Originally, people live in the individual fragments created by this society. We are always forced to become replicable parts in a rational society. Because we can be reproduced, the meaning of our existence is obliterated, but we ourselves are not. do not know. Because we feel that we are not like this, we have unique memories, completely different memories from others, even if Sartre proclaimed in "The Imprisonment" that "others are hell", we have to describe three completely different people To torture each other, because each considers themselves special, this kind of thinking always gives people a hope of living, and we still have something that can be called an idea to hold on to. But if even the memories are false, how will we live, and how can we be sure that this society is not a "brain in a vat", not something we imagined?
In fact, in order to protect ourselves, we use a selective memory to forget what we should forget; in fact, our own memory is inherently false, at least not true, but we are still willing to believe what we have experienced everything is true. So we are still alive and well, we always feel that we are living to prove that we are not a broken fragment of this rational society, but we are wrong, we are all Lenny, but we only think that our own Memories are completely real, even the world we think we live in is real.
People who have been shattered by "The Truman World" have always believed that they are alive, but "Memento" released in 2001 completely exposed our alienated values again and again ruthlessly come out. Memento, the original name of "Memento", itself has the meaning of relic. Our memories are like the relics of our dead who have been buried, and they continue to accumulate without increasing their weight. It is not because of the term memory that we have given him the power to interpret multiple times, but because memory itself is uncertain. Christopher Nolan constantly exposes the fate of human beings again and again by intertwining the real and the false. After all, the survivors of the past, It's us, and after we keep killing our past selves, the flattened values keep telling ourselves that we are in the same vein as the past, and the only thing left is the memory, which is the relic, Memento. Movie creators never stop exploring the narrative of the film. After the multiple nonlinear stories presented in 1998's "Lola Run" told us the uncertainty of fate, the way the film began to reveal the category of absurd aesthetics became clearer. Maybe I can't remember myself being great (the quiet greatness of those Greeks is far away from us now), so I keep hurting myself in the movies, the truth is that we live in fragments, and the scars we have never grown are us Constantly use inertial memory to remind yourself that this is not life, "I think therefore I am" is life, because my thoughts are unique, so I still have the value of living. But the movie keeps revealing the truth of life. We feel pain because we know that we are not the only one, so we keep reminding ourselves that even if we are not the only one, even if everything in front of us is unreliable, we also feel the pain, we have to live .
Plato has said "the mirror of the mirror", the real world and the ideal world are separated by three layers. If you want to infer this, the movie is separated by four layers of reality. Laney said in the car, we close our eyes, the world still exists; Wang Mingyang said "there is nothing outside the heart", which is to keep telling yourself that if you can't establish yourself If it is alive, then what is the meaning of the whole world?
Lenny's amnesia brought him a life itself that was extremely absurd, fragmented, and incomplete. He could only remember a few minutes in the present, everything happened in the present, and the past was always incomplete. Reliably, notes and tattoos are a must to keep track. But the present is in constant flow, only the past is not flowing, so in the canyon of memory, if the past self can exist independently every second, then the whole brain has already been piled up. But in fact, no. Because—
in memory, all we can remember is black and white.
After all you're like every part "born into this social machine, getting up when the alarm goes off a second time, taking a shower, maybe having breakfast, and going out. You practice the future in various ways, usually the Go to work - a stable job means that you are not dangerous to others. Aside from meaning, your normal operation guarantees the validity of time, the generation of history, and the continuation of species. Lubricating oil in your life with women, Tobacco and alcohol, ideals, men's topics and other loose forms come into play. Those sweets that act as labor encouragement are concentrated and titled hope, making you feel at ease and determined to keep moving forward on the slope of Sisyphus."
Lay Ni's life before memory loss is actually just like the movie "Zombie Shaun". We live in a world like zombies that don't know what to look for. The zombies in "Zombie Shaun" , constantly looking for something to eat, they can't see things, but they are very sensitive to creatures that are not themselves. Humans who have been bitten by them will become zombies, that is, their own kind. What they are willing to do is to continuously increase their own kind, but they don't know what to do after there are so many of their kind. For Lenny, his life before amnesia was like this, and his life after amnesia was even more so: he was always looking for the murderer "John G", who was constantly rebuilt by Lenny after being killed. Because of his memory, his life can only be reincarnated in the search for the murderer.
