review .) The recent decline in enthusiasm for movies is something that is easy to feel. For several months, in addition to crashing into a "Switchblade", I only watch bad movies and only watch big movies. This was unthinkable before.
I know the problem: the movie begins-it can't satisfy me.
The clues of the question, in my last article "Soundless: Switchblade", actually have already begun to appear. It's just that I didn't want to really face it at the time. ――But the halo left by that point has never disappeared, and it has become a sneer circle that can't get rid of before my eyes.
What can movies help us?
When I really wrote this sentence, I felt that this doubt might have been quietly hidden in my heart for a long, long time. Why have I stayed in the weekly edition for so long, but I still have no heart to write about the movie seriously? For such a long time, facing so many wonderful articles on the weekly edition, I only use one Look at it from the eyes of the admirer, but almost never start to write two paragraphs by himself. ――Please forgive me for my arrogance. I believe that if I entered the weekly edition a year ago, I would never write less about movies than any other writer. ――But for a person like me who is proud of words and lives on words, he is completely satisfied with talking and laughing on the weekly page to pass the time. Is it in my heart that I have already felt that the movie may not deserve our trust?
From the articles of many masters on the forum, I feel the same thing. Everyone uses movies to interpret life and love, and try to enable them to read the traces of time left on their bodies. However, I doubt it. To use an inappropriate metaphor, the movie is a bit like a psychedelic. Although everyone knows the dangers of psychedelic drugs and even drugs, there are still many young people rushing to them, because one of the effects of chemicals is unequivocal: it can get rid of the mind’s dependence on reason in a short period of time. Use absurdity to achieve transcendence. It's just the price of this transcendence that eventually went to its opposite: the applicator became a slave to the chemical. In many movies, under the catalysis of beautiful music and pictures, everyone can also achieve a short climax and sublimation. In a fairly short period of time, they have obtained an illusion of surpassing themselves.
This is why many of us love movies. ——Just like many people, they can’t get rid of the reasons why they can’t take psychedelic drugs.
We want to be moved, and we want to use a short climax and sublimation to find an outlet for our world. Many of us are trying to save ourselves from the chaotic world, wanting to transcend this ordinary world. We are in a dark underground cave with many roads, anxious, running, running, anxious... We are being chased by despair. So at a certain moment, we thought we saw light, we thought there was light, we thought that someone gave us light, our passion was ignited by light, we flew towards the light, but in an instant, the light became another New entrance. We are running, anxious, anxious, running... We are looking for an exit, but what we find is always an entrance. Behind every exit is an entrance. Through this entrance, we return to our previous self.
What kind of light is the movie?
Maybe it never really shines, maybe it never really existed? Perhaps it is just for us to be able to spend our whole life in the dark cave for useless running, and gives us a reason that does not actually exist?
Too pessimistic, isn't it? Who would know that I am a person who is optimistic every day, and a person who creates a lot of punchlines to invigorate the air every day, a person who seems to have not really encountered any unpleasant things in life, even at work? The person who entertains others, his true state of mind can be so sad.
Only I understand why I want to tell everyone a joke. I am using everyone's laughter to entertain myself. If God hadn't given me wisdom in this regard, I really don't know what I have become.
The night before yesterday, in order to make myself smile, I watched the comedy "Groundhog Day".
It was also the night before, while I was saying something unmarginal under the article of a netizen I admired very much. Similarly, I was trying to make myself smile.
But I have forgotten something: Sometimes, even such a joke can hurt a person's effort and dedication.
I came down from the Internet and watched "Groundhog Day" intently. Very funny comedy. I laughed.
But he was shivering with laughter. ――I would actually see such a movie at such a time. ――It seems that there is providence in the dark.
It was one and a half minutes after turning off the TV. There is no more light.
One and a half minutes means total darkness, with no light, even if it is false, even if it has never really existed.
The word "despair" seemed to be written everywhere in the darkness.
I thought I would cry for a while, I haven't cried for a long time. But I just sat there until dawn.
I thought about a lot of things.
