Many movies often take this as the theme. The travel in time and space is not only an optional background in these movies, but the main contradiction of the plot. If you don’t understand the basic principles, you can’t understand how people in time and space can break through the contradiction.
Time is full of spring and autumn, and the linear time is very easy to understand. But in Zen Buddhism, time is not a line, but a point, a moment, a moment; in the historian of the yearbook school, historical time is also an intermittent fragmentary archive; in movies, a simple montage can interrupt the linearity of time , the logical relationship of cause and effect can be reversed.
Space, up, down, left, right, southeast, northwest. When I take the train, I often don't understand that the train is driving from left to right when I get on the train, and when I get off the train, the train turns from right to left (this is related to the direction I get on the door). The earth rotates at the same time as it rotates, and time can be converted between rotation and revolution.
The simplest example is s=vt in first grade mathematics.
The three-dimensional space plus the one-dimensional time is what the bearded grandfather said that space-time is the form of motion. In literary and artistic works, the main form of this movement is entering the same space at different times, allowing people from different spaces to meet at the same time. The first to be attracted by this kind of time extension and space expansion was Japan's "Dragon Ball" comics in 1984. Vegeta's son Trax came from the future, and he chopped off the very powerful villain Sharu with one knife, because the future man-made People are more powerful. Later, "Back to the Future" started in 1985. The protagonist can not only go back to the future, but also go back to the past. The timelines of these foreign films are not as easy to understand as Hong Kong's 2001 "Xun Qin Ji", the latter's main body of changing history is hidden and can disappear at any time, without changing the apparent historical process. What finally led me to the mystery was the philosophical and religious time in "Journey to the West" in 1993. Zhuang Shengxiao dreamed of butterflies. 500 years ago and 500 years later, the dizzying Supreme Treasure and Sun Wukong completely brought me into time and space. maze. In 2014, Nolan's "Interstellar" re-opened the wormhole for rookie liberal arts students to travel through time and space. Finally, Matthew McConaughey found "them" in four-dimensional space and saw himself in countless spaces, which seemed to solve it for me. Understand the principles of time loops from countless plane spaces.
It may be influenced by the traditional Chinese closed view of time such as Journey to the West and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. We understand that the movement of time and space is always somewhat flat. In fact, the general trend of the world, long-term unity must divide, and long-term separation must be combined is just a basic principle that can be suspended. It was Star Trek that really helped me figure out space and time in movies. This "Star Trek" in 2009 is the first of the "Star Trek" reboot timeline of 5 TV series, 1 cartoon, and 12 films that began in 1966 (the second "Darkness" was released in 2013, The third "Beyond the Stars" will be released on September 2). It's about the old Spock who promised Nero of the same bloodline planet Romulan to rescue their planet, but was late for one episode, and he and Nero were sucked into the black hole one after another, which is - the future - the one where Captain Kirk was born. year. Nero, who arrived first, fell in and destroyed Spock's home planet, Vulcan, and finally saved Spock with the help of the elderly Spock, the future (the present that the audience saw) Spock, and Kirk. Gram's only home planet - Earth (fuck the Earthlings).
Often when we watch time travel movies, what we are afraid of is two people from different time and space. The encounter between the past me and the future me will change history if we are not careful. In fact, like this "Interstellar", the old Spock and the current Spock's work go hand in hand. Don't think about the complex formulas of philosophical contemplation and physics, simply put, we are in the myriad spaces of thinking time and space, which have their own time and only intersect by chance, but like the ending of the movie Old Spock Responsible for the generation of offspring, young Spock and Kirk continue their voyage, they are not circular. Even if Spock grows old and goes through the same journey as old Spock, it's in a different time and space. They are no longer the same Spock, but Spocks in countless spaces. Time does not close.
I don't know if this explanation will make a rookie liberal arts student like me suddenly enlightened. Anyway, it's comforting to think that the "me" in many different spaces may be enjoying happiness.
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