Repaying grievances by virtue, how can we repay virtue?

Alexys 2021-11-17 08:01:27

The movie I hate the most is "Dancer in the Dark". The morally perfect values ​​revealed throughout the film made me feel extremely stupid, inadequate and meaningless. Four years later, the same director Lars von Trier’s "Dogtown", the heroine is still full of hypothesis, standing on a moral height higher than everyone as a god, and has been trying to forgive mankind’s despicable nature. . But in the end she chose to report the grievance directly. It can be seen that in the past four years, Lars von Trier has done some useful thinking about the world.



We were watching a documentary a few days ago in which the Americans abused Iraqi prisoners. It makes me uncomfortable to see it. I said how could someone do such a horrible thing to people like them. My friend said, do you think that human nature is inherently kind? I said that I think people are born with kindness and despicable parts. As for which part is more prominent, it depends on their acquired education and environment. So in "Dog Town", the heroine finally thought that if she was also a resident of this town, it is hard to guarantee that she would not behave like the people here. Just like the Red Guards, the Gestapo, the American soldiers who abused prisoners, and the housewives who were once the Nazis in "Reader", if it weren’t for the evil part of their humanity that aroused in a specific crazy environment, they might be a group of ordinary people. Kind-hearted and calm people may never hurt an ant in their entire life, and may even take injured stray cats home to take care of them. But this is not an excuse to forgive the crime. No matter how you blame the environment and education, mistakes and crimes need to be punished.

I have been confused since I was a child. My parents' relatives have treated them very badly since they were young, but they still resolutely show up at the moment when these relatives need charcoal or icing on the cake. I always ask, they treat you so badly, why don't you treat them badly too? My parents always say that we can't fall to the same level as them. I said there is no need to retaliate against them, just ignore them. My parents also said that they can help as much as they can. People’s hearts are long, and they are always grateful after a long time. But the fact is, these greedy relatives are not only not grateful, but they don’t know that my parents are showing kindness, but they are used to it. If they can’t help them, they will speak bad words unscrupulously and treat my dad with other things. Mom is still unscrupulously bad. They took the tolerance of my parents as cowardice, took the politeness of my parents for granted, and took the kindness of my parents as a guarantee for constantly demanding excessive demands. Once I was so angry that I asked my parents: Do you two have so much love that you have nowhere to vent and you have to look for them? Why do you think that you are the one with noble morals? You indulged them to this point, and you are so proud of yourself.

I used to have a friend who was as close as family. I once said to him confidently that I would never be angry with you. In the end, he took it seriously. Trying to provoke me several times, I pretended to restrain myself from getting angry with my lofty moral standards. Then he intensified, constantly challenging my limits, and always likes to say, I know you won't mind. When I finally got intolerable, I made it clear that if you mess with me next time, I won't forgive you anymore, and we will not know each other again. So since then, he has never provoked me too much. Now I think, maybe I shouldn't think of myself as a more tolerant and forgiving person than him, leading to indulging him to this point. If we have always stood on equal moral standards, just like the facts, maybe we will not have this boring tug of war.

From then on I can't bear it anymore. Why do I always have to be the polite side, the tolerant and kind side, the side that takes care of the overall situation? Why do I have to be perfect to please others? Why do I have to pretend that I am the noble person? In fact, are we not all equal in morals and emotions? Who provokes someone, who will not be angry? Who hurt whom, and who can accept it calmly? It's useless to please people who don't like you. People who like you will mistakenly think that they can do whatever they want because of your infinite tolerance. You provoke me once, I can barely retaliate against you, you provoke me a second time, I will never stop there.

If I was provoked by a friend for the first time, I would openly explain to him that if my parents can clearly express to their relatives that their greed and selfishness will not be tolerated, if the heroine of "Dog Town" is in the villagers again and again When we intensified the oppression of her, we resisted once. We shouldn't stand on a higher moral arbitration point presumptuously. Maybe everything will not become so ugly and out of control. Just like pets, they need to know that it is not allowed to urinate and defecate anywhere. Just like children, they need to know that violence, lies, and discrimination are not allowed. Like enemies, they need to know that immigration violations across borders are not allowed. Those people who have been ignited by the environment or education on the ugly side also need to know that their bad behavior is unacceptable and cannot be tolerated. If a dog bites a person, of course people can't bite a dog, but a person has to beat the dog to let the dog know that he can't bite anymore in the future. I always hear people talk about someone hurting them, but they are unwilling to retaliate because they refuse to fall to the same level as those people. What I want to say is that everyone is of the same grade. If you pretend that you are of higher grade, it will only make those who hurt others worsen their ugly deeds. Therefore, no matter how innocent they are, the kind-hearted wrongdoers and offenders need to be given real warnings and punishments. They need to know clearly and firmly remember that what they have done is not acceptable. This is a normal environment and education to suppress the mean side of everyone's nature. So compared to the sage philosophy that someone else slaps you on the left cheek, you send your right cheek to someone’s beating, and someone else kills your father, you send your mother to someone else’s sage philosophy. I believe in a simple and straightforward philosophy. "Report grievances directly." Infinite tolerance is just a hypocritical performance of a perfect moral show, which is just leading the world in a more unscrupulous and presumptuous direction. If a person is bitten by a dog, if you just tolerate it and don’t teach the dog, if you get bitten again next time, you will not only kill yourself, but you may also cause others to be bitten. Disaster for the country and the people.

You need to stop being the one who is infinitely polite, kind and forbearing.

You need to stop imagining that you are the most moral person.

You can choose to retaliate with virtue, but you also need to know that what you have done is not making the world a better place.

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Extended Reading
  • April 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    8.5 Chapter-style movies in the form of stage plays. Although the duration is nearly 3 hours, the narration is surprisingly compact, and even the narration is constantly used to help the audience understand the plot; the conception is relatively sophisticated, but there are some incomprehensible places in terms of common sense. The ending is wonderful, Grace left Dogtown, but the outside world is not "Dogtown". The disgusting is not the place, but the people; the irony is that Chuck also ran out of the city, but was the first to commit atrocities. Lars Von Trier does have a powder-absorbing and powder-sifting halo to some extent. Then Nicole Kidman's temperament is not very suitable for this role.

  • Concepcion 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    Three hours of textbook-level human nature revelations. Kneel down! ! ! ! ! It interprets "arrogance" to the extreme, perfectly interpreting what "groaning without pain" is. As for the human nature described in it, they are only people in remote areas. The residents are just like the heroine. Because their cognition is extremely fragile, their good and evil are not fixed or the variables are too large, so the director has created an extremely ignorant heroine. , and brought in another father, pretending to have seen the reality clearly, to interrogate those who know the bottom. Drawing this dog day's attempt to bluntly pull the well-known human nature over to perform, and then cooperate with the heroine's final revenge, so as to form a perfect [human nature experiment], while telling [human nature is inherently evil], let everyone fight. face, admit his own sin, and finally end with a very arrogant ending! As if you were like a god who expounds the truth! But he ignored the most basic elements of human nature. The good and evil of human beings can basically be summarized as nature, and that is human nature in a broad sense! It makes the film feel like a fearless "hi". Lars Von Trier is such a fucking idiot.

Dogville quotes

  • [after being left the "last man standing"]

    Tom: Bingo, Grace, bingo. I have to tell you, your illustration, it beat the hell out of mine. It's frightening, yes, but so clear. Do you think I can allow myself to use it as a inspiration in my writing?

  • Tom: I think if Dogville had any significant symbolic meaning it wouldn't have an ordinary name like Dogville.