Infernal Affairs I
The endless hell is not listed as the highest of the eight hells because the specific punishments are severe, but because the punishments are endless, to exist is to suffer. Liu Jianming just wanted to be a good person, but after all, he still lived in the cracks and couldn't get rid of it. He went to the rooftop to see that Chen Yongren was ready to die or suffer the law. But Chen Yongren was relieved, he, no. Longevity is the catastrophe of the endless hell.
Infernal Affairs I illustrates the "fruit" of Infernal Affairs.
Infernal Affairs II
In Infernal Affairs I, it seems that only Liu Jianming is in Infernal Affairs, while II, as a prequel to the story, has greater ambitions. It wants to tell the audience that all the main characters in the story are in Infernal Affairs.
Liu Jianming: Instructed by Han Chen's wife Mary to kill Ni Kun (betrayed Han Chen), rescued Mary to express her love and refused, told the Ni's whereabouts of Mary's whereabouts, and killed her indirectly (betrayed Mary).
Chen Yongren: Infiltrated Ni's house for the police's dreams and beliefs, and indirectly killed his own relatives (betrayed his half-brother A Xiao).
Huang Zhicheng: Bewitched Mary to kill Ni Kun (betraying her identity as a police officer and her friend Han Chen), and every time she performs a mission, she draws cards with her friend, Police Officer Lu, to gain the initiative (deceived her friend).
Han Chen: He has always been loyal to the Ni family. In order to avenge Mary, he kidnapped the entire Ni family and killed them (betraying the master (Ni Kun)), and used police officer Huang to kill Ah Xiao (deceived and betrayed a friend).
Mary (Han Chen's wife): Concealing Han Chen, who is stubborn about Ni's family center, using Liu Jianming's feelings for him to kill Ni Kun to make his man the boss (deceive Han Chen, and deceive Liu's feelings).
Ni Yongxiao: The four bosses were murdered by a scheme, and they learned that Mary killed her father and also planned to kill Han Chen who was loyal to him (betrayed his subordinates).
Those who commit sins of disobedience will fall into this world forever and experience the ultimate infinity. All of the above have committed disobedience, betrayed and deceived those close to them, although they each have their own reasons, although they all have their own perseverance. None of them escaped greed, hatred, infatuation, love and hatred, they all fell into the "Infernal Affairs".
Infernal Affairs II explains the "cause" of "Infernal Affairs".
Infernal Affairs III
In the first two films of Infernal Affairs, the main characters of the story have betrayal and rebellion, but in the greed, anger and madness, Chen Yongren and Huang Zhicheng insisted on their beliefs (the justice they thought), Han Chen and Mary insisted on their feelings for each other, Ni Yongxiao insisted on own home.
Only Liu Jianming, he betrayed everything, whether it was his identity as a policeman or a triad, his desire to be a good person, or his feelings for Mary, he did not hold on to it. So, he stayed in "Infernal Affairs", all three movies ended, and only he was still alive, suffering from schizophrenia.
Ⅲ In the end, two Marys, red and black, stood before and after Liu Jianming, and the Mary I imagined finally shot and killed him—Liu Jianming's personality, he still failed to be a good person, but he became Chen Yongren in terms of personality, constantly He typed Morse code on the wheelchair, "I want to change with him" is a prophecy...
Ⅲ quoted the original vows of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, the famous saying of Ksitigarbha is "hell is not empty, swear not to become a Buddha", psychiatrist Li Xiner and the newly added character Yang Jinrong are Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva in the story of "Infernal Affairs". The story that Li Xiner told Liu Jianming in the film is the way of redemption and liberation. Say your mistakes and admit them, and you can be a new person.
Infernal Affairs I and II explain the "causal" of "Infernal Affairs", and Infernal Affairs III describes the redemption and liberation of "Infernal Affairs".
After reading the "Infernal Affairs" trilogy, you will know that heaven, hell, gods and devils are not feudal superstitions, but the greatest metaphor of the ancient working people to the real society.
For thousands of years, human society has experienced vicissitudes, but some essential things have not changed. For example: the human world is purgatory, purgatory is different from hell, purgatory is a dojo where people go through pain to cultivate their souls and enter heaven, and hell is a specific overview of the pains. Life is not for enjoyment, but for suffering and self-cultivation. After accepting this, I am more at ease with many things.
Thousands of years ago, people have solved the problem of food and clothing. If people can't eat enough, how to build the Great Wall and how to build the Epang Palace? What do you do after you are full? Where to release desires that have nowhere to be placed? What game are you playing? Human beings are animals of desire, and where desire is placed corresponds to different social forms.
The earliest human beings started to fight when they were full, and they played a game of violence, a game that killed more people than anyone else. Later, for the first time, capitalism shifted human interest from war to production, creating a game of who made more money. Stop killing people for fun, this is the progress of society. Emancipation of slaves, this is the progress of society.
