I like this kind of videos very much. There is no deliberate vilification of any party, so that our thinking does not stop due to a single fault.
This is a story about survival and it all starts with survival.
The male protagonist kills the gods for the survival of the village. The male protagonist goes to the west for his own survival. The black hat who competes with the gods in the forest is for survival. . It is because of this understanding that I have turned from initial resentment towards understanding and helplessness towards the evil deeds of human beings. I believe that the male protagonist's tolerance to human beings is not only because he is a human being, but also because he also sees the desire and effort of his fellow human beings for survival.
However, although everything begins with survival, it is gradually swallowed up by desire.
Desire is a wonderful thing. Just imagine, when you don't have enough to eat, you want a bowl of rice, this is for survival, in the cold winter, you look forward to a cotton-padded coat, this is for survival. The pursuit of more delicious food and more comfortable and beautiful clothes seems to have nothing to do with survival. This is desire. But why are we surprised when all this is labeled as desire? Because it's so normal. Yes, desire is such a normal and natural thing.
In pursuit of more delicious food, we are willing to spend more time, energy and even money; for more comfortable and beautiful clothes, we use various social resources - innovation, manufacturing, production, consumption. We didn't sit still, we paid the price, and we are willing to pay the price.
The same goes for the black hats and monks in the film, and even the gods.
When the black hat learned that the ironworks had been attacked but still chose to kill the gods, everything was no longer about survival, but about desire. Whether for saving people or for conquest, the ironworks that symbolize survival have been abandoned or have become something that can be sacrificed for a more distant goal. She knew that killing gods would be cursed, she knew what it meant to be cursed, but she was firm and persistent.
The monk has always been a very mysterious existence. We only know that he has a deep understanding of God, he wants to kill God, and he has a deep scheming. As for his motives, we have no way of knowing. Regardless of his motives, we have seen everything he has done for his goals, and perhaps we would still be amazed at his wit if his goals were replaced by a more just existence.
In the high praise short comments, some people expressed their incomprehension that the monk could survive. But what impressed me more was that he finally compromised. He opened the box containing the god's head with his own hands. Therefore, he seems to be the only person in the film who is entangled in desire but takes the initiative to let go of it.
About the gods. Curse is the embodiment of desire. We who know the truth are full of sympathy and understanding for the gods who have incarnated the demon gods, but this does not erase the damage caused by the curse. If the destruction of the forest by human beings is slow and swallowed up bit by bit, then the destruction of the forest by the demon gods is instantaneous. As far as the setting in the film is concerned, although the gods cannot defeat humans, they possess great power, and they are swallowed up by the desire for revenge, causing 10 times the damage to nature than humans. Although this setting is to make humans feel the power and deterrence of nature, this "humanized" god must contain the evil of human nature-desire. In other words, human nature is the nature of all things, and there is no difference between divinity and human nature.
Desire is nature, and nature is desire.
We hate desire because it is a derogatory term in the social environment, and because we know that behind desire is desire that never ends, and after that, after that, there is nothing but emptiness.
However, we forget that the generation of desire is so natural, or that the entire society, and even the entire nature, is dominated by desire, so that existence itself is only an instinctive desire. A society with low desires is inactive, and a race with low desires is incapable of fighting.
Desire itself is not a problem, the problem is that the human species has become powerful, so powerful that even the gods cannot fight against it, so powerful that the gods can only use the most primitive and extremely destructive desires to compete with it.
return to peace.
At the end of the film, the gods are calm and revive all things, because human beings follow the laws of nature and quell the anger of the gods, that is, desire. We can also call it humanly, forgiveness. Although the forest has recovered, it is no longer the forest it used to be, just like the hand of the male protagonist. Although the curse on it has disappeared, it still has a shallow imprint. I wish the god who took the head back could be resurrected, but it didn't. Everything is calm, as if it never happened, but the gods are gone, as is every war that has happened in history.
Hayao Miyazaki is gentle. Although this ending is tragic, it gives mankind an answer and tells us how to get along with nature.
Harmony is for survival.
The greater the ability, the more cautious you must deal with desire. This is not purely out of humanitarian concern for other species, but also for survival.
If this story is to advocate harmonious coexistence with nature from a humanitarian perspective, Snowpiercer tells us realistically the meaning of harmony. Of course, I believe that what the film wants to tell is not a story that advocates harmony, but a story with humanistic care and individualistic heroism. But I am still amazed at the world of trains created in the film, and I firmly believe that some conflicts are only deliberately created for the needs of the plot. The resonance of harmony is just my personal emotion.
The detail in Snowpiercer that strikes me the most is that in order to keep the species sustainable, there are only two opportunities to serve sushi each year. This is a rule of restraining desire for the sustainable development of species, civilization and even human beings themselves. Of course, the blind personality cult and unfair system design and brainwashing education from childhood make trains and perpetual motion machines synonymous with evil. But with limited resources, the achieved harmony between species is a ray of hope. In a sense, there is no difference between a universe and a train. If the train can, why can't the universe? As long as it is to survive, nothing is impossible.
In the game of survival, struggle is inevitable, ability limits desire, desire creates ability, or destruction, or rebirth, or harmonious coexistence... The rolling wheel of history turns round and round, for survival, for desire, Everything repeats itself, and everything will repeat itself.
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