A few thoughts

Rosemarie 2021-12-31 08:02:12

After-view, not a film review.

1. Chinese thinking habits are: nature is inherently good or nature is inherently evil? Western thinking is about the existence and the essence of whichever comes first. Existentialism holds that existence is before essence. The so-called "what is the nature of nature" is basically a false proposition. Just like the relatives of the male protagonist in the film said, Do you not find human impulses basically decent? Aunt May replied, there's basically nothing. You exist first, a blank, and your choice determines your essence. You are not born as soon as you are born. Having "virtue" does not mean that you are born a sinner like the Christian thought has been instilled in mankind. But what determines the "choice"? It seems to be back to "essence", but the role of external factors, or fate, has also been considered.

2. If you follow the rules for fear of God's punishment, this is not spontaneous and true morality. Ethics and ethics cannot solve any problems by nature. Murder is a crime, so what about attempted murder and no one knows about it? Did you just have the idea of ​​killing people without taking action? How many sinful thoughts does a person have every day? If the screenwriter of the film, Woody Allen, had never imagined killing, how could he write about the mental activities of the murderer? Artists may experience sin in order to express it and become a sinner, or they may relieve their sinful thoughts in their works of art and isolate them from real life and behavior.

3. Isn’t the male protagonist played by Woody Allen Oedipus——he always thinks highly of himself, and no one can look down upon him, he feels that the people around him, especially Lester, are intolerable, and finally after four months After being "betrayed" by the goddess this "sudden-discovery", only then did I truly realize that I was the loser, and my mood fell to a trough. Finally, Oedipus poked his eyes, well, it happened to be back to the soul-eye-god symbol system that runs through the film (error

4. When people are talking about God, they are not talking about the same thing at all. Language is the boundary of thought, and God has become a word with so many meanings that it is worthless. Furthermore, you have a transcendent faith in God, but if you did not grow up in a strong Judaism/Christian atmosphere and the word God has never appeared in your vocabulary, would you still believe in God? Even so, if you still hold a transcendental belief in a certain highest value, why is that value called God and not by another name?

5. Two typical and extreme attitudes towards sin and wrong: one is that they don’t know what is wrong at all. As explained in a passage, or Hannah Arendt’s idea of ​​mediocrity, or a peasant who covets his companion’s watch mentioned in "Idiot"—he first prayed to God, After that, he was killed like an animal, just to get the watch, or the doctor’s brother and the serial killer caught in the film. The other is repentance, self-torture, and even becoming a holy stupid, or a strong person who is strict with himself, who is bitten by guilt at a moment of weakness, is taken advantage of by religion, and is domesticated as a lamb-like mediocrity. People, such as Pascal. Most people will not be completely condemned by their conscience, but they will not be tortured to a nervous breakdown by self-blame. In any case, as the film says, time can turn tragedy into comedy.

6. Recalling everything that happened in the film, the reliance on the moral order of the bourgeoisie is the first step to make the male protagonist in the film embark on the path of crime-a highly respected ophthalmologist, a middle-aged man who has struggled for half his life and finally became a senior bourgeoisie A man definitely can't be ruined by a scandal of an infidelity. The role of the bourgeois moral order should be to prevent crime, but in reality it has repeatedly caused even greater crimes. As Nietzsche said in "On the Rule of Morality", "In order for morality to gain a dominant position, people must completely abandon moral behavior." "Without pretense, they will never reach the perfection they say. For the goal that requires victims, morality and truth must be discarded." "A great moralist must be an outstanding actor. If one day his disguise suddenly becomes natural (his ideal is to combine his existence with The actions are subtly separated), then it is very dangerous. He must wear a beautiful mask to act. This gorgeous appearance is his lofty and lofty ideals, his sacred ideals! In fact, everyone talks about moralists. Take God himself as an example. God is by far the biggest, action amoralist, yet he knows how to keep his appearance-a good God..."

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Extended Reading
  • Lila 2022-03-21 09:02:12

    more than 9 points. The rigid cuts between the scenes perfectly realize the jump in time and space, and the scheduling of the shots (the environment to the close-up of the characters, Hong Sangxiu's close-up...) The mastery of the lens language is not inferior to Hollywood classics; Acting; Judah and Clifford mirror each other's mental journey..a bit amazing

  • Jason 2022-04-20 09:01:50

    In our early years we worshipped science, and in our later years we relied on religion. If we saw the worst outcome at a glance, would we live in endless sadness? Or we can accept that ending, and then, in the interval between ordinary and fulfilling lives, learn to try to rationalize death and find some emergency exit from which there is no escape, so that we will not be so caught off guard when faced with the sad hurdles of life, we only We can move forward and keep walking because we walk with God.

Crimes and Misdemeanors quotes

  • Judah Rosenthal: I remember my father telling me, "The eyes of God are on us always." The eyes of God. What a phrase to a young boy. What were God's eyes like? Unimaginably penetrating, intense eyes, I assumed. And I wonder if it was just a coincidence I made my specialty ophthalmology.

  • Clifford Stern: While we're waiting for a cab I'll give you your lesson for today. Don't listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don't pay attention. Just, just see what they look like and that's how you'll know what life is really gonna be like.