Xerxes was a figure in ancient Greek mythology. He was punished for offending the gods and sentenced to life labor; the gods ordered him to push a boulder up the mountain. Whenever the boulder was pushed to the top of the mountain, the stone would automatically roll down. To the bottom of the mountain; and Xerxephus has to repeatedly push the boulder up the mountain, and then the boulder will roll down the mountain at the moment of reaching the peak, and so on and so forth is the life of Xerxephus.
"The Myth of Sisyphus" by the existentialist writer Albert C. A short essay by Albert Camus on what he considers the most serious philosophical issue: suicide. Camus uses the myth of Xerxes to describe the absurdity and meaningless repetition of life, which cannot be escaped. When people are honest and brave to face the world and themselves, they will naturally explore why they should survive.
The novel "Before I Fall" was adapted into the movie "7 Moments of Time", which is a Hollywood type film based on the absurd philosophy of the youthful jade/meat girl packaging Camus, but the audience can rest assured that the director did not discuss it very seriously Existence, nothingness or death, it is a process of exploring how female characters face sexual doubts and relationships with friends and family in absurd situations, and re-understand themselves. The first part of the film is a typical American youth film pattern: school, party and sex; the heroine Samantha is a first-ripe virgin (virgin), and she returns to school with her besties as usual on Valentine’s Day. Maybe the director wants to add a little more Depth and conflict, the class turned out to be "The Myth of Xerxesphus"! After class, the show is the boudoir make-up and dressing of the meat girl. Of course, the evening is a must-have party carnival for youth movies, but Samantha's first night's date with her boyfriend was ended because her boyfriend was drunk, and she encountered a traffic accident on the way to leave the party. When I woke up the next day, I went back to the morning of the accident, the day after day of Valentine's Day, the "Xerxesphus" class, the party, the traffic accident... The heroine's life suddenly changed from invincible youth to constant repetition. ridiculous. Samantha is trapped in the prison of sex, confusion and fear. Valentine's day has become her boulder. There is no tomorrow and no future. Survival has become a life topic she only lives for one day. The English name of the film Before I Fall also has a double meaning: falling and death; if from the perspective of Freud's (Sigmund Freud) psychoanalysis, this must be the fear of a virgin before sex (Fall falling).
Time and space journey or Déjà vu is already a mainstream type of movie in Hollywood. The upcoming "Death LOOP" is also of the same structure. It is mostly about balancing time and space in suspense and detective films. The protagonist usually focuses on each time in the process of continuous circulation. To reshape the case or event in every detail, the breakthrough of infinite LOOP is to solve the case or dismantle the mystery, which is an inevitable pattern of this type of film. "7 Moments of Time" belongs to the genre of literature and art. What breaks through the dismantling is the mystery of youth, how to change from a meat girl to a beautiful girl; Samantha reshapes her own life in the "rewind" day after day, and ignores the things that are ignored in life. Details and the people around her, honest and brave to face this absurd and inescapable world and herself, Valentine's Day has been redefined in Samantha, and the jade girl finally overcomes this absurd day of confinement with love.
In The Myth of Xerxesphus, every time he pushes the boulder to the summit, Xerxyphus feels that he has once again defeated the gods and becomes the ultimate absurd hero in Greek mythology. In mythology, the giant stone of Xerxes cannot be changed, and in reality, the absurdity of life cannot be moved, but in the repeated life of rising and falling, this absurdity may be called normal. Focusing on the details of life to find meaning, living in the moment to know yourself, maybe that is the epitome of an ordinary person like me.
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