To a certain extent, this film is a large collection of idealistic views, expressed in an intuitive and most understandable way for modern people. As individuals, when the desire and ability to grasp the reality produce strong conflicts, we are deeply confused and confused, and we are extremely eager to find the absolute truth, grasp the absolute truth, and find the exit of the predicament. When reality always makes us at a loss, perhaps only our heart is the most reliable, so many seemingly absurd babble-like thoughts are produced.
Just as our ancestor Zhuangzi sent out the emotion more than two thousand years ago: the high degree of similarity and realism between dreams and reality makes us confused between boundaries. In dreams, we become the truest selves in our hearts, and In reality, you have to become what you don't want to be, so which one is the real one? Perhaps our life is just a dream made by butterflies.
Then more than a thousand years ago, a poet named Li Shangyin, whose style of work was unique in the history of Chinese poetry for thousands of years, was extremely obscure and timeless, and it was quite difficult to interpret, "Poets love Xikun well," I only hate no one for writing Zheng's notes." Putting aside the rough life opportunities of the poet, not to mention the cause of this style, just talk about poetry, maybe the poet has gained too much life sigh and can't express it. I think that if there were films as a means of artistic expression at that time, Li Shangyin could be a director, specializing in shooting such anecdotal films. Perhaps, an "Untitled" series of science fiction films would be titled "Zhuang Shengxiao dreams of butterflies "Wait for the content to be handed down to the world. At that time, maybe we will write film reviews like now to express our own "body without color, phoenix and flying wings, and heart and soul".
Then another eight hundred years later, a great idea was born from the far west, and he was Rene Descartes. People who study mathematics are familiar with this name, because he is one of the founders of modern analytic geometry. But what more people are more familiar with is a sentence he said:
I think there for I am
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This is also a subject of philosophy of life involved in this film.
There are two kinds of people in the world: people who think about life and people who don't think about life. The difference between the two people is not so much the difference in personality, as it comes from the difference in experience. People living in a calm, peaceful and happy life will not have too much doubt about life, so they are like a small stove, not only their life is booming, but also exudes warmth and dim light, as if the people around them can also be They are infected; while the other part of the people who are deprived of their happy life by fate can easily get deep thoughts. Throughout the past and the present, at home and abroad, we will find that every great man with deep thoughts hides behind a vicissitudes of growth story.
We can't tell which kind of life is the essence of life, but if people are allowed to choose freely, everyone would rather choose happiness than heavy thoughts. As we said, "Who is really happy this year, except for pigs?" If people often say "the meaning of life lies not in length but in quality", is it also a kind of happy life like a pig? What about the quality? However, even if we want to be a pig, we cannot choose by ourselves. We don't want to be so lonely, confused, or distressed, but there is no way, we can't even stop ourselves from thinking.
We can't even stop ourselves from thinking!
Just like the line at the beginning of the film, "Ignorance is bliss. I agree with this statement for the first time in my life. I hope that I have never discovered this terrible truth... You are the only person you can trust and the only person who can understand this. It's something..." When we discover the truth, the joy and sense of accomplishment brought by the satisfied thirst for knowledge is not enough to fill the cruelty of the truth. The second half of the sentence reflects another eternal inner feeling of mankind-the loneliness deep into the bone marrow, and the desperate desire to be understood.
But we are just beginning to have questions such as "Who am I?" "What is the meaning of life?" "What is the true truth? What is the true meaning?" "Why live" and "What is absolute truth" At that time, we may wonder if everyone thinks like themselves, or maybe there is only one me in the world, so unique, as if the world exists for my own consciousness. We will never get the answer, never get the truth, always be confused, confused, lonely...
The positive solution should be: don't think about it at all, don't torture yourself with these paradox-like thoughts, and focus on solving specific things in order to obtain happiness in the world. In other words, given that these problems are close to no solution, clinging to such problems is not conducive to action.
But film can be chosen, can life also be chosen? Just like the recurring episode in the film "easy come, easy go...easy go, easy go..."
How can life be so easy? Go if you want to go?
Regarding the love involved in the film, this film’s point of view ingeniously and romantically explains the subtle feelings between us, whether we have met before, love at first sight, sympathy, "the strange feeling of confessing the wrong person", maybe all It is fate ("because we will meet each other in another life"), so we must cherish it. Cherish, cherish again.
Regarding the specific setting of the plot of this film, in fact, it was also affected by the deep-seated psychological worries of a kind of "robot evolution" that appeared in the 1960s and 1970s in the United States, that is, whether the increasingly highly anthropomorphic development of technology will eventually lead to a trend : Produce consciousness outside of human beings, capable of self-learning and self-replication, and have an impact on the bottom line of human ethics.
Regarding a specific plot in the film: Douglas in 2002 came to 1937 and became a bank clerk named Van Johnny. Think about it, the sudden shift of consciousness and the incoherence of memory, like "Butterfly Effect 2" The content inside, both real and unfamiliar world and scenes, a little bit at a loss, and a little bit of joy: I have experienced too many mistakes in the reality but regretted it to no avail, freed from the bad reality, a brand new environment and a brand new start , If you give me a chance, I will... Have every one of us have thoughts that have passed through our minds?
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