In fact, if you choose to be kind once, you will always be kind

Krista 2022-04-20 09:01:12

The realistic description in the first half of the film makes people think that the meaning of the film is that money and desire alienate people. The magic of the second half turns the film into religion. The classification of human evil deeds in Catholic teachings is headed by "arrogance". At the end of the film, Satan said: Vanity is my favorite original sin. Vanity is merged with arrogance. In the second half, the original influence of money and material desires on people is turned into the original sin of people. But what makes human beings full of hope after realizing the evil of human nature is that human beings have free will, free will, the initiative of their will, and what decisions they can choose. The male protagonist finally chose kindness and used suicide to get rid of Satan's temptation.

So what determines the choice? Liberalism asks people to follow their own hearts, because people's free will is formed by the interaction of inner forces, which no one can see (nor can Satan), so people can lie to themselves that they have mastered their own hearts. However, according to Yuval Harari's analysis, free will comes from computing, and a set of human biochemical algorithms has undergone millions of years of polishing, forming a sensory gene and passing it on. Then it can be speculated that the suspense left at the end of the film, Satan will always tempt the male lead to evil, will the male lead repeat the same mistakes? The answer should be no, and the awakening round is earlier than round, because he always has kindness in his heart. After those quick operations that are far beyond the threshold of our consciousness, he forms experience, and then outputs it to the feeling, and the choice is firm and constant. Iterate, and finally become a proper communist steel warrior✊??

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  • John Milton: Now with this? Now that you're down? I'd get ready for one of those, Class-A, New York-style pigfucks.

  • John Milton: Eddie Barzoon, Eddie Barzoon. Hah! Oh, I nursed him through two divorces, a cocaine rehab, and a pregnant receptionist. Heh. God's creature, right? God's special creature? Hah! And I've warned him Kevin, I've warned him every step of the way. Watching him bounce around like a fucking game, like a windup toy! Like 250 pounds of self serving greed on wheels. The next thousand years is right around the corner, Kevin, and Eddie Barzoon-take a good look, because he's the poster child for the next millennium! These people, it's no mystery where they come from. You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire, you build egos the size of cathedrals, fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse, grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold plated fantasies until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own god, and where can you go from there? And as we're scrambling from one deal to the next, who's got his eye on the planet? As the air thickens, the water sours, and even the bees honey takes on the metallic taste of radioactivity. And it just keeps coming, faster and faster. There's no chance to think, to prepare. It's buy futures, sell futures, when there is no future! We got a runaway train boy, we got a billion Eddie Barzoons all jogging into the future. Every one of 'em getting ready to fist-fuck god's ex-planet, lick their fingers clean as they reach out toward their pristine, cybernetic keyboards to total up their billable hours. And then it hits home! You gotta pay your own way, Eddie. It's a little late in the game to buy out now! Your belly's too full, your dick is sore, your eyes are bloodshot, and you're screaming for someone to help! But guess what? There's no one there! You're all alone, Eddie. You're god's special little creature. Maybe it's true, maybe god threw the dice once too often. Maybe he let us all down.