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time and experience
Vito 2022-04-21 09:01:23
In 2009, I watched Richard Linklater's before sunset and sunset series for the first time, and I vaguely remember the first sentence of the afterthought written at that time, "The topic of time is always sad." This is another film about "time", and the film itself was shot over a 12-year span. In the movie, Mason's mother suddenly collapsed and said: "divorce, move, get a degree, send you to junior high school, high school, and college, and then, is it my funeral? I thought there would be more, but in fact, there won't be more." In the end, many people will ask themselves like mothers, what does time mean to us for everyone who has experienced time? In the movie, the stepfather and Mason, who was wearing nail polish in a rebellious period, said, "When I was in high school, it was cool to have a job, have responsibilities, and be able to afford a car." Mason didn't understand at that time. What do these words of stepfather mean. When the stepfather tried to tell Mason what responsibility was, he couldn't communicate with a young man who had not experienced much across time and experience. For Mason, it was just "truth". Yes, you can't go beyond time and experience to share your life insights with someone who is still upstream. This is what time means to those who have experienced it and those who have not experienced it. However, after growing up, Mason does not know what time brings to life, but those "truths" have become "experiences". My father said to Mason, "Does the meaning of life matter? Does it matter? It's all your perceptions that matter." yes. It doesn't matter what kind of life you live...what matters is how you think of it.
Extended Reading
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Mason: I finally figured it out. It's like when they realized it was gonna be too expensive to actually build cyborgs and robots. I mean, the costs of that were impossible. They decided to just let humans turn themselves into robots. That's what's going on right now. I mean, why not? They're billions of us just laying around, not really doing anything. We don't cost anything. We're even pretty good at self-maintenance and reproducing constantly. And as it turns out, we're already biologically programmed for our little cyborg upgrades. I read this thing the other day about how When you hear that ding on your inbox, you get like a dopamine rush in your brain. It's like we're being chemically rewarded for allowing ourselves to be brainwashed. How evil is that? We're fucked.
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Mason: So what's the point?
Dad: Of what?
Mason: I don't know, any of this. Everything.
Dad: Everything? What's the point? I mean, I sure as shit don't know. Neither does anybody else, okay? We're all just winging it, you know? The good news is you're feeling stuff. And you've got to hold on to that.