(Text/Yang Shiyang)
What exactly do we use to define our own identity, and what do we use to define the identity of others? Name, resume, native family or social relationship? If someone deliberately changed their name, made up their resume, tampered with family members’ information, and reintegrated into a new social system, how should such behavior be defined? Think this person is full of adventurous spirit, funny, weird, or rudely condemned him to be an out-and-out liar?
Almost everyone can only spend their life in an established identity, with a given name, a well-known experience, and then cope with all kinds of old and new relationships, but no matter how your age and professional status change, your The core identity is constant, in other words, you will always be you. However, we have to admit that perhaps everyone has ever wanted to hide themselves and start again. Some people put this desire for identity replacement into the virtual world, such as reading and watching movies. In essence, those behaviors are also a kind of identity reconstruction. You can re-enter another brand-new life through the identity of a certain character. After a few hours, some people tried to change their faces in reality.
"Completely Unfamiliar" tells a story about a person who keeps "reinstalling the system" for himself. Alice met Tom at a colleague’s party, and the latter recognized her, but when they fell in love with each other, Alice was still called Jenny. But now, 15 years later, everything about her has changed. The name, occupation, resume, family, hometown, and university she said when she introduced herself to people are completely different from what Tom knows. This is a mystery, but also like a game with ambiguous rules. When alone, Alice-or Jenny explained everything to Tom, she has been deliberately changing her identity, entering life again and again, meeting new groups of friends, and then disappearing from their lives.
Her behavior is destined to be controversial. When the people around you know the outline of the incident, some people think that this girl is full of adventurous spirit, but some people denounce her as a shameless liar without a sense of responsibility. This controversy is about people's anticipation of life styles and personal values. From a common sense, Alice’s behavior must be deceptive. She must produce all kinds of false documents and resumes in order to gain access to the real society. However, all her actions are not for illegally obtaining money and wealth. All success in the secular sense, on the contrary, is more like an involved, spiritual exploration. This common standard seems to be a bit of an attitude in the game world, but it reveals a unique philosophical meaning, the famous question: Who am I, where do I come from, and where do I go? Alice is almost responding to this ultimate torture with practice. Can human beings in the world continuously illusion multiple identities? Are we destined to live with an identity throughout our lives or a human dilemma? Can all the struggles and struggles really make oneself "reborn" again and again?
The heroes and heroines in "Completely Unfamiliar" are like sharp contrasts. The man’s wife has decided to go to another city to start a business, but the man has always been reluctant to leave the familiar but mediocre boring circle, but Alice is always translating her identity, never staying in any place for a long time, let alone Let those around you be familiar. People think Tom is safe, but they think he is boring, and the same group of people also think Alice is frivolous and unreliable. You see, people are trapped in a kind of weird helplessness, unable to accept any kind of situation.
Alice and Tom were walking alone when they ran into an old man who fell down unexpectedly, and they helped the old man to take him home. Alice began to instinctively fabricate her identity, saying that she and Tom are both doctors. Tom froze for a moment and began to enter a virtual role. He experienced the pleasure of free secretion in the false identity, and that almost unworried soaring. , A chic that is thrown away after use. The comfort comes from the declaration of war and victory over destiny. An unchanging dull man also has a brief moment when he wants to escape from the mundane. Just like Alice, a wandering woman, he will miss this lover 15 years ago, even if he does not hesitate to pierce his own multi-layered fictional carapace.
The interesting thing about this story is that it is like a fable, like an exam question, which seems to give people a piece of possibility and hope, but in the end it also allows people to see the answer to the mystery that is doomed to be full of limitations. Because even if we struggle, we still cannot escape the established things. We long for freedom and change, but we still long for stability and control. We are addicted to stability and look forward to an escape regularly. This is the source code that cannot be tampered with in human nature. The so-called freedom, sometimes, is more like a brief feeling of dizziness when passing through a revolving door between different states.
Some are like anchors, and some are like water. The former want to seek old mud and sand, and the latter just want to go to unknown rivers. But sometimes, they admire each other, walk sideways, and intimacy, but they can only say goodbye, only nostalgia.
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