The use of time and space elements in movies is not uncommon, this year's Spring Festival popular movie "Hello, Li Huanying" is such a setting, the daughter travels through time and space and the mother to be a girlfriend.
Maybe it's a trip back to the past, it can be parallel space-time, or even multiple space-times staggered.
Stories about time travel seem to never go out of style, and we've all fantasized about whether there would be a parallel world if we could do it all over again.
How do those films with space-time elements travel through time and space?
NO.1
Brain holes in space-time?
With the development of physics research, the variability and multiplicity of time and space have also made the narrative structure of the film develop from unidirectional linear to multidirectional nonlinear.
Film creators have imaginatively presented any change of time and space in the four-dimensional structure, resulting in different permutations and combinations, and multiple novel structures such as parallel, folded, or interlaced space-time appeared.
The more scientific and reasonable suspense plot and more unpredictable narrative structure not only lead to unprecedented logical and thinking challenges for audiences to watch movies, but also bring a new artistic experience.
There is a famous grandfather paradox in the theory of time travel, if you go back in time and kill your father before he is born, then you will not be born, and you will not be able to go back to the past to intervene in what has happened.
The debate in the physics community about this proposition has mainly formed two major schools of thought, which in turn has influenced the structure of the film's narrative.
One is the Novikov principle of self-consistency, which he argues is limited by interference from various factors, which is determined by the initial conditions before the time traveler enters the time machine, so that the past history will not be changed.
In the cinematic narrative, future events in turn become the cause of past events, leading to a cycle of cause and effect.
The second is the multi-world theory proposed by Hugh Efflet or parallel cosmology and multiverse theory.
This theory has influenced the film narrative, artificially changing history, making multiple time and space coexist in parallel, forming a juxtaposition structure of multiple possibilities.
NO.2
Cycle: Past is given?
Films with a space-time loop structure can be microscopic cycles, while others are macroscopic loops with larger spans.
The micro-cyclical structure of the film is generally a single cycle of multiple times, or even a continuous cycle of history on the same day.
In the constant repetition, the protagonist has a sense of growth.
Films with macro-cyclical structures tend to have a strong fatalistic overtones, where people who go back to the past and try to change history are just repeating what has already happened, and the past is an established fact that cannot be changed.
Groundhog Day
Average review score: 8.6
Year of production: 1993
The film tells a story about time and love.
The male protagonist is a weather announcer who travels to a border town called Pusutani on February 2 every year to cover the local Groundhog Day celebrations.
When he finished this boring errand, he was stopped by a snowstorm to stay in the town.
The next day he woke up to find that Groundhog Day hadn't passed and that it was happening again.
He tried by all means to get rid of this repetition and let the past become the past, but to no avail until he found true love.
Twelve monkeys
Average review score: 8.2
Year of production: 1995
In 2035, humanity was invaded by a virus developed by 12 monkey troops, and only a few people escaped and hid in the dark underground to survive.
So the scientists decided to send someone back to 1996 to trace the origin of the 12 monkey army.
According to The Principle of Novikov's Self-Consistency, one can go back to the past, but it does not change the course of history, and this film tells such a story.
Cole is like a combination of Cassandra and Oedipus in ancient Greek mythology.
He can predict the future but is regarded as crazy as Cassandra, and he wants to change the future but is toyed with by fate like Oedipus.
For Cole, history is like the fate of Greek mythology, irresistible and unchangeable.
The edge of tomorrow
Average review score: 8.1
Year of production: 2014
Based on the novel "Cycle of Killing" by Japanese writer Hiroshi Sakurasaka, Edge of Tomorrow tells the story of a future war between humans and aliens.
The protagonist inadvertently enters the loop mode, waking up the morning before each time he dies, similar to the sci-fi version of Groundhog Day.
Tom Cruise's multiple ways of dying at the same time and place, producing inexplicable black humor by death.
Before the coffee is cold
Average review score: 7.2
Year of production: 2018
There's a certain seat in a magical coffee shop that can travel back in time to hope to go back in time, but only for a cup of coffee.
