(text: Vulcan Ji) The
so-called paradise; in fact, it is only between our own thoughts. When we have good thoughts, when everyone has good thoughts, the world will think good, this is heaven. I know this is just a naive and ridiculous idea, and the greatest utility of the film is that it can turn all the naive and ridiculous into reality. So we have a paradise, a virtual paradise without lies. ——Vulcan Ji. Inscription.
Prologue
comedy. That's right, this is just a light comedy-relaxed, witty, and jokes for an hour and a half; if a movie ends completely after being so frolic, it's not a good comedy. If after watching a light-hearted and funny movie, the joy of watching the movie suddenly freezes completely at the end of the movie, we are overwhelmed with compassionate emotions-I think this is because of this movie. In addition to its task of being easy and funny, it also has some deep reflections; this kind of reflection begins to impact the looming nerves of our rationality, and then force us to be less relaxed and happy.
This film tells a very absurd and even laughable story; however, this is a thought-provoking film. Under what circumstances is a
lie
, when a woman meets a man for the first time, she tells him that she has just been blaspheming herself and has not completed it yet. Ask him to do it and go upstairs to complete her unfinished orgasm. , And said to him-I will make no noise as much as possible, and you will try to pretend not to know as much as possible... In this film, written and co-written by Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson In the directed movie, the movie started like this. The movie has completed its background setting in its first plot unit. This is a world without lies.
A study done by Robert S. Feldman, a professor of social psychology at the University of Massachusetts in the United States, showed that an average person lied 25 times a day, while the one done by the ABC Public opinion surveys also provide evidence for such a data. In my opinion, this number is very polite and conservative, and perhaps more common in Western society; Eastern society is a society of human relationships, and human relationships must be all-round and exquisite, and it is not only twenty-five times.
We only need to imagine a business meeting, starting from the first sentence of the two or more parties-Mr. XX of XX company, I am honored that you can take the time to come to the company for guidance... When you say this Who really feels "very honored", who really regards his company as "despite", who is taking time out of such "heavy busy" to specially "guide" an unrelated company Well...
the person who talks is lying, and the person who listens to the lie will let it go. If the other party does not tell a few polite lies, they will still feel that the other party is obviously poor in etiquette... Obviously, there are so many lies in a sentence Imagine that in such a business meeting, what you really want to convey to the other party is how to turn around and then convey it to the other party with a less obvious hint...
Think about it, in fact, we are really quite. Sadly, because lies are with us almost all our lives. From the moment we were born, the first compliment we heard-how beautiful... is actually a lie. Because we all know that a newly born baby is actually not so much like a person, red, with a wrinkle on his face, the facial features are not fully opened yet, and no matter how big the head is, it is also curled up...how can it be a "beautiful" sentence That's great.
Almost all babies of the full moon are very beautiful, this sentence is true; but I have seen many babies who are just born but not really beautiful. In other words, at this stage, it is not really beautiful or not; but everyone who comes to visit mothers and newborns will praise "beautiful". Hehe, our absurd life actually started in a kind compliment; just like that, for a lifetime. Actually, it's sad.
If we look at the world and others with a little skepticism, we will find that every expression and every sentence may become a lie, even if they do speak the vernacular from their true heart. But if we are unwilling to believe, we will still find loopholes in it.
Who can we believe, and what can we believe? This is actually a pale question-many times, we don't even think we can be trusted, how do we believe in this world, and other people we don't know much about. What's more, they are the so-called schizophrenic patients: auditory hallucinations, visual hallucinations, hallucinations and conjectures... Just when they truly describe the experiences they have experienced "in person", we will directly describe everything they describe Defined as "illusion" and "imaginary"; in this, who said the real is no longer worthy of debate, what is really worth thinking about is how we should define "real".
Believe that
our eyes will also lie to ourselves. Ears, noses, all senses, and even the brain are equally likely to lie to us; in fact, we cannot define "reality" and no one can define it. And even if someone might define his "reality", it is only his personal reality and not the "reality" of the masses. Such "reality" only lies in the meaning of the individual who defines it, and for others outside this individual. Other individuals have no meaning. If we have doubts, we will not easily believe in anything or anyone, and there is nothing that can convince us that we should be a god. How sad it is; and the ridiculous thing is that we are all living like this all the time.
