I haven't seen the so-called...the root cause of the formation of a totalitarian society from this film, or the chain reaction caused by the more "individual" behaviors such as human cruelty. On the contrary, I am more inclined to observe the amazing fit between the "subjective consciousness" and "objective unconsciousness" of individual behaviors embodied in the film. There have been many details in the film depicting the uncontrollability of individual behavior (for example, female students first regard the safety of the room coordinates as prime numbers, and then find out that it may be a power of prime numbers?? It’s still true, right?? And when this group of people finally return to the original room after going through hardships and deaths is one of them.) As I always hold, it is similar to the fact that ants cannot understand the sky above their heads, and humans are subjective. The behavior is not certain to achieve the certain result that it wants. That is, the subjective proposition A is implemented into the individual's actions, and the definite result B cannot be inferred. Human beings only try to fit the ultimate rules of the universe through their accumulated experience and the tools acquired through trial and error. This fit can only be close and cannot fit 100%. Since people are not omniscient, naturally they cannot be omnipotent. A certain coefficient (I quote mathematics here just because there is no ready tool to express the ultimate rule) or a certain initial value will operate differently. Since A and B cannot be tautologies, human power must always succumb to the ultimate rule.
There are six prisoners trapped in the cube. The image design of these six people, in my opinion, fits the six levels of people in this world, namely, ordinary people/pure ordinary people (police), good people/ordinary people who have never been enemies of the world ( Female students), silly people/ordinary people who have been defeated by the world (architects), radical people/ordinary people who have not been defeated by the world (doctors), people who think they are detached/pseudo-non-ordinary people (jailbreak experts) , Genius/true non-ordinary person (idiot).
The police seem to have many excellent qualities: strong and powerful (species survivability), love for the family (community), and a complete form of desire (high-level mental activity). From the very beginning of the film, its absolute force is to appear in a positive role and lead the story (I once thought of it as a big hero, but there is nothing wrong with it). But it also has all the weaknesses of human beings: in some cases, weak willpower, resentment, despair, selfishness (is this a strength or weakness?), in short, he has the basic characteristics of an ordinary human individual, he represents the composition of human beings The most basic element of society, ordinary people, pure ordinary people.
They have ordinary intelligence, hold an average salary, and do ordinary work. They will be happy, lost, love and hate others; sometimes they work hard, sometimes they are depressed; sometimes they are kind, and sometimes they are evil. To paraphrase Xiao Shenyang's words: "Others can't eat, we don't smack our lips when we eat meat, it's also a kind of kindness" to describe them is the most suitable. They are one of the most numerous groups in the world. They are filled with every corner of the world, constructing and composing the daily operation of this world, never stopping.
So when the film started, the policeman appeared in a super positive image. However, as the process progressed, he began to change little by little: complaining, beating the architect, suggesting to kill fools, and deliberately letting go while helping the doctor. Abandon her, and finally die together with the architect and the female student-these behaviors cannot actually be judged by "good and evil". In the face of death, ordinary people's desire for survival prevailed. We should be relieved that it is this strong desire to survive that our species has survived the generations of the earth and the cruel competition between species, and finally became the master of the earth.
Of the six people in this team, except for geniuses, five are all ordinary people, but they have different views of the world. Compared to the police girl student, she is a kind and indisputable ordinary person. As a student, she has her own little life, going to school and going to school, math and science. Thick glasses conceal her desires. She uses the most precious gift given to mankind by the heavens—intelligence to paralyze herself. Because of this, her desires have also been concealed (or weakened?). Human desires exist objectively, which is objectively determined by the high-level mental activities of primates, and the difference between people is the way to eliminate or alleviate desires. Obviously, the female student developed her precious intelligence and filled her soul with this. Because of this, her resistance to the world (or the flustered party?) is basically zero. Because there is little dissatisfaction, there is little resistance. Is this her lucky? Or her sorrow?
