This article involves the spoilers of the "human" documentary, friends who do not mind enter it carefully.
First share the song "human" as usual, all of which are more newage style music
It's Armand Amar's in the original film, but I can't load it here, so let's put another song from him
The Dead Seas
Armand Amar - Home (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Deluxe Version]
This article is a bit serious and may have a bit of popular science. It can be regarded as my movie watching notes. After all, I haven’t written jokes for many years, hahaha
I spent 133 minutes last night (there are two versions, I only have the 133-minute version, and the other is 188 minutes) to finish reading this film by the famous French aerial photographer Jaan Arthurs Portland, before that I watched his "Homeland" and was deeply shocked at the beginning. Similarly, his documentaries, "Ocean Planet" and "A Bird's Eye View of the Earth", were all recorded in the form of aerial photography.
133 minutes passed and the movie ended, but I spent a long time thinking about what we humans are and what am I? What is the meaning of my life? (Guess I figured it out later)
I got up at 7:00 this morning and swiped again. Now I am sitting in front of the computer and want to type some words, but I can't talk about it. I want to talk too much.
Frames of aerial pictures are like oil paintings, but the beautiful scenery makes me look desolate, magnificent but desolate.
Before writing about human, I want to take a few minutes to talk about his previous work, Homeland. Earth has existed for 4.6 billion years, dinosaurs have lived for 165 million years, and humans have existed for 6 million years so far. From the current point of view, if the current earth is compared to 24 hours, then our human existence time is only 3 seconds.
tick tock tick tock
It's three seconds and 6 million years of humanity is over
So will we overtake the dinosaurs' dominance on Earth? I think it is impossible at present, after all, there is still a gap of more than 16,000 years, and the earth is already like this.
"Homeland" deals with the status quo of the earth, the pollution of water resources, global warming, lack of resources, etc., which affect the status quo of human beings continuing to survive on the earth, and this status quo is caused by us, human beings.
Yes, we say that we are the chosen son of God, a man made by God in his own shape, a clay figurine made by Nuwa, but what have we done?
the last 50 years
20% of the world's population consumes 80% of the world's resources
5,000 people die from water pollution every year, and 1 billion people have no access to safe water
Nearly 1 billion people face famine
A quarter of mammals, an eighth of birds and a third of amphibians are endangered
Species are dying 1,000 times faster than they reproduce
Ice sheet thickness reduced by 40%
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We have emphasized environmental protection and caring for the earth again and again, but it is difficult for many people to do it. Even if it is the little things around me, I still have to work hard.
Are people inherently selfish? So will we disregard others for our own convenience or for our own happiness?
For example, garbage sorting, because it is convenient for you, would you choose to throw it away when your aunt is not paying attention? Other cities don't have this level of convenience, but Shanghai I think so far has achieved the level of garbage classification that can be implemented to the daily processing capacity.
For another example, for your own vanity, would you buy a crocodile leather bag or a mink coat? While you are keeping out the cold, have you ever thought about the feelings of other creatures?
Don't tell me about natural selection, we stand at the top of the food chain, we have the right to do so, and I'm not saying now that you shouldn't eat meat.
For another example, do you often go to zoos and aquariums? Have you ever wondered what it's like to be caged with animals that perform for humans day in and day out? One day, we will be locked in such a cage and perform for some creatures, Trisolarans?
Some people may say that existence is reasonable. If I don’t go, there will be others. Yes, if you choose not to go to one, you will be like this for thousands of people. Can you slow down the development of this industry?
Do you travel like to ride an elephant or ride a dog sled?
Do you like to eat shark fins?
Do you like ivory?
Behind so much blood, you're just trying to satisfy yourself. Therefore, it is said that people are selfish. Relying on the status of human beings as the overlord of the earth, we are undoubtedly accelerating the extinction of human beings when we brutally and uncontrollably murder other creatures.
Maybe you can live your life like this, living in the moment, no matter the next generation, but I can't.
Seeing this, if you already feel that you can't agree with me, then please log out in the upper left corner.
