Civilization is a burden?

Angel 2022-03-25 09:01:10

Civilization is a burden?
"God Is Crazy" is a very interesting movie, basically in the Stone Age (this term is not very accurate for Bushmen, there are no stones in the desert they live in, only some wood) the indigenous people are happy all day long. They live in the Peach Blossom Garden in the desert, and how rich or poor they are outside has nothing to do with them. Suddenly one day, an idle pilot "Bah" threw a Coca-Cola bottle to them, so the native named "Kai" was very happy, this is a great gift from God! There is nothing harder than this thing, it can rub snake skin and knock wood, and it can make some noise, but this good thing is good, but it-prompted the origin of private ownership in this primitive communist society, Everyone wanted to use it, but there was only one bottle. Brother Kai was very angry, and he had to use it too. Everyone started doing it because of this, and it became discordant.
Kai is a good soldier of primitive communism. He thinks this thing is not a good thing. It is an ominous thing given to them by God. He is determined to throw it away. Simply go to the "end of the world" to solve the evil spirit of privatization.
The outside world is very exciting, the outside world is very helpless, there is the "ugly and white" female teacher Miss Thompson outside, outside there is a funny doctor who can "collect fertilizer" and break jeeps, outside there is a "white" who understands Bushman dialect. "Mao God" car mechanic, oh, the most important point, there is a terrorist outside who shot and killed half of the government, all of these, to Kai, are god-like existences, and the life of gods is no better than that of Bushmen mortals. , if you want to pick up a girl, it's not okay to drive a broken car and make the classroom jingle, because it's not okay to make a big doctor look like a hooligan because of a little bit of trouble. Compared to the state of the Bushmen, civilized society is a bit ridiculous.
The most important point is that Kai Ge, who came to the outside world, has absolutely no concept of private property. He killed a herdsman's sheep and invited the children of the herdsmen's family to eat roast mutton. Speaking of which, he is completely a Lao Shizi who doesn't know what he is. Then he puts on that Lao Shizi's singlet, and then he is judged by that Lao Shizi, and then he goes into the prison of that Lao Shizi. Hey, a dignified Bushman man, he actually became a baby born in 1980. , the whole world is tired! Brother Kai was so frightened that he didn't even want to eat anything. Fortunately, there are good-hearted people in the world, and the Great Doctor rescued him.
The biggest highlight of the whole article is the part of rescuing the hostages from terrorists. The big doctor uses his wisdom, and Kai uses his stunts to show that they are not dry people, but... The real hero is the one The petty bourgeoisie driving a hunting car, fortunately, the director seems to be unwilling to let us feel that the civilized society is too bad, even a group of people from the prehistoric era can't compare. In the end, the big doctor and Tang Mei were reunited, but for Kai, all of this has nothing to do with it. He has nothing to do, he just wants to - deal with the trouble that God gave them, that unfortunate bottle, fortunately he has also found the end of the world he imagined, and everything is happy.
Two societies that have almost no intersection have met like this. Fortunately, everything went well and there were no major problems with civilization, but we can see that the director still hopes that our lives will be simpler, he may become Lao Zhuang But if you really want to abandon sage and wisdom, I reckon—let’s destroy the bottle and all private property in our world. Unfortunately, this kind of terrifying experiment has already been done.

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The Gods Must Be Crazy quotes

  • Narrator: The hairy one said, "We don't want the thing. You have to throw it away yourself." He was very disappointed. He thought it was unfair of the gods to make him throw the thing off the Earth. In fact, he began to doubt if they really were gods.

  • Boga: I said stop playing that bloody game!