I saw the conflict between two sets of forces within Stanley. The first group is the conflict between reason and religion: from Stanley's disdain for religion, to the gradual disintegration of his faith by Sufi's lifelike tricks, to the moment when his aunt was saved by a doctor rather than God. Reaffirmed his original belief; the second group is the confrontation between reason and emotion: Stanley's love for his fiancée is completely a love of reason and reason. (Fiancée is synonymous with rationality at its best, as evidenced by the fact that she feels "disappointment" rather than "sadness" about the breakup—she finds Stanley's knowledge and intellect to make the decision absurd. ) is like the transition from admiring a person's talent, to having the person, which is as practical as owning a fortune, to this steadfastness to reason in his later attempt to debunk Sufi spiritism He was gradually shaken by the mystery that shocked him and couldn't explain it, and it was because of this that he gradually turned his attention to Sophie herself instead of her psychic skills. In the end, although he exposed Sophie's Deception, but his concept of feelings has also been changed by this wonderful journey - he no longer uses reason to measure love, but begins to believe in his own feelings.
These two sets of conflicts are like two horses in a race, and are the driving force behind the development of the entire film. In the beginning, reason and religion competed, the former won, but ultimately lost to emotion. Religion and emotion are two similar things, because they both carry some kind of unexplainable mystery, but religious issues have been falsified by modern technology, but emotions are always unclear. After all, the experience of the heart is difficult to quantify. But maybe this is what humanity is working towards? Or it has already started.
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