The "Now" and "Heaven" of the Idealist Sade

Edwin 2022-03-27 09:01:23

If the real world in front of you is full of killing and oppression, full of anger and war, then heaven is a beautiful temple in the imagination, holy and clean. The fearless willingness to sacrifice a self to defend the whole of heaven is the greatest tragedy ever played by an idealist.
Said's "paradise" is actually just the idealistic world hidden in his heart, or his utopia. He is a man of faith, and he will never go against the will of Allah. He firmly believes that what he has done is a holy war for freedom and for the country, so he is like a calm and steady walker in front of the excited Khanlei, not arrogant. Not impetuous; he is a man of desires, or in other words, this unequal world releases everyone's desires, but Said's idealism and religious beliefs make his desires outstanding and noble and refined; he He is a person with hope in his heart. The light of hope has never been extinguished. He will stare at the boys playing kites and become intoxicated, so he tries to escape the shackles that bind him, such as his father's ugly name, the oppression of the enemy country, It's just that he didn't expect that, under the support of ideals and teachings, delusional use of great self-sacrifice to reach heaven is just another shackle on himself. Said is an idealist, and he can always see that his "heaven" seems within reach, if only he takes one more step forward. Idealism gave him the power to walk blindly. Without realistic guidance and experience, the so-called sacred task he completed was just a moving tragedy.
Said's "now" is the real world he has to face, a world that constantly contradicts his ideals. He couldn't understand why his father, who was the victim, was forced to become an aggressor, and why his father's common-sense choices in the face of life and death would bring permanent shame to his family, and his mother could not give him the answer, so he went to his father by himself. He wondered why a simple desire for freedom and peace led him to self-destruction without hesitation, why he couldn't change, couldn't affect the never-ending war, and hardly ever showed a smile He had a firm eye, but when the task was carried out, he asked his companion Khanley: Are we in reality? He wondered why the will of Allah prevented him from looking directly at the light of humanity in his heart, and why did he believe in it? The power made him lose himself, and even looked in the mirror to try to re-understand himself and give himself strength and determination; he wondered, why what he thought was the bravest and greatest decision made him fall into a terrible contradiction, why is it between right and wrong? He suddenly lost his sobriety at the intersection, so he was reluctant to let go of the budding love, but chose to be alone, he had the courage to die, but ran to the direction of home, he clenched the fuse but was a girl he didn't know. He was soft-hearted; he was puzzled, where and when the heaven that he had been seeing in his dreams and that really existed in his heart could appear to him.
These contradictions are his thoughts, and they are also the huge burdens thrown at him by this world full of conflicts and wars.
We agonize with Said, agonizingly eager to find answers in the great confusion and fog that surrounds him. We waited for a loud bang, for the fire and blood at the end, and the end sent us a white light.
The contradictions are still unresolved, the wars are still unstoppable, the conflict in the Palestinian-Israeli region is a territorial competition between countries, a confrontation between the strong and the weak, a collision between religious beliefs, a difference in cognition under cultural differences, and a The pain and entanglement in the individual's heart is the distorted heart and mind of every people. There is nothing wrong with longing for heaven, but if people lose the direction to find heaven and blur the concept of heaven, when will heaven be?

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Paradise Now quotes

  • Suha: One day things will be better.

    Taxidriver Suha: Sounds like you're not from here.

  • Said's Mother: Whatever your father did, he did for us.