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Chapter 1640 A brain-burning story

"Source Code" can be said to be a science fiction film that truly wins by its storyline and creativity.

The key point is that this movie can be considered hardcore science fiction no matter from which aspect.

After all, the concept itself is sci-fi enough!
After leaving the Science Fiction Film Festival, Li Yi began to work on perfecting the script.

The movie "Source Code" is simple, but it is also complex.

For a single actor, he has to repeat over and over again, but every repetition needs to perform that feeling, so the acting skills required of the actor are still very high.

Li Yi himself had to thoroughly study the script again and then adapt it.

He plans to make a localized adaptation!

In fact, he certainly has no shortage of money, but he intends to shoot this movie in the most cost-effective way.

It can also serve as an example for some domestic filmmakers!
In fact, this cyclical pattern and creativity are definitely not the first of Li Yi. Li Yi has seen a Hollywood movie in which the protagonist lives in the same day forever. When he wakes up every morning, he already knows everything that will happen throughout the day. Because it is a day that repeats itself over and over again, he is extremely bored. For him, there is no surprise or accident on that day. He has insight into everything in that world, but he can't change anything.

Source Code is similar in nature, but more interesting. The hero has 8 minutes to find the suspect. When the 8 minutes are up, the train explodes and he is pulled back to reality. Of course, he can try again if he fails, but he has only a limited number of times, as time in reality is limited, and his body and mind are also suffering.

At the end of the first eight minutes, he was in a trance;
And I didn't understand what was going on, or rather, the first 8 minutes were also a period of adaptation.

In the second 8 minutes, he began to get into the role; in the third 8 minutes, he took effective measures; in the fourth minutes, he did things more radically and effectively... His style went from mild to radical, and he had to do this in order to achieve his goal within the limited time. He sought information from attempts again and again, summarizing and accumulating experience until he finally found the murderer. He made many mistakes, but he could "try again", so his performance was better and better.

So, every 8 minutes may seem the same, but they can be changed to some extent.

Some ideas are difficult to express with films that depict reality, so science fiction becomes a better form of expression. This movie is also like this. Its ideological significance transcends the plot. The 8-minute story that repeats over and over again discusses what a person can do in such a short time. The answer is that as long as he tries enough times, he can do anything.

In the first 8 minutes of the film, the audience is actually creating a suspense, and in the second 8 minutes, the audience can notice the man who forgot his wallet. But the protagonist did not notice it because he was attracted by something else. He was eager to achieve his goal, so he ignored other clues. In fact, he misunderstood others several times and adopted linear thinking, which is usually the way people think when they have incomplete information and are not calm.

The last 8 minutes are subversive. The hero disobeys his superiors' orders and shows the beauty of humanity, while the director arranges for us to see the emergence of another world, a parallel world. In that world, the bomb did not explode. After the hero returns to the car, he quickly catches the suspect, then calmly calls his father, and then confesses his love to the heroine.

In fact, in Li Yi's opinion, the most essential part of "Source Code" is the ending. Of course, different people will have different opinions.

Some people may think that the ending is a failure.

In Li Yi's opinion, the most valuable part of the movie is that the male protagonist did not waste a single second of the 8 minutes, because he had thought about what to do before returning to the train. The frozen picture is the most beautiful part of the whole movie, and everyone is laughing - the male protagonist bets $100 with the comedian, and the comedian makes everyone laugh. The frozen picture is very common in movies, but the feeling it brings to people in this movie is extraordinary.

There is a possibility in this movie that the male protagonist noticed the man who forgot his wallet in the car in the second 8 minutes, and he might catch him by luck. But the movie did not make such an arrangement, but let him fail continuously, get more information from continuous attempts, and then get closer to the truth step by step.

This arrangement is of course intentional, but it is logical, which is also the charm of this movie.

Every eight minutes, eight minutes of progression!

Every reincarnation is trying to make some changes.

Although the ending cannot be changed!

The hero is a soldier, with both wisdom and bravery. We say that such a person needs luck to succeed in carrying out his mission, which shows how difficult it is to get things done. And continuous attempts can accumulate more capital for him, and it is natural for him to find the suspect in the end.

It's a simple truth, but through the demonstration of this movie, it seems very profound. This movie deepened Li Yi's feelings about this sentence - this is the benchmark of a good movie.

When he returned to the train for the last time, the protagonist conveyed to the people:
Whether in bed in the morning or on a moving train, when a person wakes up, if he knows exactly what he will do in the next 8 minutes, then he must be extremely happy, because he has the ability to change everything.

With its superb performances, tense plot, and bleak and beautiful imagery, this film is one of the best.

Of course, these are Li Yi's thoughts.

What the public will think after the film is released is not something he should consider.

In fact, "Source Code" and "Moon" are closely related, because in Li Yi's memory, the two films were directed by the same director.

From "Moon" to "Source Code", it can be said that both films conquered the audience with real creativity and imagination.

At first glance, "Moon" is easily reminiscent of "Wall-E", in which an astronaut who misses his hometown lives alone on the moon with only a robot as a companion. But as the story slowly develops, until the hero discovers the truth that he is a clone, this somewhat shabby little science fiction film suddenly rises to the height of human ethics. It is as surprising and surprising as a skinny old man knocking down a burly man with just a few moves in front of everyone.

