on infinity

Evie 2022-01-17 08:02:08

Does anyone remember the “love story” in The Savage Detectives?

The girl fell in love with a tramp. The tramp suddenly died. The girl went mad. But she was rich. So she asked a team of scientists to clone the tramp and implanted the clone to the womb of a whore. A boy looking exactly the same as the tramp was born. They raised him. Five years later, the girl cloned herself and implanted her clone into her own womb. Anothe girl was born. The clone babies grew up together. The girl's cottage was their Eden. And one day the girl died of cancer. We don't know yet if the clones will fall in love and get married. We don't know if they will reproduce. But the scientists kept cloning and implanting the clones until all of the girl's fortune expires . It was what she requested.

You add infinity to infinity, you get infinity. In the Eden of space. They substitute death penalty with an jail of infinitity. It was towards the Black Hole where finally even Time and Space converge into one singularity. In the door opening at the end , the perfect brightness. Would you prefer a perfect death or perfect mystery. Perfect love and perfect confusions. Giving birth is to create another universe. Yet sometimes each universe exists to threat one another. That's the beauty of it. Yes it's dangerous. The way out becomes violence. So much blood and so much liquid. The sperms. Everything that flows in the ship is an attempt to crash infinity. To hit the 1 before hurtling to the absolute zero. Why do we only talk about the news of someone's death? Why doesn't the paper announce today, A is living! today, B is living! today, C is living!Because when one is so alive, is everyone else really alive too? I know, I'm no longer talking about the film. Where people could take infinity as a means to glory. Where everything loses track and the only hope was the first fear . A ship full of dogs. A ship doesn't exist.

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Extended Reading
  • Reese 2022-03-23 09:03:02

    Fortunately, it is not the usual spectacle licensed style. Claire Deney's whimsy is about to break through the entire spaceship, what a strange apocalyptic fantasy.

  • Christelle 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    With [2001]'s grand perspective on human beings, and [Solaris]'s delicate sympathy for individuals, [Space Life] is a model of science fiction in the 21st century. This work is Nietzschean from the bottom of it: human existence is meaningless, so use this mass of nothingness to save our meaninglessness. In the end, human beings voluntarily walked towards the black hole of time and space, and this ended history. Will human beings be born again? Denis is as unanswered here as Benjamin.

High Life quotes

  • Dibs: When I first saw you, you were a filthy little crackhead. Now look at you.

  • [first lines]

    Monte: [narrating] At 99% the speed of light, the entire sky converged before our eyes. This sensation, moving backwards even though we're moving forwards, getting further from what's getting nearer. Sometimes I just can't stand it.