No one is an island, living alone in the sea, everyone is a small piece of soil, connected to form an entire land. So no matter who dies, I am dying because I am part of the human race. Therefore, don't ask for whom the death knell is torn, the death knell is torn for you.
--John Don
I went to watch "Bacurau" today and won the Jury Prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Telling about a small village called Bacurau. After the matriarch died, the villagers found that the village had disappeared from the map. Strange things kept appearing, endangering the safety of every villager.
It's like a western movie, full of the magical sense of chaos and reality in Brazil.
I have never visited this fascinating country, but I was fortunate enough to meet many Brazilian friends, most of whom work in the cultural industry, film, dance, and music.
I remember the day he was elected, I was going to hang out with a Brazilian friend. Seeing the votes came out, she told me that she was going to cry at home today. A few days ago, I chatted with a Brazilian friend and he said that to this day, people are still angry and desperate.
This president who made all my friends in Brazil angry and desperate, he ignored the climate crisis and called the Amazon rainforest the "lung of the earth" is a fallacy. He suppressed culture, saying that art is not real work. He insulted race, women, and LGBT groups, and was called Trump in Brazil by Western media.
The film is a metaphor for contemporary Brazilian society. The disappeared village can be the Amazon forest, or it can be an artist, or it can be the future of all people.
All of us live in this small village called Bacurau.
Faced with a worsening world, burning rain forests, melting glaciers, tireless lies, do you choose to avoid obedience... or take action?
Even if there are so many people repeating falsehoods and lies, do you still remember to be a fearless person who inquires the truth?
I had a quarrel with a professor at Sorbonne University last week. He is a very knowledgeable person. I admire him very much. But when he suddenly laughed at young people who can naively believe that philosophy can change the world, I I want to have superpowers to throw him into the Seine River, and see if driven by death, you will choose to believe in life and advance bravely to the place where you believe in your own abilities.
Self efficacy refers to the individual's belief that he has the ability to make things happen through actions. It is used in politics and sociology to measure the degree of positivity and activity of a society. The opposite of it is cynicism and Cynicism. Cynicism is an individual's loss of enthusiasm to participate in change, leading to failure and a major spiritual element for the realization of self-predictions. Individuals have a higher self-efficacy value, and the living environment is more just, free and equal.
Even if there is no such environment, it is still possible for you to be an actor, making choices and changes for what you believe in.
I have met many such actors, and I think the story of one of them:
Hashim is one of the 600 volunteers who helped me translate movies. In 2017, he was seventeen years old. After fleeing Afghanistan for two years, he waited for the decision of the local government in a refugee camp in Paris. It was a desperate time, especially for a 17-year-old boy who was alone in a foreign country. After surviving slaughter, bombing and a long escape route, he might be deported at this moment, but he still helped me translate. He said, I am happy to help you, helping others make me happy. He is 18 years old this year and he has just passed the exam and was admitted to the Sorbonne University. I asked him how he did it. He said that he has a strong will, believes you can do it, and believes that the world will be better.
I also do some of these actions myself, some of them are very small. For example, on a bus, the driver suddenly called a female passenger to reprimand her for not buying a ticket. The passenger was a young girl and she almost cried. I happened to have a lot of tickets, so I walked over and put it in the ticket box with a "chuck", turned around and said to the driver that I bought the tickets for her. The girl thanked me loudly, and I waved and said, everyone is happy. The whole bus people looked at me and thought they were too handsome, please call me an angel, hahaha.
For example, in the "plastic straws" campaign, you need to tell the coffee shop staff every day that I don't need disposable plastic straws and don't give them to customers. Let's work together to protect the environment. So I launched the "No Plastic Straws" project. Environmental protection can be very simple. You can start with a simple plastic straw. When you are responsible for the environment, you are also responsible for yourself. Such a life will actually bring more happiness. I know that it is difficult to completely eliminate disposable plastic products. But you can start with a straw, and drinking water from a cup is really great, and businesses can use sustainable materials instead.
For example, in the "World Sailor Project", as the only Chinese, I followed a group of theater artists from various European countries and sailors from Estonia on a century-old wooden sailboat built in 1927, sailing across the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean islands and cities. , Collect the folklore of the streets and lanes, and do art festivals and performances in the port where they are anchored.
The 19th-century philosopher Kierkegaard once divided people into "bystanders" and "actions". He believed that although both types of people exist, the true "sense of existence" does not belong to inertia. , Inactive things; the real "sense of existence" only belongs to people who have faced their own situation and made choices and decisions for themselves.
Yes, you are just a naive child who believes in many crazy things. Yes, you have a lot of fears, but the most scary ones are made up by yourself.
One day you will be your own hero.
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