We think that since we live in a very rational and reasonable society, we have become like parts, and our "home" is squeezed by the "geometric growth rate" of those cold rules. Out of the real world we have lived in for thousands of years, we begin to have to rebel against the world that was ours. This rebellion has both passive realistic requirements and active spiritual requirements. The society and we are no longer in the spiritual realm of "heaven and oneness" that Su Shi said, "I see how charming the green hills are, and I expect the green hills to see me like this." The mental state of “subject and object” can no longer be maintained. We and society have become opposing existences. If we want to prove our existence, we have to rebel against society. If we don’t try to prove it, we will be reduced to social parts. fragmented existence. In "Memento", Lenny suddenly loses his memory in the car many times, as the background outside the car keeps flashing, just like our memory of the world, what we see seems to be static, but these Things always fade away in a constant flow of time, leaving only the insecurity and anxiety of the moment.
The easiest and only effective way to prove our existence is to rebel. Life is empty and meaningless, not because we say we think our life has meaning, but that life has practical meaning. The so-called "meaning" in our real life shows more the connotation of pursuing material possessions, rather than the persistence and maintenance of a certain belief. Although the unutilitarian work of Sisyphus, like the ancient Greeks, is meaningless to others, the reason to see through life and the belief in life established in the constant consumption and reincarnation of life support such life. Constantly fighting, and showing "silent greatness" in this fight. But now the meaning has been dispelled. We are constantly deconstructing the value system and discourse system that our ancestors have built over thousands of years, but we cannot establish the value system and worldview that belong to this era. Not where to stand.
There are always three levels of his own in a work of art: material level, formal level and implication level. The same goes for Memento. And "Memento" also satisfies the three layers of single line and multiple layers of reality (material layer), switching between black and white and color (form layer), and the authenticity of memory (meaning layer).
Film and television works are comprehensive works of art that combine multiple elements such as sound, speech, painting, and movement. In the audience group, as a medium to explain real life well, it always plays a pivotal role. The social economy is constantly developing, the level of science and technology is constantly improving, people's culture and ideas are changing with each passing day, and everything is changing, and film and television works, as a way of discourse expression, convey people's attitudes of constant questioning and understanding of the life around us no change. It's just possible that the so-called "Dasein" life we live in is not the truth of life that should appear, but what is shown in film and television works is the truth.
The world we live in, in our opinion, is always a one-line logic and flows in chronological order. From small to large, from prosperity to decline, from birth to death, we are all connected by a single line. When I watched Memento at the beginning, I thought it was taking pictures and then shooting Teddy, completely unaware that it was a reverse flow of time.
But is the world we live in really a one-line sequential flow?
Just like in the world we live in, we are just like mechanized parts made on the assembly line that are exactly the same as others, and become part of the big machine that produces other mechanized parts, working continuously until we pass the warranty period and become waste , was re-forged and re-formed into new parts?
In Cervantes' "Don Quixote", Don Quixote and his entourage, Sancho, can actually see that their own works are sold on the market, and they also comment on their own characters. The boundaries have begun to blur, and this blurring represents an awakening of awareness. Why do we always feel that the world we live in is real? At the beginning of the film, the clear photo is constantly shaking in Lenny's hands, becoming blurry, and finally invisible, everything returns to white, we live in a flat world, just a world captured by photos.
German scholar Kessel believes that the absurd is an alienated world, and the sense of absurdity is a sense of insecurity and untrustworthiness experienced in this world, resulting in a fear of survival.
Our memories are in black and white, and the world we live in is in color.
"Memento" adopts a two-line crossing method in the narrative structure. One is presented in color and the other is presented in black and white. Although the two narrative clues are clearly demarcated, their unique handling makes the film a bridge between the present and the past. Intertwined labyrinth.
Whether it is a pattern of double lines or multiple nonlinear structures, it is a negation and a subversion of the real life we live in. From our perspective, we can never really see what we look like. That is to say, in the world where our existence is the main body, we actually do not exist. We become a cold camera, shooting everything except ourselves.” For things that can be seen", we tried again and again to get out of the camera range of this machine and enter the range of our own "vision", but failed again and again. So we began to really narrate and narrate the story from the perspective of a bystander. In "Memento", the protagonist of the story is Lenny, but Lenny always appears in our sight, and we don't feel uncomfortable with life. This is actually a kind of long-term effect of film and television works. Habits created by the "mental unconscious". (There used to be a so-called "avant-garde" film "Suzhou River", which seems to have subverted the narrative technique of the film. In fact, on the contrary, what we think is accustomed is artificially reconstructed, and what we think is chaotic is the truth around us life.)
