Making a choice determines which of those possible universes is the one you live in. This is based on the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, in which an infinite number of parallel universes exist, one in which each possible choice is made. Until one makes a choice anything is possible. Nobody is that once someone makes a choice s/he restricts reality to simply the version of events where s/he made that particular choice. I personally believe, and will argue in this short essay, that choice, or the belief in choice, creates our need for meaning.Ī central theme of Mr. Although this might seem tangentially related to meaning, autonomy is central to what is or isn’t meaningful to many philosophers. Nobody is a film, first and foremost, about the nature of choice. Be free with your decisions in knowing that you can still live a meaningful life with however you make your choices. The conclusion to be made about this idea is that ultimately our decisions are not necessarily connected to meaning. No one life was better, or more meaningful than the others, they were simply different. Everything could have been anything else and it would have just as much meaning” sums up the movie perfectly. The truth remains though, that each life is just as good and meaningful as the next The quote, “Every path is the right path. We, as viewers, get to see his different lives with different levels of happiness and different lifestyles, and make our own decision about which life we think is the best one. He had imagined these lives at age 9 when trying to determine whether to live with his mother or his father. Near the end of the movie, it is revealed that each of the lives that Nemo had lived were all in fact made up. This coin toss method ultimately results in Nemo’s death, but stands to prove the point that our choices lead to irreversible consequences. Nemo is deciding to incorporate chance in his decisions. He brings back the factor of chance into his decisions. Longing for excitement, Nemo begins to base his decisions on a coin toss. Once reaching age 34 though, Nemo realises that the life he has built for himself is not truly what he wants or what is important to him. Nemo took his life so seriously that he followed the plan he had set for himself at age 15. One philosopher named Thomas Nagel calls this feeling “the absurd.” The absurd is when one takes things very seriously, but in reality knowing that nothing really matters. He feels that he knows himself too well and that nothing is exciting anymore, as if nothing has meaning anymore. However, once Nemo achieves his goals, he finds himself bored. He tells himself that he will leave nothing to chance and not stop until his desires are met. In one of Nemo’s realities, he decides at age 15 how he wants his life to turn out. It appears that Nemo has different levels of happiness in each reality, but as it seems, no one reality has more meaning than the other. Some things only being experienced depending on which parent he chose to live with. Nemo lives out both of these lives where he experiences different things. At this point in the movie, Nemo’s life splits off into different “realities.” One reality where he stays with his father, and one where he boards the train and leaves with his mother. He is faced with the impossible choice of whether to stay with his dad or go with his mom. Nobody, one of the biggest decisions for Nemo comes when his parents get a divorce. If we had unlimited time to make every choice however we wanted, we would no longer experience the regret that we sometimes feel after making a decision. What if we could “go back” and experience the consequences of every choice of a decision?Īccording to Connie Rosati, one of the philosophers examined in our course, immortality could be a way that allows humans to make every decision with every outcome, and is one of the reasons why immortality is so appealing to human beings. That is why is it hard to choose.” Once a decision is made, we must live with the consequences. This creates a struggle for humans to make difficult decisions. One decision leads to another which then leads to another, and so on. This idea draws from the butterfly effect. Our choices set our lives in a certain direction and ultimately lead us to our present selves. Do our choices matter? According to Nemo Nobody, our choices are what determine who we are.
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