who I am? Where am I from? Where am I going? There never seems to be a definitive answer to these three well-known questions. The uncertainty of life and the universe in which one lives has always haunted tiny humans and even smaller individuals. This uncertainty is accompanied by a sense of precariousness, which makes individuals and generations struggle to find, let each ethnic group, and even all other living or inanimate beings drift in the vast universe, or rise and make noise. Or fall into silence. The sense of emptiness brought about by wandering, like the hidden light in the mist, leads all beings to search for certainty. This search is long and erratic, and finally cultivates the colorful pearl of "sacred emotion" in the weak human mind. I don't know the original intention of Ron Frick's "Xiandi Huang", and I can't fully understand it after all, but from its speechless pictures, the shots that are pieced together like a spliced Frankenstein I seem to be reading something, even though it's actually me. The whole film is the fusion of many people and natural scenery, but it produces a religious charm. In my opinion, this religious charm can be summed up as "losing the self, returning to God, and gaining eternity". nature; all things. The boundlessness of the universe, the brilliance of the starry sky, the changes of the stars, these endless fillings seem to be telling the boundless emptiness. The surging sea of clouds on the top of the mountains, the wet mist rising from the water of the Ganges, these phantoms seem to last forever. The mystery of all things in nature is slowly immersed in the human mind in this ever-changing fusion. The unknown of the natural world triggers a sense of mystery within, which in turn sublimates into sanctity. Magnificent natural phenomena such as volcanoes, sea of clouds, waterfalls, sun and solar eclipses, as well as animals and various plants such as monkeys and gazelles, frequently appear in the film. These existences have been with human beings for a long time. However, who created it all? Is there a fundamental law of operation behind all things in nature? Primitive human populations have no way of knowing. So, imagine. The imagination of a person or a small group begins, and their imaginary construction is like the "cladding" of the virtual world - the imagination is overlaid on the original simple world - changing the original simple world, showing people a person the constructed world. This primary "covered world" spreads among the crowd, and evolves in the process of spreading, just like many game players participate in the construction and development of a detailed virtual world. The initial simple "imaginary butterfly" flapped its wings and finally formed a human spiritual community. Everyone in the community participates in the construction of the community, and each person is both himself and not himself, because he or she has given part of himself to other people. Participate in the construction of the spiritual whole. This imagined community is so great that everyone in it instinctively regards it as absolute, and the invisible spiritual whole gives individual certainty, so that life is no longer precarious and void. Primitive human races connect individual spirits as a whole through imagination, and this whole is an integrated mind, which is a "god", and the primitive religion formed through imagination is to glue many individuals into one "god". adhesive. By becoming a part of the "God", the individual gains certainty and sublimates himself, which is called "losing the self and returning to God". The death of an individual does not affect the existence and sanctity of the God as a whole, it only deepens its mystery, and the mystery of death is transformed into sanctity. So far, an abstract spiritual level "God" has been constructed. It is the spiritual core of religion. Is modern society also based on "God"? The soil rising from the blasting of a gold mine in Brazil, the traffic on Pike Street in New York, the female workers working like machines in a tobacco factory in Indonesia... God is everywhere. My understanding of God is extremely broad: God makes you instinctively submit to Him, God is subjectively eternal, and God created our world. The divine order, the god of contemporary society. The gods of primitive religions have a spiritual core created by a community through imagination, and have the appearance of a figurative god; while the gods of contemporary society are so insidious, he is nameless, but he is everywhere. The divine order, which is the specter of religion, paints the world with a divine color; the divine order, like the Sophon in The Three-Body Problem, transforms what we see in our eyes, and the social contract theory shows that the state is under the transference of citizens. It is formed after certain rights are given to the state, and the state is only a kind of order. In the face of the divine order, individuals will surrender themselves. Countless selves merged into one God, but in my opinion, it was God who blessed me, just like the title of the film "Baraka", which means "blessing". Our traffic rules, economic system, class culture, etc., are all concrete manifestations of the divine order under which is our community. In a word, whether it is primitive society or contemporary society, "God" is