When we say that a person or a society is civilized, it means that this person acts according to the rules and obeys the laws and regulations, and the society composed of each such person must be orderly and stable. And one of the most important roles of civilization for human beings is to restrain human desires and impulses, and to control primitive human nature within reason. Only in this way can human beings, a group-living animal, live in an orderly manner when living with others. go on. This is important for society. Chaos may have different effects on individuals, but for society, chaos means collapse and explosion of desire, often leading to tragedy in the end.
This "Wild Story" shot by Argentine director Damian Szfron is to let us take a peek inside the leopard through six short stories, when the civilization that restrains people's desires is destroyed, an inconspicuous Events can easily turn people into chaos and violence. Violence is the most primitive and direct human response when a person is insulted or threatened. Violence is the biggest protagonist in several of the film's stories. Even if the causes of these violence are different, the root cause is the loss of control of civilization. In the state in which the protagonists of the six stories are in, civilization loses its power of restraint, people no longer hope (or are disappointed) to use rules and laws to act, but use the most primitive and straightforward response - violence - to Solve the problem. On the other hand, when we analyze the reasons for violence in the six stories in the film, we will also find that while artificially abandoning civilized means to deal with events, civilization (or rules and laws) itself loses its effectiveness and strength.
Three of the six stories told about the system of government. Domineering and domineering officials seized land, leading to the destruction of the girl’s home; ordinary demolitionists retaliated after facing indifferent and even vile government officials again and again; the second generation of wealthy killed a pregnant woman with a car, and parents paid for lawyers and police to find someone to replace . All three stories involve individuals and governments. The director of the first story simply told his misfortune through the mouth of a girl. And this misfortune is the story of the Russian director Sarkinsev's "Leviathan". If the two stories are combined, it is conceivable if the girl agreed to put rat poison in the officer's food. In "Leviathan", when facing the mayor who covers the sky with his hands, the protagonist has almost no room to turn around, and the final outcome is also his complete failure, and he may even lose his life for it. In such a situation, the strong side completely ignores the laws and rules, acts on its own, and civilization is destroyed, so the most likely way for the weak to resist at this time is the most primitive violence. In the end it was someone else who killed the official, but it was actually the girl. In that empty restaurant, civilization got out of control, and violence came to the fore. As for the ordinary blaster, under the accumulation of many disappointments and stumblings, he was repeatedly confronted by the indifference and even insulted by government officials, which led to the eruption of gloomy emotions, and the power of the explosion was the one he placed in the parking lot. bomb.
The story at the beginning of the film is like a wonderful O'Henry-style short story, full of humor and absurdity that make people laugh. On the other hand, we are drawn to this almost fanciful story, because everyone has many unsatisfactory and maddening moments in their lives, but we all find some way to deal with these emotions. Use civilized means to solve it, instead of going to the street to kill people when they are unhappy or uncomfortable. We call such people "mentally ill". But this story obviously pushes such an emotion to the extreme. What will happen if we do not act according to the current rules of civilization, but arbitrarily resolve these emotions in our own way, in a primitive and direct way? I think that's what happened in this story.
There is a certain connection between this story and the third story. Two men driving on the road caused violence because of a verbal abuse of each other, and this violence eventually intensified, leading to unmanageable results. The two men in this story are also "willful" to solve this problem in their own way. Violence is used to maintain one's dignity and self, but violence itself has an intensifying nature, and when one abandons civilization and sinks into the quagmire of primitive revenge, it becomes extremely difficult to climb out. That's why, after one of the men had already crashed the other man into the river with his car, he turned back and drove him down. By this time, violence has seized them. Violence is like a drug, addictive and insatiable until one or both parties are eliminated. We may have a hard time believing that someone would do this, a few swear words lead to death, but like the first story at the beginning of the movie, when people ignore the rules, ignore the laws, ignore civilization, they immediately fall all the way down, In a bottomless pit with no turning back.
And the story of the last wedding in the movie, the director is even more open-handed and completely satirized modern civilization. For weddings, almost all modern civilizations are condensed. Whether it is the protagonist of the wedding, the bride and groom, or various guests, they must abide by a series of rules and regulations of the wedding itself, and follow these procedures. Everyone behaves civilly and decently. This is an important prerequisite for making a wedding go well. In this story, when the bride learns that the groom and the female colleague are cheating, the anger leads to a rational rupture, which in turn breaks a series of rules, so that the wedding immediately turns into a broken elevator and plummets. The madness and madness of the bride and groom at their wedding seemed to break free of some invisible bondage to say what they wanted to say and do what they wanted to do, no matter how uncivilized the words or things were, in the midst of this turmoil, they didn't matter at the moment. A wedding that was originally full of rules immediately turned into a center of chaos, as if a society that was originally stable and full of laws suddenly fell into turmoil. At this time, those who exist in it can do whatever they want. This story is the final wrap-up and radical upgrade of the five previous stories. When individuals break free from the constraints of civilization and allow themselves to act by desire and violence, a society of rules is threatened; and this is also a testament to the loss of control and decline of civilization itself.
At the beginning of the film, the director shot all kinds of animals. For animals, violence is the most important means of subsistence in life. Humans are also animals, but when humans use violence, the purpose is often not just to survive, because in addition to life, human beings have other emotions and emotions that can be hurt. These are often as important as life. This is the most primitive animal existence, and with the development of human society, we restrict these primitives through various rules and regulations in order to control it. Because we all know how powerful it is. And as I said at the beginning of the article, civilization plays such a restrictive role. And when civilization gets out of control or loses its power, people are dominated by desire, and violence and chaos can arise, both of which, in human society, we are always trying to escape.
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