In ancient Greece, male love was considered spiritual love and was highly regarded. People at that time believed that there was only low-level reproduction and reproduction between the opposite sex. Of course, there can also be spiritual love between women, and the word lesbian is derived from the name of the island where the poetess Sappho lived, Lesbos. It wasn't until after Christianity that there was a rejection of homosexuality. The protagonist of "Barbie Rock" is a failed transgender rock singer. The film tells a story about love, similar to the theme of Plato's dialogue Symposium.
In the film, the protagonist has a masterpiece called "Origin of love": "When the earth was still flat, when the fires formed the clouds, when the mountain peaks rose into the sky, sometimes even higher, people were walking on the continent. , like a spinning barrel. They have four hands, they have four legs, and their huge head has two faces, so they can look around, they can speak, and they can read. They know nothing about love, that Before love started."
This is exactly the story Aristophanes tells in Symposium. Originally, human beings had three genders: Sons of the Sun (man), Sons of Earth (woman), Sons of the Moon (Intersex), who had two heads, four arms, four legs, and two pairs of genitals. Later, human beings tried to compete with the gods and opened the way to the sky to fight the gods, but they were split in half by Zeus and became a two-legged person with only two genders. This actually speaks to the origin of love.
In the beginning, the people had not been split and were very happy and happy. Humans are extremely powerful and run very fast (the circle is the fastest to roll), and can almost compete with gods. Human reproduction does not require male and female copulation, but by laying eggs, burying them in the soil, and hatching adults like cicadas. At this time people have no love, no need for love, and no sin.
Later, people tried to attack the gods, and as punishment, they were split in half by Zeus. After being split, people are full of wounds. One half misses the other half, often hugging each other and not letting go, eager to return to the original whole. At this time, people have love. The man split by the son of the earth loves the woman, the man split by the son of the sun misses the man, and the woman split by the son of the earth misses the woman. Because people hug, do nothing, forget about giving birth, and die slowly one by one.
"Last time I saw you, we were just separated. You stared at me and I stared at you. You felt familiar, but I couldn't recognize you because you had blood on your face and blood in my eyes. But I can swear, I know from the look on your face. The pain in our souls is so similar, it's the pain of our hearts when we're separated, and we call it love."
Zeus was born with compassion, and asked Apollo to perform some operations on humans, suture wounds, and move the human genitals to the front so that they could reproduce, and people began to live. This arrangement is a compromise. Men and women can have children when they cooperate with each other, and "if it is a man and a man who cooperate with each other, at least they can calm down their emotions and relax their hearts so that they can go about their normal work in life." It's just a relief of lust.
Because of sin, human beings have love, and they are tortured by love. Each of us is only half of a human being. Even if we embrace each other, we cannot restore our original wholeness, only loneliness will last forever. Going back to what was sung in the song: "It was a cold night, long, long ago, a big hand that symbolized love caused our tragedy, we became lonely two-legged animals, this is the origin of love. "
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