"Refusing to obey" is the most precious life value

Rickey 2022-12-20 08:49:24

The gift Ella received from the troublemaker fairy was "obedience", that is, to be a good baby who is obedient in everything. It is estimated that this is also a true portrayal of our three-good students in China. They are obedient, study hard, and don't care about other things. After the stepmother and the two sisters arrived, this obedience became "Ba 0". Not only the bedroom was robbed, but the pendant left by the mother was also robbed by the sister (there are many such symbolic objects or actions in the language of the movie). ), Ella has also become Cinderella (the low-status Cinderella, another 2015 version of "Cinderella" has an explanation of this term).

Fortunately, Ella has another more powerful thing to fight against the curse. This is her mother's last words "Listen to the heart" (have courage and be kind in the 2015 version). Use the courage from the heart, based on love and kindness, to fight against the curse of "always obey". This courage to "overcome one's own weakness", to fight against the power, and to fight against herself, allowed Ella to save herself, expose the conspiracy, protect the prince, and harvest the perfect love.

The name Magic Cinderella is actually translated incorrectly, Ella Enchanted, which means Ella who has been enchanted. If she obeyed blindly, Ella dedicate all her property with both hands at any time, and even was ordered to murder her beloved, then as a tool of her use, her final destiny would be self-evident.

We, especially the Miyoshi students, have actually lived under the ubiquitous curse since we were young. The orders we receive are sometimes well-intentioned, study hard, work hard and earnestly. But this habit of "always obey" will unknowingly shape our way of thinking and behavior. If we do not have access to another source of thought, learn to think independently, learn to look at problems from other angles, learn to ask questions, and question authority, then it will be difficult for us to overcome this powerful curse.

Ella can overcome the curse of messing with fairies because she has the love and encouragement of her parents since childhood, and the support of her friends. She also repays others with courage and love. If we are growing up, lack or fail to experience these care and support, lack tolerance and freedom, and do not understand or even know what freedom and autonomy are, then it will be difficult to break through self-constraint when we grow up, because of the devil. The curse is too powerful, making it difficult for us to truly grow in our lifetime (such as giant infants).

Social development is changing with each passing day (this is also a cliché), and only when we continue to challenge ourselves can we adapt to the ever-changing society.

Recently, a guy in Wuhan couldn't find a girlfriend, so he wrote to zf to request a distribution. This can be described as naive or absurd. This is our three good students who are good at obedience. We lack free and independent thinking. When we encounter problems, we don't think about how to change our strategy and find opportunities to break down obstacles, but try to seek help from the authority and give us a ready answer. This is intellectual laziness and stupidity.

Always obey, you may be able to obtain temporary security for one moment and one thing, and may even get the dividends distributed by the strong. However, if things go on like this, the evil consequences will be obvious. For individuals, it is difficult to find personal value in a changing society, and even the existing ones may be lost. What the strong give at will, the strong will take it away at any time. As far as society is concerned, it lacks the vitality of independent innovation and cannot break through and upgrade itself. Once the short-term dividend disappears, it will fall into a situation of involution, refund or even worse.

The "refusal to obey" embodied in this movie is exactly what our education lacks. We have been taught since we were young to be "obedient." Three obeys and four virtues, obedience is supreme. See you, a hundred years after the May 4th sages defeated Kongjiadian, women's morality classes, kneeling and worshiping, revived on the land of China and campuses. We have forgotten that it is precisely these things that have imprisoned our freedom from form to spirit, which kept Chinese civilization in a naive state for a long time for two thousand years, and then began to be beaten and exploited by great powers for a hundred years in 1840.

In 1915, two publications were launched in China. Chen Duxiu founded "New Youth" and "(Youth Magazine") in Shanghai, calling for only "Mr. De" and "Mr. Sai" to save China. Scientists such as Ren Hongjun who studied in the United States founded the "Science" magazine and established the Science Society of China, which later moved to Shanghai. Mr. De and Mr. Sai means "refuse to obey". Mr. De, refuses to obey the ancient powers. Everyone is born equal and free. Mr. Sai also means "refusal to obey" the ancient authority. The past knowledge needs to be examined, and new scientific laws are waiting to be discovered. People in the past did not know what the world was like.

The same is true from a personal level. Many people have been three good students since childhood, obediently, and scores are our lifeblood. However, after graduation, we discovered that obedient and grades do not mean the ability to adapt to society, let alone the ability to innovate and create. This may partly answer "Qian Xuesen's question". Why do we have so many high-scoring students and test gold medals, but few truly outstanding scientists. Because true scientists and thinkers do not "obey" others step by step, but must face difficulties alone, face the dilemma where there is no ready answer anywhere, must stimulate their own creativity, independent innovation, and find their predecessors An answer that never imagined, or even guided the direction.

Nowadays, there are some terrible experts who ask us to kneel down and throw our bodies on the ground. The whole body means to obey authority wholeheartedly, dwarf ourselves, and look up to the ancients. We must reject this form, because it is not conducive to our growth, and even more detrimental to the future of our individuals and society as a whole. We can't just watch as we raise our daggers and murder our free souls! Find courage, find friends, find our free breathing and thinking!

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Ella Enchanted quotes

  • Char: I suppose that dagger that you were ready to plunge into my heart was just an early wedding present.

  • Char: Tell me about your sister.

    Hattie: Olive? Idiot.

    Char: Uh, no. Ella.

    Hattie: Oh. Hmmmph. I don't want to talk about her, she's so dreary.

    [giggles]

    Hattie: I just want to talk about us.

    Char: Us!