"The Future" is a French film. The protagonist Natalie is a high school philosophy teacher, and her husband is also a philosophy teacher. The life of the two seems to be the envy of most of our Chinese department: the two share each other's life. bookshelves and share their cool views with each other. For some reason, it seems that many people think that the existence of a spiritual couple or a soulmate is indeed more noble than the short-lived life of a parent. Reasons may be given, that the sensual or palatable life is the small body, and the spiritual life the gross. And this sense of nobility is more of a moral sense. Most people’s sense of morality is never self-identification from the bottom of their hearts. It’s all about getting the illusion of being superior to others by stepping on others. , Your views are really backward, because your views are backward, so your whole person is backward, and your whole person is not as good as me. How much we long to be the only people in the world who are alone and independent, standing on the highest point of Mount Tai, looking down on everything.
Natalie and her husband have a son and a daughter. She also has a proud protégé Fabien. Coupled with her old mother who suffers from mental illness, Natalie's life is considered a bad life with ordinary people's warmth. With the departure of her husband's extramarital affairs, the deterioration of her mother's mental condition, and Pandora's escape, she still maintains the qualities of a philosophical person, and calmly said to Fabian that she still has a full intellectual life. Her representative textbooks were suspended due to refusal to meet the trend of the market, and her children had already left her life early in adulthood. Fabian disagreed with her political views, and even cruelly pointed out the truth of the matter. Everything she ever had to satisfy or live on was gradually peeling off its beautiful shell, and the truth or the worst of things began to be exposed naked in front of her. In a highly spiritually consistent married life, perhaps the husband, who is also a philosophical man, has already seen through the essence of the interests of marriage, or chooses to pursue love under the guidance of free will; the children will eventually grow up, and Fabien will end up in thought and practice. I will criticize her thinking; quality is better than literature, and Europeans who pursue extremes in their bones should not easily find the mean. The mean itself is difficult to control. She has always sought quality instead of catering to the public's aesthetics, and may be abandoned by the moment. It will be inevitable.
After all this, or being woken up by Fabian's sharp words, Natalie's life and attitude had to change. Natalie says she has always insisted that life needs to be one with the mind, and she has always tried to do so herself, but Fabien says she never goes beyond what she does. Fabian's words are sharp, "I explore the problem between behavior and thinking, and you only care about your daily life behavior, you won't let it damage your values, but you can't accept letting your mind get out of control and lead to your life. You go to the demonstrations enough to make you feel intellectual enough to make you comfortable, but not to jeopardize (her Parisian bourgeois) way of life.” At first I didn’t agree with Fabien, thinking that she was Natalie, a philosophical person, cannot even reflect on her own thoughts and actions. But does Natalie, a philosopher, really dare not look directly at herself? Do you really dare not face your own ugliness? I really asked such a question, but suddenly I understood the director's intention: the philosopher who was supposed to be the most transparent about everything, didn't see his life at all, or he just pretended to be noble on the surface, or Nata Li's everything is just to maintain her identity and status, and when identity and status don't exist, Natalie can't help herself. I think the director is right, there is no perfect person in the world, even a philosophy teacher who struggles on the front line of truth is just talk on paper. If you think about it, maybe it is the background of China's lack of philosophy education that makes Natalie's philosophy teacher's job so sacred to me. Maybe, in romantic France, this job is very common, and philosophy teachers are also very normal. I remembered that I once asked an ethics teacher about the classification of judgments. She said that judgments are divided into moral judgments (which can also be said to be value judgments) and factual judgments. For example, this is a mobile phone, which is a factual judgment; this mobile phone is very Easy to use, this is a value judgment. I think it seems that moral judgment has always been a "strength" of us Chinese, or that it has always existed within our comfort zone. We make our factual judgments and value judgments based on the only information we have in ruins, morality is always the first in the evaluation criteria, and there are too many things like Ruan Dacheng. Once he is the second minister, he will not be left behind by Qing Shi, and people like Heidegger will never exist here. Ever wonder, should we measure a writer or thinker by political standards? Perhaps the Chinese nation's standard of moral evaluation has always been the highest. Starting from Confucius in the pre-Qin period, no one is benevolent, and Yao and Shun are still sick. Since then, no one has acted kindly.
Thought is a very wonderful thing, and a rational derivation often makes me emotional. This flow of emotion, achieved by the eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, on the one hand, made me aware of the greatness of thought, and on the other hand, my knowledge remained only in the sense of the greatness of thought.
I love a passage from Hannah Arendt's "The Human Condition" recited by Natalie at her mother's funeral, "This is what I see and disturbs me, I look everywhere but only see Darkness. Nature has given me nothing but the essence of doubt and anxiety. If I cannot see things that point to God, I can only consider myself negative; if I see traces of the Creator, I will rest in faith; but Seeing too much negation and too little affirmation, I was in a state of resentment. I prayed countless times that if God wants to bless, he must give clear instructions. If the mark He leaves is ambiguous, He will surely erase it. He is either expressive or silent, and I can find where I should follow. But I am in a situation where I don't know who I am, and I don't know what to do. I don't know my situation or my responsibilities. I am wholehearted Look forward to the best and follow it. For eternity, I am willing to give everything." We have all been anxious and lost ourselves. Those who are anxious are suffering. Why does the pain encounter such a big problem by itself, as if it can't get over it , the darkness will never end. Then he was confused, or the situation was extremely painful and he survived. A sane person remembers how every knife in life was engraved on him, as if his soul had separated from his body, looking down at a stranger's choices and hesitations from above. Confused people, I thought, just that the pain wasn't deep enough. Every one of me is in a deep sleep, slumbering for thousands of years and still not looking forward to the dawn in my sleep, clamoring to wake up and clamoring for a hundred years but I haven't been woken up by myself. Those who wake up may be too lethargic in their bones, or have developed a problem of lethargy, or it is very difficult to stay awake, and it is easy to fall back asleep with a little indulgence. However, once you have seen the ray of morning light on the top of the mountain in the morning, every hair and every cell will remember the shocking appearance of being awake. Waking sleeps forever in our ancient genes, just as spring slept in winter, dawn slept in the darkness of night.
We need the jasmine, and we need the morning star. And the tasks of the jasmine and the morning star are the most difficult. The primrose does not compete for spring, and there is no proud reputation; Qiming is not bright, and it is never the brightest star in the darkest night. They fight in the most chaotic times, and may be criticized by people and snored by people sleeping, but they always lead people to the eternal light that can never be reached. Every step we take will always be in darkness or chaos, this is the worst of times and this is the best of times. As Tolstoy said, "What a man's life is and how he should live it, and that is true faith."
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