Is human nature good or evil?

Rubye 2022-04-21 09:01:54

In fact, it was a movie I watched a few weeks ago, but because I can't forget a classic line in it, this movie has been circling in my mind, and I don't think I can put this movie down without writing a movie review to recommend it. Write this sentence first, from the Bible, "god grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change,courage to change the things I can and wisdom to see the difference." A lot of my confusion suddenly came This sentence is easily solved, although what has not changed is that I still do not have enough courage and wisdom. So every day before going to bed, I also want to meditate on this sentence like the male protagonist, hoping that as the years go by, while taking away my most beautiful youth, I can at least leave some courage and wisdom to accompany me through the old days.

The film tells the story of a perverted killer who uses murder as his art. The protagonist (played by handsome Kevin Costner) has two personalities. In front of everyone, he is a well-known entrepreneur. He is enthusiastic and charitable like all people in the upper class. He has a successful career and a happy family. He has a beautiful wife and a daughter who is studying in college. And he has a hidden personality that takes killing for fun. After finding the target, he leisurely follows the target's life trajectory, finds the best time and place to start, and enjoys the feeling of having everything under control. Thinking about the task of death, it is Isn't it a bit like? And after killing people, he will put on all kinds of creative poses. In short, he enjoys these things as art, until one day a photographer photographed the evidence of his killing, and put forward a strange condition, that is, to kill in the future take him. At this time, his daughter also had an accident. It turned out that his daughter's genes had his evil. He also killed his roommate and came back to try to persuade him to let her inherit his career. So he faces the pursuit of a witty policewoman (Demi Moore), who I personally think is quite attractive in this film, no wonder she can attract young and handsome guys), the blackmail of the over-the-top young man, and the handling of his daughter. question. I won't spoil the end result. The two characters of the protagonists are quite successful. Even killing people is professional, courageous and resourceful. There is absolutely no mistake for anyone to catch. Everything is under his control. Even if he wanted to die, he would arrange his own way of death. I think men will love watching this movie, because who doesn't enjoy the feeling of having everything under control?

Psychological films like this always fascinate me. Many people have a social identity, maybe for responsibility, or for a living, but they also have a dark side, and they also want to do something against the rules as a form of defection to a civilized social identity, the difference is whether it's just thinking or real. If you do, the greater the degree of repression, the darker the opposite will definitely be. I feel that the director also intends to explore the question of whether human nature is inherently good or evil. His daughter has been growing up under his very high expectations. He hoped that she would have some qualities that can be independent without relying on her father's career, but it just happened to be the opposite. She inherited his equal evil but not at all. Wisdom, and what he appreciates about demi is exactly the quality he expects to see in his daughter. And demi just rebelled against his father's preference for sons and wanted to prove it to him. I'm curious if the time of birth is not taken into consideration, if these two baby girls are swapped, will his daughter also represent justice like demi? Did her father's contempt create the demi she is now, or did she just inspire her own good side? Is demi always the demi of the future anyway? we never know.

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Mr. Brooks quotes

  • Mr. Earl Brooks: Finding someone you think would be fun to kill is a bit like, well it's a bit like falling in love. You meet a lot of candidates, and you like some of them, and they're nice. But they're not right. And that special one comes along, and your heart beats faster, and you know that's the one.

  • Marshall: She did it, didn't she?

    Mr. Earl Brooks: Yeah. It'll take the cops a week to ten days to put their case together, and then... and then they will come back and arrest her.

    Marshall: What are you going to do?

    [Earl breaks down and cries, while Marshall hugs him]

    Mr. Earl Brooks: Oh, God. Oh, God. I was afraid of this since before she was born. She has... she has what I have.

    Marshall: Yes, she does. But you were always smart about it. She was stupid. She did it because she got off - okay, I understand. She's in it for fun - okay, I understand. But why didn't she think it through? A hatchet? And she left it there.