Psychology tells us that cheating and being deceived are actually an instinct for survival. And the deeper I dig, the more I feel confused—we deceive, we are deceived, and we even deceive ourselves and then deceive others; in the end, there is nothing we can do to believe and follow without doubt and confusion. what. Nothing! Thus, human beings have religion; then, people have faith.
Religious beliefs bring us the most consolation in human society: Even though everyone in every corner of the world is telling lies that we cannot convince, even when we ourselves cannot convince ourselves, don’t Fear of my dear—the last spiritual pure land and spiritual paradise are here; every word our true God says to us is the truth, and our true God will never deceive us...
At least, faith can give us noise The soul brings temporary peace; therefore, people who have faith are undoubtedly happy, because they have a set of true philosophical system to build their worldview values, they have a book that belongs to them and is completely There is no lie, the "Bible" full of insights...no doubt or doubt, complete trust, this is so happy that people are enviable and even jealous. How
philosophy
can have a happy and joyful life, in fact, it is not. The first and only condition is: we must give up our natural enthusiasm for doubt and believe in the true God we imagined without any doubt. I always feel that everyone will eventually find a belief of their own, no matter what the belief is, there will always be.
Why does everyone need a spiritual pure land and spiritual paradise? Because we want to escape from the world we live in now, because we are surrounded by endless lies from birth to death. There is no way to escape so that we can only turn our hopes to the void world after death. Or the next life that is unlikely to exist; the holy and pure belonging may not come yet, and temporarily, we may not have to lie, because all the sins we commit will be forgiven by our true God... We don’t need to be endless. The lies will completely bury us.
Think about our current life, and the world we live in-dirty, and we live sadly and helplessly and shamelessly. Why are we surrounded by so many lies-that is because the people around us are lying constantly; why are they all lying-because we are also lying; in fact, it is our own Every word and deed created the so-called "dirty" in this world, it was every lie of our own that constructed the so-called "sadness" of our lives, and it was every compromise of our own that made the so-called "helplessness"-in the final analysis, Everything will come down to ourselves; isn't this just "shameful"?
Fortunately, believers are saved. Spiritual faith will promise us some hope of being redeemed and the final way home-at that time, we will no longer have to hear any lies, we will no longer have to lie; we will only be inexhaustible Surrounded by true sincerity and love; even if there is nothing, by then, at least we can be quiet in our ears-needless to say, let alone listen.
I think that our greatest sadness is: all our hopes can only be pinned in the perhaps illusory world after death.
No one has ever been able to get up after death and say that there is no true god in my faith to pay for my life in the world over there, so I still won’t die... But no matter what, don’t doubt, don’t hesitate. . If we have a little bit of research spirit, based on the fact that we cannot provide strong evidence to prove that the world after death is real, what faith can promise to us, is it not a blank check that cannot be cashed? But if we lose even the last bottom line of faith, we will finally return our souls to nowhere...
People with faith may not like my argument, and even ridicule each other-you, God of Fire It’s just a bad mind. People always believe that if you don’t believe it, come to join in the excitement, write your film review well, why are you here in this muddy water; you deserve to be surrounded by lies, and you deserve to be obliterated by your own lies. You deserve it, you won’t get salvation in the end, you can’t find your home...
salvation
Maybe people with faith don't care about bad guys like me, and say to me carelessly-I don't argue with you and other children. I went to face the wall; however, the Buddhist school said "put down the butcher knife and become a Buddha". If I really repent, I will always be rescued. If the Buddha is really so compassionate, the legendary "Purdue World" will always count me as the "one" of all living beings... Hehe, one day, my true God will surely save me in the same way, I think .
I have said in previous texts that children who have faith are happy...to put it bluntly, why did I say such a sentence—because I have not yet been able to find my faith; and I feel that I am not happy. Finding my own faith, I suddenly remembered the immortal work Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина) by Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (Лев Николаевич Толстой) with strong From an autobiographical first-person perspective, Levin, think about how great people like Tortez wrote about the salvation that can only be obtained after searching for faith so hard and exhausting their minds, how dare I say faith easily.
Perhaps it is precisely because of the book "Ann" that the belief that it gives me is not just a belief in the general sense, but more like a metaphysical philosophical attribution-where does life come from and where does death go? ; The so-called faith, for me, should actually be a kind of peace of mind, as Confucius said: do what you want, do not exceed the rules; but, a sage who is like a Confucian must also reach this state in the seventy years of age. …Zhuzi is like me, I'm afraid I won't be able to comprehend it even after practicing 20 times.
