In the doomsday future, the world will be the same. The rulers attribute the roots of the crimes of war and the brutality of humans to human beings’ inherent emotional abilities. In order to maintain the stability of the rule, the government requires all people to inject nerve-paralyzing drugs on a regular basis to block their emotions. At the same time, they set up a Jehovah legal army to monitor and hunt down criminals who generate emotions. Art has become a banned existence. The Mona Lisa was burned, Beethoven was imprisoned in the basement, and Yeats was bound by chains and shackles. Father (Father) has become the only faith and Lord, and his commands require unconditional obedience from the people. The world is immaculate, and everyone is walking corpses.
The film first is the accusation and satire of tyranny, and the second is the praise and praise of human emotions.
After the Third World War, the devastating disaster of nuclear war made the survival of mankind in jeopardy, and extreme dilemmas created extreme regimes. The words of the priest alone became the supreme truth and the only law. Surveillance anytime and anywhere, “education” all the time, orders of every detail, the supreme centralized power brings extremely tight confinement and control. The main mission of Jehovah’s army in the movie is to eliminate any emotional factors that affect the current harmonious society. Artworks, books, animals, and people who produce emotions are all killed or burned on the spot as terrorists. Under the banner of eliminating violence, it has become the most horrible violence.
Art is the support of civilization, the prohibition of art means the abandonment of civilization; emotion is the expression of life, and the imprisonment of emotion implies contempt for life.
The reason for the priest to classify artworks as contraband is that art can cause fluctuations in human emotions, and fluctuations in human emotions are the source of human brutality. Yes, human emotions are fragile. It is easy to be infected and tempted. Strong and crazy emotions can destroy reason and cause people to fall into the abyss, killing each other and infringing upon each other. But the root of brutality is not emotion, but the scarcity of resources and the struggle for interests, which is human nature.
When human beings begin to create art, it is the beginning of human civilization, because human beings have learned to feel the world and think about themselves. Human beings use art to explore the spiritual world and spiritual appeals of people, and humans carry out the eternal emotions between people through art. Passing on from generation to generation. Human's empathy, feeling, and logical thinking are complementary to each other. Human beings who lose their emotional ability, but a breathing corpse, silently obey extreme tyranny, lose the ability to think, and lose the ability to live.
The movie cleverly sets up an extremely contradictory environment between human individual emotions and overall stability, but after building the cool framework of science fiction, it gives up the filling of the logical core, broken plots, inexplicable character awakenings and emotional transitions, and hastily and easily. The revolution made the whole movie seem like a joke. Leaders who advocate the elimination of emotions are on the verge of anger at any time. A society that regards emotions as a sin actually needs the existence of the relationship between family, wife, husband, and children's parents. The friendship and love of the priest John Preson were abrupt and strange, lacking logical considerations, crying for crying, moved for moving, and liking for liking. Emotion has become a slogan, a symbol, a banner to resist the tyranny of the government, but it is not the emotion itself. As for the complexity and destruction of emotions, purity and sacredness, and the important value of emotions to human life, the film directly abandoned the discussion.
This is an action-entertainment film with a sci-fi cover.
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