Our real life is composed of two ways of "single line" and "sequence", and we are used to this way of expression, so, in terms of story alone, Memento is about a It is a common revenge story, but the film breaks the normal progress sequence of the story and cuts off the regular timeline. The color part shows the whole story step by step backward from the end of the story, and the black and white part shows the normal progress of the story from the beginning of the story. The two threads intersect and advance at the same time, and the film ends abruptly when it is pushed towards a climax of what the story is meant to be. It is this unconventional way of storytelling that brings the audience into a mysterious and deranged world of images.
The subversion of "single-line" is "multi-line", and when multi-line is presented under the influence of "sequence", either space is equalized and time is reconstructed as an unstable factor; Constantization, space restarts as a variable factor; or time and space are no longer stable, which generates a new world. We see in the film that the world that has happened and the world that is happening are confused. From the perspective of our viewers, we see two different spaces about the same person in the same time zone. things, and at the end of the film, the two parts as color divisions are completely combined, just like the streets in "Inception" that are bent to overlap with the visually parallel streets, we only find out that the original The beginning of the viewing sequence of the story is the end of the story, and the black and white at the end of the story is the beginning of the story. In the process of watching the movie, we will feel that the boundary between the present and the past in Memento is divided by color, the black and white part is the events that have happened and the past, and the color part is the event that is happening and is revealing its face. But in Memento, the reality and the past are chaotic and borderless. The color part called the present is the present that is backward and has its past, and the black and white part that is considered to be in the past is the past that points to the present and keeps becoming the present. In the last paragraph of the film, the male protagonist Lenny takes a picture of Jimmy after killing the drug trafficker. He holds the picture, and the image is converted from black and white to color. Compared with the fast-cut method used in the previous color conversion, the color of this paragraph is different. The transitions appear natural and silent. It is through this kind of treatment that the director dissolves the opposition between the past and the present, the past and the present, the beginning and the end are mixed into one, and the opposition is lost.
Without considering the "sequence", our understanding of the "single line" of life has been questioned. How can we guarantee that the state we are living in is a sequential life model? How can we guarantee that the world we live in is a single line? exist? In fact, this self-evidence is as impossible as the "brain in a vat". If we jump out of the three-dimensional view of the world and stop taking time as the only criterion for judgment, we will find that we are actually like "flying arrows that don't move" and exist at every point in time. Looking down, we all grow into worms with countless tails, extending from the street to the room, from birth to death, we can cut out a piece of ourselves from any fragment of space, and then look at another piece; like Like flipping a book, you can see the development of the story on a random page and the beginning of the story on another page. Our so-called "single line" is actually just starting from the perspective of "life flow". Our real life is completely different from what we see. This principle is as simple as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and at the same time as complex as the earth Universal gravitational force.
And the world of the past, and the world of the present, are completely different worlds, even though we think it is a one-line world.
The opposite of "order" is not "reverse order", but "non-order". The scope of "non-sequential" is very wide. As long as it does not occur according to the flow of time, it is regarded as "non-sequential". The most typical one is the reverse flow of time "reverse order", the chaotic flow of time "disorder"; the re-flow of time "Reincarnation" three. In this film, while the flow of time we see is overwhelmingly "sequential," the actual logical order of things is not.
