What can we change?

Alec 2022-04-22 07:01:02

Maybe it's dissatisfaction with real life, maybe it's an obsession with time and space in the universe, I especially like to watch movies about time travel this year. The protagonist in Twelve Monkeys traveled back and forth several times in order to find the Twelve Monkey Army, but in the end he was unable to change the ending. This film wants to tell us that through time travel, we can change the direction of the development of things, but it cannot change the final result. This sounds a bit like Chinese fatalism. Is human life really destined and cannot be changed?
In the vast universe, each of us is so small, most of the time we can only be a floating dust and go with the wind. Like the hero in the film is forced to go on a mission, maybe he can choose not to go, but in order to be released, to be free, he has to go. People often want to not go to work, not work hard, be a free man, and travel the world. But too many burdens on everyone makes us have to work day after day, making us feel exhausted and exhausted every day. But what can we change? It’s the mentality. Since there are many things we can’t choose, why should we let ourselves suffer inwardly? Have a tolerant heart, do things practically, cherish everything we have now, maybe one day we will find out that we can really change something.

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12 Monkeys quotes

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    Title Card: ...5 billion people will die from a deadly virus in 1997... /... The survivors will abandon the surface of he planet... /... Once again the animals will rule the world... / - Excerpts from interview with clinically diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, April 12, 1990 - Baltimore County Hospital.

  • Jeffrey Goines: All the doors are locked too. They're protecting the people on the outside from us from the people on the outside who are as crazy as us.