The pace of art never stops. Medea kills her own son for revenge, Macbeth keeps killing people in order to fill the gap of desire, and the heroine in "Dark Side" also becomes the giver and victim of "evil". Since ancient times, the nature of "evil" has never changed, only the object and form have changed.
The evil of jealousy, let you and I suffer
the consequences, who is not jealous? Even a decent life like Miss Belém would care about love - even in Spain, which is so sexually open, it must follow the principle of the only one. Love can't hold a grain of sand, and all the actions of boyfriends and the opposite sex are suspicious. Jealous of her boyfriend being in close contact with other members of the opposite sex, he digs a trap for himself, and almost kills him. Having experienced the toil of bones and bones, the hunger of body and skin, and the more painful blow of love, all these have made the well-educated Belem lose reason and human relations, from naive and naive to full of scheming. Not to mention Fabiana, an ordinary tavern waitress, who hesitated before burying the truth in the face of a possible rival. In fact, jealousy never distinguishes objects. In the face of desire, reason and morality are actually fragile.
The evil of two male power, what makes women into playthings
is not only the "evil" of jealousy, but also the imagination of "evil". After reading the descriptions of "jealousy" in my impressions, it is not difficult to find that once jealousy is associated with women, it is often shown in a negative image: the label of the queen Hera is "jealousy"; Rebecca and Amaran in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" Da, hate each other for a pianist; even in "Downton Abbey", there is a jealous second child; not to mention in China, "XX Biography", "XX Plan", "Gong XXX" and so on Palace fighting scripts are always enduring, and the most scheming people have become the objects sought after by the audience. But in the narration of men, "jealousy" does not seem to be such a serious sin: Achilles' jealousy of Agamemnon is just to show his courage; while the jealousy of the male protagonist in idol dramas, The most is to punch two fists, and then silently protect the heroine. Since ancient times, women have always been associated with words such as "crazy", "jealous", "selfish" and "sensitive", while men have always looked so tall!
What is even more tragic is that the two female characters in "The Dark Side" are not so much "curiosity killed the cat" as they are victims of a patriarchal society! Even though he is surrounded by women, he repeatedly asks his girlfriend to ask her to love only himself - this is the double standard of the male lead, and it is also our double standard. Whether it is the ex-girlfriend Belen, the ambiguous object Veronica or the new girlfriend Fabiana, they are nothing more than toys that the hero calls and lingers. He can casually go to bed with the woman he meets, or say goodbye to an ambiguous object in one sentence, and people's accusations against him are nothing more than "scumbags". But the "evil" of these women is staged in turn, showing people the darkest and terrifying side of human nature, jealousy, selfishness, and cruelty. People put the most negative comments on the two heroines - because we're used to double standards.
The three evils make everyone a wicked person and are
used to double standards, so people think that "flowering heart" is the nature of men, just as they think that "jealousy" is the nature of women. But things are far from simple. Looking at the whole movie, does the actor only have a little blemish like "scumbag"? Even though Beren, who was trying to test his boyfriend's true love, set himself on fire, Adrian's behavior proved that he was a pervert who really ignored humanity. Some people pointed out that in fact, Adrian already knew that his girlfriend was trapped in the secret room, and this proved that everyone in the movie has his own evil.
Aristotle believed, "Comedy always imitates people who are worse than we are today, and tragedy always imitates people who are better than we are today." By watching tragedy, people may be frightened or angry, but in the end they can To achieve emotional edification. And so does The Dark Side. In fact, watching the dark side of human nature is just to arouse the pleasure in the audience's heart, to match a certain psychology in the audience's heart, and to achieve the purpose of our moral judgment. From a certain point of view, in fact, everyone who watches "evil" play out is a villain.
The cycle of the four evils is far from being saved by Confucius and Mencius. According to
this logic, it is not difficult to go back to the movie and find some clues: In fact, there is an unknown story hidden behind the story. Perhaps the old lady is also the escape from the secret room. Or maybe the old lady has the same story as Beren...
Mencius firmly believes that human nature is inherently good, and believes that human nature is inherently similar, and it is the acquired education that leads to the acquired difference between the gentleman and the villain. But whether it is "Pi's Fantasy Drifting" or "Wuthering Heights", "Pan's Labyrinth" or "The Outsider", in fact, we have already seen that with the rapid progress of modern society, the traditional rational order and morality have long fallen apart. In fact, everyone is a villain, and everyone is a victim and a perpetrator at the same time. (I can't make it up anymore...)
- Juan Xiaoqi
July 30, 2016
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