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So many things have happened, it's dizzying. The general summary is: Mr. Plainview, an oil tycoon, plundered the land of the poor peasant pastor Ely's family at a low price, and became rich since then.
If we think about this movie in a different way, it is this: Nietzsche defeated God.
The tough oil tycoon, that is the body of Nietzsche Superman. In 1898, when a gold mine exploded, he stepped on the air and broke his leg. In 1902, an object fell from an oil mine, killing his companion. He adopted his companion's son and continued to live the life of a homeless man.
Nietzsche said: "The noble person feels himself as determining value. He does not need the approval of others, or of God." ——The gentleman is arbitrary and seeks more blessings from himself.
In 1898, he broke his leg and climbed out of the mine. He had no self-pity at all. He licked his wound like a beast and struggled to get back to the ground and back to the headquarters.
Nietzsche said: "The noble person reveres the power in himself, and also his power over himself, his ability to speak and to be silent,
“to enjoy the practice of severity and harshness towards himself and to respect everything that is severe and harsh.” (BGE Aph. p.260, trans Marion Faber, Oxford World Classics, 1998.)
He treats religion, politics, and family like this. Similarly, the development of small towns in the American West is Nietzschean. It is usually by the big railway, transporting minerals and oil, and gradually gaining popularity, it is no longer a lonely house in the wilderness, no longer two rows of white tents under the rays of the sun.
Practicality comes first. God is only on Sundays.
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This superman had his first career turning point, that is, he decided to build an oil pipeline in Hueneme or Sao Paulo, the coal port of Xiuning. It's a hundred miles long, and after signing a contract with United Oil, all they have to do is make oil and make a profit! Never have to pay huge shipping costs again!
In the face of huge interests, people's hypocrisy is becoming more and more obvious. This superman said that we bought oil land and paid the price of forest land; while he was very kind in front of the villagers of Little Boston, saying that he would bring them bread, solve hunger, bring education and transportation, and this place will prosper stand up.
In front of the hungry villagers who couldn't even smile, Superman smiled and painted the future for them. And that Eli, who was the first to ask questions about the church. When offered to offer a prayer to the well. Superman is very docile.
Superman is facing money, and facing money is facing the future. America has the air of the 20th century.
People were killed when a nuclear drill fell, a child was injured by underground gas, the derrick was destroyed by fire, and "half-brother" Henry appeared. Whether poor or rich, dangerous or safe, the relationship between all people and all people is extremely tense.
The question of the legitimacy of modernity.
Almost in 1911, the Republic of China was established.
3 The relationship between father and son is the most tense.
Daniel does not give hm any education. hm tried to burn his father after he was deaf. Daniel didn't think the deafness had anything to do with him, so he didn't feel any guilt. Superman is Superman, like he himself falls into a mine with no emotional fluctuations.
“I hate most of the people.”
After going to the peachy house, his so-called brother Henry is exposed. He was a stranger at all. He had listened to his brother who died of tuberculosis and had come to join him. Daniel brutally killed him. Just like Cain killed his brother in the Bible.
A backslider.
Everything lit up in the last 10 minutes.
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