To find my faith, I always feel that it must be after so many hard times, after enduring great tribulations and great experience, and understanding the great thoroughness and enlightenment that may be obtained after giving up and giving up...My precarious belief Where will I go, and where will my hidden true God hide... Well, at this point, I am somewhat frightened and nervous.
What I have always believed is—there will be one day, there will be one day...but can this day come in my lifetime? I have no idea. If I find my faith, I will be calm and happy; although I cannot be a great good, I have never done a great evil, so I will have my salvation.
The so-called civilization actually allows us to lie shamelessly and build a complete theoretical basis for our lies, as well as a complete set of operational procedures, such as business etiquette and customs. In many cases, the first point of "conformity" requires us to abandon our own personality, pleasure, and ourselves. Isn't this kind of behavior itself a lie? It's just because of the popularity and rampant of "li", so everyone is tacitly tacitly aware.
If everyone stops lying and expresses their true wishes straightforwardly, I think that most of the business activities can actually be cancelled directly; and most of the remaining small parts can be completed very directly. From then on to all aspects of life, we will find that all the time we waste in flattery will be freed up, and many people may rearrange their lives and make more outstanding achievements from then on.
Hypothetical hypothesis
What the world would be like in which no one lies, in fact, we simply cannot imagine. Fortunately, we still have movies. One of the biggest functions of movies is to directly virtualize everything that we might not even imagine. If no one lied, the whole movie unfolds under such a hypothesis, and then it tells us what the world will become.
Of course, this is not easy. If we rely on the analysis I made above, we can come to such a conclusion-lies, change lives and change the world. If lies are completely and completely removed from our lives, I cannot say whether we will be happier or more pathetic than we are now, but I can affirm that we must rebuild the world, rebuild all philosophical systems, and language School will also undergo earth-shaking changes.
No one lies, then there is no need to doubt, because there is no more cheating and being deceived. So, should many of our phrases related to lies be completely eliminated; such phrases no longer have the meaning of existence, and even if they still exist, they have actually lost the meaning of existence. For example, the word "lie", no one can lie, then this word does not have the conditions to be created; and even if you create a "lie" scene out of thin air, tell others that it is a "lie", but others have never experienced it. After the so-called "lie", there is no way to understand what kind of phrase it is. Of course, they will believe everything you say, but they won't understand; is there any point in creating such a word? It is destined that even if a phrase like this is created, it cannot be widely spread and widely used, and in the end it will only die.
Literary, politics, culture, religion, etc., all fields will face the same impact, but this movie seems to be somewhat shunned. It just gave a hypothesis, said some straightforward dialogue, and then told the story so frivolously.
In my opinion, this may be the biggest and only criticism of this movie-frivolous. A hypothesis, especially a hypothesis like this, will absolutely have all the conditions for the butterfly effect, rather than just relying on a few dialogues to solve it. From this point of view alone, this movie is a failed movie.
Perhaps this is also the reason why not many people have touched this hypothesis. It involves too wide a range, too many levels, and the audience that it can hit is too large... it is unlikely to be easy to control. Of course you can say that this is just a comedy; therefore, just watch and enjoy it, where there are so many fallacies. This is your freedom to watch movies. I don't think I have to look at things like this, but should I also have the freedom of expression. And I just provide a way of thinking, and it's not entirely useless to look at one way of thinking.
Hypothesis, in fact, it is too difficult to complete a satisfactory hypothesis. As far as I am concerned, I still like this movie, which is why I have to pick its faults; I am responsible for the depth of love.
Depraved
I admit that if it’s not like I think so much, just to believe in its hypothetical world, and then watch the development of the situation with a cold eye, this movie is still a bit interesting.
For example, on blind dates, who can be as strong as the Anna McDoogles played by Jennifer Garner, the first time she meets, she can face Ricky Gervais without any concealment. Mark Bellison, who has tasted it, said: Why did you arrive early? I just made half of my self-professed... I hope my future child has a big nose like you and is still a short fat man... Such "truth or dare" almost penetrates all the dialogue in the entire movie, and completely eliminates all the courtesy of etiquette. Going straight to the topic, this can bring too much convenience to their lives, and it also brings us a lot of joy.
