Herzog's film is just a case of indifference in human nature. In fact, films that are "for themselves" in the true sense are not uncommon in the history of film. Taken together, these many films are the best annotations for the human picture of "everyone for himself". Human beings for themselves, from the beginning, stay on the satisfaction of the body, that is, eating and clothing. Eat, to ensure the satisfaction of the belly; wear, to ensure the body's normal and comfortable temperature. At this stage, people seek physical maintenance. This is a great mystery. Now every person who is born comes into this world with a created body and needs to eat when he is hungry and put on clothes when he is cold for no reason. The human body also grows with satisfaction. An obvious fact is that no one has nothing to do when he is full and clothed, that is, no one is only satisfied with food and clothing in his entire life. People quickly start chasing spiritual/spiritual needs. Of course, such needs are often not as obvious as the body's need for food and clothing, but their existence cannot be excused. In fact, what people usually call the mind/spirit/superstructure is precisely the spirit/soul possessed by man as a creature. What man comes into the world is endowed with not only the body, but also the invisible spirit/soul. The latter can be seen in people's pursuit of other things after the body is satisfied. This is exactly what the Book of Genesis in the Bible says about people being "living beings with spirits" who have the breath of the LORD God. Humans are different from other creatures. Films developed from the contemporary era are not like Van Gogh's painting "The Potato Eaters", which only depicts people's difficult living conditions, but often meticulously and vividly show people's pursuits and needs in their hearts/spirits. There are many things on the list of objects of human pursuit: money, power (the pursuit of both is more obvious in the film "Citizen Kane" by Kane's character), love, beauty ("Sunset Boulevard") The old heroine's quest for both: shooting the young hero, having facial surgery), fame (Ava in The Comet, and the end foreshadows a repeat of this quest) , status (Lily Gordon, the maid in the lower social class in "Lily Gordon", pursues a mistress-like status; Colonel Raidl in "Colonel Rader" pursues status all the way, and finally in the higher power class Forced to commit suicide under orders), knowledge (the doctor in "Dr. Incarnate" pursues knowledge to the point where he can become another person, but he eventually leads to self-destruction in the tear of good and evil in himself Road), Drugs ("Degenerate Street") ••••Death. The quest for death here refers to the suicide of man—it can only refer to and Just refers to a situation where people kill themselves - and it's voluntary. And this kind of situation must be an action made by people when they are full, warm, and satisfied, and are classified as spiritual/spiritual pursuits. When other things in the rankings do not arouse people's interest in pursuing, or people do not get satisfaction from them, people will feel very clearly that "life is meaningless". As a human being, living in the world, this kind of life situation is prior to the understanding, cognition and affirmation of the living person, that is, being born in the world is not something that can be decided by oneself, and people do not have the right to decide whether they want to come to this world or not. . Death is a pursuit after people feel emptiness, and a means—giving up the needs of the soul, trying to prevent/cut off the emptiness of the mind/spirit. The result is only the fact that in this world the needs of man's soul no longer exist in the living man, but at the same time his body is irretrievably destroyed, that is, the body faces and accepts death. A suicidal person does not hate his body, but his demand for inner satisfaction is so strong that he involuntarily despises the body—a body that has been solved and fed and clothed. People have no choice and no control over their own mind/spirit needs. All he does is keep pursuing something to satisfy the needs of the mind/spirit, and once he tries to cut off the needs of the mind/spirit, it only hurts his own body. Even if some people are unwilling to commit suicide, they will choose methods such as meditation, but this is only a "symptomatic cure". controlling power. All he does is keep pursuing something to satisfy the needs of the mind/spirit, and once he tries to cut off the needs of the mind/spirit, it only hurts his own body. Even if some people are unwilling to commit suicide, they will choose methods such as meditation, but this is only a "symptomatic cure". controlling power. All he does is keep pursuing something to satisfy the needs of the mind/spirit, and once he tries to cut off the needs of the mind/spirit, it only hurts his own body. Even if some people are unwilling to commit suicide, they will choose methods such as meditation, but this is only a "symptomatic cure".
