Life has no meaning, so you have to die?

Leanna 2022-03-24 09:03:42

I spent a lot of effort to watch this movie, because I watched Chinese subtitles, and the movie was mainly dialogue, so I was afraid of missing important dialogues. As for the quality of subtitles, there's nothing you can do about it.
I feel that the movie is not very compact, and the front rendering is a bit too much. Although the dialogues are all related to the center of the movie, they are not the factors that promote the development of the plot. Of course, maybe the plot doesn't have to move forward or there is no plot at all.
Blacks have been trying to convince whites, but without success. In the end, it took a turn for the worse, and the white man made the black man neurotic.
It has always been a little bit incomprehensible.
White people say that life is meaningless. This is a philosophical topic and a personal feeling. Well, just treat life as meaningless. But the meaninglessness of life has nothing to do with suicide, right? I also feel that life is meaningless, but I would rather kill than commit suicide. It means that there is no effective causal relationship from life meaningless to death. If the black man asks this, let the white man tell the reason, and continue to ask him the reason for doing so, and evoke his memory, maybe the plot can be lengthened again. Of course, maybe the black people's cultural roots can't think so deeply, so it's up to him, but he can't explain why the black people collapsed in the end.
In the beginning, black people appeared as a devout believer, and it was the type of prodigal son who would pay for it. The general spirit of this Christian who has experienced the test of life and death is extremely strong, which also explains his performance in the first half of the film. And is it that the more religious you are, the more devastating the blow you receive after your shattering? Originally, white people had to die, if they could persuade them, they would persuade them. As the black people said, you are sitting here, someone insists that you do not exist, will you be angry? Or will he look at him sympathetically and not speak? Since God can be indifferent, why should black people care? Of course, maybe the reason for his collapse was because the faith was shattered. But on a topic like the meaning of life, almost everyone will be confused by it in our lifetime. Black people fall in such a sentence? This is kind of unbelievable.

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  • White: The things I love are very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that, I thought they were indestructible. They weren't...

    Black: And that's what sent you off the edge of the platform, it wasn't nothin' personal?

    White: Oh, it's personal, that's what an education does, it makes makes the world personal?

  • Black: The sun don't shine up the same dog's ass every day, you understand what I'm saying?

    White: If what you're saying is that I'm simply having a bad day, that's ridiculous.

    Black: I ain't saying you're having a bad day, Professor, I'm saying you're having a bad life.