Broken pen - it turns out that kindness is a derogatory term

Leola 2022-03-23 09:01:43

Can't call it an essay because I suddenly find myself lacking in language.

I read it once a year ago, and now I think about it again, but I still don't know how to write. Not so much that I don't know what to write first, but so profound that I don't know how to write at all. Just like doing Chinese reading in the past, the article is very beautiful, and the inner feeling is very shocking, but I just don't know how to write it.

The classmates said it was a literary film, because the stage play’s setting did not have the slightest commercial flavor, but just told a story quietly. But this story is so cruel to cut open the kindness in people's heart bit by bit, fill it with sand, and then sew it up bit by bit with a needle as thick as a pencil. Even the clearest springs can sting through.

The people of Gou Town, who advertise the noble and kind-hearted people, seem to be born with such a logic: help comes at a price, so you have to pay for it. Because, I am helping you. What a high profile. Even when the disaster of extinction came, I never felt that I was at fault. Tom reminded grace until the last minute that we were here to help. It was until this moment that Grace made up her mind to kill this once "kind" person.

If kindness also requires a price, then the price of grace is undoubtedly huge, so great that dignity is trampled underfoot. Only then did she discover the evil of human nature, the incomparably humble face under the mask of man, and that tolerance is actually the rope that binds hands and feet. The moment the porcelain doll fell to the ground, she was finally released from her bound thoughts. This moment will be unforgettable, and it will be unforgettable until the final order: kill the woman's children one by one in front of her, and stop if she can hold back her tears.

She once thought that goodness could heal all people, and nobility would heal the world. For this she escaped from her father, for this she endured the bullying of others, for this she lived a life like a dog, for this...until she found out that she could not bear it at all.

Ultimately, she decided to let the village disappear. When the roaring fire lit up the red car windows, and the children cried incessantly, she knew that she had cleared a little evil for the world.

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Dogville quotes

  • Narrator: How could she ever hate them for what was at bottom merely their weakness? She would probably have done things like those that had befallen her if she had lived in one of these houses. To measure them by her own yardstick, as her father put it. Would she not, in all honesty, have done the same as Chuck and Vera and Ben and Mrs Henson and Tom and all these people in their houses? Grace paused and as she did, the clouds scattered and let the moonlight through, and Dogville underwent another of those little changes of light. It was as if the light previously so merciful and faint finally refused to cover up for the town any longer. Suddenly, you could no longer imagine a berry that would appear one day on a gooseberry bush, but only see the thorn that was there right now. The light now penetrated every unevenness and flaw in the buildings and in the people. And all of a sudden, she knew the answer to her question all too well. If she had acted like them, she could not have defended a single one of her actions and could not have condemned them harshly enough. It was as if her sorrow and pain finally assumed their rightful place. No. What they had done was not good enough. And if one had the power to put it to rights, it was one's duty to do so - for the sake of other towns, for the sake of humanity and not least, for the sake of the human being that was Grace herself.

  • Narrator: [as McKay explores even further with his hand] It was not Grace's pride that kept her going during the days when fall came and the trees were losing their leaves, but more of a trance like state that descends on animals whose lives are threatened - a state in which the body reacts mechanically in a low tough gear, without too much painful reflection. Like a patient passively letting his disease hold sway.