What's the point of thinking? let's live

Conrad 2022-03-24 09:02:14

Mickey Sachs, played by Woody Allen, is Hannah's ex-husband who eventually divorced because Mickey couldn't have children. Mickey is a TV show worker, as always spiritual. During an examination, he might have cancer, and he began to panic all day long. The final examination result showed that he was healthy. The joy of his escape lasted for a while. will die, all will die, everyone knows it, but everyone just deliberately doesn't think about it, nothing is eternal, everything is meaningless (Annie Hall), so he's going Looking for answers, couldn't find answers from Socrates (lewd greek boy), Nietzsche (reincarnation), Freud (psychoanalysis), so turned to religion, first catholic and then buddhism, because you gotta believe in something (Does it mean the same thing as faith? Anyway, in the end, what you believe in is not religion or doctrine), otherwise life is meaningless, but religion can't give him the answer, and in the end he can't bear to live in a godless universe and decides to commit suicide. But he accidentally caught fire, the bullet rubbed his forehead but he was not injured, and finally, while watching a movie (like duck soup), he came to understand: there is no god (no meaning), life is only once, we can experience it and become an experience Part of it, it's not too bad, we shouldn't torture ourselves to think about answers, but to enjoy life in time, life is short.

Sartre said that we are like actors who are pulled on stage before we have memorized our lines. There is no script and no prompter to tell us what to do. When people realize that they live in the world, they will die one day. And when there is no point to cling to, they panic even more.

Life is meaningless. We should experience life and enjoy life. This should be the thought of existentialism. It is very similar to what Teacher Li Yinhe said on Weibo and WeChat public account. Life is short, like dew like electricity, what is the meaning of thinking, let's live it.

Mickey is a very important part of the movie, the deepest, most philosophical part, but it doesn't seem to have much to do with the overall structure of the story, other than his ex-husband status and finally getting on with Holly.

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Extended Reading
  • Queenie 2022-01-01 08:01:38

    Chapters in novels, opera paragraphs, movie pushes, music fuels the flames, teasing paintings, teasing sculptures, suspicion of religion, walking through the four seasons, looping into circles, meaning in "meaningless", fierce talk of "unspeakable", form and content So far, the combination has reached a new high, and finally it is not the so-called tribute to Bergman or Fellini.

  • Allan 2022-04-21 09:02:31

    Woody says it's his take on reality. But I think this ending is actually the best. Why not be a little more optimistic? Although life is so fucked up and ridiculous.

Hannah and Her Sisters quotes

  • Holly: [sarcastically] What a swell time!

    Mickey: Well, if you didn't like it, you didn't like it. But, you didn't have to talk while he was singing.

    Holly: I was so bored!

    Mickey: Yeah, that's tough. You don't deserve Cole Porter. You should stay with groups that look like they're gonna stab their mothers.

  • Holly: [singing] This year's fancies, Are passing fancies, But sighing sighs, holding hands, This my heart understands, I'm old-fashioned, And I don't mind it, It's how I want to be, As long as you'll agree, To stay old-fashioned with me...