In Chinese folk tales, there is a treasure called a cornucopia. Whatever you put in, it will be filled with something. For example, if you put a piece of silver in, a pot of silver will come out, and if you put a piece of gold in, it will come out. Of gold. The story has reached the modern age. In the United States, the cornucopia has become a brass teapot, and its function has also been improved. It does not require you to put anything in, but only needs to make it feel the pain. Alice and John are a couple who love each other very much, but love can’t make money. Alice has never gotten a job. John is a salesman. Because of poor performance, he became the first target of the company’s layoffs. . While John was worrying about life, Alice told him that he would not worry about money anymore, because the brass teapot she stole from the old lady who ran the grocery store could give them money, but they needed to make themselves feel Only when it hurts. In this way, in order to get money, the husband and wife began torturing their bodies. The higher the degree, the more money the brass teapot produces. Later, they discovered that in addition to their own pain that can make the teapot produce money for them, other people's pain is also okay, so they began to say something stinging neighbors and friends. Alice even wanted to expose what her sister had worked so hard to hide. There is a secret. If this secret is revealed, the originally happy home of my sister will be shattered. At the last moment, Alice resisted it. Teapots started to produce less and less money. Alice knew that the teapot needed more stimulation. She told her what she thought of John, and at the same time asked John to tell her secrets that she could not tell her. The mental pain was tortured. When it works, the teapots start to produce money again, but the money is proportional to the degree of their heartache. When they finally had nothing to torture each other, Alice thought about killing. John stopped her thoughts several times, but she turned a deaf ear to it. In desperation, John jumped downstairs holding the teapot. At this moment, Alice understood. , The most important thing in her life is John. When John woke up again, Alice promised John to give the teapot to Dr. Li and let him go and seal the teapot forever.
At the end of the movie, of course, it was Alice and John who gave the teapot to Dr. Li, and they returned to their previous peaceful lives. The movie uses a lot of space to explain how they became slaves to the teapot bit by bit. In comparison, Alice fell deeper. Perhaps in the screenwriter’s view, women are always more susceptible to temptation. In the Bible Wasn’t it the woman who was persuaded by the snake to eat the forbidden fruit? This is obviously different from Chinese thinking. In China, Nuwa is the creator of human beings, so women are always closely connected with kindness and greatness, while in the West, the creator of human beings is God, and people use "he" to call it. He uses "history" to call history. If the story of the brass teapot appears in China, I think it must be John, not Alice, who will be tempted.
When they start to confess their infidelity to each other, I think they must be thinking that they should suffer from amnesia. Naturally, they should not betray each other, but being honest does not necessarily mean loving each other. In a person's life, There will always be secrets buried deep in my heart, and I will not tell you until death, because after weighing the pros and cons, you know that you would rather choose to deceive and conceal than face the pain after confession. However, fraud under the guise of good faith is another matter. The boundaries between these still need to be carefully grasped. After all, there is a risk that the paper will not be able to hold the fire, and it is still necessary to think about the consequences.
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