Good and evil are like cliffs, and morality stops barbaric

Scottie 2022-01-27 08:04:47

Good and evil are like cliffs, and morality ends in the wild-see "The Wild Story" text/empty language because it is clear that "all evils do not do, all good practices; self-purification is all Buddhism."-Moral incantation is the way. "Savage Stories" tells six stories that unfold on the theme of revenge alone, which are full of indifference, resentment, contempt, depression, narrow-mindedness and paranoia. If you want to get any admonitions from these stories, then it is the sentence that was initially displayed, which is nothing more than the cursive morality of "going evil and promoting good". That admonishment gives some kind of hint-or presupposes this kind of hint-that good and evil are clear and distinct. As long as the heart can purify the intention to be good, then one can gain the consciousness of abandoning evil. The three-year-old is too innocent to believe this argument. What moral admonitions should be obtained from these stories should be wishful thinking. What "Savage Story" objectively presents is a more sensible mockery or sincere entertainment: the commandments retreat, must come to watch and laugh wildly. All good and all evil are not antagonistic, but contradictory entanglement. The name of the film itself is a kind of irony: the so-called "barbaric" story does not actually belong to the wilderness, but takes place in society, oozing the blood of society. This kind of irony is not to belittle humanity, but to convey what is too human, that is too evil and too good. Through this irony, the roots of all good and all evil are placed in the dualism of nature (wilderness) and society (civilization) to be understood. [Good and evil] The six stories in "Wild Tales" are tragedies and comedies with the label of "black humor". They are tragic, because hatred lingers; but because their motivation is so trivial, they become comedy. The causes of each of the hatreds that led to the tragedy can be avoided through pious moral considerations-but they have not been avoided. The first story-"Pasternak"-the man named Pasternak managed to trick all the people he hated into the same plane and drove them into the parents he hated, and They died together. According to the moral point of view, this man is a villain who must repay him. But we can also see the indifference of others from his experience. The indifference of his parents to him created him as a flawed person, while others disrupted his life trajectory and plunged him into despair. When a person falls into desperate hatred, any moral reproach will be of no avail. On the other hand, people as viewers are also indifferent, because the story that shocks the audience is not in the sympathy for Pasternak’s personal tragedy, but in the precision or perfection of his revenge plan—he used one action Killed almost everyone who had direct hatred for him. Revenge is difficult to achieve such an indulgence-in contrast to the immorality of revenge, it constitutes the essential aspect of the black humor of hatred. The second story-"Mouse"-a waitress was instigated to use rat poison to poison the middle-aged man who caused her family's destruction, but it inevitably led to things she didn't expect to happen. In the face of the hateful person who hates the sea, the twitching shown by the waitress in this story is in sharp contrast to the jaixuan in the first story. This was mainly because the waitress fell into so-called moral considerations or legal concerns. The resulting contrast of revenge is the pleasure of revenge in the first story and the awkwardness of revenge in the second story. Probably the slave-like morality makes vengeance lacking power, and vengeance lacking power will turn into ridiculous resentment. But here, if moral admonition hinders revenge, will it increase moral glory? Will it increase the sense of justice in the law? of course not! If revenge does not happen here, it will only make morals look even more despicable. Because not only did morality fail to punish the wicked person, it did not even stop the wicked person from continuing to do evil. In fact, in this black humorous story, it is not people that are ridiculous, but the laws of morality or goodness. The third story-"The Road to Hell"-the city and the villagers met on the road and vented their anger at each other rudely, until the hatred escalated and the two died together. If either of these two people can remember the morality of modesty that a three-year-old child knows, then this ridiculous tragedy probably won't happen. The revenge in this story is caused by a brief excitement, and this excitement points to the prejudice between the city and the country in different civilizations. Rural societies are often considered to be less civilized than urban societies. The former lack the strict moral rules of the latter. According to this prejudice, the rural society is closer to the barbaric society, while the urban society meets the standard civilized society. Judging from the situation shown in this story, the difference between the city and the country established by that prejudice is superficial self-righteousness. The barbarism of human society is not so completely different from civilization: the moral