The road is the road where father and son hunt for food and survive, and it is also the road where father and son escape from hunting. The development history of man is the process of man lifting himself up to the position of God step by step. In primitive society, people are submissive to the power of nature. Tribal totems and the gods they believe in are images of various plants, animals, or a combination of animals and plants. They believe in a pantheistic society because of fear, and everything has a god. At this time, people’s sense of fear has disappeared, and people and gods are in a position of equal communication. In a polytheistic society, although there are many gods, they are no longer everything in the world. People have grafted their own image to gods. This is a big change, which means that the power of nature has taken a back seat in the eyes of human beings, and human behavior no longer considers animals and plants, and then a monotheistic society appears. Talking to people, in fact, God, Allah, and Buddha are the products of self-redemption after people kicked away the influence of the force of nature, because people have no rivals to match, and fall into the loneliness of self-struggle. In the modern age, the influence of gods has weakened a lot, and people believe in science and technology more and more, because this kind of thing can bring more promise land, interstellar, can create new enemies, foreign Star. At this time, people have turned themselves into gods. In fact, nature has always been that nature. It’s just that people’s feelings have changed. It is people’s consciousness and will that cause this change, and people define what is created by consciousness and will. To be civilized, people are animals themselves, but people are ashamed to be in the company of animals. People think that they are superior to animals, and the reason given is that people have human nature, and human nature is higher than animal nature. In a wolf pack, if a wolf is injured, he will automatically leave the wolf pack, because an injured wolf will affect Wolves prey and become a burden, indirectly reducing the ability of the group to continue. The herds of cattle migrate on the grassland, and all the old cattle are walking on the periphery. If there are predators, the oldest cattle will stop or divert the predators to give them a feast. This is not to sacrifice oneself for human beings, it is just because the oldest cow is the most useless, giving up an old cow, the loss of the herd is the smallest. This is animal nature. Unreserved sacrifice. Animals are driven by instinct to choose the simplest behavior, cold-blooded and cruel, but naturally people in civilization will be a little different. People advocate respecting the old and saving the weak. Everyone is equal in front of life, even the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled. People cannot evaluate the value of a life based on a person's utility. A dying life and a able-bodied life are of equal value, and individual interests should also be respected and protected. a society cannot It requires an individual to make endless sacrifices for the benefit of the group, which is related to the characteristics of just people who adhere to the values of equality, justice, solidarity, and mutual assistance. It is called human nature. Human nature has changed the instinct of animal nature and formed new behavioral habits. What makes human nature higher than animal nature is that human behavior standards are higher than animal instincts, and more importantly, the group built by human beings has defeated all other animals, winning or losing. What else can be said? After all, human beings are animals in their bones, and have animal instincts. Habit instinct wears a mask of disguise, and the mask will be torn off when challenged. Human society has established so many value standards, but it is still unable to get rid of the chaos and chaos, and inevitably there will be some bizarre and cruel incidents that deviate from these value standards. It's because human nature is only grafted onto animal nature by acquired surgery. Since it is a graft, there are grafts that succeed and some that fail. Graft a branch of a peach tree to the root of a pear tree, the peach branch and the pear root may die, the tree that grows may bear peach fruit, or the yin and yang tree that grows may have lush branches but no fruit. The overall value direction of the company is to persuade people to be kind, but it will also be questioned by people themselves. Why? Isn't it good to keep the true appearance of people? Why cut your feet? In order to answer this question, civilization provides the answer to the inherent good and the inherent evil of nature. But nature is inherently good and nature is inherently evil. Both are theories that teach people to do evil. The former allows people to be justified in doing evil, while the latter allows good people to forbearance regardless of their innocence, both of which are the root of evil. This is the self-revolution of human consciousness to the civilization created by oneself. The education of human nature in civilization has different effects on different people. Some people have more human parts, and some people have more animal parts. The environment is a little challenging, and the animal instinct will show a hideous face. And human nature is like a tree growing on the earth. It grows bigger and bigger, and its branches are luxuriant. But when the breeze comes, the tree shakes its leaves. The bigger the wind is, the flowers and leaves are scattered. Big enough to be uprooted without escape. People often say that loyalty has a number, and they are not willing to betray because the number of money has not yet arrived. The same is true of human nature. The greater the challenge, the more fragile human nature is. In the movie, the father told his son that there should always be a fire in his heart. This fire refers to the education of human nature: Do not cross the bottom line of cannibalism. And this fire is the only trace of civilization left in the apocalypse where the surviving people are hunting their own kind to survive In the end, the father died, and the little boy was taken in by a small group with the same fire in his heart, a man and a woman with two children and a dog. The two kids and dogs in this group are proof of the fire. This ending treatment is not to whitewash the hope of human nature, but to watch the movie with the little dignity left as a human being. The question left is, how long can the fire in your heart burn? Under what kind of environmental challenges, the fire in your heart will go out?
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