"Burn after Reading"——Annotation of Postmodernist Academic School

Madonna 2022-03-21 09:01:20

Keywords: world agnostic, self-created illusion,

Baudrillard said: "Things do not exist in themselves, everything has its form and reality, and they disappear behind their own appearances." The
Coen brothers used a "After Reading Burning is the best annotation for this famous postmodernist scholar. They told a story with a complicated relationship between characters, the plot was tortuous and even confusing, and the story progressed beyond everyone’s expectations, but it was completely reasonable. These are just trying to tell the fact that
"human beings live in In the appearance of things, I try my best to understand the reality behind the appearance. However, the reality itself does not exist. We try our best to constantly create hallucinations for ourselves, use hallucinations to explain the status quo and persuade ourselves again and again, but again and again. In the cycle of manufacturing, what we get is a greater fear of the world. "It
is not the world that is deceiving us, but we ourselves are deceiving ourselves-this is the greatest black humor of all mankind! There is no so-called fate to play tricks, there is no providence to play tricks, everything is self-deception, an old saying is repeated every minute: You cannot live by yourself!

However, human beings can never restrain their own "sincerity". We have been working hard to observe, think hard, judge hard, act hard, try hard to change our status quo, and even change the world of life. Just as Linda, a female gym employee, strives to pursue a happy life, does not hesitate to use a knife to get her whole body reshaping, she has a clear goal and a firm will. In the end she got the money she wanted, but the truth was that everything was not on the road she had imagined, and she didn't know it yet.
Human beings look for non-trivial stories for their lives, fantasizing that they are living in adventure, just like living in a movie. However, movies always have man-made endings, but reality stubbornly does not give you any room for relaxation. Just like the lovely fitness coach Chad, who trusts each other with his colleagues, works hard to find excitement for his own life, firmly believes that he is a good person, but just wants to get some money back; but from the world in the most silent way Disappeared without leaving any traces.
Humans imagine that they are the center of the world and are valued and paid attention to. But the world has not changed without itself, just as the grumpy old CIA analyst Osborne lost his job on unexplained charges, lost his memoir in an inexplicable way, and lost his wife and all his property in the most cruel way. The unforgettable "Return of the King" is just empty thoughts, and the memoirs that I think are "confidential" are actually just rubbish. All the hard work of a lifetime fell apart in an instant.
Human beings have lived in the mystery of the world from beginning to end, never being able to figure out the situation. After trying to figure out the situation, I found that the situation is that I have become a discarded cup. Just like the policeman, Harry, who has not drawn his gun in 20 years, he inexplicably shot and killed people who have nothing to do with him, and since then he has lived in unfounded fear.

Self-made illusions, self-deception tricks, inexplicable endings-this world is a cloud of fog in front of us. Some people say that "others are hell". This sentence also values ​​one's own rationality. The fact is that human beings are themselves. Own hell! The so-called subjective initiative of mankind is nothing but futile.
Since struggling is futile and counterproductive, why bother? Working, chatting, dating friends, watching movies, eating, making love... What kind of plug-in do you want to load in these daily repeated programs?
——Post-modern talks about this.

We are always unwilling and want to be happier. The last thing I want to say is that instead of pursuing what you can't get, it's better to be a caring person who cherishes the people around you. Don't be like Linda, who has someone who loves her around but is blinded by obsession. Even if you lose your best friend and the person who loves you, even if you get the money, what's the use?
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  • Naomi 2022-03-23 09:01:21

    The Coen Brothers’ pessimistic existentialist worldview always seems a little frivolous in comedy, but what he laughs at is the meaninglessness of all desires and pursuits, so he also uses the meaningless shell of farce to cover this meaningless story, and instead rewinds it. Out of the tragic behind. As with all Cohn's works, the insightful God has already withdrawn, leaving mankind to monitor each other. The surveillance network in the movie is not dense, but even the CIA, which is at the top of the surveillance network, cannot explain what it sees. So burn the dead, and forget the past tragedies, as if they had never existed in this world.

  • Thurman 2021-10-20 19:02:04

    I think it should be called that Hong Kong name

Burn After Reading quotes

  • Chad Feldheimer: That's just a kryptonite lock. You can open those fuckers with a bic pen.

  • Linda Litzke: [to Chad] The fish has bitten!