The old cannon movie is a nostalgia for an era. In fact, the generation that grew up with the leftist student movement in the 1960s and a series of radical ideological trends in the last century is just as at a loss when faced with death as today’s capitalist, illiterate young generation. No thought can help you solve this personal problem.
The irony is that the institutions that the leftists have worked hard to build all their lives, such as trade unions, have become a rigid bureaucratic system, and what breaks through all this or complicity with it is the capitalist money relationship that they oppose all their lives.
In fact, what the generation resisted was not class inequality, but the suppression of erotic desires by civilization, and the shackles of human nature by rigid systems. This is actually a continuation of romanticism.
Starting from the perspective of hospice care and taking the passion for life as the first principle, the moral foundation of the film is established, which greatly reduces the discomfort of the audience. In this way, sharp criticism and irony can be put forward to the alienated and hypocritical morality and system under the cloak of civilization. What is worth lamenting and pity for human beings is that most people do not have the courage to break through this layer until they are old. The so-called old age does not matter.
There is actually an interesting phenomenon in the movie. That is, the older generation, under the influence of half a century's radical ideology, has completely liberated human nature and lust, while the younger generation is indifferent and rational, lacking imagination, and in fact more conservative. This is also the most fundamental reason for the conflict between father and son in the film. So the last part of the movie is quite interesting. This is reminiscent of our generation after the 1990s. Compared with the previous generations, our generation is actually more conservative. Looking at the trend, the future generations may be even more so. Romanticism may have really ended in the last century.
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