Why So Serious?

Eldora 2021-10-13 13:06:31

With the help of a visitor’s story, I have a deeper understanding of the clown’s words: Why so serious? (Why is it so serious?)
This visitor seems to be a very serious person, but in the consultation, when it comes to human beautiful or fragile feelings, he can't help laughing. His smile will affect me. As a result, for a period of time, as long as we look at each other at the beginning of the consultation, we all laugh.
Initially, the understanding of his laughter was: I don't believe that there are beautiful emotions in this world, and there are only benefits and ugliness in this world! For example, you, the so-called psychiatrist, will act like a compassionate person and win my emotions, but aren't you just a money-making liar? !
If this is all he feels, this consultation will be impossible. Fortunately, this is just one of his feelings. On the whole, the relationship between us is very good and the trust is deep.
Later, when he talked about his sins and evils, he fully understood the words of the clown.
His sin and evil are very old-fashioned, the Oedipus complex that Freud said: Sexual desire points to his mother, and at the same time he wants to kill his father.
This sin and evil tormented him, so he knew that his usual image of a righteous and awe-inspiring good person was actually pretending, and he was hiding the most terrifying evil in the world in his heart!
In fact, he is indeed a very kind person, but the sense of guilt exists at the same time. But in his feeling, if he has this guilt, he has no right to say that he is a good person. Therefore, when he saw that he was a good person, he would mock himself.
Why are you so serious? ! smile! This is the most superficial meaning of his laugh.
The full meaning is: don't pretend, look at your serious face, you pretend to be such a good person, so righteous, or a victim injured by evil, but, have you seen the sin of your TMD? You look so serious, he is ridiculous!
The clown's mouth was torn by his father, this is what he said. It is possible, this is true, but it is also possible-I have seen many examples of this in the consultation. He imagined that his father wanted to kill him, and the truth is that he wanted to kill his father.
Of course, I still tend to think that the clown’s father is a demon. But no matter what the father is, it is inevitable for a boy to murder his father. Freud said. Lafayette’s book is not easy to understand, but you can look at "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by American mythologist Joseph Campbell, which is very clear.
Therefore, every boy, every girl, has a demon side.
Therefore, the clown can so easily turn those good people into demons with a light push. It was not only caused by the love and concern for the family, but also because of the devil in my heart.
Especially Bruce Wien, the first part of Nolan’s trilogy, subtly but meticulously portrays that it is not the bats that really torment Wien, and it’s not that his father was killed, but that he, like all boys, wants to To kill the father. Therefore, every time he was in a state of post-traumatic stress disorder, the figure of the tramp who killed his father never appeared in his mind, only bats appeared. The bat is the devil in his own heart.
You must understand this before you can talk about understanding Nolan's Batman trilogy.
However, it must also be said that it is not. Therefore, Batman and Joker are the same thing. Of course not, everyone is struggling, but Batman has embarked on the road to becoming a hero, identifying with a good father, surpassing a good father, and becoming a hero.
On the contrary, clowns, master ninjas, disciples and daughters of master ninjas, they are also tortured by the father-killing complex. They identify with bad fathers, and at the same time regard this badness as all. But the clown style is higher, and the clown also knows that he is not a thing. The ninja master, his disciples and daughters are paranoid, thinking that the whole world is incurable, but they are good, even saviors.
Freud said that every boy has an Oedipus complex in his heart—the only prerequisite is the existence of the classic family structure of parents and children. Joseph Campbell said that every boy must take a path to fight against male authority, defeat them, become heroes, and reconcile with them, and finally see through the opposition between good and bad, blending good and bad, and becoming metaphysical Spiritual hero.
The advantage of Nolan's trilogy over other Batman series is that it subtly portrays the evil in Batman's heart, so Batman has become a complete hero.
There is only good and no bad, only good and no evil Batman, that is a cartoon for children.

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    Armored Car SWAT: He's going to need something a lot bigger to get through this

  • Two-Face: [after seeing Gordon is actually alive] You do like to play things pretty close to the chest

    Lt. James Gordon: [after capturing Joker] We got him Harvey