Against Narcissus

Lexie 2022-04-19 09:01:55

Just like the famous "30 Seconds of Weightlessness", her tears and my silence are our shared experience of transcending anthropocentrism, and the tacit understanding and harmony with an "other" that I cherish very much. Anthropology speaks of "culture shock", which is more of a secondary form of this experience - the original and the film refer to the whole human being, and anthropologists have been criticized, especially those who only The part that is a kind of self-torture is more like a representative of the "human whole" here - in fact (in my personal opinion) finding a "mirror" for oneself is no longer a backward concept and guiding ideology in academic history (whether it is Pragmatism or non-pragmatism), but there will still be writers who point out this Narcissus tendency in advance (it is said that Viveros initially put forward this critique of anthropology in 2009, and here we have to feel Leme The greatness of Solaris, shaped decades ago). But we also see that this kind of academic work is often seen by practitioners themselves as a source of escape and aesthetic experience—the struggle against “being human, I’m sorry,” which seems to help us get out of the human race first Centralism and then break free from the shackles of understanding (the first is ugly, then the beautiful, and finally there is no expectation, in order to approach a more real and in-depth communication). Sartre's reputation has reduced "others is hell" into a sentence, and people tend to focus on "others" while ignoring their own need for a "mirror" (an object of knowledge, an object of interaction, or meaning and reason) That is the most fundamental problem - this is the fundamental tension of the logic and life of the so-called civilized people. "We are fraternal and noble, we do not want to conquer other races, we only want to communicate our values ​​to them, and in return, receive their full heritage. We think we have a sacred mission to communicate, a kind of chivalry. Another lie. We are looking for people, not the world outside people. We don't need the world outside people. What we need is a mirror of people themselves. "

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Extended Reading
  • Barry 2022-03-24 09:01:52

    The old tower is slightly more popular. The poetic beauty has become a nostalgia for the earth and human nature, and the philosophical thinking can be called the Soviet version of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The layout of the space station is slightly poor, but the director himself did not focus on that, which is understandable. In addition, although horror and horror are not the signature of Laota, his skills are definitely not bad.

  • Stone 2022-03-28 09:01:03

    Brush a second time. Different from the original work which focused on the mysterious and terrifying way of alien life, Laota actually talked about people's inner or cognitive issues in outer space. For example, whether the replica you see is the same as the real one, and whether you can graft your feelings for the real one blah blah blah ~ a very, very, very scary ending.

Solaris quotes

  • Kris Kelvin: Why are we being tortured like this?

    Dr. Snaut: In my opinion, we have lost our sense of the cosmic. The ancients understood it perfectly. They never would have asked why or what for. Remember the myth of Sisyphus?

  • Kris Kelvin: The only thing left for me is to wait. I don't know what for. New miracles?