A butterfly in the Amazon rainforest of South America can cause a tornado in Texas two weeks later with the occasional flap of its wings . It’s a poetic metaphor for Chaos — small movements that can provoke a cascade of huge reactions.
Do you have the habit of keeping a diary? Have you ever had the experience of "remembering the forgotten things with the help of memory"? The human brain is amazing, always helping us keep forgetting irrelevant memories and accepting new ones. Could it be that those memories that you have forgotten are actually very mysterious?
This film seems to tell the story of "the protagonist constantly travels through the past to change the present", but it is actually exploring: how we face the regrets and loss of the past.
In the first two months of 2020, we lost a lot of people and suffered the darkest plague of pneumonia. Everyone couldn't face the lost, and they participated in the topic of "If 2020 is restarted" on Weibo.
I think, if everyone has the ability to restart time, can restore the lost, and the disaster will not repeat the same mistakes, will it bring other unpredictable effects? Although this is a small thing in the long history, will it make a huge difference to its future state when a very small thing is continuously enlarged?
We are neither an omniscient and almighty God nor a prophet in the world.
In the "Analects of Confucius", the madman of Chu State sang when he passed by Confucius: "Those who have passed cannot be remonstrated, and those who have come can still be pursued."
But people tend to cling to past regrets, losses, and regrets. This is human nature. Everyone hopes that there will be regret medicine in the world, so that the lost time can be restarted and the mistakes made can be recovered. But the male protagonist in the film keeps going back to the past to save others, but because of fate, the reality is getting worse and worse, and finally he can only go back to the beginning, strangle himself with the umbilical cord, end this series of dominoes, let all People and things go back to the beginning.
Is this sacrificing yourself to become the world? No, I think it's more like self-redemption - setting things right for the impact you've had on yourself.
After watching the movie, I breathed a sigh of relief: It turns out that we don't have to be obsessed with reboot time. This reason is what the movie tells us: the past has existed, regret has arisen, we do not have the ability to restart time, and we do not have to restart - if we do not get out of the quagmire of attachment, the future may also be the next hidden quagmire.
The lesson humanity has learned from history is that it never learned any lessons. Seventeen years ago, the shadow of SARS had not completely dissipated (many patients with sequelae were permanently disabled or suffered injuries), and mankind experienced another plague of pneumonia. Disasters are like a mirror that illuminates many good and evil in the world. Only by facing the current situation bravely and firming up a strong inner belief can we cut through the thorns ahead and reach the place where the flowers are in full bloom.
We can be our own gods without pinning our hopes on any butterfly.
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