The devils advocate
Seeing that there are film reviews explaining that advocate, in addition to the meaning of advocates, there is also the meaning of lawyers-the devil's spokesperson is a lawyer, and I feel that the title is wonderful. In the plot of the movie, the father and son can also be called the final confrontation with Satan. Kevin asks why, why is he a lawyer? Satan said that because lawyers are the closest to life, when your children are in your family, they are actually lawyers who are involved in life and contain the most good and evil, which makes this title more relevant. I have to reflect on the fact that lawyers have such wonderful conflicts, but as a small law student, I was struggling and I couldn't see the magic in the early days!
Free will – Free will : Let’s talk about what I saw and think it’s a very good interpretation – free will, there are many times in the movie, every time Kevin hesitates before the lawsuit, Satan has his face in front of it and said All sorts of retreats and choices "Oh, Kevin, you can give up and take care of your lover," he gave Kevin the freedom to do what he wanted, because he was competitive because he didn't have vanity. In the last confrontation with tension, Kevin expressed his free will to defeat Satan's various desire tentacles. Because this film uses the religious symbols of the devil and angel to compare the justice and evil of lawyers. I have been paralyzed by the quality of justice and kindness in the ideology of film and television works. Including this movie is also doing the eternal topic of repeating the same human nature in the memory bank.
But the interpretation of free will allows me to see a lot of common inspirations in the moral conformity of preaching: the epidemic gradually declined last semester, but the people's minds were still panicked for a semester, as if I didn’t know what stage I was in and was stolen. Half of my life experience is unknown. Of course, the above is not important. What is important is that I have entered the doorway of law in that short semester. It is not because I suddenly learned it, but because of a few teachers. The course finally has many thought-provoking teaching inspirations I thought! Ah, now is the focus after Sui Sui thought. Last semester, jurisprudence lectures on the law and freedom. Sister Xiaomei used Kung Fu panda clips to explain a kind of freedom: the story is probably that the panda master used the bun as a temptation to urge the panda to learn Martial arts. After acquisition. After the two competed for the buns, the panda grabbed and gave up the buns. Interpretation of pandas in class: It was roughly because I was driven by desire to want to eat this bun, but now I don't want to eat it, it's because I don't want to eat it myself. Keanu Reeves’s free will in the film is the same: my freedom is not what I want to do, but I can decide what not to do.
The opposite is Satan's freedom-Al Pacino said that free will is very troublesome. At the beginning, God created such a tempting fruit, but it was impossible to touch and taste. This is God's game, he sits on the sidelines and laughs when someone commits a crime. But this is just a different understanding of the meaning of freedom. The freedom that should be told is that you should do whatever you want and do what you love. You can do it without saying sorry. Wow, so pure and neat freedom, I like it very much. I agree. God and the devil both have their own definitions of their freedom, although the devil regards vanity as the original sin, and Keanu as the vanity desire to live and die at the end, the most wonderful olive branch of vanity is the continued confrontation of life. With a knowing smile, this struggle of desire and freedom is that justice and evil are the topics of life, that is, the trajectory of life that has always coexisted and can be blended.
It is not that goodness has defeated evil, and it is not that justice is never a slave. In the life trajectory of an outstanding lawyer, Cain and Abel, and Lucifer the Fallen Angel in religious topics are all incarnations of good and evil.
Literary Thinking of Good at Evil
It’s very interesting to introduce Western literature. Hearing that there are periodic podcasts that will solve the topic of personal dilemma in literature, the teacher said that you must read foreign literature. His uniqueness is that each of his main characters has shortcomings, and they have many evils. . The most convincing is all the gods in the Greek mythology of the origin of Western culture. You see Zeus is lustful, Hera is jealous, and there are many, many gods with flaws. They even shaped the gods in this way, and they shaped the Western humanistic spirit with real people as concrete means to see evil, see the truth, and then overcome and search for it. Look for it in conflicts. Maybe the teacher didn't persuade him so much when he interpreted it. But when I was washing clothes, I still had a shocking epiphany when I heard the mantra. Because there are good friends who like Greek mythology, I look like gossip, but in fact I am looking at myself. Ha ha ha ha. Thinking that I reject Chinese suffering literature so much, and reading foreign literature purely for the evil of human nature, I can find a lot of common sense that cannot be described. The shame disappears.
