In my opinion, the most controversial scene in the film comes from the male protagonist facing the group of revolutionary soldiers who have been besieged and suppressed, choosing to kill the soldiers sent by the government to save the revolutionary army. Facing the group of emotional revolutionary soldiers, he couldn’t even bear to execute a torture, and it was so difficult to kill a puppy—you see, how beautiful and benevolent human emotions are, this The emotion of time is entirely love. But this kind of emotion, in front of the soldiers in power, completely invalidated. The hero kills, kills, kills... At this time, the hero's emotions may become anger and hatred. This is the power of emotion, and emotion itself is the standard of values. If emotion as a standard of values is essentially dependent on rational judgment, then what is the judgment of the male protagonist at this time? That is, emotion is an indispensable part of human beings, and any behavior that deprives it of it is wrong. Therefore, he is obliged to kill and save more human beings.
At the beginning, the reason why the rulers chose to eliminate people's emotions was to prevent war. Seriously, this goal is basically achieved. Except for the very few revolutionary soldiers, the earth is really peaceful. In order to prevent war, mankind can lose freedom-this is the opinion of the ruler. To prevent war, this goal seems to be completely just. But the way to achieve this goal violates human nature and is therefore unjust.
In order to maintain the existence of emotion, the revolutionaries launched a war against the ruler, which seems to be just. But launching a war itself is unjust—don’t tell me that the war here to eliminate centralized rule is just, because emotions themselves will bring more wars, and safeguard the existence of emotions. Can it be justified? ?
If emotion is a symbol of human freedom, this statement is undoubtedly empty and hopeless.
To kill for the purpose of justice-such a thing has happened too much. However, it now seems that justice is just a kind of paradox, because human beings cannot make an ultimate value judgment on their own emotions, and will only do some crazy domination or revenge in order to maintain the emotions themselves. So at the end of the movie, a wicked smile appeared on the corner of the actor's mouth—the real war has just begun.
Regarding all of this, I just want to say with a trace of self-deprecating and sorrowful contempt that the humans in this film can lose their emotions as long as a small bottle of drugs-such a fragile chemical function is the pride of humans. Emotions. Perhaps one day, humans will invent many drugs that stimulate emotions: red films produce love, white films produce sadness, blue films produce melancholy, green films produce happiness... Then, how will human beings face themselves? What about Rong's emotions?
Until then, what is justice?
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