The relentless pursuit of food and clothing still appears in the rankings, a case of projecting the needs of the mind/spirit onto the body. The former is like "Feast of Bliss", where a group of rich people seek to eat, not because their bodies are hungry, but simply because their minds/spirits cannot be satisfied. Another situation is that Qin Shihuang, Tang Taizong, and Egyptian mummies still try to use the way of perpetuating the body to achieve eternal self-satisfaction after the needs of the body have been met; the four major cities of London, Milan, Paris, and New York are the representatives. The fashion week held is showing that people are going after clothes.
Another very obvious fact is that for one's own body, when a person feels full and warm, it will automatically stop the pursuit of food and clothing. However, on the list of objects to be pursued by the mind/spirit, there is no one that the pursuer has the ability, reason, and restraint to stop himself from pursuing. The only way to stop a man from seeking is physical death. It is conceivable that even if Yan Jiansheng was facing death, the thought of wanting something in the world still existed in his heart, and he did not die. The Chinese idioms "Desires are hard to fill" and "people are not enough to swallow elephants" are incisive generalizations. But this kind of generalization is just like what people have done with many of the films listed above or with novels, plays and other artistic means such as "Eugenie Grandet" and "Faust". Yu picked out the most representative person and examined it with a magnifying glass, trying to achieve self-rescue and self-examination, but of course the effect was of little use.
In fact, there is nothing wrong with people living in pursuit attitude, because this is the normal state of human beings, and it reflects that people need something to fill in their hearts/spirits. People think it's those things on the leaderboard, so they naturally pursue them. But a problem that is probably not expected by people, and even more difficult to find, is that none of the above things can satisfy people. It's like a man can't fill his soul with the things he seeks as he can with every meal—never once. Man's mind/spirit is always hungry, so he desperately pursues to be full. From this point of view, people conduct self-criticism and self-examination in various ways, like letting a little baby throw away the feeding bottle by himself, or a few-year-old child who needs to eat by his own willpower to throw away the rice bowl in his hand like falling. In fact, the problem is that the experienced person just wants to tell the baby or child a fact: the feeding bottle is not filled with milk, but only air, or the child's bowl is not filled with rice, but with sand. But so what if it is told, for thousands of years, who has been able to categorically reject things that are not satisfying for them under this kind of human criticism and self-examination? The heart is willing, but the action has no power. Even if he gave up the things that could not meet the needs of his own heart/spirit, he called the things of the world "not brought by life, not brought by death", and he also claimed to "see through" the world, what he chose was to escape to. Somewhere, the desire in my heart is still there. Then in this world, can he find anything else to satisfy himself in human beings? Therefore, criticizing oneself is nothing, and pity on oneself is considered high. Aren't people poor? He is very hungry. But people often do not realize that they are poor and hungry. It is the fact that human beings are all facing hunger, and they are all pursuing the same thing, so they are particularly disgusted by those who are assiduous among them, and they are reprimanded as "self-centered" or "only for their own sake, regardless of the life and death of others." In fact, "everyone is for himself" can't be more normal, because he is hungry and thirsty. When people scolded "everyone for himself", it just shows that what people are after does not satisfy the hunger in people. What he pursues is never enough in this world, in his eyes, how can he tolerate other people robbing him of this resource?
On the long list, people are missing one thing: life. This kind of life is meant to satisfy one's mind/spirit, just as one's belly can be satisfied with food: not hungry, not thirsty, not only able to eat three meals a day, but also to make more daring things Follow-up: Can it be more than three meals a day? Could it not be like the inevitable death of the body, where there is eternal contentment in my mind/spirit, and even if the body dies, the spirit will live forever?
Is there such a life in the human world? There is. what is it? Jesus Christ.
Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no one comes to the Father except through me" (John 14:6) "I have come that one might have life, and that more abundant" (John 10:10) "for the bread of God is he who came down from heaven to give life to the world" (John 6:33) "I am the bread of life, who came to me and he will never be hungry; he who believes in me will never be thirsty" (John 6:35) "I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if anyone eats this bread, he will live forever" (John 6 : 51).
