One morning more than 2,000 years ago, Diogenes was lying in a barrel and enjoying the sun, when the conqueror Alexander the Great came from afar, came to him, leaned over and asked in a humble and arrogant manner: what can be done for you?
Diogenes gave an unexpected answer: please stand aside, you blocked my sunlight.
Diogenes then invited Alexander to sunbathe with him, and Alexander chose to postpone the session until the day after he conquered the world.
Even though conquering the world is seen as a feat, Diogenes easily deconstructed its meaning: If your ultimate choice is to lie here and enjoy life, why not just do it now?
Then Alexander made his famous exclamation: If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
Deconstructionists are accustomed to doubting and denying the meaning of any artificial construction. For example, a constructivist might talk about science with scientists and sex with prostitutes, whereas a deconstructionist might talk about sex with scientists and black holes with prostitutes.
No, it's just more absurd, more interesting, and less meaningful.
Contrary to common understanding, the deconstructionist does not object to people doing anything, but only negates the "meaning" of people doing something. He wants to get rid of all socially imposed and self-imposed meanings. Let's see if everyone still does it.
Deconstructionists identify with an opposite sense—absurdity—than the values people are accustomed to accept.
Like the Woody Allen ramble in the movie, whether it's getting five-year-olds to name Dick, telling him that the two most important things in life are work and sex, or talking about black holes with prostitutes, or explaining to his wife Why do you cheat? In essence, what you want to convey is a perspective: why can't you treat life with an absurd attitude like me?
There is also a sentiment in the film that what is true becomes absurd when it is expressed in full truth. If so, does the sense of absurdity come from the truth, or is it a falsehood that we create every day?
Woody Allen on the show: My problem is, I want to sleep with every woman I meet.
Even male audiences will feel a kind of absurdity here, but if you look closely, you will find that this kind of absurdity does not come from no one thinking like this, but no one will say such an idea.
The absurd comes from the truth, which is absurd in itself.
The question the director leaves to the audience is: If an idea is real, natural, and unthinking, is the person who came up with the idea at fault?
Even if they don’t ask such questions, most people will feel natural fear of some thoughts in their hearts. The fear does not really come from self-criticism, but because they know that once such thoughts see light, they will suffer from outsiders. Criticism, so in order to survive in society, in order to obtain good interpersonal relationships and the convenience brought by interpersonal relationships, we are accustomed to hypocrisy, accustomed to verbally criticizing the evils that all human beings have, just because the outside world saw that we were sealed. 's heart.
So, people like Woody Allen are tired of this, trying to dismantle this falsehood by contradicting the absurd on the one hand, and on the other hand throwing the truth of his self-identity into the fictional world, creating various characters, and They have a dialogue. In this false world, he can face his own heart and boldly show the evil of human nature.
"Everyone knows the same truth, and our lives depend on how we twist that truth."
While deconstructing the meaning of reality, Woody Allen constructs the meaning of existence in the absurdity. At the end of the story, he no longer defends his asshole behavior, nor tries to embrace the public, but accepts this weak, Egotistical, suspicious, and out of place.
It's nice to dance on the ruins.
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