In fact, the male protagonist of "Survival in the Wilderness" is a mentally ill person, or at least excessively paranoid. My understanding of him is based on his cognition of his true self. Alex wants to live a life of absolute wilderness, abandoning all human civilization, and merging himself into the nature that he can only dream of and cannot stop. Among the passers-by he met, many said that he escaped. Of course he won't admit it, because the things he wants to stay away from are not what he wants. He paraphrased Byron's words, except love, honor, money, career, family...give him the truth. So he took the risk, what would he get after completely cutting off contact with these human civilizations.
The answer is obvious. He is not a primitive man. The price he has to pay for abandoning modern civilization is that he will live the life of a primitive human. Then many of the truths he learned from modern civilization would actually become absurd. It is hypocritical to chew on various methodological works such as philosophy, ethics, psychology, etc., when life is threatened. What bothers me the most is that since death is acceptable, why don't you want to find a balance in modern life. In fact, it is not difficult, Alex definitely has such courage and ability.
Alex's journey is full of over-exaggerated beautiful colors, to set off the main theme conclusion of the film at the end, "Happiness only real when shared!" This brings endless tragic colors to the film, I would rather Alex be there from the beginning to the end. Paranoid, he finally enjoyed himself in the wilderness temple he pursued. Alex was going to go back, but he didn't expect that he wouldn't be able to go back because of a river. What impressed me most was that the 16-year-old girl who played the heroine in "Twilight" fell in love with a person who was not worthy of love, but lost hope. Maybe, Alex is also a Capricorn.
It has been a month since I returned to Shanghai, and I have been interviewing non-stop. Maybe I have a job next week, maybe I have to stay up for a long time. When I was in a certain round of re-examination before, I was asked what would I do if I couldn't find a job for half a year. Of course, my first reaction was that in half a year, I couldn't find a job, and I wouldn't decline to that extent. This is an assumption made by the examiner. What he wants to know is how I will respond if this situation arises, so I also have to make assumptions about how I can respond when this situation arises. I was just talking to an interviewer who was nearly 20 years older than me and who had doubled his life experience, talking about the truth of life that I realized these days.
Whether I want to find a job, or can't find a job, or find a good job or a very ordinary job, in fact, this is just an experience in life. This seems too negative, I added, the subjective has the initiative over the objective. Mentality often makes objective things change subtly for the better. I thought of coming to Shanghai to look for a job a year ago. At that time, my mentality was so good that now I am a little scared and take everything for granted. In fact, everything is not like that. The bright and beautiful things around you are seen by yourself as a clown, not that they are clowns, but actually they look at you like a clown walking through the middle. They were in completely different spaces, ridiculing each other, but it did not affect the final meaning of the incident at all.
In my life, I didn't have to throw everything away like Alex, and I didn't try to strike a perfect balance between modern relationships and raw, natural open-mindedness. It should be enough to just go with the flow after working hard.
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