Natalie, a 56-year-old philosophy professor, coincided with her husband's derailment and divorce, and her depressed mother fell and died in a nursing home. The textbooks she wrote were eliminated from the market because of "outdated".
A real heroine. How a woman copes with the upheaval of her midlife life. In French cinema, she can still talk about the future.
The philosophy teacher's setting is very interesting. The spiritual world cannot be the whole content of communicating with the real world. This is the deepest experience I have gained from facing all kinds of surprises in the past two years. There is no reason for the accident, and many people are not reasonable at all. Different philosophical outlooks will guide different outlooks on life and even transform society, but it is not Kant’s turn to intervene, whether it is a change in derailment or a separation between life and death.
Therefore, even though she experienced the 1968 student movement and joined communism when she was young, Natalie, who faced the chatter of young people arguing about whether to give up the authorship of the article in her middle and old age, inevitably fell into the dispensation of formalism. And life is dissolved and not dead. She would cry bitterly, and her ex-husband's German classical philosophical "rationality" tended to be more indifferent, which also made her angry. Intellectuals can't beat each other and yell at each other. The meaning of philosophy is more like a satire of ordinary blood at this time.
But the spiritual life is still its best glue. Calm down, it's not a big deal, really don't need a drama. There seems to be a greater freedom by the way.
In the movie, Natalie and her ex-husband are both teachers of philosophy, and there is a lover who plunged into philosophy and finally started the commune movement. It can be seen that these people have different attitudes towards philosophy. Natalie has always paid attention to the unity of thinking and action, and she emphasizes on building her own way of thinking to guide her life. The ex-husband often talked about the inner moral court of the bright starry sky, and cheated until his daughter reminded him that he had to make a choice before confessing. What young people value most is the idea that causes great changes in life, and it is necessary to engage in revolution. There's no right or wrong here, but I think the gender distinction is pretty accurate. (And there are too many details in it that show Natalie's multitasking ability. A woman who has given birth to two children and can still maintain her position in academia. The degree of dexterity is very real)
"When we have desires, we can be unhappy.
We wait for it to come true in the future, and if happiness does not come, hope will spread.
As long as the passion lasts, the magic of fantasy lasts.
This state is self-sufficient, and the anxiety that accompanies it is a satisfaction that fills the real.
Misfortune belongs to those who have no desire, and they therefore lose everything they have.
Hope is more satisfying than possession, and happiness comes before it exists. "
This is Rousseau's epistolary novel "The New Heloise" that Natalie read to the students in class. It reminds me of what Li Xueqin said, you don't have to do what others think is right, but you must do what you are willing to suffer for.
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