"Is everyone in a cage?" "You are in your cage, I am in mine, everyone is in a cage, everyone." —————— The story is set on a small island, and four members of the family swim to our camera in the early morning by the sea. Author father David, physician son-in-law Martin, daughter Karen, and youngest son Millers. The father had been so engrossed in what he called the world of fiction that both his daughter and son felt alienated from him. The daughter inherited schizophrenia from her mother, and she always had auditory hallucinations. The younger son longs for his father's care and for spiritual communication with his father. Although the son-in-law loves Karen deeply, they cannot penetrate into each other's heart. He is convinced that the power of science can cure Karen's disease, and Karen can only obtain physical pleasure in a divided world. They did not break out the conflict at the candlelight dinner in the evening, but tried their best to maintain a tacit understanding "in the name of love". The father brought back "inappropriate" gifts from Switzerland for everyone, and they all politely expressed their gratitude and affection. The turning point of the story comes when daughter Karen peeks into her father's diary, and she learns of his ruthless and perverted psychology. The father recorded in his diary that he believed that his daughter's condition was incurable. He did not feel sad because of it. On the contrary, he wanted to be a sidekick and record the process of the pain that tortured his daughter to death. The daughter told her son-in-law about the diary, but did not explain the contents of the diary, just asked him to ask her father. In the morning, the father and son-in-law left the island by boat, leaving behind their daughter and son. On the boat, the father confessed his cowardice to his son-in-law. He talked about how he didn't face his wife's death head-on, but was glad he could write Bi into his novel to love her in a different way. And while his daughter was hospitalized, he hid in Switzerland in the name of writing novels. He talks about his attempted suicide without a trace of self-blame or fear in the process. And when the suicide failed, he trembled with fear. He cannot face the current life, but chooses to escape, escape into the world of novels, and obtain nihilistic satisfaction from critics. And he felt the endless emptiness that made him choose to commit suicide. When he was driving the car to rush towards the cliff, the car broke down unexpectedly on the edge of the cliff. When he got out of the car, his legs were shaking again because he had to face reality. On the island, Karen confided to her brother about the God of her divided world, and she sensed that God was about to come out of the walls to save her. With his love for his sister, the younger brother wants to help her get out of her pain. But during the flare-up of her sister's illness, Miller's illusions about reality were also shattered. In a way, it's not just Karen who suffers from schizophrenia, it's all of them. They long for an Almighty God to take away all their pain, and are blind to the present. They rely on God, on science, on dreams, on nothingness. They marry, have children, and they live together only to satisfy some kind of vain fantasy, without going deep into life itself. They can't penetrate each other's hearts, they live in each other's cages. And this fantasy will eventually shatter, just like Karen's incestuous act against her brother, and like her father's emptiness. His father's escape and Confucianism did not free him. The reality is like a circle. He escaped the death of his wife, but he had to face his daughter's illness. After the daughter's God's door was opened, what greeted her was not liberation, but a spider. It climbed up her thighs, her chest, her face. The brokenness of God made her unable to face the reality of life, and in the end she could only be calmed down by the tranquilizers of her son-in-law Martin. So, is there really no solution? Faced with reality, can we just sit back and wait? My father finally said that life is like a reprieve from death. Avoiding can't change the result. Only entering life with love can fill the emptiness of reality. ———————————————————— Dream is a mirror between reality and falsehood, it reflects reality, it also leads to falsehood. And when the night falls, the delusion thinks it has entered the reality, and the reality also thinks that it has entered the delusion. But they are still on both sides of the mirror, you can't pass me, and I can't pass you. In a way, it's not just Karen who suffers from schizophrenia, it's all of them. They long for an Almighty God to take away all their pain, and are blind to the present. They rely on God, on science, on dreams, on nothingness. They marry, have children, and they live together only to satisfy some kind of vain fantasy, without going deep into life itself. They can't penetrate each other's hearts, they live in each other's cages. And this fantasy will eventually shatter, just like Karen's incestuous act against her brother, and like her father's emptiness. His father's escape and Confucianism did not free him. The reality is like a circle. He escaped the death of his wife, but he had to face his daughter's illness. After the daughter's God's door was opened, what greeted her was not liberation, but a spider. It climbed up her thighs, her chest, her face. The brokenness of God made her unable to face the reality of life, and in the end she could only be calmed down by the tranquilizers of her son-in-law Martin. So, is there really no solution? Faced with reality, can we just sit back and wait? My father finally said that life is like a reprieve from death. Avoiding can't change the result. Only entering life with love can fill the emptiness of reality. ———————————————————— Dream is a mirror between reality and falsehood, it reflects reality, it also leads to falsehood. And when the night falls, the delusion thinks it has entered the reality, and the reality also thinks that it has entered the delusion. But they are still on both sides of the mirror, you can't pass me, and I can't pass you. In a way, it's not just Karen who suffers from schizophrenia, it's all of them. They long for an Almighty God to take away all their pain, and are blind to the present. They rely on God, on science, on dreams, on nothingness. They marry, have children, and they live together only to satisfy some kind of vain fantasy, without going deep into life itself. They can't penetrate each other's hearts, they live in each other's cages. And this fantasy will eventually shatter, just like Karen's incestuous act against her brother, and like her father's emptiness. His father's escape and Confucianism did not free him. The reality is like a circle. He escaped the death of his wife, but he had to face his daughter's illness. After the daughter's God's door was opened, what greeted her was not liberation, but a spider. It climbed up her thighs, her chest, her face. The brokenness of God made her unable to face the reality of life, and in the end she could only be calmed down by the tranquilizers of her son-in-law Martin. So, is there really no solution? Faced with reality, can we just sit back and wait? My father finally said that life is like a reprieve from death. Avoiding can't change the result. Only entering life with love can fill the emptiness of reality. ———————————————————— Dream is a mirror between reality and falsehood, it reflects reality, it also leads to falsehood. And when the night falls, the delusion thinks it has entered the reality, and the reality also thinks that it has entered the delusion. But they are still on both sides of the mirror, you can't pass me, and I can't pass you.
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