is Leslie? She is a brave explorer: Her composition reads "I move forward slowly towards this wild, beautiful and mysterious world".
She is agnostic: On the way back from the church, Leslie said to May Bo: "Just because you have to believe in the Bible, so you don’t like it, and I don’t have to believe it, so I think she’s beautiful." She, He didn't say whether he believed in God, but said he didn't need to believe it, and also said, "He (God) is in charge of this beautiful world." This implies that Leslie is an agnostic. The author’s subtext is the words of the famous agnostic Huxley: "I am not sure or denying the immortality of man. On the one hand, I have no reason to believe it, and on the other hand, there is no evidence to refute it. I have no a priori either. The reason for opposing this doctrine. When people have to deal with the natural environment every day, they don’t care about “transcendental” difficulties.
Another master Russell is an agnostic in the philosophical sense. He urged his readers to look at the world independently, fairly and honestly with a "fearless attitude and open wisdom".
Regarding the "fearless attitude", the line in the movie is like this: "The monsters in the woods are not afraid, why Just afraid of an eighth grade student? "As for the "open wisdom", let alone, Leslie and the music teacher have said similar things to Jesse, "Once you open your heart, you can create a new world." The theme song of the movie " "Keep Your Mind Wide Open" and Russell’s appeal and
complementary chapters. Jesse went from following Leslie to explore the mysterious world to following the music teacher to appreciate modern civilization. This is the transition from man’s ignorance of nature to modern scientific confirmationism. Leslie’s death also implies the replacement of naturalism or agnosticism by modern science. Death, although innocuous, is also brave—the death of the explorer.
Second, what is the music teacher?
Pay more attention to it. In details, in the museum, Jesse stood in front of Brezier's paintings. The teacher said that Brezier was one of her favorite painters.
Brezier, in Western society, he was the first group of landscape painters to paint with "personal needs". In the past, painters only painted religious subjects and served religion. That is to say, at that time, the West had already begun to discover that "people" respected people, liberated people's shackles, and pursued human values. Then the teacher mentioned Leonardo. Many people only know that Leonardo da Vinci is a painter. In fact, he was also a great scientist and inventor during the Renaissance. He also underwent religious pressure to dissect the human body. In addition to watching the paintings, the teacher also took Jesse to play with those scientific installations. The Japanese story that the teacher and Jessie talked about while drinking coffee: "It rains because the sun hides in the cave and refuses to come out." And Copernicus' heliocentric theory is the starting point of modern science, and the music teacher represents the enemy of religion: science and personal value.
Bruno, who preached heliocentric theory, was finally burned to death by the church. Yes, human beings have to pay a great price in the process of pursuing truth and freedom. It was Leslie who persuaded Jesse to "reach up" the music teacher, and it was Leslie who led Jesse to explore the "new world". Leslie is the bridge between Jesse and the music teacher. Leslie's death is, in a sense, Bruno's death—a martyrdom.
3. What is a bridge?
It's scientific knowledge, it's art, it's Brezier, it's Leonardo da Vinci, it's Copernicus, it's Russell, it's Bruno, it's Leslie. The bridge to the fairyland is built by wisdom and truth, and it is built by the warriors who pursue the truth at the expense of themselves. The road to wonderland also requires blood and sacrifice.
What's on the other side of the bridge? Is it a fairyland? In the beginning, there was no real bridge, only one rope. It was the mysterious and unknown shore, the devil and monster, like a dark world. Finally, Jesse built a real bridge with the wooden blocks left by Leslie’s house (here alluding to the mind that Leslie brought to Jesse). At this time, the other shore is a truly beautiful paradise, and humans have to pass through. Science and truth can reach the fairyland beyond.
4. Father’s key
The key has not been recovered in the sense that the key is his father’s religious beliefs. After the key is lost, he made his father restless and scolded Jesse. Jesse smashed his father and vowed to find it back. . Jesse retrieved the key from the fight with the monster. In fact, it was a contest between modern science and traditional religion or dark forces. The father's prestige and status were also shaken by his son.
However, science does not mean everything. When facing death, people have to return to the arms of religion to find comfort.
After Leslie died, Jesse asked her father: "Will she go to hell?"
Father: "I don't know about God, but I don't think it will let such a little girl go to hell."
God is dead, Nietzsche is dead, Leslie is also dead.
But no matter what, "she has been here and brought you something peculiar to your life, and it will always be in your heart".
2011.3.24 Morgan
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