The son of lightning came to the world, with excellent IQ but not worldly, and finally had to be forced by the ugliness of human beings to return to the universe. Watching the lightning take him away from the world, my heart is both ecstatic and sad: ecstatic that everything has a spirit, Powder has returned to a space more suitable for him to survive; sad that the development of human nature is far behind the speed of technological development. In the face of the strong, the human heart is angry because of fear; in the face of the alien, the human heart is tyrannical because of doubt; in the face of the weak, the human heart is cruel because of arrogance; in the face of the spiritual, the human heart is ridiculed because of the lowly. Powder's appearance is like an experiment of God, and the ending is too tragic.
The film tells the story of Powder's mother who was hit by lightning and died in childbirth. The newborn Powder was white and hairless and purple pupils like a patient. The father could not accept the fact and did not want to recognize the child. Powder lived with his grandparents since he was a child. Because he was regarded as an alien by his neighbors for fear of being hurt, his grandparents hid Powder in the basement, relying on their knowledge and countless books to learn. However, his grandmother died and his grandfather died. The secret of Powder's existence was discovered by the residents and the police. He had to live in broad daylight. Is this ugly and complicated world where he belongs?
The name of Powder is very interesting. In English, it means powder. In his theory, energy can be transformed into anything after death, so in theory, everyone can be a part of everyone. I am both you and him. Everyone is made up of molecules, and everyone is made up of a part of someone else. Objectively speaking, we are not alone.
It's obviously a science fiction story, but the people who watch it always have tears in their eye sockets, and they are both sad and crazy. Perhaps Powder's attributes were so pure that he felt ashamed to see him stunned and grieved by people hunting; perhaps Powder's sturdy but timid appearance, coupled with his tragic life, inspired a natural maternal love in his heart; Perhaps too happy to see him finally return to Lightning and become a part of all things in the universe. Rather than being left alone in the mud, it is better to be ordinary in the Brahma realm.
It is natural for the town residents to feel fear when they see Powder, who is completely white and hairless, but people's actions under the fear are all distorted. There is such a story in the 1959 edition of "Yin and Yang Demon Realm". A remote town is panicked because of an inexplicable power outage. A child's alien conspiracy theory from the comics can make the residents of the whole town suspect and even search the neighbors' residences. , as a result, the fearful residents in the dark shot the electrician who came from thousands of miles away as aliens. Although the residents in the film did not want to kill Powder, they were tortured physically and mentally all the time: different eyes, insulting language, group siege, rumors behind individuals, etc. The living environment of Powder has deteriorated. His status in the eyes of most humans is actually the same as that of the deer that was hunted, and the collective ban on Powder was a subconscious cruel carnival.
The more intelligent and mind-reading Powder reads, the more sins in the hearts of the world, the more questions and sorrows in his heart. When he touches someone, he can read his past, and that's something that's shockingly terrifying. There are always people who have pain in their hearts that they don't want to be seen through. People yearn for the collective because they are afraid of loneliness, and they exile themselves in the collective because of loneliness. Powder is almost like buckets of ice water poured on everyone's heads, longing for sobriety. People see hope, people who hate change see madness. His power and thoughts come from the future, but his body is presented as a human being, reflecting the backwardness and ignorance of human beings, tearing apart the savagery and ignorance of human beings that have not changed for thousands of years. Therefore, the police officer who felt the deer's near-death experience through his hands was afraid and hated him, and the sportsman who was exposed by him in front of everyone sexually abused him, and he was stupid and didn't understand that he was obviously helping them recognize To be clear about himself, to have compassion for all beings, and to understand nature, why are they so stubborn, he seems to be punishing them, but in fact he is saving their frozen hearts. It is also a common human problem to die to save face and suffer from sin.
Powder, who was angry but controlled his emotions again and again, brought human rationality and sensibility to the extreme. When he ran to the lightning, the classic is no less than the Indians who came out of the window in "Flying Over the Cuckoo's Nest". The former breakthrough is The inferiority of human beings, the latter broke through the shackles of the system, and there is no progress that does not experience deep pain. The pioneers used abandonment to provoke a revolution of the heart.
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