But God is not dead

Orrin 2022-09-11 02:05:06

Liu Yu's film review is well written, and it is very appropriate to interpret it from a political standpoint, but I still think of Nietzsche's "God is dead".
When God existed, he created rules and morals for people to follow, tell the lambs, follow me, accept my scourge, you have moral education, and the consequences of breaking the rules are dangerous, then you will be bad people.
Nietzsche said that there is actually no difference between good and bad, or that the philosophical man should put himself beyond the position of good and evil, beyond the moral judgment that has always existed. Because there are no so-called moral facts at all, morality is a distortion, just like religion, which sets up specific language systems to restrain and discipline people's various behaviors, but they are not enough to make people truly understand themselves. .

In the story of the film, parents become gods in this small courtyard. They make rules, fabricate the meaning of language, and then use language to describe the appearance of the world. The ocean is the sofa, the zombie is the little yellow flower, the bitch is the lamp in the living room, and the cat eats children.
Such a context lacks a grey meaning, an image that makes it impossible to distinguish between good and evil. For example, there is no vast and turbulent Sailun-covered prairie, no cosmic galaxy with no end in sight, and no mixed Manhattan. And what do you think of when you see these unexplainable words?
Yes, "I want to see".

So Nietzsche said that it is a good thing that God is dead, because man can finally pursue those dangerous meanings of life. Depth and evil are two factors that make humans higher than beasts. The evil here doesn't mean anything very bad, just like the original evil of human beings in religion is to eat an apple of wisdom, if the so-called evil is to go to those more interesting and open worlds, then this kind of evil will become The reason why people are people.

In fact, I never saw when my sister realized that God should be damned, but the trigger was completely the only medium that appeared in the small courtyard, two videotapes of violent gangster boxers. My sister thought she paid the price of a dog's tooth, but the long shot of the last trunk of the car made my heart skip a beat. For nearly ten seconds, several possible outcomes alternated in my mind. She may be dead, her father may have found her and dumped her body, she may follow the car back, and she will be rescued.

Until the black screen, I don't know which ending is better.

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  • [first lines]

    Mother: The new words of the day are: "Sea", "Highway", "Road trip" and "Shotgun".

  • [subtitled version]

    [last lines]

    Father: If you don't drink your orange juice while it's fresh, it's no use.