the true side of kindness

Wendy 2022-03-21 09:01:44

There is such a story: a female driver was driving a full bus on a mountain road, and suddenly a person jumped out of the passengers and wanted to rob. The robbers raped the female driver when they saw that she was looking good. As long as a few people resisted, he could be stopped, but only one young man stood up, only to be knocked down by the gangsters. The people in the car watched indifferently as these things happened. Later, the robber got out of the car, and the female driver said to the young man surprisingly calmly: What trouble are you making! Still not bothered enough? Said and knocked him out of the car. The young man was very aggrieved and angry. He watched the car gradually move away from him, and suddenly rushed down the cliff at a sharp bend. All the people in the car were killed except him.
"Dogville" tells the story of this car, but the scene is set in a small town. Simple enough to replace the wall with chalk lines, it shows the fullness of human nature. A strange woman comes to a closed town with a wanted background. The attitude of the villagers gradually changed from suspicion and trust to hatred and betrayal. Grace eventually became a tool for everyone to vent, and her arrogant belief in human kindness and human influence was shattered by reality. Even when she was happiest with the villagers, people just used her to prove their kindness.
grace is beautiful and strong. She worked diligently in exchange for people's trust and such a simple request to keep her. At first people accepted her and gave her back the equivalent kindness. But after the arrival of the police again and again, people began to bully this superfluous person intensified, making her work during the day and men using her to vent their sexual desires at night. The narrator said: Thanks to her healthy ability to push any unpleasantness around her far away, a generous god had blessed her with the rare talent of being able to look ahead, and only ahead. So she could give love selflessly to that one named tom A writer, who can endure being abused by the whole village and even children, can survive like an animal under shackles. But when her seven little porcelain figures were shattered, her hope was also dashed. She was ultimately betrayed along with people's consciences. Her heart was filled with hatred, and idealism was eventually replaced by reality. Grace finally gave up her good desire to be kind to people and her arrogant and violent rejection of her father, and buried the village and its deep sinister with her own hands, leaving only a barking dog.
What caused the change in the attitude of the villagers? It is the inferiority of human nature and the contractual relationship between the use and the used. As the villagers realized they were taking more and more risks, they demanded more and more of her in return. They're not really worried about their responsibility for harboring criminals, but because they're getting heavier and heavier weights at their disposal. Especially when this kind of psychology and behavior is of a group nature, no matter right or wrong, people start to believe in horror that they are correct in the majority position. There is a kind of support group in the American circle of friends, which is composed of a fixed group of people who usually communicate with each other about their troubles. When one of them has a conflict with someone outside, they form a consistent group to show solidarity with this person. effect. The group meeting of the villagers in Dogville is like a support group having a party. Justice and kindness is a kind of deception to oneself, just like a person who often tells a lie, he sometimes even actually starts to believe his own lies. Only Tom is outside this group, but after all, his moral standards are different from Grace's. Under the influence of the environment, when he angrily realized that what others could easily obtain from grace, he could not get it no matter how hard he tried, he boldly abandoned the morality that he had always insisted on and used to educate and redeem other people's souls. standard, but chose to tear off the mask of hypocrisy and completely degenerate. His motives have always been impure, and he has always kept the business card given to him by the underworld. Ironically, what he regards as the last weight has brought disaster.
The truth is often the most touching, because he has the power to make people feel sorry for themselves. But too much truth will only make the humble person sigh and the arrogant person to be cynical. After introspection and emotion, people threw themselves into the life told by the film with arrogance and prejudice. In this sense, the real is the closest to contrived.

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Dogville quotes

  • Narrator: How could she ever hate them for what was at bottom merely their weakness? She would probably have done things like those that had befallen her if she had lived in one of these houses. To measure them by her own yardstick, as her father put it. Would she not, in all honesty, have done the same as Chuck and Vera and Ben and Mrs Henson and Tom and all these people in their houses? Grace paused and as she did, the clouds scattered and let the moonlight through, and Dogville underwent another of those little changes of light. It was as if the light previously so merciful and faint finally refused to cover up for the town any longer. Suddenly, you could no longer imagine a berry that would appear one day on a gooseberry bush, but only see the thorn that was there right now. The light now penetrated every unevenness and flaw in the buildings and in the people. And all of a sudden, she knew the answer to her question all too well. If she had acted like them, she could not have defended a single one of her actions and could not have condemned them harshly enough. It was as if her sorrow and pain finally assumed their rightful place. No. What they had done was not good enough. And if one had the power to put it to rights, it was one's duty to do so - for the sake of other towns, for the sake of humanity and not least, for the sake of the human being that was Grace herself.

  • Narrator: [as McKay explores even further with his hand] It was not Grace's pride that kept her going during the days when fall came and the trees were losing their leaves, but more of a trance like state that descends on animals whose lives are threatened - a state in which the body reacts mechanically in a low tough gear, without too much painful reflection. Like a patient passively letting his disease hold sway.