The paradox of human nature

Marcella 2022-04-20 09:01:11

Another humanistic Sci-Fic. Judie Foster's acting skills are nothing to say. And Americans have been thinking about some issues that we have just started today, or have just begun to attract widespread attention ten years ago, and expressed them in very beautiful film language, which is really nothing to say. Every time I watch a movie like this, I always feel full and happy, and at the same time there is a hint of despair. On the other hand, what are you doing when you look at Chinese movies?
Do science and religion conflict with each other, and is there any evidence that God exists? These questions are very close to the theme of the novel Angels and Demons.
At the same time, the film has a strong sense of realism, and the media coverage of scientific discoveries makes people like me laugh at themselves. In many movies, the media always exists as a kind of absurd, funny, and ignorant external image. Its relationship to the theme is generally the relationship between the clown and the play.
In addition to the subtle relationship between science and religion, what impresses me most about the film is a "paradox of human nature". It's hard to tell exactly what this is, but this is the "key" shared by almost all successful humanities Sci-Fic: that is, no matter how advanced the technology is, the unique human emotions (family, love) are always in our hearts The softest place is always the most unbearable thing to give up, therefore, it is always the most deadly and "weak" place. And this forms a contrasting tension with the highly developed science and technology.
The "paradox" in this film is that Judie's female doctor believes in positivism, but there is no evidence for her experience of traveling through time and space to meet her deceased father; all stories from beginning to end are A hoax, but precisely this unprovable 1 second (or 18 hours) is the only real thing.
I would like to praise the screenwriter again. After the film was played, I was worried that he would not be able to end, because no matter what the ending was, it was a failure, but such an ending was too unexpected.
After watching the movie, it is also the time for the weekend to end. Very lost. Watching the subtitles rise little by little, it seems that the wonderful play is over again, and it is about to return to real life. People like movies, maybe because they can give you a temporary escape from reality.
I remembered in "Tokyo Love Story", when Satomi and Mikami were together for a short time, sitting at the entrance of the cinema once, Satomi said, "I am afraid that when the movie ends, all the lights will turn on and tell me that everything is over. already."

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Extended Reading
  • Dorothy 2021-10-21 15:30:21

    If we can take the advocacy of reason as the consensus (but for cruel reality, please refer to those short comments that will be wrong), then scientists and pastors can also love each other. There are two places where my tears are about to fall: the pastor asked her why she dared to sacrifice for space contact. She talked about the knowing smile of who we are the three Ws; she saw that no words can only be described in poetry The magnificent celestial phenomenon was weeping with joy. This is the charm of pursuing truth. Teacher Tian Feng recommended it!

  • Linnea 2021-10-21 15:30:20

    Science fiction films with connotation (also can not be said to be sci-fi films in the absolute sense, maybe they are real, who knows), exploring the relationship between science and faith, but the foreshadowing in front is a bit too long~~

Contact quotes

  • Ellie Arroway: You're not real. None of this is real.

    Alien: [disguised as her father] That's my scientist.

    Ellie Arroway: [looking the beach around you] When I was unconscious, you downloaded my thoughts, my memories, even Pensacola.

    Alien: We thought this might make things easier for you.

  • Ellie Arroway: Is this some test?

    Alien: No, no tests...

    [alien disguised as her father holds Ellie's hand]

    Alien: you have your mother's hands... You're an interesting species, an interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares. You fell so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we found that makes the emptiness bearable, each other.

    Ellie Arroway: What happens now?

    Alien: [he stands up] Now, you go home.

    Ellie Arroway: [she stands up] Home? But I have so many questions, do we get to come back?

    Alien: This was just a first step. In time you'll take another.

    Ellie Arroway: But other people need to see what I've seen, they need to see...

    Alien: This is the way it's been done for billions of years. Small moves, Ellie. Small moves.