Because I've been watching CRIMINAL MINDS lately and all I've seen is the most depraved side of human nature, sadists, psychopaths, serial killers of all kinds - but I'm still hopeful because there's always going to be a law against them. Regardless of whether the law can regulate everyone, at least in my worldview, right and wrong are black and white.
And what about war? Reward those who kill the most with medals. A tool for politicians to slaughter thousands of people even while enjoying music and afternoon tea at home. War blurs the concept of human nature, human morality, so-called right and wrong, and that poor compassion are mixed up in war. Just like the bizarre colors and weird music in the film, people's mental state at that time was like being sent to a different dimension. Lance was a spiritual victim of the war. There is no emotion, no hope, no concept of life and death, just an illusory life - living is just to maintain the state when consciousness is still alive. After the consciousness is blurred, he has no choice, and he wanders like a ghost. And Kerz is just an awakened but powerless man in the war. If only "I" was awake in the whole room, then only I would bear the fear of darkness, and that kind of fear was enough to make people give up their will and fall asleep all the time.
Maybe every time we see the history of the Nanjing Massacre, we will curse the cruelty of the Japanese soldiers at that time, but what about other wars? Is it humanism to blow up Biren's arm and then help others bandage it? I just think the latter is more hypocritical. At least the former is naked and bloody, while the latter is obviously a higher level of cruelty after disguise. I really don't want to believe how a killing machine on the battlefield can live a peaceful life in the future. Is this the range of human adaptation?
When Kerz says "a pile of little arms," it's more disgusting than seeing mountains of corpses all over the island. If we lose a fight one day, it's not because of anything else but because we still have humanity, just because we're not cruel enough...
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