After watching three seasons on and off last semester, under the dominance of reflection on modernity, I only feel that this drama is all about how people (Westerners) should go home. This theme is fully demonstrated in the song that the male lead sang when he came to the afterlife for the second time in the second season. The so-called rapture event is just a primer, which catalyzes the conflict and tension inherent in human nature.
Write some analysis below:
1. The believers of the Silent Association are nothing more than two types: one is self-blaming for love, and the other is lack of love and despair.
2. The center of the two and three seasons is still the male protagonist's family problem, but the second season is to solve the male protagonist's problem, and the third season is to solve the female protagonist's problem. The problem with the male protagonist lies in the fear of responsibility (as husband, father, son, and sheriff). He is kind, but still immature. He doesn’t love them, but he always finds it hard to endure sacrificing his will for others. Feeling unfree, he always wanted to escape and tried to commit suicide. Before the end of the second season, he had not been able to learn how to live with others-therefore, the author used loss and homelessness (essentially death) to treat him Education; the hostess has been wandering too. This is due to her loss in the rapture. She has been eager to find her children and husband. Until finally in another world, she realized that she was doing something impossible. Perseverance abandoned the entire world he had originally owned.
3. The great purpose of the male protagonist’s father is the reason why he has been wandering. The pastor has a deep consistency with him on this point. This is also the reason why the two of them finally met in Australia: the father wanted to be the father of Jesus, and the pastor was Want to rewrite the Bible. Especially the pastor’s faith strengthens this point: the so-called belief in God and doing good deeds are just to make oneself a saint before God. Everything else is a means to achieve this goal, so in essence, it is also a kind of individual. Ism.
As the fundamental spirit of the West, individualism is the root cause of modern homelessness. It shapes the relationship between man and the world: is it to abandon the world for oneself, or to find the real in the relationship between people? home? A deeper understanding of this issue still has to return to the common source of Eastern and Western thinking. The author believes that the root cause is probably the constantly changing world pointed out by Ding Yun. How people respond to this changing world and this absolute other (the relationship between being and activity is a pair of concepts) is the real dividing line between Chinese and Western civilizations.
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