Believing in Jesus is not a religion, but a way of life. "In him was life, and the life was the light of men" (John 1:4)
Jesus alone not only clearly knows the need in man's heart/spirit, but he has everything that can satisfy that need. Therefore, He earnestly invites mankind to come and enjoy abundant life in Him. There may be those who are fortunate among human beings who are able to rise above the rest and experience that nothing satisfies them—let alone, of course, others; but it is also unfortunate, for there are those who end up having to commit suicide to stop their own emptiness . In several of Bresson's films, the protagonists end their lives in various ways. Among them, there are as many as three of the suicides, among which "Probably the Devil" is based on real events. The young, youthful male protagonist is smart and knowledgeable, surpassing his other classmates. He sees through the love between his parents because it is based on money; he is adored by a girl, and he also experiences He had sex, but was unable to respond to the girl's love; his peers of the same age could not solve the problems he was facing. He tried to give sympathy and assistance to his partners, in exchange for being brutally beaten by the police.•••• Love and giving love are both lacking and powerless in human beings. And if people who are the original creatures rely on their own thoughts, look for certain methods, and claim that they have found them, they will only build towers of Babel that are extremely unpleasant in the eyes of God.
When a man possesses Jesus, he possesses the Son of God, which is also the life of God. From this life emerges the very rich attributes of God. Like love. So when one is with one's own partner, it will not be for the satisfaction of eternal love from the other, but to show love to each other, and to be able to do so for each other.
People have long been weighed down by the things on the list and labored for them all their lives, and Jesus said, "Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28). ) "For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light" (Matthew 11:30)
In the rankings, people have not had the pursuit of love. Pursuit is an act of appropriating an object as one's own - this is also "for oneself" in the true sense - and when one has no chance to distinguish whether the object is good or bad for oneself, started this action. Not only for love, but for fairness, goodness, and equality, all people think are good, people only need them, that is, people are always in a state of needing them, but have not pursued them. A more terrifying picture in the human mind/spirit is that what one sees as positive does not satisfy it, and eventually the negative will fill it up. Man has nothing to do with what he has in his heart/spirit. "The Elephant" is icy, where two gay male students brutally kill their classmates and teachers with guns on campus. In the era when "Rules of the Game" and "Muchhat" were shown, people would say that the cruel killing of people was just like the way people treated animals, but in "The Elephant", these metaphors are also not necessary, the director tries to explain in detail to the We show some of the background or what we call the cause of this school shooting, such as the indifference among the students, everyone is pursuing their own things; teachers and other students do not understand homosexuality, or put The main reason is that if the protagonists really get satisfaction from this kind of love, why are they still full of hatred and revenge in their hearts, so that the actions they bring are Kill people like yourself? Same-sex love is actually another tower of Babel being built by mankind. Before this film, another American film "Deadly Obsessed", which was also based on real events, also reflected the tragedy of killing caused by the insufficiency of love. This time the protagonist pursues the opposite sex. One can imagine: whether the object is of the opposite sex or the same sex, the result of its pursuit is the same. And the devastation brought by the latter is probably something that people who can only see in front of them have never imagined.
Herzog sounded the alarm: Gott gegen alle, that is, God against all. However, this assertion is still incomplete. From a certain year, a certain month, a certain day after the creation of mankind, Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, disobeying God’s command, and man was ruled by sin, and man was in a state of opposition to God. To speak against it, it should start at this point. If it is said that "love is patient and kind" (1 Corinthians 13:4), it is obvious that "God is love" (1 John 3:8), what is there to say about man himself" lasting". This most perfect love is fully accomplished and manifested by God. In the most complete and deepest record of mankind's longest criminal history, in the Bible, before everything predicted in the Book of Revelation came, God prepared salvation for mankind, and everything was accomplished in Jesus Christ. Regarding God's will, Jesus said: "The Father judges no one, but entrusts all judgment to the Son, so that all may honor the Son as the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent the Son. I I tell you the truth, he who hears my voice and believes in him who sent me will have eternal life and will not be condemned, but has passed from death to life." (John 5:22-24) "For the Father As he had life in himself, he gave him life in himself; and because he is the Son of man, he gave him authority to execute judgment." (John 5:27) "He who does good is raised to life. , the resurrection of evildoers and condemnation." (John 5:29)
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