"Source Code": Thoughts on Love

Kamron 2022-04-20 09:01:09

Sometimes, I really have to admire Americans. No matter how much money is spent, the stories are always so wonderful, the performances are always in place, and the details are always so durable. Source Code is that kind of film, costing only $32 million, but it's really good, and an hour and a half of focus and wonder goes by quickly. I remember someone telling me about another American movie that cost a few thousand dollars and was a sci-fi movie! Just shoot a few people chatting, but the story and performance can still be wonderful. Some directors complain that the reason for not being able to make good movies is that they don’t have money. In fact, making movies is not about money, but about the richness of your soul. If you have a rich soul, even if you take a camera and walk around the street, you will be fine too. Make a good movie!

Sometimes we have to admit that we watch movies to see actors and stars, like Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan in Source Code. You love them and you love them because they are so beautiful in the movie. In fact, there is no person in the world that is not beautiful, - when you look at others with the deepest love, the love that comes from Jesus. Although I can't see everyone with the love of Jesus, I can see my own daughter with the love of a father. It is a beauty that is always present. I have taken tens of thousands of pictures of her, but I have never taken enough of them. ! Friends, if you accept Jesus, you are even more beautiful in God's eyes because he is your heavenly Father.

The hero Colt Stevens in the film returns to the world of the source code countless times, and each time he goes back, he learns a little more about that world, until he believes he can turn it upside down. This is actually quite like the journey of Christianity. We don't know enough about God's abundance and glory, and we always don't know enough about our own sins. But if you don't give up like Colt in the movie, there will always be One day, God will open your eyes, fill your heart, and let you live a victorious life of unparalleled joy and peace.

There are three worlds in the movie - the world of source code, the real world and the world of Colt. At the beginning, Colt only knew the real world, but he knew nothing about the world of source code and his own world. Through the guidance and inspiration of the female officer, he began to gradually understand the other two worlds. do you know? Humans are also in two worlds, one is the real world that we can see, and the other is the spiritual world that we cannot see, but the spirit of the spiritual world can see us like the female officer. The spiritual world controls and affects our visible world. Most people are ignorant about the spiritual world, and some are happy to deal with the evil parts of the spiritual world. Only a small fraction of humans are truly fortunate to have established a connection with the spirit world and the ultimate ruler of this world, God.

Under the influence of Christianity, Americans always have a savior's feeling - a hero holding the belief of mortal sacrifice, in a hopeless environment, to save the world and win a lover. We humans have always identified with the strong, confident, capable heroes we thought were the only ones who could save us. Such a thought would be like the Pharisees, unable to recognize the true Savior Jesus, weak as a reed, gentle as a breeze, humble as a weed, but he came for sacrifice, not for a certain Men or women, but for all the sinners in the world who are not worthy of salvation. ——This is the real hero, this is the real savior.

The movie that moved me the most was the still image at the end, where all the people, Colt kissing Christina, comedians telling jokes, passengers laughing, were frozen like statues in that moment. An instant, an instant is eternity." This shot really brought me closer to my understanding of eternity, which is the condensation of an instant, the eternal joy, the eternal peace, the eternal rest, and—and, the eternal love!

Like all human things, this movie boils down to love in the end. In the process of returning to the source code again and again, Colt gradually begins to get to know "his" girlfriend Christina, constantly discovering her cuteness, until he finally falls hopelessly in love with her, in fact, he ends up falling in love with her at the end. Owners of the source code world. This is the source of his belief in returning to the source world to save that world. But you know what? Colt loves people for finding them cute. He loves Christina because he finds her lovely, which is not the case with Jesus. Cute or not, he loves the same. Often unlovable people are more worthy of love and more able to highlight love. Such love is not found in man - Jesus is the source code of love.

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Source Code quotes

  • Colter Stevens: The explosion came from behind me.

  • Colter Stevens: You seem concerned about the time. What are you late for?

    Max Denoff: I'm on my way to an asshole festival. I hear you're headlining.

    Colter Stevens: Oh, that's funny. What are you, a comedian?

    Christina Warren: Yeah. He is a comedian.