In Liu Cixin's novel "The Three-Body Problem", there is a very classic sentence that "weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival, arrogance is". This sentence describes the role of human beings facing the vast cosmic firmament and playing in the unknown civilization of outer space. Indeed, in the face of unknown civilizations, in the face of unknown universes, human beings have no reason to feel that they are powerful and invincible, nor do they have any reason to feel that they should despise other civilizations. At any time, contempt means self-awareness, and eventually this unawareness has the potential to lead to unpredictable catastrophic events.
The movie recommended to you today is about such a catastrophic event, when such a catastrophic event occurs, this sentence of Liu Cixin mentioned above has a provenance, brings it in, and closes it tightly. This film is "Incredible Shrinking Man", which is a film born in the 1960s and is a science fiction film. This film tells the story of a man who has experienced an accident, getting smaller day by day, until he has completely entered the microscopic world.
Human technology continues to progress and develop, in addition, a man and his girlfriend in the seaside vacation experienced a thick fog "baptism", the girlfriend hid in the past, but the man exposed the body in the thick fog, the result of going home half a year later, the thick fog brought unpredictable risks to the man's body, he actually went small day by day, and soon became a dwarf, but after the doctor announced that there was no cure, the man still did not stop the pace of continuing to become smaller. Eventually, he became about the size of a mouse and was thrown into the basement by a cat.
Men have completely become part of the microscopic world, creatures that they never cared about before, but now bring unpredictable risks to themselves. In the microscopic world, men struggle to survive, and gradually realize that all living things are equal, and their previous understanding has undergone earth-shaking changes. Later, the man accepted the fact that he was getting smaller and decided to survive with the world.
This is a very old science fiction movie, if this film is placed in the present, it will definitely be ridiculed, the simple "special effects", the amplification and reduction effect achieved only by dislocation, etc. will be criticized by science fiction fans, but the practical significance of this film is the same as the main theme expressed by Liu Cixin's "Three-Body Problem". Empathy and reverence for life and the spirit of the unknown.
Before being exposed to pollutants, the man's life was not much different from that of ordinary people, as a modern person, he experienced the various conveniences brought by modern society, but also despised any other species, and the cat in the house did not become the object of respect of the man, let alone other creatures many times smaller than cats. When arrogant, no one wants to commit to empathy, and men do not become a saint when they are arrogant.
However, when misfortune ensues, modern life suddenly becomes a disaster. The man is getting smaller day by day, while the creatures that were harmless to humans and animals in his eyes before are "getting bigger" day by day. The wife's careful care did not completely dispel the fear in the man's heart, but made this fear deeper and deeper. His wife's concern makes the man struggle, but there is no better way for him to make himself more at ease, because anything around him will become unpredictable risks.
Eventually, tragedy arises, and when everyone thinks he's dead, he's faced with something even more frightening than death. When a man who was once very powerful is reduced to an awkward position, the man's remaining confidence is also destroyed. Life has no hope, survival has become the only, at this time, men really understand how small the creatures that were in their eyes before are actually how small, how vulnerable, and how the former powerful self poses a threat to them.
However, it is too late to understand all this, because I am now part of the threat. When the burden of life began to weigh on him, it all turned around completely. Ignorance and weakness have made the man the object of ridicule, and arrogance has completely destroyed his self-confidence, and after reshuffling, the whole world has unexpectedly gained another possibility.
However, in the long river of human civilization, such a possibility is not clear, arrogant human beings have never been willing to empathize with other creatures, any creature weaker than themselves may suffer a fatal blow from human beings at any time and anywhere, why human beings will not awaken, because human beings are far from facing such a dilemma. When the pressure of survival is placed on the human body, such empathy is possible. However, such opportunities are few and far between.
In "The Three-Body Problem", human beings are facing an unknown civilization, but in reality, all kinds of creatures that are weaker than humans are facing the civilization known to human beings, and human beings spread pesticides in nature, but eventually let the disaster take revenge on themselves. In the face of creatures weaker than themselves, human beings always slaughter with confidence, but when they become weaker beings, is there any point in awakening? This film has been released for decades, human science and technology have developed rapidly, but in fact, no one has carried out a thorough reflection on their own behavior, how can we talk about empathy?
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