A dream born in the wrong era
- I watched "Bonnie and clyde"
This film was released in 1967. It is worth noting that that year happened to be the year when the Cultural Revolution in our country was in full swing. The Cultural Revolution was the strangulation of individuals, and other tracks were not allowed outside the collective. The voice of opposition has only one fate, and that is to "fall down", or to say destruction, the complete destruction of body and mind. The Cultural Revolution seems to be a carnival after World War II, but this is not accidental. After the fall, the powerful system was suggested again in some miraculous opportunity, and the system naturally wanted to test its power, beating the world with a kind of dazed brute force like a "newborn calf", smashing walls and fortresses. , shattering the spirit and culture, proving his strength to the future, but also inadvertently proving his ignorance and cruelty.
Bonnie was originally a small character under the system, a waiter and a hardworking wage earner, but he suddenly met clyde, a prodigal son outside the system. In him, it seemed that there were infinite possibilities, and Bonnie followed without hesitation. Together with Clyde, they started the story of their heroism. Oh no, I said that heroism is not appropriate. It should be said that it is a kind of individualism, abandoning the system and creating a legendary life outside the "environment". Bonnie knows better than anyone that robbing a bank is not an easy job, and if it's all about making money, it may be easier to be a waiter, but she still enters this journey with a dream, because what she wants It's not a decadent personal mental state like today's "Buddhist system", "lay flat" and "rotten", but want to realize an extraordinary dream, which is an unknown wonderful.
After World War II, people all over the world have inevitably formed a ptsd state of war. While people cannot escape the cruelty and pain of war, they are also affected by the inertia of war. This influence is mainly reflected in the influence of the system on the Rebellion or resistance, generally speaking, we believe in "rules" and hate "rules", just like Moss was originally a well-behaved mechanic, but once he was provoked by Bonnie and Clyde, he immediately felt that the system was completely OK Those who resisted. At that time, we all had a mentality of distrusting the system, believing that we could overthrow it. Even if we didn’t overthrow it, at least we could leave the system and “go to a place where no one knew us.”
But the ending was very tragic. The dreams of the young couple were shattered again and again, until finally, they were betrayed by the believer of the system, Moss's father, and were shot, with countless bullets all over the body. At that time, it was the downfall of the era of freedom, and people started the process of being domesticated by the system. In front of the powerful state apparatus, personal dreams were like duckweeds in the water, rippling in the sea forever.
There's a line in it where Clyde says angrily to Bonnie "We're all going to die, they just remember we robbed the bank". It may sound absurd to us, you rob a bank, and of course you will be remembered, and your death is a happy event for the bankers and gunslingers, and of course it will be reported. Let's see, this sentence, what do people think is more important? money. That is, money is more important, why not report that they killed several people indiscriminately for robbing money, but the point is to take the money? Now we may take it for granted that money is more important, because the economic base determines the superstructure and other words, people are symbolized as a worker on an assembly line of economic operation, and each of us workers must maintain the economy normal functioning, or else a sinner. But we also see that the economy has grown into a huge force, and its order cannot be destroyed. The demise of individuals is not important or no one cares, but money (private property) needs to last forever. This is the biggest characteristic of economic society or capitalist society, money is supreme. Why don't Bonnie and Clyde think robbing a bank is a crime? To them it was just a dangerous money-making technique, and Clyde never wanted to kill anyone, he just couldn't figure out why someone was holding onto that property. Because in the eyes of Clyde and Bonnie, money is money, it's just a simple tool for exchanging material materials, and in the overall society, for other people, money is life, even something higher than life. This can be said to be a kind of raising or alienation of money. From money serving people to people serving money.
This episode contrasts with an episode in "Les Miserables" that I was watching recently, in which Bishop Bian Furu met Jean Valjean, who stole the silver tableware from the Bishop's house, but was brought back by the police and arrested , let him kneel before Bishop Bian Furu and tell the bishop that Jean Valjean was a thief. At this time, Bishop Bian Furu said that he had given these dishes to Jean Valjean, "washed them" for Jean Valjean, and gave Jean Valjean two candlesticks for him to exchange for some money. This episode was very shocking, and made Jean Valjean start his life-long journey of self-redemption. His fate was so tragic and painful, but he still sincerely repented and did good deeds. In this story, we can see that when money is a little bit backward, human nature can shine, redeeming human nature with the gift of human dignity, and everyone can embark on the journey of "being human". Once capital comes first, each of us is a slave or guardian of property, and the identity of "human" is completely replaced, forgotten, and lost on the road of economic development of the community.
In the past, when we heard literati in the ancient agricultural society say "materialistic desires and money," we usually thought it was the unwarranted sigh of literati and poker, but today it is indeed the case. Is there any other way to return, even our society does not allow the existence of "unprofitable" things. The usual word is to think that such things are "useless". When they express "use", they don't look at it. The only criterion for judging whether it is useful is to see whether it can make money or not. If Bonnie and Clyde were successful, they would become bank robbers, build their own estates, sing and dance in them, and then attract those who have no money to worship them, which is a possible fate in this age, you earn When the money arrives, you have justice, even if only partial. But they never envisaged building a larger asset protection system through robbery, but hoped to live an ordinary life like a reclusive knight.
Having said that, by the way, the translation of "The Male and Female Thief" is really not very good, because after reading the whole article, I don't think that Bonnie and Clyde are like a big thief, a thief is the kind of robbery with a kind of heroism to rob and steal money It's used for some kind of heroic thing, and Bonnie and Clyde don't want to steal at all, they just want to blatantly rob, this has nothing to do with the so-called "chivalry spirit", just a kind of self-esteem. At the same time, Bonnie and Clyde are not the image of the male and female swordsmen rushing through the rivers and lakes together. They have experienced a slow running-in process (as can be seen from Clyde's sexual experience), and in the end, they basically reached the end of the road. After reaching the peak of love, they really found the point of mutual agreement, and their small team really established a relationship of mutual trust and care. In the process, they did not "become each other", but found themselves more and became more clear about their idealistic feelings, so Bonnie wrote a poem. When reciting this poem, she made a statement for their life. Beautiful interpretation.
Speaking of which, the image of Bonnie reminds me of Guo Furong in "Wulin Biography". She was originally a wealthy lady, and because she learned a little Kung Fu, she dreamed of going to the rivers and lakes, so she passed the Tongfu Inn on the way, and was here with everyone. spent many days. Guo Furong has a bit of idealistic spirit. She can't be called a "knight", she just wants to experience another life, but she actually went from one cage to another, and lived in another cage. It is quite comfortable, so returning to the original cage has become a definite destination for her.
In contrast, Bonnie didn't have another cage to join, she was precariously on the way to pursue her dream, and apart from missing her mother, she had no intention of staying at home, so her fate was not as good as Guo Furong's. The protection of the system, but floating in the world waiting to die.
From their deaths, I can see the power of Leviathan, he can keep track and design to frame, many people make up this machine, and the hugeness of this machine makes it seem that there is no one among them It doesn't matter, that's why people are so small. This huge machine domesticates people, or is domesticated by people into a usable force, and slowly establishes an "authority", and a modern state is established. After World War II, people were disgusted by this system that has not yet been formed or has just been hit, but there is still no way to reverse this process. Indestructibility is its basic requirement, so we can only wait to be domesticated or killed.
Today, not only is this powerful machine full of defects in all aspects, but its strength is still unstoppable, and individualism is despised and suppressed today, and slowly disappeared in the long river of history. In the future, we will not only be domesticated, He didn't know he had been domesticated. When we were locked in the iron house, we thought that we had built an exquisite iron house to live in and ensure safety. Closed humanity begins its golden age.
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