In 2018, the German film "No One's Work" spent more than three hours telling a "coincident" story:
Aunt Elizabeth is the enlightenment of the male protagonist’s art road. This enthusiastic girl is suspected of suffering from mental illness because of her weird behavior. In Nazi Germany, she was sterilized as a carrier of inferior genes and was subjected to the state’s treatment. "Clean up".
After the male protagonist grew up, in the process of pursuing his own artistic expression, he began to copy black and white photos, and accidentally put the image of his aunt (family photography) with the Nazi officer who initiated the population cleanup (news photo) and the aunt. The images (document photos) of the doctors on the cleanup list are superimposed on each other.
Although he actually didn't know the truth about the death of his aunt and the doctor's professional experience, he accidentally collated the truth.
The art world regards this painting method of copying photos and blurring them as a landmark creation-it can create a real "masterless work"
This film review does not intend to make any evaluation or analysis of the film itself. In other words, the reason why I want to make the above highly instructive summary of the plot is just to lay a foundation for the discussion of "No Master" and "Truth". Although this discussion is not for analysis, I can be sure that this topic is definitely one of the themes of the film.
Here we must return to the context of another society, about the media, about events, about inside and outside walls, about—who are we going to ask for the truth?
At a time when the self-media and streaming media are developing so vigorously, official speeches no longer enjoy absolute trust, and public event reports are always reversed and then reversed. "No news is absolutely objective" should already be a potential consensus. In particular, it is worth noting that the myth of the wall was finally shattered a few nights after the star chasing girl protected Azhong's brother.
So the Internet has witnessed a spectacle of communication. It turns out that the shattering of a myth can really consolidate another myth.
The preferences and biases of the media on the other side prove the rationality of the narrative on this side. An environment with only two voices can also cultivate two habits: believing that all speeches "must have a positive or negative tendency", and believing that there is always one hand holding the truth. This is the self-protection of the demented. If you don't build a statue of a spokesperson for the truth, you will feel that the world is crumbling.
There is no stable source of truth. Truth is pieced together. Truth can only be the work of no master. If we are looking forward to asking for the truth from which side, we are bumping on both ends of the seesaw. Strictly speaking, both ends are scams, so this will be a doomed split. And turbulent, never-ending bumps. The other side of the meaning is not to hold the truth in your hand, but to have more than two voices. If you can get rid of the bad habit of asking for the truth, there is actually no myth that can be used to dispel.
In a multilateral, multi-subject, and multi-focus space (Internet), the way of existence can no longer be to choose sides. The habit of asking for the truth will be shattered and replaced by no masters-one subject, in multiple subjects In this world, there is creation, this is Wuzhu's work. In the truth world of news, recognize "multiple subjects", confirm "one subject", and approach the truth through masterless works, that is, listen to more voices and use your own brain to piece together and get close.
Of course, this is destined to be a metaphysical truth, a trek without an answer. Just as a movie can only play such a video game to refer to the "truth": the truth is still the truth even if it is not known. But is it true? The "truth" in "No Master" is because it first tells the audience a truth, a truth that is ignorant but known to all audiences in the play. Outside of images, in a world where movie watching games cannot be played, referring to the "truth" can only be an individual's effort. This is a futile effort, but it is the only way. In comparison, choosing a position and asking for the truth must be much safer and more comfortable, but it has nothing to do with the truth. Asking means that there is something to ask for. If the habit of requesting is just to paralyze the spirit of amphetamines, there may be no need for correction. However, requesting also means confirmation of the existence of the "truth", then this will be a good opportunity to establish a myth.
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