See another possibility 2: advent and language

The movie I want to recommend today is "Advent", I have always liked this movie very much, and I still remember that I watched it at the Guangzhou Xinghui Cinema, when I dragged a suitcase to prepare to transit home in Guangzhou, and took the time to watch this movie alone. The first half of the part is not easy to understand and inexplicably gloomy, frowning, until the heroine can predict the future by learning alien languages, remembering the telephone number, dialing, saying the dialogue between the general and the lady, I was excited to tears, this is not only a momentary touch, it is like a bell, in the days that followed, often rang. I was so excited that I burst into tears like a believer who had realized the truth, and I saw another possibility, which was that by acquiring a language I could gain the power to predict the future. This is something I don't dare to imagine in my inherent thinking.

At the beginning, 12 UFOs suddenly appeared on Earth, suspended over different countries, aliens from outer space seemed to be sending signals, they looked strange, seven-limbed barrels, in my opinion, they seemed to me to be octopus-like things, standing giant octopuses, probably standing is the embodiment of higher intelligence. They draw circular circular symbols with octopus-like tentacles, which have a Chinese ink painting style and gossipy feel, and the original author is a Chinese. Different countries have sent experts to try to communicate with them, after all, I don't know what purpose these aliens came with, the language of the earth can not speak a word, do not learn first, stunned pestle there, it is quite scary. I remember China trying to communicate with mahjong.

In the film, the United States brings in two people, the linguist Louis and the physicist Ian, and wants the two of them to communicate or negotiate with aliens. The reason why the beginning is confusing is that it is constantly interspersed with the image of a little girl, which I once mistakenly thought was the heroine's childhood, and later learned that it was her daughter.

After some deciphering, the circular circular text is gradually learned by Louis, the heroine of the film, who in the process of learning alien languages, she has gained the ability to predict the future. In the end, she succeeds in anticipating her phone number and preventing Earth from launching an attack on aliens in time, thanks to the alien language she has learned.

It turns out that the alien seven-limbed barrel was used to deliver "weapons", and because of this translation, a peaceful transaction was almost mistaken for an invasion. In fact, it should be said to be a "gift", but it is also a double-edged sword, good use is a gift, bad use is a weapon, it is too powerful for us.

The first level of emotion, I saw another possibility, that is, by learning a certain language, I could get another ability, a ability like a superpower. Wow, that's amazing, I didn't think of it earlier! I used to think that language is language, that language is only used for communication, too limited.

Speaking of language, thinking of the Tower of Babel, it is said that God in order to prevent mankind from uniting to build a tower to heaven, so that mankind speaks different languages, so that human beings can not communicate with each other, so the plan fails, can not be built.

The language of the alien seven-limbed barrel can be used to predict the future after learning, they predict that their race will be in trouble tens of millions of years from now, and it is humans who can help them, so they come to offer weapons, hoping to repay the favor. The heroine also predicts the future and deciphers the mystery, but in the communication, she gradually falls in love with the physicist Ian, and the girl who appears frequently in the film is the daughter they gave birth to after marriage, and she also foresees that the daughter will die of illness.

In the present moment, of course, we don't think we can gain superpowers through anything. Foreknowledge the future, which we sometimes call the sixth sense, we think that foreknowledge the future is unlikely, but sometimes we encounter a feeling that seems to be similar, such as when walking on the road, a person pops up in the mind, and the next intersection corner meets that person. Therefore, we are excited and pursuing for the mysterious thing of predicting the future. Language + foreknowledge the future, this new concept, touched me, let me see another possibility, even if it is a movie, an idea, but this idea is like the stars in the sky, compelling and thoughtful.

Language can indeed open up some of people's thoughts or feelings, for example, foreigners may not have the word "Xin", they can not experience this feeling well in tasting Chinese food, but we can easily experience it. For example, French has a lot of definitions of "time", which we don't know, like "Remembrance of Water Years", a huge book is written in 24 hours of memories, of course, I have not read this book, ashamed. Do we sometimes wonder if our linear description of time can be more layered or changed, such as rings, such as others.

The second layer of touching, that is, love, the heroine Louis did not refuse love because she foresaw the future, knew that her daughter would die of illness, she resolutely chose to go on, even if this sadness has been determined, even if she is going to be tortured continuously, she still chooses love. Our lives are not.

We often have the dream of changing ourselves, changing others, and changing the world, but most of the time, we are always obscure, powerless, discouraged, afraid of failure, and living and dying. But we never give up on life, persevere, create something beautiful, and see another possibility.