The first time I saw this movie was on the movie channel. It can be seen that Yangliu a long time ago was not a tasteless channel that only played main themes and TV movies.
It's an 80's movie like a documentary. In the beginning, the bright white African desert, the running giraffes and zebras, the calm voiceover, the monophonic soundtrack of the TV era, the synthetic background music that occasionally gets stuck in the middle, and the calm dubbing. This should be a documentary of the nature of "Animal World".
But, it's not really a documentary, it's really a comedy. Start from the beginning. The Coke bottle that fell from the sky from the plane was mistaken by the primitive tribe for something given to them by God. It was a good thing, they had never seen something so hard to rub rope, beat wood roots, and make sounds. But gradually, tribes that had a high spirit of sharing suddenly discovered how wonderful it is to have private ownership. So everyone began to quarrel endlessly, until it fell from the sky and smashed a child's head during the fight. People began to reflect and began to feel ashamed, thinking that it was an ominous thing that God had lost his head and accidentally dropped. Since then, the tribe's Lisu began to embark on a journey with a Coke bottle and the ideal of returning it to God for "recycling".
So we are that "God". In fact, for most living things in the world, we are indeed God. We can block rivers and divert them to dry up wherever we want; we can melt far-flung glaciers and flood islands with ocean water; we can dig holes in mountains, we can reproduce the same creatures, and we can make the night brighter than the day. ,can……. There is nothing we can do but live forever.
Relatively pure and simple nature, we "gods" have an unparalleled advanced life beyond the reach of civilization. A Coke bottle from the most advanced to the most trivial has also become the omnipotent thing of the primitive tribe.
It happens to be us "Gods", how ridiculous and stupid. Sociologists obviously see it more clearly, not so much that they ridicule "modernity", but that they are deeply worried about modern civilization. Just like the beginning of the film, there are endless deserts, primitive tribes living in hardship and isolation, a leisurely life without the concept of calendar, week and time, no punishment laws, no police bosses, and I believe that all things bestowed by God are beautiful.
But in a city six hundred miles away, there is a civilization you can see. People are not willing to submit to the natural environment, so they have to let the environment submit to them. So people build cities, highways, and transportation, and rack their brains to save manpower, but they don't want to just quit; the more they want to improve their living environment, the more complicated they are. Children spend more than ten years learning how to survive in this complex and dangerous environment. Civilized people who are not willing to succumb to nature find that they adapt to the environment he has created all the time. When the calendar points to Monday, and the time arrives at 7:30, they must leave their accustomed home and adapt to an environment of the opposite tone. At eight o'clock, everyone has to get busy.
How sad is the "alienation" of man. In the eyes of the Frankfurt School, all alienated or materialized forces that bind and rule people are the object of their criticism: "The extent to which the objects and environments we have created have become our masters is something that Marx failed to achieve. foresaw; but nothing more prominently proves his foresight than the fact that today all mankind is a prisoner of the political system of his own creation, and the terrified mankind is anxiously waiting to know whether it will be possible to Saved from the power of what one has created (Habermas)". Indeed, in the evolution of nature to the present, what kind of creatures can be so complicated that they are bound by their own rules. What kind of animal has set such a life "trap" for itself. In order to survive, you must work 5 days in every 7 days, and you must work 8 hours a day, and it must be in the morning and evening; Otherwise, you either lose the chance of survival (or development) or accept some kind of punishment. In other species, such a logic of life may not exist at all.
Some sociologists have sighed that in our current social life, there are many disasters and drawbacks, but unemployment is a disaster, and it is the most difficult thing for people to not understand. There are diseases in human society, we can think about it, because our technology has not developed to the level that can eliminate all diseases; there are wars in human society, we can also think about it, this is because we have not yet been able to serve the interests of all groups Make the most reasonable arrangements; unemployment alone, you can hardly find any reason to justify it, it's an end or catastrophe designed almost entirely by man himself.
He even pointed out that the activities of many animals have the following two characteristics: activities are for their own survival, and more activities are instinctively to create opportunities for themselves to rest and leisure (some animals hibernate). But it seems that only the purpose of human labor is to create more labor opportunities. As a high-level creature, the leisure and freedom that should be the lowest instinct of all creatures has become the highest-level luxury. If we are "God" then who is the God who saves us. Looking around the world, if you don't choose to look up to the sky to visit the illusory god in the dark, then it seems that the only way to save mankind is to save yourself. This is the Moebius ring, walking around, starting and ending with its own absurdity.
In the hot summer, just calm down and watch this simple film, you will think, why is it so funny, and why is it so sad. Li Su, who talks with monkeys, Li Su, who was shot in the leg because of instinctively hunting sheep, Li Su who was thrown into prison and lost his freedom and went on a hunger strike. This tribal man who was once loved by people all over the world, rather than saying that everyone loves his original performance, it is better to say that he carries the heavy dreams that too many people will only scream when they are oppressed to the extreme.
Also, really love the white male lead, his story with the fence, his story with the buggy, and his story with the heroine, his sighs of "oops ah ah ah", simple scene action , is a hundred times more amusing than words. By the way, there is also the pair of thieves who take the time to play cards all the time. Their perseverance is indeed comparable to that of colleagues who see the table and play mahjong.
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