As a rookie who only knows some terms of quantum mechanics and cannot deduce and understand them from the perspective of mathematics and physics, it is irrational to talk about the famous thought experiment of "Schrödinger's cat" without authorization. - Any more comments other than saying I don't understand are overkill and misleading.
Fortunately, this movie is based on science fiction, and the entire story is based on the "multiverse hypothesis". To understand it, you don't need a deep background in physics. All we have to do is accept its setting and read the story along the way.
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You must have heard of the so-called "multiverse hypothesis".
There are countless points in our life journey that force us to make choices. There is a view that every time a choice is made, two or more parallel worlds are created. In different worlds, our destiny is different.
Due to the strict constraints of the laws of physics, these parallel worlds are irrelevant, and you will never encounter yourself in another world. So we can calmly eat popcorn, watch movies and then open our minds to imagine the completely different fates we may encounter in the parallel world.
However, when the comet strikes, the life of the protagonists has a major event.
"The Night the Comet Came" is actually based on a very unreliable imagination: it presupposes the "multiverse hypothesis", and then assumes that when the comet crosses the earth, different worlds will be disturbed by the comet Overlap occurs. So the protagonists encountered and interacted with themselves in the other world, and then made all kinds of stupid, absurd and dark actions due to strong shock and fear.
What's more troublesome is that the story setting: the creation of multiverse comes from people's choices. In the film, as the protagonists roll the dice, they build a new, as many as 5,038,848 overlapping parallel worlds on top of the already overlapping worlds. - So, with the protagonists walking through that dreadful fog so many times, it's impossible for everyone to return to the world they belonged to.
As a result, everyone becomes an "outsider" in their own world.
From the setting point of view, if you don't pursue the very unreliable premise that the coming of the comet will cause the world to stagger, the overall logic of the plot is still perfect.
From the initial shock of discovering "another self", then thinking that the other world is the "dark side" of this world, to slowly discovering the fact that it is not "another world" but "other worlds", to the final realization To the point where you can't return to your own world and fall into madness, it does not break away from the logic of the story, and clearly explains the setting of the movie (if you don't have a rough explanation of the "Schrödinger's Cat" and you're worried about it).
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Once this setting is accepted, the plot will flow smoothly.
When we take off the sci-fi mask of this movie, the wonderful horror connotation is revealed.
Please don't underestimate the large amount of dialogue at the beginning of the movie that seems to have nothing to do with the plot (in fact, there are many foreshadowings hidden in it), which explains a basic fact to us in the plot: everyone has a certain degree of certainty about their own life. dissatisfied.
As the plot progresses, when the protagonists gradually realize that their experiences are not illusions, the overlapping of multiple worlds exists objectively, and the self in other worlds has become a potential threat to everyone. On the one hand, the self in every world knows that they have some ulterior secrecy, which is so serious that even if someone knows it, it means a threat to oneself (even if that person is another self); on the other hand, perhaps another The self in the world is much happier than the current self, so as the unfortunate self, it is a logical idea to want to exchange life with the happy self.
Sure enough, because Mike knew himself, he realized that if he didn't act first, he would definitely be attacked by other Mikes. As a result, he not only exposed the secret that he had had a one-night stand with Beth, but also led to the sudden collapse of his friendship with Huge for many years. Still can't avoid being poisoned by other Mikes.
And when the heroine Emy realizes that she can't go back to where she came from, her choice is more profound: since I can't go back to where I came from, I'll find a better place. Because of her resistance to her boyfriend (Kevin) wanting to travel far, and her disgust at the entanglement between Kevin and his ex-girlfriend, "finding a better world" was no longer a second-best goal, but became Emy core needs.
That's the heart of the horror of this story. In the middle of the story, when the protagonists were still ignorant, they once thought that the "dark side" of themselves was in another house. However, as the story progresses, they prove that they are actually the "dark side". Furthermore, in this particular case, each self is the "dark side".
Compared to the self-defeating Mike (who reverts to his drinking after realizing the problem), Emy is undoubtedly more motivated. After soberly aware of the reality, she left with disgust for this world.
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For the movie, Emy's departure means the story is coming to an end. But for Emy, maybe her nightmare has just begun.
After a long search, she finally found an ideal world, and then killed the "self" in this world and intended to replace it. But Emy never thought that if one Emy would choose to look for a new world, it would mean that there would be many Emys looking for a new world. Although, due to the huge number of parallel worlds, it is almost impossible for each Emy to return to her original world, but the possibility of more than one Emy entering the same ideal world exists.
Moreover, according to the account of the film, we can almost assume that the ideal world means that the people in the house have not been out of the house all night, that is to say, everyone in the house is "original". Then the 5,038,848 worlds mentioned above are not what Emy is looking for. Even if only 1 in 10,000 Emys were looking for the ideal world, that would be 503 Emys. With 503 Emys wandering in the alternate time and space of parallel universes, the probability of 2 or more Emys crashing into the same world is probably not negligible.
So, there are many speculations that we may make about the phone call that my boyfriend Kevin received at the end of the film, but almost every one of them declares the bankruptcy of Emy's plan.
She exposed the darkest and evil part of her heart, and she still didn't get the happiness she wanted in the end.
The most terrifying thing is that after Comet left, she could never look back.
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If you dig deeper, you will find that "The Night When the Comet Came" is far more terrifying than we thought.
On the night the story takes place, there are at least 5,038,848 worlds. So out of kindness and comfort, we can guess like this: Even if Emy in the story fails to enter the ideal world in the end, in the world of millions, I am afraid there will always be a world that is perfect, and Emy has won, Obtained happiness that did not belong to him.
In reality, however, this is not possible. Even if there are as many as 5,038,848 worlds out there on this night, absolutely no Emy can achieve ultimate happiness.
You can notice that as early as the opening of the movie, when Emy was parking the car, there was a period of abnormal signal; in the chat section before the power outage, we can also find that the people sitting in the room are no longer from the same world. ——The most obvious manifestation is that Laurie loves watching a series called "Roswell" very much, but he doesn't recognize Mike in front of him as the star of the TV series; everyone thinks Laurie is a yoga instructor, but Laurie claims that he is in Silicon Valley jobs.
understand? Long before their meeting began, the house had been mixed with "outsiders" who did not belong to this world. Therefore, the so-called perfect world that "no one has left" does not exist at all, because when everyone met at the beginning, the time and space were already confused.
If there was ever a world that was perfect, it was the one that didn't have a party that night. ——And such a world has nothing to do with Emy.
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