materialized

Kale 2022-04-19 09:01:04

(1) Body fat on the accident car

Beijing Benz-DaimlerChrysler submitted a recall report to the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, and decided to recall part of the 2007 products produced between March 21 and May 29, 2007 from June 8. Chrysler 300C sedans (BJ7270C, BJ7350C, BJ7570C), a total of 1443 units. Due to the quality problem of the transmission oil cooling pipe of the 300C, there may be leakage, and in extreme cases, the coolant may splash on the engine exhaust manifold, causing sparks.

This reminds me of Jack in the film to the neighbors on the plane The old lady told about the car accident and the model recall. The old lady asked in a surprised tone. There are many such accidents, Jack said, beyond your imagination, and the old lady asked which company he was, Jack said slyly, the biggest .

There was a scene before. Jack went to see an accident car, the fat on the male driver, the braces of the child in the passenger seat, and two people next to him, one said that he could shoot an advertisement, and the other thought that the shape of the fat was artistic.

I was disgusted by such a scene, disgusted in my nerves, so after Jack told the old lady about the accident, he imagined that the plane had collided.

I can seem to imagine Jack's life, facing terrifying accidents and obsessed with material things. He loves furniture and is obsessed with buying sofas, just like vomiting and forcing himself to swallow food during pregnancy.

(2) Lost or obtained

luggage, unable to retrieve it, the apartment caught fire, and he lost all his things, shirts, ties, favorite sofas and furniture. These are all his favorite brands, which may be selected from thousands of items. An integral part of his life. Just like us now, let’s take the simplest example. I often find that on Mondays, there are a lot of consumption receipts in my wallet, which are all swiped by credit cards. Thinking about the tiring work every day, what you get is non-stop shopping. And brand desire, everyone has something to buy, what they need to buy and what they want to buy most. Just imagine, even a small white-collar worker with a low salary has to buy a LV after saving two months' salary. The purpose of survival is a certain item of a brand.

The things in the luggage that Jack commented on were all added with a brand, such as DKNY shirts, etc. In fact, we can also comment on our own things in this way, such as mobile phones, bags, clothes, shoes, pens, MP3, etc., all of which we like. The brand, Tyler said Jack was institutionalized by the material, and so were we.

What is institutionalization? There is a good interpretation in "The Shawshank Redemption". Old Bo lived in prison for 50 years and committed suicide after being released from prison. Because he has been institutionalized by prison, he can no longer adapt to the new environment and life.

From this point of view, Jack did lose his luggage, his apartment, and everything, but in fact he gained a lot, and this "lot" is too big to describe, that is freedom.

Ermi often complains to me. It is easy to send money and disappear in the blink of an eye. Buying things is not necessarily very happy. Buying unsatisfactory things is even more depressing. Worse, once you have no money in your hands, you will be very irritable. Work hard to make money. In fact, the same is true for me. The frenzy of buying things always excites me. I often talk about what I hope to buy back, and the amount varies.

In fact, is this not the case in this era?

The meaning of existence is replaced and symbolized by many brands and materials. People are classified and symbolized by brands. We are institutionalized by materials. Is this a social characteristic of the development stage? People who are addicted to material things have no beliefs, no ideals, no freedom, and the spiritual world is desolate.

Tyler said that giving up everything is the only way to be free. Just like the Buddha said, let go of your hands and the world is in your hands. The so-called "willing" means giving up in order to get, and getting is giving up, which is also related to "Pi Tai".

But do we all need to go to extremes like Taylor?

No, the so-called being able to get in and out, being able to get in and out, learning to break through, this is the solution, what is the purpose and meaning of life? After thinking about it clearly, whether we can "walk against the wind" like Liezi, what we control is precisely "material convenience".

(3) Another self or several self

Just like the two Veronicas in "Two Lives", in this film, Tyler is another Jack, a Jack hidden in his heart, a person shaped by another kind of soul of Jack. In Chinese culture, it can be interpreted as "aura". A person can have two auras, two personalities, or even multiple types.

This is an objective existence. When encountering dramatic changes in the environment, it is most likely to appear, but it may be the same skin that reacts differently. This is a dual character.

I never believe that there will be an identical self, but I believe that there must be many not exactly the same self, either with similar personalities or similar voices or similar faces, or subconsciously we all have the same other self.

At one stage, it was popular to say that living in other places, in fact, the soul should be something that can walk, it can live in many places, just like I said that there will be many people in the world who are similar to a certain part of themselves, and live almost the same life. day.

Sometimes we cannot control our subconscious mind, but we can control our actions, the meaning of doing so or only the consequences will be known and only the soul will understand.

No matter how you analyze it, this is a good film that will tell us the meaning of giving up and getting, and living.
Although I don't like that ending, and Tyler's way of expressing revenge.
Because in the end he still has not found the peace of his soul.

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Fight Club quotes

  • Narrator: [19:14] You wake up at Seatac, SFO, LAX. You wake up at O'Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth, BWI. Pacific, mountain, central. Lose an hour, gain an hour. This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. You wake up at Air Harbor International. If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?

  • Narrator: [19:34] This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.