eternal and becomes only His "name". This "name" is a religious ritual, a deed of the gods, a social system, and a mysterious world in the eyes of human beings. Uncertainty is the misery of the world, and certainty is the blessing of God. Religion, or divine order, is the myth of community. The key to the formation of the spiritual core of "God" in religion lies in the community. When the community is diffused in history, it is also the time when the sanctity and certainty are destroyed. When the film appears again and again in Brazil's slums, sleeping rough on the streets The homeless and the steel forest of Hong Kong, I saw a broken community. Just like a spaceship that fell into the atmosphere, countless people cheered for it, but now it disintegrates into the sky it once yearned for, and its fragments leave countless bright rays of light. But the so-called life towards death, the alienation of religions indicates the death of old religions and the birth of new religions, and the fragmentation of the old community stems from the alienation of one by one "identities". In the film, faces poking out of Brazil's slums look out at the world. The narrow and dilapidated rectangular windows are like old vintage photo frames. Inside the photo frames are individual and contradictory minds. Window sills are a great place to run your mind. What are these faces on the windowsill imagining? Will the tall buildings and prosperity in the distance make them think about the contradictory and nihilistic nature of the world? Are they lingering at the window because it is the only place in this cramped room that can receive God's blessing? Weird modernity contradicts the original sanctity of the pure mind, the alienation of imagination, the alienation of community, and the alienation of religion and divine order. Nietzsche said: "God is dead! I teach you superman!" Contradiction brings uncertainty, in this limbo (limbo), the id returns to the self-individual, introspective, or while waiting for God's blessing Consider God Himself. The old gods will die from this thinking, and the new gods will come from this thinking. The monk walking slowly on the streets of Japan seems to be still sticking to his original intention, but modernity is ruthless. The neon on the street, the modern design and the noise that only modern society can produce silently drag monks into the contradiction of modern society. In sexual harmony: the community of monks is dying out, and the monk's imagination is torn apart by the modern environment, and the specter of the modern divine order enters his id from here and becomes one with him. This shattering of sanctity will only exist for a short period of time. "Gods" are being reborn. Although I call them "new gods" and "old gods", the broken and alienated community has its continuity, and the imaginary pearl also has its own continuity. After all, it needs the dust of the old world as its core, so God is eternal. So far, we have finally and clearly explained the "lost self, all return to God, and can gain eternity": let the self in an imaginary spiritual community, "God" eternal life, so I also have eternal life. Life is no longer vain, and "I" has gained eternal certainty - sanctity. Earlier I mentioned the "name" of "God", which is a general term for various figurative sacredness such as totems and rituals. Compared with the eternity of "God", "name" is ever-changing, which also gives us a false sense of The illusion, that there are thousands of religions, which also leads to the conflict of various religions or divine orders, is also a pessimistic illustration of sanctity- Certainly exclusive, in fact "name" is only the way to "God". There is a scene of a Kecak dance on the island of Java in "Tian Di Xuan Huang": a large group of men with ornaments on their heads sit together. There is a lead singer, a face drawing, and a loud shout from time to time, and the men change their action formations in response, either like waves rushing, or like two armies facing each other, the surrounding environment is vicissitudes and quiet. Through the camera, I can also feel the sacred joy and peace brought by some rituals. Ritual is the embodiment of the sacred, it can make you lose yourself in the ritual. Through the ceremony, "I" forgets everything about himself and moves toward the holiness of God, thereby obtaining God's blessing. From my personal point of view, I was full of personal subjective emotions before watching the film, but when I watched it, I suddenly felt a sense of forgetting myself (does the ritual really have an anesthetic effect?). Rituals in contemporary society are also everywhere. Tobacco factories in Indonesia, subways and crossroads in Tokyo, the Mosque of Mecca, the architectural jungle of Sao Paulo in Brazil, people become members of the divine order by instinctively completing fixed movements with an almost religious attitude. God's "name" is still changing. Perhaps we can imagine the future, when people and the network, artificial intelligence, and machines are increasingly closely integrated, rituals may become thinking rituals, and totems will become artificial machines. The helplessness of individuals, the vastness of the world, and confusion have always existed. The film "Tian Di Xuan Huang" has no narration, only images and music, just