Wait for a digression, I recommend everyone to read a book "A Brief History of Humanity"
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I accidentally talked too much. In fact, I still want to talk about "Humanity" today. This documentary is not big. If I don't talk about the world or the universe with you, I will talk about myself and human beings with you.
As mentioned above, it is the work of the famous French aerial photographer Ya'an. He is good at overlooking the common people with the eyes of God, so let's enjoy it.
Ahem, classmates, let's take our eyes back
Ya'an Enterprise Image explores the earth and the ocean, as well as human beings. He and his team started an unusual quest. In more than two years, they traveled to 65 countries and talked with more than 2,000 people of different skin colors, identities, genders, and ages, focusing on various human topics. In the film, compressed into more than ten topics, divided into: forgiveness, happiness, killing, race, love, family, homosexuality, land, immigration, workers, poverty, life and death
Each narrator sits in front of a black cloth and slowly finishes his story, just a few simple sentences
But his eyes stared straight at you, as if to see your heart, even if he smiled, his face was full of sympathy. Their eyes speak, it's all hopelessness and pain, but you really, feel powerless, like, I know about it, and then what?
Now I am just passing things to you weakly
You can try staring at them for three seconds
At first, I was also afraid of this kind of subject, because too scattered will make me want to sleep, and not every narrator's story is touching, but they all have a kind of magic, the magic that keeps you watching, interspersed with Plenty of aerial video. From a single individual telling shot to a group of human shots, they correspond to each other and form a wonderful intertextual relationship.
"Humanity" is a statement of human beings about themselves, although director Ya'an tries to be objective and speak with the characters' own voices: "There are no comments in the film, their voices are pure and direct." But there is no doubt that the film has a strong political choices, value judgments, and critical power. "We need to ask ourselves and introspect. I want to add the current world to my films, so that people have a spiritual power, that is: thinking."
In fact, I still want everyone to watch this documentary, so I still only select some dialogues that touched me in particular. Although I want to talk a lot of bullshit on every topic, for everyone's reading experience, I still Hold back.
The Dead Seas
Armand Amar - Home (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Deluxe Version]
1 "I'm happy when it rains, drinking milk, having a good time, gaining weight, I'm happy, I'm losing weight. I'm happy drinking milk, eating what I like, and the people I love the most Living together, living in a small house that shelters me from the cold and rain makes me happy." After saying this, she smiled, and there was bitterness in her smile.
Regarding happiness, I thought of when I learned about the battery car today, I was very happy, and I was like a fool along the way, smiling to the back of my head. They were happy because they met their basic biological needs, and I was happy because I learned a new skill. So being happy is really easy, but I agree with the saying that the richer you are the harder it is to be happy because you have so much.
2 "She asked me where I was from because I was too young to tell the difference between a Hutu and a Tutsi, so I replied: I'm a Tutsi, maybe a mixed race. So she asked people to shoot me, I asked why, what did I do wrong. Then there was a burst of fire and I ran away, but I survived."
The background of the story is the 1994 Rwandan genocide, an armed conflict between Hutu and Tutsi.
What is wrong with the child? The same goes for a dad's words, which is happening now
"She's not a militant, she doesn't know what the conflict is, she's just a child, but she's still dead because she's Palestinian"
If you were a child, you just learned to speak, you just learned to distinguish between red mud and yellow mud, and someone is going to kill you, just because you are Chinese, what do you think?
3 "My husband and I have been married for eighteen years, and he has never said that I love you. But I can feel that the eyes speak more than the mouth. Every day I think, yesterday my love was weaker, and today this love seems to be Better, and then a year goes by. Sometimes I look at him and I think, if he dies, I'll never find someone who can replace him."
Some people say that how to learn to cherish is to tell yourself that sometimes before you do something, think about it, if you do, then you will lose her, so will you still do it? In fact, this problem is not so simple, because people are often blinded by the pleasure of the moment, so it is better to think about it, will you feel distressed when you hurt him so much? Is he irreplaceable in your heart? If the answer is yes, then please cherish it, we all need a reflection, and ask ourselves every day, do I love him well?
