I watched this movie in the morning. Let me find a gap in linear thinking and life. As a person who studies Zhuangzi, the changes of time and space have always fascinated me, and I also wanted to write "Zhuangzi's Vision of Dreams" for my master's thesis. A dream of Huangliang, a dream of Nanke, and a dream of Zhuang Zhou are the three most famous dreams in Chinese history. The relationship between dreams and reality has been deeply discussed in Tibetan Buddhism. There are even Venerables who see it as a path to enlightenment.
In this film, the discussion between dreams and reality is launched in a way that is like a dream but not a dream. The 70-year-old male protagonist is a college teacher who lives alone and has not completed his own research. Feeling defeated and ready to commit suicide, but was struck by lightning and returned to the age of 40. This enabled him to have the ability that he could not have in the past, the control of knowledge, the use of spiritual power, and the strong learning ability. Everything he had longed for in the past gradually got him. The girl who broke off the engagement also appeared, fell in love with him, and even helped him through his own abilities to complete his unfinished research. The male protagonist touched the prehistoric civilization and the future. And then he realized that if his research was to be completed, the beloved woman would die. The development of civilization will also lead to the destruction of human beings, although new civilizations will also be born. So he gave up his research and went to death in the way he chose.
Some say the ending is too bleak. actually not. The third rose represents enlightenment. Having experienced the changes of these two identities, he has understood what time is, what is death, and what is reality.
The so-called time is not linear, it is fixed. Rather, it is relative and elastic. Dreams and reincarnation are the best proof of this concept. In a dream, it may have been a hundred years, but in reality (?) it may be only a short moment. But the feeling in the dream is still real, unaware. Reincarnation memory can make people recall long-term memories, connect linear memories in series, and reverse time and space.
The so-called death is not the complete end. There are far more connections within the world than we can imagine.
The so-called reality is that there is a dream-like unity in a world that seems to be opposite.
Therefore, the male protagonist's death in the snow is clean, but the rose in his hand is hot.
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