The specific plot and timeline of the film will not be repeated here. What makes the film tangled with science is the concept of the Tangent Universe and its derivatives. From the original meaning of "tangent line", this concept aims to show that it touches the primary universe (Primary Universe) at a certain point, but the trajectory has a new direction of a world line, so it is also translated in many versions as "Offline Universe", and corresponds to "Mainline Universe". "Offline" adds a sense of time confusion. The film starts at the intersection of the tangent universe and the original universe. The protagonist is summoned by a man named Frank wearing a rabbit suit in a dream, and he escaped by an unknown aircraft engine that fell from the sky. However, Frank tells him that the world will be destroyed in 28 days. After that, everything that happened in the film guides the protagonist to discover the truth of the world he is now in, and finally guides him to return the plane engine that caused the chaos of time and space and the emergence of the tangential universe to the original universe through the wormhole. To save everyone from being swallowed by the end of the unstable offline universe.
Everything that happens in the tangential universe is determined by a higher will. The appearance of each person, what they said, and what they did was a situation set by a higher will for the protagonist to return the "sacred object" (that is, the aircraft engine) under the premise of following scientific rationality and the chain of cause and effect. The "Time Travel Upanishads" was given to the protagonist's physics teacher, prompting the protagonist's "cellardoor" language teacher, and the "Crazy Shitai" who was waiting for the protagonist's letter, was admitted to Harvard and held a party, so that the "death control body" Frank's older sister and even the protagonist's girlfriend died in the tangential world to force the protagonist to complete the task of returning the "sacred object" in order to save her. Everything seems so reasonable, natural and normal, and the cause and effect are interlinked, as if there is no external force to control the occurrence of all this, only when the protagonist is in a hurry, suddenly inexplicably remembered the language teacher mentioned "" "cellardoor" (in the plot, the Chinese teacher said it is the most beautiful word in English), and when the door of the basement is opened to trigger the key plot, we will feel a hint of divine purpose - this kind of illogical, Wouldn’t the inadvertent, God-like plot remind us of many times when our intuition inexplicably picked an irrelevant moment in our memory to solve a problem, but it hit the ground right to fit the current moment?
I never believed in the existence of God, especially not in the appearance of God, until one day I realized that religion and science are two intertwined ways for people to understand the world. They also start with reason, just a belief One believes in logic, the other believes in mind, science tells us that what we cannot explain is because science is not developed in place, and religion tells us that what doctrine cannot explain is because we have not penetrated. But no one knows what is real, and no one knows what the unknowable power looks like. The film seems to convey such a message to us: God, or some kind of higher will beyond our dimension, may come to our world in a scientific-like appearance, and people learn, interpret, and execute, but its The ultimate purpose is beyond all this.
Frank in the film, the one who has been disguised as a rabbit, is the "death controller" who can have high-dimensional power and guide the protagonist to complete tasks in the setting. He has been ghostly appearing in the protagonist's life, talking to him, and the protagonist, as a long-term psychiatrist with some mental problems, does not seem to be surprised by this. We will never know what the mentally ill see. Perhaps their so-called "abnormality" is a manifestation of their breaking away from the shackles of reason and getting closer to a higher will. The image of Frank is set to be a frightening giant rabbit, although he has a real identity and is actually a person, but the director did not let him appear as a person. This seems to be in line with our assumption of God - but when the protagonist asks him to take off the rabbit mask, an ordinary face that is too normal to be more normal appears, this god-like figure, this person disguised as The image that this world doesn't want to do is just a character controlled by an unknowable force, just like everyone else.
As a "chosen person", the protagonist has the ability to control water and fire, etc. as described in the "Time Travel Upanishads". Some of his abilities are beyond ordinary people, but he arranges these plots to flood the school, light gasoline and burn down the theater, etc., which are not beyond the scope of normal people's ability. After 28 days in the tangent universe as if the only one was free but had no choice, the protagonist completed the task of saving the original universe, but for him, what is real? Even falling in love with his girlfriend is just to trigger the situation set by the final plot. God's intention is conveyed through him, or maybe through everyone, although he is the only one who finally achieves the task and understands all the reasons.
What is God? It may have changed many masks to map in our world, but this film reminds me of that sentence: DEUS FACTUS SUM. I am already God. In the Upanishads, this notion is far from being blasphemous, on the contrary, it is a supreme state of self-knowledge. We are so sure that everything about us is going according to certain laws; and so sure that we are in control of our actions. When these two become one, perhaps we can find the answer - God moves through each of our bodies like a light, and self and God are originally one.
Our freedom and unfreedom may be contained in all of this.
I like the ending, when the protagonist returns the "relic" and everything goes back to normal, he laughs in his bed as if it were all just a dream, but it's not the end, when he falls down on the pillow with relief, with When he fell asleep with a relaxed smile, the aircraft engine in the original universe crashed on his roof as promised. There is no chance of surviving by accident this time. I don't agree with the idea of his final death as a necessary sacrifice - in fact, if he avoided it, he could have continued to live in the original universe, like writing the Time Travel Upanishads It’s the same with the Mie Shi Tai; I also don’t agree with the statement that he has seen life and death after experiencing all this, so that he can go to death calmly-if you really experienced everything, but suddenly wake up and find yourself safe and sound again Lying in your bedroom as if nothing had happened, would you really be sure it wasn't a dream? I am more willing to believe that in his absurd disbelief and confusion, in the peace and relaxation that everything has finally returned to normal, the catastrophe really came as scheduled-he obviously already knew about it. came, but he didn't take it seriously. Life is supposed to be so absurd and helpless, accidents are only inevitable, but all the inevitable will still catch small people by surprise.
Who knows when he wakes up in the morning and realizes that 24 years of his life is just a dream?
At that time, when we woke up from someone else's dream and saw everything in this world that was both unfamiliar and familiar, it might be like the heroine at the end of the film who didn't know the hero at all in the original universe, with a little Confused beckoned, it seems familiar, but I don't know what to say.
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