There is one detail hidden deep. Song Lian's tragedy actually coincides with Hegel's tragic aesthetics, and Song Lian performed a whole "Antigone" by himself.
01 Songlian is crazy
Many people say that at the end of the film, the newly married fifth wife will be the next Songlian.
Makes sense. But I think that's not what the film wants to say. At least, just seeing this layer doesn't make any sense to us.
Infinite loop is a good explanation, but it is a good explanation ≠ it is the right explanation and ≠ it is the explanation that makes sense to us. If it is right, then dead early in the morning, the cycle is cut off by the scythe of the great era, and no one will be the next Songlian. So what does it mean to us?
So I think that the fifth wife entered the door for only one purpose - to see Song Lian going crazy.
Some people say that she can indeed play the role of seeing Songlian going crazy, but that doesn't mean that she can't play the role of an infinite loop?
Don't worry, wait for me to speak slowly. As long as you understand the particularity of Songlian, you will no longer hold this view.
Back to the topic, Songlian is crazy.
Who made Songlian crazy ?
Is it herself?
It makes sense to say it was herself. She couldn't stand the temptation of being a wife, but she couldn't let go of the arrogance of being a scholar. When she was celebrating her birthday, she learned that Yan'er had been killed by herself and was suffering from alcoholism, but after drinking, she revealed something even worse - the third wife had committed adultery with Dr. Gao. So the third wife was strangled by a rope in the attic that she accidentally visited. The immortal conscience and the disillusioned wealth tormented her together, and she finally realized that the Chen family did not treat women as human beings, and she was no longer a human being or a ghost. In the conflict between reality and ideal, she went crazy.
Details are missing, but this is probably a passing storyline. But the question remains that question - what does a story like this mean to us?
Let's take a step back. From "Songlian is crazy", back to -
Why is Songlian crazy?
You see, although the Chen residence does not treat women as human beings, the former eldest wives, second wives and third wives are all doing pretty well, don't they enjoy themselves? Camus said long ago that life is meaningless. Bi Shumin said that life has no meaning, so we must establish a meaning for it. Feng Tang said, the world is so cruel, others have so much hell in their hearts, and there is no jerk in their hearts, how can they go on?
You see, if you want to live a good life, being shameless is not a big deal, not to mention being shameless and not hurting anyone. The most important thing is that in Chen Mansion, throwing away the shame is the only way to keep the shame.
So, why can't you, Songlian, accept this set of rules? Why do you have to be crazy?
This question hits the spot. The little friends can't wait:
Songlian is a female student!
Saying it means not saying it. What's wrong with the female student, should a female student marry into a deep house? According to today's Shuangwen routine, a female student married into a deep house. Isn't that the beginning of a winner in life?
So, Song Lian, what did she do wrong?
02The intersection of old and new eras
Songlian was torn apart by the times.
This is a game between old and new eras, not Songlian's own psychological struggle.
The two eras, the old and the new, are not very appropriate. After all, the tragedy will happen only when the old and new eras overlap into one era .
Therefore, it is a game of two ethics or two values, old and new .
Before proceeding to the following discussion, let's talk about what a tragedy is .
Lu Xun said, "Tragedy is to destroy beautiful things for others to see". Wang Guowei said that there are three kinds of tragedies, the first is "a person who is extremely wicked and has all the abilities combined", the second is the blindness of fate, and the third is "due to the position and relationship of the characters. Otherwise, it is not necessarily the nature of snakes and scorpions and unexpected changes, but it is forced by ordinary people and ordinary circumstances. Not to blame."
But in my opinion, Lu Xun did not reach the philosophical depth that Hegel reached; Wang Guowei's words may contain this depth, but they are too verbose.
In Hegel's words,
The division of ethical entities is the source of tragic conflict, and tragic conflict is the confrontation of two one-sided ethical entities.
The "entity" here can be simply understood as a spiritual entity. In today's terms, it is a person's values and value orientation.
For Hegel, the most typical tragedy is Antigone. Antigone upholds divine law, female law, and natural law, and attaches great importance to the ethics of family blood, so whether his brother is a traitor to the city-state or not, he must be buried; Creon holds the law of men, the law of men, and the law of the city-state. So as long as Antigone's brother is a traitor, he must not be buried as an example, and the brother appears to Creon as a citizen of the city-state, not a relative.
Is it justice for my sister to bury her brother? is justice.
Is it justice for city-state managers to ask city-state traitors to expose their corpses in the wilderness? is justice.
When the elder brother is a traitor, and the traitor is also a blood relative, justice and justice inevitably conflict, and tragedy happens naturally.