The director divides the story into 45 segments, the normal sequence is this:
1, 2, 3, ..., 45
and the director's cut sequence is:
45, (1), 44, (2), 43, (3), 42, (4), ..., 25, (21), 24, (22), 23 [The film contains color and black and white films, the above brackets are black and white fragments. So the color film is in flashback, and the black and white film is in chronological order. 】
If you remove the paragraph in the black and white film where Lenny doesn't know who to chat with on the phone, the real plot is roughly as follows: (The author lives: from Baidu Encyclopedia)
Lenny is a detective of an insurance company in San Francisco, USA , responsible for the investigation of insurance claims. At work, he gets a promotion when he gets a claims case and discovers that Sammy, the car accident victim, pretended to be short-term amnesia to defraud insurance. (B/W narration; 1:40:00 Teddy dialogue)
In addition to having a good job, Lenny has a wife who loves him, and they live happily ever after. (narrated in black and white film) One day, their peaceful life was interrupted by a sudden incident. While Laney was sleeping, his wife was raped by two intruders in their bathroom. After Lenny found out, he shot a rapist at the scene, but he was knocked unconscious by another rapist. Since then, he has suffered from short-term amnesia and can only recall events that preceded the attack and only a few minutes afterward. (B/W narration)
Lenny's wife survived the incident, but was distressed by the sight of Lenny's amnesia and called the doctor many times. Lenny's wife decides to test whether Lenny really suffers from amnesia at the cost of her own life after learning that doctors say it is possible for Lenny to regain his memory. During the test, Laney gave his wife an overdose of insulin, which killed her, but he didn't know it. In his memory, his wife died early in that rape. (The part about Sammy in the black-and-white narration; the black-and-white flashback at the end of the film)
After Lenny's wife was raped, Lenny was searching for the second rapist who knocked him out, but the police did not believe the description of an amnesiac, believing that there was no This person does not exist. Police Teddy (real name John Gammel) sympathized with Lenny and helped him find the man named John G. Laney killed John G, but couldn't remember killing him, and was still looking for this dead John G day and night. (Teddy dialogue at 1:40:00)
Police Teddy took advantage of his position to sell drugs together with drug dealer Jimmy and others. (1:26:00 Teddy dialogue)
In a transaction, Teddy intends to take the payment of 200,000 US dollars, so he uses the characteristics of Lenny's amnesia and seeks the murderer, falsely claiming that the drug dealer Jimmy is John G, and provides Lenny with the file information and the address to meet. (Black and white narration)
Laney killed Jimmy who came to pick up the goods in a desolate cottage in the suburbs. Jimmy says Sammy's name before he dies, and Lenny realizes he's killed the wrong man. Because Lenny often tells the story of Sammy to others, Lenny must know the person who has heard the story of Sammy. Laney confronts Teddy, who tells part of the truth, but Laney refuses to believe Teddy. And wrote on Teddy's photo: "Don't take his word for it." (1:32:00)
After killing Jimmy, Laney put on Jimmy's clothes and drove away from Jimmy's car. When passing by a tattoo parlor, he thought that he could use tattoos to remind himself of something. Teddy follows up with the tattoo parlor and tells him that he and Jimmy and others were dealing drugs and using Lenny to kill Jimmy. Having lost his memory at this point, Laney looked back at Teddy's photo and said "don't take his word for it". Deciding not to believe him and escaping from the tattoo parlor through the back window, Laney finds a note in Jimmy's pocket saying "Stop by Ferdy's Bar", at which point he loses his memory again, so he meets Jimmy's girlfriend outside the bar Natanina. (1:20:00)
Natanina is surprised to see Lenny driving Jimmy's car and wearing Jimmy's clothes, but soon discovers that Lenny is an amnesiac and can't remember what happened. During the test, Lenny drank a spit beer, and Natanina felt sorry for it, and decided to take Lenny back to her home and continue to inquire about Jimmy. (1:19:00)
At Natanina's home, Natanina mocked Lenny's amnesia, and in a fit of rage, Lenny wounded Natanina. Laney tried to find a pen to record Natanina's words, but couldn't find it. (1:10:00)
After the injury, Natanina did not go far at all, and returned home with the injury, and deceived Lenny to say that after Jimmy disappeared, Jimmy's partner Dodd asked Natanina for 200,000 , The wound on the face was hit by Dodd. Laney has forgotten Natanina's dispute just now, and intends to help Natanina solve Dodd. Natanina writes Dodd's information on a note to Laney. (1:07:00)
Just got out of Natanina's house, lost her memory again, and met Teddy in the car. Teddy says that Natanina is Jimmy's girlfriend, they are dealing drugs together, and warns Lenny not to trust Natanina and not to continue living in her home. Teddy introduced Lenny to a place to stay, the Discount Inn. (1:02:00)
In the cheap hotel, Laney intends to reminisce about her wife's past, so she calls a prostitute and tells her to place his wife's things in front of his bed. (00:58:00)
When he wakes up, Laney finds the prostitute in his bathroom and can't remember what happened. (00:55:00)
He couldn't sleep anymore and decided to burn his wife's belongings. (00:51:00)
