Why does Jacques like the sea so much? Why are dolphins his family? Why did he abandon Joanna on the shore and dive into the deep sea alone in the end? No solution. It is said that man evolved from dolphins, and the sea is the original habitat of man. Because of walking on land, people are accustomed to the fresh air and warm sunshine on land, and lose the instinct to wander freely in the water, so that breath-hold diving can turn into a competition. The alienation from the sea is actually the alienation from the original nature.
People on the shore think that dolphins are mammals without perfect evolution. Perhaps from the point of view of dolphins, human evolution is just a process of alienation that deviates from nature. Humans have created a splendid fantasy of civilization on land, but the purpose of civilization is the continuation of race and civilization. To a certain extent, civilization does not care whether individuals are living in an adaptive way in the order they provide. among. Dolphins are supposed to live in the sea, but they have become playthings for entertainment in the playground. People should be complete and independent living individuals, but unfortunately they have become the playthings of the civilization they created.
"I want to talk to you about my life, you are my whole life, I love you, I want to live with you, I want to have a baby with you, a house of our own, a car and a A dog, what do you think?" Joanna asked Jacques. The taciturn Jacques never answered Joanna's question directly, because he didn't know how to resolve the fundamental conflict between love and nature. Whenever Joanna asked some important questions, he would either have sex or jump into the sea.
Joanna loves Jacques, there is nothing wrong with love, but her mistake is to mistake the result of marriage as the result of love, so she is destined to be hurt in the end. From a universal perspective, Joanna's wish is actually an ordinary woman's simple wish. But the problem is precisely here. Falling in love, getting married, having children, and starting a family seems to be the life trajectory of a normal person that is generally recognized in a society. People often say, "You should do things at any time", "You can't live your whole life alone", "People need love and companionship". Is there a possibility? That is, the so-called "love", "company", and "career" needs may be just an excuse made up by people for their own greed. In fact, people don't need so many things. Those are all appendages imposed by civilization on people. Things, what people ultimately need is a blue sea where they can sleep forever.
At the end of the movie, Joanna shouted hysterically in the face of Jacques who insisted on diving into the sea: "I'm here, I'm alive, I'm there!" ? Believing in the authenticity of Dasein, thinking that Dasein is the “existence”, affirms the meaning of real life, but the meaning is not actually here, and the “existence” is elsewhere. Jacques' fascination with the sea is actually a response to the inspiration of the mysterious original existence. Joanna will grow old, die, and leave, but not the sea.
What Joanna is looking for is a certain sense of happiness and a sense of belonging that conforms to the civilized order, but Jacques is nostalgic for the sea, and his love for Joanna and the will to return to the original existence tear his soul, so Joanna sometimes feels that Jacques is not However, when Jacques looked at her with his gentle and blurred eyes, she was very sure that she was loved. From the ending of the movie, it seems that Jacques chose the latter between Joanna and the sea. In fact, for Jacques, this is not a multiple-choice question at all, and Joanna has not even been qualified to be an option.
"You are my whole life". No, this is not life.
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