The Sense of Existence and Nietzsche's Art Interpreted in "The Gambler"

Erika 2022-09-17 20:44:24

Since we came into the world, everyone is ready to fall, and some are ready to change evil and return to righteousness. We are human beings, since we fell to the ground and removed the instinct for survival, we have been ready to fall, arrogant, jealous, anger, laziness, Greed, gluttony, lust, the seven deadly sins, the most common sins; we tend to move more towards another return, more geographical, self-control, will, abstinence, etc..., since we have been restrained from the most fundamental survival After being liberated from it, you are always getting all kinds of dependence, whether it is external or internal emotions, some sink deeper, and some return to the right path.
"The Gambler" should be the two systems of Nietzsche's art, Heliotheism and Bacchusism. We are always born and dream about the future now. We are always born but immersed in the past. We know that we are destined to an unchangeable ending. But we are always happy or depressed all day long, we know that the beginning of the good is always stubborn or immersed in fantasy. Apolonia and Bacchus are intoxicated, but the two of them are interconnected as a whole, and after the extreme, there will be another. s inception....
The film begins with the dialogue between the father and the son before the life and death of relatives-

his father: I want to know how much value you have if I don't leave a legacy to you. Is it hard to understand who wants to trample everyone under your feet? Do you have any idea? Talk about your plan
Jim: I will do my best and you can go with peace of mind.
His father: You are now the head of the family, see if you have this capability.

Death is not terrible. The hardest thing to give up is worry. The most worrying thing is to leave suddenly, and it is too late to say goodbye. What is always inseparable is spiritual attachment. We inherit the grace and admonition of the former and pass it on. The Bible says: "God said:'Honor your parents' and said:'Whoever curses your parents will be put to death. You say:'No matter who says to your parents, what I should give you has done. By making offerings, he can disrespect his parents. "This is that you have abolished God's commandments by inheritance." (Matthew 15:4-6).

The next chapter will describe Jim Bennett’s drive to the difficult road to gambling, and the situation of entering a mobile underground casino, passing levels, changing chips, and introducing this "jungle" by underground "security". , Through the clouds and fog, twists and turns to bring the audience into this noisy abyss full of desire.

When Bennett understood that his addiction to gambling was gradually hurting the people around him, he should have realized that addiction to gambling did not just affect himself, even if he himself was willing to fall into it. But since he already has a good job, good income and reputation, what exactly does he feel? Is it a deep loss that was born and destined to die? That’s why I hate life, because everything I do under the sun, I think it’s all worries, vain, and chasing after the wind (the Bible). Please take a closer look at what he said and expressed. These have already been obvious in the separate dialogue between him and the basketball student, and when he was arguing with his girlfriend...
Because of his addiction to gambling, the basketball star student, the top five tennis student, his mother, and his lover have been implicated. To the departure of Phillips.

When he began to implement the trap of counterfeiting and preparing to pay off his debts, he was already manipulating the game. It was not that he deliberately instigated the students of the rising basketball star to counterfeit the ball, but that was also the idea of ​​the rising basketball star to enter professional players, earn money, and raise money for his mother and sister. Surgical expenses to support the family. With his ability, you can imagine that he wandered among the three creditors, borrowed money for gambling, and finally helped others. I think that from his addiction to gambling to the final game, he is proving his idea that life is a bet in itself. What you want to get is all that you are preparing for it.

The last part of the page also describes the situation of entering a mobile underground casino; in the final gambling game, when Bennett took out the cash from the purse, the people present were quiet for an instant, their expressions were surprised, and others seemed to be gamblers. , Even the dealer bosses and the big bosses who were borrowed tremble for this gamble. It is either black or red, or falls into an endless abyss, or is dangerous. It is not so much a gamble, it is better to fight back and feel the desperate situation. In the end, the male protagonist ran heartily from night to dawn, until the lover’s courtyard. When the door was knocked..., it gave us infinite beautiful reveries. In fact, so far, it has already symbolized heliotheism. s inception. Although Nietzsche's art is pushed to the extreme is nothingness, Nietzsche's philosophy is pushed to the extreme that God is dead, and existence itself is meaningless. But personal understanding, Nietzsche’s philosophy is to completely push the "individual" to the extreme. He ignores that although the "individual" exists alone, it is not a separate existence. We must love ourselves by loving others and love ourselves by loving ourselves. And others. Existence exists because of emotional relationships. Probably this is the meaning of inheritance and promotion of family, nation and even human society.... In fact, loving others or loving oneself is instinct. The extreme of loving oneself is destruction, and the extreme of loving others is inheritance and continuation. The Bible says: "Honor your parents and love your neighbor as yourself." (Matthew 19:19)

We use love to prove the meaning of existence, and existence to interpret the meaning of love.
Don't worry about your life, what to eat, what to drink, and what to wear for your body. Isn't life better than food? Isn't the body better than clothes? In the "New Testament Matthew Gospel", a
person earns the whole world and loses his own life. What is the benefit? What else can a person exchange for his life? "New Testament·Mark"
You must be cautious and avoid all greed; because human life does not care about family wealth. "New Testament·Luke Gospel"

The meaning of the ending credits tends to be better. If Jim Bennett has been immersed in it and unable to extricate himself, the ending will be a tragedy. If Jim Bennett’s family and lover Phillips are involved in this, it can only be said to be death and sacrifice. Come to awaken Jim Bennett’s self; or if Jim Bennet’s family and lover Phillips is implicated and put to death, Jim Bennett is crazy; or if Jim Bennet’s family and lover Phillips Being implicated and put to death, Jim Bennett committed suicide after revenge, or he was mad or put to death with a smile before revenge; the so-called extreme of tragedy is comedy, so as far as Jim Bennett is concerned, it is not another kind of new life. Interpretation? But this is probably not what we want to see!

After the whole article, what I have seen is the question at the beginning. We do not judge the value of people based on identity, status, or money. That kind of judgment should not be the purest. No matter how we manage fame and wealth? In fact, we are also controlled by fame and fortune. Desire wants to trample everyone under our feet. We are all slaves. But if there is no love, where is the sense of existence of our value? Isn't that just pushing it to the extreme to nothingness?

So fewer posts that are negatively complaining, you are not so hard pressed. Let go of those sad and damn emotions and wish more, so that we can live expectantly in the interweaving of pain and happiness. We need positive energy!

Some people may ask why he went to the casino to place a bet and he should have won a lot of money. He borrowed another 150,000 from South Korean creditors and 260,000 from Frank, a loan shark. He owed a total of 15+26+6. +26=730,000, the black lender once said that someone had an eight-point game in the casino, 200,000 gambling, 200,000*2=400,000, the Korean 150,000 Bennett was directly given to the basketball student, and 60,000 was returned. To black lenders, go to the casino to bet 400,000, 400,000*2-26 million (Korean)-150,000 (Korean)-260,000 (Frank) = 130,000, and the final interest deduction is about 100,000.. . This explanation should be reasonable.
Generally speaking, it is more like a kind of self-salvation, which can also be said to be Nietzsche's "drunken life and dreams of death."
The background music at the end of the film-"another wave from you" gives people a sense of breaking through the shackles and shackles and running towards the vast, beautiful, most authentic, and purest wilderness of life.

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Extended Reading

The Gambler quotes

  • [to his college students]

    Jim Bennett: If you take away nothing else from my class, desiring a thing cannot make you have it.

  • Roberta: What will they do to you if you don't pay?

    Jim Bennett: [nonchalantly] Break every bone in my body.

    [she immediately slaps him in the face]