He doesn't want to be changed by absurdity. He tries to dissolve the meaning of life and circumvent this question. If he doesn't ask questions, then this universe that feeds on mediocre people will not have a sense of absurdity whether it is indifferent or not. But for geniuses, such questioning cannot be restrained. For me, the so-called "universal nihilism" that Rick exudes is not noble, and the so-called "genius will be influenced by the mediocre things like emotion" is just a kind of "ideal genius hero". , This story is more like a metaphor with an adventurous shell but the core is Sisyphus. Don't let your thirst for meaning be quenched day by day.
The fourth season of "Rick and Morty" is finally over. After entering the pit, I finally saw the same update level as the animation and entered the bitter days of looking forward to the fast update of the next season.
Multidimensional universe worldview
At the beginning, it was just a boring pastime, a short adventure with an open mind, suitable for eating alone
But in the sixth episode of the first season, the screenwriter took the world view of the show in the same way as the previous episodes, but unfolded it in an extremely "absurd" tone. Since then, this drama and the attacking giant have become two seats standing by me to watch movies. Both of these dramas have changed my view of the world to a certain extent.
Briefly introduce the story line of the sixth episode of the first season.
The plot begins with Rick’s famous "Love is just a chemical reaction"
After hearing this, Morty asked Rick for a love potion, and wanted to make the goddess Jessica fall in love with herself at the ball.
The potion was of course very successful. Unexpectedly, Jessica had the flu, which caused the efficacy of the drug to spread. Everyone fell in love with Morty and wanted to mate with him.
For this reason, Rick twice made the antidote, but the problem of the formula made that, except for Morty's family, all mankind was Cronenberg.
When I saw that the whole world was Cronenberg, only the Smiths, I really thought that Rick could make this world better, just like the big adventure in the traditional sense, he would follow the "accident-mess-the protagonist to solve the mess" Pattern .
This model is deeply ingrained in my mind that appreciates the subject of big adventures, so when the camera turns, when the screen switches to a peaceful world, I think this is just the end of an exciting adventure story.
However, explosions, time travel, replacement of the dead self in another dimension, and burial of the corpse of his own body in another dimension.
With that explosion, I only felt my three views shattered.
After that episode, I can only stand in awe of this work.
Nothingness and absurdity
Not only the world view of the whole work, with this episode, the image of Rick's "universal nihilism" began to become clear. The screenwriter also deliberately shaped this image in future plots. Make top-notch weapons to sell to appearance killers, but only to get foreign currency to play virtual games.
Let others risk their lives just for some hallucinogenic drugs
Faced with the sacrifice of Lincoln and Hitler's genetics made by himself, he started taking drugs "as if nothing had happened".
Indifferent, selfish, indifferent, genius, this image is always linked to nihilism, but here, I think this deliberate shaping will deepen the tragic meaning of his life, and I see more of his views on absurdity A kind of resistance.
Rick and Sisyphus
When it comes to the absurdity of Rick, there is no way to compare it with one of my favorite metaphors, "Sisyphus."
Camus called Sisyphus an absurd hero, so I would like to call Rick Sanchez an absurd hero.
So what are the commonalities between Rick and Sisyphus?
Let's talk about the absurdity itself
For most people, it seems that Sisyphus's life is more absurd. This sense of absurdity comes from the exaggeration of the myth itself, because the absurdity we understand is more of a kind of illusion and impossibility.
Judging from the absurdity understood by Camus, Rick's life is actually no different from Sisyphus's life.
Camus believes that absurdity can neither blame man himself nor the world. The problem lies in the relationship between man and the world. Humans are creatures that need meaning, but this universe responds to human beings' incessant questions with an almost indifferent silence. Suppose you become a steppe wolf, yelling at the wasteland of deep night, but the other party will swallow your echoes, but you still keep asking. And the sense of absurdity is reflected in the repetitive life. Suddenly one day, you start to ask yourself why you want to do this?
