The theme of Kubrick's "Future Trilogy" is "Where should the future of mankind go?" The answer of "Dr. Strange Love" is: destruction in passion; the answer of "2001 A Space Odyssey" is: transcendence in virtue Human beings; the answer to "A Clockwork Orange" is: Be a good person, what a person was like in the past, and what he should be like in the future, don't want to be a god, and don't be willing to fall into a beast, naturally understand that the world that includes humans is nature The definitive command to mankind.
So, how to define human beings? It is impossible to define. After all, humans currently cannot understand humans from a natural perspective, but they can assume the nature of humans: humans are rational beings organically composed of free will and moral laws. Therefore, all the following analysis of the film is based on this hypothesis.
The first presentation of the film is free will. When free will is expressed by volitional activity, the appearance is fantasy and music; when free will is manifested by action, the appearance is sex and violence, and the volition is between the activity of the will and the action. The transition point is the will to power. For example, when Alex reads the Bible, he imagines that he is a Roman soldier who flogged Jesus. In essence, it is the overthrow and reconstruction of the supreme truth represented by religion, or the film is accompanied by classical music. When making love and fighting, classical music does not seem to be high and widowed, but incomparably close. Classical music loses the majesty and elegance cast by time. Instead, its melodious frustration is completely consistent with the free will shown during sex and fighting, but free will It will only be reflected in the conquering party. The appearance of classical music just right allows the audience to substitute themselves into the conquering party, allowing the audience to feel the thrill of conquering others, instead of substituting for the conquered party to show sympathy. Although the perspective of free will gives people a strong sense of pleasure, they will get tired after a long time. Yes, people will also be tired of freedom. What is interesting is that the first thing that humans think of at this time is not the morality that is opposite to free will. Law, but to pursue a deeper level of freedom, I not only want to conquer unarmed civilians, I also want to conquer other members of the rogue team where I am, and get a stronger pleasure from conquering the conquerors. While pursuing endless power, I also undermine the free will of others. Mrs. Cat, in a villa that is almost isolated from the world, there is not only sex-related artworks, but also the gospel of skin-hungry patients-cats, she seems to have me who can’t even suck from the ground. The free will that I felt, my will to power would of course not agree to it. Similarly, her will to power would not agree to my will to power. She not only refused to be conquered by me, but also conquered me, but in the end I still conquered her. . Although I conquered Mrs. Cat, I did not conquer the will to power itself. In the end, I was conquered by my team members and the will to power of the law. They were all conquered by me, but at this time my resistance has lost the past. The awe-inspiring might even seemed ridiculous. I had to face reality, stop dreaming, and leave my favorite music without saying goodbye.
I arrived in an environment that was used to teach people, but there was still a will to power: there were homosexuals who wanted to conquer my body, and inmates were provoking the majesty of priests. However, in addition to the will to power, under the conquest of suits and prison guards, I seem to have begun to feel good about the moral law, and this kind of goodness has become stronger and stronger under the inspiration of the priest. In the end, I made up my mind to become a perfect moral being. Although the priest believed that the creation of the so-called "perfect moral being" was immoral, my determination had moral significance after all, because the motivation was the will of the being. Subjectively stipulates the basis, but the premise must be that the moral law is the objective basis for the will of the being. It is completely wrong to approach the moral law through physiology. The most important thing is the premise and morality of the experimenter’s motivation to create a "perfect moral being" The law has nothing to do with it. However, even if there are many loopholes, Alex has become a perfect moral being, but at this time Alex is not good to the moral law as before, but is evil to the free will that is opposed to the moral law. He has lost what he should have been. The changing value judgment standard takes the moral law as the only value judgment standard. He has escaped from life and abandoned humanity. He cannot make love, cannot be violent, or even listen to music and reverie. He only has Jesus-like suffering. The Roman soldier became the scourge of Jesus, but even with the existence of Jesus as the most good, the world is still full of will to power. It exists in the form of tangible violence and intangible political games. These two forms can also be said. It is one kind: Violence is tangible politics, and politics is invisible violence, because their nature is almost all personal hobbies plus power struggles. As a writer, I love to stand on the moral high ground to oppose totalitarianism, but because I have made a few friends who are either physically strong or powerful, I have the opportunity to conquer those who have conquered me. Let my will to power appear in this world for a short while, even if I am subject to legal sanctions, I am willing to do so. As a politician, I like to control everyone so that they no longer have a strong will to power. At the same time, I have to pretend that I am a manifestation of the moral law. People have always felt good about the moral law. Therefore, Under the banner of moral law, I can definitely conquer my political opponents, even if I deliberately please an experiment that I have conquered.
The above is all of the human beings in the film. In summary, it is that people with strong will to power conquer people with weak will to power. It is very monotonous, but it is indeed all. When watching a movie, when two parties with a difference in the will to power appear on the screen at the same time, the audience is more inclined to substitute themselves for the party with the stronger will to power. Then I came out of the movie and returned to my own moral law to sympathize with this object. When I wrote this article, I also tend to use the first perspective when writing about free will, and I tend to use the third perspective when writing about suffering. Perspective. Isn't the behavior of the audience and the person who wrote this article also a manifestation of the will to power? What people do is very simple, but their nature is very complicated. People always involuntarily explore metaphysics, but the generation of ideas and rational use are essentially complex and ordinary physiological reactions. Once they are removed from the reaction If the organ forms a conditioned reflex, the person’s ability to desire will change. The ability to desire is a realistic object that is desired. The principle of the object’s desire precedes the rules of practice. If the technology develops to control the human’s physiological response arbitrarily, so In the first place, the entire society is the embodiment of the will to power of those in power. This is obviously contrary to the laws of nature. Violation of the laws of nature will eventually lead to destruction of mankind.
So, is Kubrick desperate for human performance? I think it’s not. It’s because of the hope for human beings that we boldly point out human mistakes in detail, so that when humans make mistakes, they will not mistake them for the right and continue to make mistakes. On the contrary, humans will because Recognize your own mistakes and fear and guilt. Because of fear and guilt, you will instinctively resist and resist. If you resist and resist too much, you will naturally stay away from mistakes, but it is impossible to completely stop mistakes. Nothing is done once and for all. There can be no perfect moral existence. As a contradiction between free will and moral law, humans cannot achieve the balance between free will and moral law. All human beings need to do is to obey nature: not to infringe on others’ Morality and freedom, protect yourself in time when your morality and freedom are violated, and reasonably control your free will... To obey nature is to love this world that includes humans, the real world and what is depicted in "A Clockwork Orange" The only gap in that world is that the human activities in "A Clockwork Orange" do not have love, while human activities in the real world are loving. After all, in reality, parents will love their children, and there will be compassion between enemies. The heart and the writer will criticize power for the happiness of the public. The most important thing is that there is Kubrick in the real world.
Like Nietzsche, Kant, and Tarkovsky, Kubrick has been dead for many years, but humans still have to criticize, reflect, and stay away from mistakes like sages. At the same time, they must find ways to understand nature and use natural methods. As a code of practice, in this way human beings can respect each other and human beings can live for a long time in this world.
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