The next day, Lenny met Dodd on the street looking for Jimmy. Dodd shot and chased Lenny, shattering the car window. (00:50:00)
At the beginning of the escape, Lenny lost his memory again, forgot why he was running, and after confirming that he was being chased, he got into the car and ran away. While driving, he found a note from Natanina asking him to go to Dodd's place and kill Dodd. (00:47:00)
Lenny arrived at Dodd's hotel, found no one, and found a wine bottle and decided to ambush in the room's toilet. When I was in the toilet, I suddenly lost my memory and forgot what I wanted to do with the wine bottle. I thought it was my own room, so I took a shower directly in the bathroom. When Dodd came back, Lenny wounded Dodd, but did not know who he was. After tying him up, he saw the note Natanina gave her and knew it was Dodd. The note also said to call Teddy to help, and then found the phone number on Teddy's photo in the photo and called Teddy to ask him to come and help. (00:44:00)
Laney falls asleep at Dodd's home and wakes up to find Dodd tied up. But he lost his memory again and didn't know who it was, when Teddy arrived. Laney, unable to recall what happened, let Dodd go. (00:39:00)
Laney returned to Natanina's home. Natanina is grateful to Lenny for helping him get rid of Dodd's entanglement, and decides to help Lenny find what he said is John G's license plate information, which is Teddy's license plate he wrote down after killing Jimmy before. And agreed to meet time, write down on the note. (00:27:00)
Laney returns to the cheap hotel and finds that the room key is missing. When negotiating with the hotel attendant, I suddenly found a note in my pocket to meet Natanina to get the license plate information, and hurried away. (00:24:00)
In the hotel, Laney met Natanina and got the required information. The keys to the hotel room were also recovered. And Natanina told him that Jimmy had a room in the outskirts, suggesting that he could do it there. (00:16:00)
Lenny went back to the cheap hotel, saw the information Natanina gave him, and was convinced that Teddy was the John G he was looking for. And wrote "Kill him." (00:11:00)
Out of the room, Laney met Teddy. Laney asks Teddy to go with him to a place (00:08:00)
in a desolate cottage in the suburbs, Laney finds a picture of Teddy in his pocket and sees "Kill him" written on it. So he killed Teddy. (00:00:45, the beginning of the movie.)
After reading the entire text version of the plot and the actual playback sequence of the movie in parentheses, we can make a judgment that this movie is not a "sequential" movie, but it must be watched It will be understood after the whole movie. In the process of watching a movie, we can never realize from the beginning that the beginning of the whole movie is the end, and it is impossible to realize that those black and white segments are not memories, but what is happening as the present past. Looking back on it, the shot that actually started the first clip back to Laney's camera, the shot back into the pistol, is a hint of flashback. In this way, the director sets a progressive reverse expectation. During the viewing process, we always regard the color parts as real happenings, and only regard the black and white parts as Lenny's memories, without considering when these parts happened. . At the end of the last black-and-white segment, the photo in Lenny's hand gradually changes from black-and-white to color, and the two segments are connected, which also reveals that the black-and-white segment in the sequence is the story that happened before the color segment.
It is said to be a fragment of memory. In fact, during the entire film, there is no memory falsification. What is shown in front of us are the past and present of the real history, and Lenny, because of short-term memory amnesia Symptoms, always do not believe that these real happenings are real. In fact, the director's way of fragmenting and reorganizing narrative fragments not only leaves us moviegoers trapped in the same memory dilemma as Laney, (all our normal movie viewing experiences have no role in this film,) Moreover, it unconsciously reflects an important feature of the category of absurd aesthetics: fragmentation and fragmentation.
The two narrative clues in the film are presented in color and black and white, which can guide the audience to clearly define the tense of the story. There are 22 color paragraphs and 21 black and white paragraphs in the whole film. The color part adopts the method of flashback. The continuation of each color paragraph in the external time of the film is the retrospect of the internal time of the film. Coinciding with the beginning of the previous color paragraph, the audience can only grasp the ins and outs of the story by connecting the two paragraphs upside down, while the sequential time is short and the more fragmented black and white parts are interspersed between the color paragraphs. The color part tells a story backwards, and the black and white part tells the story in normal chronological order. As far as the whole film is concerned, the color part is just the continuation of the black and white part in terms of timing relationship. At the end of the film, the black and white part and the color part are cleverly connected and perfectly integrated Together. Due to the complexity of the story, the film has large dialogues and Lenny's narration, and Chedo is presented in close-up, close-up and fast-cut front and back shots to analyze the characters' hearts and narrow the aesthetic distance with the audience. The audience felt the same, and the whole film has been in a cold sweat for Lenny's unease and anxiety.
