Luc Besson's "Interstellar Agent: City of a Thousand Stars" seems to be a sci-fi film with a big melee, but in fact the core of its creation is to talk about the trajectory of a person's spiritual growth, I suggest you accompany me in this article Check out this movie.
Symbol 1: Spiritual conflict after socialized identification
At the beginning of the film, the International Space Station of human beings in space is constantly connecting to the space stations of different nationalities and species, and finally forms a huge space station cluster-Alpha Star. As you can see, humans are shaking hands with various nations and species at the connection point of the space station. This is a connection and a fusion. On a realistic level, this is a symbol of the social activities that people are constantly carrying out, the interpersonal connection, and the handshake shot is a symbol.
However, Alpha actually symbolizes the spiritual realm of human beings. As we engage in more and more social activities and interpersonal connections, as we engage in more and more identifications, these socialized thoughts will be internalized in our minds, contradicting each other, resulting in large and small conflicts , when this conflict accumulates to a certain level, it becomes a war.
Symbol 2: The transcendental function begins, the third position space appears in the mind, and the light of the self appears
At this point in the film, the screen turned, and a beautiful and peaceful scene appeared, and the Pearl tribe and her Miao Xing appeared. The Pearl people are beautiful and peaceful, indifferent to the world, and they are a race with higher spiritual wisdom. However, when he was playing, he saw the disaster coming. The war between humans and other races hit the door of Miao Xing's house of the Pearl Clan, and finally brought disaster to Miao Xing, destroying the home of the Pearl Clan.
Why use war against a race of higher spiritual intelligence? I believe that Luc Besson must have experienced the process of "transcending function" that Jung said. Simply put, that is to say, only when the tension between the two opposing forces in the mind is large enough, the space of wisdom will appear. This may also explain why in Stephen Chow's film "Zhuang Scholar Su Qi'er", only by letting Stephen Chow go through glory and hardships can the root of wisdom be revealed.
Well, the next story is the same old story, revolving around a certain nation to build a homeland, fight against the cabal, and finally win the story, of course, we still have to understand it from a different angle to be interesting.
Symbol 3: Consciousness and Subconscious Mind
Please compare the two agents, a man and a woman, to human consciousness, who are only responsible for carrying out the commander's task. Others, all contained in the subconscious container, are all subconscious. In the beginning, both agents were just carrying out the tasks assigned to them by the commander, they had no will of their own.
This symbolizes that every one of us is born and then walks into the crowd. For a long time, more and more, we will act under other people's "you should". Slowly, we become accustomed to this kind of automatic Societal commands become unthinking, become numb, become unconscious, and finally become a false self, away from real feelings.
Symbol Four: Spiritual Renewal, Calling and Being Called
But, God will always favor those whose roots have not been polluted too much and let them re-open their spirituality.
Everything starts with being called.
The male protagonist, the agent, has been constantly summoned by the princess of the Pearl family from the very beginning of the film. He does not know why, and is in a trance. The inner call seems to guide him in a given direction. In the end, the male protagonist, through his hard work, meets the Pearl people and people with higher spiritual wisdom, and also transforms the wisdom of the higher wisdom.
So there is a saying: Intuition is the highest level of wisdom. If you feel called, go for it. You are very lucky to have a sense of calling.
Symbol 4: Respond to the call, break through the predicament, die the old me, and call out the new self.
The content of this adventure is actually a process about us following the call of our hearts and constantly breaking through the difficulties of life.
From the very beginning, even to the mid-term, in the depths of each of us, in fact, the voice of the interstellar agent connected with the body in our consciousness is a smaller, stronger and more dominant voice, all from the brain. , comes from the memory of the commander. In the film, it is represented by the role of Clive Owen, the badass commander.
However, the male agent has always followed the voice of his inner intuition. After breaking through many obstacles, he finally saw his inner "intelligent personality" - the Miao Xingzhu people. This moment represents an important moment of psychological development, which is self and honor. What Grid said about the Self, the Buddha-nature of Buddha, and the love of Jesus, is the moment when the true spiritual power meets, and this moment means that there is finally a power of the inner Self that begins to manifest, and will later be the male agent. , that is, self-awareness, providing reliable power. In the plot, the male agent who was originally under the command of the commander punched the commander, which symbolized that the voice of the true self began to gradually occupy the initiative of consciousness.
