Tarkovsky (b. 1932) was fathered by an older generation of intellectuals (Tolstoy died in 1910, Dostoevsky in 1881, Lu Xun in 1881 and died in 1936 ), as a generation of intellectuals born in 1932, the most painful thing is material abundance and spiritual barrenness (Beidao was born in 1949, Zhang Chengzhi was born in 1948), the fathers of this generation faced the death of religious belief , but the revolution replaced religion, and the revolutionary ideal shone through a lifetime, and it was indeed an era when both revolutionary ideals and religious beliefs were shattered for future generations.
If intellectuals born in the 1930s and 1940s can still find some revolutionary personality and spiritual ideals in the ashtrays of their parents, then our generation can say that even the idea of struggle is becoming more and more scarce. We live in a Hollywood dream machine, living in the sky of commodity display windows, so happy that we can't even feel our own happiness, yes, that's why we can't read this movie, because this movie, Not for a happy man, but for the struggle of a miserable soul.
The viral expansion of the concept of "science" (don't forget that Marxism was also the "science" of that era) has led to the blindly optimistic view that this is the future direction of human beings: with the development of productive forces, human beings are liberated from the material , only need to engage in spiritual creation, human life will be as beautiful as the news spread on newspapers and TV news. But science cannot solve the problem of good and evil. If there is no God, no religion, good people have no heaven, and bad people have no retribution, is this world a little light? Of course, through legal sanctions and moral engineering, it is true that the crime rate can be "scientifically" controlled, but Can we be happy if we just turn a blind eye to the problem, or pass our lives through deception and leave it to posterity? Obviously, a few people still see the problem. This "forbidden area" is a hypocritical device set up by humans (burial is also a primitive human installation art, which makes death secularized, ritualized, and vulgar, thus diluting the "deterrent" of death. ), as for why the "workers and peasants" are not arranged, but scientists and writers are arranged to enter the restricted area, that is because not knowing "who I am, where I came from, and where I am going" does not prevent most people from eating and drinking .
This terrifying forbidden area is a metaphor for a world after the collapse of beliefs. Everything here is abnormal from the outside. Which is the "real world", or "what is the truth"? The writer needs inspiration here, because the world here is closer to reality to him. Intellectuals who have experienced historical disasters such as the Cultural Revolution can easily find that the "forbidden zone" can be said to be a hidden corner of freedom, where the environment is dangerous and unsuitable Survival, because of this, there is no external control, and the tentacles of power are powerless here. If there's anything dangerous about the exclusion zone, it's that everything is reasonable here, everything seems free, and you'll find that your thinking has no rules, no "science", and that's why you can find what writers call inspiration here Bar. What we see in the film is that the writer wanders aimlessly in the forbidden zone of nothingness while searching for a "new religion".
As for the scientist, it is relatively simple, he needs to blow up this dangerous place, or physically destroy this place in other "more scientific" ways. As for the question of good and evil, utilitarianism can also satisfy the consumption appetite of many people.
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