Morality is the product of the development of human civilization to a certain stage. It represents a high-level meaning of human civilization, while human nature is an innate existence that is affected by social and historical conditions. "A Better World" "Through the peaceful narrative and analogy of the moral experience and human nature of the interaction between parents and children, it highlights a strong humanistic care. It can be said that the film "Better World" is a movie about morality. It is a movie about moral awakening and the pursuit of moral origin under different experience conditions.
Northern Europe is such a clean piece of land, rich and beautiful, but in other parts of the world, it is full of violence, barrenness, and poverty. Elias’ father Anton shuttles between these two places and has seen all kinds of things. In life and death, Anton has formed his own unique and profound evaluation system of moral and human value. For life and morality, Anton has stronger feelings than others, and he lives in contradictions. His son Elias was bullied at school and kept swallowing his anger until he met Christian. Christian’s human value judgment system was obviously more primitive. The death of his mother made him hate his father more and more. Hate was twisted into a primitive revenge instinct in his young body, but Elias did not form his own moral system. At this time, Christian had a deeper influence on him. His father was absent for a long time, Elias Si needs a tough person to lead him, and Christian played this role, but it is a pity that Christian's moral sense is more distorted and primitive.
How should a person react when he is violated and insulted? Most of the time, out of human instinct, we will fight back, but some people choose silent forgiveness, which is in line with the universal Christian system. Before Jesus died, he forgiven the sinners who sent him to the cross, but not Everyone has the compassion and noble morals of Jesus, but Anton did it. After experiencing various lives and deaths in Sudanese refugee camps, Anton had a more universal understanding of revenge and forgiveness, and it became He educates the children's thinking, but the children do not necessarily agree with this kind of "recession". The children do not have a lot of experience and are in the human instinct. They will choose their own revenge, and this contradiction is exactly what this film is about. It expresses, as the title says, a better world is the world that needs tolerance.
The film can basically be divided into two points. The first is Anton’s entangled thinking about life and death, revenge, and justice; the second is the children’s interpretation of tolerance and revenge. The interspersion of these two points has caused a great conflict of thoughts in this film. This is exactly what this film is about to explore. From this, combing the plot, you can find the director's profound intentions. Susan Bill's strong humanistic care spirit is here. It is strongly reflected in the film. Facing the child’s animal-instinct revenge, the film’s keynote is that the ignorant is not guilty. This is quite different from this year’s film "Confession", which has an intersection with this theme. The final choice for "Better World" is Forgiveness, when is the grievance reported, choose forgiveness, the world is unified.
From this, I can’t help but think of the Internet controversy caused by the recent earthquake in Japan. This is also a theme about forgiveness, a theme about national hatred, family hatred and human morality. In the face of hatred, some Chinese have stepped on basic morality and humanity. Even after so many years, the seeds of hatred are still alive in the hearts of some people. This primitive hatred has distorted the hearts of some people. They forget that a better world needs forgiveness, and what this film discusses The final conclusion of the ultimate question is forgiveness, which is a kind of moral sublimation. A better world requires forgiveness from everyone.
The things discussed in this film go deep into the core of the contradictions of human civilization. This contradiction exists all the time around us, and "A Better World" gives us an answer with profound humanistic care. It can be said that the thinking in this film is It is of great practical value, why can't we create a better world for a long time? It is precisely that we have not left enough room for forgiveness in our hearts. The primitive evils of violence and vengeance, which are dependent on each other, have not been erased from human nature. The use of violence to control violence will never solve the problem. In "A Better World" "At the end, we saw hope. At the beginning of human beings, human nature was originally good. Elias's last kind deeds gave the whole film a way out, and it also allowed us to see hope.
The overall style of the film is relatively cold, the thoughts are lightly expressed, and the use of color and light is also relatively eye-catching. Although the dramatic conflict is weak, it is not enough to cover the glory of the film. There is no morality. Everything is just in a calm and calm tone. Slowly brewed and embodied in it, delicate and yet atmospheric. The delicate and strong humanistic care of women's thoughts plays a role in the keynote of this film. We are very moved to see a female director's deep thinking about moral and human values.
Kubrick said: The meaninglessness of life forces people to create meaning. No matter how vast the darkness is, we must have our own light. Perhaps the connection between violence, hatred and the origin of human nature has made it impossible for us to forgive, but the significance of this film, even if Kubrick’s words give us the inspiration, this is a film with hope and confidence. And this is the reason why Oscar chose it. This is a movie of great realistic value, a heavy movie.
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