When it comes to sci-fi movies, the first thing that came out of my mind was probably 2001: A Space Odyssey... To be honest, most sci-fi movies are that There are more popcorn movies... But this movie has let me see the artistic tension of science fiction movies...
People live in the world for two things? One is to recognize the value of self-existence...the other is to find happiness!
How can a person become aware of self-existence? I think there are two ways...
one is to recognize and affirm your existence through the outside world... the friends around you, the evaluation of people you know, etc.... the other is self-knowledge.. . Self-knowledge comes from a kind of instinct, just like John at the beginning of the film. Although his head is muddled, he still saves the goldfish...that is a kind of showing that John is a kind-hearted person. Kind of oath! The director arranges such a scene here to show that John’s heart is good...this is the first point that John recognizes himself...
and the way to self-knowledge is through recollection...remembering yourself Past actions and various choices made in the past can determine what kind of person he is... But John's memory is erased. He can't know who he is... A fear of being denied is in his heart. surge. John is eager to find himself! Confirming his existence became the motivation of John in the beginning of the film...
Then John met all kinds of people: his wife Emma who gave him a green hat...at first he was treated as a detective who was a perverted killer...the mysterious man who pursued him...and finally let him know himself. Dr. Daniel. But no one can tell him how to get to Baker Beach... which is where John's vague memory grew up in his childhood... and every 12 o'clock, everything in this city will stop and people will enter a state of unconsciousness.. It turns out that those mysterious people are aliens with superpowers. They can manipulate matter arbitrarily with their thoughts. At 12 o'clock, they will use a machine to gather their thoughts to change the face of the city, and by reading Taking and tampering with human memory to find a way to avoid their destruction... John is one of their experiments, but the experiment went wrong and he unexpectedly possessed the abilities of aliens! ! !
One thing worth mentioning here is Baker Beach, which John has been looking for! ...There are many clues to Baker Beach, huge billboards, subway stations in this city... Everyone knows that there is such a place, which is completely different from this dark city, where there is sunshine, there is The beach, there are plants and bikini girls...but no one remembers how to get there...and John, in order to find his own memory, must arrive at Shell Beach...At the same time, John who has experienced the escape evokes his heart again. My love for Emma...I
don’t know if you have noticed a scene in the film that seems to have nothing to do with the main line...In a 12 o’clock tune, a poor couple’s house passed by an alien. tune becomes magnificent, the memory of the husband and wife has also been tampered with, and what cannot be tampered with is the relationship between the two of them!
I think that a shell beach specially arranged by the director is actually a metaphor for our happiness! The place that everyone really yearns for, but is inaccessible...For John, Shell Beach is his salvation place, only there can he feel his real existence! He can find himself... but at the same time, deep in his heart he has feelings for his wife Emma...
When John came to the edge of the city and knocked on the brick wall to discover all the secrets... he was stunned... and as the camera zoomed out, it turned out that the city was built on an alien machine in the universe. ...At this time, the wretched alien capture squad appeared. They kidnapped John's wife Emma and instilled her memory... They used Emma to threaten John's surrender! The purpose is to merge with them, so that they can be saved from their extinction... Although John knew that Emma was brainwashed and didn’t know him at all, he still couldn’t let go of his feelings for Emma and chose to surrender. ! At the critical moment when the memory of the aliens was about to be injected and merged with them, Dr. Daniel surreptitiously put the memory of how to use which superpower into John's brain, and finally...John defeated the alien Or2.. . He has gained all the abilities of aliens! Then he used his superpowers to build the shell beach in his mind around the city... and let the sun shine again in Dark City... When John came to the edge of the city again, he I saw the shell beach and also saw Emma... Emma is no longer Emma at this time, it is Anna... The former husband and wife are now strangers... But John has a leisurely look, because he knows , Aliens can steal and tamper with human memory, but they cannot obliterate the strongest feelings in human hearts... The subtitles of Brabura are here!
It’s just such a movie that uses a sci-fi movie cover...but some points in the movie are still commendable, I dare say that the Waldowski brothers are shooting<
last thing to add is... In fact, the world we live in is like a Dark City!
There is always a group of people who manipulate the power to change our view of things in various ways... it is tantamount to tampering with our memory! Let us doubt and even deny our past experiences! However, it is always the same! It has always been the relationship between people and the pursuit of happiness... Moreover, I have always believed that happiness is not found, but created by myself...
I have to add a little bit, I used to have a very tangled In the past... I have also been trying to doubt and deny... Today, chatting with a friend inadvertently got the answer I always wanted... But what? The situation has long since moved... Shell Beach was not found, Shell Beach was made...
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