Time will tell that this is a magnificent epic, a beautiful symphony.
It takes a lot of courage to make this movie, and the six independent stories are intertwined. From primitive society to future sci-fi, how much control is required. The director of "The Matrix" Wachowski decided to take over the filming. In fact, the theme of the film is similar to that of "The Matrix".
I only read the first story. After watching it many times, I didn't grasp the gist, but now I understand it a little through the movie. In the first movie, Ewing was in a coma because he was drugged, so the following plot is his dream.
I don't know if you have had such an experience - dreaming when you have a fever, often the dream is very complicated, like walking in alleys, turning a corner is another dream, and many dreams are intertwined. I wrote "Secret Path" to create the feeling of interweaving dreams like clouds, but I don't feel as skilled as Mitchell.
When I was a child, I drank beer when I had a fever. As a result, my brain was chaotic, and many dreams came one after another. I don't know if Mitchell had the same experience.
Ewing, the main character, is like that, so in the next story, he transforms into someone else.
Some people say that cloud images are reincarnated in the six realms, which is true. Mitchell went to Borges Calvino and spent two years in Japan, where he also studied Buddhism. But it's not easy to write six stories together.
Adam Ewing's Pacific Diary 1
Letters from Sidheim 41
Half-Life: Louisa Rae's First Mystery 87 The Ordeal of
Timothy Cavendish 145
The Recorder of Star Beauty-451 183 Lusha
Junction And after all 229
The Recorder of Star Beauty-451 297 The Ordeal of
Timothy Cavendish 331
Half-Life: Louisa. Ray's First Enigma 369
Letters from Sidheim 417
Adam Ewing's Pacific Diary 451
Above is the catalog of novels. From the catalog, it is a cycle. With the development of literature to this day, the field of innovation is very limited, and the only way to innovate is to play with the structure.
The structure of the film Nolan plays is literary weak. Many seniors have played it.
And the novel is not only a structural innovation, Mitchell parodies the eighteenth century diary novels, epistolary novels, science fiction, modern novels, etc., ordinarily this is not too much, Calvino's "Winter Night Walker" It parodies ten writers of different styles, even Japanese danmei.
The time and space of the film spans from primitive society to modern times, modern times, the future, the primitive society after the demise of mankind, and another cycle. Global perspective, the height of all mankind, you have to admire the author's realm. No matter how the outside world changes, the human heart remains the same. Barbarism and civilization, violence and peace, killing and love, despotism and democracy, darkness and light. Their dogfights did not stop, and in the end, greed brought about the downfall of mankind. Personally, I think this is inevitable, because entropy is always increasing, just like the fire lit by the old man when he tells a story, it will go out sooner or later.
Why do so many authors like to express reincarnation? Borges said that a straight line elongated is an arc. So the world is circular.
The biggest surprise is the music, the Yuntu Sextet has reached a unity with the film and the novel in the form of music. Art is all analogous, even the structure is so similar.
I was a little confused when I first watched it, but when I saw the final climax, the montages flashed one by one. The replicant Xingmei said, from the womb to the grave, we are not alone, but closely related to others. Today, good deeds and evil deeds will regenerate us. make an impact.
How can there be an ocean without a drop of water? The end of the cloud map says so. Slavery would still exist without a drop of effort. The imperial power will still exist.
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