The Apocalypse of the Oddity in the World-"The Oddity in a Small Town Thomas"·Social Consciousness and Religious Text/Empty Words "Thomas the Oddity in a Town" The protagonist of the film Thomas, named "Weird", he has the innate ability of psychic , This ability allows him to see the dead. He uses this ability to help detectives solve crimes, but psychic ability is not a powerful fantasy skill. He can only use this skill to communicate with the undead, follow the guidance of the undead to find the criminal in reality, but cannot control the undead. , On the contrary, he will even be threatened by the undead. This separation between the ability to "see" and the ability to "control" results in the separation of fate and death, as well as the separation of fate and love. For this reason, the psychic can only see that fate is like this, but he can't really get rid of the tricks of fate. In this regard, "Destiny is not a straight road, it has many forks in which you can choose", but it does not guarantee that you will get rid of bad luck. This foreshadows the premise for the development of the plot. He can see the fate, but he cannot escape the fate and move towards death, and he cannot isolate his love from death. The less powerful fantasy skills make Thomas, the protagonist of the movie, less arrogant. In order to survive smoothly, he must be low-key and must remain silent about his fantasy abilities. His mother also has the magical psychic ability. She did not keep silent about it, but regarded it as a gift from God. As a result, she was sent to a mental hospital. Reasons and events give the strangers such a life-like enlightenment: Fantasy abilities will appear crazy in front of the people. In order to prevent yourself from appearing so crazy, then you must obey the people's madness. Don't talk about God's gift, even the "son of God" can't escape the crazy repression. It seems that the experience of Jesus has already shown that people should be afraid of the cross and not easily become aliens. In Odd In the Thomas series of novels, bodach refers to a quasi-imaging that foreshadows disasters, but the word originally had its own cultural connotation. It is said that the word "bodach" is derived from Scottish Gaelic. From the root of the word, the word literally means "mature person" or "sexually mature man" (bod-ach); In modern Scottish Gaelic, it roughly means "old man". Bodach is an evil spirit or troublemaker in Celtic culture. Its image is often used to frighten naughty children, to warn them to correct their behavior, or to follow the words of "mature people". The root meaning of this word means that it embodies the behavior and behavior of mature people, and embodies the norms of mature people. It is just that it is not reflected in the positive and mature side, but in the negative and naive side. of. Or, to be more precise, Podak means malicious intimidation among mature people, or heterogeneous warnings in the norms of formal behavior. Such evil spirits are widespread in human culture, which means that the ubiquitous existence of mysterious dark creations in human culture makes people who exist in society awe and obey the norms. The evil spirits like Bodach represent the auxiliary correction mechanism of social consciousness, or the negative guidance mechanism. Such an evil spirit mechanism comes from mythology and has penetrated into social existence. Society is essentially a post-mythical existence. Although it may not be called an evil spirit in a society that denies mythology, there are evil spirits. Evil spirits are always necessary, as long as reverence and regulation are necessary. Social existence can hardly get rid of this kind of reality games, and social consciousness is inherently entangled with fantasy. In modern times, for capitalism there is the "evil spirit of communism", and for communism there is the "evil spirit of capitalism". When capitalism and communism are no longer fighting, the "evil spirit of communism" emerges. "Terrorist evil spirits", when people explore space, there are "alien evil spirits"... In any of the above cases, the social existence opposite to evil spirits is religious: creating awe and social norms. Through the evil spirit of Podak, the film expresses a symbol that is not quite the same as its original cultural connotation. The so-called "Podak" that Thomas saw heralds serious accidents and death; Podaks are dependent on disasters and deaths, and their number also indicates the extent of the disaster or the measure of death. The Podak in the film represents the evil spirit of terrorism. When Podak appears in large numbers, it heralds a terrorist attack. This kind of plot is similar to the "Apocalypse" that has been made a fuss. The last chapter of the New Testament of the Bible, "Revelation", describes the coming of the end times and the signs that they are about to come. The four horsemen representing plague, war, famine and death in the Apocalypse conquer the world. The Podaks in the film are similar to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Plague-War-Famine-Death), but simplified and downplayed the religious color. . There is no end of the world in the film, it just exaggerates a terrorist attack on a shopping mall into an apocalyptic look. They are still similar. Whether it is the Bodach elves that frighten naughty children or the biblical apocalypse that warns infidels, they all belong to the evil mechanism in social consciousness. On the one hand, the evil spirit mechanism establishes social norms and creates awe; on the other hand, it warns or curses those who do not respect. In most of the previous chapters of the New Testament, the norms of behavior and belief of Christians were established through the words and deeds of Jesus Christ. Probably the apostles of Christ felt that this was not enough to achieve absolute authority, so they wrote the last chapter of "Revelation." Seek such an effect. Regardless of the actual effect, the signs and sights of the end times described in the book of Revelation have become prototypes in subsequent cultural interpretations, and they have become the principles that sometimes guide social consciousness in spiritual interpretation. The plot of "Little Town Geek Thomas" is the first adaptation of the Odd Thomas series of novels. The ending of this film seems to indicate that it is not the end of Geek Thomas’s life in the film, it seems that this film will be the beginning of the series. . Hope it will be more interesting in the sequel! In any case, the fantasy plot should not and will not end, because the death of fantasy is the death of reality. With the illusion of youth, the impulse of life will not let reality die prematurely. Whether it is the Bodach elves that frighten naughty children or the biblical apocalypse that warns infidels, they all belong to the evil mechanism in social consciousness. On the one hand, the evil spirit mechanism establishes social norms and creates awe; on the other hand, it warns or curses those who do not respect. In most of the previous chapters of the New Testament, the norms of behavior and belief of Christians were established through the words and deeds of Jesus Christ. Probably the apostles of Christ felt that this was not enough to achieve absolute authority, so they wrote the last chapter of "Revelation." Seek such an effect. Regardless of the actual effect, the signs and sights of the end times described in the book of Revelation have become prototypes in subsequent cultural interpretations, and they have become the principles that sometimes guide social consciousness in spiritual interpretation. The plot of "Little Town Geek Thomas" is the first adaptation of the Odd Thomas series of novels. The ending of this film seems to indicate that it is not the end of Geek Thomas’s life in the film, it seems that this film will be the beginning of the series. . Hope it will be more interesting in the sequel! In any case, the fantasy plot should not and will not end, because the death of fantasy is the death of reality. With the illusion of youth, the impulse of life will not let reality die prematurely. Whether it is the Bodach elves that frighten naughty children or the biblical apocalypse that warns infidels, they all belong to the evil mechanism in social consciousness. On the one hand, the evil spirit mechanism establishes social norms and creates awe; on the other hand, it warns or curses those who do not respect. In most of the previous chapters of the New Testament, the norms of behavior and belief of Christians were established through the words and deeds of Jesus Christ. Probably the apostles of Christ felt that this was not enough to achieve absolute authority, so they wrote the last chapter of "Revelation." Seek such an effect. Regardless of the actual effect, the signs and sights of the end times described in the book of Revelation have become prototypes in subsequent cultural interpretations, and they have become the principles that sometimes guide social consciousness in spiritual interpretation. The plot of "Little Town Geek Thomas" is the first adaptation of the Odd Thomas series of novels. The ending of this film seems to indicate that it is not the end of Geek Thomas’s life in the film, it seems that this film will be the beginning of the series. . Hope it will be more interesting in the sequel! In any case, the fantasy plot should not and will not end, because the death of fantasy is the death of reality. With the illusion of youth, the impulse of life will not let reality die prematurely.
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