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a good movie, the narrative is always clear, not dragging its feet, every word, every action, have played a greater or lesser role . A good science fiction movie not only needs to have the above conditions, but also has a novel and distinctive scientific core, and even if it is paradoxical, it must be able to justify itself.
If "Avatar" is a soft science fiction, and "Inception" is a sci-fi with both soft and hard, then "Source Code" is pure hard sci-fi. Many people say that "Source Code" is incomprehensible. The reason is that there is almost no introduction to scientific principles in the film. Unlike "Inception", while the male protagonist teaches the female protagonist the principles of dreaming, he also explains it to the audience. In "Source Code", the limping old leader only mentioned a few words, and the female director Goodwin only gave a simple explanation of "8 minutes". Not only is the male protagonist inexplicable, but the audience is estimated to be in the cloud.
The scientific principles in "Source Code" involve four aspects: psychology, computer programming, neuromedicine, and quantum mechanics.
First of all, let us imagine that someone reported you a mobile phone number and asked you to call it right away. You repeat it and you dialed out smoothly. When you finish talking with the other party, you can think about the number again. Is it basically no longer remembered? The human brain has such a short-term memory function. The massive information received by vision, smell, and hearing, the brain is first placed in a specific memory area. Within a certain period of time, these memories are very fresh. Once the time exceeds the time, the subsequent information It will overwrite the original information. Although it still exists in the cerebral cortex, it is difficult for you to extract it. The so-called "8 minutes" in the film is based on this psychological research. Counting from the moment when passenger Sean on the train died, he had an 8-minute memory afterimage. Since his nerve cells were not completely dead, this information was extracted by the lame old man.
In some of the original science fiction novels, this information was only restored into images, and it was still incomplete and messy images. But in the film "Source Code", this information is processed by the lame man (I don’t like this character) into computer data, just like a stand-alone game, and the magic is that these data have self-calculation capabilities, in other words It is to have artificial intelligence, which can make logical changes according to different situations by itself, and this is not preset.
Next, find someone to "play" this game and search for clues to the murderer in the data ocean current. This person must have three conditions: First, be able to interpret consciousness into program code; second, have keen reconnaissance ability and strong psychological quality; third, be able to switch between reality and "game" at will. The lame old man found the deceased Captain Stevens. Not only did he meet the above conditions, but the most important thing was that the code deduced from his consciousness was very close to the code of the deceased Sean, and his consciousness was passed through the preset interface. Sent into the "game" to replace the real Sean, but will not be rejected by the self-consistent world of the game.
Being able to compile this incredible computer program shows that the lame man is a genius, and it also shows that the computing power of the lame man’s era is many orders of magnitude higher than it is now.
It’s not surprising if the core of science in the film is just this, but the film also attempts to explain the self-calculation ability of the "game" world, which is the famous superposition state in quantum mechanics.
The stupid cat has long been popular. To put it simply, at the quantum level, a cat can be both alive and dead. As long as there is no conscious observer, the state of death and alive exist at the same time. In the "game" world, since there are no observers, there are countless superposition states in this world at the same time. The world that Captain Stevens enters is actually different every time. Starting from Klitina’s words "I accept your suggestion, very good suggestion", as Captain Stevens makes different actions, the world is divided into After countless, Captain Stevens is actually jumping back and forth in different parallel worlds.
But at the end of the film's development, obviously neither the lame old man nor Goodwin thought that the technology they invented was clearly a gateway to a parallel universe. In the real world, although the existence of parallel universes has been inferred in theoretical physics, no one knows how to hang out with the universe next door. The technology developed by the imaginary lame man in the film is the key to open the parallel universe. Because of this, Captain Stevens can live happily with Christian in the universe he entered last after being cut off from the nutrient solution. He couldn't return to the universe where he was originally.
In the last scene of the film, Goodwin received a text message from Captain Stevens, and felt inexplicable. In fact, this Goodwin is not the Goodwin in the real world, but the last one where Captain Stevens is. Goodwin in the parallel universe, understanding this, wouldn't be surprised how Goodwin was not sent to jail.
The best part of this film is not that the advanced scientific setting is simply and plainly described, but that the details are fully in line with the actual situation of the characters.
Captain Stevens’ body has been damaged, but based on the medically proven "phantom limb" phenomenon, that is, after the amputation operation is completed, the patient will have the illusion that the amputation limb is still present, plus some of the lame old man Suggested guidance, Captain Stevens then had the illusion of being in a sealed cabin, and there was also a television-like video display. In fact, those images were projected directly onto Captain Stevens' nerve endings.
After Captain Stevens gradually learned the truth, an accident occurred. The airtight compartment was dead and getting colder. Captain Stevens crawled around looking for tools to repair the circuit, and lost contact with the outside world. In the process, the staff was very flustered, the lame old man told Goodwin that there was no way, and if it continued like this, Captain Stevens could not hold on for long. Fortunately, Captain Stevens magically repaired the circuit and everything returned to normal. I really thought it was a mechanical failure at the time. After watching the film, I realized that this segment is too good. It implies Captain Stevens’ subconscious rejection of reality. There is no mechanical failure. It is Stevens. Captain Si hopes to die, so he will have hallucinations such as leaking engine oil and freezing to death when the battery is out. If Captain Stevens hadn't had a sense of survival and planned to die like this, no one could save him. Of course, even Captain Stevens didn't realize this.
There is one more detail. Captain Stevens can "see" images of the outside world, but it is impossible for the outside world to see Captain Stevens's hallucinations, so Goodwin talks with Captain Stevens and appears in front of him. It’s lines of text, not images.
In the end, Goodwin fulfilled Captain Stevens’ last wish and sent him back to the 8-minute game world again. The captain’s ruined face was smiling and his eyeballs could not help but beating, as if, no, that was just dreaming. That is typical rapid eye movement sleep. People only dream during this sleep stage. Look, this is a detailed display of how much scrutiny it is.
The film is rational. The only sentimental plot appears at the end of the film. In that parallel universe, Captain Stevens pretends to be his comrade-in-arms to call his father, but he gets his own wish. Because it is plain, it is touching.
If you want to sum up this film in seven words, it is: Adventures in the Parallel Universe, but the burden of the director and screenwriter is so right and fascinating. In the end, it still leaves room for the audience to think about. When will such a good film be Can we shoot it by ourselves?
Very much looking forward to it.
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