Schrodinger's box

Jaclyn 2022-01-16 08:01:12

Teachers like female protagonists, and female protagonists like male protagonists. So in the last lesson, the teacher tried to presuppose various extreme environments through two paragraphs of YY (logical discrimination) to prove that the male protagonist is an asshole at his mercy, and only a high IQ teacher himself is worthy of a female protagonist. The hostess responded to the teacher's confession in the third YY and the last dialogue: life cannot be all logic. Although the two logical crimes match, they cannot live together.

From the beginning of the dialogue in the classroom, students criticizing teachers for being "slaves of dualism" have already shown that teachers are too sensible by nature, and they are very logical in everything.
In the next two paragraphs of YY, the teacher first presupposes himself as the "mysterious" and has already positioned himself as the undefeated and arbitrator. No matter what the circumstances are, the "mystery" in the selection phase should never be abandoned, otherwise everyone will die (the door cannot be opened, all will be destroyed). If the selection is undesirable, pass directly (kill the poet twice with a gun). And once things go beyond the preset scope of the "mystery", he still has the right to destroy the game directly (open the door in advance, and destroy it all). Then use various dilemmas and set up various inevitable dilemmas to manipulate the fate of the male protagonist and other "bystanders". The heroine is a "bystander" in these two YYs. The teacher confessed to the onlookers through seemingly logical and speculative games at both ends: only you can understand, I am the same as you, they are low-energy fools at the mercy of others, and they are not worthy of you.
So the heroine led the idiots to fight back in the third paragraph of YY, responding to the teacher's confession: life should not be completely rational, but also needs a lot of sensibility. Only when rationality and sensibility complement each other can life be achieved (engineers make harps for harpists, and harpists and singers perform for everyone). A purely rational life will only go astray in the end (the exiled teacher on the island ended up with a gun to kill the male protagonist because of jealousy). In this way, the mixed life also has the ability to end the game, but it is the end of happiness (people cover the male protagonist and detonate the bomb).

At the end of the third paragraph of YY, the YY jokingly called "the winner of life" in the barrage of the carpenter is also inserted, which is purely perceptual YY. Kill other men and live a shameless life with 6 girls. Of course, because of the infertility of the carpenter, this game will also end. That is to say, a purely emotional life is probably also not optimistic.

They all said that they couldn't understand the last 3 shots of the teacher. In fact, it means that teachers have finally walked out of the either-or life.
In the first shot, I opened the drawer and found that it was a sandwich. Eat it. A metaphor for survival.
In the second scene, the drawer was opened, it was discovered that it was a gun, and he committed suicide. Metaphor of destruction.
In the end, the teacher walked out of this "survival or destruction" life without opening the drawer in the third lens.

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After the Dark quotes

  • Petra: We live... briefly, yes. Imperfectly? Of course. Stupidly? Sometimes. But we don't mind, because that's the way we're made. And when it's time to die, we don't resist death; we summon it.

  • Mr. Zimit: Do you know what apocalypse actually means?

    Petra: Tell me.

    Mr. Zimit: It's from the Greek "apokálypsis", meaning to uncover what you couldn't see before... a way out of the dark.

    Petra: Your sweet talk still needs work.