Wang Xiaobo wrote in "Thirty Standing": "I suddenly feel that life is very boring. It seems to be a kind of torture in Tibet: wrapping people in wet cowhide and exposing them to the sun. When the cowhide dries, it shrinks. People burst out with black beads. The same is true of life: you get old day by day, and the cowhide is tightened day by day. This cowhide is the law of life: going to work and going to get off work, eating and defecation, even making love is part of it, everything is in accordance with the time Table to proceed."
Daily meaningless repetition makes people feel comfortable in a mediocre and boring life, and unknowingly they are willing to be imprisoned by it. Once a person is free from this bondage and suddenly becomes free and can control his own time at will, he may be at a loss and have the idea of seeking death, just like the movie that he finally stepped out of prison after 50 years, but he could not adapt to the outside world. An old man who committed suicide while living. This is "institutionalization".
People who really dare and have the ability to live outside the rules are still very few. But the male protagonist Andy is such a person, "Some birds can't be locked in any cage, because every piece of their feathers is shining with the glory of freedom." Shawshank's redemption, perhaps the redemption is unwilling to be a mediocre life. People who are trapped.
Life is a Shawshank prison.
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