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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  • Axel 2022-03-21 09:01:15

    The opening father-daughter dialogue is the most moving. Under the enlightenment of science, there are many things that can be done, and the distance that can be reached is getting farther and farther, but it is impossible to want to see your deceased mother bye. Because the past is still a place we cannot reach. Neither science nor theology can do it.

  • Reagan 2022-03-21 09:01:15

    It turns out that the source of Hitler's image transmitted by higher civilization is here. The hard science fiction of many years ago is still very exciting, and it is also inextricably linked with Interstellar. Meeting with higher civilizations through wormholes is also in line with my expectation. It is simply pictorial, not in the same way as other people who make use of various pictures. The final hearing is nothing more than the government's intention to cover up, and 18 hours is enough

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  • Ellie Arroway: Mathematics is the only true universal language.

  • Dr. Kent Clark: Dr. Arroway will be spending her precious telescope time listening for... uh... listening for...

    Ellie Arroway: Little green men.