like "Lao Tzu"'s "big sound and sound, the elephant has no shape, and the generosity has no corners." True certainty cannot be obtained. Religion is just a seemingly indestructible cladding on the emptiness of the world, but this fragile cladding supports the step-by-step development of human civilization. It provides us with reference and coordinates. , to support, and prevent people from falling into endless nothingness. Human beings create their own world on this rare certainty. Although they have lost a certain id, they connect countless individuals through "God", so as to achieve the eternity of human beings and the continuous development of human civilization in general. Through the ceremony, "I" forgets everything about himself and moves toward the holiness of God, thereby obtaining God's blessing. From my personal point of view, I was full of personal subjective emotions before watching the film, but when I watched it, I suddenly felt a sense of forgetting myself (does the ritual really have an anesthetic effect?). Rituals in contemporary society are also everywhere. Tobacco factories in Indonesia, subways and crossroads in Tokyo, the Mosque of Mecca, the architectural jungle of Sao Paulo in Brazil, people become members of the divine order by instinctively completing fixed movements with an almost religious attitude. God's "name" is still changing. Perhaps we can imagine the future, when people and the network, artificial intelligence, and machines are increasingly closely integrated, rituals may become thinking rituals, and totems will become artificial machines. The helplessness of individuals, the vastness of the world, and confusion have always existed. The film "Tian Di Xuan Huang" has no narration, only images and music, just like "Lao Tzu"'s "big sound and sound, the elephant has no shape, and the generosity has no corners." True certainty cannot be obtained. Religion is just a seemingly indestructible cladding on the emptiness of the world, but this fragile cladding supports the step-by-step development of human civilization. It provides us with reference and coordinates. , to support, and prevent people from falling into endless nothingness. Human beings create their own world on this rare certainty. Although they have lost a certain id, they connect countless individuals through "God", so as to achieve the eternity of human beings and the continuous development of human civilization in general. Through the ceremony, "I" forgets everything about himself and moves toward the holiness of God, thereby obtaining God's blessing. From my personal point of view, I was full of personal subjective emotions before watching the film, but when I watched it, I suddenly felt a sense of forgetting myself (does the ritual really have an anesthetic effect?). Rituals in contemporary society are also everywhere. Tobacco factories in Indonesia, subways and crossroads in Tokyo, the Mosque of Mecca, the architectural jungle of Sao Paulo in Brazil, people become members of the divine order by instinctively completing fixed movements with an almost religious attitude. God's "name" is still changing. Perhaps we can imagine the future, when people and the network, artificial intelligence, and machines are increasingly closely integrated, rituals may become thinking rituals, and totems will become artificial machines. The helplessness of individuals, the vastness of the world, and confusion have always existed. The film "Tian Di Xuan Huang" has no narration, only images and music, just like "Lao Tzu"'s "big sound and sound, the elephant has no shape, and the generosity has no corners." True certainty cannot be obtained. Religion is just a seemingly indestructible cladding on the emptiness of the world, but this fragile cladding supports the step-by-step development of human civilization. It provides us with reference and coordinates. , to support, and prevent people from falling into endless nothingness. Human beings create their own world on this rare certainty. Although they have lost a certain id, they connect countless individuals through "God", so as to achieve the eternity of human beings and the continuous development of human civilization in general. The essence of the world's nothingness is covered with a seemingly indestructible cladding, but this fragile cladding supports the step-by-step development of human civilization. It gives us reference, coordinates, and support to prevent people from falling into endless nothingness. . Human beings create their own world on this rare certainty. Although they have lost a certain id, they connect countless individuals through "God", so as to achieve the eternity of human beings and the continuous development of human civilization in general. The essence of the world's nothingness is covered with a seemingly indestructible cladding, but this fragile cladding supports the step-by-step development of human civilization. It gives us reference, coordinates, and support to prevent people from falling into endless nothingness. . Human beings create their own world on this rare certainty. Although they have lost a certain id, they connect countless individuals through "God", so as to achieve the eternity of human beings and the continuous development of human civilization in general.
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