On this spring morning, I seem to have chosen a movie that is not very timely. Its name is "Killing". I don’t know why. In the bright sunshine of spring morning, I don’t go for a walk, but choose Sitting in front of the computer, watching four middle-aged men and women chattering for trivial matters, but I chose to do this and observe myself or others. We have to admit that people’s behaviors and choices are too often unexplainable. We just want to do this. Do, just like the people in this movie.
This movie is in line with the characteristics of my favorite movie. It has solid acting skills, sparkling collisions, smooth dialogues, narrow scenes trapping actors in it, and all plots rely on the skill of the script. The whole movie is like watching a wonderful mixed doubles tennis game. There are too many details that can be recalled and analyzed. It is not like some gorgeous blockbuster movies. It does not mobilize the audience's visual stimulation, but makes your brain really participate. Coming in, as if the engine was suddenly started, it started to follow the crackling dialogue and spin at high speed. Movies like this, there are "Sunset Train", "Dialogue with Women" and so on...
The plot is actually very simple, just use AB instead of these two couples. A couple’s 11-year-old son hit couple B’s son with a wooden stick, causing couple B’s son to hurt his lips and lost two front teeth, so couple A personally came to the door to apologize and tried to negotiate a solution.
Since you have decided to have children and plan to begin to be responsible for the growth of a life, this kind of trivial matter is inevitable for all parents. Obviously no one wants to deal with these messy things, but our life is often led by countless messy things, like a blind donkey blindfolded in circles, we sometimes wish to pick up wood like children. The stick beat life happily, and then left, letting others clean up the mess. But we can’t do this, because when we grow up, we will keep telling ourselves that we are adults and civilized people, so we have a responsibility, and we must deal with the endless troubles that these lives give us one by one. , Even if precious lives are lost a little bit in these reluctances.
Therefore, couple A bit the bullet and came to apologize to their son. They were humble and full of sincerity. They scolded their son bloody, saying that he was a lunatic and took all the responsibilities and offered to give the son of couple B. Looking for the best dentist, the negotiation should come to a perfect end here.
But sometimes, it's just a detail that is wrong, and it can't even be said to be wrong, it can only be regarded as something wrong. In this case, the detail is that Mr. A took a few calls during the negotiation process because he is a lawyer and his most important client is a pharmaceutical company. A public relations crisis broke out this morning and he should have dealt with it. This incident was forced by his wife to apologize for his son.
As a result, some emotions began to brew. Mrs. B began to think that Mr. A did not respect the incident and thought they needed a more sincere apology. So the four went back indoors again, greeting and negotiating, but the situation did not get better. It was getting out of control, and in the end it had nothing to do with the children. Instead, they began to complain against each other, against marriage, against society. The coat of civilization was stripped off one by one, and people finally expressed their true thoughts and blamed each other. The other party is a liar, coward, and crazy.
The movie is called "carnage", which means slaughter. The name seems too serious. After all, no one in the movie really died. But in a peaceful and heyday, most of the wars and chaos we can experience are like this, the confrontation of ideas, the guilt of morals, the massacre of values, the devaluation of each other’s lifestyles, and the struggle for moral high ground and greater discourse power in getting along. War has never disappeared, it just becomes invisible, but it may not cause harm. Jesus once said that if you hate a person, you are killing, then in this sense, the process of stabbing each other through the four people is no different from a killing, and it is not like a real killing. It will happen all the time, it will happen repeatedly every day, it happens on campus, it happens in marriage, it happens in every conversation, it may be some invisible and precious things that are killed, we even all Never realized how it died in our hearts.
Actually, I sympathize with Mrs. B. She seems to be the one with the worst psychological quality among the four. She was the first to lose her footing, and she was the first to cry and collapse. When her husband told others, she She is a writer, she took the conversation and tried to behave like a professional writer. But soon, as soon as she turned her face, she blamed her husband in sullenness and shouldn't tell others that she was a writer. Her heart is very contradictory. On the one hand, she has written a book about the African Holocaust, which shows that she has a strong sense of morality and world citizenship, but at the same time, this book is probably not successful or has a low evaluation. So now she is only a small clerk who sells books in the bookstore.
She persisted very hard. She tried to stand out from the crowd. She collected and kept out-of-print picture albums to express her taste, and put them in the most prominent place on the coffee table. She has a stubborn and fragile self-esteem. She opposes hasty reconciliation and repeatedly emphasized that the children of husband and wife A must truly admit their mistakes, otherwise the matter is endless. She emphasized that she does not care about the interests itself, but insists on pure justice and universal values, and is maintaining social justice and peace.
