society cannot bear the burden

Roderick 2022-03-30 08:01:02

The hut is in a human environment, without the noise of carriages and horses.
Ask Jun He Nenger, be far away from yourself.
Picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, leisurely see Nanshan.
The mountain air is beautiful at sunset, and the birds are in harmony with each other.
There is a real meaning in this, and I have forgotten the words if I want to distinguish it.
——Tao Yuanming's "Drinking"

We live in an era of extremely rich material and spirituality. In hot weather, air conditioners are used to cool down, and there are cars when going out. Faced with complex food and various costumes, it is difficult to choose, books and most art The product can be copied almost infinitely, making it easy for us to obtain. However, behind the illusion, there is a lack of self. Aside from the brand-name clothes you wear, the branded real estate you live in, the labelled means of transportation you use to travel, and the movies, games, and music you talk about, how much do you have left? What is more terrifying than the lack of self is the lack of freedom. There are too many morals and human relations to consider, too many laws and regulations to abide by, and too many legacy of predecessors, while providing convenience for us, it kills us more. imagine. While enjoying the glitz of life, we feel more suffocating pressure.

The protagonists of "Kim's Crusoe" are two freaks under the curtain of this weird society. Kim (male) was originally self-disciplined. From birth, he arranged his life in accordance with the rules of this society, such as studying, graduating, finding employment, unemployment, re-education, re-employment, and re-employment. He also followed the mainstream consumption concept in society, borrowing to buy a house and buying a house vehicle. However, when the economic crisis came, his girlfriend abandoned her, failed to re-employ, and was unable to repay the loan. In desperation, he had to choose the most direct and rapid self-elimination method - suicide. Unexpectedly, he adopted the plan with the lowest success rate-jumping into the river, and the river god was merciful, he was recalled from the Naihe Bridge and placed on an island under his jurisdiction, which also made his plan to escape by suicide completely bankrupt. Jin's (female) is a legendary otaku who switches between computers, treadmills, and beds all day long. She has only three ways to communicate with the outside world: one is her mobile phone, and she texts her mother when she needs food; the other is a computer, where she collects pictures of beautiful women and designer clothes on the Internet, uploads them to her own cyberspace, and builds a virtual The bright online image; the third is the digital camera with a telephoto lens, which usually only captures the image of the moon at night, but there is one exception, that is, during the twice-yearly air defense exercises, when the whole noisy Seoul is quiet. Hiding away, if no one is seen, she will stay in front of the camera, overlooking this rare and docile city.

It was during a bird's-eye view that she discovered the distress signal "HELP" he had left on the beach of the island, and witnessed his transformation from a passive HELP to a proactive HELLO. She stepped out of her small room for the first time for him, into the outside world, albeit under the cover of night and the umbrella of her helmet. She threw a drifting bottle with a note to him, and the two individuals who were abandoned and ignored by the real society completed their communication in this ancient way that had long been eliminated by reality. His life on the island began to get on track. Robinson transformed the waste around him into daily necessities, and even began to have life goals that were never established in the real society, expecting her reply and eating what he made. A bowl of fried noodles. Her telephoto lens is more of a daytime shot out the window, the moon fades out of the shot, and more of a silhouette of his life. She even used the energy of a house girl to help him order a takeout of fried noodles to fulfill his wish. However, he rejected the offer and stayed up until the day when the corn was ripe, and then used almost all his savings on the island to make that heart-warming bowl of fried noodles. But there is no so-called Peach Blossom Spring or Walden Pond in reality. When rescuers landed on the island after the storm and told him that the island was a protected area and not his private domain, we could see the despair on his face. In the end, he and she met in the second annual air defense exercise, but after going silent, they were only exposed to the cruel reality.

He and she are actually two highly abstract characters, representing two groups resisting society in different ways. She represents the vast otaku family. She began to autistic because of a certain psychological shadow when she was a child or a huge blow in adulthood. She lived in her own tenth space for a long time, indulging in her self-righteous personal hobbies. Rarely go out, tired of social red tape, flaunt and promote their own way of life. He represents the unemployed and angry young people who are tired of work and pressure, facing the dual pressure of work and family, providing a house and car, raising a wife and son, waiting for the ticket to hit his head one day, working only for money , and is very tired of this job, often lamenting the injustice of society and the decline of the world, and the illusion will one day become famous and be able to live in seclusion in the mountains and live an idyllic life. However, reality often hits two groups of people continuously, and otaku is labeled with psychological distortion, poor communication skills, autism, depression and many other labels. Angry youths are often considered to be failures who attack society and the government when they are full and have nothing to do. It seems that the only correct value orientation is to conform to the social trend and work hard to support the family. Obedience to this society is the only way to survive. Any questioning or complaining is a sign of immaturity. Of course, whether it is an otaku or an angry youth, the society will eventually lead to the "right way" and continue this rigid, lifeless, so-called normative life.

Fantasy out of this category? Kim's failure has taught us the truth: you thought you had escaped, but the concrete of the city was still within your sight, and you ultimately couldn't escape the attraction of concrete. Is it not possible to have a way? In fact, I already told you at the very beginning that you can only find the feeling of "picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence and seeing Nanshan leisurely."

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  • Abigail 2022-04-02 09:01:16

    It’s really healing to watch it before going to bed, and urban fairy tales should be shot like this, making people rest their eyes beautifully. The setting of the deserted island in the center of the city is also like a metaphor for the situation of every urbanite. But it doesn't matter, if there is fried noodles, there is hope.

  • Rozella 2022-03-30 08:01:02

    We are all Kims, forced by real life to have nowhere to hide, we can only hide in a corner of no one and cry alone. The small self-territorial territory of this side has also been ravaged by the wind and rain of reality, and society does not allow you to have your own place on this side. In the face of such near prosperity, why are we still so lonely? It is clearly separated by a river, why can't it be crossed? When we are used to being forgotten, why are we forced to integrate into the world?

Castaway on the Moon quotes

  • Male Kim: How can you all be so selfish!

  • Male Kim: Birds taste better than fish.

    Male Kim: Perhaps evolution is the process of becoming tastier.