I watched this movie with my friends and ended up arguing before I finished watching it. After breaking up, they watched the movie alone. After two days of talking about this movie, we quarreled without saying a word. So I want to say a few more words.
Watching this movie with a friend/lover is a good test of your compatibility on the following points:
1. Is morality absolute?
2. Where are the boundaries of respect for unfamiliar cultures?
3. How to abide/respect local morals/rules of right and wrong when living in an unfamiliar cultural environment?
4. In order to observe and record the immersion/dive into an unfamiliar culture, is this behavior respectful to the culture?
5. When you believe that you are more progressive and moral than an unfamiliar culture, are you entitled to comment/intervene in the code of conduct within that culture?
6. Is there an absolute right/wrong? If not, are there absolutely right and wrong attitudes towards drugs? If not, are there absolutely right and wrong attitudes towards life and death?
7. Ask yourself, how much do you feel superior to your own culture and morals?
8. When you feel deeply terrified after watching the movie, do you think "this savage primitive civilization is too perverted", or do you think the male protagonist deserves to be destroyed?
If your friendship/love can stand the test of this movie, after watching the whole movie and discussing the above issues, you find that the two of you think the same thing, and they are exactly the same, please cherish it. . . . Life is too short to ask for anything more. . . . .
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