is not the reason why I clicked "23" by Jim Carrey. I have seen some of Jim's films in the early days, including the highly praised "Trumen's World". They all have one thing in common: they have a little aura and lack of talent. I clicked "23" because of director Joel Schumacher, because of the original "Eight Millimeters", because of the fabled lines behind the repressive forbearance lens. Although it is not my favorite style, it has characteristics and is professional enough to be worth watching. . Sure enough, "23" follows this style, which is not bad.
The plot-camera-music are all hysterical. It is a hunting story in which Walter, a mental patient, is hunted down by the murderous crime of "numerology", desperately distorted subjectively among the trivialities of life that are no longer accustomed to. And the crazy point of this "numerology" is 23, and everything can be attributed to the number 23. ——Haha, it reminds me of the Pythagoras school that does not allow peas to eat. Only the Western culture that has nurtured them can stir up such arguments. Few Chinese raise the numbers to the source of all things. ——Speaking of this, there is an interesting tidbit. When I watched the film, I couldn’t help but look at the calendar on my phone: 2008-03-10, and then instinctively calculated 2+8+3+10=23, in my heart A little sweat.
What really touched me in the film is that after Walter finally discovered the truth about his own crimes and religious pain, Jim Carrey muttered painfully to the heroine: "I killed someone, I killed someone". Joel Schumacher’s attitude towards human life in "Eight Millimeters" has touched me a lot. Perhaps many Chinese who are used to watching martial arts movies can’t understand it, but Nicholas Cage, who obviously killed the bad guys "for the sky", is in pain. Kneeling down in front of his wife, crying "save me". In the traditional Chinese culture of "family law", the elders in a family are directly given the power of life and death, and the power of individuals over the lives of others has been amplified to the point of waywardness, and the understanding of sins is not as in Western culture. deep. I thought of a key point in "Chrysanthemum and Sword" that talked about Western culture and Japanese culture. I think it can be applied to China. The root of Western culture is the "culture of guilt", and the root of Japanese and even Chinese culture is the "sense of shame". culture". Even if you recall the bloody years, the West sentenced a person to death and would announce his crimes in the name of the church. China only needs to "break the morals".
Coming back to the film, the highlight of the film lies in the lines at the end of the few minutes: "There is no such thing as destiny. There are only different choices. Some choices are easy, some aren't. those are the really important ones defines us as people." There is no fate, some are just choices. They are easy and difficult at times, and those hard choices are just to make people human. Free will is not our glory. Only by using reason reasonably can we become glory, otherwise people will not be people, just greedy fools.
At the end of the film, the subtitles from the Bible point out the whole clue of the film: Be sure your sin will find you out.
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