No one is unjust, but conflict is irreconcilable. Even if a happy ending is achieved temporarily, this irreducible contradiction will always be latent and will inevitably erupt in the next time and space. This is tragedy. (kind of like a comprehensive version of the Kingdom Dimension triple tragedy)
A bit off topic, back to "The Big Red Lantern is Hanging High".
You will find that, in this traditional tragedy, different ethical values are assigned to two different roles, and the conflict of ethics or values unfolds through the contradiction between roles.
What is terrifying to think about is that in "Hanging the Red Lanterns High", different ethical values are assigned to Songlian alone .
Therefore, Songlian was tangled from beginning to end.
Therefore, when Songlian said the phrase "I marry" at the beginning of the film, her tragic ending was already doomed.
For tragedy is nothing but an inevitable and irreversible conflict between two values.
03 Victims of progress
More forward-looking, Songlian's tragedy was doomed the moment she went to a foreign school.
Some people say that Songlian's tragedy was not because she married into the Chen residence? If she doesn't get married and reads the book steadily, isn't this a typical image of a progressive young woman?
Those who say this have exaggerated the individual's right to speak in the face of the times.
Don't say anything else, just find an example from the video and ask you. Song Lian rejected the sedan chair and carried her suitcase into the Chen Mansion. Does she make progress, is she firm or not? Why did her feet itch after beating her feet for a few days and then let her live without beating her feet?
Song Lian is a concubine, and the house is full of poems, calligraphy and paintings. Is it elegant or not? How can I hear that the third wife is fighting for a favor, and when I go back to the room, I see the master molesting a concubine, and my mentality collapses?
Someone asked, maybe Song Lian's spirit is high? Wrong, really high-spirited people don't care about these little honors and disgrace, and elephants don't swim in the rabbit's path.
Someone refuted that Song Lian was married, and she couldn't live without competing for favor.
Isn't that right!
You see, that's it. In such a big environment, the individual ego cannot live without it.
understand?
If you don't understand, please read it again from the beginning of this paragraph.
This is not a question of facts or examples, but of logic.
So you see, the tragedy of Songlian is not that she also lived like that, but that before she lived like that, someone told her that she should not live like that.
who told her?
University.
University is like a fictional phantom. Although this university does not appear in the film, it is like a looming ghost that controls Song Lian's life together with the Chen family.
Judging from Songlian's performance, the university must have taught her these things:
Innate human rights, independent personality, equality between men and women.
We all know today that the premise of personal independence is economic independence, unless you are so independent that you would rather starve to death than damage your soul.
If you don't have a bed, you can't order food. I haven't eaten spinach and tofu, can I compete for favor?
Fight for the motherfucker!
That's it.
Therefore, today, we look back at the phrase "personality independence", especially knowing that this phrase was taught to a young girl who can never be financially independent, we will shudder.
Lu Xun said, "If an iron house has no windows and is extremely difficult to destroy, and there are many people sleeping in it, they will soon suffocate to death. Do you think you are worthy of your shouting, arousing the more conscious ones, and causing this unfortunate few to suffer irretrievably on their deathbed?"
I know that the latter sentence is "However, since a few people are up, you can't say that there is no hope of destroying this iron house", but I only ask you:
What if the people who were startled were all disabled people without arms and legs?
You see, the physical disability does not hinder their sobriety. In today's society, people with disabilities are shining brightly.
But that's an iron house!
Enclosed spaces, impenetrable facades...
What do you make them do?
What do you want Songlian to do?
So you get it?
Times are progressing, we must pursue personality independence and equality between men and women, so there must be foreign universities, and then there must be female students.
The wheels of the times move forward. The meaning of Songlian's existence is not the pusher of the wheel, but the road that the wheel must run over .
do you understand?
The existence of Songlian is an inevitable and irreversible pain in an era.
In "The Joke", Milan Kundera, borrowing Ludvik's mouth, said meaningfully:
"We wanted to save the world. We people, and our sense of salvation, almost destroyed the world."
One sand, one world, one tree, one bodhi. Governing a big country is like cooking small fresh food. Who says a person is not a world?
04 What does this mean to me?
Summarize the previous article first. In general, the wheel of the times is advancing, so young girls must be told that their personality is independent and that men and women are equal. However, since Songlian has no possibility of financial independence, sooner or later, she must take the values of personality independence and become a vassal of a man. The two values are destined to be irreconcilable, so Songlian is destined to be crazy, and she is destined to become the cannon fodder of the times.
So here comes the question. You said so much, what does this mean to us!
a superficial meaning.
