"The Stain of Human Nature" looks at human nature

Alexys 2022-02-07 14:53:47

I came across a film review about "The Stain of Human Nature", "Some concepts are deeply ingrained, such as whites against blacks, Nazis against Jews, and some big nations against small nations, etc. This film is about The issue of racial discrimination, the so-called smear of human nature, actually refers to the professor (the Jewish professor played by Anthony Hopkins was accused of discriminating against his own students).” These are all about the world and the nation. The size of the big problem is defined by people, and it is also relative. From what seemed to be a small thing in life, it expanded to the issue of racial discrimination, whether people exaggerated human nature, or human nature drowned people's minds. Could it be that these stubborn and exasperating discriminatory concepts are beasts in human nature and belong to human nature, so they must exist, and because they are normal, they should not be doubted by public opinion other than morality, but can only be forced to accept? In other words, as long as a selfish person who is about to do whatever he wants, within a certain morality and a certain human nature, he should not be subject to additional condemnation? No matter the discriminator or the discriminated person, anti-discrimination after the climax of thought , that is, after morality has become an unwritten rule in people's minds, people will safely accept various concepts. Every time this principle is repeated in a grand manner, it is conceivable that what is written is all pale and powerless. Words and helpless resistance.
"One is suffering from discrimination in the heart, and the other is living in discrimination forever." Nicole Kidman's miserable woman who was discriminated against and Anthony's racial discrimination, what will they look like when they collide in life What about posture? What the film review said "So, the professor began to get an opportunity from this woman to resist discrimination, and the love became hot, but this love was bitter, because love was built on a kind of resistance, maybe it only became the professor. A kind of psychological comfort, maybe it is just an attempt, in fact, this is a dislocated love." Both discriminated against, why hurt each other? Can't find a little self-confident resistance to discriminators? Fear of so-called normal people, even Anthony's wife, who has lived with her for decades, couldn't resist her confession. When she found Nicole, who was a similar person, her pain and helplessness broke out completely in this weak, who was also discriminated against. on the woman. Are discriminators so cowardly? Is human nature so helpless?
Anthony had his own contradictions. He concealed his Jewish identity. When he was accused of discriminating against his own students, he did not put down the burden to admit his identity to get rid of the consequences of this incident. Instead, he preferred to pretend to be high. The attitude of stepping down, maintaining the inertia of concealing his identity, and continuing to live. It can be seen that the discriminated people do not repent of their mistakes, and they pretend to be themselves to slander "self". How can they live for their true self? They live so tired, they just can't let go of their vanity, can't bear the change of vision after their identity is discovered by others, the life they're used to, inertia has occupied the whole mind, no matter how big the price is, they have to bear it, just like suffering The shackles of a false life are general. The pain and pressure in the struggle, the cost and contradiction of disguise, are always flooded in Anthony's thoughts, and he can't get relief and freedom from time to time. At this time, the encounter with Kidman can be described as a short-lived relief, and the discrimination will never end. So Anthony will not be released forever, it is destined to be short-lived.
Less discrimination and more tolerance. Being discriminated against is painful. If you cannot adjust your own rationality, you will go to extremes. As a discriminator, morally, the consequences of discriminating against others are quite complicated. Enough is enough.
"When the facts are in front of them, the two of them have reached the end of despair. There is only one way to resolve this despair, and that is to die and leave this world, so the film returns to the beginning, the car accident." The way has to be to die? Did he die from despair, or did the director follow the logic of his own thinking and follow the inevitable laws of things and create an inevitable death?
"That is to imprison something in one's own mind, and then use various ways to escape, or die, or leave." Is the imprisonment of the mind so tragic? Either escape or die? To release your mind, in order to render it heavier, does it have to be so extreme? Or a true portrayal of real life? Does the result of discrimination have to be accepted and negatized? Or is it given a mandatory definition of the opposite of human beauty? Who can tell me this kind of human discrimination will disappear? It seems that to achieve the beauty of human nature, we can only think of the second great leap of thought after the evolution of the apes.
Humanity is always a mystery.

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The Human Stain quotes

  • Mrs. Silk: You need to be proud of your race.

    Young Coleman Silk: What about me? What about just being proud of being me? It's my life.

  • Young Coleman Silk: So, that's an... What is it? Swedish?

    Steena Paulsson: Close, it's Danish and Icelandic.