The power of roles and rules

Josefina 2022-03-21 09:02:52

After watching the two parts of the Japanese movie "Battle Royale", Tokyo Jihad and Song of the Soul, first of all, I fell in love with the girl Kitano in the song of the soul of the soul. She was very cool and energetic, and then this movie triggered some thoughts. .

The plot is roughly as follows: In an era of increasingly intensified conflicts between adults and young people, people are living in poverty and terrorists are active, adults use the military's high-tech technical means to carry out BR plans to sanction these young people who have been resisting them. The so-called BR plan is to pull a group of young people to a deserted island and let them kill each other. The last one who survives is the winner. Later, due to the plot, it was reformed into the BR2 plan, and the rules are quite perverted. It is estimated that only the Japanese can come up with such perverted rules of the game. The whole scene was bloody and chaotic. In order to survive, there was no way to subvert the rules of the game, because the result of quitting was also detonating the bomb around the neck. The former good friends began to suspect, beware and kill each other.

After watching this film, we might as well refer to psychological analysis and analysis. Roles and rules can bring surprising power, and a person's behavior has a lot to do with his role. Just think about it, those middle school female teachers who were vicious in the classroom were also charming and graceful little beauties on the university campus, and those who were official and inhuman (quoting Bai Lao's quotations, without much criticism) Leaders used to be courageous strugglers. Bosses or mentors could formulate harsh rules to safeguard their own interests... Any role or occupation will have corresponding behaviors; any group of small groups at different levels Or individuals will also behave differently due to the influence of the rules, which can be described as talking ghosts and talking to people. But these, I think, are a symptom of the surprising power of characters and rules, and there is a deeper power.

As an individual, most of us, under the influence of different roles and rules, will always lose our point of view and lose our ego. From this point of view, we can give a reasonable explanation for the existence of flattery, flattery, lies and deceit, nonchalant empty talk, etc. from a psychological point of view. My God, these people's psychology is actually very normal! Just like we can see a lot of nonsense with our eyes open, in a big environment, many people will follow everyone's opinions, for example, a group of buddies are in this movie, originally you are not interested in this movie The evaluation of the movie is not bad, but suddenly someone said that this movie is bullshit, the acting has no acting skills, the plot has no plot, the whole rubbish, at this time, you may start to doubt whether the judgment that you think this movie is not bad is still tenable. Feet, will it arouse contempt from others and say that our taste is too bad, so the balance in my heart begins to tilt, of course, my buddies also have the same idea as you, and they all start to make extreme comments, and then this movie is really true. turned into utter rubbish. This is typical group polarization and group blind thinking, because everyone has a herd mentality. What's more, obedience to authority, even if it annihilates humanity, is at all costs, sad! Of course, if a good conformity atmosphere is created, conformity psychology can still play a positive role.

In addition, people are self-interested (this self-interest is completely defined from an economic point of view, you generously sacrifice yourself to save others and seek the meaning of life and spiritual pleasure, this is also self-interest, and it is completely different from selfishness concept), so that different roles will have self-interested biases when thinking about problems. The case that psychologists often talk about is the conflict between fan comments and mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Conflicts and contradictions are often due to different starting points. Emotional ability, think about it in a different position, and many problems will be solved.

In fact, not all people are restricted by roles and rules. Just like Qiyuan Qiyuan and Noriko in "Battle Royale", they insist on resisting the rules of the game, insisting on love, insisting on hope for peace, and finally lucky survived. And there was a volunteer murderer who ended up dying unsightly. It can be seen that sometimes too conforming to the rules is not necessarily a winner. For the same reason, we think that the fairest voting is not a fair thing, because he completely affirms the opinions of more than half of the people and completely rejects the others. Such a game rule cannot achieve a true balance. .

We are threatened and misled by the existing culture. Human culture and education have created a wrong inertia. What we need and think about, it seems that human culture has given us a set, or the environment we are in. It's already been set for us. I thought about what Wang Meng said and the questions he raised in his report at our school at the end of April this year: when we saw the moon, we thought of Jiaojie and Yupan, and there were no other words; Are you really happy on the night of the bridal chamber and the time of the inscription? He said that this is a language trap, and I think this is also cultural misdirection.

For roles and rules, for the environment we are in, we should strive to build our own little culture and not fall into "other people's farce". Of course, we're not asking you to run naked or run a red light, because this society still needs order.

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Extended Reading

Battle Royale II quotes

  • Masami Shibaki: [Shibaki gets shot, falls to the ground, then gets up slowly, in a weak voice] No big deal... I'm glad I made friends. Go now...

    Takuma Aoi: Shibaki!

  • Sensei: [walks in dressed in jersey holding a rugby ball] Yo! So you're Nanahara Shuya? I'm Takeuchi Riki. "We declare war against all adults." Gotta hand it to you, you've got guts. Every adult on earth wants you dead. From now on, you'll have to live with all the lives you've taken. Including my daughter, who died in your terrorist attack. Neither of us have anywhere to call home.

    [Riki's necklace begins to beep]

    Sensei: Boy #1 Aoi Takuma, Girls #4 Kitano Shiori. One question, in life there's only the winning or the losing. Is that really true?

    [explosion. Things shake]

    Sensei: Go. You'll only find the answer by living your life.

    [looks at the rugby ball]

    Sensei: I... always did want to play rugby with you guys...

    [another explosion. Riki's necklace beeps faster]

    Sensei: Just go. 3, 2, 1... go!

    [Riki runs and spikes the ball. His necklace explodes. And so does the bomb]