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"If this film is only seen by people After laughing it off, it's just an ordinary black comedy. But there's no doubt that this film is trying to express confusion about reality and not just a gimmick - if you want to be funny, it's not necessary at all. Making this film so difficult to understand affects its commercial value. In fact, it doesn't matter whether the protagonist's short-term memory dysfunction exists. People with memory impairment. Life is only a hundred years, and a person's memory will not exceed a hundred years. When the elderly die and children are in charge, the memory of the entire human being can only be passed on through various external memory means. So, can we guarantee these external memory materials? reliability? Lenny firmly believes that his reason and instinct can guarantee this, and human beings also believe that our rational and positive spirit can keep false and true. But Lenny fails, and his experience details how a small fallacy can make him - and us the audience - got everything upside down. And the most ironic thing, this fallacy was deliberately added by himself - for a selfish reason, he was playing tricks on himself.
Putting aside the positivist Aside from natural sciences, the humanities certainly cannot escape this possibility. Historians do have the ability to play tricks on future generations. Lenny only burned two photos and added a footnote to make the later self and the audience fooled into the dark. The author of first-hand historical materials can play more space. I thought that with the improvement of human ability to record details (the appearance of photos, video materials), the possibility of such falsification of history will be reduced, but think about it matrix, looking at the contradictory news again, I know that I am wrong. Will there be such a problem in the field of natural science? I think it is better to avoid this problem, so as not to fall into agnosticism Abyss..."
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After reading this film review, I naturally think of "The Three-Body Problem" There is a classic passage in another science fiction novel "Rural Teacher" by the composer Liu Cixin:
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"What are their (referring to humans) basic characteristics?" asked the fleet commander. "What do you want to know?" asked the duty officer on Blue 84210. "For example, what is the level of memory inheritance of the living beings on this planet?" "They have no memory inheritance, and all memories are acquired." "So, what is the way their individuals communicate with each other?" "Extremely. Primitive and very rare. They have a thin organ in their body that generates sound waves when they vibrate in the planet's oxygen-nitrogen-dominated atmosphere and modulates the information to be transmitted into the sound waves. Also uses a membrane organ to receive information from sound waves." "What is the rate at which information is transmitted this way?" "About 1 to 10 bits per second." "What?!" Laugh out loud. "It's really 1 to 10 bits per second. We didn't believe it at first, but we checked it over and over again." "Captain, are you an idiot?!" Species that communicate with each other using sound waves, and communicate at an incredible rate of 1 to 10 bits per second, can create a 5B-level civilization?! And this civilization is cultivated without any external advanced civilization. self-evolving under the circumstances?!" "But, Your Excellency, it does."
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It is interesting to see these two works together. I am truly incredulous that human beings, whose memories cannot be passed on, can develop such a civilization to such a height. . . This has to be said to be a miracle~
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