Of course, we also have to admit that there are people who become gradually suffocated to death in loneliness. David Foster Wallace is such a person. Diagnosed with symptoms of depression as early as the age of nine, the man spent three years writing a thousand-page book, "Endless Joke," only to hang himself in his home at the age of 46. To be honest, I haven't read the book "Endless Joke", that book is too long and incomprehensible for me, and there is no Chinese translation yet. But that doesn't stop me from watching Journey's End, a movie about David Foster Davis.
"Journey's End" is probably one of those quintessentially talkative films, where most of it consists of conversations between journalists and writers. In the continuous conversation between the two, the image of a loner gradually became clearer and a special emotion was established with the audience, which was not created by Jason Foster who played David Foster Wallace. What Siegel and his readers built, but more like David Foster Wallace's own ideas that survive his death to resonate with us. In this resonance, you will find that the David Foster Wallace portrayed in the film is a person full of self-denial and questioning, who has a strong curiosity and interest in everything. He is different from us, just as everyone around us is different from us.
However, loneliness is still the theme of this film, although every sentence of David in the film is trying to make himself less unique, he does not want others to think that he is more noble and noble in wisdom or identity than ordinary people. special person. He dances with the same people, eats the same things, and watches the same TV shows to understand what a normal person goes through in a day, but when he starts trying to be the same as everyone else, he is completely different. Just like no one emphasizes that they have two arms, when people see you, they know you have two arms.
If it is said that David Wallace's loneliness comes from his own extraordinary talent and endless curiosity about external things, so as to make him discouraged about everything, these make him different and lonely. So what is it that we feel in our own hearts all the time? Is it really just because of the so-called trend and fashion? Is it really because everyone has a fiery heart that yearns for petty bourgeoisie youth? No, not at all, our loneliness comes from the emptiness and boredom of our own spiritual world, from every second we are filled with entertainment brought about by the infinite development of technology, from the fact that we prefer pictures to words every thought.
In "Entertainment to Death," Neil Berzeman shows everyone in the world how the entertainment industry has tied everything up and is no longer as rational as it was in print Yes, but what Neil Berzeman couldn't have imagined was the birth of smart mobile devices like the smartphone, the descendant of television, but with a greater power to make people completely slaves to entertainment. Nowadays, we can spend time in every corner of the world with games that are more interesting than the emperors of the past, and there are countless people working crazy to kill more people's time or what can be called entertainment. We do live in an age of entertainment to death, where people prefer straightforward pictures to logical and organized words.
These things that are meant to keep us from being alone are now making us more and more lonely. If you can connect to the world with your mobile phone alone, then why do you need real-world friends. We really have no reason to read, so we are divided by entertainment and become islands of willing and unwilling to read. So everyone becomes lonely and lonely, because in this world with so many ways of entertainment, people can't resist the temptation to come and go and honestly build their own spiritual home. We, who do not have a so-called spiritual home, are like leaving you and me alone on the ice field in the cold winter, shouting to the world but finding it to no avail, we have to watch the piercing cold wind whistling towards you and me.
But the line between the loneliness of a genius like David Foster Wallace and our loneliness is not so clear. There are many references to TV in Journey's End, in fact, David Foster. Foster Wallace himself was clearly someone who grew up with television. He deeply understands how interesting entertainment tools such as television are for human beings, but at the same time he is obsessed with it, and he is also deeply afraid of the joy they can bring to human beings. He has the same desire to live the same life as everyone else, dating, movies, and fast food, but he is deeply wary of it. He is like a wild child running out of the forest, wary of modern technology but wants to get close. However, the spiritual world of ordinary people may not be completely inferior to these geniuses. We have also received education, know knowledge, and can talk about people and things that are far away from us. We also occasionally feel lonely because of our own thinking. So in fact, those of us who are getting more and more lonely by the madness of modern entertainment also have the loneliness in our minds that we get from our own thinking, and the solitary people like David Foster Wallace have control over those The entertainment tool of our spiritual world is full of yearning and love.
Our loneliness comes not only from our inability to resist and indulge in all kinds of entertainment in this world, but also from our constant torture of our own souls. And we will eventually feel alone, torn apart by the lure of the modern entertainment industry and our own thirst for peace of mind, just as the journey will eventually come to an end, and we will eventually go on alone.
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