I recently watched the movie "Animal World", and the first thought was to think twice. The visual effects are wonderful, and the characters are well-drawn. What impresses me more is the theme of the film, which is about human nature and psychological games.
Because you may have encountered all the moral dilemmas in it, should you betray your friends for money? Do you want to injustice your friends for your own benefit? This "Animal World" makes everyone can't help but look at the sins in their hearts - evil and greed, stupid and pretending to be smart.
Zheng Kaisi, played by Li Yifeng, has revealed the atmosphere of a low-level little person since his appearance. His father died early and his mother became a vegetative person and was hospitalized all the year round. He likes to send Xiao Liu Qing, but he can't give her anything, so he doesn't even confess dare.
Zheng Kaisi looks very much like his favorite cartoon character, the clown. He makes people laugh, but that kind of laugh is not high-level. If you look closely at the face of the clown, it is full of sadness, and playing the clown in the game hall is Zheng Kai. Secretary's work, remove the clown makeup, is he not a real clown in his life? His life was a ridiculous mess.
Zheng Kaisi had to borrow a little money from Liu Qing every now and then to make ends meet, but his mother's hospital bills were already beyond what he could bear. , Mortgage the house to take the opportunity to make a fortune, never thought that Li Jun is addicted to gambling and owes huge gambling debts. Zheng Kaisi's house of more than two million yuan is only a drop in the bucket.
Li Jun betrayed his good brother for money. This role is very real. You may have met such people in your life. They deeply deduced a sentence, "The so-called friend is for betrayal". In front of interests, feelings are insignificant , the ugliness of human nature is highlighted incisively and vividly. Li Jun said that he would be a bull and a horse for him in the next life, but in this life, Zheng Kaisi, as a guarantor, can only repay the money for him, otherwise, he can only pay for his life.
The unfortunate Zheng Kaisi could only fight hard. He boarded the ship Destiny, but this ship did not go to the other side of happiness. There were hundreds of wandering souls on board who owed huge sums of money like him. Waiting for the call of fate, life and death and rich and poor, everything is unknown.
The foreshadowing of the film here is mournful and tender, but then the climaxes come one after another. How can so many people who have nothing and have nowhere to survive in a desperate situation? Relying on fighting or cheating? And you will find that everything on board is more brutal than you think.
Destiny is like a vacuum laboratory, a replica of the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971. At that time, Philip Zimbardo built a mock prison and gathered 24 normal-minded experimenters to give experimental rewards, but the price was that these people had to obey the rules. Some people were lucky to play the role of police officers, and some people were unfortunately temporarily reduced to prisoners. , There were too many abuses and punishments in the 14-day experiment. There was no script and no fixed requirements, but after the experiment, everyone was trapped in the roles they were given and couldn’t extricate themselves. To bear and practice without resistance.
Today, the owner of Destiny, Anderson, is Philip Zimbardo. He manipulated this experiment and made the rules of the game. Everyone who is in debt can get twelve cards representing Rock Paper Scissors and three stars. Rock Paper Scissors The rules of the game are simple, the winner gets the star, the loser loses the star, and a draw means temporary safety and has to be lost. However, within four hours, all cards must be played through the game, and the number of stars must be no less than three in order to safely disembark, otherwise it will only become a sample for genetic experiments.
No one resisted, and no one could resist. The subjects in Stanford Prison tried their best to save their lives or even take the opportunity to make a fortune for meager rewards. Dedicated to become a real gambler.
Just like that experiment, everyone's behavior is in such a tense magnetic field, and it becomes very crazy. It is full of betrayal, deceit, and conspiracy. The desperados are indeed like beasts. They kill red eyes . This is also the case with the unspoken rules. In the animal world, there are only interests and no feelings.
You say people are kind, fraternal, benevolent and willing to cooperate and unite? On the Destiny, these have become your hindrances and weaknesses. How much does the environment affect a person? Just look at the performance of the gamblers. Koreans dressed in white suits defrauded the old Chinese man with all the cards, and almost killed the old man in the end; some people tried to save their lives by throwing three cards into the toilet, thinking they were clever, and were shot directly after being discovered.
