In one of the clips, the surging crowd and the ducks on the factory assembly line are overlapped and edited together, which is really mysterious. There is really not much difference between the crowds in the subway, the crowds on the street, the people who are busy in life and the ducks on the assembly line. We are also like ducks placed on the assembly line, waiting to be screened and selected. Those male ducks are destined to be thrown away from birth, tossed into waste for fodder, or pressed into patties. The same is true of people, some people are destined to be abandoned at birth. This is not because of intellectual or physical disability, which is another matter, but because of poor birth. Their parents may be living at the bottom of the society, just like the people who eat garbage in the film, some of them are poor and can only make a living by mixing with animals and rummaging through garbage heaps; Some are not clothed or hungry, and can only rely on begging on the street to survive. The children of these people are destined to be outcasts of society from birth. They are very likely to follow the same path as their parents. Live in this world in a humble way. Because their parents can't even provide basic food and clothing, let alone enough to send them to school to study and read. Although some people have indeed successfully broken through the shackles, walked out of the slums, and achieved impressive results, these are only a few. Most of them are just struggling to survive in the world, struggling to survive on just a little bit of food to make ends meet.
However, those who were fortunate enough to escape the fate of being abandoned, they escaped the fate of being slaughtered in the first stage, but in the years that followed, they were always slaughtered, waiting for the guillotine to fall. Just like those female ducks that are raised, their final fate is actually the same as those of the male ducks, but the time is sequential. So, whether it is thrown into the abandoned box early, or struggling on the assembly line, I will be more inclined to the latter. After all, people are not ducks. We are fortunate enough not to be born at the bottom of the society, which means that we have more opportunities to develop our own lives. Although most people are ordinary after all, the brilliance of the world is ultimately still available. Compared with those who are still struggling with food and clothing, it is a great happiness for us to have no worries about food and clothing, which means that we have stood on the starting line far beyond theirs and can see more of the different landscapes of life.
It's just that the constraints of external factors such as society have indeed imprisoned human beings on the assembly line. Many things are always beyond our control. In order to make our lives better, we have to work hard on the track of life. We are like a little girl or a young man trying to dress himself up, painting silver and gold on himself, waiting to be chosen, waiting for the society to throw an olive branch, so this makes our life busy all day long, Originally, God has given us the capital to be able to look at the society, but we work hard all day long, ignoring the beauty around us, all because we have no choice, but also because everyone around us is doing the same.
Now there is a very popular word to call this phenomenon: involution, everyone is fighting for involution, because we are afraid, afraid that if we can not follow the social army to involute, then we will be abandoned in the times on the track. Therefore, we desperately went to the big city to experience the unattainable housing prices and the flashy consumption. We got up early and were squeezed into photos on the subway. When we returned late, we were hungry for a box of instant noodles. Time to scan the news in the group from time to time. In a big city, it's hard to breathe, because it's too crowded here, everyone is in a hurry, walking fast, people are not walking smoothly, but fast, as fast as they are trotting all the way, Almost everyone is like this, as if the internal clock has been speeded up. The city is like a cage, it draws the ground as a prison, and hangs hope high in the sky, like a red balloon that floats without wind, people are chasing after it, just like a child always likes to run after a kite with a broken line. In this city, everyone is worth emulating because they have suits and shoes, their skirts are fluttering, because they always have briefcases, and their neatly trimmed hair is full of pride, these people Always the envy of countless people. but
Yes, invoking is always tiring. As far as Shanghai is concerned, let alone the unattainable housing prices, renting alone has already consumed a lot of monthly income, because if you want to ensure the basic quality of life, it is too expensive. A house that is too remote and too cheap will definitely not be considered. Of course, as long as Shanghai is not too remote, the rent of a house that is too poor is not low. If daily expenses are included, then in Shanghai, if you can’t get 10,000 yuan + wages, coupled with no housing, then life would be very poor, and if it were to improve it, it would mean putting in a lot of time and energy to work desperately in exchange for being able to seize the moment When the time passes, wage increases can be achieved. We keep rolling in, wrapping ourselves tighter and tighter, and maybe we'll get richer and richer, but we'll have sore ribs and difficulty breathing. It's like we can't feel the fresh air in this cage. Although our eyes are full of blurred dreams, we no longer recognize the real natural five colors.
Therefore, nowadays, compared with the word "involution", there is a "lay flat" opposite to him, and some people are very happy to lie down and are unwilling to involute along with the social trend. However, it is also necessary to distinguish how to lie down. Some people choose to lie down in order to fight against society, just like some young people in Japan now resist society, so they choose to lie down as a silent resistance. There are also some people who have different views on life. They don’t expect great wealth and honor, but only want peace and happiness. In fact, this state of life cannot be regarded as lying flat, but should be regarded as a variety of choices for life. , they did not choose to follow the crowded road, but followed their inner desires and returned to a plain life. For these people, I envy and admire them, I admire their courage to make such a decision, because people always have submissiveness, just like if there are only two people left, then there will always be one person who will be the leader, and the other will be the leader. A person will become a follower the same. This kind of instinctive conformity makes us envy the scenery of others, and makes us keep running and following because we are afraid of being abandoned by society. Therefore, I admire those who dare to slow down, those who dare to watch others run. Even as I typed this text, I failed to think about the direction of my future choices. I want to get ahead and make money, but I also know that it will consume a lot of my time, and my life will eventually be completely taken over by work, and I will not be able to slowly fill every corner of my life with the things I love. . People are probably all such contradictory bodies. We don't like introversion, but we are forced to involuntarily. Just like the director inserted a wonderful ending after the man and the duck in "Xiandi Xuanhuang", it was a silent cry, that big mouth, soulless eyes, that hideous twisted face, that is the repression of human beings The soul is shouting loudly.
"Tian Di Xuan Huang" is indeed an excellent documentary worth reading again and again. The beauty of nature, the piety of religion, the ugliness of human society and the civilization of human society are all overlapped in the director's lens. Yes, that's evil, that's good, that's ugly, that's rich, that's poor. In "Tian Di Xuan Huang", it is not only extremely beautiful, but also extremely evil. This is a real human being and a real human society.
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