Monday, Tuesday to Sunday. Get up, walk, work, get off work, sleep. Monday again, Tuesday to Sunday. In this kind of repetition, suddenly one day you stop, and you ask yourself why you want to do this, and your repeated life collapses in front of your eyes.
Sisyphus and Rick repeated even more. The former is a mythological metaphor, pushing a boulder that will always roll down the top of the mountain. The so-called repetition is that his efforts have no top in space and bottom in time.
The latter laughed at the audience in the animation, knowing that the universe is infinite, time is infinite, and he is infinite. The so-called repetition is an infinite number of experiences in infinite parallel universes.
Face the absurd
In the face of absurdity, Camus pointed out that there are three ways of confrontation. Suicide is death in the physical sense. Second, the leap of faith, namely death in the philosophical sense. Three resistances, but not bare-handed against the absurdity, but persistently aware of the absurdity.
Sisyphus was burdened with consciousness, denied the gods, and proudly pushed the boulder to the top of the mountain from the bottom of the mountain.
Rick doesn't commit suicide, he just kills himself in the parallel universe for himself. Even after breaking up with the consortium, Rick was drunk and tried to commit suicide, but the screenwriter stood from the perspective of God to prevent him from committing suicide.
As for Kierkegaard’s leap of faith, Sisyphus resisted the gods. And Rick, the first genius in the universe, believes in science, dislikes magic, and ridicules God. Encourage science and oppose gods. This can be reflected in many episodes.
For example: the so-called giant gods are just the organizers + audiences of the good voices of the universe
Rick is too smart to not realize this absurdity. Even though he has been numbing himself with alcohol and taking risks, he seems to be using "suicide" to consume his consciousness of absurdity and resist the third kind in this way. Way of resistance. But it's not the case. I saw Rick's seemingly indifferent face and behavior, constantly and painstakingly questioning the meaning of his life. In the way that Rick pursues, this drama seems to be something the audience would think is a bit embarrassing. This way is called emotion, in other words love. In fact, in the sixth episode, the screenwriter consciously presented Rick’s indifferent emotion to the audience.
Love is just a chemical reaction, improving yourself and focusing on science. And this episode has an even more indifferent attitude towards this Cronenberg-ized world created by himself, so that all viewers have an attitude of Rick's "indifferent" to any emotions. But when you accept this setting, continue to look down and see that he is using love to question the meaning of his life. With love, friendship, and family affection, even if the person with whom he is emotionally connected cannot understand him, he still seeks. Even though this approach was carried out in an almost paranoid manner, he was still asking.
This contradiction is very fascinating and will make many people fascinated by Rick. But not from the perspective of characterization, this contradiction is extremely cruel. Unlike Sisyphus, in the high mountains of the wasteland, he was the only one who could deny the meaning of his life from beginning to end, and he gave himself meaning. But Rick is different. He doesn't want this "spiritual victory method" and there is nothing he can do about it.
So, when I re-watched the sixth episode of the first season from this perspective, when Rick's nothing happened and Morty's confused void appeared in the same frame, I would ask how many times this was. I would ask when Rick realized this repetitiveness for the first time, when Rick sought meaning for the first time without gain, and when Rick became accustomed to this sense of absurdity. He doesn't want to be changed by absurdity. He tries to dissolve the meaning of life and circumvent this question. If he doesn't ask questions, then this universe that feeds on mediocre people will not have a sense of absurdity, whether it is indifferent or not. But for geniuses, such questioning cannot be restrained. For me word, Rick who distributed the so-called "cosmic nihilism" is not noble, but the so-called "genius will be emotional about this mediocre stuff" is nothing more than a "genius ideal hero" YongCu , This story is more like a metaphor with an adventurous shell but the core is Sisyphus. Don't let your thirst for meaning be quenched day by day.
In fact, there are many points in this drama that I can talk about, such as the meaning of the universe, such as death, for example, whether there is meaning to animals, there will be opportunities in the future, or when I can think more, I will talk about it slowly.
At last
Wubaa lubaba dub dub.
One should imagine that Rick Sanchez is happy.
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