Save the laws of nature and destroy the desires of others, can it be?

Human beings always like to go to extremes, so war will break out. Later, when they are afraid of war, they begin to madly eliminate human feelings, because feelings are considered to be the culprit that causes fierce emotions and even wars, and this is the other extreme. The film is about human life under this other extreme. The protagonist is a law enforcement officer who is responsible for destroying "emotional criminals" who do not use affection-suppressing drugs and burning any objects that can cause human emotions to fluctuate. Because he personally killed a friend who became a sentimental criminal, the protagonist's blind determination began to waver, and he began to take no medicine. Once the feelings were no longer bound, he would be out of control, and he fell in love with a female sentimental criminal. Coupled with various circumstances, he finally embarked on the road of rebellion.

The film's presentation of the protagonist's transformation process is very delicate, unobtrusive, and convincing. Christian Bale’s performance is very convincing. The action scenes are also very cool. Some friends compare this film with "The Matrix", on the one hand because the action designs of the two films are very cool, and the background of the film is a completely overhead, virtual human world. However, "The Matrix" explores the dialectical relationship between reality and illusion, which is a philosophical proposition; while the film pays more attention to the original sin and uncontrollability of human emotions. As stated in the film, human emotions cause wars. This is the original sin of emotions, but trying to control or even kill it is unwise and impossible. Like many things, feelings have two sides. It can indeed bring people pain and even disaster, but more often it brings people beauty and happiness. Pain and disaster are often by-products in the process of pursuing beauty and happiness, and even sometimes, the pain caused by feelings is also a part of its beauty and happiness. The manager only sees the bad side and wants to contain it, hoping to obtain an absolutely controllable order, which is a bit like the "preservation of nature and extinction of human desire" advocated by Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism. And the one-size-fits-all autocratic measures taken by managers can even find friends in China.

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