"Now..." "You finally have a reason to be a real family."-"The Knife Out of the Sheath"
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01 Birth of a legacy
"The Knife Out of the Sheath" is mainly about a few days before and after the death of a rich writer.
How proud is the writer?
One of the most famous suspense novelists in the world, with assets of more than 60 million U.S. dollars and estates and other real estate. His publishing company is like a chicken that can lay golden eggs. He has sold 80 million suspense novels. The giant Netflix The company looked drooling, lobbying the writer's son to buy the rights to the adaptation.
Such a literary and rich man, who suddenly wiped his neck with a sword (yes, it is a sword) on his 85th birthday, instantly shocked the society. A detective was invited by an anonymous person to solve the case with the police.
The police originally intended to characterize the case as suicide, but because of the intervention of a detective, the case became suspicious.
The people at the scene are roughly divided into two categories.
The first category, blood related:
The eldest daughter has a family of three, and the source of income is the real estate company that the eldest daughter "made from scratch";
The second son's widow and granddaughter, the source of income is the widow's skincare brand;
The younger son has a family of three, and his income comes from the younger son who is responsible for managing the publishing company of the rich;
There is also the deceased's elderly mother, responsible for the unforgotten mascot.
The second category, unrelated, rich housekeepers and female nurses, as well as NPC help, many security guards.
Since the three small family members who are related by blood are limited in their ability, unsuccessful and unmotivated, in fact, the old rich have always been responsible for the blood transfusions to them.
The eldest daughter started a company with a loan of one million from the old rich man; the widow relied on deception to pay more for his granddaughter’s tuition; the younger son always wanted to sell the books of the old rich man to make money... After the death of the old rich man, how to divide his inheritance became the focus; How the old tycoons died is related to how the inheritance is divided.
The truth about the death of the old rich man is not mentioned in this article. The movie is very exciting, you must go to the cinema to watch it. Here we mainly discuss the relationship and choice between the successors and the successors.
02 Eligibility for inheritance
In "Three-Body", the most powerful legacy is the position of the sword bearer. Because the dark forest deterrence system mastered by the sword bearer, through the application of cosmological sociology, directly determines the survival of the two worlds. The wall-facer Luo Ji almost used his own power to establish a dark forest deterrent system to deal with the three-body invasion crisis. Similar to the super nuclear button that can destroy the galaxy, the person who masters the button is called the sword bearer.
There are generally three post-game states:
State 1. The sword bearer exercises power, and the two worlds are destroyed;
State two. The sword bearer does not exercise power, and the trisolaran civilization takes the solar system, and the end of mankind.
State 3. The sword bearer does not exercise power, and the trisolaran civilization does not take over the solar system and coexists peacefully with mankind.
Since the situation of not exercising power is actually leaving the destiny of mankind to the Trisolaran, in fact, because the Trisolaran galaxy is in danger, it is impossible for the Trisolaran civilization not to take the solar system if there is a chance. Otherwise, the entire deterrence system does not need to be established, so the third situation does not exist.
In fact, the best state must not be the state after the game , but the state in the game . That is, the state of tightrope walking, the state of uncertainty.
But the huge uncertainty has caused great fear in human beings. It is human nature to eliminate fear itself. Unfortunately, they forgot that this uncertainty protects mankind.
The position of the sword bearer is the power of destruction, not the inheritance of wealth. It is extremely dangerous and easy to become a sinner. Therefore, Luo Ji took the offspring away from him early, and eliminated the heirs who were related to him by blood.
However, like the rich old man who established his family's foundation, Luo Ji faces the same problem: He will eventually die and grow old, who will inherit it? What are the selection criteria?
At the same time, unlike Luo Ji, who handed over the power of choosing heirs to the human government at the time, the old rich can choose to decide who the heirs are.
He made a puzzling decision, instead of dividing the property equally among his family members, he gave it all to female caregivers who were not related by blood and were more like friends.
The whole family is blown up!
But why on earth?
As mentioned earlier, the whole family depends on the old rich man's blood transfusion, which is not enough for the old rich man to deprive them of their inheritance rights.
What is the real reason?
In fact, there are only three people who really work in the inner circle of this family.
One is the rich man himself who writes books and works all the year round.
The other two are housekeepers and nurses.
Housekeeper? Was excluded first! A drug addict hides contraband in the host’s fireplace.
The female nurses are really powerful.
Female nurses have two characteristics: professionalism. Even the few members of the family who are indifferent to her and who don’t even know what country she is from, have to admit that the female nurses take care of the rich and old people very well, no matter it is The mental health and happiness of the match is the main reason.
