As the illegitimate son of an executive from the South Korean SQ consortium and a prostitute, Ben’s role as a father is missing. Although he lived a rich life since childhood, he was extremely inferior and distorted. He was full of doubts and sins (splitting) of his own existence. His father’s authority in his consciousness was spoken by him. Instead of his “natural morality”, his hatred for his mother was transformed into a desire to burn (purify) “those messy plastic sheds (metaphorically messy women)”. He burned those women whom he thought were rubbish like a flood washed away rubbish. , And got great joy from this-there was a magnificent bass sound in my heart. In "The Destructive Anatomy of Man", in order to overcome the split of existence and obtain a full and full sense of joy, people can gain self-consciousness through tragic methods such as sex, drugs, religion, and destruction. He has an unusual sense of disgust and guilt, and the road to sexual gratification does not work. He smokes marijuana, gathers crowds for carnival, burns and destroys the bodies of those trash women, sacrifices to his natural moral god, and all his perverted behaviors are dedicated to In exchange for the moral god deep in his heart, in exchange for the forgiveness of the moral god for his "two months" time, so he must burn a woman in two months. On the secular level, people are driven by desire to constantly possess money, women, and honor, otherwise it will be a life of failure. For possessing a woman, what is the standard of "possession", Chu Ye? body? heart? soul? In Ben's opinion, these are all despised, because things that are too easy to get are despised. When Zhong Xiu said seriously, I love Huimei, Ben's kind of weird laughter full of disgust and contempt. , It is creepy. My garbage and sacrifice are the most precious and unattainable woman in your heart. The more precious the destruction, the stronger the pleasure of the destroyer, so Ben's smile not only contains contempt, but also full of pleasure. life! By burning the body and robbing lives, it is the real possession. The ultimate conquest. The more people are killed, the more sufficient the sense of efficacy will be, so as to avoid the split of the sense of existence.
Zhong Xiu has a manic father. The full of knives in his father’s safe is a metaphor for the violent deep in his heart. His father understands his heart, so he chooses to raise cattle in a remote place. As a low-level person, all Zhongxiu’s violent longing must be concession for his livelihood. The "little hunger" of three meals is barely satisfied. Zhong Xiu, like his father, has a dick, the violent gene can only be hidden deep, even the pursuit of wisdom, the pursuit of "great hunger"-love (yes As far as Diaosi is concerned, he has no courage. When he finds that his beloved woman is burned away by others like trash, his violent genes are stimulated and violence-although dangerous and immoral, it is the most pleasant and straightforward way to solve the problem. Way, violence has nothing to do with class, wealth, or status. The humble Zhongxiu can’t change anything. He can’t change the fate of the cattle farm’s closure, the outcome of his father’s sentence, or the belonging of Huimei’s body, or even the neighbor’s. Contempt. It is very suffocating to see Zhong Xiu. He likes to write (which means Zhong Xiu likes to fantasize and desire to change aversion to mediocrity), but achieves nothing. When a person's efforts to achieve a perfect and unified sense of existence through love and reason are overcome After blocking, there will only be violence (the class solidifies the gap between the rich and the poor, and the cowardly and weaker people's desire for violence will erupt one day). Zhong Xiu's door of destruction has also been opened. The despair of life, bloodthirsty pleasure, violent genes, and a box full of knives, maybe he will find the meaning of existence, but so be it.
Huimei lives in an unrestrained life, she is in debt, like a butterfly falling into the mud, struggling in vain, her previous vision has been shattered, it is impossible to spread her wings freely, her sense of existence is also severely divided, and to overcome this division There are two ways to feel emptiness. Either make yourself stronger, gain through power, wealth, and honor, or destroy yourself. The most direct way is death and annihilation. So Huimei said after drinking high in the restaurant, I really imagine the sunset. The same disappears, but death is too terrible, if it can disappear like it did not exist at the beginning, it will be fine. For Huimei, existence = pain, and her life is full of pessimism. Marijuana is also a way to make the self-morbid sense of existence disappear. Therefore, after Huimei smoked marijuana, she took off her coat and indulged herself. At this time, she was the most complete and comfortable. To her, marijuana is kind, let She can forget the debt collectors, the embarrassment of life, the disappointment that she touches hope but it is impossible to achieve (marrying Gao Fushuai), forgets the person she likes (Zhong Xiu who saved her life) is close at hand and can't determine the relationship (Diao Si )pain of. She went to Africa to look for the "great hunger", but the great hunger is everywhere, regardless of whether it is rich or poor. Everyone has a variety of "great hunger", which tortures you when you are awake, like a shadow. Hugh until the dead. In this sense, Huimei, who can not bear the torture of great hunger, longs to disappear, but can't deal with herself, and finally becomes the sacrifice, should she still be grateful to Ben.
At the beginning, 1.7 million years ago, Australopithecus evolved a perfect oxytocin secretion mechanism. Since then, human emotional needs (great hunger) have started, giving humans a sense of self, a crisis of their own sense of existence, and a combination of Desire, the pain of emptiness, the struggle of division, these are the psychological indicators of why people are human. Whether people’s appearance is accidental or inevitable, meaningful or meaningless, should we believe in nihilism or should believe in rationalism. In Burning, Zhong Xiu represents rationalism, Ben and Huimei represent nihilism, but Zhong Xiu’s The rational face of social injustice, class solidification, secular ridicule, desire dissatisfaction, precarious wind and rain, collapse, only violence, no matter active or passive violence, only violence is the eternal theme of the human world.
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