I've brought up the topic of hardness and softness more than once when writing a review. These two words conjure up yin and yang, opposites, etc., but my intention is to see them as independent thought events in our technological age, like Kundera's fast and slow.
We are all a brick in the wall, a brick. The question is, is this wall hard, indestructible, or breakable? The wall in the film is a force that breaks through all obstacles in the world with modern technological forces such as politics, economy, education, etc. One can see, keep seeing, always see, how innocent children, after experiencing the wall, took up arms and started killing.
"We don't want to educate!"
The voice was so soft because it only came from the human throat. It can't decide anything. But the "I want" willingness may not change the truth, but it is the first step. It is the first step in individual awakening. The second step may be sinking. Was the incident of the Beijing university student shouting "We are people, not commodities" just a naive expression?
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