standards established by urban society are just hypocrisy for self-protection, which deeply envelops the essential barbarism; once there is no need for hypocrisy, then One of them may be more barbaric than barbaric. The fourth story-"Small Bomb"-a demolition engineer was dissatisfied with the arrogant towing fine behavior of the city vehicle management department. After protesting to no avail, he planned an explosion against the vehicle management department. In this story, the object of revenge no longer points to the individual, but to some kind of inappropriate social management. For many citizens, if they encounter such an absurd society Will manage, probably either endure it after protesting or endure it directly. Maintaining social stability and giving up unnecessary personal needs are the requirements of civilized morality for citizens. After all, "Individual madness is an anomaly, and collective or national madness is the rule" (The Beyond of Good and Evil 156). The so-called civilized society often whitewashes barbaric rules on the grounds of collective interests. Of course, at this time they have become civilized rules. Revenge, in this story, becomes an impulse to try to blow up the rules of society-for social managers, this behavior is "obviously revenge on society" = evil; and for people who are widely suppressed by that kind of social management, this But it is an opportunity for liberation = good. Faced with this contradiction, I don't know how a three-year-old child should judge good or evil from it. The fifth story-"Banknotes"-a rich man uses money to help his son escape legal sanctions. The story turns to the opposite of revenge: avoiding revenge-the revenge of the law is the justice of the law. The black humor encountered here is the law, which tries to restrain evil through revenge and tends to balance, but it is always powerful to try to escape the revenge of the law. When the law pretends that it has completed its revenge, the powerful people secretly laugh at it. The sixth story-"Until death separates us"-a bride found her groom was cheating on her back during the wedding ceremony, so she became crazy and messed up and announced a plan to retaliate against her newlywed husband lasting to death; and After a brief panic, the groom became cold, and seemed determined to start a revenge race with his new wife. It is said, "Unfortunate marriage is not due to lack of love, but lack of friendship." Couples who hate each other become enemies trapped together. Revenge loses its invigoration in this situation and becomes contradictory self-harm. (Note: Some people disagree with the understanding of this story, thinking that the result of this story is love. Perhaps the director also wants to use this story to express a reconciliation of revenge. It may be because my understanding of love is too conceptual. Therefore, we will not believe in this dialectical understanding of love and hatred. Even if this story is really reconciling, what we see is not a simple reconciliation, but still contradictory self-harm. So this article is about the ending. Suspended, using only vague expressions to ignore the ending.) After analyzing the six stories in "The Barbaric Tale", it can be found that they are not so scattered around the theme of revenge, but can form an interconnected sequence. In the first story, revenge is so cheerful and shocking; in the second story, although it is not so amazing, it is still quite cheerful; in the third and fourth stories, revenge is depressing, good and evil Not so clear in it; fifth and sixth The story pushes the black humor of revenge into a more elusive situation. In the sequence of these six stories, revenge has changed from clarity to vagueness, and good and evil become more and more entangled. [Three-year-old Zhide: The Source of Good and Evil] The sequence of six revenge stories in "Barbarian Tales" constitutes a counterexample to the usual so-called morality. The separation of good and evil implied by "all evils do not do, all good practices" is out of context-"the one who denies oneself and touches everything becomes a medicine stone; the one who loves others, the thought is the spear. To open up the path of all good, one to sparse the source of all evils" is not valid, because good and evil are often entangled with each other as shown in "The Barbaric Stories", rather than being obvious. Self-denial and no resentment may be able to solve the situation of story 3 and story 4 in "The Barbaric Story", but for the situation of several other stories, it is difficult to achieve appropriate moral results. Those moral rules for promoting good and suppressing evil are not difficult to grasp—as a three-year-old knows—but they are not so satisfactory. A society built completely in accordance with the so-called moral rules may not be a paradise on earth, but may be a purgatory on earth. This civilized society invented the good, but defined it with the evil of human nature.

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  • Abogada Victoria: What the judge won't take into account is the violence that you are using with your wife...

    Simón: WHAT VIOLENCE?

  • Mauricio: [to his own son] I gave you the best education and you always did whatever you wanted. Now, go screw yourself.