Of course, at the most important juncture, the male agent hesitated. He began to continue to identify with his social role, that is, the soldier's will to complete the task. He began to doubt and repeat in the process of spiritual growth. Very normal. At this moment, the role of the heroine, that is, the female agent, became prominent. She began to use her feelings, intuition, empathy, love, etc. to inspire the male agent to give With the blessing of his spiritual power, the male agent finally got the power of his instinctive self, so he returned the replica beast and pearl to the Pearl Star people, and completed the mission of the Miao Xing people to build their homes.
Symbol 5: The combination of intelligence and spirituality, the combination of strength and softness, the combination of kindness and severity... The duality of duality begins to combine.
In the theory of Jungian psychology, there are two subconscious archetypes, the Anima and the Animus. Simply put, they represent the spirituality of motherhood and the intelligence of the father's surname. High-level mental states must integrate these two. Heterogeneous elements, that is to say any manifestation of a deeper spiritual level, is a transition from the duality of opposites to the unity of fusion. Jung believed that this transformation of unity could be symbolized as the union of man and woman.
Symbol 6: The mission appears, and what is the manifestation of the mission?
In the film, we can see that after the male agent finally met with Miao Xingren, he put aside his personal interests and turned to using his life to achieve the continuation of a larger race. This transformation from personal interests to public interests is the Proof of responding to "Call of Duty". Because "myths and fairy tales all over the world make it clear that answering the call is essentially giving up self-interest, and, conversely, refusing the call is refusing to give up self-interest." - Hero with a Thousand Faces
Returning to our work and life, companies cannot extract powerful missions, which is actually the biggest internal reason why companies cannot survive for a long time. Without a sincere altruism, an enterprise cannot continue to create products with soul, nor can it grow the roots that support the company's growth in terms of operation and customer service. Therefore, the altruism of the sense of mission is the key to let a person and an organization have a soul.
Symbol 7: Forgiveness and letting go
The soul of the film appears in the end of the film. Forgiveness expressed by the Pearl people and the sentence "If you don't let go of the past, you can't have the future" are the spiritual core of the film. Starting from the object relation theory of psychoanalysis, letting the analysand develop the ability of inner forgiveness is a key step to complete self-liberation. Many people always judge others from the perspective of critics. In fact, it reflects the role of a critic in their hearts, constantly evaluating themselves. The deeper meaning of forgiveness is actually to forgive oneself and liberate oneself.
Well, the phrase "you can't have the future if you don't let go of the past" is very familiar to everyone. In the film, the character of the commander has been trapped in the mistakes of the past, always trying to erase memories and destroy witnesses, but in fact, his heart has always been feared by the mistakes of the past, and finally became a monster. He will never face his own mistakes, take responsibility, and refuse to let go of the past. In the end, he can only accept the fate he was sentenced to.
However, the Miaoxing people who encountered the genocide, their revenge fire gradually transformed into forgiveness under the healing of time, so that they have greater possibility and creativity to face the unknown future.
This part tells us that we must face ourselves, let go of the past, and not let the past self become a burden, and the possibility of self-realization will follow.
Let’s do a subsection here. The creation of sci-fi films is not actually a dazzling technology or a brain hole. In fact, the internal creation must have a spiritual main line. These stories are actually the image expression in the director’s spirit. If you like science fiction films and often deconstruct the story content of science fiction films, then you must be able to intuitively feel what the directors want to say behind the scenes. Those great directors have so many similar spiritual experiences.
For a long time, I have liked watching sci-fi movies very much, from Wukong, King Arthur, The Matrix to Star Wars, etc. Through symbolic methods, I have had a lot of subconscious communication with the director, and these exchanges made The answer in my heart is becoming clearer and more powerful.
There are so few such spiritual, symbolic elements in our Chinese lives that our inability to unleash the force of spiritual certainty through subconscious language leaves us trapped in trauma related to the past , in the experience, in the memory, unable to move. If one day, we can use more of these subconscious languages to understand ourselves, others, and human civilization, then we will be able to have gorgeous spiritual creativity like American culture.
Psychoanalysis is really an excellent tool for understanding the mind and artistic creation. I have benefited a lot from my continuous understanding of psychoanalysis over the years. Thank you! I hope that with the help of life, I can find my inner mission and become myself. Realize the experience that Mr. Chen taught us to refine our hearts, spread the Dharma and benefit our students.
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