- On the death penalty and death
How can a country not have the death penalty? How does the absence of the death penalty make life-threatening criminals fearful? If there is no death penalty, those criminals can do whatever they want! This has long been an opinion that is not easily shaken. Last year's stage drama "The Distance Between Us and Evil", the lawyer Wang She, played by Wu Kangren, complained, "Because you people encounter these things, you only have anger and fear, you are timid, and you have no chance to understand what is going on behind them. Things. Is it possible to arrest all these people, kill them all, and let them disappear into this world, will this society become better? No. Because there will be the next Chen Chang (the murderer in the play) criminals)”, lawyer Wang looks at the death penalty from the perspective of reducing crime in society, but we usually only start from the perspective of punishing evil. But gradually, I found that I was not so supportive of the death penalty, not because lawyer Wang wanted to find out the reasons for murderers, nor because Constantine said that states without the death penalty have lower crime rates. But I'm afraid of expecting the wrong death penalty. All along, the police find out the truth of the case, and the judge decides according to the law, but what is the truth? Do you really understand? Once the death penalty is wrongly sentenced, there is no room for redemption.
This film did not move me, but emotion, the truth is so far away from us, and it is so powerless. In the end, the victim who was trapped in it could only choose to remain silent, allow time to digest the sadness in his heart, and regard himself as a passerby. Otherwise how to survive?
Like Bessie, how much I wanted to save the professor, to shake his hand, pass the power over, and clear him. The first videotape was unclear, and after the second videotape, I guess there were other insiders, such as the professor himself, this idea just popped up and disappeared; when the professor was in the last videotape Looking back, I still feel a little deceived; I can't help but raise a sense of respect. The title of this chapter is too much like an adaptation of a real person from a real event. I checked it out, and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Such "great" martyrs do not exist in reality, only in movies, and that's fine.
The viewing of the film is very good, but when you watch it, you will feel that some of the scenes are too deliberate. For example, in the professor's interpretation of Lacan's philosophy in the class, he said that fantasy must surpass reality, and that nothing can make people happy, just like the joy of fishing lies in the process rather than the result, and once you catch it, you lose your fantasy It’s fun – sublimated to the point where a person’s success or failure is measured not by how many desires he achieves, but by his qualities, such as sincerity, compassion, rationality, and even self-sacrifice. In particular, "self-sacrifice" is simply the "eye" of the whole film. When I saw the ending, I couldn't help but shuddered, only to feel that the hairs all over my body stood up.
Postscript: Yesterday, Uncle Da left, taking away many people's childhood. In fact, we have seen many nonsensical movies of him and Zhou Xingxing, but the father of Xiao Wu (Liming) played by him in "Urban Love" has left a deep impression on me. I believe as the professor said, there comes a point in life...a moment, when you loses, maybe death is a gift. Uncle Da is freed from his heart disease and from the pain of liver cancer.
Excerpts from the lines:
1. David Gore teaches students in class:
I want you to reach back into those minds and tell me, tell us all.
You gotta go deep into your heart, tell me, tell everybody
What is it that you fantasize about?
what are you fantasizing about
...
You get Lacan's point. Fantasies have to be unrealistic…
This is the point of Lacanian philosophy that fantasy must transcend reality
Because the moment, the second that you get what you seek…
Because when the fantasy comes true
you don't, you can't want it anymore.
You can't imagine it anymore.
In order to continue to exist…
to keep fantasizing
desire must have its objects perpetually absent.
Your desire must never be fulfilled
It's not the "it" that you want. It's the fantasy of "it".
The point is not what you fantasize about, but the fantasy itself.
So, desire supports crazy fantasies.
Desire and crazy fantasy go hand in hand
This is what Pascal means when he says that we are only truly happy when daydreaming about future happiness.
That's exactly what Pascal said, you're only really happy when you're fantasizing about the future
Or why we say the hunt is sweter than the kill.
As we often say, the fun of fishing is in the "fishing process" rather than "catching fish"
Or be careful what you wish for, not because you'll get it…
Or rather, be careful what you fantasize about not because you'll get it
but because you are doomed not to want it once you do.
but because once you get it you can't imagine it anymore
So the lesson of Lacan is, living by your wants will never make you happy.
So the lesson Lacan teaches us is that there is no happiness in living in desire
What it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals…
That is to say, a real person should strive for goals and ideals
and not to measure your life by what you've attained in terms of your desires…
To measure a man cannot see how much his desires are fulfilled
but those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality, even self-sacrifice.
It depends on his character such as sincere sympathy and rationality or even self-sacrifice
Because in the end , the only way that we can measure the significance of our own lives …is by valuing the lives of others.
Because in the end the meaning of our lives is to respect the lives of others
2. The professor talks to Bessie about death during the prison reception
Bitsey, we spend our whole lives trying to stop death
Bessie, we've spent our lives trying to prevent death
Eating, inventing, loving…
Eat, invent, fall in love
praying, fighting, killing
pray fight kill
But what do we really know about death?
But what do we know about death?
Just that nobody comes back.
because no one can come back
But there comes a point in life…a moment…
But a certain point in life... a moment
when yur mind outlives its desires…its obsessions…
When your thoughts go beyond desire... not addicted
when your habits…survive your dreams
When Your Habits... Beat Your Dreams
and when your losses
when you lose
Maybe death is a gift.
Death may be a gift
You wonder.
you still don't understand
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