"It left us with the impression that he is a servant of the law, so he merged with the law and escaped the judgment of mankind."
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As the protagonist, I do not approve of Teacher Ka. I am not a servant of the law. The law is not mysterious, and the law has no master. I did not serve anyone or anything. I'm just doing my own business.
I am the law. Please do not mistakenly think that I raped the law. In fact, I am just blaspheming myself.
I am the law. You think that the law represents justice, and the law only represents it/myself.
I am the law. Even if I confess my self-blasphemy, I will not be punished by the law, because I am the law and I am punishing him himself.
The law is me, and I am the law. I am not myself, and the law is not the law.
The law is integrated with me, I represent power and system, I represent crime and violence, I represent deception and treacherousness, I represent everything, but I cannot represent myself. The evidence of my sin is as strong as a mountain, and I long for trial, but I will not be judged, I cannot repent, and I cannot have the opportunity to atone for my sins. The law will not be judged, the law does not require repentance, and the law does not qualify for atonement.
I am the law, even if I try my best to disable myself, I am still the law.
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I originally thought that as a single individual, one could only play the role of the protagonist of "Nineteen Eighty-Four". Unexpectedly, an individual could also play the role of Big Brother's spokesperson, but no matter who it plays, for Big Brother, It is irrelevant, because the Iron Curtain ignores the individual, and the ending is the same as TM anyway...
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Although I do not agree with Mr. Ka’s speech, I read the famous fable "The Door of Dharma" by Mr. Ka a few years ago. After watching this film, although I dare not fully understand it, at least the previous doubts do not exist. Up. How should we understand the ultimate question "what is law" raised by this fable? Combined with this film, it is simple, "Law is the gatekeeper." It is said that Teacher Ka has studied law major, and it seems that he is skeptical of the ultimate value of law.
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in front of the door of the law (Kafka)
A gatekeeper stood in front of the gate of Dharma. A man from the country walked up to the gatekeeper and asked him to enter the gate of the Fa. However, the gatekeeper said that he cannot be allowed in now. The countryman thought for a while, and then asked if he could let him in in the future. "It's possible," said the gatekeeper, "but not now." Because the door to Dharma was always open, the gatekeeper stepped aside again, and the countryman leaned over and looked into the door. The gatekeeper found him doing this, and said with a smile: "If you really want to go in, you might as well try it, regardless of whether I allow it. But you have to be careful: I have power. I'm just the lowest-level gatekeeper. There are gatekeepers from hall to hall, and one is more powerful than one. It is the appearance of the third gatekeeper, I dare not even look at it. "The country folk did not expect so many difficulties. ; He originally thought that the gate of Dharma should be accessible to everyone at any time, but now he took a closer look at the gatekeeper in a fur coat, and looked at his big, pointed nose and long, thin nose. With the black Tatar beard, he decided to wait and get permission before going in. The gatekeeper gave him a low stool and asked him to sit down by the door. He just sat there waiting for years. He tried many times, begging to let him in, and the gatekeeper was bored. The gatekeeper also chatted briefly with him from time to time, asking him about the situation at home and other things. However, the tone of asking questions was very indifferent, just like those big men asked questions; in the end, he was always right. He said he couldn't let him in yet. The countryman brought a lot of things with him for this trip; in order to buy the gatekeeper, he gave away everything, which is always very worthwhile. Although the gatekeeper accepted all the gifts, he always said: "I accept it, just to avoid making you think that there is something wrong." During these long years, the country folks almost Watching the gatekeeper non-stop. He forgot that there were other gatekeepers. It seemed that this first gatekeeper was the only obstacle to his entry into the door of the law. In the first few years, he cursed loudly about his misfortune. Later, as he grew older, he could only mumble alone for a few decades. He became childish, because he had been observing the gatekeeper for many years and was even familiar with the fleas on the gatekeeper's leather collar. He also asked the fleas to help him and persuade the gatekeeper to change his mind. In the end, his eyesight weakened, and he didn't know whether the world around him really became darker, or just his eyes were deceiving him. However, just in this darkness, he saw a beam of eternal shot from the door of Dharma Unextinguished light. Now his life is coming to an end. Before dying, all the experiences of so many years rushed into his mind, and they gathered a question that he hadn't asked the gatekeeper so far. He beckoned the gatekeeper to come over, because his stiff body could no longer stand up. The gatekeeper had to bend down very low to hear him, because the height difference between the two men was too big to be very detrimental to the country folks. "What else do you want to know now?" the gatekeeper asked. "You are really insufficient." "Everyone is trying to reach the Dharma," said the countryman, "but why have all these years been apart from me? No one else asked to enter?" The gatekeeper saw that the countryman was dying, so he could hear his fading sense of hearing clearly, so he shouted in his ear: "No one else can enter this door. Gotta go, because it was opened just for you. I'm going to close it now."
Translated by Sun Kunrong, from "Selected Novels of Kafka", People's Literature Publishing House, 1994 edition
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