Love no longer needs twists and turns, ups and downs-I only want you to be healthy and handsome, and as long as you have a strong enough DNA genetic factor, I don’t love you, but I will still marry you because I want mine. In addition to inheriting my excellent genes, I also hope that my children can have half of your excellent genes...The theory of descent is once again revived in this movie. This is one of my most unpleasant impressions of watching this movie. Love has become insignificant, and inheritance has become the primary consideration-to put it more awkwardly, should human beings degenerate like any other species after leaving the white lie, no more love, but just mating, and then Reproduction?
Perhaps, lies are indeed a very important link that maintains all human lives in all ages-living in groups, in order to avoid individual differences, there is a collective, so the collective has commonality; and if commonality is required, individuality must be more or less necessary give up. However, the absence of lies does not mean that even though we have evolved human rational cognition, we will still allow low-level instincts to desire higher than our rationality. If we say that we have evolved emotional love; we are still stuck in animal choices-then, have we never evolved? The reason why humans are humans is that we occasionally always make some choices that violate the instincts of animals. We have been freed from the most instinctive desires and have been born as humans. We are more spiritual than other species.
If it is said that abandoning the possible butterfly effect after hypothesis, and doing light comedy while avoiding the importance, it is just a criticism of this movie; then, most of the space of this movie is used to describe the so-called love, it can be said It was a fatal flaw in this movie. I can accept the choice of priorities in a context that no one can control; however, what I absolutely cannot accept is that a world without lies is when we regress together to the primary biological stage of mating and reproduction.
Of course, at the end of the movie, an unexpected plot reversal appeared-the inferior male Mark finally suddenly replied sincerely to tell Anna his secret, and defeated Rob Lowe (Rob Lowe). The high-quality male represented by Brad Kessler, who plays the role of Brad Kessler, embraces the beauty. The unpleasant, high-quality man finally can only pitifully stand alone in his empty boudoir... But what problem can such a reversal show-the sudden epiphany before the fall? In fact, this is the film’s improper grasp of the length of the film, which makes such a reversal also unconvincing. Humans do have many ills, such as lying; but in general, we prefer truth, goodness and beauty, so we always Evolve along the way, not retreat without advancing.
Virtual paradise
If there really is a beautiful country without lies; I think this is heaven. When every word that everyone says is true and true, everyone's will tend to be great. We are all Gods, because we spread the gospel together; we are all the most devout believers, because we can all hear the call of truth. The best thing about this movie is that it gives us a virtual paradise.
Mark was the first person to eat crabs, so he built his own hall of fame and fortune while sitting on beauties; Mark’s son, the short fat man with a big nose may be the second person to eat crabs. What will happen to him in the future, at least not much worse than Mark. This movie brought me some unexpected little pleasures, but the metaphysical thoughts conveyed behind this movie made me somewhat worried.
Virtual paradise, the birth of the first lie, and then many lies began to follow, the paradise must eventually fall back to the world. The world without lies that I have been discussing for a long time before has actually never appeared. What has appeared is just a small copycat virtual paradise.
However, when I watched this movie, I suddenly had a positive feeling-it was because my speech speed increased, and when I answered questions, I no longer think about things so much. I answered the questions straightforwardly and without thinking about what my wife asked me. After the question, I felt a sense of invigoration. In fact, I am still stuck in the kind of context that the movie brought me—no one lied, and I don’t have to lie; maybe, because of this movie and the stagnation of the context at the moment after the movie, I found a little bit more or less The feeling of being in heaven.
Finally, I want to say: Even though this movie has problems of one kind or another, everyone should watch this movie. Especially in the first time after watching the movie, you will find someone to chat with, you will find the faith that I vaguely see, and you will feel my faint happiness that is not yet clear.
Sometimes, lying is actually responsible; sometimes, honesty can really make oneself happy.
2010-3-19; 11:48. In the year of the tiger, the fourth day of the second month of February and Wuchen; noon.
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Note: Movie information.
■Title: "The Invention of Lying"
■Translation: "The Birth of Lies"
■Director: Ricky Gervais\Matthew Robinson
■Starring: Ricky Gervais ( Ricky Gervais\Jennifer Garner\Rob Lowe
■Genre: Comedy
■Length: 99 min
■Place of Origin: United States
■Language: English
■Color: Black and White\Color
■Classification: USA: PG-13
■Mix: Dolby Digital Surround
■Production cost: $4,000,000
■Production company: Lin Pictures
■Distribution company: Universal Pictures
■Premiere date: September 14, 2009 (Canada)
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