I hope to live deep and absorb all the essence of life!
To defeat everything in non-life.
So that when my life ends, I find that I have never lived!
——David Thoreau
excerpts from Thoreau’s "Walden" quoted in the movie "Dead Poetry Society". Although some changes have been made to the original text, it does not affect the work of great thinkers and philosophers. Shows a unique free thought. And this family affection + road movie starring Vigo Mortensen explores the possibility of Thoreau's liberalism 2.0 (a naturalistic life in the form of a family).
At the beginning of the film is the father’s education for the six children, fighting, sitting, fitness, reading, and rock climbing. Due to the shielding of unnecessary interference from the outside, coupled with the scientific, effective and continuous father’s education method, the knowledge that each child has mastered is far away. Beyond the level of peers, the physical condition is also very healthy and strong. As for whether this kind of education method is correct, or that this kind of knowledge and theory education that is separated from human society, it has inherent defects similar to castles in the sky, can it make up for it? General education distorts human nature and value. Which kind of education method is better than the two is a big problem, and I cannot discuss it here. But since the eldest son has not entered the world, he has already understood the way to be a sister, and his solid theoretical knowledge can easily knock on the door of prestigious schools. At the end, Budwen gave up the opportunity of university and went to Namibia to wander, live, study, think, and experience life alone. It can be seen that the director forgave the birth defects of this kind of education, and also affirmed this kind of education to a certain extent.
After learning that the mother committed suicide, Ben took all the children on the path of funeral for the mother and fulfilling the mother's wishes. On the road, Ben kept explaining to the novel children the true state of the world described in the book, and abide by the original food guidelines, reject junk food, and the theft case designed in the supermarket is to abandon the firm's insistence. The ideology that hates the traditional social system and order is manifested. In fact, in this world, the behavior of those who are hypocritical, cunning, and careless about their lives and health are not all masked theft and blasphemy. In the next scene, the director puts the dispute directly into the two families, using the Nike, Adi, XBOX and Zaya pursued by modern children to casually talk about the human rights program, corporate system, and capital monopoly. We seem to see it. The contrast between a small person living in this world and a person living in this small world.
If the previous plot was just to show the unique, superb and strange way of education, then the story after the mother’s funeral and afterwards directly showed naturalistic life, anti-social, anti-government and anti-religious, and even hippies. The movement itself is incompatible with this society. He insisted on Christian funerals without respecting his daughter’s will, regardless of family affection and human nature to obstruct Ben’s participation in the funeral, using the so-called framework of the rule of law in society to snatch the child’s custody rights, and when the grandmother read the letter to Ben, Ben was aware of it. It was his renunciation that severed his wife's last faith and hope. In fact, we cannot reject all the things that this social system has given us. It has given us enough protection and convenience, and it has also given us plenty of material enjoyment and torn or even distorted ideas. However, this huge social system machine The rusty bad behavior is also enough to make people hate it. Of course, due to the Stockholm effect, everyone will become a firm defender of this society.
In the face of strong pressure and self-blame, Ben chose to give up, but the children did not. They unearthed the mother’s body from the Christian tomb. On the shore of a beautiful lake, they followed the Buddhist cremation form that their mother believed in, accompanied by the classic rock music Sweet child O'mine of GUNS N'ROSES that we are familiar with. Between the flowers and the blue sky, I officially bid farewell to my mother. May you always have freedom, kindness, courage and hope.
If there is no hope in your heart, then hope will no longer exist. If you have an instinct to follow freedom, then you have the opportunity to change the world and the possibility of creating a better world.
- Noam Chomsky
at the end to send part of the lyrics Sweet child O'mine is willing to love freedom and eternal life, and cause you had hoped Tree Burial:
She's GOT IT A Seems to Me Smile that
she seemed to be in I smile
Reminds me of childhood memories
brought back my childhood memories
Where everything
that period of time,
Was Fresh AS AS at The Bright Blue Sky
as the bright blue sky
Now and then when I see her face
since then every time I see her
She takes me away to that special place
seems to be taken to another special place
and if I stared too long
if I stare too long
I'd probably break down and cry
will certainly break down and cry
sweet child o 'mine
my sweet love ah
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