After the cowboy left

Haven 2021-12-08 08:01:39

All the people in the film are trying to find out various reasons for them not to help the sheriff, to justify their fear of taking the consequences, weakness, for their own purposes, such as killing someone to affect the economy, being selfish, or they don’t like the sheriff. In a word, it is unwilling to go in my heart.
Why do you look for various reasons, why can't they just say that, I go because I want to go, I don't go because I don't want to go.

The debate in the church reflects the big trial in Christianity, and modern courts
seem to have no fair judgments. The debate can go on.

In fact, I really like the couplet in the Chenghuang Temple in the Liao Zhai. Unintentional is evil, although evil is not punished.
This is fairer than all judgments in the world. It directly points to people’s hearts. People look at a thing from all angles and get different results. But the standard is very simple, that is, when you do that thing, what is in your heart? What do you think.

The doctrine tells us that we cannot kill, so we hire others to kill because we are afraid of going to hell, so we are not responsible.
responsibility.
Many people in the film are talking about the word responsibility.
You are the sheriff and I am a common man. Why should I go? This is your responsibility, not mine.

But if you don't go, the town will become lawless, and they are also the people in the town.

You are her wife, I am not.
But they have only been married for a few days, and you may be better for a few years.

In order to conceal their weakness, people invented the word responsibility and pushed it to others to make themselves safe, so that they could benefit without having to bear the consequences.

People want benefits, but are afraid to bear the consequences, so they don’t know how to resist, so they make up a person who can save them in their hearts. The cowboy

sheriff is like a cowboy in the system.
He saved the town, but then he wants to ride a horse. Left, where did he leave?
The bad guys will still come, the good guys still endure

He used to be a hero, but when he might affect the future of the town, people firmly abandoned his
hero and left. People have to continue to live and think about the future. Perhaps the difference between heroes and ordinary people is that they never think about the future and live a full day, while others always think about the future, the long future.

The hero is gone, the town is still there, and people will fantasize about the next hero, such as the tycoon who leads them to wealth.

The problem is not solved by cowboys. The real problem is not solved by cowboys. The solution is to turn yourself into a cowboy.
The root of everything lies in people's hearts.
Cowboys can't help you, and God can't help you.

The cowboy is gone, the town is still at gunpoint

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  • Will: Don't shove me Harv. I'm tired of being shoved.

  • Amy: Don't try to be a hero! You don't have to be a hero, not for me!