Every choice you make is the right choice you make right now

Darius 2022-03-22 09:01:20

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aside the movie burning parts of the brain, What I want to talk about is the philosophical significance of this film - a person's life is actually a life of dealing with the relationship with oneself.
There are five stages of "me" in the film:
① the "me" in infancy
② the feminine "me" Jane
③ the masculine "me" John
④ the socialized "me" agent
⑤ the old "me" Fizzle bomber

The "me" of each stage has the memory of the "me" of the previous stage, but cannot have the memory of the "me" of the next stage, that is to say, the "me" remembers how the "me" became the "me", but cannot Predict what kind of "I" "I" will become or can't predict how to become "I" in the next stage.

④The socialized "me" agent asked ③the masculine "me" John, if I brought the man who ruined you in front of you, and I can assure you that you are not guilty, will you kill him?
③The masculine "I" JohnJohn replied unequivocally: "without hesitation."

But when the agent took John back to the past, when John found out that the man Jane fell in love with turned out to be him, he smiled. When John was Jane, she was a low self-esteem girl, she didn't like herself in the mirror, she always felt that she was neither beautiful nor cute. When John saw Jane, he was stunned, and for a while, he said, you are not what I imagined, and then he couldn't help saying, you are beautiful. That was the first time he saw the self at that time - smart, beautiful and charming. He fell in love with Jane, and in fact fell in love with his old self.
At this time, the feminine "me" Jane has no idea what will happen in the future. She falls in love with John and her future self.
I believe John hated the lover who came and went, wished he had been killed, wished he had never appeared. But when he went back to the past and gave him a chance to choose again, even if he knew the ending, he still made the same choice. It was the happiest time in his life, and he couldn't bear to deprive it or lose it.
The happiest time in my life is when I love him/her. In fact, it is also when I accept myself and love myself wholeheartedly. I discover the beauty of myself and appreciate myself sincerely. There are happier things in the world than this. What?

④The socialized "I" agent returned to put ① the "I" as a baby at the gate of the orphanage in 1945, and then shot and killed the "me" Fizzle bomber in the old age in the dry cleaner in 1975. I am my creator and my finisher.

⑤ The "me" Fizzle bomber in his old age had all five stages of his own memory, he saw through it all but couldn't stop it, he was disgusted by his past self, and he persuaded the ④socialized "me" agent not to kill him because He is not willing to ④ the socialized "I" agent to become the current self, he tells the ④ socialized "I" agent what will happen in the future, trying to convince the past self not to go on to become his current self. way. However, what has happened has happened, even if "I" know what will happen in the future, the choices "I" will make can only be the right choices that I can make in the present.
Writing here, I think of a similar movie "The Man with No Surname". The "I" in the movie returns to the fork of each choice countless times, trying to change the trajectory of life after that by making different choices, but every time The result of a choice is not perfect, and in the end he understands that there is no best choice, only the right choice.

They say, you look exactly like your mother and young;
you really this character with your dad;
everyone you love your body has its own shadow;
your body forever engraved with your loved traces;
you all The pain comes from the anger that you can't do anything about yourself.

"Predestionation" actually magnifies these extremes. You are your parents, you are your lover, you are your children, and you are your opponent.


I met my past me, I met my future me, there are so many mes in this world, but each me is unique at that moment, and every choice I make in this moment is free Creating my future, but also destined to replicate my past.
This is fatalism, you are yourself, but you are not yourself, you are not controlled by the present you, but determined by each past and future you, it is not impossible to change yourself, unless you Born into a completely different family, had a completely different life from the start, but it wasn't you.
Fatalism makes people somewhat pessimistic, but it is precisely because of fatalism that we can understand that what people can grasp is only this moment, even if time can be reversed, history cannot be repeated. What happened is about to happen. Don't look back when you go forward, don't need to think about what would have happened if I once took another path, and don't feel sorry for myself that I chose the wrong path.
Every choice you make is the right choice you make right now.

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Extended Reading
  • Grady 2022-03-25 09:01:06

    I don't ask where you come from or where you want to go, I just want to know how you know you can still love you?

  • Verda 2022-03-26 09:01:03

    Shocked as a god, it's awesome!

Predestination quotes

  • The Bartender: The only thing that I know for sure, is that you are the best thing that's ever happened to me.

    The Bartender: You know who she is, and you understand who you are, and now maybe you're ready to understand who I am.

  • The Unmarried Mother: You know, sometimes I think this world deserves the shit storm that it gets.