The world in the eyes of the noble

August 2022-01-14 08:01:47

Coriolanus seemed to use a noble perspective to examine fate. Of course, the protagonist Matthews was used as a stand-in for experiencing all this.
In the eyes of the aristocratic people, more than 90% of the people in the world are fools, and their opinions are worthless to them, which is very similar to the second disease and true art. And this thinking is not the fact that causes the greatest harm to itself. More importantly, he would say "bid them wash their faces and keep their teeth clean" without shame. Such a truth undisputedly caused him to put himself on the opposite side of most people.
There is another characteristic of high-minded people. They disdain to express their own thoughts. Even if they are scarred by others, they will describe it as their own personal preference in the bottom of their hearts. Therefore, people with noble and high ranks are often the most difficult to understand by others.
People with noble highs generally possess strong abilities, at least one kind of potential. However, correspondingly, they are usually animals with very low EQ. Rather than saying that EQ is very low, it is better to say that you are evading, avoiding political games between people, and making yourself popular in it, and even magnifying your own weaknesses.
All these characteristics gave politicians an opportunity and were destined to cause his own tragedy. The politicians mentioned here actually live in every corner of society, in every classroom, and in every company. They believe in survival and lack noble perseverance, but they are good at fighting and witty. Because of this, since ancient times, it is difficult for people who are innocent and high to be in high positions, and even if they get such opportunities, they will fall heavily.
However, standing on the opposite side of the original position is not easy to happen. Because before that, they were often crushed to death, or frustrated. This kind of plot may just be a kind of obscenity in their hearts. And what happened afterwards, they could naturally come to a calm conclusion: it was either painful revenge, or was crushed to death by the original enemy after giving up halfway. In short, it is a path of no return, and a high-ranking person is indispensable for this kind of mental abuse.
If you are such a person, you have to leave your own unique mark over time. Perhaps, choosing the latter can only show that you are not such a person. In fact, the world is not pure land, the greater the ability, the greater the pain.
Such people, if they want to change their minds to understand fate and live happily, they usually come to the conclusion that they are just river fishing. The cruel struggle between people is too subtle for the noble ones to have both their own beliefs.

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  • Isabel 2022-01-14 08:01:47

    The movie itself has four stars. Shakespeare added another star. Ralph Fiennes is a better director than I had imagined him to be. And how sincere, humble and cute he was when he came to Q&A, it's extra points.

  • Ophelia 2022-03-25 09:01:18

    It's very awkward, obviously time and space have moved to modern times but copied the original lines, and the effect is very poor. Like a play, not a movie.

Coriolanus quotes

  • Tullus Aufidius: What's thy name?

    Caius Martius Coriolanus: A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears, and harsh in sound to thine.

    Tullus Aufidius: Say... what's thy name? Thou has a grim appearance. What's thy name?

    Caius Martius Coriolanus: [taking a step forward] Know'st thou me yet?

    Tullus Aufidius: I know thee not. Thy name?

    Caius Martius Coriolanus: My name is Caius Martius, who hath done to thee particularly, and to all the Volsces, great hurt and mischief. Thereto witness my surname... Coriolanus. Only that name remains. The cruelty and envy of the people who have all forsook me, hath devoured the rest and suffered me by the voice of slaves, be whooped out of Rome. Now this extremity hath brought me to thy hearth. Not out of hope, mistake me not to save my life. For if I had feared death, of all men in the world I would have avoided thee. But, in mere spite, to be full quit of those my banishers, stand I before thee here. I will fight against my cankered country with the spleen of all the under fiends. But if thou dares not this, then I present my throat to thee and to thy ancient malice. Which not to cut would show thee but a fool, since I have ever followed thee with hate, and cannot live but to thy shame, unless it be to do thee service.

  • Tullus Aufidius: Our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time. One fire drives out one fire. One nail, one nail. Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail. When, Caius, Rome is thine, thou art poorest of all. Then shortly art thou mine.