Violence and Obsession

Alexys 2022-04-21 09:02:13

"God will forgive you, but you shouldn't forgive yourself." -- "Andrei Rublev"
is a film about the difficulty of man.
The evil of human nature and the source of violence are so enigmatic and incomprehensible in man that man cannot give a definite answer.
On the other side of good and evil, God's eyes are watching, like a hidden camera in a movie.
"I'll never feel any guilt for your dad's downfall, it's not my fault..."
"I want to know your attitude towards killing others, now I know."
Maggie and her son have a relationship This obsession, that George should take responsibility for his fault, they blame their misfortune on George. But this obsession is precisely a major obstacle to their inability to escape their own situation.
There is a plot in the movie: When George and his wife came out of the police station, they were almost hit by a young man riding a bicycle against the one-way street. George yelled at him, and the young man responded without showing weakness.
It is so easy to be dominated by the violent habits of the heart, so natural, just like human nature. You don't even notice it's there.
Magee wiped his neck in George's face. "I want you to be there." He wanted his blood to awaken George's slumbering guilt.
"It's perverted to cut the throat for this, isn't it?"
George couldn't understand Magee's obsession, and couldn't understand the huge blow to Magee's life caused by what he thought was a trivial fault.
Guiltless violence is so natural that you don't feel anything wrong.
Whether it's Magee's obsession or George's shamelessness, in front of the hidden camera is nothing but absurd and meaningless humanity, muddy water.

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  • Georges Laurent: Isn't it lonely, if you can't go out?

    Georges's Mom: Why? Are you less lonely because you can sit in the garden? Do you feel less lonely in the metro than at home? Well then! Anyway, I have my family friend... with remote control. Whenever they annoy me, I just shut them up.