Butterfly Effect + 12 Monkeys + Back to the Future + Groundhog Day + 50 First Loves

Geovanni 2022-05-25 16:28:09

This anime about time travel visually involves the main arguments of "Butterfly Effect", "12 Monkeys", "Back to the Future", and some elements similar to "Groundhog Day" and "50 First Loves". I don't have deep contact with the second dimension, so I won't talk about the Ermeng harem and other things in the human settings, but I will talk about the context of time travel that I understand.



The time travel theory of "Stones of Destiny" is based on the "world line", which should be the same concept as the parallel universe. To change the present and the future by influencing the past is to cross another world line. There are three forms of time travel in the film. The first is to send text messages to the past self or others through the accidentally discovered "telephone oven", which affects the behavior of the past and changes history. Due to the butterfly effect, this impact may be very large. It's hard to predict. This model is very similar to the movie "Butterfly Effect". The second is that the male protagonist uses the developed instrument to transfer the current memory to his own brain in the past. This is more controllable than the influence of texting on behavior (because only his memory is changed), and it is equivalent to the experience based on memory. Repeatedly repeating a piece of history, from the perspective of learning, is equivalent to immortality. This is also the situation encountered by the hero of "Groundhog Day", but the latter is not voluntary. However, the protagonist found that this did not change some established facts, that is, no matter how tossing, the major destiny will not change (the argument of "12 Monkeys"). The third is to take the time machine directly to and from various times. It is the same model as "Back to the Future", but there is also the problem of avoiding meeting yourself in another era. Since only the male protagonist has the ability to cross world lines and retain memories over time, his memory is a mixture of multiple world lines, so he has to re-explain the situation with other characters after each world line changes, and even re-recognize other characters. This is a bit of "50 First Loves". Don't think that being able to time travel is invincible. The hero's memory ability is the basis for winning the time travel battle, so if the hero hangs anywhere, everything will be over.

American commercial films and American dramas must first have a wave of eye-catching climaxes at the beginning, otherwise it will be hard to escape the bad luck of being cut. And Japanese anime can be as slow as you want. For example, in this work, it’s about eleven or twelve episodes that start to get nervous. Episodes 12-18 are the most exciting part in my opinion. Unfortunately, at the end, it dragged on because of love and love. However, based on time travel, the overall plot of the film is quite good and logically complete. There can also be some emotional touches, such as the complex emotions brought by the protagonist’s many times more complex memories than others, the long years of isolation brought about by the one-way time travel of the braided girl, the father and daughter recognize each other for a period of time, and the knowledge of the timeline change The forgetting brought about, such as the 10-year dream of Phyllis sauce and his father, the transgender dream of the pseudo-mother and so on. I think these simple emotions are more touching than the entanglement between the red-haired woman and the male pig in 3 episodes. The Japanese-style life and death is a little artificial to me. Besides, I think that because of the red-haired woman’s intelligence, I should have known that the last Dmail was cancelled early. There is no need to wait for the male pig to tell her the consequences; the story of the madly texting female is also relatively thin and distorted. In addition, the theory of over 1% is a bit far-fetched; every time a Dmail is withdrawn, the death period of truth will be postponed by one day. It is only an observation experience, and there is no reasonable basis; the theory of the Stein Gate world line is relatively vague, and it seems to be just to come up with a Happy ending.

I still think of a question after watching the whole movie. Assuming that the time and space of the universe is composed of countless world lines, then for us in this world line, the surrounding things naturally exist objectively, and the people and things in other world lines are things like dreams. However, for "we" living on other worldlines, perhaps we on this worldline are dreams again. The concept of existence has become a subjective criterion. Can it be considered that the theory of the world line is essentially ideal?



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Steins;Gate quotes

  • Kurisu Makise: It feels like time is passing so quickly. Damn you, Einstein! Your science is crowding in on our kiss! He was right. The passage of time depends entirely on where you're standing. Relativity Theory... it's so romantic. But it's just so tragic too.

  • Suzuha Amane: Everyone gets help from someone else at some point in their lives. So someday, you should help someone too.