She may be the best student in your same major who gets scholarship every year? Or the innocent girl who often shows aura at work? Or one of the top ten people who moved China? This is not important, what is important is that they have found the most suitable way for them to make up for their desires. So they are very satisfied and will not complain to the world. They love the world and their lives. As the same female student said in the last sentence: "I think I can still support this world." The
architect is a muddlehead. There is no doubt about this. He is also a downright ordinary person, but unlike others, he is tired of this world. God knows if he has ever resisted? Or failed? Or simply don't have the guts to start? and Who care? He had to pass it every day, tired of the boring world; the work was just for mixing, and even when connecting to the project, he didn't ask about the other party's origin and purpose, as long as he gave the money. Pornography, alcohol, fat, is this him? He has no love, no hate—indeed, he has nothing.
"There are no two identical leaves in the world." Maybe cowardice has added a little more to the composition of this individual, but this is the way of heaven. The nine sons of Longsheng are different. How can you do it? There are often people around me who have no pursuits or big dreams. They just think about it. They live very easily and leisurely, and survive with a passive attitude of avoiding the world. Even...we often see homeless people on the street. You can't see any pain in their expressions, they seem to enjoy it, and you can't understand why he can still be content in such dilapidated conditions—— You and I are not the same kind of people. you are not a fish, how to know the joy of fish?
This kind of person has a mysterious and reclusive religious atmosphere, but is fundamentally different from religion. They don't have any spiritual desire to liberate at all, but simply weariness. In a sense, the type represented by female students is closer to religious and spiritual self-salvation than architects, because it is a process of making up for the gap in desire.
Doctors represent ordinary people who are full of active desire to resist. They don't have the ability to surpass ordinary people physically-but they really want to change the world. Because of this, their lives are intertwined with pain. It’s obvious from the doctor’s words: “Is this the government doing it? The consortium? It’s all the same!” “Why were we caught? What did we do wrong?” Listen, her pain is roaring, and humans All the pain is essentially anger at one's incompetence.
Will there be such a person by your side? They often complain, complain about the unpalatable meals on the plane, complain about the school’s mental disability policy, complain about the incompetence of their parents, complain about the injustice of the world—everyone complains, but these people complain more frequently. They want to change the world. Most of them are full of ambitions. They are dissatisfied with reality and want to change the world in a real way to make it look more in line with their own hearts and in line with their own standards of "perfect perfection". They may be young and vigorous and have not yet hit the wall; perhaps they have a strong will, and have hit the wall several times but their hearts have not changed-this is not important, the important thing is that they are not capable of doing this. And this became the source of their pain and anger.
The expert is very strange. He has a wealth of experience, superb skills, courage to face danger, and firm willpower. But he was the first to hang up? Why? Isn't it weird?
In our superstitious terms, this is "there is no such kind of fate", but we just want to change fate against the sky. He thought he was no longer an ordinary person, but the reality was cruel, so he still did. I think of the Fifth Elder of Shushan in the Legend of the Sword and the Fairy. Regardless of the martial arts magic or the objective conditions for ascension, these five people have been all proficient and powerful since Qing Dynasty. However, people are not as good as the heavens. Even if they live to be 140 years old, these five people are still defeated by the evil sword fairy who forced them out of the body that year. It happened that the 27-year-old Changqing easily ate Zi Xuan's inner alchemy soaring in the day. There is also the master of Nangong Huang, the younger brother of these five people, who is obviously an elder who guards the sacred artifacts, so he has used this five spirit wheel to become an earth immortal; and that Shuming, the agency is too clever, and eventually misunderstood Qing. Qing's life was assigned to guard the destiny of the lock demon tower.
Are they not working hard enough? It's just that they are not lucky enough. "There is no such fate." After all, ordinary people are ordinary people. Although this is very pessimistic and negative, it is a fact, a cruel fact. Otherwise, Zhuge Kongming would not be in the valley above the Huomanman Mountain, looking at the heavy rain falling from the sky, and sighed loudly: "It's up to people to make things happen, and it's up to the sky!" No one would question the ability of the prison escape expert, but he just did. The first one to hang up. This is a little bit of dust in a random process. And dust will not cease to be dust just because you can think.
