In "A Dream of Red Mansions", there is an unreal world. People can never know for sure whether their existence is real or illusory, so Jia Baoyu listened to so many judgments and tunes, but still "the idiot has not yet realized", which is of no use at all, so that he is trapped in a "maze", and in the end it is just "a quiet scene." To whom does the dream sue".
But in Truman's world, even such kindly hints are not available. He lives completely in a world of lies, and even the sun and the moon are artificially created. All the people around, parents, friends, colleagues, wives, are just actors of the entire TRUEMAN SHOW. He was the only one who didn't know it and lived in that seemingly real world.
The most heart-wrenching part was seeing Marlon, his best friend growing up to trust him, say "the last thing that I would ever do is lie to you" to him. When he said this, did he also feel a little unbearable in his heart?
However, Truman himself was still vaguely aware of something, so he planned to escape and escape to the outside world (perhaps he didn't know there was an outside world)...
His journey to the sea is the climax of the whole movie. I'm not breaking the suspense anymore. It just makes my eyes feel wet when I look at it. For a person to break out of the cage wrapped around himself, he has to pay such a huge price. even life. But he had waited too long. Just like the cicadas had to dormant in the soil for several years or even more than ten years for the only short-lived Xia Ming in their lives. Yes, years or even decades. So every summer, the noise of "knowing, knowing" that makes countless people angry is always peaceful. Forgive their long anticipation for the sun.
Truman discovered the falsity of the world he was in, and bravely stepped out to start a new life. Although he could still be deceived in this new life. But he couldn't care less, he just asked for an answer. And most of us are forever imprisoned in our own small, suffocating, but safe and secure cells, compromising. That's how people are. When their eyes get used to the darkness, they will no longer yearn for the light. In the stagnation of worrying about gains and losses, he has become his own prisoner without exception.
Most people, I think, doubt their own life, doubt its reality, doubt its existence, doubt its necessity and possibility, at some point or some time in their lives. Questions like this will never be answered, no matter how advanced our technology will one day be.
But in such an unanswered life, there is always something that can be grasped. And such a thing, we have to rely on ourselves to find.
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