Although it is possible to travel through the past, it cannot change the history of the past, because what has happened can only become the past forever.
From the coffee shop, there are four touching stories, including a conflicting little couple, a family with Alzheimer's disease, a sister Hirai who has a conflict with her family, and a small number herself.
If you could turn back the clock, what would you most like to do, who would you most like to meet, and what would you most like to say?
Even just a cup of coffee can complete inner redemption.
Travel through time and fall in love with you
Average review score: 7.4
Year of production: 2001
The 19th-century Duke of the Fallen crossed over to the 21st century, and the plot of the past and the present is not outdated today.
As the name suggests, the film tells a love story that travels through time and space and has a huge disparity in circumstances.
The style of romantic light comedy, Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman are very eye-catching, and the slightly cheesy plot makes people enjoy watching it.
Seventy years back in time
Average review score: 7.8
Year of production: 1980
The movie "Somewhere In Time", translated into Chinese as "Seventy Years Back in Time", is a lingering love film shot more than 20 years ago.
The film's theme song is a piano and orchestral piece completed by russian composer Rach Maninoff in 1934.
Based on the theme of Italian violinist Paganini's 24th violin capriccio, titled "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini", it is gentle and affectionate, which complements the film.
The male protagonist is a well-known playwright seventy years later, and the female protagonist is a star who rose to fame seventy years ago. They were briefly together, and the rest of their lives were a long wait, doomed to an insoluble ending.
Space-time takes a sharp turn
1993 French fantasy comedy "Time and Space Turn", also known as "The Twelfth Century Visitor".
Medieval knights who traveled to modern society were bound to make many out-of-place jokes and make a series of absurd moves.
The film doesn't have a heart-wrenching dog-blood love, just a pureLy French comedy film about an ancient man who has all sorts of hilarious things in modern times.
Time traveler
Average review score: 8.8
Year of production: 2013
British romantic comedy film, About Time.
Just like "True Love Supreme" and "Pirate Radio", Richard Costi's film lines are still so delicate and witty, even if they suddenly release tear bombs at the end, they are still warm and humorous.
The so-called physical sense of traveling through time and space is not the focus of the movie, love is the key.
Although Tim can't change history, he can change the little things that have happened and will happen in his life and make life better.
Time traveler's wife
Average review score: 7.7
Year of production: 2009
Henry suffers from a strange illness, chronic time dislocation.
The ability to travel in time is not as fun as imagined, and this ability torments Henry, who has infinite regrets about the past, and also torments Henry's lover Claire.
The wife of the time traveler must accept and get used to the long disappearance and sudden arrival of the lover, waiting for a long time.
The original novel Henry's farewell love letter to Claire is very touching.
"Claire, I want to tell you again that I love you. Over the years, the love between us has been the beacon of navigation in the bitter sea of the ocean, the safety net under the high-altitude tightrope walker, and the only truth and only trust in my grotesque life. ”
NO.3
Juxtaposition: Only one ending?
Juxtaposed films have different interpretations of the grandfather paradox, and history can change and have multiple versions.
There are more possibilities at the same point in time, and these events exist in parallel and co-existing in space-time.
Juxtaposed structures triggered by the same origin, such as "Song of Opportunity" and "Lola Run", can also be multi-line juxtaposition structures caused by different origins.
As an important concept in chaos theory, the butterfly effect is directly named after the movie "Butterfly Effect", showing the changes of multiple different origins, making the juxtaposition structure of the film more complex and brain-burning.
A song of opportunity
Year of production: 1987
Kieslowski's Song of Opportunity was released in 1987, and two years later, the Polish People's Republic was renamed the Republic of Poland.
In the film, a medical boy named Wick makes three very different choices, and due to chance and randomness, it causes all kinds of incidents and impermanence.
It seems that no matter what position a person eventually becomes, he cannot break through the prison of the system.
"Every generation needs a light, needs to know, their beliefs, and hope that the world can have a better order. This need is older than Marx and earlier than Marx. ”
Sliding door/two-faced lover
Average review score: 7.5
Year of production: 1998
One second faster may catch the subway, one second slower may miss the subway, which is a familiar scene in our daily life.
