Although the viewing process is slow and dull, there are still some bright spots (including spoilers)

Jimmie 2022-09-02 17:34:47

The process of watching is slow and dull, but the end of the film still gives the audience something unexpected.

Although the bridge section is not new, there are still some points worth pondering.

First of all, after watching the end, I found out that the whole movie is showing different versions of parallel lives. Finally, the dialogue between the two people on the ferry is the key. The heroine said: Only in this life you can save me. That is to say, in all versions of the parallel life, the male protagonist finally died because of his unwillingness to save the female protagonist in a different parallel life, and in the end he did succeed, but he did die. Only at the end of the film, the audience was shown a relatively happy ending: the male protagonist saved the female protagonist's son, and finally felt as if he had seen the female protagonist somewhere. Looking back, do you want to start a relationship? This is left to the audience's imagination.

Secondly, the topic of reincarnation of life and death has been discussed for decades, and even if there are many civil cases to corroborate it, it is still an unproven conjecture. The old scientist in this film seems to be discussing where people go after death, but in fact the conclusion is that there are different versions of parallel life at the same time, because time does not exist at all, there is no linear "beginning" and "end", these Concepts are just how people feel. This was revealed when the old scientist asked a "questionnaire". And that machine is the key to connecting different versions of life. With the props of the machine, it seems to convince the audience that there are indeed different versions of the fact that parallel lives exist.

In this film, the director borrowed the lines of the old scientist to express some very connotative things, such as jumpsuits, exaggerated performances and so on. In fact, this is our world. What we call the real world is nothing more than a different version of the world.

In fact, the theme of many movies of the same type is: focus on family, focus on the present, focus on those beautiful things, and don't leave regrets in life.

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The Discovery quotes

  • Interviewer: Death used to be something we just had to live with, and now it's a convenient way to escape pain. That's okay.

    Will: That's okay? Another plane of existence, maybe. Who knows? But I look around, I see a lot of people jumping out of planes hoping they're gonna grow wings. And reality and fantasy are mutually exclusive. They don't exist in the same space.

  • Lacey: Please don't lose faith in me.

    Thomas: "Faith" Oh, God. I have such contempt for that word. Show me someone who relies on faith and I'll show you someone who's given up control over whatever it is they believe.