The highlight of the play is that the daughter of a rich family reads Nietzsche, which indicates that if you understand Nietzsche, you will understand the play. However, Nietzsche's philosophy is known for being difficult and obscure, and few people even claim to understand it, let alone really understand it. Of course, the screenwriter will not pretend to be advanced and let the audience watch Nietzsche first and then watch the play, but let the plot cleverly revolve around the most well-known eight words about Nietzsche: "God is dead, Nietzsche is crazy".
Nietzsche lived in an era of great change from traditional society to modern society. When Nietzsche said that God is dead, he means that the Christian God is dead, that is to say, the belief in traditional society has died out, and the belief in modern society is about to emerge. The development of human society is completely in line with Nietzsche's predictions, traditional beliefs are declining day by day, and money worship is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Wealth became the new God in place of Jesus, and society entered a new cycle of "God is dead, Nietzsche is crazy".
The main line of the story is the luxurious vacation trip of a newlywed family, a family of four, and a single rich woman, indicating the three stages of "God is dead, Nietzsche is crazy", which are pain, confusion and madness. The rich second-generation bridegroom is not in pain, because his belief in the supremacy of money has not been shaken, but the Cinderella bride has begun to awaken. The sign is that she believes that the family of four is an out-and-out assahole. It was her subconscious realization that the family of four was their future. As the bride becomes more and more aware that wealth is not God, the pain felt by the bride becomes deeper and deeper into the bone, until the final outburst and confession.
The family of four has entered a stage of confusion. In their values, money can solve all problems, but in reality, nothing can be solved. So parents don't understand their children's rebellion. Children know that there is a problem in life, but they don't know where the problem is. So the family of four is obviously rich with both children and the world, but it's awkward to look at it. In the eyes of others, it is a fake asshole.
The single rich woman has obviously evolved to the next stage. She has been lost for too long in "I have everything, but I am not happy", and finally she started to become crazy, and she is crazy without belief.
When there is pain, there will be resistance. The screenwriter divides the resistance into two lines: one inside and one outside. Externally, it is the poor who struggle against social injustice, it is not the rich who struggle against God is dead. The manager of the resort, the spa director and the girlfriend of the rich family are poor. The manager's method is to disgust the rich to seek psychological balance. The manager's method is to obtain the investment of the rich to realize his dream. .
The poor have never reached the state where money is regarded as dung, so in the struggle against wealth, which is God, there is absolutely no way to enter, and without exception, it will end in failure. The most classic scene happened when the Cinderella bride confided to the spa director that money can't buy happiness, and the spa director replied "I have no idea" very indifferently.
The internal struggles come from the brides of the newlyweds, the children of the family of four, and the single rich woman herself. The bride recognizes the problem and sees the future clearly, but she is not willing to give up everything she has obtained. The final choice is to compromise. The daughter of a wealthy family realizes the problem but cannot extricate herself in the maze. When she sees the pain of her best friend, she still thinks of using money to solve the problem. And the rich woman doesn't know any other way but crazy.
The screenwriter is a pessimist, and the answer given is that the poor have not reached the realm of the rich, and are far from breaking free from the shackles of wealth. The rich are also the slaves of wealth, and it is simply wishful thinking to break out of the cocoon and become a butterfly. The screenwriter seems to have left a touch of light on the plot, portraying the son of a rich family as a success in his dream, but the audience can easily foresee the future of the 16-year-old boy. The rich family who has no experience in the world and has no skills, the ultimate destination must be to go home.
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