The protagonist of the movie is a 38-year-old middle-aged man named Shishen Tetsuya. He has no wife, no children, and his parents may have long since passed away. A person rents a long-term rental house with only a few tatami mats, and his job is only teaching mathematics at a nearby private high school. By the way, these things are not important to the stone god, right? For Shishen, the really important thing is those sweaty mathematical research materials, piled up happily in every corner of the small room. Even Yuchuan Xue, a classmate of Imperial College, couldn't help but sigh when he visited for the first time: "The math professors in our school don't have so much information!". ——Chew this sentence, it seems that there should be some hidden viciousness in it: you are not a guy who teaches mathematics to high school students, why do you have so much mathematics data, you think you are also qualified to enter the academic world, yes Are you still hoping to win the Fields Medal someday?
In this way, Shishen is just a genius who is obsessed with mathematics. If his life trajectory can be lucky enough, he has stayed in the research institute to do mathematics after graduating from Imperial College. There is nothing to take care of his parents who are seriously ill in his hometown and finally leave. Research Institute, maybe he can become a socially recognized academic authority like Yukawa, who is engaged in physics! However, even if it corresponds to what ordinary people call the extremely poor state of material life, the Niuren Shishen can have his own unique way of obtaining happiness: Shishen can still drink it every time he solves a mathematical problem, as if to treat himself. A little whisky, or just head out to the snowy peaks alone.
Before he met Shizuko Hanaoka and his daughter, Shishen was generally such an obscure and entertaining genius! So Shizuko and her daughter appeared as neighbors who had recently relocated to the rental house next door to Shishen. So, an accident happened. In self-defense, the mother and daughter worked together to solve the rogue ex-husband Fujian Shinji who came to the door. As a result, Shishen intervened in the murder of Shizuko's mother and daughter, and Shishen's road to redemption was opened. However, why didn't Shishen start by guiding the Shizuo mother and daughter to surrender themselves in the way that ordinary people think that the "loss of profit" is the smallest to solve it? The answer is very simple. In Shishen's reasoning and interpretation, there is a more "low-cost" solution than this. This method can even make Shizuko and her daughter completely free from any involvement. In order to create an alibi, the death time of the corpse had to be modified. In order to modify the death time of the corpse, Shishen replaced Fujian's body with another corpse, and Shishen killed another corpse that had nothing to do with the original event. People - "Technicians".
Most people in this world will always have such a misunderstanding of us men of science: thinking that the rational elements of our thinking mode determine that when we look at problems, we can always consciously abandon the influence of self-emotional factors and easily take anything as Make a bunch of numbers and symbols to deal with, including someone else's life. On the contrary, because science pursues a kind of logical neatness, the process of reasoning and deduction requires maintaining absolute rational justice. Then, in the opinion of Shishen, a math genius who is especially cute in my opinion: Murder should be a very expensive thing. From this, I boldly infer that Shishen decided to turn himself in at the beginning of the whole incident—because we men of science will never allow ourselves to violate the justice of the rules!
Why? Just like Shizuo asked Shishen on the phone: "Why do you help us?"
"If I can't go to your store to buy bento, I will be in trouble!" This is Shishen's answer, with a little restless shame, With deliberately suppressing the urge to reveal everything, with the kind of desire to talk to a girl who has long been in love with a boy who seems to be the first love. This scene is really confusing. If we start from here, we understand that this man fell in love with that woman, just like Yukawa judged Shishen, maybe it's right! ?
However, Shizuko's questioning was obviously not thorough enough, and the slightly clever Yukawa gave a more convincing answer: "In order to protect them, you committed another murder. Maybe you can’t stand the police’s cross-examination and tell the truth. However, if you kill someone yourself, you can stand up for your own statement.”
Is that really the only thing? Do you really sacrifice yourself at all costs just to protect the ones you love?
"Why do you want to protect them like this, Shishen?" When Yukawa and Shishen faced each other for the last time in the interrogation room, Yukawa, you were also puzzled - you had already come to a conclusion earlier: The Niuren Shishen is in love. Are you not confident with this answer?
In the end what happened? The subsequent film gave an explanation: in that hot afternoon, when the stone god with blurred eyes slowly stretched his neck into the rope loop hanging on the beam, the doorbell was suddenly rang, it turned out to be just The neighbors, Shizuko and her daughter, who moved to the next door, came to visit them because of the Japanese custom of moving to a new house, and by accident they rescued Shishen who was about to commit suicide.
In order to repay the other party's life-saving grace, Shi Shen dedicated his future life to the mother and daughter, not hesitate to help dismember the corpse and destroy the evidence, not hesitate to kill and replace the corpse with his own hands, not hesitate to be mistaken for a stalker, and not hesitate to turn himself in as a scapegoat... In short, Shi Shen It is solving all this in a way that is close to self-destruction, and it is not difficult to find out: Stone God has always been desperate!
Shishen why did you commit suicide?
Or the question is: what do people live for?
For a long time, I have been taking this question as a kind of ultimate reflection on human existence. Of course, it is very dangerous to do this kind of thinking, and if you are not careful, you will be identified as a fool by the same kind. At the same time, the appraised has to passively produce a pretentious delusion to counter the misunderstanding of the same kind. Once even this pretentious delusion is gone, so too: a reason to live.
