Category Archives: 時間旅人

Tenet

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Christopher Nolan, 2 | 時空幻境 4 | Braid 4

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1998 Following
2000 Memento
2002 Insomnia
2005 Batman Begins
2006 The Prestige
2008 The Dark Knight

2010 Inception
2012 The Dark Knight Rises
2014 Interstellar
2017 Dunkirk
2020 Tenet

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香港譯名：

1998 《Following》

2000 《凶心人》

取「空心人」同音。「心」，是指「記憶」。所以，電影譯名的意思是，沒有記憶的人。

2002 《白夜追兇》

2005 《俠影之謎》

2006 《死亡魔法》

此電影的主題為魔術，所以導演把電影本身，化成一個魔術。

2008 《黑夜之神》

2010 《潛行凶間》

此電影的主題為夢境，所以導演把電影本身，化成一個夢境。

2012 《夜神起義》

2014 《星際啓示錄》

「啓示」，即是「來自未來的訊息」。

2017 《鄧寇克大行動》

2020 《天能》

A lot of Nolan’s movies are about some kinds of time travel.

For those movies, each has a unique time logic. Each is like a stage of the computer game Braid.

In Braid, there are 6 stages. Each stage has a unique time mechanics.

— Me@2020-09-20 10:36:54 AM

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2020.09.25 Friday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

A pretty girl, 2

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Women are directly fitted for acting as the nurses and teachers of our early childhood by the fact that they are themselves childish, frivolous and short-sighted; in a word, they are big children all their life long–a kind of intermediate stage between the child and the full-grown man, who is man in the strict sense of the word. See how a girl will fondle a child for days together, dance with it and sing to it; and then think what a man, with the best will in the world, could do if he were put in her place.

— Of Women

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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When the elderly Schopenhauer sat for a sculpture portrait by the Prussian sculptor Elisabet Ney in 1859, he was much impressed by the young woman’s wit and independence, as well as by her skill as a visual artist. After his time with Ney, he told Richard Wagner’s friend Malwida von Meysenbug, “I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.”

— Wikipedia on Arthur Schopenhauer

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Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist — a master — and that is what Auguste Rodin was — can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is… and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be…. and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart…. no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn’t matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired — but it does to them. Look at her! (UC)

— Robert A. Heinlein

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2018.10.27 Saturday ACHK

Portal

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Portal is a 2007 single-player first-person puzzle-platform video game developed by Valve Corporation.

The game primarily comprises a series of puzzles that must be solved by teleporting the player’s character and simple objects using “the handheld portal device”, a device that can create inter-spatial portals between two flat planes.

By Kaini [CC-BY-SA-3.0], from Wikimedia Commons

The game’s unique physics allows momentum to be retained through portals, requiring creative use of portals to maneuver through the test chambers.

— Wikipedia on Portal (video game)

2012.04.21 Saturday ACHK

Braid

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Braid is a platform and puzzle video game developed by independent software developer Jonathan Blow.

The game features traditional aspects of the platform genre while integrating various powers of time-manipulation.

Blow designed the game as a personal critique of contemporary trends in game development. He funded the three-year project with his own money.

— Wikipedia on Braid (video game)

2011.12.28 Wednesday ACHK

Chrono Trigger 3

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Masato Kato confirmed that Cross featured a central theme of parallel worlds, as well as the fate of Schala, which he was previously unable to expound upon in Chrono Trigger. Concerning the ending sequences showing Kid searching for someone in a modern city, he hoped to make players realize that alternate futures and possibilities may exist in their own lives, and that this realization would “not … stop with the game”.

— Wikipedia on Chrono Cross

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2011.05.02 Monday ACHK

Chrono Cross

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Chrono Trigger 2

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An Ancient Fort-
Chasing phantoms in one’s dreams…

Arni Village –
Where the tides start to turn…

Opassa Beach –
A calling from beyond time…

Arni Village –
Nothing has changed but everything!

