Video appreciation of popular issues about time travel

Many people may be surprised when they see the name of this movie, because no matter how you look at it, it doesn’t look like a well-spoken movie title, but more like an academic work or an academic paper. . But judging from the content of the film, it never leaves these "hot issues about time travel." The structure of the film adopts a model similar to "The Butterfly Effect". This is not a simple multi-line narrative structure. It is named "Chaos Reconstruction Model". Here we must first explain a concept - chaos. The "chaos" mentioned here is not the "ravioli" eaten, but derived from the "chaos principle". To explain the principle of chaos in simple words, within a system, a change in the initial value will have a huge impact on the result. Later, there was a very vivid metaphor that compared the principle of chaos to the "butterfly effect" - a butterfly in the Brazilian rainforest can cause a hurricane in the Indian Ocean by flapping its wings. In fact, we all know this truth, because there is a saying in the ancient Chinese "Book of Changes" that "a difference is as small as a hair's breadth, but a mistake is a thousand miles away." The meaning is basically the same. So what is "chaos reconstruction mode"? As the name suggests, it is a reconstruction of the root cause in a system dominated by the principle of chaos, that is, constantly looking for the original cause that causes subsequent effects, and then changing the original cause to cause a series of changes in the subsequent effects. One advantage of using this mode for narrative is that it can get rid of the rigid mode of single-line narrative or multi-line narrative and replace it with a cyclic mode that is more full of possibilities. This kind of narrative structure will make the film's story full of many plot trends that already exist in the audience's imagination or beyond their imagination, and will bring about one unexpected ending after another.

The film "Hot Questions About Time Travel" is very similar in structure to "The Butterfly Effect", but it has many unique features of its own. For example, the unresolved scenes set up at the beginning of the film are all shown one by one later in the film, making the audience feel that this is actually a big circle. The three protagonists have gone around a big circle and come back. origin. If that's all, that's it. There is another mystery at the end, which seems to lead to the next more complicated and confusing story. It's like completing the last step of a circle without returning to your starting point, and instead starting to outline the next circle. In my opinion, it is impossible to make a sequel to such a movie full of black humor, so the open ending at the end of the movie is just a joke that the director wants to play with the audience. It is like watching this movie and carefully watching it. After chewing it, it feels a bit like hearing a joke. On the surface, I feel like I should smile slightly, but on the inside I have been deeply attracted by this story. This is the charm of a movie, which is what I mentioned earlier that the charm built on the psychological level is more lasting.

In terms of story, this movie is not a groundbreaking innovation, but it fits well with the core content that the movie intends to express - the popular issue about time travel. From beginning to end, the film closely revolves around the core issue of time travel to unfold the plot, whether it is three depressed men, a time hole tinker from the future, or a time travel from the future. The rewriters are all serving to interpret this core issue. Although there are no extremely gorgeous shots in the film, nor are there many fascinating future scenes. The difference in time and space is only expressed through the protagonists' language and clothing, but this style does not affect the telling of the story. . From another perspective, such a "simple narrative" is more likely to please audiences who eat too much "popcorn". In my opinion, the director is very rigorous when telling this story, because there is no need to consider any big scenes, so the details can be comprehensive and meticulous. During the "loop viewing" process, almost no narrative flaws were found, of course, this does not include the scientific issues involved in the film.

In fact, this movie is not the kind of science fiction film that is very scientifically standardized, or it is a science fiction film with a strong fantasy nature. This kind of fantasy is not expressed through unconstrained images as usual. What is presented is rooted in the heart of every viewer, so this fantasy is more participatory and interactive. Of course, as a science fiction film, if it has no scientific basis at all, it can only be called a fantasy film. There is a paradox closely surrounding "Hot Questions About Time Travel" - the grandfather problem.

This question is also a famous paradox about time travel. The content is: If a person goes back to the past through time travel to kill his grandfather who existed in the past, then this person's father will not exist in the future world, and thus this person will not exist. Since this person does not exist, how could he go back in time and kill his grandfather? This constitutes a contradiction. There is a scene in the movie "Back to the Future" where Martin goes back in time to bring his parents together to form a romantic relationship. Because his parents cannot form a romantic relationship, then Martin cannot have a future. Therefore, when his parents were in crisis, Martin began to disappear from family photos brought from the future. The grandfather problem is actually used here. Of course, this paradox cannot be completely explained, because if his parents are really separated, what will happen to Martin who has returned to the past? Evaporate instantly? Withering slowly? Of course, "Back to the Future" did not assume this ending, because this is a path that cannot be solved. This issue was also covered in "Hot Questions About Time Travel" and no conclusion was reached. This is why the last circle of the film was not completed before entering another circle. This is like the "8" figure dance of a bee. It is destined to go in circles one after another. It cannot just draw one circle. Drawing only one circle makes no sense philosophically. However, at the end of the film, a solution to this problem is proposed. This is another problem of time travel-the problem of parallel space. Regarding the issue of parallel space, simply put, the world is not single, but multi-dimensional, that is, there are countless parallel worlds that are exactly the same as ours. The so-called traveling through time and space means entering from time a of world A to Time b in world B. Many problems can be explained with this kind of thinking. I once read a deconstruction of "The Butterfly Effect" that used this method, and it seemed very rigorous. The idea of ??parallel space is just an idea on a philosophical level. If you trace the origin, you can trace it back to the "cave metaphor" made by Plato in "The Republic". It was this wonderful "cave" that helped the Wachowski brothers outline the huge and complex "The Matrix". Of course, these are all digressions. Returning to this movie, the principle of parallel space can also be used to explain the "grandfather problem" from another angle. That is to say, someone X went from time a in world A to time b in another parallel space B. In B of b, X’s grandfather was killed by Because the death of the grandfather in B does not affect the life-and-death relationship of the grandfather of X in parallel space A. Therefore, the paradox of the "grandfather problem" is resolved. Similarly, this method can also be used to explain all the details in the film. Interested friends can do it themselves by setting up unknowns in equations. It is actually quite interesting. Regarding the issue of parallel space, there is a more vivid explanation in Jet Li's bad movie "Cosmic Wanted" or the translation is called "The Savior". Similarly, interested friends can also check it out.

Overall, "Hot Questions About Time Travel" is an alternative science fiction film full of rich British black humor, but this low-cost science fiction film does not affect its excitement at all. degree, this also shows more intuitively that scenes are not necessarily the king, good stories and good ideas are the cornerstones of good movies. This kind of psychologically constructed charm often has a more lasting charm than the hot and gorgeous visual special effects.