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The erosion of the human psyche by virtual space
With the ubiquity of virtual space, even if the human body cannot enter it, the mind may already be immersed in the virtual world and cannot extricate itself, some people are addicted to games, some are addicted to the Internet.
Perhaps one day, the various virtual spaces shown in the movie will be created by high-tech means, which will make human beings more addicted.
"Time and space shuttle" science fiction movies give another deep thinking about the human situation, human beings may have survived in some virtual environment for too long, the virtual world gradually erodes people's hearts, so that people do not know what is real, and they no longer know what they are living.
Humans need to evacuate in time and not let virtual space continue to corrode the mind.
Your killer is yourself! "You can't connect your brain to this machine and expect nothing from it, so please leave before you get hurt."
This is what Jenny, the protagonist of the film, who is deeply hurt by virtual space, said to Doug.
The movie "Thirteen Floors" depicts a world in a different dimension.
In this world, everything is like the real human life world, and they have the same thoughts as humans, but they don't know that they are just an electronic simulation character.
Until one day, the person who designed all this, Chuan Hanlong, was killed, and all the spearheads were pointed at his subordinate Doug, who entered this huge electronic system in order to find the truth, and suddenly found that he was just an electronic signal, like a machine alive.
In the next dimension, the person who really exists is Jenny's husband, that is, Doug's connector David, David designed all this virtual space and fell in love with killing in the virtual world, and Jenny fell in love with Doug in the virtual world.
This film profoundly focuses on and satirizes the survival of human beings in this technological era in this exaggerated way of time and space, and reminds people to keep a certain distance from the virtual world, as Jenny said in the film.
The film "Sensory Games" vividly interprets the corrosion of the human mind by the virtual game space.
The protagonist Erica and others love video games in real life, and during a trial game, they were assassinated by a group of anti-gamers.
In danger, Pico, a newly arrived employee, rescues Arika, who takes him into the game world of "X Contact".
The two people's bodies are connected to the game space, and the mind and body shuttle into the virtual game world at the same time, and they gradually become addicted to this game system, and begin to lose their sense of real life, and even some perverts.
And there are games in the game, reality is becoming more and more distant from them, and the boundary between reality and unreal is becoming more and more blurred.
It turns out that everything is a game, Alga and Pico themselves are just players, although Alga finally shoots the real designer of the game, Noresh, but it is still not sure whether it is in the game or in reality.
An exploration of the relationship between man and self
"Those who know others are wise, and those who know themselves are clear", the word "Ming" used by Lao Tzu implies a profound meaning.
"Ming" means light, people truly know themselves and accept themselves, in order to get out of the blind zone they set and embrace the light.
Knowing oneself to accepting oneself is a leap, and if you achieve a harmonious relationship between people and yourself, you must know how to let go after knowing yourself, and finally reach the state of accepting oneself.
"Time and space shuttle" type of science fiction movies explore the problem of the relationship between people and self, and in some films, when the protagonist is unwilling to face his true self, he chooses to escape and enter the illusory space.
Immersed in illusion in illusory space, but this is by no means the end, escape is not the solution to the problem, you will contradict yourself, the real will defeat the false, and the protagonist can only gain freedom of mind if he chooses to accept himself and learns to let go.
In other films, the protagonists will find themselves in the illusory space to escape the real and unable to accept themselves, because such reasons will cause a variety of troubles, and finally only by accepting themselves, choosing to completely let go of their punishment or ridiculous self-esteem can they get out of the predicament.
The use of technology can create a lot of sweet dreams, in this dream, there are no worries and worries, only the best life you want, but you will gradually become the walking dead, when there is still a trace of your awake consciousness, will you use it to defeat your cowardice of escapism, recognize yourself, accept yourself, let go of baggage, this is the thinking brought to us in the film "Vanilla Sky".
This film tells the story of finding happiness in dreams, from unwillingness to face themselves to acceptance of themselves.
The protagonist of the film, David, is destroyed by a car accident, and when he finds his beloved Sophia again, he finds that she no longer accepts herself.
David, who had not experienced the tribulations of life, could not accept this reality for a while, and signed a contract with a life extension company for "lucid dreaming", using freezing technology to freeze people, and people would shuttle into dreams, where there were romantic dreams like summer romances.
David escapes reality and falls in love with his beloved Sophia in an illusory dream created by technology.
But because the subconscious flashes the real scene, the dream turns into a nightmare for him to become a murderer.
The illusory dream space conceals the truth, torments David's heart, and makes him worse off than dead.
He finally said goodbye to Sophia, who said he loved him in the illusion, said goodbye to himself who could not face setbacks, let go of his self-esteem, let go of the face of Brother Gongzi, fell from a high place, chose to return to the real world, and accepted his true self.
In the film "Inception", the protagonist Cobb has been unable to accept the death of his wife caused by taking his wife into the dream space, so that when he went to steal Fisher's dream, his imagined wife kept coming to sabotage his plan, and appeared in the dream space as an enemy every time.
Until he enters the fourth layer of space, if he cannot accept himself, everyone's efforts will be in vain.
Accepting himself is equivalent to letting go of his punishment, and when he continues to struggle with his inner self, he says goodbye to his dream wife and no longer punishes himself, and the dream fantasy wife disappears, and they finally succeed.
Reflections on anthropocentrism
Anthropocentrism is a scale of value, and its concept is that "the interests of human beings are the origin of value and the basis for moral evaluation, and there are and only human beings are the subjects of value judgments." ”
Perhaps it is precisely because scientists have been exploring the traces of life on other planets, but ultimately without results, that such values have arisen.
Other planets may not be able to die like Earth, and if there are other lifeforms, then they are very, very far away from Earth, so far away that there is no chance of contact.
For now, at least, people are lonely and unique.
However, "time and space shuttle" science fiction movies such as "Time-Space Contact", "Wormhole Effect", "X-Men: Reverse the Future" and other films are gradually deconstructing and reflecting on this value, constantly looking for other organisms in outer space, or creating human mutants, placing human beings in the vast universe to tell how small human beings are, or exposing the selfish side of human values, allowing human beings to reflect on themselves and values.
In the film "X-Men: Back to the Future", mutants (X-Men) appear in the human world, these people have strong genetic organization and function, but they do not have the intention of harming people.
Even so, humans still worry that mutants will be bad for themselves, so they begin to abuse mutants, stimulating mutant witches to kill Senator Robert Kelly, resulting in almost all mutants being killed by giant robots created by humans in 2013.
In an effort to rewrite history, 2013's mutant Allen shuttles back in time to 1973 to stop the witch's act.
In 1973, mutants rewrote history, they controlled giant robots for their own use, and all the powerful conditions went to the mutants, and humans had no power to tie chickens.
Under such circumstances, mutants could have wiped out all humanity and become rulers of the New World, but instead laid down their weapons, choosing to believe that humanity would live in harmony with them.
Faced with this scene, the supreme rulers were moved, they no longer judged the existence of these mutants by the original human values, but accepted their values and chose to believe.
When Cooper and his team embarked on a journey through time and space, the "patrol" landed on the planet Miller, and after the big wave swept through, Doyle died, and Amelia said: "They are five-dimensional life".
In the final part of the film, Cooper takes the hypercube into the five-dimensional space, and with the help of the inhabitants of the five-dimensional space, Cooper touches the earth, and humans succeed.
This film puts human beings in the vast universe, making human beings seem so small, and without the help of organisms in five-dimensional space, human beings cannot save themselves.
What kind of new positioning should human beings have in the entire universe, is it still a centrist value? "Time Travel" science fiction movies deconstruct this value concept and make small human beings think about self-positioning again.