In this extreme situation, Americans who usually regarded each other as compatriots soon discovered that the difference between them was no less than that of summer insects and winter ice. The first to be put on the altar were the elders. Unsurprisingly, the instigators were young and energetic. Their reason also seems reasonable-old people are running out of time, please go to death if you know it! But the old people also fight for reasons-we have the same right to live as you do! After the two old people fell, the killing of the gray-haired people finally stopped. This was not because the morality of respecting the elderly was awakened, but because of the logical deduction of survival-how old is old? 80, 70 or 60, 50? Sorting them in descending order of age quickly disturbed the largest group of middle-aged people, and when threatened, they immediately executed the most aggressive young people. This short 5 minutes has been a typical demonstration for the entire game. Under the pressure of survival, all the codes of conduct recognized in the daily society will gradually crack, disproportionate, and gradually fall apart. The only thing that continues to be effective is the butt determines the gold of the head. The law, in this way, "survival or death" will completely regress into the arithmetic question of "Which is 3 or 5". Becoming an opinion leader can dictate his life and death, and gain more chances for himself, but it may also offend public anger at any time and be backlashed by public opinion. In the next hour, these 50 people, regardless of their educational background, will be forced to participate in this horrible concentration camp for ethics classes. As the discussion unfolds, they and us will continue to face such problems both inside and outside the secret room. , That is, what is the source and bottom line of morality?
Outside the secret room, morality is the ratification and inheritance of social habits and customs. We all recognize that it has a certain contingency attribute of going on the market, and can even tolerate its "distortion" in some extreme situations. Despite this, we still seem to think that some moral codes can transcend social forms, such as "Don't kill" and " "All beings are equal" is not easy through the ages. However, the reality in the secret room is quite embarrassing. In this bloody seminar, "Don't kill" was broken early. On the contrary, the question of who is more worthy of death is more eloquent; "All beings are equal" still seems to have prevailed quite a bit. A large number of supporters, but soon someone said that "all beings are equal" is right, but they should be "more equal" than others. In this way, the problem quickly showed a trend of technical analysis. Race, religion, family relations, homosexuality, illegal labor, social class and other popular American social topics can be used for wanton discussion, disputes, and daily scruples. Already cut off by the threat of death, come on, American compatriots, open their hearts and face each other frankly, with the tips of the needles to the magnificence, the lip-gun wars, and the "big discussion on the standards of survival", what a joy! Circle after circle, endless killings, endless discussions. No label can hold the upper hand for long, and the only consensus that has become clearer is that everyone wants to live! The good news is that even so, there is still a certain bottom line like a reef in the waves, looming and refusing to sink. For various reasons, some people gave up the market-style bargaining, or took the initiative to die calmly or not so calmly. Among them are young people who are not deep in the world and have a good heart, and there are middle-aged uncles who don't want to have a guilty conscience. There are depressed mothers who have not been able to get out of the pain of bereavement. These sacrifices have made this farce stained with a trace of tragic solemnity, and will not completely become a joke of cynicism. Some people choose to use their influence to maintain a minimum of public morals and use their votes to protect pregnant women and children. It is the existence of this kind of altruistic behavior that makes people not completely succumb to the superior malice, thus preserving a little bit of dignity. The opposite is a powerful self-interested instinct, which allows adult men to comfortably say to a boy who volunteers to die: "Child, you are a damn hero." "You still go (die), right? "; It makes the men and women who meet by the water pretend to be married couples who can live and die, and win sympathy; it inspires the potential of cunning and cruelty in the hearts of those who seem to be loyal, hoards their minds, and does everything in order to get rid of all other similar...
...5, 4, 3, 2, 1, reverse and reverse, the game ends in a shocking way, and the one who survives in the end is not a completely upright person, not a self-interested person, but a total hypocrisy When he pulled the trigger at the fetus in the pregnant woman’s belly, he finally became the real devil. He made the hour-long discussion about “who should survive?” suddenly become awkward and redundant. Perhaps the key question is this. Should it be "who can survive"? Kind and innocent women and children did not survive to the end, but can you say that morality has failed? Obviously until the very last moment, the hypocritical youth was still using the disguised virtues to manipulate public opinion. It can even be said that his success was precisely because the kind people prevailed. The director of the film is obviously unwilling to allow a simple ending of good and evil to end the torture of the audience. By deliberately creating such an ending, we have to say that we are at a loss after the end of the film.
Looking back at this moral countdown, the circle of secret rooms is like the colosseum of a civilized society, and language confrontation is a struggle of life and death. Desperate roars, calm farewells, sharp irony, quick interrogations, outrageous statements, superb lies, all these alternately staged, like a melee of eighteen weapons, although there is no blood splashing or severed limbs flying. , But it is still exciting and exciting, causing the audience outside the secret room to breathe quickly and their heartbeats to speed up. After the astonishment, they can't help but wonder, in the secret room, who will we be among them?
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