Some words can't be said too openly, but let's talk about a few simple symbols.
"14000": The ultimate goal of prison guards and prisoners to observe the rules together. In this cage that is given the power to govern, everyone insists on this goal. In the early days, this was obviously reasonable, because everyone involved in the middle was asking for the $14,000 green banknote, but it is more obvious that this concept has undergone a shift in center of gravity, when Whitaker began to say to the "prisoners" We are able to exist only when the rules guide us.” I think he has already raised a relatively simple concept (money) to a more complex level (spiritual). This is like the emperor’s promise to his subjects that the country is safe and peaceful, and the candidates promise democracy and freedom to the voters. , Even the political party promises communism to the people. The noble meaning makes the people easy to be deceived and blinded. Just ask, what is more attractive to the poor laborers than a beautiful but ethereal future? Whitaker The black man who plays has learned invisibly how to control the thoughts of the ruled. That is to instill in them something they don’t understand, but it sounds tempting. In the film, he failed, but in reality, such things are not every day. Happening, is it working every day?
"Red light", ridiculous supervision and guidelines, the first conflict occurred outside of one time, basketball hit the "prison guards", the new "prison guards" were panicked, not afraid of "prisoners", but fear of the dark The watcher in the dark was afraid that the red light would turn on. But with the execution of the punishments and the red light, this initial supervision mechanism has begun to degenerate into an accomplice and comfort to the ruler. Every time a black person finishes punishing a "prisoner", he will tell others and himself with good reason, see, the red light is not on, so what I did is right and just. Conditions have been relaxed time and time again, ranging from "no violence" to all kinds of humiliation, to the abolition of human rights, to direct killing. The red light does nothing, and the supervision outside the system is illusory. And these empty-shell norms and the laws written on paper (these regulations were originally used to restrain the "prison guards", that is, the ruler), have become accomplices of the "prison guards". Without supervision, of course there is no justice and no democracy.
"Rules", there are two sets of rules in this mock prison, one set for "prisoners" and one set for "prisoners", but the problem is that the people who control the rules are the "prisoners", not the "parliament", Whitaker The black man in the cast said, "All the decisions here are made by us." "We" are the minority and the dominant minority. This is a clear dictatorship. When the minority masters the rules and gains an advantage , After assimilating supervision, you can naturally do whatever you want, and even reset the most primitive rules. Just like Yuan Shikai became president by virtue of the interim constitution, he can order the amendment of the interim constitution. The formation of centralization is that the system provides the conditions for the formation of centralization, not just people who have such ideas.
"Evolution and resistance", at the end of the film, I was asked "Do you still believe that we have evolved better than monkeys?" Brody replied, yes, at least we can resist. This is one of the reasons why I don’t like the ending. In fact, when Brody led the crowd to open the door and rush into the room of the "prison guard", they could call it a resistance or a revolution. On the other hand, , The rulers called it riots and rebellions. The problem is not in the name, but in returning to the most essential biological level. This is a naked and wild explosion. No matter the bloody oppression of the ruler or the rising resistance of the ruler, after throwing away all attached social meanings, we What I saw was the extreme evil and ferocity of human nature. Chairman Mao said that revolution is inevitable to shed blood. But it is not only the revolutionaries who are bleeding, but also the rulers. In the final analysis, revolutions are meant to kill lives. In a society where there are two levels, the forces that lack restraint will inevitably lead to bloody massacres. Those from top to bottom are called punishments, and those from top to bottom are called revolutions. But resistance, behind this seemingly noble word, is a complete ignorance of life in order to fight for rights. When politicians chanted that they sacrificed their lives for the sake of democracy and freedom for the motherland, and bravely killed the enemy, behind these beautiful rhetoric, there is still a dirty and disgusting power competition.
Are humans more evolved than monkeys? With civilization, language, and wisdom, does this mean more advanced and more evolved? This is difficult to answer. Monkeys can bite each other when competing for a banana, and humans can also deceive themselves when competing for benefits, but they are more concealed and more high-sounding. In our history of development, we have put all kinds of clothes on the competition. Loyalty, perseverance, democracy, selflessness, what we want, is not the same as it was millions of years ago, that is the yellow orange. Bananas? From monkeys to humans, the biggest skill we learn is to cover up, disguise the originally naked desires as legitimate and noble reasons, and then rob them. If one day, when human beings are thrown back to a place like this that does not need to be concealed, to confront our hypocrisy, desire, and cunning, will we still feel that we are more advanced than monkeys? I don't think it is necessarily, just like in the eyes of monkeys, humans may be another species full of animal desires lower than them.
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