This film is Woody Allen's recent work in 2015. The content is still Allen's elements, the middle class, the ambivalence of intellectuals, female literary youth, and crime. . . , These traditional Woody Allen elements are not missing in this film. The chattering Jewish guy, the style has not changed much for decades. It is said that many of Woody Allen's films are related to the theme of the novel "Crime and Punishment". The protagonist of the novel is pretentious, has a sense of intellectual superiority, and has his own set of self-consistent life logic. For the purpose of his own noble purpose, he personally kills the old usury who once bullied him. Later, he had a nervous breakdown and voluntarily surrendered himself. This film is a satire. It satirizes many European and American intellectuals. They are full of knowledge and export, but they are decadent and vain in their lives and have no sense of morality. This seems to be a major problem of existentialism and academic philosophy, arrogance and hypocrisy, as well as theoretical out of touch with practice. The paleness of secular philosophy is that there is only rational thinking and speculation, but there is no reverence for life, which easily makes philosophy appear empty and pale. Let the so-called philosophers enter a chaotic, right and wrong, even decadent state of life. In the first half of the movie, suicide is used as a child's play, impotence, and the male protagonist with a dark mood is an example.
Regarding this point, Matthew Richard, the author of "The Monk and the Philosopher", also commented. Many of the top European and American figures he has met have poor personal morals. I have to mention Jesus and Buddha. These sages and wise men preached the unity of knowledge and action, and the unity of body and mind. Christian view, "The conscience of man is the sign of man's eternal life". The main theme of Buddhism is "do not do all evil, and pursue all good." After all, even doing evil for a good purpose is evil. To hurt anyone is wrong. With awe, there will be fewer disasters in the world, and human beings can progress slowly.
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