The sea monster translated as "crocodile" is Leviathan. When the Bible speaks of this beast, it uses several passages to describe the insignificance and powerlessness of human beings before it, its sturdy scales and glowing eyes, its fiery mouth, and its heart as hard as iron. pot; make the sea like ointment in a pot." So what was this terrifying creature like? The Bible doesn't say so. So later generations imagined that it was a sea dragon with the characteristics of crocodiles, snakes and whales. It set off huge waves in the sea and could swallow a big boat in one bite... But no matter how much you think about it, the picture cannot be blurred with the scriptures. The vague descriptions are generally terrifying. It seems that once those invisible imaginations are fixed in concrete words, the elusive fear disappears.
So the movie "Leviathan" only shows the dark cliffs and rugged reefs on the shore, as well as the dark shadow of a big fish in the dirty water, and the pale but beautiful sea beast skeleton on the poster. Cannibal Leviathan ravages the solitary house on the shore, and the people in the house don't even know what devoured them in the end: power and corruption? A bureaucratic, inhuman administrative machine? Lonely? Best friend's cheating and wife's death? Doubts from friends around you? In the end, even the son who believed most in his own no longer insisted on his innocence? Religious hypocrisy? Or just numbing your life itself with alcohol, day in and day out? The person in the house, Kolya, didn't know either, so before he was sent into the iron gate, he lowered his head and said over and over that he didn't understand at all. The abyss-like fear depicts how huge the monster is, trying to touch another unknown with one unknown, similar to what Rudolf Otto said when talking about "sacred", the so-called "sacred" is the vastness and hugeness that makes people in front of it Feeling small as a stone, ready to be engulfed at any moment; if this hugeness does not carry the individual, and allow the individual to participate in its greatness, it is not sacred, but dark terror. This unknown fear is not necessarily pure evil: even religions that exhort people to do good can become fears if they do not have the ability to understand and empathize, but only bind people with dogma and appeals that make people lose themselves. Kolya is being swallowed by a mysterious vastness. It's not that he doesn't want to fight, but who can fight back the invisible fog with his hands and feet or even guns?
Kolya has no guns, is not a hero, and is not even as good as his lawyer friend. He has the courage to blackmail the mayor and use violence to control violence. He was weak and indecisive. He was forced to come to the door by the vicious mayor. He could only sit in the house with a shotgun on his lap, but he could see that he would not fire even against the dark night sky. The guard at the bottom of the state machine roared a few times, perhaps hoping to provoke the unhappy machine, feeling a little bit of human heat? ——He is not a character who was knocked down by internal and external attacks, but he was mediocrely dependent on outsiders, and he was one of thousands of individuals with blurred faces, not necessarily a specific country. A character from the period; they, or we, like us, selfish, timid, conservative, mediocre, would never take the initiative to meet the sea monster to rescue the beautiful Andromeda, only to ask the Leviathan not to destroy his own Family. They, or we, are not a network of faces juxtaposed, but a flesh-colored and boundless flat collection with no individuality, but occasionally when I think of this collection, I will feel that it is okay to cast this kind of commonality into it, and think of my own body. In this collection, there is no independent voice and face, even the idea of now is fleeting, and will disappear in it one day, can not help but feel the panic and powerlessness like drowning, the nothingness like sticking out into the abyss Cold - it turns out that we who stood opposite the Leviathan, anxiously waiting for its invisible claws, are also Leviathan.
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