Social life is full of so-called chicken soup and whiplash that urges people to struggle and improve. It seems that the whole life is a huge competitive game. Your every step can be quantified, ranked and compared. You are not you, but a materialized Or conceptual labels: the amount of assets you hold (hundreds of millions? Tens of millions? Millions?), the level of titles you occupy (leader? Successful businessman? Elite?), no matter how beautiful your wife is and how smart your children are. Was brought to compare in this arena. However, humanities and arts have nothing to do with these, she is concerned with the deep capture of emotions and a glimpse of the existence of nature. She is the most shocking rock and turbulent in the world of imagination, and she is also a keen eye that sees through to the back of human society. . Therefore, even if the emotional communication between the male and female protagonists is not supported by the external conditions that often appear in idol dramas, even if there is no temple-protruding love scene, it can still allow us to perceive the growth process of the relationship between the two step by step.
Titled Liberal Arts, the film is interspersed with appropriate lengths of poetry, classical music and novels. What's interesting to me is that the film ends by answering a question that everyone who comes into contact with literature may face: There are so many pessimistic attitudes and even tragic stories and philosophies in the literary world, can she guide our reality? Life? Should we put aside "useless" fiction and go to the outside world?
In fact, the film uses the mouths of the female professor and the male protagonist to point out that literature is tragic, because the writer has transcended the naked eye with his limited life and captured the transcendence of beauty in this material world. However, this transcendent beauty and the limitations of reality are more There is a huge contrast that is almost unacceptable with the physical needs of the human body, and it is impossible not to make people feel sad and even pessimistic. However, we still have reasons to live well, because as long as we live, we can still perceive such beauty. It is true that life goes against your expectations most of the time, but there is always such a wonderful moment that throws the most unexpected surprise and warmth to you, even this small moment of warmth and surprise can constitute your insistence on living. reason.
Whether it is a high-cold literature professor who met the male lead bar for a night of passion, or a 35-year-old male lead who is still without a wife and child, or a female lead who was rejected by the male lead and was frustrated and sad, they all showed more or less. The unhappy side of real life. However, those who have been educated in the humanities understand that the beauty of the ideal still exists, we just need to stare at the light source and live tenaciously in real life. This kind of tenacity is reflected in the high-cold female professor's passionate and timely entertainment, the male protagonist's concern and advice to the suicidal teenager (don't die. to grow old is a cool thing.), and the female protagonist's faithfulness to emotions. Opposition to dogma and hatred (see her attitude towards Twilight).
He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. Those who seek knowledge will also realize sorrow. We who have seen too many sad experiences in humanistic education, after encountering sadness on the way, believe that there will be more indifference and hope, continue to walk, and grow to be a cool old guy.
Because of sadness, let us be more Relief also makes us cherish the short-lived or permanent happiness and moments of beauty in our lives.
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