Do you feel this way? When we were young, our parents and school teachers would always tell us what is right, what is wrong, what behavior cannot be done, what behavior should be promoted, and go to class. You should listen carefully, your homework should be completed carefully. Puppy love is not allowed. Only what is said in the textbook is correct; when you grow up, the boss of the company, the leader of the unit, the official of the govern-ment, the public knowledge of the society, also I take the trouble to tell us that you have to work honestly, keep your family diligent and frugal, you have to coax your wife and children with peace of mind, you have to wait in line when taking the bus, you have to register when staying in a hotel, you have to wear a condom for XO, blablabla... You have to walk in the queue when you are young. , When you grow up and work in your unit, you have to sit in the grid, and when you die, you have to bury it in the grid... No matter when and where, there will always be people hypnotizing and telling you a lot of principles, one He piles up rules, and then forces you to follow them. If you are really bored, they will spread their hands and make an omniscient and omnipotent human and beast harmless look and say to you: I’m doing it for your good, don’t follow me By the way, you will suffer. There is nowhere to spread the fire in your stomach.
The British are a very strange nation. I always thought that their basic style is: well-dressed, elegant speech, conforming to the rules, no matter whether it rains or not, always bring an umbrella when going out... But I chatted with a few British students who I knew, They told me that when you go to their hometown and pass by the tavern every night, you can step on many high-drinks on the road. The floor is full of drunks, most of them young people. This fact made me puzzled for a while. Are these guys who fill their stomachs with alcohol every day and those "English gentlemen", are they in the same country?
"The World's End" is such a movie. In the first half, it is full of the director’s infinite memory of his youth: good health, active thinking, no burden, a lot of free time, can endure hardships, can be tired, stay up late without getting sick. The hangover can be recovered the next day, and whoever wants to be XXOO will be XXOO with whomever they want to XXOO. They free to do anything, which is simply synonymous with "perfect". When people reach middle age, they have to care about blood sugar, blood lipids and blood pressure every day, their thinking is gradually out of date, a bunch of mortgage and car loans, busy with their wives, children and family members, can't squeeze time if they want to drink, and occasionally cheat on a Xiaomi, and have to guard against Ed, Therefore, when people miss their youth, what they miss is nothing more than the frivolousness when they were young, the enthusiasm for "just think of it", in other words, the little "freedom". Steven in the film should be the representative of this kind of nostalgia. He drove the car ten years ago, listened to the tape ten years ago, used the map ten years ago, and even used the method ten years ago to pick up girls. Among a group of middle-aged uncles, he seemed so unreal and uncomfortable. In the contempt of others, he could not see through his motives. In the end, he still complained. You all have houses and cars, wives and children are hot on the bed, self-worth has been realized, and the sense of social existence is overwhelming. I have nothing but crazy memories of this night. Some people can always shine their own shadow on him, and then ask themselves, am I the least accomplished and least willing to grow up in my circle of friends?
But the story doesn't just stop here. The second half of the story suddenly took a turn for the worse. It began to involve aliens and ideology. People have not yet recovered from the middle-aged crisis of self-pity and self-harm, and they are a little overwhelmed. After watching the movie, you will find that in fact, what the director wants to talk about in the second half has already been told to you in the first half. Aliens want to transform mankind, just as "Big Brother" wants to transform the people: I bring you order and perfection. Human beings are imperfect. This imperfection will lead to destruction and sacrifice some individuals. Freedom, assimilation with the collective, complete the whole collective, will have a bright future, I am doing it for your good, you have no reason to resist me. Under this kind of spiritual leadership, you should honestly buy the "five social insurances and one housing fund", honestly borrow money to buy a house, honestly marry a wife and have children, don't think too much, don't listen too much. Otherwise you will be "replaced" and you will become the "fertilizer" for social construction. In this case, Steven used "persist in the dream of his youth" as a way of resisting to defeat the alien invaders. In fact, it is a very cunning answer. There are many kinds of dreams for young people. "Blast a street", there are also "old boy"-style cravings that are recognized by the mainstream, and there is Taylor-Durton-style "reorganizing everything". Which one do you embrace?
The ending of the movie is my favorite. The aliens withdraw, the robots collapse, the social civilization is paralyzed, and the humans return to the farming society. In fact, the director is to some extent about the ending of "overthrowing the highest authority, destroying order, and seeking freedom". metaphor. Freedom always comes with a certain price. Since you choose freedom, you have to bear the price of freedom. As for Steven, there must be a lot of people who are puzzled by the end that he finally turned his head to lead the robots in the human bar. In fact, it's very simple. Maintaining robots doesn't mean that they are against humans. On the contrary, think about the judges. After the end of the world, humans' rejection and resistance to robots is not a "rule" to some extent? This is the case for people like him. Freedom means "do whatever he wants to do". He is naturally opposed to everything and does not bow his head to all rules. Such people are called heroes in troubled times and called "unstable elements in a harmonious society." ". There are always such guys who stand on the opposite side of the "rules", arrogantly compare the middle finger, and then yell: "We want to be free, do whatever we want, even if we can drink high, so what? We just feel good!"
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