"Look away from the sky It's no different when you're leaving home I can't be the same thing to you now I'm just gone, just gone"
Under the strong Amway of my friends, I finally couldn't help but started watching Rick and Morty. So far, I have watched the first 6 episodes of the first season. I have some thoughts and recorded them.
Rick is a genius scientist, cold, irresponsible, and obsessed with all kinds of crazy scientific research; Morty is Rick's grandson, with mediocre qualifications, a little neurotic, kind and enthusiastic, and was selected by Rick to be his own laboratory assistant and participate in the field. Take risks, and often skip classes for this reason. The rest of the family-Mom, Dad and Sister-are so normal that they can no longer be normal, with a model life and troubles, looks and even dubbing. Dad is very worried that Rick will have a bad influence on Morty and interfere with their normal life.
At the end of the first episode, Rick made a declarative summary of the entire animation in his madness-"Rick and Morty and their adventures!" So, what is the real adventure? Is it picking seeds, exploring the human body, and fighting aliens? No, these are just Rick's adventures, just for Rick's scientific research. And we, as viewers who just turned on the computer and knew nothing about the truth, stood with Morty, an innocent kid, and Morty is our incarnation in the animation.
The novelist John Gardner once summed up: There have always been only two stories, one is that "an outsider came to the city", and the other is that "a young man embarked on a journey". And Rick and Morty are both. Each story in the first six episodes is divided into two alternate narratives: one is the multiverse adventure of Rick and Morty, and the other is the reality they left behind (and their inadvertent influence on it).
Both Rick and Morty are voiced by the lead creator Justin Roiland alone, which is a metaphor. Rick is a pioneer in exploring the truth of "existence", and we are all Morty. Under Rick's guidance, the world is familiar and unfamiliar. Morty is both a young man who left his hometown and an outsider in the city.
Black humor is a habitual technique in the film, trying to deny the value of everything by making everything ridiculous. And among all the joking, denial, and contradictions, the creators are hiding very serious thinking about the state of human existence.
In the sixth episode, after causing more and more uncontrollable chaos, Rick and Morty abandon their original world and escape to another world where everything is normal and they have just died. "Find yourself in the parallel universe, kill him, and replace it." This old-fashioned section of science fiction, with the addition of a plot of burying one's own body, becomes full of post-modern meaning.
"You lift yourself, I lift myself, this is fair, very fair." The absurdity of this sentence is comparable to the beginning of Camus's "Strangers" "Today, my mother is dead. Maybe yesterday."
Except for his body buried under the lawn, life is the same as before. But our morals, responsibilities, and meanings have been cancelled, and "all solid things have disappeared." If we are those who stare into the abyss, then Morty is in the abyss now. But what is the difference between this and the original life? What is the difference with our lives?
Rick wasn't always so indifferent. When Morty said he needed to take responsibility for destroying the world, Rick showed unusual anger-anger is a manifestation of rejection and powerlessness. The word "responsibility" is too heavy and real, and it is unbearable for people who sink into nihilism.
"What about the reality we left behind?"
"The answer is don't think about it."
The way to fight against nothingness may be to indulge in science like Rick, or to refuse to admit its existence like Dad Jerry. Is there a third way? We don’t know, the main creator is not clear, nor is Morty.
I don't plan to watch this drama for a while, the truth it reveals is too terrible, I think I am traumatized like Morty. But, Morty, don't shrink back, don't stop, use your enthusiasm, your kindness, and your stupidity to continue to work with Rick to experience destruction, experience nothingness, and explore the biggest problem of our time!
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