Great wisdom is like foolishness, great skill is like clumsy. After watching this old movie, I remembered the current Internet buzzword: There are too many smart people these days, and obviously not enough fools.
Chauncey's life only dealt with flowers, plants and trees, and he didn't understand people's worldliness, and didn't know firewood, rice, oil and salt. By the standards of a normal person, he is an idiot. He lives in the most natural state like those plants, and he also understands the difference between life and death, but his inner consciousness of life and death is different from that of the world.
At the beginning of the film, the maid Louise was very sad after the death of the master. She felt that the reason why Chauncey had no response to the death of the master who had been with him for many years was because he was mentally handicapped and didn't understand feelings. But from the back of Chauncey's various performances, it can be seen that he has a rich and sincere emotion, and he never tries to modify it. It’s just that he sees death as a natural phenomenon. He doesn’t think death is such an unacceptable thing. On the contrary, he has the same respect for death and life, because he has been a gardener for many years and is used to seeing flowers bloom. , Winter goes to spring, I have my own feelings about "death" and "life".
He is not smart, he is illiterate, he is ignorant of world affairs, and he can use the same attitude to face anyone, anything, and any situation in front of him. After being deported by a lawyer, he naturally packed his luggage, as if he was going to travel, not on the street; when he was hungry, he would go to meet passers-by for food, as if talking to family and friends; he frankly told others that he was not He can read and only watch TV; whether he is praised by others or swearing at him, whether he is facing the president or the punks on the roadside, he is the same sincere and polite, respectful and curious. He has no labels on the world, nor judgments of right and wrong. He just speaks, does things, and smiles intuitively. The tranquility and peace in him also infect the people who come into contact with him, so he unintentionally gets a lot of goodwill and attracts A lot of good luck.
The state is created by the heart, the behavior moves according to the heart, as the heart desires, and let it go. It's just how difficult it is for us so-called normal people to do it. Even if we just see other people’s opinions that are different from our own, and comments that belittle our favorite things, it may make us eagerly typing on the keyboard for a long time, ha ha.
At the end of the film, Ben’s last words are classic and meaningful. "Our thoughts separate us." "We come empty-handed and leave empty-handed. No one can judge the likes and dislikes of our lives." "No matter what our appearance looks like. In any case, we are just children" "Life is a state of mind."
This film is the posthumous work of Peter Sellers and his favorite film. When I watched this movie a long time ago, it felt like a spoof about a fool who fooled a group of normal people. Looking again now, the idea is very different. The so-called smart and unwise, normal and abnormal, are subjective and narrow definitions that change at any time according to the time, space, and people. Only the inner state is the most real.
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