From primitive to modern, from collective to individual, we live in the cage of civilization. The fast-paced life, of course, is also a mechanical life, which makes people lose themselves. Just like the chicks on the production line, we are arranged by the so-called standards and procedures, and we castrate out the unconventional parts.
Humanity has experienced the transition from the Golden Age to the Silver Age and then to the Bronze Age. In the original primitive society, people could get food as long as they went out to look for food, completely "relying on the sky to eat"; later, people needed to work hard to have food, which changed to "eat by themselves"; now, there is life. The second generation is rich, living in villas and driving luxury cars, and some people sleep on the street and cannot eat enough. The Matthew effect is getting stronger and stronger, and people at the bottom are almost powerless to change.
The world also seems to have become a twisted, magical being.
On one side, the volcano erupted as usual, and nature was in operation; on the other side, old cars were abandoned into the wild and scattered on the ground; people in factories and subway stations were like machines; the mountains of shoes and skeletons piled up in the concentration camps proved the tragic situation at that time. , this atrocity is only a history that later generations occasionally talk about.
The Roman Empire, the Great Qin Empire, the Egyptian Pharaohs... The flow of time and space tells us that prosperity, humiliation, power, everything will pass.
"Tian Di Xuan Huang" begins with religion and ends with religion. In the film, we can find that although people's lives in many places are not rich, religions have been built as regional architectural representatives. Maybe it's because this is a paradise that carries people's good wishes in reality.
We need religion, even in modern, highly scientifically advanced societies, still (and perhaps even more so). Because we need a high-sounding escape and a ray of sunshine in the cracks. The world is suffering, and it is only by having hope and comfort that we can live.
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