Cape Howl –
A reminder of one’s former self…

Heading North –
In search of some answers…

The Port Town of Termina –
The pride of the Acacia Dragoons…

Viper Manor –
Where lies the key to the past…

Guldove –
Where ripples become waves…

Hermit’s Hideaway –
Meeting with the ‘other’ swordsman…

From Pirate Ship to Ghost Ship –
A mariner’s worst nightmare…

On to Water Dragon Isle –
In search of the dragon blue…

Fort Dragonia –
Ancient dragons’ dream in ruins…

Temporal Vortex –
Where lost souls wander…

The Lost Portal –
Isolation of people from the world…

Termina –
Knight or day…?

Marbule –
The village of the demi-humans…

The Masamune –
The blood-stained sword of evil…

The Dead Sea –
A place forsaken by the gods…

A Portal Reopened –
And the planet began to shake…

Back to Viper Manor –
A captive audience awaits…

Surprise Attack!!! –
Pursuers with heavy-hearts…

To the Sea of Eden –
Through the hidden holes in time…

The Arbiter of Time –
On whom the three Fates smile…

Terra Tower –
Caught in an echo of time…

Chrono Cross –
The point where destinies meet…

For all the Dreamers –
Our planet’s dream is not over yet…

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– Chrono Compendium

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2011.02.26 Saturday ACHK

Foreknowledge

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Cassandra in Greek legend, you recall, was condemned to know the future but to be disbelieved when she foretold it. Hence the agony of foreknowledge combined with the impotence to do anything about it.

— Dr. Kathryn Railly

— Twelve Monkeys

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2011.02.23 Wednesday ACHK

Twelve Monkeys

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Themes

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Memory, time, and technology

“Cole has been thrust from another world into ours and he’s confronted by the confusion we live in, which most people somehow accept as normal. So he appears abnormal, and what’s happening around him seems random and weird. Is he mad or are we?”

— Director Terry Gilliam

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12 Monkeys studies the subjective nature of memories and their effect upon perceptions of reality. Examples of false memories include:

* Cole’s recollection of the airport shooting which is altered each time he has a dream.
* A “mentally divergent” man at the asylum who has false memories.
* Railly telling Cole “I remember you like this” when a barely recognizable Cole and Railly are seen in disguise for the first time.

References to time, time travel, and monkeys are scattered throughout the film, including the Woody Woodpecker “Time Tunnel” cartoon playing on the TV in a hotel room, The Marx Brothers movie Monkey Business (1931) on TV in the asylum and the subplots of monkeys (drug testing, news stories and animal rights). The film is also a study of modern civilization’s declining efforts to communicate with each other due to the interference of technology.

— Wikipedia on 12 Monkeys

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2011.01.23 Sunday ACHK

The Time Traveler’s Wife

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The Time Traveler’s Wife, published in 2003, is the debut novel of American author Audrey Niffenegger. It is a love story about a man with a genetic disorder that causes him to time travel unpredictably, and about his wife, an artist, who has to cope with his frequent absences and dangerous experiences. Niffenegger, frustrated in love when she began the work, wrote the story as a metaphor for her failed relationships.

She has said the story is a metaphor for her own failed love affairs and that “I had kind of got the idea that there’s not going to be some fabulous perfect soulmate out there for me, so I’ll just make him up.”

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Instead, as critic Marc Mohan describes, the novel “uses time travel as a metaphor to explain how two people can feel as if they’ve known each other their entire lives”.

— Wikipedia on The Time Traveler’s Wife

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2010.07.18 Sunday ACHK

歷史 2

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Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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歷史，是凝固了的時間。

— Me@2010.06.16

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2010.06.17 Thursday copyright ACHK

Transcend time

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Another advantage of telling the truth is that you don’t have to remember what you’ve said. You don’t have to keep any state in your head. It’s a purely functional business strategy. (Hackers will get what I mean.)

— Paul Graham

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I always tell people that sometimes I may not tell what is on my mind, that as long as I speak out what is on my mind, the words are true.

— Wen Jiabao

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I always mean what I say but I don’t always say what I mean.

— Anonymous

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I do always mean what I say but not always say what I mean.

— Me@2010.05.07

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Be honest so that you can “transcend” time.

— Me@2010.04.13

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2010.05.07 Friday ACHK