"Source Code" is also like this to some extent. From the very beginning, when the male protagonist finds himself inexplicably occupying the body of a stranger, suspense is set up and clues are buried. Then the clues are solved step by step. After he finds himself a tool of the military, an official conspiracy involving life ethics is revealed. However, the cleverness of "Source Code" and the reason why it surpasses "Moon" is that "Source Code" sets an unexpected open ending.

Generally speaking, science fiction films set up a worldview in advance that allows the audience to quickly and comprehensively understand it. "Source Code" takes a different approach and only vaguely explains a theory of quantum mechanics in the film. The source code project is just a new technology that is in the experimental stage. Even the military has not fully understood it, so the movie has such a surprising and wonderful ending that is accepted by the audience.

This is both reasonable and unexpected. The story of Source Code can be said to bring a new sense of surprise to the audience with its excellent imagination. I believe that when the audience sees the real ending of the movie, they will all praise the ingenuity of the movie.

However, although these two films win by creativity, they are not empty. On the contrary, both "Moon" and "Source Code" clearly show the director's strong desire to express himself. It can be found that "Moon" and "Source Code" both rise to the height of life ethics, and both are individuals who fight against the authorities with their own strength and try to break through the lies and constraints of life.

Li Yi likes both movies very much. However, compared to "Moon", "Source Code" gives him a warmer feeling and is not as despairing as "Moon"!
It was just after Li Yi wrote the first draft of the script that he called a few friends to discuss it.

But it made them confused.

"No, is the male protagonist dead or not? I don't quite understand." Chen Wen asked the first question.

"Dead!" Li Yi said.

"Didn't I tell you that in the later part of the story?" He didn't quite understand why Chen Wen asked this question.

"Dead? Not on the verge of death? Completely dead?" Chen Wen asked with a frown.

"Let's put it this way. He is dead. This is a science fiction movie. Let me explain. The first theory based on the plot is that a certain doctor developed a high-tech source code based on the theory of quantum mechanics. It has two theoretical foundations. First, when the light bulb is turned off, the light bulb still has afterglow. This is the delayed aperture effect. The human brain is similar. After a person dies, the electromagnetic field of the brain is still in a powered state, and the circuit is still unobstructed. Second, the human brain has a short-term memory track, which lasts for 8 minutes and always records what happened in the last 8 minutes.

According to theory 8, after someone dies, their brain still retains the memory of the 8 minutes before death; according to theory , after a person dies, the electromagnetic field of the brain is still energized. These minutes of memory can be the basis for reconstructing the scene, and the energized electromagnetic field enables the dead to have the same thinking ability as when they were alive, and they will take different actions according to different situations.

The protagonist in this story is already dead. But by using the source code, the protagonist can have the same thinking ability as when he was alive, and also have the memory of 8 minutes before his death! "

"That's not right. Then why is he lying in a cabin? Isn't he dead? Why can he still talk to people?" Zhou Guo also asked in confusion.

"That's right, because this is the scene where we want the audience to see the hero in a cabin, but in fact it is just the hero's imagination. In fact, he is just lying in the machine, and every time the hero talks to her, he is actually talking to the machine. She can't see the hero, she can only see what he says, and it is displayed in text form.

Simply put, the protagonist is dead, but his 8-minute memory track can be used as the basis for reconstructing the scene. The electrified magnetic field can give him the ability to think, but he is still dead, so people in the real world can only communicate with him through machines. In fact, you can think of this communication as the machine using his memory and thoughts to communicate with people! "

"Similarly, using the source code, the male protagonist entered the train scene many times to look for the bomber. The basis for constructing the train scene is that the bodies of the people who were killed in the car where the male protagonist is and the adjacent cars on the train have been found, and their brains have not been damaged. But if we infer based on this premise, we cannot explain the part where the bomber shot and killed the male protagonist. Because in reality, the bomber did appear on the car, but he had left when the explosion occurred. Therefore, his memory and the electromagnetic field in his brain cannot be obtained, so we cannot know what the real bomber would do. The bomber we see should be from the memory of the bicycle boy. So far, this idea has taken root in the minds of the doctor and the protagonist, and also in the minds of the audience."

"Wait, is there a bug here?

From the protagonist's words, we know that the bomber threw his ID on the train to make others think he was dead, but shouldn't the explosion burn all the IDs? How could the bomber make others think he was dead? The correct way to determine a person's death should be to find his body and his ID at the same time. Obviously, the bomber's body was not found because he was not dead at all. And finding a bunch of people's brains from a pile of burnt bodies and constructing a train scene should not be easier than finding people who got off the train before the explosion station, right? "Chen Wen asked again.

"No, no, no, you overlooked one point. The image of the bomber is real, not from the memory of the bicycle boy. Not only the bomber's car, but even the bomb arrangement in the car, these contents have exceeded the memory of everyone in the car. This shows that the function of the source code is actually more powerful. It has constructed a parallel time and space. The male protagonist discovered this in the process of tracking the bomber, so he is sure that he can save everyone's lives. The male protagonist already believes that the source code can create a parallel universe, and from the audience's perspective, we also know this.

Let's analyze the protagonist's time travel. In fact, each time he travels through time, his consciousness and memory are projected to another parallel universe. If the protagonist dies in that parallel universe, he will return to the initial time and space, where an explosion occurred and everyone on the carriage died. Finally, the protagonist travels to another parallel time and space A and saves the world. At the moment when 8 minutes arrives, the machine is turned off, and the brain of the protagonist in the initial time and space is no longer powered on for maintenance. After the protagonist dies in the parallel time and space, he will not return to the initial time and space. "

(End of this chapter)