This is the link to the podcast-Teacher Du Sujuan from East China Normal University talks about the blessed soul of literature https://y.qq.com/m/client/longtrack/index.html?songmid=002U3u3F1yemyw
I want to sum it up: the basis of belief in demons and gods has something in common with the good nature and evil nature. Chinese film and television literary works are basically based on the core of the inherent goodness of nature. The works that bloom humanity in the hardships are representative. The shaping of the public personality represents the beginning of Confucian culture. He is also a man with few desires, although there are those who do not have enough desires, and he has many desires, although there are those who have enough desires, but with little desires. Mencius said: "There is no better way to cultivate your heart than to reduce desires. If a person has few desires, then even if there is a lost part in his heart, there are very few; if a person desires a lot, then even if there is a preserved part, there are very few. "——The above is to exemplify the goodness of China. As a result, Mencius's words can directly summarize the film accurately. No matter what kind of belief origin is the tolerance of human nature and the persuasion of goodness. The methods are different.
The method for the West and the movie is free will, to discover the evil in your heart, to discover that desire, and to overcome it in the countless tests (honor, money, woman) encountered in this struggle (honor, money, woman) (don’t want to use it) I think such a contradictory word should not be a kind of opposition, but a kind of integration and doing what you think is right. This right is the ethics of the world). This kind of path that sounds like passionate blood is something I agree with and I think I can believe in it. I want to talk about the attraction of this path
Recently, reading "Demian" Hesse’s short philosophical novel (I think), after being threatened by a partner because of lying, the boy entered a wicked and dirty black hole from a holy home that only knew the doctrine of God. world. He realized that he was in these two worlds in his childhood, and he has been confused and struggling in these two worlds in his later growth path. In the process, I asked (the world to make me), isn't this me? From a certain perspective, my childhood memory is this book. From the beginning of the first lie, from the time when the friend who threatened oneself began to realize that the family world is not sacred, not everything in the world. Every choice made after adulthood is like a choice between two worlds. I often have this confusion, what is the standard that has been there, is that kind of belief a sense of morality, is it simple justice and kindness. Where did it come from, is it right? I don't want to be a bad person. Is the adult world really cruel? Then what is the motivation for me to do it now? In addition to the necessity of my survival path, what is my understanding of my humanity and nature? Forgive my confusion (I feel very happy after typing, writing and reading, seize the opportunity)
Demian’s answer and the Western humanity approach conveyed by this movie I think coincides to some extent.
The interruption of Siddhartha is because it is a kind of self-following that always merges and conflicts with the outside world, and there are common inspirations.
Explanation of Eros: Love is no longer the dark animal desire that I understood at the beginning, nor is it the worship of pious spirituality, just like my respect and love for the image of Beatriz. Love is both, and beyond the other, love is angel and Satan, the fusion of male and female, man and beast, the noblest and most evil things. I need to experience this kind of love, and my destiny is to taste it. I am eager and afraid of it, but it will always exist, always above me.
The section of blessing to the soul is also an answer to many of the above two worlds, to taste its taste. (Don’t end like a high school composition when you die)
On the way back after going to the toilet: I think of the words that Teacher Luo Xiang kept emphasizing when he talked about the case. He said that human nature is dark, and so am I. Looking at what he is doing today, he is doing what he believes is goodness and the goodness recognized by social ethics. This is really a great example of the evil path I mentioned in the West—the courage to face it after recognizing the truth. The expression of knowledge in philosophy is a kind of connection (it seems that I remembered it in the textbook anyway, it should be the expression of legal knowledge) I connected to my thinking about adults. The reason for the jungle world is that the jungle is only because I have seen the form of a non-dual world. When I was working in a reading club, I had a deep understanding of this dual world when I listened to my younger brothers and sisters (the reading template of Lu Xun’s works). When I was a teenager, Discover a ternary, quaternary, pluralistic world. You will encounter all kinds of original sin tortures like Keanu Reeves in the movie, but just as the younger brother has been teaching, the friends around you have been talking about the core of life-what Roman Roland said, seeing the truth of life and loving him .
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