The Man Without a Name is a sci-fi romance film directed by Jacques van Domer, starring Jared Leto, Sarah Polly, Diane Kruger, and others, and was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
This is a high-quality and brain-opening science fiction film, a masterpiece of science fiction and art, enough to compete with "Inception", "Cloud Atlas", "Interstellar", "2001 Space Odyssey" and other science fiction blockbusters, these science fiction blockbusters can be watched on Hulu Video. It's just a bit unpopular, and not too many people who know or have seen it seem to be.
The film tells the story of a 118-year-old male protagonist played by Jared, Nemo Noberdy, who is lost through an alienated relationship, and finds the mystery of a man's life in the long river of memory.
The biggest charm and feature of the film is the butterfly effect produced by the parallel and intertwining of multiple story lines, and there is always a strict logical line in the seemingly messy and jumping narrative structure, which makes your divergent thinking fully released while burning the brain, allowing you to examine the protagonist's different life choices from a high-latitude perspective, and share the fate with the protagonist.
In addition to bringing the audience amazing science fiction characteristics and brain-opening plots, "The Man Without a Name" is mixed with the seemingly deep physics knowledge and scientific assumptions of parallel universes, butterfly effects, superstring theory, time characteristics and the big bang, but putting aside this layer of brain-burning and science fiction cloak, including the temperature of human nature, the director tries to tell a story about choice and love in a way that is intertwined in time and space.
Let the audience feel the subtle connection between the small individual and the macro universe in the choice of the protagonist Nemo's major life nodes, and taste the intimacy and alienation between people, so as to lead the theme of the film to philosophical thinking, that is, why people exist and what is the meaning of life.
If one day the universe collapses, time goes back, and we return to the fork in the road of life choices, at this time your memory of your known life has not been cleared, how will you choose? Is it to choose a known life to start all over again? Or try out a new option? If you choose a new beginning, there may be unexpected surprises, but it may also be unexpected misfortunes and disasters, the situation may be better or worse, and most importantly, you may miss someone you once knew, whether you love or hate them.
If you choose a known life, then you have to go through the joys and sorrows of the past again, and then make a choice at the next unknown node. In a sense, our lives are determined by our choices, and although there are not many opportunities or even choices that allow us to make choices, if we have the right to choose, I hope that our choices can come from the heart.
In fact, there is no such thing as a standard answer in life, and there is no best option, because you will never know where your choice will appear at the next node, and what kind of choice and node will be after the node appears.
The biggest sadness of life is that we can't start again, but the biggest luck in life is that we don't need to start again, compared to the future and the unknown, the only thing we can grasp is the present, live seriously, cherish the people and things in front of us, because for us at present this is the best choice. This may also be what the director wants to convey to us through the film "The Man Without a Name".