After watching "The Quill", there will be a power gushing out of my heart. It seems to have seen the complete presentation of human nature and human desire. I'm a layman when it comes to movies. Although it looks like a biographical drama, the mind is shocked after watching it.
In the process of development and reproduction, human beings often want to create some "shortcuts" to shape the "Utopia" (such as Napoleon) that belongs to a certain group of people. The original intention may be good, but there is no shortcut to anything, because the evolution of the universe and the development of human beings are synchronized. "Preserving the principles of nature, destroying human desires" ultimately destroys human beings themselves. Because of the shortcuts without principles, human beings will eventually pay a painful price. Sade's body ended, but his spirit survived in another way and was recognized by the public, and even the doctors who had done everything to destroy him became his readers. His awakening was the reason why he was put in a mental hospital, or the source of his energy. This source does not need to be bound by beliefs and regulations, it exists naturally in everyone's life, it is nature. In the process of growing up, people are pressured by the outside world to cut off this source. So it will get lost, it will fall, it will collapse.
Almost all the people in the film are out of balance, only Sade has found the fulcrum of balance, that is, writing. And young men and women embrace their desires and struggle to escape their cages. Confucius said "there is no discrimination", which should not be understood as the equal right to education, but it is more appropriate to adopt different education for different people. Helping everyone find the fulcrum of this balance is the perfect presentation of human evolution.
There is no right or wrong in the film, everyone represents a different side of human nature. This may also be the voice of the screenwriter. What a great revelation, everyone in the whole film put together to show us a complete three-dimensional human nature.
The film does not blindly advocate freedom, the real freedom comes from the heart. THAAD was always free, and everyone else helped or suppressed to varying degrees. "My writing is unconscious, like the beating of my heart" This is his absolute freedom. As for other people's reactions after seeing the work, it is beyond his control. Because that source comes from the heart of everyone.
I don't think the writers and directors are pessimists, it's because they have faith in human nature that they try to present this to encourage acceptance. After watching this movie, you may be grateful to each of your past selves for creating who you are today.
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