I watched Aristotle in a crowded mall

Evalyn 2022-09-21 05:24:03

In the north on a summer morning, the day begins. An inseparable part of capitalism: sitting on a small folding bench in the basement of a large department store, I have come from afar.
I was waiting for an actor I liked to come out, and I went to great lengths to meet him. This is the beginning of the day. I don't know how many customers this mall will visit today and how much turnover will be generated. I'm not in the mood to care. All kinds of people gradually gathered around, women who knew and did not know from all over the world.
I didn't care about these people either, so I flipped through the books I brought with me, disgusting places with many people, the smell of people's breath, the smell of summer in the flesh, which made people suffocate. In my heart, I reminisce the story of the leader who was taught as a child when he was a child reading in the downtown area. A great man is a great man! Look at the book in your hand, Aristotle said, those who are considered wise are always able to perceive knowledge that ordinary humans cannot perceive, blablabla.
Why do people want to study philosophy? It's like doing something completely unsuitable in a completely unsuitable environment at the moment. Isn't this a philosophy in itself? Suddenly I feel that I am super good, and the ancient monks are just like that, right? !
After going so far, I pulled back the high-level intellectual from the eastern United States that I wanted to talk about. There is no doubt that he was the wise man that Aristotle said.
Woody Allen, always chattering little old man, I know you are very smart, listen to smart people, even if he is chatter, he will not get tired. Why, because he can always tell the truth that you haven't heard or the truth that you can realize but can't make it clear with your mouth. I just can't hate smart people, no matter how bad he is. Speaking of the film of The Unreasonable, before I saw it, I wondered if it was a bit similar to the end of the game. It's just that the male protagonist has changed from a young white face to an uncle who has a middle-aged crisis disorder on the surface and a turbulent heart.
Totally Woody Allen, even though the meme he used at the end still made me cry out in surprise, I didn't think it was a surprise. After watching it, you will know how the old fans will evaluate this film. The self-replicating sketch, blablabla, is this feeling.
Just like the person I was waiting for at that time, I knew that he was doing something that was equally innocuous and unsurprising, but after all, I paid for it with expectation, time, energy and money.
Three and a half stars, give me half a bottle of self-righteous ink, and a universal illiterate philosophy that tries to realize from philosophy that life is ultimately self-inflicted.

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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.