The paradox of human nature

Marcella 2022-04-20 09:01:11

Another humanistic Sci-Fic. Judie Foster's acting skills are nothing to say. And Americans have been thinking about some issues that we have just started today, or have just begun to attract widespread attention ten years ago, and expressed them in very beautiful film language, which is really nothing to say. Every time I watch a movie like this, I always feel full and happy, and at the same time there is a hint of despair. On the other hand, what are you doing when you look at Chinese movies?
Do science and religion conflict with each other, and is there any evidence that God exists? These questions are very close to the theme of the novel Angels and Demons.
At the same time, the film has a strong sense of realism, and the media coverage of scientific discoveries makes people like me laugh at themselves. In many movies, the media always exists as a kind of absurd, funny, and ignorant external image. Its relationship to the theme is generally the relationship between the clown and the play.
In addition to the subtle relationship between science and religion, what impresses me most about the film is a "paradox of human nature". It's hard to tell exactly what this is, but this is the "key" shared by almost all successful humanities Sci-Fic: that is, no matter how advanced the technology is, the unique human emotions (family, love) are always in our hearts The softest place is always the most unbearable thing to give up, therefore, it is always the most deadly and "weak" place. And this forms a contrasting tension with the highly developed science and technology.
The "paradox" in this film is that Judie's female doctor believes in positivism, but there is no evidence for her experience of traveling through time and space to meet her deceased father; all stories from beginning to end are A hoax, but precisely this unprovable 1 second (or 18 hours) is the only real thing.
I would like to praise the screenwriter again. After the film was played, I was worried that he would not be able to end, because no matter what the ending was, it was a failure, but such an ending was too unexpected.
After watching the movie, it is also the time for the weekend to end. Very lost. Watching the subtitles rise little by little, it seems that the wonderful play is over again, and it is about to return to real life. People like movies, maybe because they can give you a temporary escape from reality.
I remembered in "Tokyo Love Story", when Satomi and Mikami were together for a short time, sitting at the entrance of the cinema once, Satomi said, "I am afraid that when the movie ends, all the lights will turn on and tell me that everything is over. already."

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  • S.R. Hadden: [over video feed from Mir space station] I wanna show you something.

    [shows satellite feed to Ellie]

    S.R. Hadden: Hokkaido Island.

    Ellie Arroway: The systems integration site.

    S.R. Hadden: Look closer.

    [zooms satellite feed to reveal second machine]

    S.R. Hadden: First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price? Only, this one can be kept secret. Controlled by Americans, built by the Japanese subcontractors. Who, also, happen to be, recently acquired, wholly-owned subsidiaries...

    Ellie Arroway: [speaks with Hadden] ... of Hadden industries.

    S.R. Hadden: They still want an American to go, Doctor. Wanna take a ride?

  • S.R. Hadden: The powers that be have been very busy lately, falling over each other to position themselves for the game of the millennium. Maybe I can help deal you back in.

    Ellie Arroway: I didn't realize that I was out.

    S.R. Hadden: Well, maybe not out... but certainly being handed your hat.