metaphysics

Gerardo 2022-04-20 09:01:05

Even if everyone thinks that the film has deep routines, dazzling stunts, and a bunch of pretentious words after watching it, aside from his personal love for Cuan Fu, I still like this film very much. This article contains serious spoilers, please detour if you don't like it.

"Sherlock Holmes", who speaks American English, has become a top doctor with a double doctorate. He is arrogant, arrogant, and likes to challenge. In the words of the beautiful doctor's "friend", it is "all about you". However, we know that no matter how high the screenwriter makes you at the beginning, how badly you must fall later. In his eyes and minds, only his own Doctor Strange drives a Lamborghini to a party. While thumping the accelerator with full power, he asks his assistant for a more difficult challenge. "Unfortunately," he suffered a car accident, and even the car and people fell into the water. This "unfortunate" is all too obvious: sports cars, horsepower, mountain roads, cell phones. No car accident! The instant the car crashed, the local dialect that my father taught me when I was a child immediately popped into my mind: People are good (two sounds), and dogs are hit by bricks. (Dad is right, you have to keep a low profile)

Then our Doctor Strange woke up and saw that the whole world collapsed with his crippled hands. Not only could he no longer be able to perform the surgery he was most proud of, but even basic self-care was a problem. Of course, the following picture guess also guessed: bearded, not particular about dressing, eccentric, bankrupt, rejected by others. Even if the beauty has repeatedly encouraged him and told him that it is not impossible to live without hands, how can we Dr. Shuangliang be willing to be ordinary people and live ordinary lives? So he took his girlfriend away and came to Nepal alone, looking for the legendary base that can magically cure paralysis.


The next story is like "Shaolin Temple" plus "Harry Potter". After being eye-opened by this "Oriental Spiritual Art", he began to practice hard. However, due to the lack of awareness, even those without hands can open the holes for space shuttle. So it appears that our Chinese martial arts novels must have a bridge, the "skill" of the master, put him in a single shirt on the top of the Himalayas and force him to open the hole by himself, otherwise he will freeze to death. Sure enough, he must have been enlightened like a god! (A movie is a movie. In life, after a montage, it must not be successfully made, but a stiff corpse that was frozen to death on the top of the mountain, so don’t imagine going to the top of the Himalayas to meditate, you will die miserably)

In this "academy", there is a black senior brother, an Asian librarian, (required for American film casting arrangements) and of course the best students in the academy. In the end, because of desire, he betrayed his teacher, stole scriptures, and killed his compatriots. , has become the leader of the underworld with very serious insomnia, that is, the villain of the film, Uncle Mai.

Full marks to this special effect makeup. Does the plot design sound familiar? Yes, that's right, the same as Voldemort. Then our doctor is naturally the hero little Harry! Born to be unpredictable, brave and diligent, critical, and curious. After Doctor Strange used the eye gem to restore the torn divine book, he understood everything. (The bug here is that Wang and the black senior brothers came to condemn him for tampering with artifacts and destroying public property. Why didn’t he ask him to return the glasses? They kept hanging on his neck and kept them forever.) Okay, first Don't bother with this. So he knows that this academy is actually under the guise of building a school, and actually doing the act of saving the world, hehe, welcome to officially join the Marvel hero, young man, it will depend on you to save the world from now on, since you are avant-garde thinking and skeletal spirit Strange... The young man said, I don't want to, I just came to treat my hands so that I can go back to living a life of pretending! Then why do you think you won't be allowed to return your glasses! Brother Hei and Wang are two scheming boys, so I still say that when you take things in the future, you should think about it. It is easy to ask the Buddha and send it to the Buddha.
In this way, our doctor started to enter one after another, wave after wave, when he was not ready and his martial arts rank was still very low. What is a hero, a hero is not an ordinary person, in addition to courage, high IQ, and of course a powerful weapon. Our cute red cape is here! (The black brothers all have a hot wheel. The doctor's one must make him fly. Those who can't fly are not handsome enough, eh!)
After the doctor experienced "death", he simply and rudely reported to his lover, The soul goes out of the body and fights with another soul, the mentor's soul comes out of the body, enjoys the snow with the mentor's soul, the mentor dies, leads everyone to fight the battle to defend Hong Kong, and finally comes to the peak duel with the big boss of the black forces. The difference is that, as a doctor, he did not fight meleely, but disgusted the big boss with his IQ. After dying again and again and going back to negotiate again and again, the other party finally couldn't bear it and gave you a service. (It turns out that the confrontation can be done in a more rogue way. Doctor Strange must be a fan of Liu Bang.)
In this way, the smoked makeup Uncle Mai and Yigan were recalled, the world that had been destroyed countless times was saved, and the hero status was established. Welcome to join alliance.

