With the withdrawal of "Chosin Lake", the cinema line in August has not given us too much expectation, and it is also a good choice to choose to relive old films in the air-conditioned room in the hot summer.
If you have the power of foreknowledge and can see the end of your life, how will you live this seemingly established life? The film to be recommended in today's volume explores this somewhat philosophical topic.
The Man Without a Name douban rating of 8.2 stars Jared Leto and directs Jacques van Domer. The Belgian-born director may be relatively niche for everyone, but the works he can find on Douban are equally divided into more than 7.5, and "The Eighth Day", "Little Hero Toto" and "Super New Testament" are his masterpieces, which can be said to be an extraordinary director.
"The Man Without a Name", a film released in 2009, is guided by philosophical issues, unfolds the story in a literary and soft science fiction style, fragments and branches of the narrative, and also contains parallel worlds, time and space rotation, fatalism and many other suspense elements that are still talked about today, making this film have advanced enlightenment and significance.
The film begins in reverse order, in 2092, the world's science and technology developed, and human beings were transformed, leaving the protagonist Nemo, the only 118-year-old natural person who has not yet been transformed.
People want to know what he has experienced in his life, and Dr. Fürth, who often chats with Nemo, found that although Nemo easily forgets other things, he can never forget the year when he was 34 years old.
In order to find out, the doctor hypnotized the elderly Nemo, where hypnosis can be divided into three stages, the first stage of Nemo has returned to the form of youth, but the state is unstable; the second stage of Nemo's consciousness is immersed in an absurd and bizarre whimsical world, the hypnotic factor is figuratively transformed into a white doctor, from time to time to pull Back Nemo who wants to get out of the hypnotic state; the third stage is the stage of real complete hypnosis, Nemo's memory returns to before birth - it turns out that at the beginning of birth, he was ignored by the forgotten angels. Without losing the ability to predict the future that people had at the beginning, in this way, he came to a plain and happy middle-class home in the mortal world.
One day, when his father stopped and forgot to pull the handbrake, the upside-down car hit the woman who was passing by, and Nemo, although he expected this, was too late. He informed his mother of his abilities, and she did not care.
During a swimming lesson, Nemo met Anna, a girl in red, who seemed to be in love at first sight, and the little boy wanted to attract the girl's attention by swimming, but it seemed to be due to the seizure of ability, and every time he jumped into the pool, the image of his adult drowning would come to mind. This lays the groundwork for the follow-up story.
After school, Nemo passes through a grove of trees and discovers that his mother and Anna's father are having an affair. It was also from this time that Nemo found that his parents' relationship was becoming increasingly discordant, and they often quarreled, and the two eventually decided to divorce.
At the country station at the time of separation, Nemo was faced with the choice of following his father or his mother. Behind the two choices, there are infinite extensions of various possibilities.
The film still seems to be a story about love, arranging and contrasting the three outcomes of love. Here the volume affirms that this view is justified, but not comprehensive. Nemo's love in the film can be roughly divided into the following categories: love, being loved, love but not, not love, love without marriage.
Love and being loved are epitomized in nemo and Anna's second plot line, Nemo chooses to follow his mother and becomes closely connected with Anna.
On the beach, Nemo confessed to Anna that he could not swim and therefore could not play with Anna and her friends, and this sincerity touched her. Two people gradually approached and fell in love, but because of the breakdown of each other's parents' feelings, they also ushered in a separation. Nemo waited every week at the agreed lighthouse with no results.
Many years later, at the train station, the two reunited, but Anna, who refused everyone's love for all these years, was also a little uncomfortable and caught off guard by the reunion with Nemo, and she left a number for Nemo to contact, but the number was soaked and blurred by raindrops falling from the sky.
It seems that fate is joking, hope is followed by despair, and after the long-awaited meeting, there is no longer necessarily separation. In this story line, Nemo and Anna's love and being loved stay in their adolescence, and they have chosen to wait exclusively, choose to close themselves, and when they meet again, they have already missed love.
Love can not basically summarize the emotional line between Nemo and the girl in the blue dress, Élise, Nemo's wishful thinking, and the girl has always loved another motorcycle boy, he is just a substitute for others, he has become someone else's shadow.
But this line is that he is writing science fiction novels, and in the future he will come to Mars to fulfill Élise's long-cherished wish to scatter her ashes on Mars. Nemo also meets Anna on the space station and learns that time and space will collapse in 2092 – after which time will flow back to the original point.
The love life with ginny, the girl in yellow, seems to be just a revenge and a bet on herself, and Nemo wants to be with the first girl at the party to dance with her.
He earns money, buys a house, and completes his career goals, and Ginny is very good to him, but he has never experienced true love and marriage. He didn't love the girl in front of him at all, and what kept them together might be the persecution of life or the bet of the self, but it was never sincere love.
Nemo in this line is passive and confused, he carries a coin to make decisions for himself, and finally dies of manslaughter.
The film seems to give Nemo all the possibilities of love, which seem to be the grasp and pursuit of emotions, but in fact, the discussion of the multi-discussion of life.
Love is a core exodus element of the director's choice, and the real driving force lies in Nemo's choice. The compromise between the pursuit of ideals and the contradictions of reality, the regret and exploration of the self, there have been single-mindedness and efforts to hit the south wall, and there have also been passive and passive to the point of death. Each of Nemo's story lines may seem bland or even absurd, but they can be integrated into the projection of real life.
The elderly Nemo told the reporter who was confused after listening to his different lives: "In fact, we all don't exist, we are just fantasies in the hearts of 9-year-old boys." It turned out that all kinds of imperfect endings were all in the mind of Little Nemo when he chose to live with his parents, and he finally did not choose either of his parents and ran to the fork in the road at the other end of the train.
In 2092, the life of the elderly Nemo was on the verge of coming to an end, and the moment he died was also the time of the collapse of the universe predicted by Anna in a previous world line. A similar operation of the "Creed" meme appears, everything returns to the most beautiful harmony and laughter, a light and quaint "Mr. Sandman", connecting the happiest moments of Nemo's life and the people around him.
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the elderly protagonist Bauman meets Blackstone at the end, and the process of death becomes a process of evolution, and he eventually becomes a "star child" staring at the earth. The ending of "The Man Without a Name" is also similar to it, fusing the grand cosmic reincarnation with the tiny life and death, adding a deeper philosophical meaning.
The nameless person, the nameless person, also refers to everyone in front of the screen who has spent a lifetime searching for their true self.
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