The theme of S04E01 is the concept of life and death.
1. Know life and death
The concept of life and death is people's fundamental views and views on life and death. For philosophers, death is an eternal dialectical proposition of thought. For us as individuals, if we can understand death, we may be able to understand the meaning of life better . Most of the things that once existed have died out, and now they are vivid in their purpose, and they will soon disappear into nothingness. Birth and death are the natural processes by which all life arises, exists and dies .
2. Facing life and death
In this episode, Rick takes Morty to Forbodulon Prime to dig the Death Crystal. There are millions of ways to die through the Death Crystal, use it correctly to avoid death and find a way to keep yourself alive. In order to live longer, Morty stole a death crystal and chose to die by Jessika's side in old age. Under the guidance of the death crystal, Morty killed Rick and chose not to resurrect. After arming, he turned into Akira to conquer the bully, dismembered the police car, turned 13 people into ashes, and escaped the trial with the judge's husband's last words (the judge then chose to follow her husband to commit suicide) . Morty goes out of court to meet Jessika's invitation to go nude swimming, but Morty insists on continuing towards the end of death with Jessica. At the same time, in another parallel time and space, Rick was reborn in the shrimp dimension through the Phoenix plan, and the teddy bear dimension was killed by NC, and finally came to the wasp dimension. Finally, with the help of the wasp Rick, Rick rescued Morty, who was constantly devouring himself in the wilderness, and defeated the holographic Rick who obtained the entity in the final battle.
In the face of death, or even millions of ways to die, Morty was terrified and helpless, he chose the one he wanted the most and went ahead desperately. Dominated by his inner fears and worries, Morty dared not face death, ignored the objective reality, was unwilling to try to change, was unwilling to live seriously, and was obsessed with running towards the perfect way to die that was 100% certain in his heart. Even Jessika's initiative to invite naked swimming after he conquered the world was rejected by him. Morty gave up the current happiness and chose to pursue the false unknown, and missed the opportunity to get along with Jessika again and again. As everyone knows, the future comes from the present, and as long as there is no deviation, the future will always change . And Morty knew exactly how he would die, so he must be living a very miserable life. Morty might be happier if he lived in the moment and lived the present moment, instead of obsessing over how to die .
When a person fully comprehends life and death, "the whole world, gather in one's own heart", he will see all the stories presented in the whole world, and all these are also hidden in this person's heart.
It can't change the ending of death, but it can change the way of looking at death. If you live to death and look directly at the sun, you will not stand in your shadow forever.
3. Beyond life and death
In the end, Morty learns that Jessika wants to be a nurse to give hospice care to orphaned patients , and it's just wishful thinking from beginning to end. If he followed the guidance of the death crystal, Morty would probably only end up alone in his old age. In the garage, Rick and Morty chanted: Sometimes do classic adventures, other times do whatever you want, sometimes do nothing, push every day to the limit, never just go one way, do something new every day Never stick to the rules, never bow to the limit, and be able to do everything you want .
I think this is what the work wants to convey to the audience: life is as gorgeous as summer flowers, death is as quiet and beautiful as autumn leaves, and you have to dare to take risks in life .
Realizing that life is short, fragile, and small, we can transcend death in three ways:
1. to reproduce offspring
biological continuation of reproduction
2. Join the group
From the small self to the big self, becoming part of the collective, the death of the individual is not so terrible
3. Create a life
Start creating your life, live your worth, and die.
Live in the present, think about the future, and encourage each other .
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4. Detailed tracking
1. Slippery Slope
An informal fallacy that uses a series of causal inferences, but exaggerates the causal strength of each link, converts "possibility" into "inevitability", and arrives at unreasonable conclusions.
Form: If A happens, then B happens, then C happens, then D happens, ..., then Z happens
Corollary: Z should not happen, so we should not allow A to happen
2. Death Crystal
1) Can tell you millions of ways to die, the correct way to use it is to use it to avoid death and find a way to keep yourself alive
2) Your future comes from the present, as long as you don’t go astray, the future will always change
3) In fact, people who know exactly how to die are either living in a miserable life or are about to be shot to death
4) People who run away from death their whole lives are already walking dead, they are rich and I want to spend their money
3. The consequences of not wearing a seat belt are very serious.
Safe travel starts with me!
4. Clone Grandpa
1) We see through you
2) We are here, we are transparent
3) Go clone your grandpa
4) Make it legal (Berkeley)
5) We refuse to be ignored
5. Hedonism
6. School Violence & "Dream Travel"
"Coco" : Humans die twice, one is when the body leaves the world, and the other is when they are completely forgotten and lost.
Fait accompli : French means a foregone conclusion / a done deal
7. Mutual respect
Morty said that he pretended that Rick was eating fried chicken, and Rick asked Morty not to eat the food formed by the hologram, which actually reflected that we should think differently and respect each other in life.
8, gas lamp control
9. Judge commits suicide
10. Wasps wasp (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant)
The most cruel thing is that the baby bugs produced due to excessive pain are not spared, which Morty calls "unexpected harvest".
11. Live in the present and think about the future
5. Thinking
1. Why did my grandfather deviate more and more from primates every time he was reborn through the Phoenix project preset?
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