This wall is called the times

Kieran 2022-04-19 09:01:35

I revisited this sci-fi classic with no special effects, and suddenly felt that although the male protagonist was immortal, he was also quite pitiful.

Liu Cixin said that death is a wall, which is infinitely high up, infinitely deep down, and infinitely far to the left and right. In fact, the times are also like this. The male protagonist who broke through the wall of death will hit the more unbreakable wall of the times.

At first glance, the enviable 14,000 years are mostly just standing still in terms of wisdom. Displaced in a religion that was born and passed away. Tired of human beings who keep making mistakes, but don't know what to do. I don't know what I am, I don't know what the universe is, I don't know where the road is going.

Science finally dispels ignorance. The male protagonist has enough time to study every major branch of science, and he can be unafraid before being questioned by 6 university professors. I finally understood what my 14,000 years were to the universe—it was nothing.

But in this era of big science, as long as human beings do not advance civilization as a whole, there is basically nothing one person can do. The immortal, he still had to stop in front of the wall of the times, waiting for the wall to slowly move on the plain of ignorance that did not know where it ended.

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Extended Reading
  • Beulah 2022-03-23 09:01:33

    I'm not convinced at all

  • Dessie 2021-10-26 03:30:45

    Of the movies I’ve seen, the one with the highest effect-to-investment ratio

The Man from Earth quotes

  • Harry: [insistent] *You* are creating the mystery here obviously y'have something you'd like to say. Say it.

    John Oldman: [Hesitant] Maybe... I...

    Harry: [sing-song] Ten, nine, eight, seven, si...

    Sandy: [Chiding] Harry, stop.

    John Oldman: There is something I'm tempted to tell you I think, I've never done this before, I wonder how it will pan out. I wonder if I could ask you a silly question?

    Art: [Scoffing] John, we're teachers, we answer silly questions all the time

    Linda Murphy: [Teasing] Hey!

    John Oldman: What if a man from the upper Paleolithic survived until the present day?

  • Dan: Time... you can't see it, you can hear it, you can't weigh it, you can't... measure it in a laboratory. It is a subjective sense of... becoming, what we... are, in stead of what we were a nanosecond ago, becoming what we will be in another nanosecond. The whole piece of time's a landscape existing, we form behind us and we move, we move through it... slice by slice.

    Linda Murphy: Clocks measure time.

    Dan: No, they measure themselves, the objective referee of a clock is another clock.

    Edith: All very interesting, but what has it got to do with John?

    Dan: He, he might be man who... lives... outside of time as we know it.