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Just kidding, don't watch
Kaela 2022-04-23 07:01:08
I think the moral of this film is not a simple social phenomenon. First of all, it can start from his attempted assassination of the president. Why did he choose to leave instead of continuing the assassination in a heroic way (there is some bullshit here), I personally think it is for a kind of The complete abandonment of society, he believes that both criticizing and affirming society share a common goal, which is to recognize and regard society as the great Other of this ideal, and to realize it through him. The difference is that the only reason to criticize the society is because the object of his desire cannot be satisfied, and the desire to satisfy the needs has not actually escaped this category, so he turned to the destruction of these contradictory bodies that conflict with society. In fact, this destruction is Paradoxical, that is, the original violence of the last self in the state of anxiety, and this violence I think is the subjective and meaningless awakening of consciousness, and finally leads oneself to spiritual suicide and self-shooting suicide by hand. action, completed the jump.
Extended Reading
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Travis Bickle: You're a young girl, you should be at home. You should be dressed up, going out with boys, going to school, you know, that kind of stuff.
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Travis Bickle: Shit... I'm waiting for the sun to shine.