As the most important form of expressing the entire film, the changes in color, color and black and white bring us more of the difference between dreams and reality. When we recall, when we are dreaming, we are all immersed in the self-righteousness of color and reality. In black and white scenes, black and white also symbolizes the past. When we face death, we always like to arrange the photos of the deceased in black and white, and we always arrange the mourning hall in black and white colors, not only black and white brings us a kind of serious and quiet psychology Feelings, and symbols of death.
And "Memento" not only tells a complete and beautiful story, but also carries too many philosophical questions. Memory and forgetting, present and past, gain and loss, sensibility and rationality, search and loss, deception and trust, sobriety and loss... There are too many topics of dual paradox, let the audience see the last What I felt was not the hearty feeling of finally knowing the ending, but a long, heavy sigh left behind.
Memory is the deduced past, happened, and vanished events in a person's thinking world. A person needs to confirm his identity and existence through memory, and also needs to rely on memory to guide himself to the next new moment, but sometimes we will unconsciously lose the memory of a person or an event-- Forgetting naturally, it will also perform purposeful interpretation and processing of memory according to one's own needs - choosing to forget. Lenny in the film is a person who is lost in memory. He lost his memory ability after being injured. He can only rely on notes, tattoos, and polaroid photos to remember what happened and people he met, but he did not lose his memory. All the memories, he still remembered the memories before his injury, and even some details that he had ignored before the injury became particularly impressive.
Memory is the proof that one has lived, but it is also the source of all human suffering. We work, study, talk, and think in the present time. After this moment has passed, everything in our previous moments will be sealed in our minds by our choice. We remember the useful ones, irrelevant What is important will be naturally forgotten, so in our memory we know who we are, where we came from, where we are going, and what we are going to do. . After Lenny was injured, he could only rely on his previous memory to live. The memory of his wife's rape and murder became the most vivid scene in his memory, and revenge for his wife became the only thing he was given by the life experience he remembered. mission. So there are the various processes in which he finds and kills John G as shown in the film.
Although memory is an imprint of past events, it is controlled by individuals, processed and interpreted by the human mind, and human subjectivity determines the privacy and personalization of memory. Therefore, memory is in many cases unreliable and unauthentic. The memory of the protagonist Lenny is exactly this kind of memory that has been processed and interpreted like a special program. In his memory, his wife is beautiful and holy. In his memory, his wife was raped and killed, but the fact is that his wife was raped. Later, he did not die, but his "amnesia" caused him to kill his wife. He interpreted the tragedy that happened to him in his memory as the tragedy of his investigation client Sammy when he was working in an insurance company. After Lenny was injured, his memory system seemed to have undergone a processing program. After this program, he could not have short-term new memories. He could remember the memories before the injury. He selectively forgot some memories, and also in his mind Part of the memory is fictitious. Because only in this way can he continue to live, to avenge his wife.
Laney's unique amnesia in the film is the embodiment of the director's artistic conception and creative thought. Memory is a personal thing, we can choose the content of memory, we can choose to forget the pain and misfortune. We live in our memories, but the memories we have are sometimes false, fabricated and glorified memories. When a person cannot forget, he can only use fictional memories to complete the redemption of his own life.
Compared with the exquisite structure and deep and complex themes, the images in "Memento" are not as impressive as the former, but we can see from the smooth shot description and the right sound effects that the director is very concerned about the control of the audio-visual language. The solid power it has.
"I have to believe that the world is not what I imagined, I have to believe that what I do still has meaning, even if I don't remember what I did. I have to believe that the world still exists even when I close my eyes. Do I believe that the world still exists The world still exists? Yes. We need memory to identify ourselves, and I am no exception. Now, where have I been?" Laney expressed the director's own voice in the final monologue of the film. The world in our eyes is a world with our personal imprint. We must rely on memory to determine our identity in the world, and rely on memory to find the motivation to live, but sometimes we also escape and fabricate memories to seek spiritual comfort, Help us be redeemed in the world. Time goes on and on, the past and the present lose the meaning of division, because everything was now and will soon become the past. It is more important for a person to know where he is, what his goals are, to affirm his existence in the moment, and to understand the meaning of his existence in the world moment by moment.
The blurred photos in the first shot of the film are just like the blurring of human memory with the passage of time. No matter when people's memory is clear and when the fuzzy world will still exist, time will still go on endlessly. No matter how people's memory is interpreted or forgotten, people must find their own reasons for existence and purpose of life in the real world.
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