At 6 o'clock, I will be back again. Like Bill Murray in the movie, at 6 o'clock every day, he will return to the same world, meet the same people, and the same events will happen again and again.
――As I have already said, movies will not let us surpass. After a few hours of long night, I returned to the entrance again, returned to the world I was in, met yesterday's friends, and became who I was yesterday.
Transcendence is a delusion.
So transcendence will become religion.
Because religion is delusion.
Many people place their hope of transcendence on religion.
Why should people believe in religion? Believers say: "I believe in God because God cannot be proven; I believe in God because it is impossible to believe." "It is impossible, that's why I believe." If religion is possible, then There is no need to believe, it will become a concept, an ordinary concept.
Because of absurdity and delusion, it is religion. Only under the conditions of religion can people gain transcendence over themselves.
"Groundhog Day" is actually a religious interpretation of "transcendence".
It captures the two most important conditions of "transcendence": "time" and "death".
What is "time"? Time is desire, and desire exists in time. Desire is always the desire of time. The more you desire, the more time you need. The object of desire always exists in the future, it cannot be in the present, how can you desire in the present?
There are many movies that make such a hypothesis: if time stops, if there is only the last 24 hours left in life, what will happen to you?
――We will suddenly become relaxed and great. Easily, we can suddenly let go of many, many desires, because we have seen the end of time, just within reach of the road ahead. Without space for time, desires become meaningless. Great, we began to think about the true meaning of life, so we surpassed it.
In "Groundhog Day," time always stops on February 2.
Bill Murray quickly lost all motivation to desire.
In the West, people regard desire as their goal in life. Without desire, Bill Murray jumped from the clock tower.
The second condition for "transcendence" is death.
In fact, it cannot be death. After death, everything ends, and there is no surpassing. Is on the verge of death. It is to find a point of separation from the past.
You can find such a point in the narratives of all religions about sanctification and Buddhahood.
How did Gautama Siddhartha become Buddha? In order to become a Buddha, he gave up all earthly desires and has been practicing hard for 6 years. But nothing happened. One day, he was bathing in the river. Due to long-term dieting, he became so weak that he could not get out of the river. He could only stay beside a tree by the river. He thought: If he becomes so weak that he can't get out of this river, then how can he get out of the larger ocean of existence? At this special moment, suddenly, even the desire to become a Buddha has become meaningless. Not only is he no longer the Gautama he used to be, but even 6 years of penance has nothing to do with him. He walked out of the water and sat under a linden tree. For the first time in his life, his eyes are like stars in the sky, without any fog. From that moment on, Gautama Siddhartha was dead and he became a Buddha.
Bill Murray jumped from the clock tower. But he will not die. Because time will always stop on February 2. Even if he dies, he will survive.
So Bill Murray was surpassed. He understood the true meaning of life.
This is "Groundhog Day". A comedy classic.
However, in a sense, this is a very fake movie. Because of the transcendent conditions created by the movie for the protagonist, in reality, we won't get any of them. Impossible to get.
Transcendence is a delusion.
There is a Hatha Yoga school in India. They have a rigorous but practical method to make themselves transcend, but the time required for this method is too long. If you live less than 200 years old, then you will cultivate in this life. Everything you arrive is lost when you die, and you have to start over in the next life.
Even religion, in reality, cannot achieve transcendence.
Movies are not light.
Neither is religion.
A person living in the dunya, no matter how to struggle or fight, can only be a layman.
Today, I came to the place I visited yesterday and met yesterday’s friends. I started telling jokes again to make myself happy.
One of the jokes I told was this: I was talking about when I was in college, I went to another school for a meeting. It was early, and there were only three girls sitting side by side in the meeting room. My seat is beside them. At this time, a polite conversation is necessary. I seem to have seen the girl closest to me before, so I hit up and said, "Hey, where do I seem to have seen you?" I didn't wait for the girl to say What? The one next to her answered me first: "What are you doing? This is our teacher."
In fact, such a thing has never happened. Just a joke. And my level of telling jokes is declining, not as funny as before.
It's not as funny as before, but what can I do?
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