pain are real, the barren numbness of wasting time in the stairwell is real.
The loud noise after the accident is not at the moment of the accident, but rather delayed.
This means that the path of life is often not decided or reversed by an instant accident, but rather diverges from here. Accidents are like a sign at a fork in the road. It randomly points to different lives, and it may not be good or bad. It only provides you with prompts for choices. These prompts are not necessarily true, and the way you choose to deal with them is related to These big and small accidents add up to each other, forming the direction of your future life, referred to as "destiny".
In the film, that loud noise is like a thunder splitting two parallel worlds. In this world, his fate may go to the cathode of decay and decay, and in the other world, he may go to the anode of hope. More often, it may be swaying like duckweed between these two poles, floating and sinking, criss-crossing, flickering and disappearing, until the death of the individual ends all the stories of the sub-lens.
It is difficult for the elderly to enjoy the joy of life because they live in the past.
Happy people live in the present, you are unhappy because you live in the past.
Children are happy every day because every day is new for them.
The older we get, the harder we find it to be the joy we used to be. Every second you sink into the past, you lose a second of your present life. Old people do not just refer to age and physical old age, but mental old age. Too much load on the past makes them old and difficult to walk. If you have too much of the past on your shoulders, it's hard to make room for the future.
Good memories make life vivid and meaningful, and will not be stolen by nothingness.
And painful memories make life empty, we are shocked by the ruthless harm of God, hate our own ignorance and ignorance, and resent the unintentional mistakes of others. If our lives are filled with rubbish and pile up into mountains day by day, we will also live as rubbish in the end.
Seeing this, you will find that the above all explain the life of most people for us - full of various loops and nests; matter can often be regenerated, but life is always one way; living always feels illusory; accidental jokes It seems to play tricks on the ship of our destiny; and the truth of aging is despairing.
Since we will eventually be in a cycle of despair and death of aging, why do people exist?
The person who circulates in the unexpected space exists to generate energy and happiness for the id in the actual space.
The dying police detective lay on the rubbish-heavy stair landing, and suddenly realized that he revealed the truth to Oliver: the reason why people who circulate in the unexpected space exists is to generate energy and happiness for the id in the real space.
As in the film, the metaphor of a hamster running on a running wheel.
The running wheel is a closed running surface designed for hamsters. It has something in common with the circulating roads, stairwells and corridors in the film: they are all closed circulating spaces, connected end to end.
Why do hamsters like running wheels?
This is due to its living habits. Generally, wild hamsters can run 20 kilometers a day, but when they become pets, they are kept in small cages all day long. Although they have enough food, they are prone to illness and anxiety if they do not exercise enough.
Hamsters also have a serious disease called "cage paralysis." The main cause of cage paralysis is obesity due to lack of exercise and overeating. Gradually, the hamster becomes less and less active, muscles and bones begin to degenerate, its hind legs lose the ability to move, and in severe cases, it is completely paralyzed and unable to move.
Seeing this, do you remember the image of the old police detective who kept eating and crawling on the stairwell?
In the same predicament, Oliver has to climb up and down the stairs every day to exercise, pray to the remains of his brother, read books, listen to music, and live a regular life. When he is actively living in this predicament, the energy and happiness generated support him in the real world-because of exercising, he has a healthy body in reality; because of self-examination, he participates in mutual aid clubs in reality And was accepted and redeemed; because he insisted on reading, he met a beautiful girl in the library...
In the same way, young Daniel and Red's stepfather Robert also expounded this causal theory as both sides of a thing.
The predicament of this unexpected space represents their inner world; their attitude towards inner predicament determines their real life direction.
When they are insensitive and self-exiled in this inner world, their real life gradually collapses and falls. The red-clothed stepfather's alcoholism on the road loop mirrors his real-life absurdity—divorce, alcoholism, prostitution, fights, suicide.
On the contrary, if they can stick to their inner hope and live actively, their real life will become better and better.
When we were young, we were ignorant and did not understand life; when we gradually understood, we found that we had been wasted for too long in the day-to-day cycle.
What is the truth of life? What's the point of existence?
I think everyone has his own interpretation, and this interpretation may take a lifetime to answer: Is it Jiji's nameless life? Is it a vigorous life? Or a happy life?
Only living has the answer.
This answer is written from birth and will not be completed until the end of life.
As for how to live better?
I think Isaac Ezban probably doesn't know 100% either,
Perhaps none more than two.
One is to keep throwing away a toxic past like rubbish: like the asthma spray that Daniel throws away every day.
The second is to continuously produce a bright future like an apple: like Oliver opening a book and biting the crispness of an apple every day.
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