Grandpa Rick is undoubtedly one of my favorite characters on the show. After thinking about it, it may be because his values are so diverse, but they are completely integrated into one person. I agree with each of these values, and in the process of friction, the animation never shy away from real contradictions and pain, which is even more hopeless and familiar tremors.
Let’s start with a list of Rick’s values.
First of all, he values his family. Even if there are infinite universes and infinite Beths, he still values them very much. For example, every Rick has made a dreamland for his Beths. He would spend time making weird inventions for Morty & Beth, expressing some very awkward thanks to Morty, giving Summer a flying machine, or surrendering himself to prison and eventually returning to his family. Although Rick himself does not like to compromise on his emotions, he believes that love is the trajectory of biological continuation. In the episode of Toxin, he regards his concern for Morty as a toxic part, and puts it into the detoxifier together with loneliness, arrogance, and desire for control. Emotions are still real and undeniable. Clone Tommy for Reth, make a level ground for Morty, and let Morty go back first in the episode of Time Splitting, he won't admit the importance of family, but there are traces to follow.
Second, he is open-minded and transparent. Nothing is important, this view is very far-fetched, almost the same as that of Zhuangzi. He told Beth that when you find out that nothing matters, you can master the world. Or as one maker said, when you find that the things around you are not important, you can observe the existing life from a higher place.
This is freedom of thought, followed by freedom of action.
Third, his wisdom. Even as a pickled cucumber, it can go from zero to something, from Wisdom Rat to Wisdom Killer. His wisdom gave him an unimaginable ability to predict the actions of others at the beginning, to set up a loop, and to use the power of technology to achieve near-omnipotent perfection. What's more, his wisdom and experience are completely combined, as Unity once praised him, he is a person with a long-term vision. He is knowledgeable and quick-witted, and at the same time, he is intelligent, sensitive, and neat, and always has the upper hand in wisdom.
His abilities allow him to do whatever he wants, with complete freedom of movement, and freedom across that level of parallel universes. With portals and clones, he can truly come and go freely in time and space. When a person has the ability to achieve this kind of complete freedom and style, to escape from death and the constraints of time and space, to be able to fight against galatic government without fear, to protect one's home in dangerous situations People, who are still doing cloning when they are away from home, then they already have the capital to be arrogant and have the capital to live as they want. You don't need to change yourself, you just need to change the environment to suit your own preferences. This is a situation that ordinary people always yearn for and can't ask for.
Fourth, Rick is also a person who attaches great importance to friends. For example, from his relationship with bird man, their previous experiences, and the sincere wishes at the wedding, Rick attaches great importance to friends. And when the gear man betrayed him, he was very angry, which shows that he is also very loyal to his friends.
Has the ability to control everything, the wisdom to see through everything, can be indifferent to most of the things that ordinary people care about, and is not panic about life-threatening situations, but will lose sight of friends because of friends. TV and have a good time. Although he did this, he never boasted about it, and he always held a sarcastic and indifferent attitude in the face of emotions. Doing these acts of love, not for a sense of control, is for Chuanxiang sauce. This can be regarded as personal awkwardness and arrogant cuteness, but it can also be regarded as
conflict between values.
Just as we are torn between a better and more tiring occupation and a safe and leisurely occupation, a person who has reached the extreme will also feel pain because of the gap between his worldly feelings and noble pursuits, which is in the personality. Especially in one episode. He can love his grandson without thinking it's a good thing at the same time, know good and evil with compassion and seek control with evil words, indulge in the pleasures of science and see wisdom as a curse, It can be arrogant, sarcastic and mediocre, and plagued by loneliness at the same time.
Sometimes extremes are due to wisdom but no way out. The brain solves some problems and becomes a source of new pain. I have always liked to watch the episodes where wisdom is bound to hurt, or the disdain and struggle of the wise. After all, we all suffer, but some people suffer more real, deeper, and more unrestrained.
However, you can also ask, have you reached the top in wisdom, still can't get rid of this contradiction? If you think about it like this, it is really hopeless for the future.
No way, maybe it's just an old man who is addicted to high wisdom and principle.
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