The lessons of our life are all gained at a certain cost. Rather than regret it, it is better to re-examine ourselves in a new life.
4 "I feel powerless sometimes when a skinny woman walks into a store and looks at the high racks and says I wish I was a man. I get mad and say you don't have to be a man, you can just jump up".
"Polygamy is a blessing for us. I say a blessing because if my wife falls asleep in the arms of another man and comes to accompany me the next night, I can't stand it, so polyandry is not a good idea. possible".
The more developed countries are, the more they pay attention to equality between men and women. I do not deny that men and women have different characteristics, but I hope that everyone should essentially agree that men and women are just different genders.
5 "I was in jail because I had an abortion, because if I was pregnant, I would not be able to continue my studies. But I wanted to continue my studies, so I chose to have an abortion. I am very happy that today I am released from prison and I can continue Learn"
(Catholic countries oppose abortion and also oppose suicide. The famous Abortion Act enacted in the United States in 1973 gave women the right to abortion)
Actually, I thought of another very sensitive topic, "If you find out that the fetus is deformed during pregnancy, will you still give birth to him/her?"
If it was me, I wouldn't, you can say I'm cruel, but I also understand those who make the opposite of my choice, because after all, it's a life, and you can already feel him and your heartbeat together .
But some cruel I think that the detection of modern medicine is to effectively avoid the malformation rate of the fetus. If I bring him into this world, but he does not have the ability to live independently, then I may choose cruel abortion, rather than These few months were but a moment in the decades of pain that followed.
Some people say that if he can live a very good life in the future, he will be very happy, but since it is also a fish that knows the joy of a fish, I also can't know the suffering of a fish.
6 "I was gay, and I knew I liked women when I was a little girl. I didn't tell my family about it. At the time my parents were discussing about homosexuality during disaster relief. I asked my father what homosexuality was, and my father said It's a girl who likes another girl, damn it. In that case, all I can say is oh, and then I walked into the room, closed the door softly, and buried myself in the pillow and cried. I prayed to God every day to let I like boys, make me straight, I even pretend I like boys, but I can't."
"Being a homosexual is not something I can decide, it is your innermost thing, there is nothing other people can do, there is no medicine to cure. There is no doctor to cure, and the two parents also take us to the hospital, to go to the grave (marabout's Islam) a way of repentance), but it didn't work. I even forced myself and my friends to get the approval of my grandma (Islam takes honoring the elders to a height after paying tribute to Allah), it hurts too much, I do something for me Things I didn't want to do, I even asked a friend of mine to pretend to be a boyfriend, and he did, he forced himself, did that to me, and then he got me AIDS, and it was 2003. Now, I don't need to do anything to make other people happy anymore."
It is true that there is still a lot of discrimination. In fact, have you ever thought about it from another angle, if 90% of the people in this world like the same sex, then are you an outlier who naturally likes the opposite sex?
Now, heterosexual union is not as simple as reproduction, so why can't we face the issue of homosexuality? Many people will not believe that they are born to like the same sex and think it is acquired. We tend to be like this. For things we don't know, we will use habitual thinking to think. Learn more about the world and be more inclusive!
7 "If the rain doesn't fall, I can't plough, I can't farm the land to support my family, and there are no trees outside this season to cut down, just small branches. No one told you, friends, take these for your friends. Enjoy. We lie on the ground and wait for death, because our so-called life is gone. There is no prey to sell, yes. Our lives are over, yes, that's it." (I admire the Chinese translation of this film)
"No harvest, it's too dry, it cost 7,000 rupees each, and two wells were dug, but there was no water, no water anywhere. I think my husband, we were in debt last year, and we couldn't pay it back. Which. It was a well, but there was no water, no water everywhere. So he committed suicide."
Start with the little things in life, even if it's just temporarily turning off the faucet while brushing your teeth.