The description in the previous paragraph seems to be deep and simple, but I love this film, not only that it uses more sophisticated stunts to build a dimension that transcends time and space (after all, there is Inception, interstellar travel is the foreshadowing) . What I like is those "pretend" words.
"The Ancient One: There are other ways to save lives. So much you don't know." "You're a man looking at the world through a keyhole. You've spent your life trying to widen it. Your work saved the lives of thousands. What if I told you that reality is one of many?" "Stephen Strange, might I offer you some advice? Forget everything that you think you know." What you see and experience, what you think is the whole world, is just the tip of the iceberg. What is real? If the world is born from thoughts, that is to say, the world can only be created by our thinking, how infinite would it be, just like when you enter an elevator, if there are mirrors on the left and right sides, the image you see in the mirror is Repeat infinitely. Like the layers of dimensions after the out-of-body in the movie? When we can't be sure of the truth, we just have to keep looking for it. Isn't this the meaning and mission of philosophy?
Doctor Strange, there is a hero in this emerging Marvel movie. After Marvel has gone through the heroic modes of super power, artificial creation, divine power, etc., he finally stretched his "claw" to philosophy. Philosophical thinking is king. To understand our nature, the reality of the world we live in, the way we live, and the possibility of the future are the "weapons" that "heroes" really use to defend the world.
Although the mysterious academy in Nepal is made very Chinese in the movie, it is more like a Zen class, and the teachers and classmates practice the same Tai Chi moves. , maybe just for the Chinese market) but in the final analysis, the dimensions that Gu Yi led the doctor into are all shaping his philosophy. The role of a doctor is just right to be a doctor, and it is a very metaphysical existence that advocates natural science, but takes science and technology forward. Reminds me of Sheldon's unsuccessful application for funds to buy equipment in "The Big Bang Theory". The way his girlfriend encouraged him to continue to apply was to "think about it, what if these funds fell into the hands of other colleges? Geology College, Engineering College , even, the Faculty of Humanities..." Sheldon immediately cheered up at the thought of how "wasted" the money would be in the hands of the Humanities. Humanities, natural sciences, when is the time for retribution? After all, a way of existence that we all have to exist and explore. As an individual, I hope that while technology is advanced, everyone pays attention to their own humanistic cultivation, because they will have ideas when they are full. Spiritual satisfaction is the greatest satisfaction.
In the middle of the film, Gu Yi talked about the paralyzed man she "cured". She said that it was because of his own thoughts that the cells repaired and regenerated themselves. This is very worth exploring and studying, isn't it?
One of my favorite episodes is the infinite loop of "Dormammu, I'm here to negotiate conditions"... At that time, I thought of the ancient Greek mythology that was punished by rolling boulders up the mountain for fooling the god of death, and Again and again, I watched the god Sifozzi, the boulder rolling down. There is also Wu Gang from Yuegong who chops down trees over and over again. Why do we have such punished gods in different cultures? Perhaps this kind of cycle that really transcends time and space is indeed a kind of punishment and torture. (Recommended movies "Terror Cruise", "Groundhog Day", "Anna's Bed Island") "Death makes life more meaningful" Immortality is not a good thing.

Finally, look forward to how this arrogant new hero and the same arrogant Iron Man will spark together, hahaha.

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Extended Reading

Doctor Strange quotes

  • Christine Palmer: Where have you been?

    Dr. Stephen Strange: Well, after Western medicine failed me, I headed east, and I ended up in Kathmandu.

    Christine Palmer: Kathmandu?

    Dr. Stephen Strange: Yeah.

    Christine Palmer: What? Like the Bob Seger Song?

    Dr. Stephen Strange: 1975, Beautiful Loser, side A. Yeah. And I went to a place called Kamar-Taj and I... talked to someone called "The Ancient One." And I...

    Christine Palmer: Oh. So you joined a cult.

    Dr. Stephen Strange: No, I didn't. No, not exactly. No. I mean... They did teach me to tap into powers that I never even knew existed.

    Christine Palmer: Yeah. That sounds like a cult.

    Dr. Stephen Strange: It's not a cult.

    Christine Palmer: Well, that's what a cultist would say.

  • [the Cloak of Levitation clings to Strange and wipes away his tears]

    Dr. Stephen Strange: Stop!