Secondly, Joshua is not a horrible evil demon. He has his own logic in everything he does. The whole movie is about how he made his own plan and realized it after being disgusted by life. The fear his family felt, just like the fear that flies might feel about humans, such huge and incomprehensible creatures that could easily slap them to death, stems from ignorance.
Joshua's heart is a dark room without light. No one around him has enough perception to guide him and shine the light of bright order and hope into his heart. His main way of knowing the world is his own observation, and within the scope of his eyes, people are superficial, self-righteous, and limited in thinking. So he could only fight alone in this desperate world ruled by chaos.
Life is so meaningless, so what has he learned about knowledge outside of life? The teacher taught him ancient civilization, and his grandma taught him Christianity. Seth cut Osirus into 14 pieces, and God used disasters to destroy the city he couldn't save. Both Egyptian gods and gods regard violent destruction as the best way to solve problems, but they are the only force that can bring order, and order is the most supreme in Joshua's heart. When he told his parents that he was moved by religion, I believe he was not pretending. Religion itself was born to create order. It is not difficult to imagine that Joshua, who desires order, would be interested in it. This is doomed to his basic idea of solving problems: violence destroys all things that he cannot save (people)
destroys chaos and seeks life. Meaning, this is the motive of his crime, from his point of view it is absolutely justice, and he truly believes this. So I don't think he is a born demon, just doing what he thinks is right in a way he knows.
Fathers, mothers, and grandmothers are like people who have been eroded by a fallen spirit that God cannot save. They need to be completely removed by the flood, and their relatives must be destroyed for the sake of justice.
Although his uncle is also very integrated into the adult society, he is not dying. He has his own advantages: first of all, humor-this is a very advanced skill. In this movie, there is no special emphasis on the superiority of humor, but the principle is comparative. Generally recognized. The humor under the gallows is much higher than the self-destructive force under the gallows! Humor is not the same as pretending to be crazy and stupid. Although my uncle does not have a particularly high level of thinking, he is still a bit more intelligent than Joshua's parents. Secondly, uncle understands music. The difference between art and life is that life is often vulgar and trivial, and meaning is broken if it exists in it; but one of the functions of art is to collect these broken meanings, and then put together a model and a whole. ——This is a kind of creating order! Therefore, Joshua appreciates Uncle, maybe because it’s not easy to meet someone who has a little brain (heart tired...)
Besides, sister Joshua, she has no thoughts yet, it is not Joshua’s main goal, she can sacrifice for justice. But Joshua did not deliberately destroy her either. In the end, he said that the plot of his favorite sister was a bit "beautiful in nature": this desperate world is only cute for babies.
A digression:
I personally think that people's ignorance is not their fault or evil, but because they don't know it. Since he was born for this, he should be treated with tolerance and compassion. Destruction is not advanced. Destruction is not something to be proud of, because the act of destruction does not bring the meaning we desire. Only build can.
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