Lies are the commandment of love. And if there are no lies, will love be complete? Sometimes, in the face of lies, you can not rush to expose them. This requires wisdom and a broad mind. This is a broader love.
The wife knew that the husband lied, but did not expose it. She gave him space, she also gave herself space, but also a space for their marriage. Otherwise, if she exposes the lie, there will be no apology from her husband, and no final completion of the story. "Will you not go home all night?" "No, never again." The warmth is heartbreaking.
For the time being, the man sacrificed his family's responsibilities, followed the old feelings, and agreed to his lover's unsympathetic invitation. Later, the man discovered the lover's lie and also remained silent. If he exposes the lie, he will lose his lover's life and even more endless regret.
It's another dilemma. A man is a good man. When he is in dire straits, he naturally wants to find his balance. On one side are wives and children, and on the other side are the old love, but in the face of the lover's loneliness and helplessness, he chose to sympathize with the weak. There is no moral judgment here, because they have their own reasons, one is to find the missing husband, and the other is to find the stolen car. Their respective morals are based on their own reasons, and the morals tend to be balanced.
Reasons are the support of lies, no matter how false and powerless the reasons seem. If there is no reason, it will become obscure. If a country wants to swallow another country, it has to find a reason, and if it wants to commit a crime, it must resign.
So, supported by weak lies, the wife understood the husband, the man understood the lover, the wife saved a marriage, and the man saved a life. Marriage and life were both fragile before this. After that, they Have become powerful.
Keith is definitely not talking about ethics, let alone judging human nature. What he showed to the audience is a warm redemption deliberately absent from morality. In this redemption, selfishness and intolerance, jealousy and hatred, are all sublimated in a kind of empathy, in a kind of wisdom and broad tolerance.
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