The Twelve Monkeys, I have watched many years ago, and I have always felt that it is a rare work. In the details that are open and unexplained in many movies, everyone has always been tirelessly discussing its content for many years. There is a historically unchangeable "fate". "Pie"; there are "conspiracy factions" whose people in the future are eager to master the world; and more firmly support the "schizophrenics" whose protagonists are already crazy. No matter what kind of view seems to be reasonable, after all, there are a thousand people. There are a thousand kinds of Hamlet, but as time goes by, he has ceased to be young. Looking back at this movie, there is endless sadness. Who is the lunatic between the normal person and the lunatic?
What impressed me the most in the movie was undoubtedly the dialogue between James Cole played by Bruce Willis and Jeffrey played by Brad Pitt when they first met in a mental hospital. A mockery of social reality. At first, when James and Jeffrey asked that they wanted to call, Jeffrey said to him: "If you want to call and communicate with the outside world, you need the doctor’s permission. Into the ears of normal people and make them sick, everyone will be infected and become lunatic."
This can't help but think of the "Song Shu· Yuan Can Biography" writing:
In the past, there was a country, and the country had one water, and the nickname was "Crazy Spring". Chinese people drink this water madly, but the monarch drew it through the well, so it is safe. The people are mad, but the monarch is not mad or mad. So they gathered together to govern the monarch and heal his madness. Acupuncture and medicine are all complete. The Lord was overwhelmed by the suffering, so he went to the Kuangquan to drink, and after drinking, he was crazy. Regardless of the size of the monarch and ministers, the madness is like one, and the crowds are joyful.
It means that in the past there was a country with a mouth called Kuangquan. There is no one who has ever drunk this water in the country without going crazy, only the monarch drank the water from the self-drilled well and did not get sick. But everyone is crazy, only the monarch is normal, and everyone feels that the monarch is crazy. So the monarch was arrested and used this method to treat the monarch’s mania. The monarch did not suffer from it and finally drank the crazy spring. The monarch, his subjects and the people were crazy, and everyone felt happy.
In fact, we are not like this in reality. Anything that does not suit our own liking and feels that it is not in line with the fashion, we have to convince him, no one will think about what is the unique "self", we all want the beauty of everyone Beauty, if you talk too much, you have to be careful to become insane. Only by knowing silence and compliance can you live well, otherwise you will be put in a mental hospital together. So after Jeffrey finished talking, he secretly pulled James aside and said to him: "Actually, only a few people have real mental problems. I think there may not be too many people who care about these small details, because in fact, it is related to the movie. It doesn’t have much to do with the advancement, and who really cares what the "lunatic" says? We have been listening carefully to what James said, because we think he is a "normal person", but what about Jeffrey? Who would seriously think about what he said?
In the middle of the night, James tried to find a way to escape. He looked at the locked "cage" and the couple kissing outside the cage. Jeffrey told him, "It's useless, they can't be opened. They have to protect the outside. Normal people, in fact, they are as crazy as we are."
This passage reminds me of a "lunatic" in Gibran's prose. I met a young man in the garden of the lunatic asylum. His face was pale, beautiful, and full of surprise. I sat on the bench next to him and said: Why are you here? He looked at me in surprise and said: This is an impolite question, but I still want to answer you. My father wanted me to be exactly like him, and my uncle also counted on me to be like him. My mother wants me to live like his great father. My sister thinks that his sailing husband is a perfect role model and wants me to follow him every step of the way. And my brother thinks I should be an athlete like him. My teacher is the same, asking me to become a PhD, a music master, a logician, everyone is very determined, and everyone wants me to be a reflection in his mirror. So I came here. I think this lunatic asylum is more sane. At least, I can be myself. So, the young man suddenly turned his head to me and asked: Can you please tell me, are you also driven to the lunatic asylum by education and kind advice? I replied: No, I am a visitor. The young man said: Oh, some people live in the lunatic asylum on the other side of the wall, so you are one of them.
So when James asked Jeffrey why he didn't run away, Jeffrey said to him with a righteous look, "I'm not crazy, why should I run!" Of course, his subsequent madness was probably treated as a neurosis by the audience. But is the concept of the Twelve Monkey Army really wrong? Is this a mistake of the times or a mistake of perception? I think Jeffrey may be the most "sober" person in the whole film.
In the play, the dialogue between Kathryn and the dean ruthlessly exposes this layer of hypocrisy.
"You are a sensible person, a professional psychologist. You know how to distinguish between true and false." "Everyone takes our words as truth, and psychiatry is the latest religion." "We decide who is right or wrong, and we decide who has No madness" "and my faith started to shake"
So who is the real lunatic? James? Jeffrey? Or Kathryn? I think maybe it is those of us who live outside the wall, constantly judging whether the character in the play is a madman from our perspective, and analyzing whether he is a future man or a schizophrenic patient, we are living here and drinking the crazy spring water. The real lunatic in the age.
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