Kindness, because once a female nurse lied, she would reflexively vomit, so she had no way to hide her thoughts, she was sincere since she was a child.
What needs special explanation is that lying and reflex vomiting does not mean that you will not lie. When malice cannot be hidden, choosing kindness is her only way out. Almost all host families like this kind of caregiver who is hard to lie.
Yes, there is a difference between being essentially kind and only being kind.
With her professionalism and kindness, she successfully became a legal immigrant. And her mother lacks professionalism and cannot prove her kindness, so she is still an illegal immigrant and will be sent back to Ecuador, Brazil, Paraguay and the like at any time. What ever, outside of heaven is outside of the United States anyway.
Their offspring are parasites, and the rich old men at most express regret and blame themselves. However, the reason why he is really angry is probably because the descendants are trying to get more benefits for themselves, and they are indifferent to others, and even take the family's offerings to foreigners-such as the big son-in-law to cheat.
In the opening scene, in order to take care of her feelings, the female nurse's mother asked her youngest daughter to turn off the video program. The female nurse said to her younger sister, the youngest daughter, that it was okay.
The wealthy old man has always known that the mother of the female carer is an illegal immigrant, and also knows that the female carer is cautious for her family.
The solidarity of the female carer’s family is clear to him, and he handed over the inheritance to the female carer, and the basic life of future generations is guaranteed.
This can be confirmed by the female nurses’ willingness to continue to bear the huge tuition fees of their granddaughters. But just don't think about squandering, there's no way.
03 The true purpose of the legacy
The sword bearer Luo Ji has maintained peace on his own for half a century. Mankind chose a kind-hearted girl for him, Cheng Xin, on the principle of the minority obeying the majority. How can it be wrong to choose kindness, right? Just like the old rich man in "Blade Out of the Sheath".
Facing this most important post in human history, the collective thought of mankind is like this: the successor can deter the Trisolarans, and don't threaten the people on earth. If you cannot have both, it is better to choose the latter.
The future mankind has chosen an extremely kind person: Cheng Xin.
The paradox here is that if you are kind, how can you be willing to destroy both worlds? She is not even willing to hurt bugs and ants.
In the end, the Trisolaran invaded decisively, and Cheng Xin did not have the courage to press the button to destroy the two worlds, and the end of the earth came.
The dramatic point is that it is precisely because Cheng Xin does not want to destroy the world, but instead destroys the world. Uh, to avoid controversy, let's change the expression: Just because Cheng Xin didn't want to destroy the world, the world was destroyed instead.
If the successor was appointed by Luo Ji, Cheng Xin would definitely not be selected. Why did he give up the right to appoint heirs?
There are many reasons, but the most important one is the ultimate question. You can appoint a second, third, or even fourth heir during your lifetime, but what about after you report to the god of death?
Just like the old rich man, he wanted to understand a truth, heirs lack sense of responsibility and responsibility, it is difficult to take the responsibility of the head of the family and even the head of mankind. It is better to stop providing help and let them build themselves from scratch. Career or deterrence.
For example, the starship Earth, which fled to space, created a piece of space on its own, colonizing at least two galaxies and successfully continuing human civilization.
Why both choose to let goodness inherit, but there is a deviation?
The reason is that the protagonist female nurse in "Blade Out of the Sheath" is almost the perfect sword bearer, but Cheng Xin is not.
First, kindness;
Second, after you lie, you cannot hide it.
(Isn’t the second point talking about the Trisolaran before contact with the Earthlings?! The first point, of course not, Eh?! No, there is an exception for Trisolaris! Trisolaris Listener No. 1879! So humans should call No. 1879 Are you a swordsman?)
The first point can make the majority of human beings put down their guard.
For the second point, we can imagine that during the campaign, the President of the Planetary Defense Council asked:
"Candidate for the sword bearer, are you willing to press the button when the Trisolaris launches an attack?"
"I do not want to!"
Then she vomited.
(Manual smiley)
The Trisolaran who monitors humans through Sophon all the way is directly trembling with fright.
The peace between mankind and the trisomy is maintained.
Thinking about it carefully, at the end of the film, the female nurse, wrapped in towels and drinking coffee, stood on the balcony of the manor house, looking at the descendants of the old rich man below. No matter how gloomy and cold the weather is, her eyes are not as cold as her eyes, with a penetrating power like the old rich man watching everything-the makers of the rules of the game. Those eyes clearly said: Now, you finally have a reason to become a real family.
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