We go back to the movie, back to the original state, back to when the stone gods were not so desperate. At that time, Shishen could also gain happiness from overcoming mathematical problems. Maybe in the eyes of some people, the stone god at this time is very puzzling: solving mathematical problems will not allow you to reap material wealth, why do you feel a sense of accomplishment? Of course, I don’t think of Shishen in this way. On the contrary, I can even feel the same about Shishen: Whenever I finish writing a smug article, I can’t help but take the trouble to read it over and over again. And symbolically rewarded himself one cigarette after another. In other words, in my cognition, people still have a spiritual world! Of course, there should also be a spirit to enjoy this statement!
In this way, it can be explained that solving mathematical problems or writing brilliant articles can bring spiritual enjoyment to the parties involved. The problem is serious here—spiritual enjoyment is only a subjective self-worth identification, and cannot be indirectly confirmed by others, and naturally it cannot obtain the value identification given by others. To put it bluntly, in the eyes of others, you are just doing worthless behavior.
Humans are social animals, and self-worth is definitely not simply derived from one's own evaluation and judgment, but from the evaluation and judgment given by others through a set of social shared value mechanisms. This is the so-called sense of identity.
It turned out that Shishen spent his whole life just seeking a sense of identity.
Yuchuan deduced that Shishen was the suspect based on what Shishen said to the shadow on the glass across the road when Shishen and Yuchuan broke up for the first time: "You always look so young! I really envy you! "According to Yukawa's understanding, Shishen is jealous of his own appearance because he is in love.
You are wrong, Yukawa.
The stone gods do envy you, and envy your decency on the outside. But definitely not because of love.
And what he really envys is the reason for your decent appearance. He envy your identity, your status, you are a professor at the Imperial Institute of Physics, and you are an authority figure in this country's academia... He envy What matters is the degree of value expression you have been recognized by the society, and what you envy is only the sense of identity given by others that you spend freely and freely.
It may make people feel unconvinced to interpret this way, so I will quote another sentence Ishigami said to Yukawa: "Can the police even break the law for you? It's amazing, Yukawa!" I couldn't help but go. Guess Shishen's state of mind when he said this: a little envious, a little resentful, and there should be a little vicious attack in his tone.
To add a detail, when Shishen and Yuchuan first met and broke up, Shishen turned around and was about to leave, but Yuchuan knew that he would take the initiative to reach out and shake hands with each other to say goodbye. Shaking hands is just a simple act of etiquette, but the implications are very intriguing. The symbolic meaning of the handshake etiquette is a mutual confirmation of the equivalence of identity values. Yukawa is obviously used to this way. On the contrary, Ishigami behaves like a "newcomer" who has never had this experience - what kind of experience? - the experience of being recognized by others.
Since I mentioned the breakup when Ishigami and Yukawa met for the first time, let’s also talk about the breakup when they met for the second time in the same place. This time, neither of them shook hands with each other. On the contrary, Yukawa also wrote the gauntlet: "Draw up an unanswerable question and solve that problem, but only if the answer must exist!" (As an aside, I personally think that Keigo Higashino's inspiration for this question should come from P versus NP The problem itself.) At this time, for Yuchuan, the Niuren Shishen had obviously leaped into his opponent level.
After that, Shishen and Yuchuan went to climb the snow peak together. When the two were resting in the hut in the mountain at night, Yuchuan said to Shishen: "Because you are my friend", Shishen replied: "I have no friends."
Regarding the two concepts of "opponent" and "friend", they have commonalities in a certain starting point. The objects that want to be substituted into these two concepts at least indicate that they are of the same value level as themselves, reflecting a mutual relationship. value relationship between them. That is, it is easy to have a sense of identity between the same kind.
Obviously, Shizuko is not the same kind of Shishen. I remember Shizuko said this to his daughter Miri: "Am I going to live with the eyes of Shishen all my life? This is just a change from Fujian to Shishen!" This is also doomed. Why did Shishen's plan "fail" in the end? Shishen did not hesitate to sacrifice himself—and at the same time, he was destroying himself in exchange for a happy life for Shizuko and his mother and daughter. He was just humble and pitiful asking for a sense of recognition from the mother and daughter, agreeing that I did what I did for you. Everything is valuable, and you should not deny everything I have done for you no matter what the reasons are. However, Shizuko eventually went to the police station to confess her guilt.
"Why?" Stone God let out a wailing mixed with despair and confusion, a roar that seemed to be about to vomit out his soul.
About Niu Ren Shi Shen’s life is generally like this. I am very unwilling to try to find the moment when he can truly feel happiness in this life. The answer should not be when he solves a certain mathematical problem by himself, and the answer should not be him either. Quietly hiding on the sidelines and watching the neighbor mother and daughter enjoy their family in peace.
But at the end, when Yukawa said that sentence to Shishen in the interrogation room: "It's a pity, such an excellent mind has to be used to do such a thing."
"You are the only one who told me this." I
don't know . Why, the sturdy Lao Yu actually got wet when he saw this scene.
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