Someone asked me, why do you get sunburned while diving? Can't you wear sunscreen? In fact, the ingredients in sunscreen have a serious impact on water pollution and corals, causing coral bleaching, and continued bleaching will lead to coral death
Although the amount of chemicals such as oxybenzone that is brought into seawater after applying sunscreen does not seem to be large, the concentration will increase after bioconcentration. According to relevant statistics, every second, 0.8 liters of sunscreen are brought into the sea by tourists. Every year, as much as 25,000 tons of sunscreen follow tourists into the ocean, 4,000 tons of which are deposited on coral reefs. Not long ago, the British "Daily Mail" reported that in the past 30 years, the world has lost about half of its coral reefs.
So just get darker. Now the marks of tanning in March are still there, and it looks a little sexy now.
8 "I'm living in the jungles of Calais now, and the police came and told me that you have to get out of here. I said where can I go?
He said you must go back to your country.
I said we have no country, where is our country. There are slaughterhouses, slaughtering our people, there is a battlefield, Afghanistan is not a country now, there is a battlefield. There are 37 countries to control there, but they can't control those people, and the UN can't control those people, how can you send me to a country like that? I lost my family there.
I have fled to Pakistan, to Dubai, to Turkey, to Bulgaria, and now to France.
Please let me live here, I won't ask you for food, I won't ask you for anything, I don't need help, I just want to live here."
This part really made my tear ducts explode, especially when he looked straight at me and said "i don't have country, man" "i don't need help, i just want to live here".
In fact, China is getting stronger and stronger now. There are no wars and few famines, but in Africa, in Afghanistan, in Iran, and in Pakistan, this is the norm for them.
And they are also part of our humanity. They just happened to be reincarnated there. What did they do wrong?
9 "There is no antidote, and there is no way I could wave a magic wand and tell my son that it's better..."
After telling my son, he was silent for a long time, I thought he wanted to change some money, car, house, clothes, even food, but after a long time, he said better, I really felt a bitter taste in my throat, that is This kind of plain narration really impresses you. I don’t want anything, or I don’t dare to think about it. I don’t want to be the best. Just better, just a little bit better than now. I only use a magic wand to achieve this. Okay....
10 "I am very poor, I am very poor now, what does poverty mean to me, when I can study, I can't go to school, when I should eat, I can't eat, and when I should sleep, I can't sleep. My wife and children are suffering, but I don't have enough talent to get me and my family out of the current predicament. I really feel powerless. Rich people, who can listen to me, what do you want from your wealth? said?"
Some people have the golden key, and some people are born at the end. This is an unfair game.
We all say that there are three types of women in first class on the plane, one is rich by themselves, one is rich by man, and the other is rich by parents, and the worst among them is the rich by parents , especially since he has never experienced hardship, he doesn't even understand what money is, and he doesn't know what respect is, so don't think that your family's wealth is what you deserve, and do something more for this society.
Rich people, who of you can listen to me, what do you have to say about your wealth?
11 "My biggest fear is being alone, doing nothing, not knowing why I'm here for a purpose, does it make sense, is it really useless? In my impression, Cosmodynamics said, if I'm not one of the people , it will destroy me, I just want to be a part of human history".
The meaning of our existence in this world, I think it is not as great as maintaining world peace, I just want to maintain this earth in my hands, and hope that my children and grandchildren can continue to live on this blue planet. In my short life, I did not do evil, did not steal, did not snatch, and seriously loved everyone around me, every creature, and every inch of land. To embrace the mountains and rivers of this planet, to embrace yourself. At the moment when the coffin was closed, there were still people in this world who missed me and people I cared about. Even so, it is enough.
In the end "I just want to say, I'm very happy to have you all coming to my house and I invite you all".
"I am very happy that a lot of filmmakers are here, I am very happy to let the world know that we exist, it makes me very happy that the world will know us."
You can not go, but you can at least look at these, they are both human beings, what is the difference between your lives.
After reading it I asked myself, what can I do for them? I've been asking for a long time, but I still can't get an answer...
At least today, you know, they still exist in the world
over......
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