But "the free choice of the master does not make the master and the slave disappear", the slave's shackles become the chains of the worker, and the use of violence to force you to obtain the advantage of his social relations becomes the use of consumption to lure you to obtain the advantage of his social relations, Religion (promoting pain) to stabilize society becomes entertainment (promoting pleasure) to stabilize society.
Democracy, freedom and equality on the surface represent change and progress, but the essential oppression has not changed, and the fact that the world is a purgatory has not changed.
Marx said that "capitalist fetishism" alienates people, but in fact, people were alienated by power in ancient society, and by money in modern society. Money represents social relations, and money is the most critical way to resolve conflicts in modern society. If we say this, man has never been alienated. What he pursues is always the advantage in social relations and the possibility of infinite satisfaction of desires.
The contradiction between limited resources and unlimited desires has not changed. Productivity expands resources and expands desires. Therefore, productivity can improve the quality of human life, but it cannot change the fact that oppression will exist for a long time.
If society is reduced to capitalists and workers, capitalists hire workers to pay them wages, and workers use wages to buy commodities produced by capitalists themselves, thus forming a cycle. The capitalist's expenditure has two parts, one is the expenditure on the use of fixed assets (plant machinery, etc.), and the other is the payment of the workers' wages.
Due to the special properties of the house, it is a capital product, not a commodity. If you sell one suite per person, the capital will have no place to store it (so you need to have the same right to rent and purchase, to meet its living needs as a commodity through leasing, and to meet the needs through purchase. its need for depositing capital as a capital good).
Therefore, when the economy rises, housing prices rise, and capitalists’ fixed expenditures increase, capitalists’ profits decrease, workers’ wages fall (capitalists’ capital is limited), workers can’t afford commodities, and capitalists’ profits continue to decrease. In the end, it leads to an economic crisis, the capitalists go bankrupt, and the workers go home and wait for a job. After a period of time, new capitalists establish companies, workers go back to work, the economy recovers, and the next cycle begins.
However, Keynesianism advocates government intervention. When the economic crisis breaks out, the capitalists are on the verge of bankruptcy. The big economic crisis will happen again. This is a palliative approach. But the above model is within a country. If you consider international trade and competition between countries, it can be said that whoever does not use Keynesianism will suffer.
Competition between nations is the same as competition among individuals. Narrow nationalism, patriotism, religious beliefs create all kinds of problems in the world. The fact of purgatory on earth has not changed.
The development of science and technology has not bridged the gap between classes, but has been tearing it apart. In a society with backward productive forces, people who are not born into the family of generals, princes, lords and scholars still have the opportunity to achieve personal development by physical strength and violence, while in a knowledge-based economy society with developed productive forces, such opportunities are close to zero. Although, the opportunity to change destiny through knowledge still exists.
However, in the high-speed and complex information network, the authority and sublime disappear, and there will no longer be classics such as the Four Books and Five Classics for everyone to believe in, study and use to build a ladder of class transition. Human beings exist before essence, and the birth environment creates barriers to your thinking and information. The post-80s Internet is a cloud ladder to climb over and break it, but today’s Internet has already become one of the components of the barrier (think of the slogan of today’s headlines. Bar). Artificial intelligence and big data are booming. What kind of life will the bottom of the future make? In "Folding Beijing", they are garbage decomposers who come out at night, and they are bioenergy in the second episode of the first season of "Black Mirror" A generator that converts to electrical energy.
From this point of view, it seems that the bottom layer is hell. But from another angle, the bottom layer is actually heaven. As Zhuangzi said, "The skillful one labors and the wise one worries, the incompetent one has nothing to ask for, and he is full of food and wanders, like an unconnected continent." The bottom is actually the real beneficiaries of society. They have not made any breakthrough contributions to the society. Instead, they enjoy all the benefits brought by those who work hard. They are the beneficiaries of the times, not the great men. But they lost the greatest joy, the joy of going through hardships to push the human society forward a small step, the joy of enduring pain and making a little contribution to mankind, and the joy of seeing the world through thousands of kalpas. However, they got the premium of the times, but lost the opportunity to cultivate.
When technology has not yet developed enough to ignore the power of the masses, the masses are always the promoters and choosers of society. Even if the hope of breaking through class barriers is slim, we still have a chance. Meat-eaters are contemptuous and fail to take a long-term view. Go deep into your social environment and explore the working principles of every class you can reach, and you will have a chance (this is the best practice in the early stages of growth). The most fearful thing is to be poor before being rich, and despising one's own background is like a lotus root that has broken its roots in the mud, and neither flowers nor lotus roots can grow. (Think about the social practice assigned to you by school each holiday, how many people have completed it seriously)
Don't give up the opportunity to practice, gain a deep understanding of the world you can reach, work hard, be serious, be firm, and be brave, and you can become a god! As the saying goes, one day in the sky, ten years on earth, those god-like people are just more efficient than you, and what they do in one day is worth what you do in ten years. This is no joke. (You think about it carefully, what are you doing every day, I dare say that you are in a daze most of the time, you admit it)
Little wind and big waves, hell and heaven, in the new year, may you not fall into the infernal way and become your own god!
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