And the story of this movie is born from this, catching the subway and missing the subway to meet different people, different things happen, and experience different lives from then on.
Similar movies include Lola Run and The Butterfly Effect, where one decision can change the lives of one person and everyone else.
"Sliding Doors" tells the story of parallel time and space, telling us the uncertainty and fickleness of life.
Back to the Future trilogy
Average review score: 8.5
Year of production: 1985-1990
The "Back to the Future" trilogy is the originator of the time and space travel of film history, and the three films are all online, without dog-tailed mink, which has influenced many works in later generations.
A high school student named Martin inadvertently travels back 30 years on a time machine to help his parents meet and fall in love, changing the future of the family.
This routine has long been accustomed to today, but in the 80s it was nothing less than imagination.
Back to the Future isn't the first traversal film, but it's certainly one of the most influential, perhaps because the film is close to life.
All the elements shown in the film are the real lives of people in that era, and the common memories and feelings of Americans.
Go back in time, change the future, and become a classic.
mirage
Year of production: 2004
This Spanish suspense film released in 2018 was a big hit at the box office.
"Mirage" is very brain-burning, constantly reversing, adding elements of science fiction and crossing.
The film has a butterfly effect, two timelines, the concept of triple parallel time and space, and the traditional Spanish routine of love triangle and rape, in fact, it tells a story of true love.
A combination of science fiction, reasoning, horror, and murder, about family, love, and friendship, the movie "Mirage" is complex enough and moving enough.
Tomorrow I'll date you yesterday
Year of production: 2016
The love path of the male protagonist and the heroine will always encounter various difficulties, and what should be done when the biggest difficulties become time and space?
The setting of the Japanese pure love movie "Tomorrow's Me and Yesterday's You Date" is very unique, and the direction of the timeline in which the male and female protagonists are located is completely opposite.
His first was her last, his future was actually her past, and what was even worse was that the two worlds only coincided for a month every five years.
Although it is destined not to last forever, it still tries its best to grasp the most precious memories of the moment, and the moth throws itself into a poignant love like a fire.
Chrono contact
Average review score: 8.4
Year of production: 1997
Robert Zemeckis is another rare masterpiece, but it has not become a phenomenon like "Forrest Gump" and "Back to the Future".
It's a film that blends science fiction, science, religion, and faith.
"I can't confirm it, I can't even explain it, but I know it's true, about the universe, about fantasy. As human beings, how small and insignificant we are, but at the same time how precious our existence is. We must live in reverence, in awe of a being greater than we are. Because we're not alone. ”
Black hole frequency
Year of production: 2000
The son inadvertently connects with his father thirty years ago via an old-fashioned radio.
This is the basic idea of the film, which seems a bit sparse and ordinary now.
Connecting two different time and space through one medium is a classic setting for many sci-fi color films.
It is not so much a science fiction film as it is to tell the story of father-son love through the shell of science fiction color.
Set of science fiction, suspense, and crossing elements, the father and son duo travel through thirty years of time and space to dialogue, changing history to save each other.
Hallucinations of death
Average review score: 7.3
This is a difficult movie to understand, such as offline universe, primary universe, wormhole, holy relics, God, doomsday and other terms, mysterious and mysterious, inevitably the director of the mysterious suspicion, so that it is considered a cult movie.
Dreamy, confused, and strange surreal sense makes people feel alienated and strange to reality, just like Zhuang Sheng's dream butterfly.
Narrative time and space are like magical magic, amazing, flexible and diverse to create a different sense of beauty in the narrative structure of the film.
The nonlinear multi-directional narrative spatio-temporal structure is a manifestation of postmodernism.
It is not only a rebellion and disdain for rationalism, but also a transcendence of sensory perception, which vividly shows the absurdity and bizarreness of postmodernity.
In those films with temporal and spatial elements, we finally realized stepping into the same river many times, breaking through the traditional paradox of world view and getting a fresh aesthetic experience.
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