Dogs are only part of the food, and only some people eat dogs, but people who don't eat them don't make a fuss. Although in recent years, many people who have eaten their fill of other meats have also gone to the streets to stop them from eating dogs. However, if you consider it a delicacy, you should continue to eat it, and if you find it disgusting, you should not eat it. Dogs have never occupied an important position in the minds of Chinese people. On the contrary, it is a swearing or derogatory word.
But what surprised the audience, including the Chinese, was that the Danes actually made such a film. Goodwill is included in the blood, while the purpose of killing is love; the one who kills goes to heaven, and the one who is killed goes to hell for petty sins. The angel and the devil are betting that the father of the murderer is the angel's friend, it's that simple.
This is a dark humor film, with a lively rhythm and a beautiful story that makes people laugh, but there is cruelty and viciousness; this is also a subversive film, which confuses the audience's judgment of good and evil, It emphasizes a principle that the rules are all set by people, how can there be any natural or predestined moral law? You don't have to be surprised to eat dogs, it's just the Chinese eating habits; you don't have to think about whether killing people can go to heaven, it's up to the angels to decide.
One small incident left countless corpses, and he eventually lost his life. And all this, in fact, stems from the kindness of a bank clerk. If he doesn't regret asking Arvid, maybe he really can't answer. He has a heart of gold, but he has the stupidest judgment.
He has many conflicts with his cohabiting girlfriend. His girlfriend has moved everything, leaving only a vacant room for him; at work, he was scolded by customers because of the loan. Arvid's life is really bleak. That's not enough. I just went to work in the morning and was chatting with my colleagues about the racket when I encountered a gangster robbing a bank. I don't know which muscle moved, he picked up the racket and knocked the gangster unconscious to the ground. He becomes a hero, and troubles arise from it.
His pitiful pity made things unstoppable. An impersonating wife said that the robbery was to get money to give birth to a test-tube baby, which made Arvid feel guilty, so he tried every means to rob his bank's money-transporting car and compensate the robber's "wife". And so the other of the film's most splendid characters also came on the scene, and they planned the robbery. On the one hand, it seems to be doing good things, and no one has much interest in it. It is purely a help. On the other hand, it is violent and bloody in the process, killing countless people. Life is often so paradoxical.
Harold is Arvid's older brother. The two brothers are very different in appearance. Harold looks like a gangster and is currently running a restaurant he won. He hates his own father, but he stabs his brother. His solution to the problem is simple, two words: violence. Simply neat and merciless. He often shoots people to death directly with guns, but he can tolerate his brother's mother-in-law. For someone like him who is in the underworld, his moral bottom line is of course that strength is king. However, when he appeared in the movie, the music with a strong sense of religion always sounded, giving him a holy and noble feeling, which formed a huge contrast with his behavior.
In the end, he died for his younger brother. Although he was sad and angry, he was very happy. After all, he also went to heaven. Of course it wasn't because he murdered a lot, but because the father he hated had entrusted the angels. And who are the people who go to hell? Another gang of gangsters, from messy countries, are obviously illegal immigrants, who will go to hell if they don't go to hell? The second is the two bank clerks who were shot down, both of Arvid's colleagues, who were killed in a shootout when they came to the bar for lunch. Why do they go to hell? Because the man was gay, he actually knelt in front of the robbers and cried while robbing; the woman, because she had committed adultery with a colleague, was of course heinous.
Who can go to heaven? Like asking if it is a crime to eat dogs in China, it is a fake question. Eating dogs is just a Chinese habit, at least in China, there is no right or wrong, so whether the murderer can go to heaven is really not a big deal, not to mention that their purpose is so pure, robbery is to help others, it is just a last resort kill. Some people eat dogs because of customs and can be forgiven, so why can't they be forgiven for killing people for noble reasons, or accidentally killing people while doing noble things?
In the film, the director subverts your values with interesting details and a good story. Although the movie has a funny element, and the examples are too extreme, it directly uses killing as a game and makes a joke about religion, which is a bit heretical. However, the problems reflected in the film are indeed worth thinking about. Are there universal values? Are there uniform ethical standards? And who made these common values and moral standards? Is there an inherent logic or inevitability of implementation?
One aspect is emphasized in the film, but another aspect is overlooked. The local standard must conform to the overall standard, and the small principle must conform to the big principle. This is a criterion for the development of human society. We can respect the customs of different cultures, and we can tolerate many personal habits, but we must respect and tolerate them with the common understanding of human beings. Some principles can be compatible and coexist, while others must be abandoned by a special party and follow the common principles. Eating a dog might be morally unacceptable to most people in the world, but it doesn't hurt; killing a man is not, for whatever reason.
Everything has to have a rough standard, and the standard itself is the result of compromise. If we doubt all standards and feel that all morality is actually only the embodiment of regional or era culture, we will actually fall into the pattern of relativism. In fact, in modern politics, there are quite a few instances of such relativism. Always use the uniqueness of a nation or culture to resist universal values, and in the end will inevitably come to the absurd conclusions in the movie.
Of course, these words are actually far from the theme of the film. This kind of thing is actually difficult to discuss the ugly Yinmao. Whether dog eaters can go to heaven is yet to be determined, but murderers will never go to heaven, no matter how good your heart is or how many angels you know in heaven. Otherwise, the edifice of human society will collapse in an instant.
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