sick?

Zola 2022-10-07 11:48:28

Amplify social-friendly behavior into a chameleon-like change

If magnified in this form, is this behavior likely to be called a "disease"?

In the first half of watching the movie, I always sneered at those so-called "treatments" (even female doctors had the same attitude), which was actually the same as Xi Li's sister, but it was made to satisfy some so-called medical progress. Xi Li's "care". — but the funny thing is that the condition was named by people who had never seen it.

For Cili, this can't be called therapy. It might even be called a restriction on the spirit of freedom in America.

But when the patient female doctor thought about Xi Li in an empathy way, I only confirmed it. Well, deliberately catering to the world and even changing himself is indeed a disease, and Xi Li should have his own expression. But what should Xi Li's expression be? In the past Xili, all his expressions catered to this society. Therefore - catering to the society has become the label of Xili, which is all he expresses.

So after abandoning this expression, how did Xi Li get his "own" expression? It must be a feeling that extends from himself, it is the female doctor's love for Xili, so Xili can feel that the tomatoes she cooks are not delicious, he likes her, Xili wants to sleep with her, and does not want the female doctor to have sex with her. Lawyers get married. It's all about his personal interests, whether it's his taste buds or emotional appeal.

Therefore, before free expression, there should be "the establishment of the self". Of course, there are overdoings, excessive insistence, and even drastic attitudes. But all of this would make Cili a Cili, not some kind of chameleon.

Why doesn't the film stop here? I think it's another sarcasm.

The movie is full of ridicule-

ridicule those media who only know how to follow the trend for personal trifles

ridicule those who are easily incited

ridicule those "experts" who make a name for themselves

The great thing about this movie is,

magnify the absurd,

Then hit reality hard.

You too, but so.

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Extended Reading

Zelig quotes

  • Leonard Zelig: [in a hypnotic trance] My brother beat me. My sister beat my brother. My father beat my sister and my brother and me. My mother beat my father and my sister and me and my brother. The neighbors beat our family. The people down the block beat the neighbors and our family.

  • Leonard Zelig: I'm 12 years old. I run into a Synagogue. I ask the Rabbi the meaning of life. He tells me the meaning of life... But, he tells it to me in Hebrew. I don't understand Hebrew. Then he wants to charge me six hundred dollars for Hebrew lessons.