Film review "Freak", when you are different, do you hide yourself or bloom
Film review "Freak", will you use your superpowers to do things that harm others and make yourself better
The main content of the Canadian science fiction movie "Freak" is about a 7-year-old girl named Chloe and her father hiding in a dilapidated house. The father does not allow the girl to go out and contact anyone. It turned out that their family of three had superpowers to control other people's thinking or travel through space, and most ordinary people in the real world killed these superpowers out of fear. Troy's mother was captured and hid in a secret base in Miao awaiting execution.
The film develops to Chloe's desire to go out, getting her father and herself into trouble, and being pestered by her grandfather trying to use her superpowers to rescue Chloe's mother. My grandfather was killed by humans trying to save Chloe, and my father died trying to save Chloe. The mother, who was rescued by the whole family, took Chloe up into the sky.
It looks like a fantasy film, but it is actually a complex questioning of human nature.
Some people with superpowers who have the ability to manipulate the minds of others or travel through space are called freaks, and thus become objects to be exterminated, exterminating them out of fear, if there are really some people who have such superpowers, if you have The right to vote on their life or death or the scope of their activities, how would you vote? Imprison them in protected areas? Make special legal provisions for them? Or extinct?
If you were Chloe yourself, would you use your superpowers to pay a huge price to save your family? Like killing a lot of people in order to save their mothers, whether those people were out of duty or innocent? If most people give you an equal chance, can you guarantee that you will never use your superpowers to manipulate other people's minds? Look at the teacher's exam questions. Know someone's bank password? Or travel to someone's room in the middle of the night to see his sleeping face?
In life, there are very few people with superpowers in real life. So far, I have not seen a real superpower.
But we've all met people who are different. How do we respond to them? Treat it as a freak and stay away? Laughing as much as those kids in Chloe's neighbors? Or do you have the courage to accept tolerance while being vigilant for self-protection?
How do we see ourselves if we are different in some way? Are we freaks? How do we achieve our self-esteem, self-confidence, happiness and meaning of existence? Can we control ourselves not to hurt others? When we get hurt, do we just fight back or try to explain first? Is it better to fight for reconciliation or to let out anger?
Chloe longs for the outside world, longs to make friends and integrate into real life, which are the basic needs of human socialization. In order to achieve this, her father trained her to hide her true self, to use skilled lies and to deal with external problems, but she still screwed it up, because a lie is a lie, and a lie cannot glue the gap between truth and illusion.
If we are different, do we hide our true selves or let us bloom our own flowers? Even a poppy or a mandala? Or kinds that the world simply cannot distinguish. This question is just a question, and I can't give a standard answer, because everyone's trade-offs are different, and the answer will be different.
But no matter what the answer is, we must find our own pride and courage, find our own direction, and don't let ourselves live a painful and hazy life in the cage of repression. You don't have to say anything private about yourself, but there's no need to lie, just a smart and sincere response.
If I were Chloe's mother, I would take her to a place with beautiful scenery, where families with the same frequency live together in a circle of mutual trust and help, living a semi-hidden life, not hurting others, Not hurt by others. I will not be saddened by the difference between myself and my children. On the contrary, we need to understand and accept the true self, and then live according to the rules of this world, to pursue freedom, health, independence and happiness as much as possible.
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