"Transcendence"

Hester 2022-03-25 09:01:10

Aside from the content of the movie, just watching the name of the movie will make people think about why the movie is called "detachment". Detachment refers to being free from the constraints of tradition and daring to pursue self-worth, but I think the "detachment" shown in the film is completely different from the "detachment" mentioned above. The "detachment" in the movie shows that the students give the smiling face cake to the classmates and the teacher, while they eat the poisonous crying face cake and then die. This is not a kind of "detachment", the reality is so cruel, it makes people Understand that people are evil. When people are in trouble, the reality is not that people fall into despair. So, I think death is also a kind of relief for people sometimes.

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Detachment quotes

  • Henry Barthes: How are you to imagine anything if the images are always provided for you?

    Henry Barthes: Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false.

    Henry Barthes: Examples of this in everyday life: "Oh, I need to be pretty to be happy. I need surgery to be pretty. I need to be thin, famous, fashionable." Our young men today are being told that women are whores, bitches, things to be screwed, beaten, shit on, and shamed. This is a marketing holocaust. Twenty-four hours a day for the rest of our lives, the powers that be are hard at work dumbing us to death.

    Henry Barthes: So to defend ourselves, and fight against assimilating this dullness into our thought processes, we must learn to read. To stimulate our own imagination, to cultivate our own consciousness, our own belief systems. We all need skills to defend, to preserve our own minds.

  • Henry Barthes: [agitated at assisted living nurse] Let me be very clear here, you stop neglecting his needs, or I will start fucking with yours! I will have you fired! Then it's going to be your family! Your children are gonna be at risk! You got it?