Do you think what you think is the truth?

Asa 2022-04-21 09:02:29

Movies are great. The narration is smooth and the structure is clear, the lens language is very photographic, and every shot is perfect; the line language is concise and powerful; there is no delay, several reversals, and a complete story is told in a hurry; the theme is about to come out, see At the end of the film, the viewing experience is one word: cool.

As for my own doubts as the plot develops during the viewing process, as the title says, do you think what you think is the truth?

In the great era when the samurai were unemployed and left on the streets to become werewolves, many ronin tried to survive by pretending to ask for money and alms to survive. The begging daughter also chose this path under the helpless situation, and came to the Jingyi family in the name of seeking abdominal cutting, but in fact she also hoped to get some money to save the seriously ill wife and children in the family, and take on the responsibility of the head of the family. life responsibility. This idea took the Jingyi family's retainers in the eyes and decided to teach him a lesson, begging his daughter to die, and let him die.

This move is indeed domineering, full of the ruling class regardless of the life and death of others, a sense of superiority that is superior to others and arbitrarily disposing of the fate of others. In the process of preparing for the ceremony, I found that the begging girl was carrying a bamboo sword instead of a samurai sword. I was even more convinced that the begging girl was for the purpose of defrauding money rather than cutting her belly, but she still insisted on making mistakes and asked the woman to use a bamboo knife to cut her belly. The crowd waited. Get ready for a good show.

The begging girl was helpless, and kept begging, saying that since it has come to this point, if she can give it a day or two, she will definitely come back. All the retainers made up their minds that they wanted to run away, but they refused, and insisted on executing them immediately. As an audience, when I saw this, I always insisted that begging for a girl would be the best way to escape, just like the retainers; Why do samurai swords carry bamboo swords?

You see, the audience all have this idea. The retainers are convinced and insist on watching a good show, so they forced the girl to death without asking the reason. The begging daughter died tragically. Before she died, she failed to say goodbye to her wife and children at home, and failed to explain to her father-in-law. She was wronged and died.

After hearing Jin Yun's remarks later, he realized that he was begging for his wife and children, and he sold a samurai sword, so there was only a bamboo sword. The truth is revealed. What you think is completely different from the facts, but by virtue of your own subjective assumptions, three people in a family died one after another.

Why is there such a subjective assumption? Why do you think you don't bother to ask why?

When people guess the behavior and intentions of the other party, there are usually two modes. One is to look at the other's belly with one's own heart, and what the villain's heart sees is mostly the other party's malicious intentions; the other is to rely on the past in the mind. The experience of the other party already has a mindset for the other party, so many times these two constitute "what you think is what you think". On the one hand, the embarrassing situation of the ronin's existence at that time did indeed give the ruling class some such mindsets, and these people were deceiving the truth in the name of incision; on the other hand, it also showed that the hearts of these ruling classes were actually indifferent and selfish. Yes, he doesn't care about the down-and-out poor and the fallen samurai, he lacks sympathy, and he is also a deceiver of the ruling class.

Therefore, as one of the four kings of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Ii family, although there are many samurai retainers, in fact, the spirit of Bushido has died, and it has only a false name. After the Bushido spirit experienced the martial culture as a tool of the earliest ruling class, it also fully accepted the combination of Confucian culture and martial arts, and fully cultivated its own cultural temperament and ability to assist and participate in the daily management of the daimyo. The samurai drinking tea, appreciating flower arrangement, learning Confucian culture, etiquette, righteousness and faith are the core of Bushido spiritual culture. However, although the vassals of the Jingyi family are of noble status, their behaviors do not have the spirit of Bushido at all, which shows that the big family that keeps claiming the spirit of Bushido is actually dead. People and hooligans.

On the other hand, in our daily life, we often make such subjective mistakes, and we often arbitrarily think that what we see and what we think is the truth.

If you ask one more question: Why is the beggar carrying a bamboo knife? Why rush back for a day or two? Maybe things won't be like this.

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Hara-Kiri quotes

  • [repeated line]

    Hanshiro Tsugumo: Motome Chijiiwa was a man of some acquaintance to me.

  • Hanshiro Tsugumo: What befalls others today, may be your own fate tomorrow.