Several problems of film source code

This article was previously published in Science Fans.

-Analyze the psychological images in the film source code.

"What would you do if you had one minute to live?"

Captain Stevens woke up and found himself on a train bound for Chicago. Others call him Sean. He looked in the mirror and found he didn't even know himself. I woke up after the explosion and found myself in a small space called "besieged city". At first, the captain thought he was conducting some kind of simulation exercise, but later he realized that he was carrying out an important task to save thousands of lives. The truth is beyond everyone's imagination. In fact, the captain is dead. His mutilated body is lying in a closed laboratory, and his consciousness is accessing the virtual world of "source code". This is the movie "Source Code" for us to cross the world; Strictly speaking, the source code is not time travel. According to the movie, the source code is not time travel, but time reproduction.

The theme of spiritual possession will remind people of Avatar. Similarly, the protagonist's defective body can regain its sound limbs by lying in a cold box. But the rebirth in the source code is not complete, because the body to which the captain is attached is also a dead body, but it still has eight minutes of memory, which is called afterglow effect. In the movie, the captain wakes up from the explosion of the train and thinks he is awake, but it is still in the source code. The so-called siege castle is just an imaginary space in the captain's heart. Therefore, when the captain fails in successive tasks and is depressed, the besieged castle will leak water and freeze. This cold weather is the psychological image of the client, just like everyone will say that they are cold when they are in a bad mood.

In the source code, the captain's task is to investigate an explosion on the train. The train is the image of life. At the beginning of the film, a wild duck draws a beautiful arc on the water, and a train meanders through the city. The whole picture is bright and light, which reminds people of a happy childhood. A few minutes later, a big fire swallowed everything. What caused the explosion? The film leads the audience to discover the truth with suspense. The train explosion symbolizes death, which corresponds to the captain's death while performing military tasks. On the surface, death is accidental, but in fact it is not accidental. On the surface, the captain died unexpectedly because he was on a military mission. In fact, his death is the choice of the soul. When the captain is investigating the cause of the train explosion, he is actually investigating why he chose to die.

After many efforts, the conductor finally found the bomb on the train and the terrorist who planted it. Bomb symbolizes anger complex, and the nuclear bomb in the van finally found in the film symbolizes extreme anger and has the energy to destroy everything. Terrorists are a combination of rebellion and the devil. He caused the explosion accident because he felt that the world was not perfect and he needed to clean it up and rebuild a perfect world. In junior high school, a classmate in the class wrote a poem, saying that he would build an atomic bomb to blow up this ugly world. This little poem soon spread among students, and many students read it and sang along with it, because it expressed everyone's complex. This complex comes from the rebellious impulse of adolescence, and deeper, it comes from anger towards parents. Therefore, the deep complex of the hero in the film is the rebellion and understanding of his father.

The captain has been trying to call his father because he had a quarrel with him before he went to war. He called his father to seek communication and express his understanding. When the captain arrested terrorists and tied them up, he finally got in touch with his father. It is no accident that the captain subdued the terrorists, which symbolizes the surrender of his rebellious and destructive self. On the phone, Sean didn't say Stevens to his father: "He wants to say sorry ..." Dad also opened his heart: "I just want him back ..." Sorry-the magical three words, Christianity says repentance and Buddhism says shame, are all saying these three words. The other three most magical words are "I was wrong". I used to wonder why the world is so unfair to me, why he treats me like that, why there are always people who have a hard time with me, and why ... Finally, even after many years, I realized that I was wrong. When I realized it was my own fault, my troubles disappeared. When I really changed myself, the world began to embrace me. Just when the captain finally understood his father's love, he returned to his father's arms.

At the end of the film, there is a stop shot of an ingenious pen. The captain made a bet with the actor to trick him into telling jokes. Everyone in the carriage was laughing. A girl on the second floor laughed so hard that she didn't even notice the coke spilled. The camera swept through the lively smiling faces in the carriage. This shot symbolizes that the complex is handled, the personality is integrated, and real happiness is born from the bottom of my heart. What is happiness? Happiness is not an external stimulus. True happiness comes from the heart, from the ease, joy, calmness and tranquility after the complex is released. This kind of happiness must go through pain and suffering first, just like the clear sky and rainbow after heavy rain.

Goodwin pressed the button, and the captain outside the source code world died. The captain in the source code world said, "Everything will be fine ..." The hero and heroine walked hand in hand in the city, and Sean's appearance was reflected on the ball, representing the captain's new life. The old self dies and a new self is born. This is the process of rebirth. Although this process is very painful, it will go through many deaths, and there are still losses, mistakes and repetitions, but this process is worthwhile.

If you had one minute to live, what would you do? -"I will seize every second."