Everyone feels like a savior

Adeline 2022-04-20 09:01:38

Before watching I already knew that grace was the daughter of the underworld boss. What I didn't quite understand until I saw the end was how she could endure such inhuman, inhuman torture and such great pain. It was only after seeing a conversation between her and her father at the end that she understood. In her father's opinion, arrogant. her redemptive heart. She was saved with a compassionate heart. When the people of Dogtown committed various crimes on her, she also felt that it was their unavoidable nature and could be forgiven. She feels that she has absolute high morals.
And the reason people in Dogtown can make all kinds of excessive demands is because they feel they must be rewarded for protecting her. They also regard themselves as the savior of the other party. Look, without our shelter, you have to be taken away by the police and the underworld. Shouldn't you be grateful to us?
And the writer, as stated at the beginning of the film, is actually just a man doing nothing, or it can be said that he considers himself a writer. In the name of morality, he initially wanted to preach to people through meetings and save their souls, but no one paid attention to him, and yes, his theories were all empty, because he didn't realize that he was actually a cowardly and selfish coward. , a member of the dog town with the same bad roots. Before he defected, there was a narration that he felt that since grace hurt the residents of Dogtown, his friends, it also hurt him indirectly. So, in fact, he was no different from the residents of Dogtown. Although he once I also hated everything here, from his introduction to the newcomer Grace. And Chuck is the person who knows "human nature is inherently evil". Grace said that you are also from the metropolis, right? He said that the metropolis and The people of the small village are no different, they are just as stupid and greedy, the country people, they have to eat as much as they can, and the writer was still ridiculously trying to save the souls of the residents of Gou Town.
The last massacre was actually in the name of salvation. It was an empathy decision. Because his father said, you are arrogant. You are kind to them and forgive them everything. But do you treat yourself the same way? Yes, the savior is hard on himself. At the beginning of the film she punishes herself for stealing a dog's bone and refuses to accept Tom's bread. She is so demanding of herself. Finally, she got out of the car, thinking that if it were herself, she would be unforgivable for doing these evil things to others. Grace doesn't think it's revenge, she thinks the world would be a better place if the people in this village died. She used her power for the first time.
However, to change the evil of human nature, this is a problem that even God cannot complete. Unless, kill them all.

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  • Narrator: How could she ever hate them for what was at bottom merely their weakness? She would probably have done things like those that had befallen her if she had lived in one of these houses. To measure them by her own yardstick, as her father put it. Would she not, in all honesty, have done the same as Chuck and Vera and Ben and Mrs Henson and Tom and all these people in their houses? Grace paused and as she did, the clouds scattered and let the moonlight through, and Dogville underwent another of those little changes of light. It was as if the light previously so merciful and faint finally refused to cover up for the town any longer. Suddenly, you could no longer imagine a berry that would appear one day on a gooseberry bush, but only see the thorn that was there right now. The light now penetrated every unevenness and flaw in the buildings and in the people. And all of a sudden, she knew the answer to her question all too well. If she had acted like them, she could not have defended a single one of her actions and could not have condemned them harshly enough. It was as if her sorrow and pain finally assumed their rightful place. No. What they had done was not good enough. And if one had the power to put it to rights, it was one's duty to do so - for the sake of other towns, for the sake of humanity and not least, for the sake of the human being that was Grace herself.

  • Narrator: [as McKay explores even further with his hand] It was not Grace's pride that kept her going during the days when fall came and the trees were losing their leaves, but more of a trance like state that descends on animals whose lives are threatened - a state in which the body reacts mechanically in a low tough gear, without too much painful reflection. Like a patient passively letting his disease hold sway.