The real significance of the grim festival

Bradford 2022-10-10 12:56:14

Several of my daughter's friends were defrauded of their Apple mobile phones on the grounds that they needed to make a phone call to save people from a car accident. After being discovered, the fraud turned into a robbery, which was very bad. Since ancient times, cheating has been taking advantage of people's greed, but now cheating is taking advantage of people's goodness. The former also brings some warning lessons, the latter is a tragedy as a human being. Now that adults are deeply involved in the world, they can't deceive them, so they will start with children who are still innocent.
What an ugly mind can take advantage of the goodness of a child? Perhaps, Apple's mobile phone is an incentive. Apple mobile phones are often worth four or five thousand yuan, and many adults regard them as luxury goods. There is even a legend in the market that a child donated a kidney to buy a mobile phone, which caused hatred. Many poor classes will feel that this is ill-gotten gains and justify their actions.
The middle-class family in the film "Grim Ritual" hired an illiterate maid, and they didn't care about her. They even wanted to teach her to read when they found out that she was illiterate. The sense of superiority, when the maid makes a friend who is more aggressive than her, becomes the devil. Her friend, the postman, likes to open other people's letters privately, and has a conflict with the male owner of a middle-class family. They spend their breaks watching TV in the maid's room in the attic, and they clash with a master who doesn't like the postman coming. These small things eventually led to the tragedy of the murder of the whole family of four middle-class families. The profoundness of this film is that they are all ordinary people, but under class contradictions, differences may be able to attract the devils buried and gathered in human nature!
China is in a transitional society, and the biggest danger lies in the unavoidable difference. If the social order is chaotic, will the brutality in human nature be - can not be suppressed...
And as a middle class, what should we pay attention to, what restraint, what should we do? Eliminate what? Another question about the future!

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La Cérémonie quotes

  • Georges Lelievre: [referring, respectively, to Sophie the illiterate maid and Jeanne the nosy postal clerk] What a pair: one can't read at all, and the other reads our mail.

  • Man at Melinda's birthday party: Speaking of quotes, I have one that's less famous, but quite troubling. "There are aspects of good people I find loathsome, least of all the evil within them."

    Woman at Melinda's birthday party: My God... Who said that?

    Georges Lelievre: Nietzsche.