These few days in Pattaya are particularly idle. After waking up every day, I go for a swim, and then I go back to the hotel room, facing the sea, the spring flowers are blooming, reading and writing, drinking tea in a daze. By the way, I also reviewed a few favorite movies, so I brushed "Arrival" for the second time.
Arrival is the most captivating movie I've seen in nearly a year. Missed the big screen during the release period (God knows what I was busy with at that time), otherwise it must have been more shocking to the senses. The first time I saw it was on the plane returning from Shenzhen to Beijing. The 787-9 model has color-changing porthole glass and the most advanced in-flight entertainment system on domestic routes. On the screen, huge shells stand in the heaven and earth, exuding a sacred and eerie light under the radiance of rolling clouds; outside the porthole, the sunset is slowly sinking under the clouds, and the sapphire blue sky is filled with golden yellow sunset afterglow. At that moment, I was a little stupefied.
After returning to Beijing, I found the original "Story of Your Life" to read. It turned out to be a short story. Most of the pages in the original work are heavily theoretical, as if they really intend to explain how to decipher alien linguistics, and the heroine's character is more open-minded. In contrast, I clearly prefer the film adaptation. The film simplifies the theoretical part of the original work, but is willing to lay out the brush and ink to render the emotions, and then set off the exquisite and complete spiritual core.
The climax of the film is the moment when the mystery is slowly revealed. At the dinner, the conversation between General Shang and the heroine was thrilling. The two main lines of time are intertwined, promote each other, and cause and effect each other. This passage is the title of the whole film. It announces a subversive cognition to the mighty human beings: what "remembers" is no longer just memories, but may be the future. Time is no longer linear. There is no so-called beginning and end at all, every moment is a lifetime.
We also finally understood the image of the little girl who kept flashing back from the beginning of the film, and understood why even at such a happy moment, there is still a lingering sympathy in the eyes of the heroine. At the end of the film, the music of "On The Nature Of Daylight" sounded at the right time, and everyone who watched the film was like a "weapon" with a heptapod, and was able to look down on the whole story from a new perspective. , and from this moment on, there is a different interpretation of the word "destiny".
Despite knowing the journey and where it leads I embrace it And I welcome every moment of it.
Many people watching this film will ask: If you knew the ending, would you still choose to start? No no, you have no choice at all. In the face of a gigantic grandeur, human beings have a strong but small will, so they have to surrender and follow the destiny set step by step. I didn't get any conclusions about "mother's love is great" and "true love is supreme" from the heroine, but I just felt that she still chose to embrace fate after seeing the whole picture of fate, so brave.
I was discussing the issue of religion with my colleagues during lunch. When I talked about the conflict between the "creation theory" advocated by religion and the "evolution theory" that we firmly believe in, most people find it difficult to accept. As a materialist who has been nurtured by Darwin since I was a child, I once defended the "truth" in my heart with an irrefutable tone, but I am ashamed that in recent years, I have become less and less firm.
Just like a movie is enough to bring about a new understanding, there are too many unknowns in this world, and we need enough humility, awe, tolerance and imagination to be qualified to explore. Rather than being paranoid clinging to a certain theoretical school, I am now more willing to admit the existence of multiple options and allow them to be discussed on an equal footing. If I can make my view of the world a little bit closer to the truth, it would be the greatest blessing to be born as a human being.
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