Yu Zhejun: Plato's "Utopia" and "Fool in Dangerous Buildings"

Jeanne 2022-10-25 00:58:31

Yu Zhejun:

The fundamental problem of this film is "how do you face some of the fools you think". These fools are not completely unrelated to you, they are people who live in the same situation as you, maybe your friends, your relatives, and so on. Plato has a very famous cave metaphor in his "Republic". In a cave, there is a group of people who never leave, they are chained and can only see a stone wall of the cave. The only light source in the cave is the light behind.

There was a man in the middle, and for some reason, he broke free from the chains and escaped from the hole. It is conceivable that when he sees the outside world, he must be very shocked. He will realize that the world outside is real and the world inside the hole is false. So the first question: if you are the first to break free, do you have to go back to the hole? The second question is, if you choose to go back to the cave, how will you tell the people in the cave that you see the outside world? I think this theme fits well with the theme of "Fool in Dangerous Buildings".

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