Even Zheng Kaisi was not spared. He was deceived into trust by Zhang Jingkun, who was also a Chinese. He wanted to follow Zhang Jingkun's method - always draw a tie to get away with it. The queen lied that he accidentally made a mistake, Zheng Kaisi believed him again, but was deceived again. The first player he met made him lose two stars.
Zheng Kaisi's trust is not out of naivety, but his approach is close to the Pareto optimal stage in the prisoner's dilemma - under the fear of death, the motive to deceive will be washed away, so he believes that loyalty and Trust will allow both people to achieve their goals perfectly, he has a sense of group, but Zhang Jingkun is selfish, he is the betrayal.
The Prisoner's Dilemma is a very typical representative of game theory, which tests human nature but also requires rationality. The two accomplices were imprisoned separately. If they both kept silent, then both parties would only be imprisoned for one year for lack of evidence (this is equivalent to Zhang Jingkun's suggestion that a tie between the two would save both lives); and if one of the two takes the initiative If he pleads guilty and exposes, and the other remains silent, then the whistleblower will be released, and the silent one will be imprisoned for ten years (this is the case with Zhang Jingkun. ); when both of them expose each other, they will both be sentenced to eight years in prison (Zhang Jingkun and Zheng Kaisi both think that the other party will not cheat, so Zheng Kaisi plays cards according to the agreement, and Zhang Jingkun has thought that even if Zheng Kaisi pays a thousand dollars , then you will also have the possibility of winning if you make a thousand).
In this prisoner's dilemma game, Zheng Kaisi won humanity, but lost his chance. After being deceived by Zhang Jingkun, I was worried that Kai Si also learned to play tricks. He is smart and quick-witted, and he dares to be small and broad. What's more, after this lesson, he should understand the truth: although everyone has the same fate , but no one is really in the same boat as you.
But Zheng Kaisi didn't. He understood the cruelty of the rules and spied on the evil of human nature, but he still chose to cooperate. All three were able to disembark safely, but at the very beginning of the cooperation, Meng Xiaopang still pretended to be a pig and ate a tiger and tricked them out of a few cards and lost a star.
While watching the movie, I was thinking, a person with a smooth life may not always maintain goodwill, so what path should Zheng Kaisi choose, who has been deceived many times and his life and death are imminent? Since there is no emotion to speak of in the animal world, there is nowhere to talk about human nature, and the society we live in is equally sinister, do you want to awaken human nature in a desperate situation? Don't venture into such fantasies.
Seeing that the timer was approaching the end, Zheng Kaisi's final choice was not only out of human nature, but also out of rationality. This is also what I think is worth thinking about the most: indiscriminate kindness and trust are actually just another name for stupidity and weakness. To make kindness and trust shine, the premise is wisdom. It is not the absolute goodness of human nature that can make Zheng Kaisi finally disembark safely, but to distinguish right from wrong, to distinguish between friends and enemies, wisdom is a sword, goodness is armor, and neither is indispensable.
The end of the movie echoes the lines in the opening cartoon, adapting the words in the Bible, "I have finished the battle that should be fought, I have run to the end of the road that should be run, I have kept my way, but life has to go on. "The clown in the cartoon turns into a hero, with a ridiculous and mocking face, but insists on a serious and righteous mission, and the final scene of the movie also ends with the faces of Li Yifeng and the clown constantly switching, at that moment I even It's a little unclear whether all this is real or just Kaisi's illusion.
The clown is like everyone's destiny. Although we have to please the rules of the world and show off hard, after removing our makeup, we have to keep our inner Tao to see our true appearance.
And what is the Tao?
There is a dialogue in Isaka Kotaro's work Gravity Clown that really struck me.
"The clown flies around so lightly that it's not affected by gravity at all."
"Yeah, because gravity is gone," my father said.
"How?" I asked.
"To live happily, you can escape the gravity of the earth."
I think the so-called "Tao" is to find one's own way of life, hold good thoughts and grasp wisdom, and strive to get rid of the gravity of evil in the swaying world, so as to fly a little lighter.
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