Kasha? He seems to be unable to even speak clearly, it doesn't matter; he seems strange? It doesn't matter; he seems to be demented and impassable? It doesn't matter at all-he is not an ordinary person, he is the only "person" among the six who is not an ordinary person (can I call him a person?) How come a person who is not an ordinary person speaks the words of an ordinary person Woolen cloth? Why do you want to look like an ordinary person? Why do you want to talk to ordinary people? Know the truth of ordinary people? He does not need it.
He has intelligence beyond ordinary people. Female students also have intelligence, can think of Cartesian coordinates, can think of three-dimensional space, can calculate the trajectory between cubes. But this is different. She can't calculate astronomical numbers, fools can; she can't complete the task of decomposing factors that transcend human power, fools can. Who is the fool? I have no idea. He is not a "person" at all, is he there for close communication with the God of Spinoza? Is this world where we ordinary people live really suit him? If he can't become an ordinary person, is the "world" that is more real for him?
I don't know, I'm just guessing, because I'm just an ordinary person.
We talked about all the people in the team and their social roles. It was they brick by brick that filled all the gaps in this huge planet. At the end, female students (representing human intelligence and virtue), architects (reignited, world-weary people who have become ordinary people), and fools (very people, representatives of the cosmic order) jointly crack the panic. But we should note that without the help of fools, this group of ordinary people could not reach the flustered side's exit. In the end, the police (the crushed ordinary people) killed the female students and architects, and the architects made the final blow. Killed the police. This is actually a very interesting metaphor: it represents the contradiction between the behaviors of individual human beings, that is, it returns to the argument at the beginning of this article: individual behavior cannot lead to definite consequences, and all individual behaviors cannot be expressed as a whole the behavior of. This is just like the calculations made by scientists. If human muscle fibers can move in the same direction at the same time, the power they can explode will be a hundred times greater than it is now. At that time, the bounce can be 100 meters, the running can be like the wind, the weight lifting will be light...but the calculation can only be the calculation, after the paper is off the surface, everything will cease to exist.
Even if everyone wanted to escape, there was still no "person" to escape in the end. From the perspective of the ultimate rules of the universe, human beings are as small and incompetent as we look at ants in a hurry. The individual is useless, and the overall behavior is powerless. God is not benevolent, and everything is a dog? Is this human sorrow? Or is it the blessing of mankind? For ordinary people, not being able to be omnipotent is actually a good thing, because if so, we will not live in fear and pain of the future and cannot extricate ourselves.
I don't think I am an agnostic, because I still think that facing the "ultimate rule", the best way for human beings is to do everything. I just want to prove to some people who think they can "change their fate against the heavens" and "man can conquer the heavens". The best way to fit the ultimate rules is not to be the enemy of the rules, but to work with the rules-although we can't get it. Know how to be truly associated with it. But this is the fate of mankind, isn't it?
For ordinary people who accidentally walk into The Cube, they will only be hopeless and helpless. Because for them, The Cube is an unfamiliar world. All the past orders, rules, axioms and theorems after trial and error—all of them, are all invalidated here. They can only let their despair and fear wreak havoc, inspire the most primitive animal nature, reveal all their ignorance, and finally let them crush themselves. Kasha, who walked out of the cube, would be even more helpless and desperate-he did not understand the outside world, and everything in the world became unknown to him. He can't say, can't do it, doesn't know what to do, he has nothing except the psychic abilities of genius. Is that light the sun?
For him, that world is the real flustered party.
When I am in this world, he is flustered.
If you really see this film through, the audience will wake up from their dreams and take a good look at the world they live in: Am I familiar with the environment in which I live now? For me, is the world flustered or outside? And am I trying to escape systematically? Still walking in circles in despair?
God, I don’t want to admit this desperate reality: in fact, no one wins, no one escapes, and no one truly succeeds in self-salvation. All efforts were in vain, and all "people", whether ordinary people or non-ordinary people, and which world they belonged to, were still trapped in their panic, panicking and walking in circles all day, unable to get out.
At the moment I wrote this sentence, I seemed to hear God's grin.
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