After watching the movie, the feeling was so good that it was a little fanciful. I even wondered if the director is an ascetic?
The more obvious set of contradictions in the movie is the confrontation between the rich and the poor. If the imagination is better, it can even be regarded as the confrontation between the proletarians and the bourgeois, and it seems to involve that period of history.
Representatives of the rich side: Vladimir and his daughters
. Representatives of the poor side: Ilena and his descendants Sergey.
The rich in Sasha’s films pursue wealth, but ignore emotions. Vladimir’s career is a lifetime of hard work. In exchange, the consciousness of survival of the strong is naturally deep-rooted, so Vladimir will relentlessly reprimand Elena's son Sergey for his incompetence and laziness. But what about Jelena? When Vladimir accused Jelena’s son Sergey, her helpless, resentful, bitter expression contained too much, and there was incomprehension between the two sides or an abstract point that was between the rich and the poor. Gap and distance. And what is the root of the estrangement?
We must first ask
Vladimir is a parasite that hates laziness in the true sense? Is it true that all behaviors are judged based on the principle of the most glorious work? of course not! It is also a so-called parasite, but Vladimir dotes on his daughter Katya and is very tolerant. So the popular point is that
your own children can do anything, everything is OK, if someone else’s children do anything wrong, they are parasites, and they are hateful hedonists. In the same way, Jelena's protection of her children and grandchildren and the final killing of Vladimir was also derived from this instinctive love. Like Vladimir’s disgust for Sergey, what does Jelena have to say to Katya in the movie? Elena said that she was a prostitute.
So the split was born. And the root of it comes from instinctive "love"-both sides are defending their offspring, and at the same time, both are hating the other's offspring. And hatred comes from the incomprehension between people.
So the fight for future generations was also staged. Vladimir intends to leave all the property to his daughter Katya, and Ilena kills her husband for her children and grandchildren.
One more thing to note here is: Is Jelena’s motive for committing the crime just to fight for the inheritance in order to save Sasha’s urgent need? I think it's more than that. When Vladimir tells Katya that all the inheritance belongs to Katya, most people will feel angry, should they still feel humiliated? I took care of you with my dedication and faith, but you didn't even leave the last legacy? !
Here is a clever accusation against the rich class and society: We have also contributed our own labor, but only so few are given to us proletarians! On the one hand, it can be considered to be caused by the unfair distribution of social wealth; on the other hand, it is also due to the selfishness of human nature.
The second problem is
education. The first one is the unfairness of education: just like Sergey said in the movie that you can go to college if you have money.
The second is about family education. There is an old Chinese saying: dragons beget dragons and phoenixes beget mice...
This old saying is actually quite sad. A person will be branded by his grandfather when he is born. Knowing it, changing it, and getting rid of it doesn’t matter. easy. Katya inherited Vladimir's indifference and inherited the pleasure of her mother, while Sasha inherited the laziness of his father, Sergey, who did not do business.
I still remember the words Katya said when he visited his father, "Smelly poppy produces stinky grass. If you have a father, you have a daughter." "Dad, it is irresponsible to reproduce offspring, you know, if the parents fail For the disabled and the disabled, their offspring will be like that." "What will happen to the next generation? There is no different life."
People are accustomed to pin their hopes on the next generation and feel that they are their own children. It will be better and different, but what can they bring to their children?
At the end of the film, Jelena was told that she had added another grandson. The family was very happy, but my heart was tight at the time, why? Pregnant again?
What do you give to your next generation?
Give him endless competition? Pervasive indifference and discrimination? Give him unjust social reality, unjust education system and mediocre spiritual influence? enough!
Elena thinks the birth of a new life is a completely happy event, and she is so simple as if she simply thinks that winning the inheritance for future generations will make them worry-free. The film denies this wishful thinking: Immediately after Elena's fight for property, his grandson Sasha and his friends have a fight with others.
Unstable factors have always existed. If the society does not make some improvements, the family does not really see the role of family education, but just blindly love. This kind of love is actually blind, and it will lead to homicides and even more tragedies! If human nature is still so selfish, and there is always a difference between you and me, justice is really hard to achieve.
At the end of the film, although the inheritance rights of the property have not been finalized, the Elena family apparently regard the house as their own, and the proletariat has taken the lead. But would you feel unreasonable? No, this is a certain inevitable result of the competition caused by injustice, and of course this kind of competition will continue to take place.
Because of the existence of injustice, once the injustice reaches a certain level, it needs to be balanced through a contest. Everyone is seeking his own fairness, but is the fairness that he seeks true fairness? For example, in the movie, the lawyer announced that Katya and Elena will each share half of the inheritance, but Elena must get more than Katja, at least she took the money in the safe, at least she took the life of her father . So on the surface, a fair social distribution was re-implemented with the hands of lawyers. However, in the actual operation process, injustice sprouted again. The law cannot maintain absolute equality and justice because of the hearts of the people.
What will happen to the property rights in the end? The movie didn't say anything, just like someone would ask will the world become better? Will the injustice disappear? Can human beings finally jump out of selfishness? Can human beings treat other people's children as their own? None of these have answers.
The difference between you and me, the distinction of hierarchy, the blind love, the polarization between the rich and the poor, and the poverty of the national spirit are really painful, but the reproduction continues, the endless desire never stops, and therefore the similar pain is still passed on. Is it considered original sin, perhaps asceticism is an attempt to break this vicious circle? Eradication of reproduction seems unlikely, but it may be possible. . . . . .
I think of those two words of Confucius: the old and the old, the young and the young, and the young.
If you don't suffer from others, you don't know yourself, and you don't know others if you suffer from yourself.
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