Good works can stand the test of time. After getting tired of the various trivial and narrow cultural products that are now flooding the cultural market, such works are even more precious because of their scarcity.
There is no doubt that Parasite is such an excellent work. It tells a wonderful story with twists and turns in an extremely refined space, but it profoundly reveals the dual problems of species evolution and coexistence, both real and spiritual.
The story says that different species of creatures will use each other and kill each other. But they won't understand each other...because each species is based on its own principles, and will not understand each other from the standpoint of other species. In the eyes of humans, parasites are terrifying cannibal monsters, but in pigs In the eyes, aren't people the same monsters?
Species’ will to survive is innate, no matter how small a creature is, it also has an instinctive desire to survive, so it will do things that violate other species for its own survival, which is also the iron law of nature. But the human species is very different from other species on earth: it will carry out large-scale killings beyond the needs of survival, whether of the same species or not.
Think about it, human beings are indeed a terrible and hopeless species. They are greedy, selfish, unsatisfied, short-sighted and predatory. However, human beings are more intelligent than other creatures on the earth, making them in the pyramid on the food chain of the earth. At the top of the company, while shouting for peace and development, and shouting to care for the environment and coexist in harmony, they are constantly grabbing for their own selfishness, and they are never willing to curb their appetite. Its high self-awareness causes this habit to appear in various forms. Bigger can be humans versus other species, smaller ones are different skin colors, nationalities, and races, and in that order descending to "me" and other people I think. From the slaughter and destruction of different civilizations and races, to the unscrupulous use of any means and deceit in the competition of oneself and others. The so-called species is actually a conceptual division of biology. In the realistic thinking of human beings, there are no species, there are only "me" and other "creatures" other than non-me.
Each person is actually a completely different individual from others. In terms of survival laws, each person is a "species" with only his own. It is not that human beings can only use but cannot understand each other, but this understanding does not prevent everyone from focusing on achieving their own goals. So it is possible to engage in savage and bloodthirsty brutal wars while elegantly talking about universal values.
Rational thinking always leads to irrational consequences, which sounds like a kind of irony to human beings, but after careful consideration, I found that this is actually just an inevitability caused by human nature. Because the so-called rationality of human beings is actually based on a basis of satisfying oneself first. That is to say, you must first satisfy your own desires, and then you will consider the interests of living beings other than yourself, and it is difficult to give enough attention to the interests of others. I remember seeing a dialogue between a forest hunter and a city noble in a movie. The forest hunter always maintained a disgust for the nobles in the city. The noble asks why we are not unfriendly to you, why are you so hostile to us. The hunters said bluntly, because we hunt to survive, and you hunt animals to hang their heads on the walls of your homes.
I remember chatting with a friend about the development of human civilization once, starting from the simplest energy saving and emission reduction, and finally analyzing it all the way, the conclusion drawn still points to the wrong foundation of the modern civilization development model, and believes that the current human civilization model There is no way out. The social life model established on the basis of modern civilization has basically eliminated the possibility of human self-resistance, and can only go on like this helplessly. It's just that although development sounds like a positive word, what its own meaning is, it is difficult for human beings to think clearly or even unwilling to think about it at all. Perhaps one day when human beings really go to self-destruction, they will realize that what they originally wanted was to simply shelter from the wind and rain, and have no worries about food and clothing.
The most touching part of the story is that in the end, Mickey knew that he was lost, but he desperately blocked the attacks of the same kind and asked Xinyi to run quickly. This cold-blooded animal, who insists that his own survival is the first element and regards killing for this purpose as a matter of course, finally has feelings like a human being, and understands the preciousness of emotions and the meaning of sacrifice. In Mickey's mind, it is inconceivable that human beings would sacrifice themselves for others, which violates the law of survival, and even once regarded it as an instinct for the continuation of the race, like the protection of their nests by ants and bee colonies. But in the end, it made such a decision because of this unusual friendship. Presumably in the author's eyes, this is the preciousness of human beings. It is a pity that the emotions between human beings have become more indifferent than when this work was created, and the result of free and open minds and the diversified development of society has also made communication between people more and more difficult, and because of this, Now people are more willing to pay for a variety of touching consumption.
But even so, it must be admitted that although this powerful emotional force cannot be a powerful tool for saving human beings due to the inability to carry out effective organization, it at least gives people as individuals a glimmer of hope, because it allows people to It is possible to make self-sacrifice out of good emotions rather than survival interests, and to further understand self-control, so as to reflect on oneself on an individual basis, and implement it into actions that start with me and start with small things, so as to realize the right The sublimation and leap of one's own spiritual level. It would be better if they could further influence each other and gradually produce a difficult reversal of the overall development direction of seeking common ground while reserving differences, but considering that on this truly meaningful road, the pace of human beings is always slow and almost desperate, So I don't think this will be the hope of mankind. In fact, the progress of human beings has always been that the scars have been healed and the pain has been forgotten, just constantly singing high-profile tightrope walks.
The last knife that Shinichi cut down with difficulty seems to me more like a cut to human beings, because Goto is no longer a species whose goal is to survive, but has become a species that attacks and hunts humans for the purpose of killing humans. A true "monster" that makes fun of itself, and how similar it is to humans.
Also a parasitic creature, Mickey has acquired the good part of the human spirit, while Goto has unknowingly possessed the evil of human nature. I don't know if the author's original intention is to arrange this way, but it seems that the depth of the work is invisibly enhanced, and it will also bring a stronger shock to the audience. I don’t know if it’s because of the openness and flooding of information, that such works with such imaginative and humanistic depth are hardly seen nowadays. Perhaps with the rapid renewal and development of human material civilization, accumulation and thinking are destined to be driven to a dead end, but I still sincerely feel that it is a wonderful thing to have such cultural workers in human beings. In today's increasingly narrow and fragmented cultural market, there are still some truly valuable works that can still bring you extremely rich spiritual enjoyment after many years, which makes people feel even happier.
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