Diseases that are not limited to the tropics At the beginning of the film, a subtitle introduced an inscription: We are all beasts by nature, and our profession as a human being is to be a beast trainer to control animals and teach them to complete tasks and control animal desires. It seems to point out that the theme of the movie is to tell us that each of us has animal desires, and we, as civilized human beings living in modern society, have to overcome this primitive desire in order to gain a foothold in society. There is a story in the film to testify to this theme: two poor people put stones into the lake under the guidance of a young monk, and the stones turned into gold and silver. They greedily put another bag of stones into the lake, but not only did they not turn into gold and silver, but the original gold and silver also changed back. Greed is a kind of animal desire. If we don't limit it, our hearts will not be enough to swallow elephants, and we will be empty. But the director wants to show us more than that. In the second half of the film, when the soldiers kill the tiger spirits who transform into human form and harm the village, they are actually killing their own animal desires. And the tiger spirit is also following the soldiers who want to devour his humanity. The war between the two is actually the breaking of the soldier's inner animal desire and human nature. The ape said to the soldier: soldier, that tiger follows you like a shadow, and his soul is lonely and hungry. I see you as his prey and his traveling companion. He can smell you on this side of the mountain, and soon you will too. Kill him to free his soul, or let him devour you and enter his world. This is the inner voice of the soldier. In his heart, he believes that there are only two outcomes between himself and his animal desire: killing the animal desire, or being devoured by the animal desire. The battle between soldiers and tiger spirits is divided into two rounds. Tiger Spirit won the first round, but didn't devour him, throwing him off a cliff. The narrator says that the tiger spirit is bewildered by the soldier's walkie-talkie. Behind the walkie-talkie, a product of modern civilization, is the moral code of modern society. The barriers it forms limit the animal desires in the soldiers' hearts. This is the reason why the tiger spirit did not devour the soldiers. In the second round, the soldiers killed the tiger spirit and liberated his soul to heaven. But in the process, he caught fish to eat, slept under a tree, and lived a primitive life, and his inner wildness was gradually awakened. So after killing Tiger Spirit, he started crawling, surrendered to the wild, and got hit by his teammates. The soldier and the tiger spirit on the tree looked at each other and started a conversation. The position of the two here shows that the wildness (bestiality) of human beings is more noble than human nature. Tiger said: Now here I see myself, my mother, my father, fear, sadness, everything is so real, they bring me back to reality. Once I wanted to greedily suck your soul. We are neither animals nor humans. Stop breathing, I miss you, soldier. After a few days of chasing, Hu Ling saw the memories of the soldier through his dreams, and saw his fears. Fear of sadness, these weakness of human nature, pulled him back to reality and restrained animal nature, so the soul of the soldier was not swallowed. Human nature and animal nature are indivisible whole, we are both animals and human beings. So even if the soldier kills the tiger spirit, he starts to crawl on his own. We can only suppress our animal nature, but we cannot stifle the instinctive wildness in the depths of our souls. The soldier said to the tiger spirit: Monster, I will give you my spirit, my flesh, and my memories. Every drop of my blood sings our song, happy song. Over there, did you hear that? After speaking, the soldier sheds tears and completely kills the animal part of the soul, and people lose their happiness. Only when we live in harmony with it can our body and mind instinctively sing happy songs. Just like the mage who was in contact with the soul of the tiger spirit in the past, he can reconcile with his inner wildness (beast nature), so that he can have boundless mana. Back to the previous part of the movie. The love between two young men is a part of human nature, and we see them watching movies, riding motorcycles, etc., which are all manifestations of this part. But in modern urban civilization, the animal part is still suppressed. We saw that in the movie theater, Tong was forbidden to touch his legs; he was willing to touch his butt, but he was afraid that his mother would see it; he wanted to lie on the same lap, but he refused at first. It was not until the last two that they released their bestiality (wildness) to lick each other's hands and express their love. Ken got real happiness, and he was happily speeding down the road on his motorcycle. Tropical rainforests provide an environment isolated from modern society, allowing people to fully release their inner bestiality, thus replacing it with a tropical disease. But many of us who do not live in tropical rain forests are actually experiencing the same diseases. At this time, we must suppress the animal nature in our hearts, but also maintain the wild nature of our instincts, so that we can sing happily. Watching movies, riding motorcycles, etc. are all manifestations of this part. But in modern urban civilization, the animal part is still suppressed. We saw that in the movie theater, Tong was forbidden to touch his legs; he was willing to touch his butt, but he was afraid that his mother would see it; he wanted to lie on the same lap, but he refused at first. It was not until the last two that they released their bestiality (wildness) to lick each other's hands and express their love. Ken got real happiness, and he was happily speeding down the road on his motorcycle. Tropical rainforests provide an environment isolated from modern society, allowing people to fully release their inner bestiality, thus replacing it with a tropical disease. But many of us who do not live in tropical rain forests are actually experiencing the same diseases. At this time, we must suppress the animal nature in our hearts, but also maintain the wild nature of our instincts, so that we can sing happily. Watching movies, riding motorcycles, etc. are all manifestations of this part. But in modern urban civilization, the animal part is still suppressed. We saw that in the movie theater, Tong was forbidden to touch his legs; he was willing to touch his butt, but he was afraid that his mother would see it; he wanted to lie on the same lap, but he refused at first. It was not until the last two that they released their bestiality (wildness) to lick each other's hands and express their love. Ken got real happiness, and he was happily speeding down the road on his motorcycle. Tropical rainforests provide an environment isolated from modern society, allowing people to fully release their inner bestiality, thus replacing it with a tropical disease. But many of us who do not live in tropical rain forests are actually experiencing the same diseases. At this time, we must suppress the animal nature in our hearts, but also maintain the wild nature of our instincts, so that we can sing happily.
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