satirical philosopher

Alyce 2022-10-11 11:40:48

"The Unreasonable" is a very ironic movie. The first point is that after murdering the judge, the philosophy professor thinks his behavior is moral, but when the police station mistakenly arrests another person, although the philosophy professor thinks his behavior is unethical, but in order to save himself Sentenced to life in prison for the second murder of his lover. This runs counter to the Kant philosophy that he talks about in the classroom, and he slaps his face every minute. The second point is that the female college student played by Emma Stone is obsessed with the romantic temperament of a philosophy professor and gives up her love but mediocre boyfriend. After knowing that the philosophy professor killed her, the character of the professor's romantic temperament collapsed, and she was almost killed by the philosophy professor. Professor Murder. Love is love, romance cannot carry everything. The third point is that the philosophy professor drew a flashlight as a gift when he was willing to contact a female college student for the first time. In the end, when he murdered the female college student, he also fell to his death in the elevator because he stepped on the flashlight. Another feature of the film "The Unreasonable Man" is that it is more philosophical. If it is a philosophical question of morality and conscience whether to surrender after murder described in Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment", then in this film, is it a question of whether another person is accidentally punished after murder? The need to surrender is a question of human selfishness.

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  • [first lines]

    Abe: [narrating] Kant said human reason is troubled by questions that it cannot dismiss, but also cannot answer. Okay, so, what are we talking about here? Morality? Choice? The randomness of life? Aesthetics? Murder?

    Jill: I think Abe was crazy from the beginning. Was it from stress? Was it anger? Was he disgusted by what he saw as life's never-ending suffering? Or was he simply bored by the meaninglessness of day-to-day existence? He was so damn interesting. And different. And a good talker. And he could always cloud the issue with words.

    Abe: Where to begin? You know, the existentialists feel nothing happens until you hit absolute rock bottom. Well, let's say that when I went to teach at Braylin College, emotionally, I was at Zabriskie Point. Of course, my reputation, or should I say a reputation, preceded me.

  • Abe Lucas: Jill had been right in her appraisal of me. I was teetering on the brink of some kind of breakdown, unable to deal with my feelings of anger, frustration, futility. They say that drowning is a painless way to go.