Judy Foster did put her heart into this character, and she almost contributed to the peak level of her acting skills. She did not have plastic surgery, but I hardly recognized her at the beginning. She almost even had temperament in order to play such a woman. Everything has changed. The nervous smile, the contradictory body language that strongly suppresses dissatisfaction, but also wants to show a relaxed state, made this woman seem very entangled.
There is something stubborn about her, her idealistic temperament, she stubbornly wants to teach others, she almost insists on cleanliness about what is fair, and she respects and cherishes literary works, and she is unreasonable and unreasonable. , In the course of the gradual deepening of the confrontation, it almost reached an unbearable degree.
There are some small details that are actually worth pondering. For example, Mrs. A vomits in the picture album. I personally think that is actually a metaphor. It is a metaphor for Mrs. A's depreciation or even humiliation of the set of cultural values represented by Mrs. B. Mrs. A has always tried to show respect for people, but she is actually just to solve the problem, not really from the B couple. Of course, her vomiting was not intentional. It can only be said to be the director's black humor. Behind this, she wants to behave, which is probably the humiliation that every person called "artist youth" has experienced. Mrs. B stubbornly wanted to play the role of the people's teacher, but finally turned herself into the enemy of the people. In the end, even her husband stood on the side of the other party, sneered at their wives by drinking and drinking and smoking cigars on the sofa. She couldn't help being angry, but the more angry she became, the more she looked like a glass heart, and she looked like a joke. Mr. AB began to join hands to mock the lofty values she believed in. They actually didn't realize their cruelty. Yes, it is actually cruel. For such a sensitive woman, this is a kind of naked bullying.
This movie gave me the feeling that Mrs. A was actually very accurate when she commented on Bacon’s paintings: "Cruel, gorgeous, chaotic, and balanced." This movie is also true. People hurt each other and also each other. Seeking reconciliation, trying to balance various interests and values, but making the world cruel and chaotic, such a plot, as long as there are humans alive, it will probably continue forever.
After experiencing repeated ridicule and criticism of Mr. A and Mr. B, in the end, Mrs. A, who seemed to be gentle and reasonable, seemed to have some encouragement. She grabbed the tulip and smashed it by the strength of wine, which can also be regarded as A complete denial of this value.
I don’t remember who mentioned in his book that in every family or in every dispute, one person will eventually become the “convicted” and he will become the target of everyone. Everyone is willing to take all responsibilities and sins. Push it to him, push him the dissatisfaction with life, and Mrs. B eventually becomes this role. Originally, it was just negotiating children's fights, but in the end it became a dispute over values. The last three people almost stood on the same side, attacking Mrs. B’s untimely and idealism, and attacking her being critical and serious. , She became the "convicted".
Maybe, even while watching the movie, you will be affected, and you will start to blame Mrs. B in your heart, thinking that she is really a thing. But have you ever felt the same way? Whenever we try to talk about beauty, culture, peace, or some noble values, we often attract inexplicable hostility for some reason, saying that you are pretending to be forceful, that you are hypocritical, that you are out of fashion, and that you can only The empty talk is actually a weak person, or that your scholar has not rebelled for three years, and these accusations and ridicules, you don't even know how to defend yourself. They come from pragmatists, supporters of power, and even simple and rude people who don’t care about anything. At that moment, they seem to have the power to start throwing stones at you. In the end, you may even start to feel ashamed of all this. , You will cry, you will feel lonely, and finally you start to doubt yourself, deny yourself, and even slowly walk to their side.
Lin Yihan once said: "The largest massacre in human history is Fang Siqi's rape." My understanding of this sentence has never been limited to sexual assault. I understand that she is talking about power and sex. Sometimes it is just a manifestation of power. Power and bullying will recur in various ways. When you live in a certain abnormal culture, you are oppressed and hurt by this culture, and you are silently laughed at by this culture. Just like Lin Yihan, she is clearly a victim but also suffers some subtle pollution. Nameization, such as sluts humiliation or hypocrisy, etc. These words may not always be spoken directly, but they have always existed, and they have been slaughtered.
So I think that true peace is not just to put away knives and guns, but to strive to call for a truly kind culture, which allows us to learn to control our inner desire for power, and to see that we are never perfect. It will bring a Retreat, a kind of humble introspection. Don't easily pick up the stone in your hand to hit someone, because the stone falls from the sky, and you may eventually hit yourself.
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