People, whether male or female, must be financially independent. Economic independence is the foundation of personality independence, and then the premise of soul independence. If you have money, you have the right to speak, you have the right to choose, and then you have the right to decide.
Only when you are financially independent, the reason you do something is "because I want to do it", not "because the xxxxx who gave me the money respects my thoughts/loves me/loves me, so he supports me in doing this. "!
In our social environment, this sentence is especially important for girls.
What is the deeper meaning?
is the underlying logic.
The underlying logic is divided into two types.
First, you have to realize that as long as there is a conflict of values, the conflict cannot be resolved and can only be stabilized.
Second, when there is a conflict of values between the two parties, pay attention to the presence of a third party.
What's the meaning?
In order not to be scolded as a headline party, I will take the topic of "Takeaway Riders" that has been swiped recently as an example.
Takeaway riders are bitter. Maybe it's a complaint, maybe it's a statement of fact, but the food delivery platform is indeed exploiting them.
But why don't food delivery platforms exploit them?
You have to know that the food delivery platform is a profit-making organization, not a charity organization.
The value of a business lies in profit, as much profit as possible.
Some people say that it's not that the business is not making money, making less money and making it easier for the riders, isn't it?
Yes, of course. Baidu Takeaway does just that.
In 2016, Baidu food delivery riders went home for Chinese New Year. Meituan and Ele.me quickly seized the Spring Festival stalls and aggressively recruited riders after the Spring Festival.
Can you still see Baidu Takeaway?
Baidu Takeaway is good for welfare and humane. So how did your rider run?
So you see, the human touch is not the logic of the market, nor the logic of the economy, so it is not destined to be the logic of the enterprise.
Young people who have grown up healthily under the brilliance of Daddy Ma (not the Daddy Ma) have to say, is it possible to not treat people as people in order to make money? Isn't this human alienation?
But Dad Ma also said that competition is the inevitable path of capital. If you don't grow up, you will be eaten by capital that grows faster than you.
So, there are also two values here.
The value of the platform is to maximize profits. Only when Meituan becomes bigger and stronger can it afford riders. (By the way, of all Meituan’s expenses in 2019, the total cost of food delivery riders exceeded 41 billion yuan, while Meituan’s annual commission income was 49.6 billion yuan.)
The rider's value is to take less stress when they can make as much money as possible. To be politically incorrect, you Meituan riders know that Ele.me is more friendly to riders, so why did you still go to Meituan? Baidu sends you home for the Chinese New Year, why do you turn around after the New Year?
The conflict between justice and justice, the underlying logic remains unchanged, and there is basically no solution.
In order to solve this unresolved contradiction, the food delivery platform passed the conflict to the third party - the customer.
If you are sympathetic, just click "I'm willing to wait 5 minutes longer", the rider will no longer have to chase after his life, and you will no longer have to feel sorry for the rider, everyone is happy.
What? don't you order? ! No point is no sympathy, no sympathy, why are you scolding my platform? ill!
Is this hand beautiful? Damn it, it's beautiful!
Closer to home. Let's talk about it again, is the third party, the customer, really not present?
The customer is present. Just as the ultimate beneficiary of the sanitary napkin tax reduction is most likely to be a merchant, the platform will not pay more if the rider's welfare improves or the income increases.
Who is paying for it? customer.
So why isn't this happening now? Two reasons.
One is that it happened and you didn't notice it. After all, the platform will not take the initiative to tell you that you are paying more.
The second is that it didn't happen. Because the cost of ordering food increases, customers will be lost. Where does it go? Whether it is lost to a physical store or a rival platform, I am losing money.
Therefore, the three check each other and balance each other, the public opinion of the takeaway will become better, and the interests will not increase.
If it can increase, it may be because fewer people complain. This is a good thing.
I know a lot of people don't understand why food is delivered at the risk of death, why food is more important than people.
I didn't understand it at first until I saw this sentence:
Many people don't understand the logic of the takeaway because life is too easy so far.
A little ashamed. But if you think about it, it's actually the sentence in "The Great Gatsby":
Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, remember that not all people in this world have the advantages that you have.
The avenues are connected. After reading a good book and watching a classic movie, you can understand a lot of things in life today.
Finally, a few words about the takeaway.
There is a good way. After the rider arrives, if you feel satisfied, you can give a reward. Not much, maybe a dollar.
Anyway, you can't do anything with 1 yuan in your hand, but for the rider, this is a surprise. Unexpected money, no matter how much, should have a little joy.
The source is "The Big Red Lantern and the Meituan Rider", published on Dida Di in the attic of the WeChat public account. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/KReLdjgWP6T_XTJmPk5o_g
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