Adam said that human morality should take care of parents first, and then children should take care of their parents. He said that this has been the case since ancient times. Whenever Adam transmits this kind of message to me, I just smile, pat him on the shoulder, look out the window, why sabotage his dreams? What a beautiful dream. ”
This is an old movie from twenty years ago, telling an old story from nearly sixty years ago, "Timeless Love".
In the early 1960s, an American scientist living in Los Angeles foresaw the Cuban Missile Crisis that the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union would eventually turn into a devastating nuclear war, so he designed and built a huge air defense shelter in the basement of his home.
During a military plane crash, he and his pregnant wife mistakenly believed that the Soviet Air Force had launched a nuclear war on Los Angeles, so they activated intelligent protection, hid in the basement and blocked the exit.
The period of the blockade was a full 35 years, accompanied by enough food and daily necessities to be enjoyed for 35 years.
In the bomb shelter, the wife gave birth to a boy named Adam.
For 35 years, Under the guidance of his father, Adam received the information, culture, and skills that ended abruptly in 1962 underground. He was polite, gentlemanly, civilized, and had great respect and love for God. This is due to the careful education of his parents, who occasionally burst out a sentence of "SHIT!" (Shit!) He would explain that "SHIT" meant goodnight in French, not swearing.
He inherited almost everything from his father, French, German, Latin, boxing, and a box of his father's favorite baseball star cards.
After 35 years, the door finally opened, and the scientist's former home was long gone, but replaced by a dilapidated bar that had been in business for twenty or thirty years, and the owner of the bar had become a nervous beggar.
The world has changed drastically, so drastically that even the Soviet Union has ceased to exist.
His neighborhood has evolved into the "Third World," home to the nightlife of the lower classes, with drunkards, hooligans and shemales roaming above their heads.
Frightened, the scientists ran back underground, believing that the radiation caused by the nuclear war had altered human genes, making many people hermaphrodites and mentally abnormal.
The scientist refused his wife to go out and fell ill during the altercation. In order to buy food and other supplies, his 35-year-old son Adam volunteered to go out and take care of everything — taking the baseball player's limited edition card that his father gave him and came to the new world.
It was when Adam "sold" star cards that he met Eve, who helped and saw the "cards". This set of cards, with the smell of golden years, but almost spotless, pulls Adam, who has been isolated from the world for more than thirty years, into a world with beautiful Eve.
He followed her, saw the sky like he saw the Virgin Mary, saw the sea peeing his pants with joy, heard others say shit would go over to him and answer "good evening" in French, heard others say Goddamne (damn!). will warn him not to misuse God.
He had the idea that the computer was small enough to fit in the corner of a table in his bedroom, and in his worldview, the concept of a computer or a primary computer was a large machine that occupied several rooms.
Many people think he is crazy, only Eve thinks he can be good, help him buy, help him prevent being deceived, teach him to recognize this new world that has long been "hippies". More importantly, she kept telling him how valuable that old baseball card was in today's bustling America.
Adam also had a wish to come to the New World, a wish that was also his parents' wish, and both he and his parents hoped that he could find a good girl to take underground as a wife.
Adam's father, in particular, had become accustomed to, and even intoxicated, into the space underground, and perhaps even more intoxicated by the "fact" of the nuclear strike in the United States and the greatness of building his own bomb shelters.
In the noisy earthly world, Adam fell in love with Eve at first sight. After the complicated farce, there is this dialogue about the love of the 90s:
Adam said, "I'd like to ask you for a favor." ”
"Say it."
"I'm afraid it sounds a little crazy."
Eve smiled, "I'm sure it will." ”
"That... forget it."
"No, no, I'm sorry. What, you say? ”
"Eve, I would like to ask you to help me find a wife."
"A wife?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"Because I want to get married."
"Why do you want to get married?"
"Because I don't want to be alone."
"Well, you can stay single without being alone. Marriage can hurt. ”
"How does it hurt?"
"Very serious injury!" Eve swore.
"Really?"
"Of course."
"Oh, I didn't know that." He was deeply influenced by the fact that his parents were harmonious and loving.
"Everybody knows. I mean, ask my divorced brother, or my divorced parents, and everyone knows. ”
"They're all divorced?"
"Everyone gets divorced."
"Oh my God!" ......
The world that Adam understood and the world that reality were transformed into were so different that people no longer believed in marriage or that love could be put to the test. He didn't quite understand why, what had happened in those 35 years had left an inexplicable thing between a man and a woman, knocking out a beautiful marriage.
Eve also said, "Lying is a great tool for dating." ”
But when the honest Adam tells the truth, Eve dials the police station...
She almost lost him, and she almost had nothing but the star card that broke free of the times.
In the materialistic flow and the rhythm of life, many things are relaxing and changing, according to the fission of the self is highlighted, more emphasis on individualism has become the main theme of the times. These are the words that the movie has been montaged too many times.
In the strange and compact sense of the times, there will always be something left, reminiscent of yesterday, and connected to the future. For example, the 50s-style wide-shoulder jacket given to her by her mother in the film, or the star set card given by her father.
The United States and the Soviet Union did soar through the burrowing in the ground, like two children who peed farther than anyone else. In the 1950s, the "Moho Plan" of the United States drilled a 4.5-kilometer hole in the crust of the Pacific Ocean, and in 1966, the "Moho Plan" was stopped because of its senseless behavior, which made investment inevitably unable to balance the returns.
In 1970, the aggressive Soviet Union felt that the United States could not do it, and he had to try it. Until the collapse of the Soviet Union, by 1992, the fighting peoples had accumulated 1226 kilometers of holes in the earth.
War may not be the end of the world, for human beings, the real end point should be that one day we will not suddenly find that there is no memory to hold in the hand, to inherit a certain period of dusty years.
Even if it was a hidden cavern; even if it was a disconnected era.