The director used religious expressions when shooting this film. Christian culture is rooted in the blood of Western culture. Satan has naturally become a unique representative of the devil, and the form of God’s appearance in the film is to send one of his men. Law enforcement officer”, obviously the skill of the law enforcement officer dwarfs the devil Satan. The easy death of the law enforcement officer also seems to indicate the desire and indulgence represented by the devil. The ultimate boss in the movie is obviously unfair compared to the one sent by God. The final protagonist of the movie takes back his last foot into hell and chooses to commit suicide to win the right to choose again. After all, the plot is still Named the main theme of the movie-justice is the ultimate belonging of mankind.
The first two hours of the film have been showing that Satan appears to constantly tempt the male protagonist, pushing the male protagonist to the edge of morality again and again, forcing the male protagonist to make choices, beauty, money, status, everything seems to be Conditions that are not necessarily related to the basic survival of human beings are impacting the moral bottom line of the male protagonist, and the male protagonist also "lives up to the expectations" to make the demons happy again and again. Indeed, human beings are born like this. No one’s soul is completely clear and turbid. More or less people are entangled by nature, but the only creatures that can be entangled by nature are humans. Do animals and plants choose to be kind or not? Choosing cruel propositions bother, because they can hardly distinguish the so-called good and evil. The law of the animal and plant kingdom is natural selection. The survival of nature will naturally maintain a natural balance, but the world will lack true spiritual brilliance. Under the temptation of Satan, the protagonist in the movie breaks the boundary of black and white in his consciousness time and time again, causing the balance to continuously tilt toward the darkness. In spirit, he betrayed his wife. In professional ethics, he judged victory as the only measure of success, and at the last moment, he selectively ignored the girl's tears and leaked testimony. Finally, he reached the last edge of human nature-having sex with his own sister. Once he takes the last step, the meaning of thousands of years of human evolution will disappear here, and in an instant, humans will return to the original state of evolution thousands of years ago-mixed living, chaos, brain The capacity is extremely low, desire can control everything without knowing the meaning of reason at all. Finally, in the face of the last temptation, he stopped, perhaps not because he didn't want to, but he didn't dare. This is the unique sense of awe of human beings at work. We all know that there is more than evil in human nature. At the last moment of the film, the fate of the hero seems to be suicide. On the one hand, he cannot resist the evil forces and the various mistakes he has committed. On the other hand, he has an explosion of guilt for his dead wife and his heart. He’s condemnation, if death can wash away everything, death will be a gift to him. And the message conveyed by the film is indeed the same. With the death of the hero, everything is gone. Satan is angry and crazy for his failing failure, but he can't make waves anymore, and his devil sister has become A skeleton scorched by the fire, everything burned out, and the hero was finally reborn.
The clues in the film can be divided into two. One is the career of the male protagonist. As a lawyer, when the director uses Satan’s mouth to say that the law is a passport to privilege, it is easy to understand why the male protagonist is assigned to this profession-the law The test of human nature directly faced by the profession begins from the moment you put on the coat of this profession. There is more than just a test in a career, and all the means of temptation become easy here.
The attributes of things are always two-sided, or the existence of things has no meaning. All meanings are given by human beings through thousands of years of evolution. The same is true in judicial work. The case itself was a long time ago. There is no right or wrong. No one stipulates that it is against the law to kill someone, and no one stipulates that a junior high school student should be punished for molesting a junior high school student. However, with the changes of history, different people living in different regions have discovered that if they do not adapt to certain behaviors According to the rules for survival in this area, it will be difficult for humans to maintain order and continue to multiply. So the law came into being, and human beings fixed the constantly formed ethical habits to form a written standard for judging right and wrong. So today, when analyzing the nature of the case, apart from the acquired rules of right and wrong, what is left, and what is the standard by which the right and wrong of the incident can be measured? We have to face up to the role of the invisible wall of morality. To a large extent, the justice of the legal person itself is the justice of the case, that is, the justice of the society. A truly talented legal worker without ethical standards is the most terrible, because when faced with these statutory codes that have gone through hundreds of years or more, things that have not been processed by language tend to be on the quick-thinking and talented people. Appears fragile. Behind every influential case is a huge guiding role for the entire society. When victory becomes a talk of people's talk, the girl's tears and the roar of parents have become irrelevant.
The other clue is the family. The heroine’s series of tragic experiences since arriving in New York have conveyed a message similar to punishment. It is not only a punishment for the heroine’s own vanity, but also the tortured to be mentally fragile. The heroine punishes the male protagonist, and the director is invisibly sending a message through this clue-when people are fascinated by vanity and ignore the human feelings, they often fail to get a happy ending.
In summary, the entire film "Devil's Advocate" takes the form of religious metaphors, relying on the law as the background, and presents us with a picture of human beings struggling with self-destruction in human nature, and finally conveys to us "human needs The core proposition of "Having the bottom line of ethics can truly get happiness". The reason why the director chose to use religious metaphors should be to make the film more persuasive and inspiring. At the same time, it may be more commercial gimmick to put on a fantasy coat. In short, through this film, we should still think deeply that vanity is Satan's favorite sin. Indulging evil souls becomes the source of Satan's power. So what is the meaning of controlling evil? In order to make Satan's power not expand infinitely? So what is the purpose of controlling the power of the devil? Perhaps the answer is ultimately to return to an eternal proposition. We are born to pursue happiness, and the true meaning of happiness does not lie above the external objects separated from the human body. Only the brilliance of humanity and rationality can keep us away from nothingness and experience the real Strong life value.
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